Living Within Samsara

Manifesting into Physical Existence

Four Basic Metaphysical Lessons in Learning how to Manifest

Manifesting items into physical existence as a topic for an article is easier to swallow for practitioners and students of metaphysical spirituality or metaphysical and gnostic christianity. For others, this article will be a waste of time. I implore those who may have found this article by “accident” or to answer some questions, approach this with an open mind.

As I don’t believe in coincidence but in synchronicity, I believe there is a reason everyone is where they are at any given time. Even here. So if you can be willing to believe, though perhaps not necessarily believing, I fully believe that is all that is required because that is where I started a long time ago.

This article is going to cover only the basics. More articles, past articles I’ve written, focus on only one or two aspects. If you go through my articles, even if not in the Manifesting or Metaphysical category, you will notice how my philosophy discusses aspects of a paradigm shift. This is because the Law of Attraction [or manifesting] is, indeed, a life change. And that’s Lesson #1.

Paradigm Shift. It is a life change. This means Practice.

You’ve probably heard of The Secret or have seen the websites offering you the “tricks” for some amount of money to show you how to harness “The Law of Attraction“. Maybe even some books promise you wealth and prosperity if you just do some simple things. While I do not knock honest teachings, I do knock people marketing this incredible philosophy as a “Get rich quick” scheme.

Here’s why: When I become disillusioned with something or I feel shortchanged, I make it a point to feel bad. I do this, some may say, on purpose. Feeling bad infuses the experience in my memory. This, in turn, reminds me to not have anything to do with something similar in the future. Ergo, I may have opportunity after opportunity to experience this rich and fulfilling way to practice metaphysics even after I feel I have been taken for a ride, but I will not believe anybody anymore and ever again. So you see? This is the crime in my mind. People pervert the message - being a perverted messenger - and then people never receive the authentic message due to not being open to it.

Metaphysical practitioners are metaphysical practitioners. I will address this further in other Basic Lessons in this article, but one cannot be dour and non-faithful in every aspect of her life and then go home and “manifest peace.” This may slap in the face of everything you know and I am sorry for that. But Spirit has put it upon me to tell my story as it is and not how I think it will sound…so please bear with me. All you need to know in basic lesson #1 is that it’s a practice. It is not intended as a scheme that happens in 60 seconds for $29.95. A shift must occur and then practicing continues.

Open-mindedness. Squashing of Ego as your Master.

This is a big one. There are two extremes prohibiting open-mindedness: Excessive Pride or Low Self-Esteem.

Here’s why: If you suffer from either two you may be tempted to fill in the blank spaces of this article with your own garbage [ie, Positive self-talk = “This is stupid. This woman is full of it.” or “I already know all this.” or Negative Self Talk = “This will never work for me because I am so stupid.” or “I have been trying this and nothing has been happening!”] So concentrate during this part. Okay? And try hard to even keep an open mind during this one article. Remember. This is not costing you a dime but for being here reading, learning, absorbing. If you have to, take out a notepad and write these lessons down.

Excessive Pride. Pride, as in one’s appearance or taking pride in your work or being proud of something is not the “excessive pride” I am talking about although in my envisioned perfect world all sorts of pride wouldn’t be necessary. No. The excessive pride I am talking about is what prohibits spiritual growth in a positive direction.

Excessive pride is the byproduct of ego. Ego, itself, is not even “bad” because we do need it - it has its purpose. Can you imagine an entire world of us walking around without an ego? That would best be served for a later discussion wouldn’t it?

Here’s an easy test for gauging whether you have excessive pride. Could you have written this article better? Do you know all this already? Could you teach me a thing or two about metaphysical spirituality or gnostic christianity? Or do you think that it’s all crap and you’re just reading this to glean some sort of satisfaction from how ignorant I am? You may be correct on all counts; From your higher intelligence straight into my ignorance but humility is the quality of trying to learn from every situation while pride is the one quality guaranteed to keep a person in ignorance. A prideful person can’t learn much because she already knows everything. And this is why excessive pride is prohibitive to Metaphysical undertakings and spiritual growth.

