Measuring Intention-Manifestation

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Tom Booth

One of the first experiments I did along these lines was an attempt to materialize a gold necklace.

My "method" if you will, was just to imagine the necklace on my dresser, to visualize it there in as much detail as possible.

Then, when I would wake up in the morning I would pick up and put on the imaginary gold necklace while getting dressed for work - just like I was putting on a pair of shoes - that is, I made this into a regular routine so that I would do it automatically, without thinking about it [much].

At night while getting ready for bed I would take the imaginary necklace off and leave it on the dresser while I slept.

In other words, I just treated the ~imaginary~ necklace like any other ordinary possession that I had and took for granted.

Then one day, I came home from work and as I went into the bedroom and started taking stuff out of my pockets to put on the dresser - I saw three gold necklaces on the dresser.

REAL gold necklaces.

I turned to my wife who was sitting on the bed reading a book: "Honey, what are these necklaces doing on my dresser ?"

She says: "What do you mean ?"

"There are three gold necklaces on my dresser. Where did they come from ?"

She says: "Those are YOUR necklaces, silly. You wear them every day."

It was kind of like my blood ran cold at that point. Yeah,... I wear an IMAGINARY gold necklace every day... What the F... (I didn't tell her about the experiment and I didn't think she had ever seen me taking the imaginary necklace off and on).

I didn't know if I was hallucinating... dreaming... was my wife pulling a prank ? Did these necklaces ACTUALLY materialize... Why did my wife think I wore Gold necklaces every day ? I never wore a REAL gold necklace in my life! I don't normally wear jewelry...

I was literally freaking out.

I started going crazy... trying to contain myself - but asking everybody I could think of.. "Do YOU know anything about the Gold necklaces on my dresser ?"

I asked my wife, mother, brother, father... until it seemed there wasn't anyone left to ask.

Two weeks later and I still had not solved the mystery. The damn things must have really materialized!

Then my wife told me FINALLY that my sister in law, who lived down the street said that she had come over to return my necklaces but as nobody was home she just came in and left them on my dresser.

Return MY necklaces ?

But they aren't my necklaces!

After a little more confusion and some phone calls it turned out that someone visiting my sister in law lost her necklaces when her purse tipped over on the floor and didn't know where she had lost them but my sister in law found them on the floor and for some reason concluded that they were mine and "returned" them... but now finding out that they were not mine she made some calls and found out that her friend who had been over visiting had lost them and now wanted them back.

Tom, there were two separate but parallel processes at work. Both, of course, resulted from your visualisations.

The first process is that you attracted three, actual, physical gold necklaces into your reality.

The second process is that you created a "mental" gold necklace that was not only "real" to you, but also perceptible to your wife. That is why she saw you wearing the necklace every day, when you were not actually wearing one.

Regarding the second process, it was a "tulpa" of a gold necklace, that you created.

[Tom Booth]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Tom, there were two separate but parallel processes at work. Both, of course, resulted from your visualizations.

The first process is that you attracted three, actual, physical gold necklaces into your reality.

The second process is that you created a "mental" gold necklace that was not only "real" to you, but also perceptible to your wife. That is why she saw you wearing the necklace every day, when you were not actually wearing one.

Regarding the second process, it was a "tulpa" of a gold necklace, that you created.

Interesting, and sounds about right...

I had read about Tulpas and the methods for bringing them into existence before beginning these experiments, years ago.

Taken out of the cultural context - it sounded, methodologically speaking, more or less like LOA, "Creative Visualization", Alchemical "precipitation" of a thought form, etc.

I had another similar experience with my second wife.

My obsession, if you will, has been to bring about a full materialization of such a "Tulpa" or visualized "thought form". That wasn't exactly the intention in this case, but it is apparently what happened, at least temporarily.

I kept striving for "the impossible", that is, something that couldn't be chalked up to "coincidence" for the simple reason that under normal circumstances it simply never happens.

In this case, my wife and I stopped at a roadside stand where they were selling nursery stock. Young sapling fruit trees.

