For money, this is all a bunch of BS

[Wax Frog]

I'm betting the phrasing is irrelevant, insofar as it's just another "effect" - I'm betting there's something special going on in the ALG's "core", and that there's probably no way of ever conveying that by conventional means :-S I just do my best to trust that we all find this mysterious Something within ourselves, eventually.

[pyrogen]

Originally Posted by Wax Frog

I'm betting the phrasing is irrelevant, insofar as it's just another "effect" - I'm betting there's something special going on in the ALG's "core", and that there's probably no way of ever conveying that by conventional means :-S I just do my best to trust that we all find this mysterious Something within ourselves, eventually.

ALG was already fairly high up Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs when he got started in this I/M stuff. So, that will have some bearing on his results.

However, I've seen just as significant results in people who were closer to survival level. My mom is one who generates *amazing* results that seem like they're out of thin air... checks that would arrive out of nowhere and cover exactly the amount of a bill, for example. For every 1 person who generates prosperity with I/M, I've known more that use it to keep their head above water.

What they haven't gotten past, is being able to actually create prosperity as opposed to merely get out of scrapes, and my mom in particular hasn't created much since she started to be in a comfortable solid middle class life... the creation hit a plateau.

Anyone got any ideas for her? She's not on the board, btw. I've wondered about this situation myself, though.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by pyrogen

ALG was already fairly high up Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs when he got started in this I/M stuff. So, that will have some bearing on his results.

However, I've seen just as significant results in people who were closer to survival level. My mom is one who generates *amazing* results that seem like they're out of thin air... checks that would arrive out of nowhere and cover exactly the amount of a bill, for example. For every 1 person who generates prosperity with I/M, I've known more that use it to keep their head above water.

I'm unfamiliar with the HoN, so maybe I'm misreading you, but I didn't mean to give the impression I considered him more "advanced" in this regard. I was thinking maybe he's just stumbled upon something experientially that still awaits a more 'inept' creator such as myself

My Mom knows nothing of the formal IM/LoA material, and yet she's the same way as yours, if perhaps less dramatically and precisely so. She's told me not a few "help that arrived just in time" stories to encourage me during my frequent past downer moods...

Anyone got any ideas for her? She's not on the board, btw. I've wondered about this situation myself, though.

Sounds like decent grist for a new thread?

[Chapter V]

Originally Posted by Jesann

See, I wanna know how you phrase things like that. Not "you" in general, but you, ALG, always successful. How did you phrase that? Did you really ask (Universe, please send me the biggest sum of money possible as quickly as possible) or do you use phrases like "in a relaxed easy way for the good of all"?

Seriously, what was the exact phrasing you used for this (or as near as you can remember)? I'm probably not the only one here who wants to know....

ya know, I was gonna ask the same thing as well. I can relax myself to Deep Dive, (the Alpha level) and be focused and all, But at some point, I stumble to that block: phasing out intentions. I love words so much, that I think it kinda important on the phrasing.

So yes.. Same question as Jesann. o_o

[Angelique]

@ALG. Thank you for posting these stories! They're very inspiring. Do you only post them on the boards and in your journals or do you have another place where you list them all out?

[rei]

ALG, I also really enjoyed the stories. And reading them helped me indirectly check in on my own beliefs about this theme, so thanks for that.

More questions for ALG. Not sure I've seen you share this before, but I'm wondering what type of self-hypnosis you tend to do? And did you start out self-hynosis with a specific program or technique (i.e. guided meditation) or is it more like a free-form thing?

Also... heh... did you grow up in an environment that made it easy for you to have a wealthy mindset?

@jacare: Sounds to me like many people can relate to where you're at on this. My ideas may seem rather silly, but perhaps it would help to renew appreciation for the abundance and wealth that's already in your life?

