I have heard his words from a lot of people I know,,,both those that are "unaware" and reach a breaking point,,,and many who have become aware, and are just flat out overwhelmed by the amount of info they have ingested. Then they go out into the world and see all those going about their lives "unaware', and just can't see how things can ever possibly change....It happened to me,,,and I have watched my brother go through it as he awakened too..and , when we talked about it,,I was fed the same words that abraham used here,,,,,if you come to the conclusions this man did,,you are feeding it,and can fall in a big hole....But, if you can follow that "5 percent's lead", you can climb out of that hole,,and look beyond the  stuff that is eating you up ....Then, and only then, can we move forward,,,and dare I say,,"create"....L,,,,,T

I might have posed a similar question to Abraham, though probably not as eloquently as this man did.  I have been a follower of Abraham-Hicks for 2 decades, reading their books, listening to their tapes, and practicing the Law of Attraction.  My personal experience has lead me to the conclusion that there is more to manifesting reality than wishful thinking.  There's also a difference between focusing on the positive and being in denial. Many of you will likely disagree.

These days, I resonate strongly with the words of Bernhard Guenther.  The following is just an exerpt of a much larger article.

http://veilofreality.com/2011/02/02/the-positivity-of-objectivity-and-the-time-of-transition/

The Positivity of Objectivity and the Time of Transition

Every once in a while I get a message  or comment on facebook from someone asking me why I have such a “negative” view of the world, referring to some of the posts and articles I put up on my wall. He or she then goes on telling me that I should “lighten” up, be more “positive”, focus on “love” and the good things life has to offer, because we create what we “see”.  I usually respond back by asking, what is so negative about posting information that exposes the lies we’re being fed and told, be it about 9/11, Zionism, the genocide in Gaza, or the fact that many people in places of high power (political, corporate, religious or even in science and media) are psychopaths with no conscience who couldn’t care less about your or the earth’s well-being?

This is not being negative, but simply showing the situation as it is. Anyone who is willing to do a bit of reading and research without being attached to a conditioned world view can see this. Moreover, these topics and how they affect us and the world at large won’t go away by ignoring them or by focusing on more “pleasant” aspects of our reality. Actually by ignoring them, one is doing more harm to the world and feeding entropy as one is putting oneself in a subjective tunnel vision of wishful thinking instead of becoming more objectively aware and seeing the world as it IS, not as we like it or assume it to be.  As I wrote in another article: a “shift in consciousness” and “awakening” implies a higher state of awareness, which means to become more aware of it all, which implies again to see the world and oneself more objectively, without blinders on. This doesn’t happen by itself, but requires sincere effort and work to separate truth from lies, within and without.

...Moreover, no matter how much one tries to close oneself off from the “outside world”, believing that nothing will affect them as long as one focuses on “positive” thoughts and what one “likes” to experience, the bigger issues of the world still have an effect on us all, precisely because we are all one and everything is connected. No man is an island and no one’s reality is isolated from the Whole.

“What makes the YCYOR (You Create Your Own Reality) evangelist fatuous is precisely the fact that all such “personal decreeing”, “positive thinking” and confident imagining takes place in an inevitable context. There are implications! There are repercussions! No one decrees in a personal or private, solipsistic vacuum. There is a variegated World of myriad “pulls” and “claims” coexisting along with the private desires and designs of the given ego-subject.

But “so what?” we hear the die-hard “reality-creator” claim “don’t we remain untouched by those ‘co-existents’ as long as we keep secure in the confidence of our own private deservedness, our own authoritative affirmations and specific commissions of positive thought-re-inforcement?”

No. Man does not live by “commission” alone. This is why you do not create your own reality, but merely generate reality-hypotheses or scenarios which are continuously reflected and tested against the Whole; and the Whole, being inseparable from the Potential of your own innate-global Being, is constituted by the explicit and implicit alike, by that which is produced through active or positive commission and that which results from the gaps, blind-spots and vacuums of interpretive omission. All the lines, potential and actual, exist within one’s being and are inevitably calculated into the total account! This is what it means when we say there’s a context in which all our desire-formulation and “decreeing” takes place.”

- Michael Topper, “Why You Don’t “Create Your Own Reality”

There is an objective truth outside the context of what our little “I” perceives. It seems a tendency in certain Conscious Movements to overgeneralize and distort spiritual “higher” truths and quantum physics with an oversimplification of: All Truth is relative! (without realizing there are different levels). Hence unconsciously (or consciously) using that explanation as an excuse and justification for the atrocities in the world or for whatever one may want to believe in one’s own little subjective world, no matter how illusory, false and based on pure wishful thinking or emotional projections to the point of even declaring that it is all just about “my” or “your” truth and there is no objective truth.

