The Science behind Intention-Manifestation.

[renie408]

Indy, when I watched those movies it was like a light bulb going off in my head. They made me say, "Hey, wait a minute! I have thought stuff like that before and figured I was just nuts."

I have to say that I really do think you have to be in the right place in your life or in your head for this stuff to click. I don't think that even six months ago I would have been open to anything like this.

[renie408]

Originally Posted by JoeBlogs

I do believe in coincidence. Although I don't think my life is entirely out of my hands and ruled by coincidence or chance, I can have a serious effect on my life, but to do so I must act and respond to things that happen that are out of my control, not just hope, wish, pray, intend...

That is why I like the LOA. It means that my life, my total experience is COMPLETELY within in my hands. Or my brain, but you know what I mean. I don't believe in coincidence. I believe we make our 'coincidences'. And it isn't just hoping or wishing. In fact, in LOA terms, hoping and wishing are actually negative acts which imply the possiblity of failure. Seriously, you should check it out. I think you have gotten a skewed, impractical idea of what it is really about.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by JoeBlogs

Although I don't think my life is entirely out of my hands and ruled by coincidence or chance, I can have a serious effect on my life, but to do so I must act and respond to things that happen that are out of my control, not just hope, wish, pray, intend...

Hi Joe. I would like to offer you a few thoughts on this.

Suppose you have a certain goal. For that goal to be achieved, certain things must happen. You could broadly classify those things into 3 categories:

1. Things which are definitely within your control.
2. Things which you are definitely able to influence.
3. Things which you are not able to control or influence.

In the above three points, I have used "control" and "influence" in the conventional, non-IM sense (because in the IM sense, there is theoretically almost nothing that you cannot control or influence).

Category 1 needs no explanation. Everyone accepts that. In fact, you already perceive Category 1 as self-evident and very important (a belief which on its own can already get you very far in life).

Category 3 is what people in this forum are trying to highlight to you. IM can do things for you here. Hold the correct thoughts and intentions, and the external opportunities, people, events, circumstances etc will present themselves in your life, at the right time, to help you achieve your goal - even if you did not know beforehand what opportunities, people, events you needed; and therefore had not actually done anything to actively seek them out.

It's a kind of magic.

Sometimes you already know, or think you know, exactly what needs to happen in Category 1, for your goal to be achieved. Even in those cases, IM is helpful. Simply because by IM'ing, you cause Category 3 things to happen, that make your goal happen even faster or more easily.

For example, in an older thread in this forum, I wrote about earning more money and finding a new job; and IM'ing these intentions. Of course I know what Cat 1 actions I need to take - obvious starters would be looking at job ads, sending my CV out etc. However, what actually happened to me is that after I did my IM, four job opportunities came straight to me - various people called me directly and asked me to join their organisation - even before I had actually looked at a single job ad or sent out my CV anywhere.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Category 3 is what people in this forum are trying to highlight to you. IM can do things for you here. Hold the correct thoughts and intentions, and the external opportunities, people, events, circumstances etc will present themselves in your life, at the right time, to help you achieve your goal - even if you did not know beforehand what opportunities, people, events you needed; and therefore had not actually done anything to actively seek them out.

It's a kind of magic.

Well said...

[dor]

Not directly related, but I am reading an interesting book called 'the power of place' - how the environment influences behavior; it's mostly about things like the influence of seasons/sunlight on behavior but it also went into the effects of magnetism/electricity/solar flares on the body - and that the 'physics' behind ESP and telepathy are entirely possible - and that the model of the human body as purely mechanical is outdated. -and again this is not 'far out' book.

[Indy107]

Another somewhat related book would be 'The Secret Life of Plants'.

Among these actors in this new study of plant life are Cleve Backster, who showed that plants can sense the emotions of humans; Luther Burbank, who demonstrated that plants will grow to please members of our race; and various researchers who proved that plants will respond to music, growing toward the music of Bach and fleeing that of Led Zeppelin. These experiments prove conclusively that the standard definition of plants as insensible is inaccurate.

It's all about vibrations.

[dor]

Originally Posted by Indy107

It's all about vibrations.

one of the things the author goes into is ball lightening - 'swamp spirits' - how for years skeptics brushed it off as halcenication/fabrications - until it could be created in the lab - and 'plasma physics' proved it could exist- but it goes to show you , if people lisetened to the skeptics it never would have been investigated.

she also wrote about a researcher who thinks its possible to plant thoughts in peoples head - the basis of many a 'tin foil hat' joke -
I also found it interesting that solar flares correspond with increased violence and decreased psyhic activity.