Manifestation,part 8

The Creative Process and Life Force

Receiving the manifestation is, paradoxically, not the purpose of this process, as we mentioned above. It is the alignment of your energy. The manifestation is a by-product of the alignment of your energy to it. It the alignment of energy within you that brings about a feeling of joy.

All during the process, the desire you have is causing life force energy to surge through you. That's the real purpose of any manifestation process. This can be seen easily enough, for soon after you realize the manifestation in your experience, you have another desire. And another, and another, and another! If the manifestation were the end result, you would only need to create once. We would simply create something, and be happy with it for ever after. But that
doesn't happen, does it? We always get tired of it after a while, and there is always that next desire to shoot for. I enjoyed my first house for a couple of years before I wanted a new one, even though if felt so good to leave my old apartment building. The tendency for all living beings is to desire more and more. This is not greed, it is the desire for more and more life force energy, more and more of the energy that makes you feel great. We all want to feel great all of the time, right? People who are greedy are grabbing for more and more, but they don't understand that the prize is the state of beingness, which brings joy.

Desire is life force, so the more desire there is, the more alive you feel (unless you are resisting, for some reason, then it feels crummy. That's why some teachers promote the extinguishing of desire. But it's not desire that's the problem, it's the beliefs which contradict desire, blocking the flow of life force energy).

Life force energy, or prana, or chi, is the energy of thought, and feels wonderful. Tapping into this energy is sheer joy, and it is this energy which is the energy of creation itself, and which you are using in your creative process.

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Manifestation,part 3

The Belief in Scarcity

The belief that hard work is the only way to attain something usually comes from some old belief system which says "I can only be worthy of having something if I work for it. There has to be some exchange on my part, otherwise it wouldn't be fair of me to have it, because there
are so many others who are lacking." But these sorts of beliefs are just self defeating, and self limiting. There is an infinite amount of creative energy, and anything that is wanted can come to you without depriving anyone else! The only reason anyone is not prosperous, for
example, is the belief that it isn't possible for them. There are many reasons for this, chief among them the idea that we live on a planet of scarcity and that there is only so much to go around. Well, that may seem true, but we have manifested economies of scarcity
because of our consciousness of lack, not the other way around. The consciousness of mankind is a perfect vibrational match to scarcity and our economies reflect this vibration.

Mankind has such a belief in not-enough-ness that he will fight anyone who claims otherwise! There is such a prevalent belief in most people of their inherent unworthiness, that most do not bother to exercise their powerful creative potential. The earth could be abundant for
all, if only all would ask with the certainty that their asking would be answered! The universal law of 'like attracts like' is so powerful that our fossil fuel economies, based upon scarcity, could be transformed into economies based on the clean energy technologies that
are waiting in the wings. But so many people are into bashing oil companies and fighting against pollution that the vibration of clean and abundant energy is not a match to the present consciousness on planet earth. But it doesn't have to be that way!

As Jesus said, 'Ask and ye shall receive.' The only catch to this, is that when you ask, you do so from a place that feels good, not from an attitude of resistance.

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Manifestation,part 2

The other 2 are, obsessing too much, and going into action too soon.

The tendency is to have a desire, then to realize how far away it is from your current reality. This causes frustration, naturally, because you want it but don't have it! You sort of feel like a failure before you even get started. When you really really want something, you don't want to have to even think about all of the hassles you will have to go through in getting it, especially if your desire is a large one. You just want it right now!

The next thing most people do is go to work real hard to attain it, before aligning their energy to it. Now a lot of effort is involved, because the actions taken are not directed clearly enough. Mostly these actions center around getting enough money. But this energy stream is very limited, because the supply of money is limited. Tapping into this limited energy stream naturally focuses the creative process into avenues of scarcity and lack. If you have a big goal,
you may also have to involve others in helping you to obtain it. This can be a lot of fun, but a lot of times you look at all of the work involved and just say "to hell with it. It's going to take too much ,time, money and effort."

Tapping into Creative Energy

But there is another way, a more effective way, and a way that will be
joyful throughout.

What you want to do is tap into the powerful energy of creation. This is the same energy that keeps the planet orbiting and rotating, keeps the atmosphere in a perfect balance of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, that keeps everything in the universe in balance. These
forces are practically infinite, and compared to them, the pitiful amount of energy needed to manifest anything in the earth plane is not even worth mentioning! When you embark on the creative process, be certain that the energy of creation is there in abundance to allow any
manifestation you can possibly desire. The only limitations are your own -- your own limiting thoughts and beliefs.

