I found the blue feather

[hkalchemy]

Well it took me a few weeks, but I did manifest the blue feather. In fact, lots of them! Yesterday I happened to walk through a supermarket and all the staff were wearing blue and red feathers in their hair for some reason. I'd been seeing red feathers everywhere, oddly enough, but the elusive blue feather came when I let go and had actually forgotten all about my intention. This says something very important about how LOA works.

[Acting Like Godot]

Well there you go.

[moonrambler]

I like to keep in mind that in the "original" blue feather experiment, he didn't forget about it -- he looked for it all day long. But it may be that for many people, IM works better if you forget about it for awhile.

And I think although there is some dissension about whether it's valid to put time limits on IM, that a certain amount of time limitation is valid.

Like with the red hat experiment, where the OP was upset because the entire day went by and no red hat, and then people would say "you can't set a time limit like that," and the OP responded, "So if I see a red hat six months from now, I'm supposed to get all excited and figure it was IM?"

I think we could take a look at how long it would be before we would probably see a red hat even if we had never done any IM for it.

Like I can't use the blue feather experiment because there are blue jays all over the place here.

Is it a time buffer, or is it simply that every so often we see a blue feather, or a red hat?

That weekend where I had declared I would see "twins" that day, and then all I got was a headboard with a sign that said "twin headboard" on it . . . the next weekend, I was looking at the list of local sales and thought about how the weekend before I had tried to conjure up some twins, and the very next ad I looked at advertised "twin clothes," which was amusing. Then later that day I was at a sale where a woman was talking about a twin bed, and she must have said "twin bed" about five times, even getting me to wonder why we call it a "twin bed" when really it's a single bed, and then I realized it might be because some married people buy them in sets of two. And then I saw a book with the Olsen twins (which I had jokingly told myself as part of the 'rules' that it wouldn't count), and then finally, I saw an actual set of twins, cute little girls skating down the sidewalk.

So, was it a time buffer? Or was it just something that would have happened anyway?

Now -- about the red feathers appearing all over while you were IM'ing for a blue one -- that's the sort of thing that happens to me a lot. I never know if my skills are just not up to speed, or if the universe likes to joke with me.

And -- it does seem noticeable that all the staff in this store were wearing red and blue feathers. Kind of like, you couldn't get this blue feather thing to come off for the longest time, but then when it did, it did in a big way.

[Ecce Homo]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I like to keep in mind that in the "original" blue feather experiment, he didn't forget about it -- he looked for it all day long. But it may be that for many people, IM works better if you forget about it for awhile.

And I think although there is some dissension about whether it's valid to put time limits on IM, that a certain amount of time limitation is valid.

Like with the red hat experiment, where the OP was upset because the entire day went by and no red hat, and then people would say "you can't set a time limit like that," and the OP responded, "So if I see a red hat six months from now, I'm supposed to get all excited and figure it was IM?"

I think we could take a look at how long it would be before we would probably see a red hat even if we had never done any IM for it.

Like I can't use the blue feather experiment because there are blue jays all over the place here.

Is it a time buffer, or is it simply that every so often we see a blue feather, or a red hat?

That weekend where I had declared I would see "twins" that day, and then all I got was a headboard with a sign that said "twin headboard" on it . . . the next weekend, I was looking at the list of local sales and thought about how the weekend before I had tried to conjure up some twins, and the very next ad I looked at advertised "twin clothes," which was amusing. Then later that day I was at a sale where a woman was talking about a twin bed, and she must have said "twin bed" about five times, even getting me to wonder why we call it a "twin bed" when really it's a single bed, and then I realized it might be because some married people buy them in sets of two. And then I saw a book with the Olsen twins (which I had jokingly told myself as part of the 'rules' that it wouldn't count), and then finally, I saw an actual set of twins, cute little girls skating down the sidewalk.

So, was it a time buffer? Or was it just something that would have happened anyway?

Now -- about the red feathers appearing all over while you were IM'ing for a blue one -- that's the sort of thing that happens to me a lot. I never know if my skills are just not up to speed, or if the universe likes to joke with me.

And -- it does seem noticeable that all the staff in this store were wearing red and blue feathers. Kind of like, you couldn't get this blue feather thing to come off for the longest time, but then when it did, it did in a big way.