There was a pile of such trees that the proprietor had tossed aside and I asked about them. She explained that they were trees that had never broke dormancy and were presumably dead and were slated for the land fill. She said we could have them that with some care they might eventually grow so we loaded them in the back of the car and took them up to a home we had recently started making payments on and wanted to do some "edible landscaping". It seemed there was nothing to loose.

So I planted the trees in a row. Several were green gage plum trees and one was an apricot tree.

We only had opportunity to go up to this property occasionally to do work as the old farm house there (here where I am now actually) was not livable but we would "camp out" there on weekends to work on the place.

As it turned out - the plum trees did eventually break dormancy and grew, but after a year in the ground, the apricot tree, which I had hoped more than all the rest would grow, never did anything through the first summer and into the next and seemed really to be dead.

One weekend while up at this property, my wife and I were looking over the trees, at the apricot tree in particular - noting that it was apparently dead.

Later that day I was working on starting a garden. I was down on my knees breaking up clods of dirt after having turned over the soil. I looked over at the apricot tree in disappointment thinking how much I wish it would have grown,...

then it crossed my mind to do an "experiment" to see if this "visualization" stuff could possibly bring it back to life - so right then and there while on my knees with my fingers in the soil I sat back and meditated for a while to get into what I guess you could call a light trance. then I visualized "cosmic energy" from the universe coming down from all around down through the top of my head and out through my fingers and I leaned forward and dug my fingers into the soil and visualized this energy traveling through the soil and up into the roots of the apricot tree and gradually - from
the roots upward I saw (vividly visualized with eyes closed) the buds on the tree breaking open and green shoots growing out all over the trunk.

I continued this for a while, continued visualizing and "feeling" this energy and seeing the shoots growing until they were about two inches long...

then I broke concentration suddenly and went into the house as my wife was calling me for supper.

We slept there that night.

(I should probably mention that this "cosmic energy" was not something I "believed in" necessarily, just something I made up off the top of my head as a process of creative imagination.)

The next morning I was back in the garden and started working the soil where I had left off.

Something reminded me about the apricot tree and I looked over and for the life of me I thought I saw something green, so I got up and went over and took a closer look.

Sure enough. The trunk of the little sapling had long (about 2 inch) green shoots all over it. Just like in my visualization - except that I had thought at first, if the tree ever did grow, it would take much longer.

I looked and looked. There was no way that the tree could have grown so much just over night.

The shoots seemed REAL. But I was afraid that I was hallucinating.

I kind of backed away towards the house so I would be close enough to the house to call my wife without taking my eyes off those green shoots.

I yelled to my wife to come outside to the garden. She did.

I didn't want to give her any "suggestion" so I just asked her to look around and tell me if she saw anything unusual.

She looked around for a while, then she finally looked over at the apricot tree and exclaimed: "See - I TOLD YOU it would grow" - referring to our conversation the previous day.

We both walked over to the tree for a closer look.

She seemed quite proud of herself that her prediction came true. (Though I was rather puzzled, because at the time I couldn't remember her having said that)

I asked my wife to describe EXACTLY what she saw and to point out each of the green shoots. She did. It seemed obvious that we were both seeing exactly the same thing.

I was, to say the least, apprehensive. I still thought this must be a hallucination. I was actually afraid to touch the green shoots on the tree myself so I nonchalantly asked my wife if she would TOUCH one of the green shoots.

She did, without hesitation - pushed her finger against one of the shoots.

The whole little tree moved in response to the pressure of her finger against the shoot. They were, (these shoots) apparently, very real and very physical. Just ordinary green shoots on a tree.

My wife went back into the house and I continued working in the garden taking occasional glances at the apricot tree.

We stayed another night.

The next morning I was in the garden again, but this time, THE SHOOTS WERE GONE!

I went over and took a closer look, and sure enough, the tree was back to the way it was. I thought that maybe some animal ate the shoots - but no. The buds were in tact as if they had never grown. There wasn't any chew marks or damage to the trunk.

I again called my wife out to the garden and asked her to look at the tree and tell me what she saw.

She looked and said: "Maybe a deer ate them"

I asked her to take a close look. could she see the buds where the green shoots were... did she see any chew marks or anything?

