Just in recent days, I had a manifestation experience that even left me stunned – as stunned as the two ladies at my spa facility. I seemingly manifested the impossible. It reminds me a lot of Neville’s example of manifesting opera tickets for his brothers (link, 3:40).
Let me give you the exciting example first, before boring you with the explanation.
My recent mystical experience
I needed a lash refill and decided around 8 am that day to get it done while undertaking my daily walk. So, I texted my spa ladies – via WhatsApp – to ask for the next available slot for today or tomorrow. As usual, they texted back about an hour later. And it was perfect: they had an appointment at 1 pm the same day.
Excellent. I said, “Great, please book it”, and I added, “See you at 1 pm today.”
To spoil the surprise, the only thing was that they had actually written “tomorrow”, not today, but I didn’t know it then. And in the end, it did not matter – I got what I wanted; my appointment at 1 PM.
I showered, dressed in a nice pink dress because I felt so good on that day, and got into the taxi just in time. Sitting in the cab, I got an email reminder for the appointment and thought, “Who sends a reminder five minutes before the appointment?” I did not open it, as I deemed it, well, BS…
The elevator arrived on time, although it is usually late, and everything else was going smoothly.
When I arrived at reception, I said, “Shall I go inside already?” They looked at me and said, “No, tomorrow.” I was confused; remember, I was totally convinced it was TODAY, and said, “It is today.” They looked stunned at each other, and one told me again, ‘No, it is tomorrow’. I was so sure that I opened WhatsApp and wanted to show them that it was actually today, only to experience something disorienting – the letters felt like changing in front of my eyes, and the ‘today’ changed to “tomorrow”.
I was so astonished – and in cognitive dissonance with my conviction that it IS today – that I accused them: “You changed it!” I looked again at WhatsApp and searched for the “edited” label on the message, only to realise there was NOTHING, as though it had always been “tomorrow”.
I was so perplexed; So astonished; So out of my mind. Total cognitive dissonance.
It could not be. I couldn’t have read it so wrong. I told them, stunned, “I really read ‘today’. Look, I even answered, ‘See you at 1 pm today.’” And pointed out my own message.
They looked at me apologetically, and I realised it was me, so I said, “Okay. All right. Then tomorrow,” and left the facility.
Well, to shorten the next 20 minutes: while I was checking out my Brazilian store nearby, they called to confirm that the person had cancelled their 1 PM appointment – 30 mins late of 1 PM.
I went back and – of course – greeted them with, “I told you, it is my appointment”, with a grin and a feeling of ‘I knew it’. They answered, “Yeah,” in such a weary tone that I asked how it had actually happened.
And now comes the juicy part.
They told me the lady was actually in the shop, had already gotten her nails done, and had moved to the lash area, where she even lay down, only then to stop and tell them she would not do them today.
Imagine that. She lays down and then decides not to do it.
Well, more accurately, it would be so to speak; she felt compelled not to do it, as my own conviction that this was my appointment rearranged her world, too. This is what Neville Goddard tells us when he says, “What persisted in, even if false, must manifest.”
Now, don’t blame or judge me for rearranging her world. She was just a cooperative component in my reality, as a total stranger was a few months ago.
That’ is just how it is. So, it is important to keep everyone’s best interests in mind when manifesting.
Anyhow, when I left the beauty salon, the ladies mentioned once more how strangely I had got my appointment for today. And I answered, “I told you so. It was my appointment.”
This was definitely the most exciting mystical experience of that day. Not to say the other types of mystical experiences on other days aren’t great, but this one was particularly sweet.
Remember: Circumstances don’t matter. Only your state of consciousness MATTERS. (Bashar link)
The learnings
Thinking about the experience revealed two important facts: first, time is, in fact, my friend. Second, it confirmed that doubt is my only foe. Let me explain.
My friend – time
Time – and I mean the time that passes until the manifestation happens – can be very supportive for the surrounding people and for me, too. This type of “glitch” causes cognitive dissonance in the people involved. Surely, “perplexed” is a good word to describe the two spa ladies. They just could not wrap their minds around what had happened. It was so out of the norm that it left them perplexed, which I call, in this case, cognitive dissonance due to a glitch.
Imagine the example with more time: if the lady had cancelled the appointment the day before, no one would have thought twice. But because of my absolute certainty and the lack of time to pass, it caused a glitch so strong that it left people almost disoriented, as I pulled their consciousness along through my parallel realities. (In fact, the same happened with the lady a few months back, who couldn’t fathom for days why she had invited me to her dinner meet-up.)
So, time can be very helpful. Not helpful for impatience, but helpful for creating a continuum of changes so subtle and small that people can get used to them. (By the way, the same goes for me. Sometimes I need time and smaller shifts before I am ready to end up in the parallel reality I want to be in. But I also really love those mystical experiences, some shifts and some quantum jumps, :D)
Hence, I have learnt to see TIME as my friend. It helps me and others get used to the new state. It creates a smooth continuum that lets our ego minds move from one state to another. In fact, it lets people make up reasons, lists, and logical arguments for why they should allow something or do something. Yet, in fact, they are just resistant, uncooperative components moving through smaller, subtle shifts in consciousness to end up where they have to end up, where consciousness has already been decided.
But don’t you worry. There is no such thing as forcing someone into anything. Free will is the guiding principle for us humans; however, we are cooperative components in each other’s lives. Or at least some parallel versions of me and you are cooperative components in one parallel reality for each other…
Hence, resistance – against the natural current and what one already knows is true – is useless.
The foe: doubt
Doubt, this puny little something. I have started to call it ‘a parasite’ because it behaves like one: feed it with your attention, and it grows; starve it of your attention, and it dies. Just like a parasite in the body: eat more junk food, and you nourish it; undertake a 3-day water fast, and you starve it.
Doubt is also tricky because it always starts small. It comes when one’s mind is weak. Basically, it knows when to attack, just like a parasite.
I have found only one effective way to get rid of it: To REFUSE to engage with it. I mean that literally. I see it as an entity that feeds on my attention. Hence, I refuse to engage.
When doubt enters my mind on a certain topic, I say in my mind – or out loud: “I refuse to engage.”
For example, when doubt about the recovery of a person I love entered my mind, I repeated, “I refuse to accept that reality. I refuse to accept them staying sick. I refuse to accept them not being healthy. I refuse to see any other parallel reality. I REFUSE…”
The same goes for any other topic.
Usually, this type of doubt comes in after I have shifted all types of fears, meaning all subconscious blockages, filters, etc. Then this type of ‘pure doubt’ arises. The type where you ask, “Why would it not happen?” and you cannot come up with a logical reason, yet doubt creeps up anyway. This type of doubt I am talking about. Deny it any attention, and it will starve.
On average, I’d say this type of doubt appears 3-5 times. If I starve it every time by refusing it attention, it becomes weaker and weaker, and at one point it does not return. Then the topic is settled and will – must – be experienced in 3D.
Now to you
I know the example is nice, but you may still question whether you can do it, too. And I can tell you: As long as you are only pondering it in your mind, it won’t be possible. However, I know for certain that if you put it into practice, you will reap the fruits of your labour.
It is like playing the piano. You won’t learn it by contemplating it. But you will if you practice. If you commit to learning it, not only for one day or one week, but more likely for some years, until you know it to perfection.
Sounds like an awful lot of effort?
Well, yes, in a sense, it is.
But what skill is more worth the time, effort, and focus than knowing how to “get what you want”?