You can read the rest at:  http://veilofreality.com/2011/02/02/the-positivity-of-objectivity-and-the-time-of-transition/

   he seems like he has spent a lot of time on this !  and this line,,,,All Truth is relative! (without realizing there are different levels), would be my response to his opinion.... I believe that the level you approach it on is the key....When I "think" about manifesting anything,,,it never works.....The mind operates on a superficial level.....and my meditations don't seem to be on the right level either...Well,,maybe occasionally...But sometimes,,when that thought just seems to come out of nowhere !,,,bang,,there it is , right in front of me. It is then, and only then, that I see, or sense, where it comes from.....if I try to reach that place,,,I try in vain,,,but, the more I am in the moment,,,the more often it happens,,,,,so I haven't lost hope,,haha! The "other levels" are always there,,,closer to the truth, or planck scale, akashic record,,,whatever you choose to call it,,,,,the trick is to access it, them,whatever.. I do know one thing,,,analyzing it won't get you there,,,,too much activity in the brain...

    i have mentioned this funny old book before.  I received this book anonomously ,on my birthday about 15 years ago...it is called " Message of a master" and is still the best explanation, and method, I have seen to using the so called "law of attraction". Written in the early 1900's, originally, there is no mystical approach to it, but a couple of good examples of how we "manifest", and why we suck at it,,ha! The author was John Mcdonald. The book only had a limited number of copies printed, and was lost for many years. Then, a truck friver, delivering books to a printer or something,,,gave a copy to someone at the company,,and it was reprinted...Although it is a "story" the "teaching" part of it is full of easy to assimilate info...It's funny,,I just realized that I still have it....I gave away just about everything a couple of years ago,,,but somehow, this book got left behind, and I just realized it is in my suitcase side pocket....I am definitely going to give it another read....His examples about our "poles", our inner and outer mind,,,are easy to understand, and the way he explains building the inner mind's power, and how it finally breaks through,,is definitely worth reading..One can read the whole book in about 2 hours tops....Thanks for that post Noa,,,it was a great reminder for me,,,,,,,,,,,,L,,,,,,,T

    you can tell it was written a long time ago......I would like to know if you get anything out of the way he describes our "predicament"....I find it interesting,,and plan on reading it this weekend....I will try to manifest a big peace bubble over you,,,then pop it,,,so it might tickle as it rains on you,,,haha!,,,,,,,L,,,,T

   then i stumbled on this movie I saw long ago......http://youtu.be/gNmyq4SNqGo      Whale rider,,,,the grandfather , trying so hard to keep his people together,,trying to force the solution,,,,and it was right under his nose the whole time,,,,,,,now maybe I can read that book !!

Great one, Noa! Thanks for that. I see it as a co-creative process where we all are co-creating everything that happens, yet unconscious processes also play a key role in this. So the more conscious each of us are - of both the light and the dark - the more power we have in this process. And for me, surrendering to what is makes all the difference. First I surrender, then I powerfully create from that place of surrender.

Much love to you and all,
Fred

I read the Message of a Master from the link provided, it was excellent. It's the law of attraction but with a better description of how it works and why, and without all the focus on material gain. (I get really turned off by Bob Proctor and all those guys pitching the get rich quick LOA stuff 24-7, junk mail city...).

I also thought your post, Noa, was really great too.Thank you!!

Peace and love to you all,

Allison

In the above video, the missing piece as far as I can tell (according to Abraham), is choice.  Abraham advocates choosing 'to hide one's head in the sand' over objective reality if focusing ones attention on reality makes one miserable.  According to Abraham, being happy via "ignorance is bliss" is more important than perceiving the truth.  Something's wrong with this picture.

The Law of Attraction, I believe, is part of the equation in the creative process, but it doesn't explain much of what manifests as our physical reality.  If simply ignoring something bad would make it go away, then there would not be chemtrails filling the skies over nearly every country on earth.  Most people are blissfully unaware of their existence.  If only the Law of Attraction were in play, this global lack of attention and awareness to chemtrails should make them disappear...  yet their presence is persistently increasing.

I don't mean to offend anyone who is happily practicing the L of A, but for anyone who is frustrated with what they're "manifesting" or is tired of people telling them they must not be "doing it right", I offer the following article.  Michael Topper's explanation makes more sense to me.  ~ Noa

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/topperycyor.htm

A paradigm that is currently running amok through the New Age community, and which is depriving them of their last bit of common sense, is better known as "You Create Your Own Reality" (short: YCYOR). This insidious half-truth is usually placed into a very misleading context and is never completely true.

