30-Day Challenge (LOA)

[Acting Like Godot]

Over the next 30 days, I will use a wide variety of IM/LOA techniques on a wide variety of intentions and goals. I will spend at least a few minutes per day on at least one intention / goal.

And I'll post every day in this thread about at least one intention / goal that I worked on.

Tomorrow will be Day 1. Wish me luck!

[Matiasfx]

Hey, good luck with the challenge ALG!!

I look forward to read your post for the next month.

Cheers


Mat

[Wax Frog]

As do I. Any strong advocate for the "acausal" version of IM/LoA is, in a sense, my hero

[marinik]

What happened to the last thread you started a month or so ago The Mind Adventures of Mr ALG - 06 October 2008?

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by marinik

What happened to the last thread you started a month or so ago

I actually forgot about it.

This time, I hope to remember for at least the next 30 days.

[Acting Like Godot]

I work in a bank. Not exactly the safest kind of place to be working in, these days. I have had some little doubts and fears surfacing, especially because I am also considering making a property purchase.

For Day 1, I have done a Silva Method countdown into the alpha state. And then I have intended for a high degree of job security. I have intended to draw to myself key projects and transactions, and get heavily involved, so that I become an extremely needed person within the bank.

I have intended all this to happen in a way that is for the highest good of all concerned. And of course I have intended that I shall contribute a lot to all the projects and transactions.

I have mentally "talked" to 12 or 13 people in my organisation (they're all from different departments) telling them this intention of mine, and thanking them in advance for their help in making this happen.

At this point in time, I have no idea what key projects and transactions will come my way.

[dali]

All the best!! I love the silva method. Looking forward with anticipation to your posts!

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

I work in a bank. Not exactly the safest kind of place to be working in, these days. I have had some little doubts and fears surfacing, especially because I am also considering making a property purchase.

Perhaps you should try working somewhere that actually does something positive for people, rather than continue to support a failed banking system that that creates fictitious money out of thin air using a bogus, ponzi style, fractional reserve system, and drives up commodity prices, while funneling money and assets towards the rich from the working class.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

Perhaps you should try working somewhere that actually does something positive for people, rather than continue to support a failed banking system that that creates fictitious money out of thin air using a bogus, ponzi style, fractional reserve system, and drives up commodity prices, while funneling money and assets towards the rich from the working class.

But Dan, I don't work (1) in the US, nor (2) in an American bank.

This is one of the things that Americans often don't realise. Your financial system is quite different from most parts of the world.

For instance, I understand that in the US, if you fail to pay up on your mortgage, all the bank can do is seize your home. Elsewhere in the world, however, the bank will not only seize your home, but (if the market value of the home at that time does not fully cover the loan amount at that time) proceed to sue you for the remainder, garnish your salary and bank accounts, possibly making you a bankrupt etc etc.

This is why elsewhere in the world, people are much more careful about borrowing money to buy a home. A subprime mortgage crisis can really only happen in the US (unfortunately, the implications are worldwide).

[Acting Like Godot]

Well, I didn't get up early enough to do any manifesting. And now I'm in the office.

So for today's exercise, I am going to practise presence in the now (as close as I can, anyway), for the full morning.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

But Dan, I don't work (1) in the US, nor (2) in an American bank.

This is one of the things that Americans often don't realise. Your financial system is quite different from most parts of the world.

I'd have to take your word on that. Usually banks are international, aren't they?

Does your country not use a fractional reserve system?

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

This is why elsewhere in the world, people are much more careful about borrowing money to buy a home. A subprime mortgage crisis can really only happen in the US (unfortunately, the implications are worldwide).

The subprime loans are a red herring for the whole financial collapse though. Easy to blame foreclosures, but they have very little to do with this credit unwind. The banks were very highly leveraged, they lied about their asset valuations. Then they pretended that their balance sheets turned to crap overnight when, in reality, other people's money was being placed into the pockets of a few top people for quite some time.

That's usually how it works with banking. The industry is systematically centered around this.

What service to do you provide to people exactly?

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

Does your country not use a fractional reserve system?

Yup ... However, we don't have investment banks the way you have (or had) Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Basically, all the locally-incorporated banks in my country have to have cold hard cash in order to do business here.

The subprime loans are a red herring for the whole financial collapse though. Easy to blame foreclosures, but they have very little to do with this credit unwind. The banks were very highly leveraged, they lied about their asset valuations.

Guess what .... very few CDOs are actually originated in my country (or for that matter, the whole of Asia, excluding Japan).

The losses that institutions here did suffer from CDOs, mostly came from CDOs they bought from the banks in your country.

Then they pretended that their balance sheets turned to crap overnight when, in reality, other people's money was being placed into the pockets of a few top people for quite some time.

Actually the money was used to purchase rights to housing mortgages which turned out to be rather useless, because the American people bought waaaay too much properties than they were actually able to pay for.

I'm expecting your US credit-card-backed securities to blow up next, for essentially the same reason.

Ooops, guess what, credit-card-backed securities are something else we don't really have, here in Asia.