"No."

I asked her to confirm that we had looked at the tree when we arrived and it was dead Right ?

"Yes" she said.

And yesterday it had started to grow and had these long green shoots right ?

"Yes"

And now the shoots are gone as if they had never been there ?

She confirmed all this

I asked: "How do you explain that?"

"I can't", She said.

Then I started to tell her about the experiment I had done and..

Before I could finish she threw her hands in the air and started back towards the house saying: "I don't want to hear any more about it!!!!"

Every month of so after that for a while I would ask her again: "Do you remember that time we were up at the house with the apricot tree (and the rest of the story) - Just to make sure I hadn't dreamed or hallucinated the whole thing.

Each time she would confirm that yes, this did really happen.

If the tree had continued growing normally I think it would have been LESS of a shock. Then I could have just chalked it up to coincidence,... It just coincidently finally broke dormancy and started to grow very rapidly...

But this was something different. Things just don't appear - taking on all aspects of physical reality for a day and then disappear the next day as if they never were. This was no "coincidence".

I did feel however, that if I wasn't so shocked by the incident and so disbelieving of what I saw - if I had just accepted this new reality - that the tree would have kept right on growing. Maybe.

You seem to be well versed in this sort of thing ~Godot~

Have you ever had any such experience with "Tulpas", or materializing a "thought form" ?

I have not since tried to reproduce this. At least not involving causing a "dead" tree to grow. I suppose I just haven't had the nerve, though there isn't anything complicated about it, so I'm fairly confident that something done once could be done again under better conditions.

I wish, at the time I had had the presence of mind to take a picture or a cutting from one of the shoots or SOMETHING.

I've posted this story on a couple other forums and the usual response has been some skeptic/heckler runs me off the boards making it impossible to continue the conversation in any meaningful way.

I am grateful to all of you here for hearing me out and apparently being open minded about all this.

Thanks.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by Tom Booth

I wish, at the time I had had the presence of mind to take a picture or a cutting from one of the shoots or SOMETHING.

I've posted this story on a couple other forums and the usual response has been some skeptic/heckler runs me off the boards making it impossible to continue the conversation in any meaningful way.

I am grateful to all of you here for hearing me out and apparently being open minded about all this.

Thanks.

This reminds me of my disappearing bench-swing spring story I can sympathise with the photo-taking wish totally...

[nicbrahms]

You appear to have a knack for materialising things. But both times you have not allowed yourself to believe in the manifestation, instead trying your damndest to rationalise it.

I think you should intend yourself to be open minded and more accepting of the materialisations you create, perhaps then they would prolong.

Anyway since I read the necklace story I am now doing my own little experiment to see if materialisation occurs for me. I believe it can and will.

Interesting stories, thanks for sharing.

Nic

[Tom Booth]

Originally Posted by nicbrahms

You appear to have a knack for materializing things. But both times you have not allowed yourself to believe in the manifestation, instead trying your damnedest to rationalize it.

I think you should intend yourself to be open minded and more accepting of the materializations you create, perhaps then they would prolong.

Yes, good advice. As I mentioned at the start though, I started out as the ultimate skeptic. I guess I had to sort of back into this stuff by experiencing some things first hand before I could loosen up about it.

I thought that the METHOD I eventually came up with might be useful to others who are also skeptical but would like to explore these things, that is, for TEMPORARILY at lest, suspending skepticism.

At the time I first started experimenting, after having given up several times in frustration due to the overwhelming number of doubts that would come up every time I tried... I happened to receive a brochure in the mail that contained some advice as to how to overcome "overwhelm" - like for use by a social worker. It gave the advice to make a list (or have the client make a list) of all the problems one is facing and then organize that list, putting what seemed like the most trivial or easiest problem to resolve at the top of the list and then, in order of difficulty, list all the other problems with the most difficult at the end.

Then to tackle the list, starting at the top, with the easiest problem to resolve first - and crossing off each item on the list one at a time as each is resolved.

This sounded like good advice and I wondered if it would apply to my situation.