Let us just look at some basic facts that we can derive if YCYOR would be completely true:

1.) Every war victim, or rape victim, etc. must have wanted to draw whatever misfortune upon itself, since that victim "created his own reality".

Common sense tells us here, that this is nonsense, and that not all war victims, etc. ever wanted to happen that war to them. For me, common sense simply wins, and cuts a long discussion short. :-)

2.) We would live in a solipsistic universe wherein we could do whatever we wanted without further consequences.

But pretty much obviously, we do not live in such an utopian universe, and no, even on higher densities, there is no such universe.

(Quote: "Oh, what a spoilsport!" we can just hear the chorus. Why not let those who want to, abide peacefully in the solipsism of their spook-sanctioned presumption that -- despite the alleged interconnectedness of everything -- the common ego-view of personal hermetic insularity is valid after all, and "I" can indeed conjure a positive-think Paradise to "preserve me eternal" in the midst of everyone else's self-created, hallucinatory world-disaster.)

What makes the YCYOR evangelist fatuous (rather than a demonstrable God of the most egregious solipsism) is precisely the fact that all such "personal decreeing", "positive thinking" and confident imagining takes place in an inevitable context. There are implications! There are repercussions! No one decrees in a personal or private, solipsistic vacuum. There is a variegated World of myriad "pulls" and "claims" coexisting along with the private desires and designs of the given ego-subject.

But "so what?" we hear the die-hard "reality-creator" claim�"don't we remain untouched by those 'co-existents' as long as we keep secure in the confidence of our own private deservedness, our own authoritative affirmations and specific commissions of positive thought-re- inforcement?"

Why You Don't "Create Your Own Reality"

Just sit there for a minute. Attune to a mere soupcon of self-reflective consciousness and you can't help but notice you're hardly self-generated; there isn't one thing about yourself, including the environment you perceive or your "personal" will, that issues from any sense of a self-creating "you". Indeed, "you" are spontaneously endowed, before the self-reflective fact, as the coordinate presence of a total and given pattern of Being. It is all immediately established, without personal intercession on your part. The patterns through which you perceive, the modes by which you move and cognize take up your being without a whimper of protest, a hint of objection or even notice. This vastly creative process by which you spontaneously come to yourself, on its terms, is so suavely accepted as inherent expression of your being that you claim it as yourself without even observing you do so (i.e., these are "my" thoughts, "my" words, "my" perceptions, "my" ideas, "my" movements).

Wait, we hear the protests, perhaps I don't actually create the basic patterns of Being or the functions of existence, but I do seem to individualize them. I make them my own. I synthesize all these "given" features as personal contents from my unique angle, so that "my" expression of the common pattern is distinguishable from yours and so very intimately identifiable as me. In that sense I create my own reality out of the given materials, which really aren't anything in particular until I endow them with the unique expressive life that is "me".

This ordinary qualification is acceptable, as long as we notice that the vaunted "personalization" or "individualizing" of the general creative endowment of Being is also a function of that endowment, not something privately assumed. The creative pattern of Being, of which we are expression, individualizes. That is its attribute, not ours. It can only be considered innately "mine" insofar as "I" come after the fact, along with the perspectival endowment of individualization. In that sense I am the process of individualization; but I don't create it.

The Cloud Of One-Knowing

"I" exist in reflective and receptive relation to that process which takes its point of departure from the total, given Pattern of Being. My "knowing" comes structured. It is a function of consciousness, or whole-awareness (i.e. conscious self-awareness); but it furnishes an interpretive syntax of cognition to that consciousness. It possesses an inbuilt grammar of structured variables.

All my instrumental processes, modes of action and so forth are patterned terms of this "knowing". The overall function of my being with its sensory and motor, autonomic and conscious systems is that of knowing. In reality there aren't a lot of different "systems", diverse organs and instrumental complexes, some for physiological processing and life-sustenance, some for acting and responding, some for perceiving and some for knowledge. There is only an overall system or multi-dimensional Pattern of differentiated currents, properties and phases serving the single common function of Knowing; for the whole pattern is an expression of consciousness.

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Suppose, again, that a developer bent upon the "personal, positive affirmation of success" takes it upon himself to reshape his reality according to his heart's desire by speculating the astronomical increase of profits through conversion of some obscure "low-rent" properties kept on the back burner, into mega-buck bungalows for the "upwardly mobile" demographically anticipated in migration toward that particular district ; without hesitation, as expression of the faith and supreme confidence he has in the self-justification of his aim, he evicts all the low-rent tenants on the spot (who, ipso facto, must have wished such misery on themselves). A month later, he's mugged in a back alley by one of those he'd peremptorily displaced, and who'd therefore had no recourse to any but the life of the multiplying homeless.