As far as I can tell, ALG is the only regular poster here, at this point, who's flowed beyond the stage of 'always have enough' to rack up a nice nest egg. He's the only one who speaks about it regularly, at least. And I mean, he works for banks, so he deals with large sums a lot, I would bet - I can see how that would also serve to program the mind for abundance. Maybe it's debatable that this stage of 'always have enough' is necessary before moving to lump sums? Idk. Interesting thread, though.

[Acting Like Godot]

Alright, scrap the money stories for now. Otherwise I will appear to be such a money-minded person. Let me move on to OTHER kinds of LOA stories.

So my wife was retrenched. Money was not a real concern. But she was pissed about being retrenched.

Of course I tried to console her. I told her things like, "Isn't it great - now you can take a break for a few months," and so on.

Around that time, my wife had been having uterine fibroids. It was causing her periods to be heavy and painful. She had gone for a scan, and the gynaecologist had confirmed the presence of large fibroids. The doctor prescribed progesterone for my wife.

I said, "Now you have the time, you should heal yourself."

So my wife did. She used a mind method known as the Silva method (it's another form of LOA technique). Every other day, she sent white light / energy healing etc to her uterus.

My wife also had a little help from our magickal friend (a fengshui master). Read more details here.

1.5 months after the scan which detected her fibroids, she went for another check-up. To the doctor's astonishment, the fibroids had disappeared completely. The doctor could not explain it at all.

(Note that the progesterone medication is supposed to reduce bleeding, but is not known to make uterine fibroids disappear).

[Acting Like Godot]

Let me demonstrate the possible applications of the Silva Method, for healing purposes. One application is psychic diagnosis.

This is a cut-&-paste from my personal blog, sometime in 2008:

My personal LOA blogs, including this one, have mostly been about me and my personal LOA intentions. I don’t record the LOA intentions of my wife, for the simple reason that it’s already quite time-consuming to record mine alone.

However, all this time, I’ve been fortified in my beliefs that all this mind-&-reality stuff is genuine, not only because I’ve seen it work for myself, but also because I’ve seen it work for her.

She just pulled off a rather remarkable one. It’s a little embarrassing for me to write about it, but i’ve decided to do so anyway.

Sometime last year, we took a course in the Silva Method, which is basically a system that teaches an assortment of mind techniques. One of the strange things we learned was how to heal others with our own mind power (like in faith healing, or reiki). And one of the skills we learned in this area was firstly, to psychically diagnose people and sense whether they had any medical problems, and if so, where was the medical problem.

The psychic diagnosis part goes like this. You go to alpha. You think of the person you want to diagnose. You imagine his personal energy field, in the shape of a body, in front of you. You stretch out your hands, and “feel” the energy field, and you will be able to feel his state of health. Note: the real person doesn’t have to be in front of you; in fact, he doesn’t have to be anywhere near you at all.

Of course this takes practice. I never really practised this one very much, so I’m not very confident at this.

Anyway, the latest story goes like this.

Sometime last week, my wife told me that she’d done a psychic scan on me. She said that she detected that there was something wrong with my anus. I laughed like crazy. I said, “NO, there is nothing wrong with my anus.” We forgot about the matter.

Three days ago, my anus started to hurt a little. Once there was even a little blood on the toilet paper, after I’d passed motion and wiped myself. I dismissed it and still didn’t connect it with what my wife had diagnosed.

Today, my anus was still hurting. I was showering just now and I touched myself there, and suddenly I realised that I could feel a kind of ball-like growth, just inside the anus. It was round and smooth and quite large.

I panicked, went to see the doctor just now, who said that it was nothing to worry about, it was just piles, a common thing. She prescribed a cream and some oral medication.

Well, this is the first time in my life that I’ve had piles.

But the thing about this whole episode is that:

(1) it proves again that all this energy healing stuff is genuine; and

(3) my wife is really very precise and accurate at it!

[Acting Like Godot]

Another doctor-perplexing situation from my personal life, in July 2008. Here, I use the Silva Method to heal my mother, and the efficacy of the method takes the doctors by surprise.