So what I did was to start attempting to "visualize" as usual, but this time, when the doubts started to enter my mind, I had a pen and paper at hand and started writing them down - making my "list".

When I finally felt I had all these negative thoughts and fears and what not written down (about three pages worth!) I went over the list and began arranging it, picking out the easiest to confront doubts at the top, some of which - now looking at them one at a time in isolation - resolved almost immediately; like "This won't work".

Well, I reasoned, I don't really know if it will work or not until I actually do it -

so I was able to scratch that off the list and start working on the next thing.

I continued in this way down the entire list.

I found that these negative thoughts and feeling were much easier to resolve looked at one-at-a-time instead of as a whole torrent of conflicting thoughts and emotions coming on all at once.

It still took a lot of work. Some of the thoughts I had to deal with, I found were rooted in my childhood religious indoctrination.

Like I had been taught that miracles ended with the apostles. So if that was true, then what I was attempting was impossible. To resolve that, I had to do some research and discovered that there were different points of view. The evidence that miracles ended, or are supposed to have ended with the death of the last apostle is actually pretty slim. Based mostly on one statement in one of Paul's letters. I found that he went on to say the opposite later on in the same letter and the verse in question could very well be interpreted differently.

Specifically Paul wrote (according to some translation) "whether there are tongues, they will cease" etc. But he also says in the same passage "whether there is knowledge, it will cease" - so what did he really mean ?

I looked up the word translated "cease" in a Greek dictionary (Strong's) and found that it did not mean to vanish completely but just that it would be put aside as no longer useful for the individual. Like the carpentry tools of a builder will be put aside after the house is built. (Or a baby will no longer need a baby bottle once grown into an adult.) The tools of the carpenter will then no longer be needed, once the house is built - not that no more houses will ever be built and no one will ever use these tools again, or that no babies will ever be born and baby bottles will no longer be needed. This made much more sense to me and was more in harmony with the context (1 Corinthians 13)

Going through this entire list and resolving each and every doubt, fear or reservation took about another three days - and then when I started trying to visualize again... a few more doubts that I had missed came up and I made another shorter list - but eventually, I was able to find some way to resolve each and every doubt.

Some I just had to gather up the nerve. Like one was, "If something does actually materialize - I'll go crazy! literally".

I just had to really face that possibility and resolve within myself that it was worth the risk.

As I began crossing off some of the "easy" stuff at the beginning, I then found that the next more difficult thing now seemed easier to deal with and it continued like that all the way down the list.

By the time I had finished I was then able to "visualize" with a completely clear mind, at least briefly, but apparently that was enough.

When I opened my eyes after visualizing - and it appeared that nothing had materialized immediately, the doubts came flooding back. At least many did and I thought "It didn't work", but then some days later, what I had envisioned briefly in a completely clear state of mind, DID come about in a rather unusual way "by coincidence" and that pretty much blew my ingrained skepticism out of the water.

After a few more successful - or at least evidential - experiments where something "weird" and inexplicable happened, I no longer had any difficulty silencing the mind. I could no longer say to myself "It didn't work" as my experience proved otherwise.

Mostly, at this point, I'm looking to do some group intention experiments. Then at least, if I'm crazy, I won't be crazy alone. LOL

Anyway since I read the necklace story I am now doing my own little experiment to see if materialization occurs for me. I believe it can and will.

Interesting stories, thanks for sharing.

Nic

My pleasure.

[Tom Booth]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Tom, there were two separate but parallel processes at work. Both, of course, resulted from your visualizations.

I've been thinking about this since yesterday.

The way I've been looking at it, as things progressed with these experiments, was, or is, during some of these earlier experiments (like this gold necklace experiment, which was only the second experiment) I really didn't have any clear idea what I was doing and my thoughts and my "focus" was rather scattered.

That is; my "intention" wasn't really clear.

I actually started out trying to just visualize a gold nugget or something - just ANYTHING Gold, not because I was greedy but just because I figured that something gold would be hard to come by and that it would be evidential if something gold turned up - even by "coincidence".

This kind of morphed into visualizing the gold necklace - and I wasn't really very clear about what this gold necklace should look like at first.