In both "hypothetical" cases, was it the lingering doubt, the persistence of some conditioned hesitancy or especially in the latter case a misguided atavism of "compassion", guilt or empathy which secretly served to undermine the perfect correspondence of desired effect, thereby producing an accurate reflection of the "negative" belief-structure?

No that just doesn't account for it. We can say for the sake of "hypothesis" that the given developer had no such remorse (for we can certainly find exemplifications of the genre in real life!); and we can infer that our breasted New Ager is as fatuous as he sounds...

But there's that word fatuous! What makes him fatuous? Evidently, not taking into account the obvious context! Remember, we said the potential viability of the term "fatuous" had to do with context ! What makes the "you-create-your-own- reality" evangelist fatuous (rather than a demonstrable God of the most egregious solipsism) is precisely the fact that all such "personal decreeing", "positive thinking" and confident imagining takes place in an inevitable context. There are implications! There are repercussions! No one "decrees" in a personal or private, solipsistic vacuum. There is a variegated World of myriad "pulls" and "claims" coexisting along with the private desires and designs of the given ego-subject.

But "so what?" we hear the die-hard "reality-creator" claim "don't we remain untouched by those 'co-existents' as long as we keep secure in the confidence of our own private deservedness, our own authoritative affirmations and specific commissions of positive thought-re-inforcement?"

Report To The Commissioner

No. Man does not live by "commission" alone. This is why you do not create your own reality, but merely generate reality-hypotheses or scenarios which are continuously reflected and tested against the Whole; and the Whole, being inseparable from the Potential of your own innate-global Being, is constituted by the explicit and implicit alike, by that which is produced through active or positive commission and that which results from the gaps, blind-spots and vacuums of interpretive omission. All the lines, potential and actual, exist within one's being and are inevitably calculated into the total account! This is what it means when we say there's a context in which all our desire-formulation and "decreeing" takes place.

This is a Deity-centered reality, not an ego-centered reality. Only the totality of the soul-nature is in touch with the Totality of Spirit-being. Anything else necessarily involves a partial perspective, a conceptual self-estimation producing inevitable blindspots, negatively-recessed lacunae as well as "positive" outlines to be filled in obligingly by experience. What you have selectively omitted from "your reality", is manifested as well! Gaps in thinking and experience which develop one "side" at the expense of the other, or which temporarily prevent a latent potential of certain centers or combinations of centers from being realized, do not simply "pass by" as a domain of non-experience. They aren't just quietly tucked away as surplus "potential" with which you're not obliged to have any relation.

On the contrary, such gaps show up; they manifest in the unstoppable/inexplicable erosion of all those things you've materialized as expression of "personal preference". They appear as unanticipated, unexpected or unwanted circumstances which nonetheless bear a negative-identity to the self-selected "positive profile".

Although the deep zero value characterizing the Total potential of the mind- body pattern definitely allows for what the Ra material calls "random catalyst" (a variable which simply cannot be taken into account by the "you create your own reality" proponents), most products of omission have very identifiable correspondence to the personality-structure in question. They are drawn into the field of that personality as inevitably as the "positive" products of commission (like the mugging received by the "developer", along with his projected profits). We can of course say the "victim" still deserves his fate or has drawn his fate to himself by a quality of callousness embedded in his characteristic thought-formulae; and occasionally this interpretation may touch on some real factor involved in the negative effect. But neither the simple presence of some attitude toward elements of the ultimate negative resultant, nor explanations of residual "karma" (or anything of the kind) may adequately account for all cases in the same category.

It is just simply not true that every rape victim somehow "invited" the experience as a personal form of "commission"; the fact of each Soul being a global microcosm of Total potential, automatically means that a certain amount of experience is going to be the resultant "invitation" of sheer aggravated emptiness on the balance-sheet of the (symmetrically self-compensating) soul- record.

Note: aggravated emptiness. This then is a magnified deficiency with respect to certain outstanding principles involved in the event; it is a smooth break in the soul record with respect to a whole class of potential, the burgeoning neglect of which progressively builds a magnetic charge placing great stress upon the Whole requiring precipitous compensation. (Note again: in a world where you "create your own reality",this potential area of being needn't be taken into account as everything is strictly a reflection of personal commission i.e. what's explicitly thought, actively desired, consciously believed etc.)