I highlight in bold the parts below, that reflect the doctors' puzzlement.

Taken from my blog:

July 20, 2008

On Wednesday, my mother fell ill. Apparently she started breaking out in a cold sweat and her heartbeat went very irregular, and for some time, she wasn’t able to speak.

My father rushed her to hospital. When I got the news, it was lunchtime on a working day and I was out having lunch. My mother was okay but her heartbeat was still irregular.

I was wondering what to do next. Walking back to the office, I began to go into alpha, by the Silva Method countdown. I was going to alpha, standing at the side of the street waiting for a traffic light to change, in the noisy midst of a downtown lunch crowd, and right there and then, I was going into alpha. Sounds strange, but I did it.

Back in my office, I began to perform the distance healing thing on my mother. I did it with my eyes wide open, which is unusual for me. I’ve never really thought I could do it like that, but I could. If you had seen me at my desk you would think that I was looking at my computer screen reading emails with intense concentration.

I didn’t bother with the psychic diagnosis – I jumped straight into the healing. There’s a pencil holder on my desk which was a gift from a Cambodian-born friend; the holder has carved images of Buddha. I used these images as a visual prop. I imagined myself to be a buddha sending protection and healing.

My mind was very clear and very focused; it was intensely focused on helping my mother. Actually, it was right then that I realized that in comparison, many of my usual manifestations have lacked that kind of focus and concentration. Helping my mother was something I really, really wanted, and so my mind was able to organize itself powerfully around that intention. My left hand started to feel like pins and needles were stuck into it, the usual tingling sensation I get when I’m doing the heavy-duty mind stuff.

Today’s Sunday. My mother’s still in hospital. But she’s okay. In fact, the doctors are quite mystified. When she was admitted on Wednesday, her heartbeat was very irregular and had fluctuated from very rapid (150+ heart beat per minute), to very slow (40+ per minute) for several hours in hospital. But after that, it stabilized. The doctors had suspected a heart attack or a stroke, but over the next few days, they have been sending her for all kinds of tests – an angiogram, an echocardiogram, a brain scan, cholesterol tests and more – but all the tests are coming back normal, with no sign of abnormality.

I’ve been visiting her over the past few days. Just went this morning again. She looks fine, just very bored in hospital.

[jacare]

Inspired by ALG's insisting that metaphysical methods have worked, and his numerous accounts that he so kindly shared, I've decided to give it another try. It's been my habit to meditate whenever possible lately, and I've found it effective in clearing the noise/signal, and just getting to the signal.

At the risk of sounding "nuts" I'll share my findings....

With regards to money, I got an interesting message from "myself" while mediating this morning. The message said to stop all the worry thoughts, and to be open to receiving all of the energy of the universe. Now that is very "woo woo" I know. The message also said to clear out all preconceived notions, and to be open to clues. Also, the other message I received was that my current money making methods are fine, I have to learn to leave them alone. And that my software is fine, but it's time to let it breath on it's own.

I have at least three strong real world methods to bring streams of income, each stream being well above average in my part of the world. Software, Consulting, and Markets. But I have to step back and "allow" in other words I'm trying to force the issue too much.

One last thing I detected in meditation....I'm giving too much cred to the "whiny, scared" portion of my personality. Another portion of my thoughts has to settle it down so it can get to business. I have to make that portion of my personality the dominant one. Now I really sound nuts!

[John Freestone]

Jacare, with respect, I've been in psychology long enough to get a sense of when someone is rationalizing (as opposed to being rational), and I think this may be one such occasion. I am not saying that you're wrong and I'm right (would I?!), just flagging it up for you in case you want to think about it more. You seem to have a good grasp of logic most of the time, and then type this:

Originally Posted by jacare

I've been in the markets long enough to know that any excessively negative view, while factually valid, has no bearing on the actual reality.