Eventually the image I was holding in my mind about what this necklace should look like became clearer - but when some gold necklaces showed up I was so disturbed or alarmed or discombobulated by this that I stopped the experiment - stopped visualizing wearing the imaginary gold necklace altogether. I had had enough. I felt like my sense of stable "reality" had already been overturned and I just wanted to get things back to "normal".

In retrospect, I would have to say that I got results that exactly mirrored my rather scattered thinking at the time.

At the time I think I was trying to visualize rather broadly... i.e. "anything gold".

When I eventually narrowed it down to something more specific, I didn't really continue with it once something gold showed up. The necklaces that did show up didn't really match the picture I eventually had formed in my mind as far as the imaginary necklace I was wearing.

As time went on, with other experiments, and I gained more confidence I learned to decide beforehand what to visualize and to be more specific about the details.

At first I was being intentionally vague to some degree - hoping for anything in the ballpark so-to-speak.

So what I found out is, being vague produces vague results and being specific produces specific results. What you get is a reflection of your thoughts. This is easy to see once you get results and start wondering why things turned out the way they did and you look back and remember that what actually came about was something that had crossed your mind while even if it wasn't your original intention.

Like, while doing this necklace experiment...

AFTER the fact. I realized that I had actually seen these necklaces before and for a moment thought that they might be the answer to my "prayer" so-to-speak.

My sister in law had invited me and some other people over for dinner previously - (while I was in the middle of this experiment - visualizing wearing the gold necklace).

At the dinner table I was sitting next to a woman I didn't know and had never met before. A new acquaintance of my sister-in-law.

Looking down I saw her purse on the floor between our chairs. It was open and I could see some gold necklaces laying on top of everything else in there.

As I was staring down, the thought crossed my mind that maybe this had something to do with my experiment and at that point the purse tipped over and the necklaces spilled out. I thought that was weird, I could have just picked them up, but I wasn't about to steal someones jewelry. I had crossed my mind at the time that if these WERE "the answer" they were going to have to find their own way into my possession - and I just left them there on the floor.

By the time the necklaces appeared on my desk I had forgotten all about that and didn't remember it until much later.

I guess it is true what you say. I kind of had several different things going on at once. I wasn't very focused.

One other thing I wanted to say in regard to the thread by "Mystic Girl" posted earlier.

I've been thinking about her statements in regard to the "ether" being the stuff that has to be gathered together somehow to make something materialize... and that there is a very limited supply of this stuff which is supposed to be very scarce...

Ive been operating on the opposite assumption all these years.

More or less along the lines of there being an unlimited ocean of creative potential which we are immersed in - like fish in water.

Sometimes I've used the idea of gathering up "energy" - like drawing in "cosmic energy" through the top of my head with that apricot tree experiment, but I never took this literally.

In my own experiences, I have not found any such "scarcity" to be a problem at all. In fact, I think the creative potential, if anything, is much greater than I was ever prepared to handle.

Again, I think that you get results that reflect your thinking.

If you think the "supply" of ~whatever you want to call it~ is limited then your experience will be in accordance with your thinking. If you think that the opposite is true, that the supply of creative potential is unlimited or infinite - then you will also get results that reflect your thinking.

Before I got into all this, I was inspired by Lawrence LeShan's book "alternate Realities".

I think it is true. Different groups or different cultures or different religions have their own ideas about what is possible and what is impossible, but when you look at all this together, the various "alternate realities" appear to be arbitrary and any group of people could form what Joseph Chilton Pearce referred to as a "special consensus" - in effect, making up, or agreeing on their own rules so that literally anything is possible.

[Acting Like Godot]

Manifesting the dishwasher and getting the three physical gold necklaces - now, that is not particularly interesting to me, because I think that many of us already know that we can attract material things in that kind of fashion.

What is interesting, in your accounts, is:

(a) the appearing and disappearing apricot buds; and
(b) the necklace which your wife saw you wear, when you didn't wear any.

In other words, inanimate physical things that aren't really "physical" - they pop off and spontaneously vanish after a while.

