Manifestation Part 1

The dictionary definition of “to manifest”:

 

1. to make clear or evident; show plainly

What I am talking about here is definition #3. Is manifestation WooWoo or is it scientific? Or both? Or neither? My personal opinion is that it is somewhere between both and neither.

I have been studying (reading, watching Youtube videos, and practicing) manifestation for a couple of years. However, I have dabbled in it now and then for much longer. I have always been attracted to weird things: aliens, crop circles, remote viewing, backwards speech, and other ideas I used to get from listening to the late Art Bell on the radio. Anyone else listen to him???

When most people think of manifestation they might think of vision boards. That is likely the first thing I ever did related to manifesting. You take a piece of cardboard and some old magazines, and you cut out pictures of things or ideas you would like to see in your future. Then, in five years, you take out your old vision board (which you are supposed to place where you will frequently see it) and say, “Look at that picture of a house! That is exactly the dream house I live in now!” (Well, maybe.)

Then in 2006, Rhonda Byrne wrote The Secret, which was about the Law of Attraction (LOA). Then there was a movie made from the book. Around the same time, there was a movie called What the Bleep? which was about the spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness, and the idea of a common consciousness.

The idea of the Law of Attraction is to raise your vibration to match the vibration of what you want. You do this partly by envisioning that you already have what you want. If you want to read about the Law of Attraction, Esther Hicks has several books. She speaks through an entity called Abraham. That whole thing never resonated with me. However, when I “raised my vibration” by redoing myself inside and out (I won’t go into details), I seemed to get some of my manifestation (which is the same one I am still working on). This was a couple of years ago. I raised my mood, so I felt my vibration was higher….

Then, maybe a year ago, I discovered the “other” LOA: The Law of Assumption. This law has some similarities with the Law of Attraction, but is also very different. It is self-explanatory. To get what you want, you must assume it is already true. Sounds simple. Not so much though. 

Why do people manifest in the first place? People come to manifestation because they want something, and they do not know how else to get it. This might be love, money, a house, a new job, etc. The most common manifestations are for love and money. The love manifestation is called the SP( special person). This person might be an ex you want back (very common), someone you know, or maybe even just a relationship with someone you have not yet discovered.

The granddaddy of the Law of Assumption is Neville Goddard.  Goddard was a writer and mystic from Barbados, who learned about the law from the rabbi Abdul. Goddard lived from 1907 to 1975. The basic tenet of this law: You must feel it as real with all your senses. You must live in the end. 

In the next installment of this series, I will talk about what you actually do to manifest in this way and some of the basic thoughts about this law. 

Two more things. 

1. You have obviously seen manifestation, maybe in your own life. People who are  pessimistic and don’t think they can accomplish things, usually don’t. Athletes often practice in their imagination to improve their performance. 
2. I will leave you with this. The law of assumption states that the imagination is as real as the 3D (a common term in manifestation, which of course means what we think of as reality.) And if you think about it, all creation does begin in the imagination.