How do you tap into this creative energy? By creative visualization. By becoming clear on exactly what it is you want, by imagining yourself already having it or living it, by feeling what it would be like to have it. That's all it takes. The universe will immediately start lining up the energy to make it happen.

People resist this concept because it is so sI'm le, and sounds "airy-fairy", but it is the only way anything ever comes to you. Many people think that the only reason anything manifests is through hard work, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Almost all of all of that hard work was wasted effort. That is why it was hard. 'Hard work' is simply the way most people align their energies toward the goal! All of that sweating and struggling is slowly getting your thoughts, beliefs and feelings about what is wanted, lined up so you can feel good about it. That's doing it the hard way. Better to work smart, instead of working hard -- by first getting your energy lined up toward your goal before going into
action.

The point is, you can align your energy without working hard at all.

Sun Tzu said: "For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill". Tu Mu said: "... The Grand Duke said: 'He who excels at resolving difficulties does so before they arise.'"

Although these war analogies may seem inappropriate to some, I use them to point out that the idea of creative manifestation has been known and applied for thousands of years!

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ALIGNING ENERGY,part 4

ALIGNING ENERGY,by Kenneth James Michael MacLean

The seventh step is the realization that your new vibration now feels more comfortable than the old one did. At this stage, you have clarified, purified and aligned your energy to your desire so well that it feels natural to live in this new way, or to have that thing you want. Even if you are still living your old life, your vibration is primarily aligned towards the new, so that it almost feels weird to be doing the old things or going without that thing you want. If what you are wanting would pop into your life right now, it would seem totally natural to you.

The eighth step is the observation in the physical universe of your goal or dream manifesting. This step actually occurs little by little along the way. It may start out in the early stages with little things you notice that remind you of where you are going. Then, as you get further along, more concrete manifestations will occur, until finally, the whole thing falls right into your lap.

For example, if your goal is to buy a house, you may find yourself driving along a street in just the kind of neighborhood you would love to live in. Or, you will turn on the TV and there will be a program dealing with home construction. Or you will get a call from a realtor friend, who has seen a house she thinks you would love. As you get further along aligning your energy, you may get a birthday card from Uncle Kurt who has included a check for $5,000 that you can apply
towards a down-payment. Or perhaps that new job we mentioned earlier. Many times manifestation will not occur in the way you thought it would, or planned it would. So when your life begins to change, it may change in unanticipated ways. Just go with the flow, it will turn out wonderful. The universe has an infinite variety of surprising ways to bring you what you want, once you have aligned your energy towards it!

The ninth step is the full manifestation. Now you are living your new life, or have the thing that you desired, or have reached your goal. You feel a sense of accomplishment, and expansiveness. It's a great feeling! But now you find out what was said in step five: having is not all it is cranked up to be! The having is the culmination of the process and when it happens, you feel magnificent!!! -- for a while.
Then the feeling wears off.

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manifesting

The Meaning of Intent in Quantum Mechanics, Fred Alan Wolf

The Meaning of Intent in Quantum Mechanics


An addendum by Fred Alan Wolf to Jack Sarfatti's review of Penrose's "Shadows of the Mind".


Sarfatti Note: Fred is using orthodox quantum mechanics not the nonlinear non unitary generalization implicit in Penrose's "OR" new criterion or in Stapp's Phys. Rev. A July, 1994 paper or in Josephson's complementary biological generalized quantum mechanics.
It is important to see how "intent" is already to be found in the orthodox theory.

How does will manifest in the physical world?
How is it that what I wish to accomplish sometimes occurs without seeming effort, while at other times, even with great expenditure of energy, I fail in my endeavors?
According to a new interpretation of quantum physics,observation and awareness have a far greater effect on the physical world than was previously suspected. Intent, through our powers of observation, actually modifies and alters the course of the physical world and causes things to occur that would not normally occur.

I will illustrate three new quantum principles of intent based on the old proverb of a watched pot.

a) A watched quantum pot never boils if you observe it to not boil.
b) A watched quantum pot boils if you observe it to boil.
c) A watched quantum pot boils even on a cake of ice, if you observe it to boil.

This implies that there is a deep connection between the observer and the observed.
So deep, in fact, that we really cannot separate them.
All we can do is alter the way we experience reality.
This is where intent comes in.