My experience with tulpas is not quite that sort.

Mine are animate, and less physical.

[Acting Like Godot]

Hey Tom. Something to share with you.

Inspired by you, I decided to try to manifest a physical object. I do a lot of manifesting all the time, but I generally manifest not for tangible, touchable, physical objects, but for situations and intangibles - such as promotions; job opportunities; good health; higher intelligence in my kids; a happy, loving home; and money etc.

(I generally think of money as abstract, because the kind of sums I go for are eventually represented by digits in my bank account, not physical cash that I can touch/feel).

Anyway, as I said, a few days ago, I decided to manifest physical objects. I decided to visualise $50 notes.

I meditated and visualised one $50 note. And then I visualised another $50 note joining it. Then I wanted to visualise a 3rd note, but I got distracted and quit then. And just forgot about it.

That was on Saturday morning, I think.

Anyway, later that day, my wife and I were at a store. My wife selected some items. I looked at my wallet and said, "Hey I'm out of cash, I need to go to the ATM to withdraw some cash."

She said, "Oh, don't bother. Here, I have some cash." She handed me a $50 note, to go pay for the items.

I said, "Well, I still need to go withdraw some cash anyway, because I don't have any in my wallet."

She said, 'Oh, don't waste time now. Here, just take this." She handed me another $50 note.

Now, normally my wife doesn't give me any money. The flow of money is usually very much one-way, from me to her.

Anyway, I didn't realise until later (now, today, actually), that my manifestation of two $50 notes had already come true.

Of course, ideally the source shouldn't have been my wife, but those are the details, details, details.

[Tom Booth]

Wow,...

I'm really glad to hear someone else is experimenting with this direct materialization.

I had one experience where I visualized a book I wanted that was too expensive for me to afford at the time.

Briefly, I cleared a space on my book shelf and visualized the book I wanted there,... I had a general idea about the appearance of the book and its contents from a sales brochure.

A lot of things went through my mind while visualizing, or beginning to, like that I might possibly find the book in a used book store for less money, so to make it more evidential, I intentionally visualized A BRAND NEW COPY of the book there on my bookshelf.

About a week later my wife and I were out for a drive... at her request.

We were driving along a country road and passed a used book store. My wife wanted to stop, which was unusual, as she wasn't much of a reader. Normally I would have loved to but I didn't have any money on me so I let her go in and just waited in the car listening to the radio.

She was taking a long time and I got board just sitting there so finally I went in to bug her - to see how much longer she would be.

She was just standing in the back of the store reading some romance novel paperback.

I told her - well, I'll be waiting in the car and started to leave.

To get to the exit I had to walk down a long dark aisle between two tall book shelves. As I was about half way down the isle there was a flash of light behind and above me over my right shoulder and I turned involuntarily to see what it was.

My eyes fell on the shinny lettering on the binding of a book high up on the top shelf.

I thought it was a reflection from a car going by outside, but it puzzled me. I walked up and down the isle trying to re-create the effect and looked for windows where light might have shone in and reflected off the binding of this book - but it seemed like there was no way this could happen. There wasn't any windows where any light could reach that area of the store or that would have caused such a reflection.

I kept trying to figure it out and kept walking up and down the isle and looking at the book over my shoulder as I passed it and scratching my head...

Then I happened to read the lettering on the binding where this flash of light seemed to have come from...

It was THE BOOK that I had visualized...

And it was absolutely brand new.

I took it down. The binding was stiff. The book didn't have a single mark or finger print on it. It seemed very out of place in this used book store.

I was a bit dazed.

I thought... this is great, I find the book I wanted and I have no money.

I checked my pockets and all I had was about 45 cents in change on me.

I thought, well if it is meant to be its meant to be.

I carried the book to the counter and the guy looked it over and said "one dollar".

I reached in my pocket and took out the change and he immediately said: "that's good enough" and sold me the book for the little change I had on me.

(It was a big book, a new copy normally cost about $65)

Out of curiosity, sometime later I went back to the store and inquired of the guy... where the book came from.

He said he couldn't remember where he had gotten it.