If a view is "excessively negative", I would think it wasn't "factually valid". A factually valid view would be realistic, neither excessively negative or positive. And if a view is factually valid, it would be odd not to have any "bearing on the actual reality". I realise that I'm saying the same criticism twice, but that's to point out that your sentence contains three descriptions of my view, two of which don't fit with the other.

But that's not all. The sentence also begins "I've been in the markets long enough to know...", which suggests that you may be ignoring Taleb's Black Swan insight, especially as you do not directly respond to the threats I listed to our continued wealth on the planet. People like Taleb were jumping up and down warning us of the coming economic global crisis, saying "just because everything in your financial experience has gone from strength to strength does not mean it will continue that way".

Taleb exposes a deep flaw in human psychology - and that short page has much to say about our irrational assessment of all sorts including the CoA.

Unfortunately the human psychology may be hard to change. As you say...

Mankind is naturally optimistic, and the markets reflect that.

Indeed. Naturally optimistic, and unnaturally so, even in the face of impending doom! In the aftermath of economic "downturn", the general consensus is that we should stimulate the economy to get back on track - the track of exponential growth. What does that mean? Well, it means going back to the artificial optimism that led to the crash in the first place. Instead of learning how insane our global economy is (and how desperately unethical, since our industrial wealth in the West could not be sustained without a large amount of exploitation of the developing world - something else that is in the process of ending rather abruptly whether we like it or not), we try to be unnaturally optimistic, again.

The fairly stable psychology, in combination with the stimulated growth economy, can be expected to do very little to reduce the population explosion.

While we have bear markets, they tend to be shorter in duration than long bull markets. So what I'm saying is that if the oil based economy disappears,

...I think you mean "when the oil based economy disappears" - surely there's hardly any "if" about it? (counsellor's intuitive ear is itching again)...

something else will take it's place.

Now, that is a good point, and something I hold onto in these uncertain times. The seeds of that change are already there, we've been halfhearted in developing them, and the crisis could be expected to stimulate more interest in - but what is it that we're talking about exactly? - power generation, of course. We can - I sincerely believe - harvest vast amounts of free energy from solar, wind, tidal, wave and geothermal energy (although unfortunately it's also stimulating investment in dangerous nuclear power). Green energy is likely to have an ameliorating effect on the stress that agriculture finds itself under.

However, it may not be a very powerful effect. Oil is used not only in the mechanised growing of crops but the intensive use of artificial fertilizers, by which we have been artificially sucking more food out of the ground than the ground would naturally produce - as I heard it expressed in one lecture on macro-economics (paraphrasing), our culture sustains an unnatural population density by turning oil into food - we eat oil, like those bugs we'd like to have more of in the Gulf. We're turning on to organic growing, but organic farming, for all its benefits, is at the cost of that massive overproduction we've relied on.

I feel fairly confident about the science behind global warming, which predicts pretty severe changes in climate to cope with, the flooding of many highly populated, highly industrialised and agriculturally productive coastal regions, and the movement of large numbers of climate refugees.

Now, even if we change our energy sources and food production and find a way to house and feed the uprooted populations, we will only be putting off the crisis as long as we're trying to do either of these: stimulate the economy (i.e. going for growth and wealth); increasing our population. Doing both together is a sure-fire recipe for mass starvation further down the line. That's not so much pessimistic opinion as Ordinary Level Biology, a simple, extremely well-established ecological fact. We can extend the growth much further in theory, using solar energy to grow vats of micro-organisms to eat while we pile ourselves physically into the sky and tunnel into the surface, but the ecological fact remains, and the consequences (in terms of death and suffering) just get worse the longer we ignore it.

If this macro-economics is for conversation only, that's why we're on this road. That's my "valid over-pessimistic view that has no bearing on reality" at least - and I've not added into that mix the water crisis and any future wars over our increasingly scarce resource of land. The less-rich nations weren't too happy about us lending them money so that they'd not be able to pay it back so we could have them sell us everything from asbestos to zinc for slave wages, while we built military bases, stole their oil, wrecked their economies, and called the resulting anger "terrorism". We're now buying up land in places like Africa to grow crops to feed the rich, and to hell with the natives.

