Can We Truly Manifest What We Desire?
We Are Co-Creators of Reality
Manifestation involves using our thoughts, emotions, intentions, beliefs, and actions to create our desired reality — as with the law of attraction. The Law of One breaks down manifestation in the context of daydreams. Essentially, if a daydream only concerns the self, then it becomes reality to the self. If it’s only a contemplative general daydream, it could become reality elsewhere, having no particular attachment to the self. If the daydream concerns the self and others this would increase the probability of manifesting the daydream into reality (16:54-56).
Do we really have the capability and free will to manifest what we desire? Well, we are considered co-creators of reality. Autobiography of a Yogi (12:100) explains that thought is a force and whatever our minds believe very intensely will instantly come to pass. Let us not forget the scientific evidence generated from the Maharishi Effect studies as well as double slit and mind over matter experiments. Even The Kybalion (38-39) states that by accessing a higher consciousness level or plane of existence we can become causers instead of effectors or movers instead of pawns. This would allow us to obey the causation of higher planes of existence while helping to govern lower ones.
But there’s a huge caveat fellow souls. Whether or not our desires manifest and when seems to depend on several factors. For example, how clearly our intentions are defined, how much our intentions align with the nature of Source, how much are intentions align with the rest of the universe, our level of focus, our stability, our thoughts, and our actions, to name a few. Impediments also factor into manifestation. This includes those imposed by ourselves (like karma and life plans) and those imposed by each plane of existence or consciousness level (like gravity and ego). So in others words, it’s not that simple.
The Keys to Manifestation
Setting the Right Intentions
Our research suggests that the key to manifestation is shifting our intention. Sarah Elkhaldy (Spiritual Teacher & Energy Healer) explains that we must first shift our intention from receiving to giving (law of equivalence of form), which makes us more inline with the giving nature of Source. An example would be wanting to receive a boatload of cash so we can give it to the poor. The second step would be loving others as oneself (serving others), meaning we must perform the inner work to reach unity consciousness and oneness. Tapping into the power of unity consciousness is said to give us the force to manifest more faster and in a more synchronistic way.
Other resources suggest that the key to manifestation is continuously ensuring that our thoughts, decisions, dreams, beliefs, emotions, energy flow, and actions (all aspects of our entire being) are unwaveringly in harmony with our intentions. And the greater degree that this happens, the more likely our intentions will manifest. Steve Pavlina (Personal Development Coach) suggests this process of generating results:
Intention (Content + Thought Energy) -> Passion + Direct Action + Passive Manifesting = Results
It’s also recommended that we visualize or act as if our intentions have already been manifested. Visualization may be as powerful as action in terms of altering reality. This is based on the free throw visualization study conducted by Dr. Biasiotto at the University of Chicago in 1996. It suggests that mental practice alone can yield near-identical improvements to physical practice in skills like basketball free throws. The Law of One (49:8) further supports this by explaining that the power of thought and consciousness is a fundamental creative force. Ergo, pure consciousness can be as potent as action.
Accepting Everything with Equanimity
While we have the ability to manifest whatever we desire, perhaps the more pertinent question is why are we clinging to desires? For those who want to transcend the illusion of maya rather than remain complacent in it, would their time be better spent trying to eliminate aversions, attachments, and desires that downgrade them? This would mean learning to accept everything that comes our way with equanimity.
What is accepting everything with equanimity? The Bhagavad Gita offers some examples. It’s embracing success and failure equally, remaining indifferent to pleasure and pain, accepting both blame and praise the same way, and treating both friend and adversary alike (2:48-51, 14:24-25). We’ll admit it. We know from experience that being unaffected by outcomes can be difficult. But it’s gotten easier for us when we dedicate our results to Source (Bhagavad Gita, 2:47-51). Sometimes it also helps to remind ourselves that this reality is not as it seems. If that doesn’t work, we take a page from the Peter Gibbons playbook in the movie Office Space. Hilarious.