I have no advice for the excessive pride sort, [would you listen even if I did?] except: “Gain humility or get humiliated.” And so when you’ve reached the end of your best thinking and then see nothing but vacuousness, this article will still be here and maybe then you’ll be ready for a spiritual transplant.

Low Self-Esteem. Pride in Reverse. Still ego based, if pride is the ego’s indulgence of covering for insecurity then low self-esteem is the ego’s indulgence for flaunting insecurity. Just as destructive as excessive pride, low self-esteem prohibits just the same.

Here are some questions to think about regarding low self-esteem and, if you have it, how it can prevent you from having the open-mindedness needed. How many times have you thought that nothing good would ever happen to you? Do you feel as if life is a struggle to be endured? Deep down do you know this will not work because God only takes care of everyone else - not you? As you read this article, is your half-hearted attempt being made just to say you did it and it failed? Well. Congratulations.

You’re what I call a victim! Woo hoo and party on! I was a victim too! Welcome to the club victim! Don’t you hate how life just shits all over you after EVERYTHING good you do too! What is up with that right? If that bulls eye target painted on your back ever starts to fade, I have faith you’ll always create another situation in which to re-apply that “victimize me” paint right? Okay!

Guess what? Here is one of the secrets they never told you about life: Of course you’re a victim. We’re all victims! E.v.e.r.y.b.o.d.y. in the world has been victimized if they’re over 15 years old and have been to public school. Then there are even the really awful victimizing situations in which trauma was provoked. It doesn’t matter - not in this context. The difference between “normal” people and us “victims as our identity” is that we continued to seek out ways and positions in which to remain victims. Either subconsciously in the form of sending out “victimize me” energy or consciously in the form of creating some “pity and poor me” drama at family functions. That’s the only difference. We continued/continue.

As to why we did this [do this?], well, I have theories but for me it’s because I never learned other tools. My Mother didn’t have any tools she could pass on that worked well for me so I just kinda always ended up drunk and/or victimized. There is no blaming to be had here; either onto you or me. But we have to start with honesty and acknowledge our own part in our desolation or else there can be no solution to it. If you still have low self-esteem and are a “victim” I encourage you to begin practicing Codependent recovery in order to free your mind into the direction of spiritual growth.

When we are truly victimized - and this is a part of life too - we can choose to get up, deal with it, and continue moving forward in our own greatness or we can cohort with our victimizers and continue to keep ourselves victims; Provided we have the tools in which to make that choice. Codependent recovery gave me that choice. I encourage everyone reading this, too, to make that choice. Your life will change 180* I swear on everything holy. Decide to quit being a victim right now and then practice the principles of Codependent Recovery in tandem with these four basic Metaphysical Lessons.

Honesty. Honesty. Honesty. [Honesty with Self.]

One issue that gnaws at me when I see people, books or companies promoting Metaphysical undertakings and particularly within the framework of “Law of Attraction” or heightened vibrations or visualization techniques in order to manifest, is that rarely do they explain or stress the importance of honesty. Often, I see something glazed over when they say, for example, [simplified] “Repeat daily: I am a millionaire.” The idea, of course, is that you will really become a millionaire if you continue to repeat it by *tricking* your reality. Reality is reality and it’s a culmination of thoughts you’ve had for years so if you’re having problems getting your bills paid or you’re having issues getting enough food for your family, if simply repeating this phrase did the trick, there’d be little need for books on it at all! We’d all just mumble a phrase and be done with it!

The honesty I am talking about is the honesty that is the opposite of denial. I am not even talking about honesty with others. Honesty with self is the only issue that’s important here when talking about metaphysical practice and particularly Law of Attraction or manifesting-into-existence principles.

There is no Commandment that states: “Thou shalt not lie.” However, when I hear someone say it’s against a Commandment, I have a feeling they are referring to “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” This is, indeed, lying and of the most vulgar sort but it’s not embracing of “lying” as a whole. When religious people discuss honesty, I usually see them discussing honesty as it relates to other people and then invoking God into it. But if a shady looking character comes to my house and wants something, I have an obligation to make up a story, lie, or say no in order to protect myself. For you morally superior people, of which I am not one, I wonder how you would have handled Hitler coming to your door: “Is Anne Frank here?” Lying is often necessary within my world view but not ever good when I am doing it to myself - even in the form of denial [that version of lying so internally we really do believe it as truth].