As you might see now, the US system functions quite differently from many other parts of the world.

[Bradshaw]

I don't really know a whole lot about the banking industry and such, however...

Dan: What service to do you provide to people exactly?

Dan: Perhaps you should try working somewhere that actually does something positive for people

...it is sort of curious you would settle for working in a bank. I mean, don't get me wrong, i'm sure the work environment must be pretty good and such, but from the level and quality of your writing, as well as your experience and ability with intention-manifestation, you just strike me as the kind of person who could easily be doing something far more positive/important/worthy of your time. At least that's what i feel Dan is trying to ask/tell you.

I imagine that working in a bank these times must be a challenging, engaging and interesting task, and you might find that these aspects make the work a lot of fun for you. Heck, that personally sounds like a fun place to work day in and day out. I certainly would enjoy doing that while having fun with intention-manifestation on the inside, but even if you are fairly happy with your job(and i think you are), is there really nothing more positive you could for yourself and others?

I know he probably won't say, but i wonder what kind of job Anagogy has...

[fellowtraveler]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

What service to do you provide to people exactly?

LOL...blew that one off handily, eh...?

[Acting Like Godot]

Service, service .... I dunno, I'm a bit short on ideas here.

Sometimes I think I would like to be a college professor; push out important ideas into the world; teach & educate people, you know? On the other hand, many people on this forum seem to think that college is useless, a waste of time, a scam job etc. So whether being a college professor is an avenue for serving people is, I guess, a highly subjective question.

I used to be a deputy public prosecutor (or district attorney, in US terms). Work with the police; catch the baddies; prosecute them in court; make society a safer place for citizens and all that. Does that count as service? The job left a pretty sour taste in my mouth, in the end. I saw that many criminals were in fact victims too.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

At this point in time, I have no idea what key projects and transactions will come my way.

LOL, the LOA is soooooo reliable.

I just finished a meeting. I've just been appointed chairman of a small regional committee which is to oversee and coordinate all the legal matters in Asia arising out of the Lehman bankruptcy.

This is expected to take a few years to sort out. One small step, towards my increased job security.

I didn't pitch for this. I didn't know what the meeting was supposed to be about, before I went for it. It was at the meeting itself that the very senior guy said, "This meeting is to form a new committee for handling the Lehman matters in Asia."

My boss nominated me for the new committee, and after the committee members were determined, my boss's boss nominated me to chair the committee.

Seriously, you guys should give the LOA a whirl. It's really cool.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Service, service .... I dunno, I'm a bit short on ideas here.

Sometimes I think I would like to be a college professor; push out important ideas into the world; teach & educate people, you know? On the other hand, many people on this forum seem to think that college is useless, a waste of time, a scam job etc. So whether being a college professor is an avenue for serving people is, I guess, a highly subjective question.

I used to be a deputy public prosecutor (or district attorney, in US terms). Work with the police; catch the baddies; prosecute them in court; make society a safer place for citizens and all that. Does that count as service? The job left a pretty sour taste in my mouth, in the end. I saw that many criminals were in fact victims too.

Yeah, it's hard isn't it.

I've worked for several types of companies now, in several different industries, for some fairly prestigious companies, and some that were not at all. I'd have to say that the job I liked the most, and did the most good in, through fifteen years of work, was as an entry level tech support agent fixing people's DSL.

It was solid, honest work, and I was just stellar at it. The average call center employee was taking around 20 calls per day. I could answer 50-60 calls per day and fix almost all of them. Nearly everyone I spoke to got online within 8 minutes or less.

Most people hated that job. Speaking to so many customers who barely knew what a browser was, being under the pressure of diagnosing and fixing multiple issues on a single call, dealing with rude customers and ESL speakers, people who still ran Windows 98 and had it so bogged down with spyware it would barely function..

After all these years that is still my favorite job. At the end of the day, I knew that 50 people a day were able to get online to explore the vastness of the internet, the entire spectrum of human knowledge available there at their fingertips, because of my troubleshooting.

Now I make three times as much money, my job title in much more impressive, yet I no longer feel that same passion for my work. That feeling that I could just totally exhaust myself doing it, yet still fully know it was the right thing to do.. simply because the caller on the other end on the line was now that much better off.. it was good stuff.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Guess what .... very few CDOs are actually originated in my country (or for that matter, the whole of Asia, excluding Japan).

The losses that institutions here did suffer from CDOs, mostly came from CDOs they bought from the banks in your country.

Glad to hear that. The derivatives are a mess here. Just blatant theft. It's so frustrating to me that no one (thus far) is being held accountable..

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

I'm expecting your US credit-card-backed securities to blow up next, for essentially the same reason.

Yep, exactly. We are now a nation of debtors, because of our banking system and government.

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

As you might see now, the US system functions quite differently from many other parts of the world.

Perhaps.

At the end of the day, you are still maintaining, supporting and advocating for a usury based system though, correct?

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

At the end of the day, you are still maintaining, supporting and advocating for a usury based system though, correct?

Sure ... I don't see interest as the root of all evil.