Full article here:  http://www.thelawofattractionteacher.com/qmechanics.htm

FIRST STEPS , Ernest Holmes

FIRST STEPS
Ernest Holmes
THE first thing to realize is that since any thought manifests it necessarily follows that all thought does the same, else how should we know that the particular thought we are thinking would be the one that would create? Mind must not cast back all or none. Just as the creative power of the soil receives all seeds put into it, and at once begins to work upon them, so mind must receive all thought and at once begin to operate upon it. Thus we find that all thought has some power in our lives and over our conditions. We are making our environments by the creative power of our thought. God has created us thus and we cannot escape it. By con- forming our lives and thought to a greater understanding of law we shall be able to bring into our experience just what we wish, letting go of all that we do not want to experience and taking in the things we desire. Every person is surrounded by a thought atmosphere

 


This mental atmosphere is the direct result of thought which in its turn becomes the direct reason for the cause of that which comes into our lives. Through this power we are either attracting or repelling. Like attract like and we attract to us just what we are in mind. It is also true that we become attracted to something that is greater than our previous experience by first embodying the atmosphere of our desire.


Every business, every place, every person, everything has a certain mental atmosphere of its own. This atmosphere decides what is to be drawn to it. For instance, you never saw a successful man who went around with an atmosphere of failure. Successful people think about success. A successful man is filled with that subtle something which permeates everything that he does with an atmosphere of confidence and strength. In the presence of some people we feel as though nothing were too great to undertake; we are uplifted; we are inspired to do great things, to accomplish; we feel strong, steady, sure. What a power we feel in the presence of big souls, strong men, noble women!

Did you ever stop to inquire why it is that such persons have this kind of effect over you while others seem to depress, to drag you down, and in their presence you feel as though life were a load to carry? One type is positive, the other negative. In every physical respect they are just alike, but one has a mental and spiritual power which the other does not have, and without that power the individual can hope to do but little.

Which of these two do we like the better? With which do we want to associate? Certainly not the one that depresses us; we have enough of that already. But what about the man who inspires us with our own worth? Ah, he is the man we will turn to every time. Before ever we reach him, in our haste to be near, even to hear his voice, do we not feel a strength coming to meet us? Do you think that this man who has such a wonderful power of attraction will ever want for friends? Will he ever have to look up a position? Already so many positions are open to him that he is weighing in his mind which one to take. He does not have to become a success; he already is a success.


Thoughts of failure, limitation or poverty are negative and must be counted out of our lives for all time. Somebody will say, "But what of the poor; what are you going to do with them; are they to be left without help?" No; a thousand times no. The same power is in them that is in all men. They will always be poor until they awake and realize what life is. All the charity on earth has never done away with poverty, and never will; if it could have done so it would have done so; it could not, therefore it has not. It will do a man a thousand times more good to show him how to succeed than it will to tell him he needs charity. We need not listen to all the calamity howlers. Let them howl if it does them any good. God has given us a power and we must use it. We can do more toward saving the world by proving this law than all that charity has ever given it.

Right here, in the manifold world to-day, there is more money and provision than the world can use. Not even a fraction of the wealth of the world is used. Inventors and discoverers are adding to this wealth every day; they are the real people. But in the midst of plenty, surrounded by all the gifts of heaven, man sits and begs for his daily bread. He should be taught to realize that he has brought these conditions upon himself; that instead of blaming God, man or the devil for the circumstances by which he is surrounded, he should learn to seek the truth, to let the dead bury their dead. We should tell every man who will believe what his real nature is; show him how to overcome all limitations; give him courage; show him the way. If he will not believe, if he will not walk in the way, it is not our fault, and have done all we can, we must go our way. We may sympathize with people but never with trouble, limitation or misery. If people still insist on hugging their troubles to themselves, all the charity in the world will not help them.


Remember that God is that silent power behind all things, always ready to spring into expression when we have provided the proper channels, which are receptive and positive faith in the evidence of things not seen with the physical eye but eternal in the heavens.

All is mind, and we must provide a receptive avenue as it passes out through us into the outer expression of our affairs. If we allow the world's opinion to control our thinking, then that will be our demonstration. If, on the other hand, we rise superior to the world, we shall do a new thing.

Remember that all people are making demonstrations, only most of them are making the ones thy can make with their present powers of perception.

OUR CONDITIONS GOVERNED BY OUR THINKING - Ernest Holmes

OUR CONDITIONS GOVERNED BY OUR THINKING
Ernest Holmes

IT is easy for the average person to see how it is that mind can control, and to a certain extent govern, the functions of the body. Some can go even further than this and see that the body is governed entirely by consciousness. This they can see without much difficulty, but it is not so easy for them to see how it is that thought governs their conditions and decides whether they are to be successes or failures.

