Can the Universe get "offended"?

[bananya]

so I had this weird question in my head today:
what if you asked for something and the Universe gives it to you, but say you are not in the mood for it at this particular moment or something else happened and you can't take "it" now when you are given it so you don't, can the Universe get "offended" and be like - ok, you don't seem to really want what you ask for, so I'm not working on your wishes anymore"...?

[AthenaMarina]

Abraham/Esther Hicks says something like the Universe/Source/your Higher Self says when you ask for something You know what's best for you (so it goes along with it)

[Michelle]

No, the universe is pure love and doesn't understand concepts like being offended. They are human contructs and rationalizations.

However, if you ask for something and then change your vibration to decline it you simply won't attract any more of it because you are not in that vibrational place. It is impossible to attract and not attract simultaneously. Either you are attracting or you are not.

So, the only "punishment" you receive comes from either your own personal belief in a punishing universe/god or from changing your own vibration to disallow the flow of what you have asked for into your reality.

[wellbeing]

No. One of the reasons it's called the "Law of Attraction" is to indicate its impartiality (also indicates its constancy--but that's another question). As Michelle points out, the Universe (or Source or God or...) is pure Love and doesn't judge or withhold or seek revenge, etc.

I like Abraham-Hicks' concept that we ask and we expand and sometimes, in that expansion, we expand so that we are no longer a vibrational match with what we had originally asked for. When that happens, we often don't even recognize when that "something" manifests in our experience; it typically just comes and goes out of our experience without our noticing (because we're no longer a vibrational match).

Hope that helps.

Reason for edit: fine-tuning.

[LVGeneration]

I think we are the Universe, we cannot speak of a universe separate from ourselves. When you say the Universe might get offended, you speak of some entity that is separate from us, but really everything that is comes from the same place and is the same at a quantum level. So it's impossible for the universe to ever get offended, as it is you, and you are it.

[Melchior]

I'm sure that if you wanted to 'offend' the universe, it could get pissed at you, but then that would just be like kicking yourself now wouldn't it, this is a bad thing, so don't 'ask' for it.

[Azura]

Ok, so,.. I've been interested in witchcraft, so I've been looking into it; and I've read something about a principle of when a spell is done, it has put concentrated energy (intent) out (into the universe), and even if you are not focused on the intent afterward, with the right execution of the spell it will still manifest. ...Like, if you forgot about the intent you put out for say a blue teddy bear , and a few days later you recieve a blue teddy bear, and you're like "oh yeah,... I forgot about that intent I had put out a few days ago".

But what if you put intent out in such a focused way, and then your desire changes, like maybe you're not like "I DON'T LIKE BLUE TEDDY BEARS ANYMORE..!", but you're like "It doesn't matter much anymore if I get the teddy bear or not..." ,.. then would it still be able to manifest, or will the accelleration of the manifesting process decline and cease..? =&

[Jack]

Cause you are Universe it is not possible.But I agree to you bananya,I sometimes think like you.I think it's cause some people use the "Universe" concept in a similar way to "Person God" concept. And this confuses some of us including me.(by Person-God I mean the God concept in Islam,Christianity,maybe some other religions.)

[BillPerry]

I think that "offended" might not be the right term to use, but here's my story:

When I first got into Law of Attraction, I was introduced to it through the book "Science of Mind" (still one of my favorites, even though it reads like Shakespeare until you understand the language).

At the same time, I was also learning the Photoreading Whole Mind System from the 3rd Edition of Paul Scheele's book of the same name.

I REALLY wanted to go to the live seminar, which cost $750 then, I think it's the same now.

I affirmed/intended for the $750 to go to that seminar.

In a few weeks, I had $750 show up in an unexpected way. I was thrilled.
BUT...

Instead of using that money to sign up for the seminar, I used it to pay toward a bill. I think in a way that was saying "screw you" to the Universe since I didn't use the money for what I intended.

I think sometimes we DO get what we want, but we use it for other things.

and I think the Universe might develop a sort of "memory" for things like that.
If that makes any sense...

[Brown Eyed Mystic]

Originally Posted by BillPerry

and I think the Universe might develop a sort of "memory" for things like that.
If that makes any sense...

Interesting read. Do you have a back up to saying it has a "memory" of sorts though..?

[BillPerry]

I don't have a "back up" to the statement, really. It just seems that whenever I do what I mentioned with the money, stuff seems "harder" to manifest afterward. Almost like the Universe "knows" that I'll just piss away whatever I intend.

Best way I know how to describe it.

[Brown Eyed Mystic]

Originally Posted by BillPerry

It just seems that whenever I do what I mentioned with the money, stuff seems "harder" to manifest afterward. Almost like the Universe "knows" that I'll just piss away whatever I intend.

May be the Universe is really just doing what you've been asking or subconsciously focusing on (that it getting offended with you coz of you not sticking to your earlier intentions).