(although the Middle East does - that's why they have a unique creature called Islamic banking, where interest is forbidden by religion and is something practised only by evil, immoral foreigners like Americans, LOL).

I still have a savings account. That means I lend money to the bank. They pay me interest for it.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

After all these years that is still my favorite job.

After all these years, my favourite job is still the deputy public prosecutor job. However it is simultaneously also the most objectionable job; and also the most emotionally difficult one.

Aren't we human beings such terribly complicated creatures?

[Revolution]

I have intended all this to happen in a way that is for the highest good of all concerned.

Don't kid yourself...

THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO OR NOT DO THAT IS NOT FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL CONCERNED.

[Acting Like Godot]

Well, thanks I'll stick with Silva method regardless. There, the "highest good" element is fairly standard.

In some branches of magick (which I also dabble in), it is advised that you should do a Tarot divination, to see if the spell you intend to cast might have the effect of harming someone, as a incidental consequence (and of course, you shouldn't do the spell if the divination suggests that the spell would). This is to avoid accidentally degenerating into black magick.

However, it is a bit tedious to do a full Tarot divination every time before you manifest an intention. So I'll stick to the "highest good" approach.

[Arboretor]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

Yep, exactly. We are now a nation of debtors, because of our banking system and government.

I didn't know that the american people were forced to take credit from their banks - I always thought they took all this credit deliberately, because they wanted to obtain something they couldn't really afford.
I never used any bank credit in my life, only a small credit from the government for my university education, which I fully payed back, even prematurely. I did not even take credit for a house or an appartment. Had the american people done likewise, this whole mess would never have happened. People should not blame someone else (the banks, the system, whatever) for their own failures.

(And that was enough negativity for me today, going back now to pleasant things...)

[marinik]

I am a banker but somehow don't see this thread or this forum to be the place to debate the banking system of the world. In my view it should then be moved to Business & Financial. Correct me if I am wrong. I am really interested in ALG manifestations.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by marinik

Correct me if I am wrong. I am really interested in ALG manifestations.

Ditto

[aabbcc]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

In some branches of magick (which I also dabble in), it is advised that you should do a Tarot divination, to see if the spell you intend to cast might have the effect of harming someone, as a incidental consequence (and of course, you shouldn't do the spell if the divination suggests that the spell would). This is to avoid accidentally degenerating into black magick.

However, it is a bit tedious to do a full Tarot divination every time before you manifest an intention. So I'll stick to the "highest good" approach.

I love your posts, ALG. I always get a chuckle when you mention magick. I came to intention-manifestation from magick and you went from intention-manifestation to magick. As you can see, I am easily amused by little things.

I have to admit that I wince a bit whenever someone refers to magick in terms of black or white. It is neither, really. The intended outcome of the practitioner is what colours the end result, not the means by which he gets there. You can use magick for good and you can use it for bad, but the magick itself is merely a tool and not inherently good nor bad.

Could we not the same about intention-manifestation? It is also a tool for a desired outcome, be it positive or negative; yet, we don't label our intentions as black or white.

As for the Tarot reading, you could always pull a single card after putting out your intention to get a sense of where it's going. I often do that and it seems to work well; however, you need to be fairly proficient with the Tarot to get much out of single card readings.

Have you ever done a reading before putting out the intention to see if what you want will be a benefit or a detriment?

[dali]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Well, I didn't get up early enough to do any manifesting. And now I'm in the office.

So for today's exercise, I am going to practise presence in the now (as close as I can, anyway), for the full morning.

And I hope every moment of it was blissfull, ALG. Well done!

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Service, service .... I dunno, I'm a bit short on ideas here.

Sometimes I think I would like to be a college professor; push out important ideas into the world; teach & educate people, you know? On the other hand, many people on this forum seem to think that college is useless, a waste of time, a scam job etc. So whether being a college professor is an avenue for serving people is, I guess, a highly subjective question.

It depends. Here in the US too many kids graduate with $75k in debt and very few skills that are applicable to the real world. This is why a lot of people call college a scam.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Sure ... I don't see interest as the root of all evil.

(although the Middle East does - that's why they have a unique creature called Islamic banking, where interest is forbidden by religion and is something practised only by evil, immoral foreigners like Americans, LOL).

I still have a savings account. That means I lend money to the bank. They pay me interest for it.

The older I get, the more I have a strong distaste for debt, as well as those who make a career of tending to it.

People here are expected to get into debt for everything. Their education. Their cars, their homes, their health. They often sign on the dotted line with reassurances that everything will be fine, while having very little idea of what they are really getting themselves into.

[Dan.Linehan]

Originally Posted by Arboretor

I didn't know that the american people were forced to take credit from their banks - I always thought they took all this credit deliberately, because they wanted to obtain something they couldn't really afford.

If you'd like to see a good documentary on it, I'd recommend Maxed Out.

Originally Posted by Arboretor

I did not even take credit for a house or an appartment. Had the american people done likewise, this whole mess would never have happened. People should not blame someone else (the banks, the system, whatever) for their own failures.

That's good. It seems that most cultures don't have the culture of debt that we have here. What country are you in?