Why Honesty is So Important to the Metaphysical Practitioner & Law of Attraction Student

For example, I gave two extremes of roadblocks to open-mindedness: excessive pride and low self-esteem. If a person lacks rigorous honesty yet has excessive pride, one is not going to see that quality in herself thus making it impossible to begin from the point of where she is. Honesty is, for this reason, of utmost importance: We must be rigorously honest in order to begin progressing from where we sit.

We cannot be in denial about issues that are on our mind or trouble our spirit. If we have a problem with prayer, we have to admit this to ourselves [and probably a spiritual teacher, also, in order to improve]. If we have three loud noisy kids and can’t seem to “manifest” the time to meditate, we have to be honest about this also - EVEN if we have to blame them. That’s right! Even if we blame our parents for screwing us up due to their drinking and wild ways when we were kids, we do that too! That’s right! Now these ideas may be slapping in the face of everything you thought you knew but we have to start with where we are and if where we are is being covered up by nice words, and pretty language and phrases when we don’t mean them….well the universe [your subconscious] is going to know the conflict within and your manifesting exercises aren’t going to produce the fruit you thought they would.

Once we tell the truth to ourselves, then we can move into a solution. Only then.

“No! I could never hate my mother.” [If I get snippy with everyone after I make a visit to Mom’s I may want to look at the truth of that statement. This may be classic denial here.] or “Yes. My husband is a drunk and we’re behind on our bills and I have to take care of the four kids and work three jobs. But I’m fine. God would never put on me more than I could handle.” [Denial coupled with spiritual laziness and pride = Martyr.]

If I decide to tell the truth of hating my mother I can get into the forgiveness part and/or looking at my contributory part of our failing relationship or set some boundaries with what she does that has me so uptight. If I decide to get into the truth with myself regarding “being fine” with a drunk husband and the burden of the kids all falling on me, then I can make some freeing decisions! But as long as I remain in denial, I will stay exactly where I am. [Again, see Codependent Recovery if chronic denial is a problem.]

Willingness.

All the reading in the world and all the book buying and schemes or even legitimate Manifestation “courses” will not yield one iota if you don’t do anything about it. This is where willingness comes in and full force at that. And, in later articles I’ll concentrate on Willingness specifically but as a survey right now of the basics, just know that when I say “willingness” I mean, “Faith without works is dead.” If honesty is the first step, and open-mindedness is the medium, then willingness is the jumping off point.

Here’s why: H.O.W. [Honesty, Open-Mindedness, and Willingness are the essentials to spiritual advancement. “H.O.W. does one advance?” “Precisely!”] Please take note that this differs from many religions in that they ask you to usually read some book and then have faith. But how does one get to faith if one is starting from nothing? I propose HOW as the answer.

For many people, this will be the easy part - or it sounds easy. Once we establish our need for honesty and then get to work on our ego and level it to right size for open-mindedness to ensue, I imagine it does seem a breeze to now be *willing* to believe, willing to pray, willing to have faith, willing to meditate, willing to remain honest, willing to keep an eye out for our oft troubling ego…But let me add two more components that separate the women from the girls..

Intention : What do we want from this next act of prayer/meditation?

How many prayers or petitions have you made gratuitously - just to make your conscience feel okay in knowing you prayed? How often have you “talked to God” just to get it over with? How often have you repeated mind-numbing affirmations without concentrating on the meaning? These examples lack intention. And I propose that intention is one of two primary keys in willingness. This means, when you begin operating your spiritual life from a place of intention you will use more energy but that’s why the pay-offs are so great. Ask yourself and focus your thoughts, “What is my ultimate intention for this prayer?” Visualize it. Affirm it. Then pray. The universe will “feel” [rather than hear] your words and this is what we want because human words are are a poor substitute for energy that has intention.

Attention : Focus this energy of intention.