I've actually lost money in bear markets by being excessively negative when I should have been buying with both hands. But lately my thought is not to care which way the market is moving but to make money in both directions.

Anyways, with regards to saving my fellow mankind, my thought is to work more on that after I've saved myself. And by virtue of having a lot of money you are spending a lot more creating jobs and wealth.

That's the view that got us here. I'm sorry to put this so bluntly, but I'm reading "my selfishness will help others in time".

There are trillions and trillions of dollars in the world, and central banks are printing more of it every day.

And as an economist, you don't see any problem with that at all? There are trillions of meaningless dollars in the world, and more inflation on the way. You're really seriously suggesting that printing more money is going to solve the world's problems? Isn't that what whole economies do more and more as they slide into chaos, to the point where people collect their wages in wheelbarrows and try to sprint to the shops, because by the time they get there it's worth half what is was when it was dished out?

The question is how do we corral a few million of it to our own catch basin? That is my essential question?

Is there a set of steps, 1) 2) 3)? Or do you have to be lucky? Or can you do this in the metaphysical realm, as ALG suggests?

I'll leave that to your expert in the metaphysical realm.

[jacare]

Hello John,

First of all, I do not believe there is any scarcity of oil at all. None, we're floating on the stuff. Now, granted, a lot of it is from the Gulf "heavy oil", but we have a lot of it. I did a fling with trading oil futures, and did a real deep dive into oil reserves, and what moves the price of oil.

My findings? It's all manipulation and b.s. They peg the price of oil to the reserves of "light sweet crude" in the US. Those reserves can be drained or topped off to suit the needs of the price market. Meanwhile, the headlines scream shortage, but Saudi tankers are lined up as far as the eye can see with no port to take them

So, needless to say, I don't buy into the oil shortage. There is an end to it, of course, but it is well past our lifetimes, and the lifetimes of our children. And technology being what it is, we can't even imagine the wonders we will create by then.

My second response is that an overly pessimistic macro economic view does not do the individual investor any good, it only clouds the judgement. And it does nothing to improve the situation itself. I'd been negative on the Real Estate market for years, while watching housing go up and up. My overly pessimistic point of view kept me out when I should have been buying.

We only have here and now, we can take a glance to the future, but to base today's decisions on it, I believe, is counter productive. For the individual, that is. For government officials, and planners it may be different, they need long range plans.

[John Freestone]

Originally Posted by jacare

Hello John,

First of all, I do not believe there is any scarcity of oil at all. None, we're floating on the stuff. Now, granted, a lot of it is from the Gulf "heavy oil", but we have a lot of it. I did a fling with trading oil futures, and did a real deep dive into oil reserves, and what moves the price of oil.

My findings? It's all manipulation and b.s. They peg the price of oil to the reserves of "light sweet crude" in the US. Those reserves can be drained or topped off to suit the needs of the price market. Meanwhile, the headlines scream shortage, but Saudi tankers are lined up as far as the eye can see with no port to take them

So, needless to say, I don't buy into the oil shortage. There is an end to it, of course, but it is well past our lifetimes, and the lifetimes of our children. And technology being what it is, we can't even imagine the wonders we will create by then.

My second response is that an overly pessimistic macro economic view does not do the individual investor any good, it only clouds the judgement. And it does nothing to improve the situation itself. I'd been negative on the Real Estate market for years, while watching housing go up and up. My overly pessimistic point of view kept me out when I should have been buying.

We only have here and now, we can take a glance to the future, but to base today's decisions on it, I believe, is counter productive. For the individual, that is. For government officials, and planners it may be different, they need long range plans.