I hear you. I had a somewhat similar experience last year. A friend and I were discussing how she wasn't sure if the LOA was really the way the universe worked or not, so I suggested that we both do an experiment to see if we could attract a blue butterfly. I realized how unlikely I was to ever see a blue butterfly under any circumstances, which was why I chose it. I set a time limit of 7 days. Well the week went by and I didn't see a blue butterfly. I kind of gave up on it that final day. On the 10th day, I was watching tv and low and behold, one of the characters shows another character his rare blue butterfly. The blue butterfly showed up 3 days "late". The next day as I was cleaning out some stuff in my closet, I found an old cd case that I'd looked for and could not find months ago. Guess what was featured prominently on the cover? A blue butterfly. And it seemed butterflies of all colors seemed to show up in my awareness for several days after. It was an interesting experience which goes to your points about my lack of skill in the manifesting department and the universe's almost playful sense of humor.

[richloaguy]

I've only been a member of this site for about 8 hours. I read about the blue feather experiment and thought it was unique and a good faith building excercise.

I was commenting on it on the sticky board, looked up and saw a dream catcher across my room. It has 6 blue/white featers on blue strings with blue beads.

Thanks for the excercise whoever came up with it.

wayne

[wachusettgirl]

Originally Posted by Ecce Homo

It was an interesting experience which goes to your points about my lack of skill in the manifesting department and the universe's almost playful sense of humor.

A similar thing happened to me today. I read this thread a few days ago, then just sort of forgot about it. When I woke up this morning i thought ok today I'm going to manifest a blue feather. Then I went to work and was outside for awhile and went to a store. Once I got home I was mad at myself because I had completely forgotten to look for the feather. Just now I looked in the bag that held a birthday card that I'd bought, and on the card is a picture of these hummingbirds with purple feathers. Maybe the universe is telling me to hone my skills?

[wachusettgirl]

Ok that was yesterday, I picked out a birthday card without conciously noticing that it had purple feathers on it (I was chatting with the woman working at the shop while absentmindedly picking out a card with a Celtic symbol on it that drew my eye, and not till later saw that there were purple feathers on the card). I started reasoning things like purple = blue + red, so I manifested a blueish feather...
Then today after going on an incredibly awesome hike and completely forgetting about feathers, I came home and happened to open up a deck of Doreen Virtue Angel Oracle cards that are always in my desk. These cards each have inspirational LOA messages, and I used to use them alot, but hadn't looked at them recently. Anyways I was in my desk for some reason, saw them and felt compelled to open them up, and the card I got was called New Partner. I guess it means I'll soon have a new romantic interest in my life (cool), but equally as important, there is a picture of an angel and a white horse, and they both have outstreached wings with distinctively blue feathers!!!

[freddy]

After reading this post last week. I decieded to try and think about a blue feather, picturing a blue feather as if I already had it. I went about my week ever now an again thinking about having this blue feather. a week went by no blue feather. Well this morning I woke up at 4 am. And I thought about the blue feather and asked, directing my question to my wife who has died a year ago. And immediately the thought about the finches that my wife had and I still care for came to mind. One is a blue gouldian. I guess my mind was focused on a different type on feather.
I guess maybe I over think trying to find the answers,and it seemed like there right in front of my face. I going to try and ask a different question first thing when I wake up and see what I get.

[Jeni]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I like to keep in mind that in the "original" blue feather experiment, he didn't forget about it -- he looked for it all day long. But it may be that for many people, IM works better if you forget about it for awhile.

I read several of Joe Vitale's books and he often brings up this exact thing. That in order to manifest your desires an important step is to "forget about it". It's not that you are actually forgetting your desires, but if you focus on them too much you'll begin to think it's taking too long or having doubts of some kind which will reverse your order to the universe. I have several of Joe's books and programs on my site if you want to check them out. The attractor factor is one of my favorites because it gives you a step by step guide to attracting what you want to attract using the law of attraction.

[wachusettgirl]

Ok, so this is somewhat lame after reading about people that have manifested multi-million dollar businesses and mansions, and trips to exotic places, but I definately manifested zebras... After succesfully using LOA to bring about some blue feathers, I decided to move on to something else, and for no particular reason that something else was a zebra. So I soon became angry with myself for trying to manifest a zebra, rather than something easier like an elephant or a tiger, or even a monkey. A few days went by and I started thinking holy moly, a zebra? I live in New England, have no plans to go to the zoo, and where am I gonna see a zebra? So last night I was at a bar with some friends, not watching tv, but at one point happened to look up at the big screen and there were two gorgeous zebras there just for an instant. Then this morning one of my clients gave me an instant scratch ticket with a zebra on it! The ticket didn't win, but I saved it anyways because it has this zebra face on it that reminds me that the universe is delivering maybe not exactly what I want now, but what I'm subconciously ready for.