“Circumstances don’t matter; only state of being matters.”

I love this statement from Bashar, channeled by Darryl (you can listen to the snippet on YouTube). It’s truly delightful once one has realized how true it is, and not just how true – but how absolute. It’s the law.

Circumstances don’t matter – circumstances do not create 3D matter.
Only state of being matters – only consciousness creates matter, meaning the state of consciousness one occupies while designing life is what creates the 3D experience.

I once heard this from Abdullah – yes, from an AI-generated replica of him – but nonetheless, powerful words. Abdullah was an Ethiopian scholar in New York in the early 20th century and Neville Goddard’s teacher. He taught Neville how consciousness works: how one creates, designs, redesigns, and experiences reality. His words reawakened in me something I had always known but remembered as clearly as never before. I remembered “who I am.”

This excellent video on consciousness – and hence the key to manifestation, as we modern humans like to think of it – can be found on YouTube (min 5:35). I particularly love his metaphor of the potter and the clay. In short, one’s consciousness is the potter, and 3D reality is the clay. As I understand it now, the potter defines the design, meaning they define the outcome of the transformation process, and the clay obeys. For example, the potter decides to create a vase out of the clay. The clay’s work is nothing other than to obey the command of the potter, follow the design instructions, and become a vase – the 3D-tangible vase we wish to have.

Let’s omit for a short while the actions the potter takes to form the clay and focus on the design first, because the key is the design. But not only the design – even more important is the potter’s emotional state, the state of consciousness, when creating. Imagine the potter setting the design while being angry. No matter how beautiful the vase design could be (as clay has this ability to be mostly awesome), due to the harsh state the potter was in, the vase will be jagged and rough. Now imagine the potter in a state of total peace and serenity – the vase will be smooth, beautiful, and molded into perfection.

Hence, the state of consciousness the potter is in while setting the design determines the clay’s expression. In other words, the state of consciousness you occupy while creating life defines how your life looks in 3D.

Let’s translate this into more practical terms of daily life. Imagine three persons on a job hunt.

Scenario 1:
The lady is tense, quite anxious about the bad economy. She has heard countless stories of people getting rejected. Deep down, she fears she’s not good enough for a job. Her state of consciousness is “to be rejected.” When she writes her applications, that state is transferred into her email. Even if the interviewer doesn’t consciously pick up on it, they sense it subconsciously. The natural outcome is that HR will reject her CV without an interview, no matter her qualifications.

Scenario 2:
The lady is anxious about the economy, but mostly about the tough competition in the job market. However, she is also aware that she always does good work. She’s confident in her results. Hence, she writes with assurance when listing her achievements and lands an interview. However, she still gets rejected because when the interviewer asks her how she is better than the other job applicants, her state of consciousness – “I am outnumbered by the competition” – fully kicks in.

Scenario 3:
The lady is calm and trusting that she’ll find a job that perfectly matches her skills. She envisions a boss who values her, a team that respects her, and a role that feels just right for her. She’s happy and trusts her inner guidance. A friend calls her about an opening at their company – she goes, but intuitively knows it’s not her job. They reject her, but she’s unfazed as she didn’t want it anyway. The next day, she browses LinkedIn casually and spots a listing that feels “oh so right”. She applies within the hour and lands a job interview. Both she and the interviewer immediately know it’s a match.

These three scenarios don’t describe three different people – they could easily be one person embodying three different states of consciousness at different stages of her career. Each state represents the potter’s state of consciousness, and the clay (3D reality) conforms to the potter’s command.

Don’t like the example? Then think about self-fulfilling prophecies or the placebo effect. The placebo effect describes people experiencing real improvements after receiving an inactive treatment, driven largely by belief and expectation. They’re simply reflections of the potter’s consciousness while designing. The clay obeys – just as the suspicious wife manifests a husband who cheats, or the person taking a sugar pill with faith in its healing power genuinely heals.

The clay obeys. It’s the law.

Examine your life, and you’ll see this law at work everywhere. Use your 3D reality (the clay) as a reflection of your past state of consciousness – the state you were in when you created this version of reality.

For instance, if you have a friend who feels distant, check what state of consciousness you hold about them. Do you believe they’ve always been distant and can’t change? How does that belief shape your behavior toward them? And to what extent is that belief a self-fulfilling prophecy – where you only acknowledge the parts of your friend that match your assumption?

It doesn’t matter what they are – what matters is the state of consciousness you inhabit when picturing them. Because, truly, circumstances don’t matter; only consciousness matters.

So next time you experience something you don’t like, take a step back and remember:
Circumstances don’t matter – circumstances do not create 3D matter.
Only state of being matters – only consciousness creates matter, meaning the state of consciousness one occupies while designing life is what creates the 3D experience.

Change your state of consciousness while shaping your life – while being the potter – and you will change the form, texture, and expression of the clay. Because the clay (3D reality) only obeys the design.

Think it. Feel it. BE it.

P.S. Don’t forget to watch your daily dose of Neville Goddard, Abdullah, Esther Hicks, and all our other friends in consciousness.