Now - for something a little left field, but interesting none the less. Something that occupies my thoughts more and more with time.
Consciousness and manifestation.
I wrote a while back about how I was having a tough time getting past a few wrong decisions in my past.
Typically one goes through the five stages of grief in a linear progression from a place of hurt to a healed state - acceptance. The full five stages are Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.
However for some reason these pain points of mine were not transitioning through these states and I was stuck mid way. Somewhere between Depression and Acceptance.
Its not a fun place to be in. Now I’m not one to externally discuss this kind of thing to people around me. Also to a degree, a public audience.
It doesn’t feel classy. It doesn’t feel stoic.
Typically I can solve most pain points logically and rationally through thinking or thought excercises in my head.
The extent of advice I received was along the lines of - “have you just tried like not being upset or changing how you feel?”.
This truly deep-low really had me searching for options, answers - anything that could give me a degree of control over the past. To the rational mind it makes sense to disconnect the past as this is something that is beyond our ability to affect. The present is prime for our manipulation. And the future - well that i sea of unknowns.
My wife really is quite a beacon of positivity. She is always upbeat and sees the good in all future scenarios.
She’s not one for really helping me out iron out my issues, however she has mentioned a few times about the importance on not focussing on the negative as that manifests more negative things.
Now at this point in time - I’m an absolute beginner in this space, but I’d like to mention it as something that I am keen on studying further. I feel that I am quite a open minded individual and am happy to explore all topics. Esoteric subjects are interesting.
The topic is delibrately manifesting change in the Universe. This will likely resonate with you as manifesting wealth in the future. However I believe it can also be linked to manipulating your past too.
I’ve been thinking deeply about my own personal pains and a part of this has included wishing/wanting a different future and to a degree wishing a different past.
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve always held absolute conviction that I would be wealthy. Not just “I want to be”. It was that plus a deep belief in it. I do feel somewhat that this mindset, the calmness of knowing that it will come to fruition has helped me towards achieving that.
It is not something that can ever be measured. But the same thing as religion with people - just because it can’t be measured doesn’t mean it isn’t meaningful and beneficial to individuals. The idea of faith in religion does a great deal to propel individuals forward through situations where many may turn back.
Manifestation itself is about altering the Universe around you to your vision.
Manifestion according to Neville Goddard is only fulfilled from seeing your goals and dreams from a “after the fact” point of view. I.e. you will only achieve them if you see yourself as already having completed them.
I’ve always been a fan of prior to high pressure situations visualizing a scenario where I achieved or won the task at hand. How it felt, how I felt, what the people around me looked like - what we said, how I held myself. I also did the inverse - visualizing failing, not getting the win, how I felt, what people looked like around me.
I feel rehersing those two scenarios over and over before a high pressure situation have helped me. Maybe this was a subtle form of manifestation.
The approach of assumptions and beliefs is a difference to Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret.
In the Vibration based attraction mindset, your “vibrations” through thoughts and emotions. The universe matches that frequency with like experiences. Feeling good is analogous to high vibrations and good manifestations.
Gratitude, joy and exceitement are magnatic.
Logically, why not do both. Following Neville Goddard’s approach one should spend the time identifying what you want, how you want it, what it looks like rather than just vaguely wanting some loose definition of something. You should commit the time to really figuring out what you want and how it looks. High detail.
I like the idea of layering in positivity and “vibration” into day to day living. The two are surely complimentary.
Looking at it from the opposite point of view - having no idea of what you want your future to look like - really means you don’t have a map to drive to. You will never arrive. Also living your day to day with negativity does seem to make you more negative. I’ve had a few times in life where I get deeply focussed on the news and get drawn into negativity. This turns into negative conversation, negative thought, preparing for future negative situations and so on.
The snowballing progression of positivity/negativity:
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
This aligns with the notion of vibration and focus. Be careful what you give energy to.
Personally I’ve found the wording of “vibrations” to be a bit off-putting in the sense they draw my mind to quantum/atomic scale vibrations and psuedo-science. However I don’t believe this is intended.
Another thing to think about with regards to manifestation which I really do believe is that everyone sees the world differently. Everyone’s perceptions are different. Meaning their realities are different. If your perception is tied to your reality. You have local reality that is within you. This should warrant some degree of control over this resource.
