Manifestation: Part 2

It is difficult to talk or write about manifestation because there is so much, and everyone has different thoughts and ideas about it. Neville Goddard has lots of books, but he is difficult to understand. There are a multitude of coaches and other “experts” on YouTube (and TIK TOK, which I don’t watch; it seems less legit). 

Here is what I have learned:

We are always manifesting, although most of the time unintentionally. What your 3-D world looks like, well, you created it. Sometimes it is obvious; people who are pessimistic and think they can’t have what they want, generally don’t. People who are positive thinking are generally more successful. People who have more self-confidence seem to have more “luck.” It goes as far as this manifestation thought from Neville: “Everyone is you pushed out.” This means that your reality is a reflection of what you believe. People show up in your world according to your expectations of them.

The kind of manifesting everyone is interested in is intentional: when you want something and you don’t know how to get it, you turn to manifesting. However, this is also true in manifestation: “You don’t get what you want; you get who you are. There is no one to change but self.” You get what you assume to be true, thus the name “law of assumption.” Assumption sounds easy, but it is not. All those things you learned as you grew up, all those limiting beliefs, make it difficult to assume certain things. So you need to clean up your “mental diet.”  And you generally, according to manifestation people, don’t need years of therapy to do this. Paying close attention to your beliefs and assumptions helps.

Here are some other common beliefs about manifestation:

You can manifest anything if you can imagine it. 

Big things are no more difficult to manifest than small things.

You should be able to feel your desire as real with all your senses, to live in the end. Neville’s best book — and a short, easy-to-read one — is Feeling Is the Secret. There are techniques to get there, and people often think the techniques are the answer. The techniques are only the methods to help you get to “feeling it as real” — without being delusional.

Manifesting is not the same as daydreaming or wishful thinking. With daydreaming and wishful thinking, there is no real assumption that you are going to change anything. 

Neville Goddard quotes the Bible a great deal – but he looks at the Bible as a metaphor rather than taking it literally. One of the coaches I will talk about in a future installment makes videos deciphering some of his books and lectures. 

Some coaches say to build up your faith in manifesting by starting with really small things that you are not attached to attracting. For example, you might try to manifest seeing a yellow butterfly — or getting a free cup of coffee.

There are different thoughts about what I am going to mention now, but it seems most coaches believe them:

Creation is finished. Therefore, every combination of everything is somewhere, and you simply need to shift into that reality. Yes, it is the idea of parallel or multiple universes. There is a version of you for everything imaginable. And, you, in human form, is not all that you are. You are actually God, and we are all connected as such in a collective consciousness. That is what manifests, not the human you, which cannot manifest. That may or may not agree with your religious beliefs. Nonetheless, that is the common thought in manifestation and the Law of Assumption. 

Next Installment: The techniques and the notion of revision

Final Installment: Some of the coaches I have found and either resonated with — or not.