Anyway, I took the book home and put it in the space I had prepared for it on the book shelf - -

But what I still wonder is - did the book "materialize" in a flash of light ?

It was just like a flash bulb had gone off that drew my attention to the book.

I was also at that time in my experiments, attempting to follow the procedure outlined in the Alchemy book for "precipitation" or materialization of a thought form using light...

The method described in this book (Studies In Alchemy) seemed a bit hokey to me... (Using the words in Genesis: "Let there be light" and I never really stuck with that method afterwards... perhaps I should reconsider and try it again)

[mikethedrummer44]

Tom, you have some of the most amazing stories of manifestation I've ever heard. Very inspiring. In fact, I think I'm going to start doing some experiments of my own.

Usually when I manifest specific material things I get them fairly easily. Unfortunately, I usually want to manifest ideas more than actual objects.

Thanks for the inspiration!

[Tom Booth]

Originally Posted by mikethedrummer44

Tom, you have some of the most amazing stories of manifestation I've ever heard.

Thanks,... though I'm pretty amazed, and somewhat dumbfounded about it all myself. I try not to overstate things or go beyond the facts of what I experienced i.e. method and results - in the spirit of "scientific" disclosure.

Very inspiring. In fact, I think I'm going to start doing some experiments of my own.

Usually when I manifest specific material things I get them fairly easily. Unfortunately, I usually want to manifest ideas more than actual objects.

Nothing wrong with that, and probably more useful.

Materializing physical objects is a personal obsession, mostly due to my ingrained skepticism. I was never satisfied with "indirect" manifestation...

coincidence, coincidence, coincidence...

I'd be happier with manifesting a grain of sand inside a vacuum chamber than with winning a 50 million dollar jackpot in the lottery, just because, well, somebody has to win the lottery eventually and it could always be attributed to "coincidence".

I've experienced so much, but even now, I'm still skeptical. Now I want to do group experiments or some collaborative "visualization" because I'm even skeptical of my own experiences and don't consider myself an entirely credible witness. I need some independent corroboration. I think this is sad and I wish I could get over it and just enjoy it more.

Thanks for the inspiration!

I'm glad it is inspiring to someone. I figure if I (or we, if I can get some other participants) can come up with some really conclusive "proof" it would help a lot of other people overcome the doubts and general skepticism surrounding this stuff.

Something that would be credible, by scientific standards, I've found out, is easier said than done. So often these things happen under uncontrolled circumstances - spontaneously,.. like, so I found a book I was looking for in a book store - so what, who hasn't ?

Even if I materialize something outright in front of my own eyes... How would I ever prove this ? How would I even know that I wasn't fooling myself ? Maybe I went into a trance and just got the thing in some ordinary way without being aware of what I was doing...

Even photos wouldn't prove anything,... even a video could be faked...

All I can think of is a collaborative experiment - like manifesting something inside a hermetically sealed chamber...

Then I suppose the entire research team would be suspected of fraud...

Is there any way to win this game ?

Anyway, I'm just reporting... for whatever it's worth.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by Tom Booth

Is there any way to win this game ?

As trite as it sounds, maybe this will end up actually having been one great honking big test of faith...

[Arboretor]

Originally Posted by Tom Booth

The method described in this book (Studies In Alchemy) seemed a bit hokey to me... (Using the words in Genesis: "Let there be light" and I never really stuck with that method afterwards... perhaps I should reconsider and try it again)

What is the title of this book, exactly?

[Tom Booth]

Originally Posted by Arboretor

What is the title of this book, exactly?

STUDIES IN ALCHEMY
The Science of Self-Transformation

I first found it in a book store not long after it was first published (the late 70's). It was one of the first books I ever read on "manifestation" and certainly the first I ever read that suggested unequivocally that actual physical materializations are possible.

The publisher has since had it online for many years, and now there are numerous places where it can be read online or downloaded as an ebook.

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Or I've seen used copies available on Amazon.com for under a buck.

[Arboretor]

Originally Posted by Tom Booth

STUDIES IN ALCHEMY
The Science of Self-Transformation

Thanks, Tom. I'll look into it.