I disagree strongly, but I'll leave it. I see from your other post that you're concentrating on being more positive just now. That must have arrived while I was writing mine. All the best.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by rei

More questions for ALG. Not sure I've seen you share this before, but I'm wondering what type of self-hypnosis you tend to do? And did you start out self-hynosis with a specific program or technique (i.e. guided meditation) or is it more like a free-form thing?

I do self-hypnosis like this:

(a) Go to a quiet place, lie down and close your eyes

(b) get into trance, by using whatever methods work for you. For example, one method is progressive muscular relaxation. Another method is to visualise and count numbers backward, eg 100 ... 99 ... 98 etc. A third method is to pay attention to very fine bodily sensations (this is a kind of meditation too). A 4th method is to give yourself suggestions such as how you feel like sinking into a deeper, quieter place etc etc. A 5th method has you visualising things like walking down a staircase, step by step, and as you take each step, you go to a deeper part of your mind.

(Or you could listen to a hypnotic recording (which guides you through the above). Google and see).

(c) Then you can start mentally talking to yourself, giving yourself whatever positive suggestions you want.

Also... heh... did you grow up in an environment that made it easy for you to have a wealthy mindset?

Not really. My father was a clerk and my mother was a nurse. They earned enough to get by, but they were not rich.

[Angela]

Hey, JohnFreestone, you can't say you didn't see that ban coming! I'm sorry to see it, though not surprised -- you don't seem to have the repose you used to have in previous visits here.

I understand much of your frustration, though, and I'm sorry to see you go. Best wishes and happy trails!

Lots of love from Angela

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Jesann

See, I wanna know how you phrase things like that. Not "you" in general, but you, ALG, always successful. How did you phrase that? Did you really ask (Universe, please send me the biggest sum of money possible as quickly as possible) or do you use phrases like "in a relaxed easy way for the good of all"?

Seriously, what was the exact phrasing you used for this (or as near as you can remember)? I'm probably not the only one here who wants to know....

Well, this is the way I do it.

Going into alpha or deep alpha or trance is the important first step.

After that, I pick my words right there and then, intuitively. It's not like I have a favourite phrase or statement, and that I just go into alpha and repeat it many times.

It's more like I go into alpha, and then I have a conversation with myself, and also with my intention. I feeeeeel all the words, and based on my feelings, I re-pick and re-choose my words, to get what feels most right and good to me.

It's not necessarily a logical conversation, it can be meandering; dreamy; imaginative and repetitive, circling round and round the same intention.

It can also get a little .... weird. Like, once when I was attempting to attract my ideal home, I ended up talking to the house, as if it were alive. I mean, REALLY alive.

Like, I talked about how nice if my family were to live in you; we would be so happy there; and we would take really good care of you, wouldn't you like that? You'd be clean and neat, I have a maid who does all the housework. And we are nice people, my kids are cute, they will be laughing and playing all day long. Sometimes they fight, but overall I really think that you would like them a lot.

Quite "Alice in Wonderland".

Also, I can throw in images and emotions .... but mainly I still use words.

Oh, it's nice to also think some BIG power thoughts, at the start or at the end of the session, eg general thoughts about the power of your own mind; or about how the universe is abundant etc.

If had to put it verbally, I probably had done something like this, for my money intention:

[Gone to alpha]

"I would like ... a lot of money ... yes, a lot ... to come to me as quickly .... as possible. Yes, that would be ... good ... Very good. I expect the money to be coming .... now. It is already on its way .... Big money. Yes, I know it is coming.

A lot of money is ... coming .... Not $1,000 ... Not $10,000 ... but more, much more. As much as possible .... More than ever before .... A bigger sum than ever before .... And in a good way, for all the people concerned .... including .... [visualise my wife and children] and any other person concerned.

[Talks firmly to Big Money] "I expect you to be on your way now! Come quickly. Thank you."

When you come, I will feel .... delighted .... [generate feeling] .... so pleased .... [generate feeling] .... and safe [generate feeling] ....