This is the second component. If intention is our hope then attention is our vehicle for that hope. So we take this energy of intention and we certainly don’t then pray in a blank out do we? [Show of hands for who has! Me!] Okay. So sometimes we *can* be by with just intention but that’s not what I am trying to teach [how to get by]. No, I am trying to teach how to multiply your spiritual life, your manifesting abilities, and your success in prayer and life. Of course, however, I am sure we all have passed tests before - accidentally. Remember the first Basic Metaphysical Lesson and that is Practice!

So. Back to the intention of this component: Attention is the focus of the intention. So, for example, when I manifested my house. I knew precisely what my intention for a petitioning was going to be. [To begin the process of the universe lining things up for us to get a house.] So when I petitioned, I had to gather my thoughts into attention to my prayer. I guess what I really did was keep my intention focused by using my attention to my thoughts, feelings, vibrations and so forth, on track with my intention. [That’ll be for a later discussion; not germane at this point.]

Conclusion: Practice Honesty Open-Mindedness Willingness

This article is only a brief survey of requirements to successful metaphysical manifestations. Does this mean that if you practice these basic principles to the best of your ability that you will be able to manifest $1 Billion dollars? Oh I don’t know. Maybe.

I doubt it for several reasons. One primarily, being that when people do practice these principles and begin evolving they will intuitively know that $1 Billion may hinder their growth or maybe that $1 Billion isn’t the answer to the problem they’re facing. The better item to want to manifest would be the things you *think* $1 Billion could get you. [Leave it to humans to think the answer to their worldly problems are found in the world.]

I do think some people - like HSP’s - are more “programmed” to be able to manifest more easily and with greater frequency, even when not practicing these principles - than other people. I don’t know why this is except that perhaps, as my research has taken me, HSP’s are more *tuned in* to spirit or metaphysicality or as I have seen some articles, maybe they have a naturally higher vibrational frequency - which, some metaphysicians argue, is imperative to manifesting.

No one person has all the answers as to why some people can manifest and, others try and continue failing but I have my theories which I’ll delve into later. What annoys me are these faux-metaphysicians who claim that if you don’t manifest then it’s your own “fault” or “you didn’t believe enough.” That’s as bad as the fundamental religious sects who practice snake handling and say that if you’re bitten and die, “Well, she didn’t believe enough!” There are many contingencies at work, I believe, such as karma, lessons to learn, faith or lack of it, not practicing the above, low vibrational energy… And this is why I believe that getting my hands on any book by various authentic spiritual practitioners or internet websites and articles is important for me. One may concentrate on this and another may concentrate on that…

But in the end, it is I who must find the correct way to pray and petition for me in order to manifest into the physical. The above is just a start. The rest is an adventure. I hope you join me. [My Law of Attraction & Metaphysics Squidoo Lens is another nook I’ve created.]
Namaste.

Some topics or terms that I have found inter-related to the topic or term “Law of Attraction”: Manifesting, Gnostic Christianity or Gnosticism, Metaphysical Christianity or Metaphysical Spirituality, Highly Sensitive People or HSP items of interest leading to terms like Indigo or Crystal, empathic or intuitive, Coincidence or Synchronicity, Jesus’ words, “the kingdom of Heaven is within you” or “the kingdom of God is within you,” the mystic Christ or Jesus as Mystic, Sermon on the Mount, A Course in Miracles and even Spiritual Growth.

A Googling for these terms will certainly yield more than people trying to sell you something that won’t work for you anyway. I have plenty of categories here at this website as well as books at my bookstore. I want to encourage everyone to search their journey out on their own and just because something is labeled “Law of Attraction” does not mean it will work for you. It may need to be labeled “Metaphysics” or “Synchronicity” or something else. Follow your spirit within. Feel what sounds right and then try it on. If it doesn’t fit, keep trying. After all, what maybe did not work for you may work for a friend of yours and you can share your experience.

Related Posts:

Law of Attraction & Metaphysically Manifesting not “The Secret”

Manifesting Reality

Ecclesiastical Christianity vs Jesus of Nazareth : Part 1/2

Books and My Bookstore

The Law of Attraction Introduction

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