Here we will stop to ask the question: If our conditions are not controlled by thought, by what, then, are they controlled? Some will say that conditions are controlled by circumstances. But what are circumstances? Are they cause or are they effect? Of course they are always effect; everything that we see is an effect. An effect is something that follows cause, and we are dealing with causation only; effects do not make themselves, but they are held in place by mind, not by causation.

If this does not answer your thought, begin over again and realize that behind everything that is seen is the silent cause. In your life you are that cause. There is nothing but mind, and nothing moves except as mind moves it. We have agreed that while God is love, yet your life is governed absolutely by mind, or law. In our lives of conditions we are the cause, and nothing moves except as our mind moves it.
The activity of our mind is thought. We are always acting because we are always thinking. At all times we are either drawing things to us or we are pushing them away from us. In the ordinary individual this process goes on without his ever knowing it consciously, but ignorance of the law will excuse no one from its effects.

"What," someone will say, "do you think that I thought failure or wanted to fail?" Of course not. You would be foolish to think that; but according to the law which we cannot deny, you must have thought that failure might come, or in some way you gave gave it entrance to your mind.

Thinking back over the reason for things, you will find that you are surrounded by a mind, or law, that casts back at the thinker, manifested, everything he thinks. If this were not true, man would not be an individual. Individuality can mean only the ability to think what we want to think. If that thought is to have power in our lives then there has to be something that will manifest it. Some are limited and bound by law through ignorance. This law is sometimes called "Karma," it is the law that binds the ignorant and gives freedom to the wise.

We live in mind; and it can return to us only what we think into it. No matter what we may do, law will always obtain. If we are thinking of ourselves as poor and needy, then mind has not choice but to return what we have thought into it. At first this may be hard to realize, but the truth will reveal to the seeker that law could act in no other way. Whatever we think is the pattern, and mind is the builder. Jesus, realizing this law, said, "It is done unto you even as you have believed." Shall we doubt but that this great Way Shower knew what he was talking about? Did He not say, "It is done unto you." Nothing to worry about. "It is done unto you." With a tremendous grasp of true spiritual thought, Jesus even called forth bread from the ethers of life, and at no time did he He ever fail to demonstrate that when one knows the truth he is freed by that knowledge.

UNCONSCIOUS CREATION - Ernest Holmes

UNCONSCIOUS CREATION
Ernest Holmes

THE author once attended a patient who was suffering from a large growth. She was operated on and about fifty pounds of water were removed. In a few days the growth had returned. Where did it come from? Not from eating or drinking. Neither did it move from one part of the body to another part, as that would not have increased her weight. It must have been created from elements which she took in from the air. It had to come from something not physically seen, something appearing from nothing that we see. What we call "creation" is the same thing -- the visible appearing from the invisible. Was not this phenomenon a creation?

Cases as remarkable as this are occurring every day. We should not deny this fact but try to explain it. In the case of this woman there must have been an activity of thought molded into form, else how could this growth have appeared? There is nothing manifest but that there is a cause for the manifestation. Investigation proves that behind every condition, whether of body or environment, there has been some thought, conscious or unconscious, which produced that condition. In the case of this woman the thought was not conscious. But creation is going on all the time; we should realize this and learn how to control it so that there may be created for us the things that we desire and not those that we do not want. Is it any wonder that the Bible says, "With all thy getting get understanding"?
Jesus understood all this, and so it was no more effort for Him to do what He did than it is for us to breathe or to digest our food. He understood, that is all. Because Jesus did understand and did use these great laws with objective consciousness, people thought He must be God. And when to-day something unusual occurs, people think that a miracle has been performed. Jesus was not God. He was a manifestation of God; and so are all people. "I say ye are gods, and every one of you sons of the Most High."

A thinking person will be compelled to admit, in view of all this, that creation is first spiritual, through mental law, and then physical in manifestation.

Man does not really create. He uses creative power that already is. Relatively speaking, he is the creative power in his own life; and so far as his thought goes, there is something that goes with it that has the power to bring forth into manifestation that thing thought of. Hitherto men have used this creative power in ignorance and so have brought upon themselves all kinds of conditions, but today hundreds of thousands are beginning to use these great laws of their being in a conscious, constructive way. Herein lies the great secret of the New Thought movements under their various names and cults and orders. All are using the same law even though some deny to the others real revelation. We should get into an attitude of mind wherein we should recognize the truth wherever we may find it. The trouble with most of us is that unless we see sugar in a sugar bowl we think it must be something else, and so we stick to our petty prejudices instead of looking after principles.