[Try feeling the emotions in different combinations. Eg

1. delighted + pleased.
2. pleased + safe.
3. delighted + safe
4. All three at the same time

But I don't feel .... surprised .... not surprised at all .... Because ...I .... KNOW .... that you are already coming.

If you come quickly .... [Visualise wife's face] ... She can relax, and enjoy herself .... And I can relax ... relax ... like this .... [relax all muscles, go limp again] ... It feels so good.

[Pause]

[Inhale deeply and slowly] "I am ..... breathing in .... big money ....."

[Exhale deeply and slowly] "I am ...... releasing ..... all doubts ... and anxieties."

[Inhale deeply and slowly] "I am ..... breathing in .... big, BIG money ....."

[Exhale deeply and slowly] "I am ...... releasing ..... all doubts ... and anxieties."

"THANK YOU FOR COMING! SEE YOU SOON!"

[End]

If at any time, concentration breaks, and the mind drifts .... when I catch myself, I just gently regather focus .... I spend a minute or so, in pure meditation ... And then I resume.

If I am working on two or more intentions in a single session, I will normally spend a few minutes in pure meditation, after finishing one intention, and before going on to the next intention.

The other tip I have is this -

You will have doubts. You will either have doubts about your intention; or doubts about the LOA; or doubts about your ability with the LOA; or some combination thereof.

The important thing is to remind yourself that you're just going to suspend your doubts for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, while you do your mind session. That's all you have to do - put away your doubts for 10, 20 minutes.

[rei]

Awesome tips, ALG, thanks for the breakdown.

[Tasha]

Much gratitude to you, ALG, for the information above.

[JJP]

ALG, I read your posts with great interest, especially the description of your meditation. Thanks!

[cylon]

Hey, check out rei in party-mode!

Nice!

[pyrogen]

Thank you very, very, very much, ALG!

I'm going to try this stuff right away.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by cylon

Hey, check out rei in party-mode!

Nice!

Cylon in dark alley mode?

[cylon]

Originally Posted by Wax Frog

Cylon in dark alley mode?

Dark alley/outside my favorite bar.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by cylon

Dark alley/outside my favorite bar.

Looks like you've had one too many, lol!

[cylon]

Dude I had 3 too many, you don't even know.

Got to change my avatar sometime.

I guess I'll just go with me and my best friend David Jones instead.

I like this one better, it shows I keep good company.

[Jesann]

Thanks, ALG. The doubt paragraph was actually comforting to read--okay, I'm normal, and there's a way around the doubts.

[jacare]

Yesterday, as posted, I decided to "let go". Also, to persue my ultimate dream of working in the markets/trading for a living. This stuff may be a coincidence...

1. Sales of my software product had a sudden spiked
2. I was called out of the blue by the largest stock/options trading exchange in the world, and I'm going to interview with them at a 50% increase in my current rate.

Weird stuff, I couldn't make this up. I'll post here what develops. It wouldn't be so weird if it didn't happen on the very same exact day that I resolved in public (on this board) to do this stuff. Now lots of people will think I'm nutz. I'll post here what happens.

Edit: This is a true story. I'm just posting the facts. Based on this experiment, I'm going to manifest for 1 million dollars to "appear" in my account, with good for all and harm for none.

[Melchior]

Originally Posted by jacare

Weird stuff, I couldn't make this up. I'll post here what develops. It wouldn't be so weird if it didn't happen on the very same exact day that I resolved in public (on this board) to do this stuff. Now lots of people will think I'm nutz. I'll post here what happens.

Perhaps this is what people would call a synchronicity. And don't worry, you're not "nutz", just that the world works in ways previously unanticipated. In any case, good luck to you with these new developments.

[Angela]

Found $10 out of nowhere today.

[AlmostGodess]

Originally Posted by Angela

Found $10 out of nowhere today.

Nice! I wish you to triple your findings in the next three days