Your reality is facilitated by individual perception. To me this statement alone is enough to work with regards to shaping or manifesting your future. I believe your perception, thoughts can manifest into existence what you desire.
You must want the thing rather than it be a whimsical want. Truly wanting something will make it more realistic to achieve.
I really enjoy the teachings of Professor Donald Hoffman and his illustrations of indivuduals perceptions on reality.
He makes a good argument that the Universe is far more complicated than we can percieve - most likely with many dimensions we are not privvy to. We interact with our surroundings in a dumbed down way. Much like a VR headset abstracts the billions of voltage switches and electrical on and offs need to occur to drive a car down the street in a game. The world that we perceive is a dumbed down and simplified interface to the wider universe. We see a narrow slit of wavelengths - not the full set for example.
He also argues that spacetime (space and time as a unit) isn’t a fundamental building block that reality is built on top of. If that is the case and space (matter) and time are mutable - your key to manifestation awaits.
Going a step further into the esoteric world -
Since starting meditation years back I’ve been drawn to the CIA and Monroe institutes research on the Gateway tapes or the Gateway process.
One of the core research techniques was the Hemi-Sync process of using binural beats and audio frequencies to synchronize the left and right sides of the brain. The end result purported to be the trascendence of the usual barriers of space and time while in deep meditation.
In the Gateway document there is described “Patterning” - a technique which involves projecting ones desired outcome while in a heightened state of consciousness.
This is a topic I’m interested in and would like to dig into further with time. I believe there to be positive effects of having a strong image of what you want and how it looks. I also believe in removing negative thought and only focussing on positive thought helps you live a better life.
What are your thoughts? Have you tried these techniques to any degree of success? Are there other techniques worth mentioning?
You're delving into a realm my wife and I have spent the past 6 years exploring. A few points to consider, understanding your personality is very important in understanding your consciousness. Having known you personally, it's interesting that your personality is very similar if not an exact mirror of my wife's.
By what you've written about your wife, her personality sounds similar to mine.
I recall a time you took this test, it's actually a very good starting point to understand the topic, if you're interested in going deeper, I'd suggest taking it with your wife and discussing the results: https://www.16personalities.com/
Now, understanding that, assume you have an Architect-Analyst personality, than you're likely prone to overthink things to the point of repressing or ignoring your feelings.
Conversely, if you're a Campaigner-Diplomat personality, like me, you're prone to over-feeling things to the point you're unable to think strategically about anything because your emotions overwhelm you.
Consider then, the most cliché aspect of quantum physics: the Observer effect.
In the most laymen of explanations, the perspective of the observer of the input into a system influences it's output. That is, the output is not deterministic based solely on the input fed, but also on the bias of the passive observer.
This is metaphorically how the subject of reality manifestation comes into effect.
On any given day, you make tens of thousands of decisions to influence the outcome of your day. The vast majority of those decisions you make unconsciously to determine what seems like the most rational action. None of which you consciously think about:
The way you get out of bed, the hand you use to brush your teeth, how you get dressed, how you look at your phone, how you type on a keyboard on your computer.
Each action, though trivial in their own, aggregate into the entire outcome of your day, that being, the manifestation of your reality.
What drives these actions are your unconscious feeling processes. Your intuition.
The part of your mind the becomes active when you stop thinking.
I recently also have been going through a period of reflection and contemplation, and like you, I've been working through the various stages of trauma.
I've spent a lot of time doing shadow work, that is, exploring the dark corners of my mind to understand why I do the things I do, think the things I think, and feel the things I feel - and it has been quite the journey.
Unbelievably painful. So painful I've actually had to go the ER, because the mental and emotional pain it's brought up has had real, physical effects.
But at the same time, it's been very cathartic, allowing me to figure out the decades long explanation for patterns of behaviour I look back on now with intense regret, but now have the clarity to move on from.
Carl Jung once said: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Going back to what I said earlier about collaborating with your wife after carefully analyzing hers and your personality, you likely have a completely different system of observation of reality from your wife's (my wife and I are the perfect, opposite pair), and exploring each other's observations will give you clarity you'll never be able to find for yourself about the inner workings of your unconscious mind.
Gaining that clarity will help you work through the shadows of your past, and reveal the path forward to manifest into reality what you truly desire.
Once you know the "what" and "why" of your desires, the "when" and "how" to manifest them become effortless.