Since such general deficiency with respect to a given area of being produces a massive potential for precipitating "experience" involving just those gapped elements (therefore usually a jarring experience), we may indeed be justified in concluding that such doctrines as "you create your own reality" serve unwittingly to irritate the probability of so eruptive an experience taking place. Experiences "foreign" and out-of-left-field in nature do manifestly characterize the things that sometimes befall us; they can't just be "owned" by arbitrarily identifying some active or positive thought-structure which by tortured interpretation can be teased into disgorging some vague parallelism ("Oh yes, I must have gotten that dysentery because of my dislike for Mexican architecture!").

It is, then, the standard of the Whole which weighs the balance of thought and Rules on the quality of experience. As long as one is taking an interpretive perspective on that whole which isn't directly aligned with It, the resultant reflection of one's personal self- estimates in the form of experience will resemble a maze of fractionated mirrors, first one side and then the other of one's total Presence being represented in the medium first the overt and then the hidden phase of the overall figure being shown to view.

The converse implication of this, of course, is that only in alignment and integral consonance with the Whole-value of Being may Reality be accurately manifested through the medium of "personal expression" for then there is no discrepancy between "personal" and Universal, the perspectival "part" and the indeterminate Whole. It is under this condition that the "impossible" can be manifested (i.e. that which is self-evidently beyond the power of anyone to "personally" manipulate or control).

Do you see then how AAA and MT have accomplished this Impossible thing under the noses of everyone? how, despite the disbelief and repeated double-take of the senses, the evidence of their Thaumaturgy is persistently present no matter how many times one blinks, unmistakable to anyone who'll simply look, smiling up right in the public midst of the most avid concentration? (i.e. the "Lotto", where no one ever takes his gaze away from the shuffling shells?).

Do you see how this has been an object demonstration, on an inconceivable scale, of precisely that which Drummond Riddell (and countless others for whom he implicitly speaks) has asked to know? Do you see how indeed it succinctly and fantastically (indeed absurdly!) demon- strates the "correspond and print out" reality about which Mr. Riddell and others continue to be so concerned? (for surely this literally prints out an identifiable correspondence, hmmm?). Do you see how it manifests for your general edification (and education) the truth involved in the "Visualize- Assert-Demonstrate", wishes- can-be-made-to-form principle as Mr. Riddell expresses it, without affirming the inaccurate "you create your own reality" thesis? how instead it demonstrates inconceivable efficacy and head- shaking puissance as expression of precisely that true Initiatic formula of Being taught as precious extract of the hard-won struggle characterizing every authentic Adept, i.e. alignment and integral harmony with the Spiritual Whole?

For, understood in this way (and only in this way) it may be seen that unimaginable effectiveness results when the expression of one's "personal" will is not different than or removed from the Spirit of Divine Will, i.e. the Will to reveal Spirit as the Truth and authentic character of everyone's illimitable Being. This means that, in terms of "personal will", only the Spirit of the Teaching Function remains. There is no will remaining in the repertoire of "personal will" except that which expresses perfect alignment, integration and identity with Divine Will. This is the Destiny of everyone.

Therefore, when we say for example "AAA and MT" determined "they" would make a Demonstration of the spiritual truth of Being that would be visible to and identifiable by eve- ryone in the least receptive to it, such determination cannot be accounted a strictly private decision nor can it be said to be independent of the Will of the One. (In the same way that, where Drummond believes it was strictly an act of "personal decision" to write MT his fateful "letter-of-inquiry" serving as efficient point-of-departure of the Demonstration he cannot really be confident of the "personal" Origin of that impulse.)

It's for this reason such a Demonstration, where it truly shows the "impossible" efficacy of an Awakened unity with Whole-Being Value and Spiritual Intent, doesn't simply manifest as a "magic trick" no matter how extraordinary. It is not just a pulling-of-rabbits out of a velvet Topper, or providential holding of the winning ticket of the Avatar Sweepstakes. Since such a conjuration comes about as authentic Demonstration and Expression of awakened consonance with Whole-be- ing Value, it takes the inevitable form of a thorough Teaching in Itself. It expresses in its very self-revelation the principles and processes by which it appears; it demonstrates through its own contents the Instruction of Spiritual Truth, rather than the stage-illusion of "you create your own reality". As an Expression inseparable from the Will-of-the-Whole (and, indeed, enforcing that Will in its very Intent), it has embedded in all its parts the give-away character and tell-tale identity of just that Spiritual Presence, the tireless Being of the Teacher of Man.

One last word: contrary to unwarranted popular opinion, such initiated alignment with the Will of Absolute Spirit-being does not result in "working one's will unopposed". On the contrary, the very presence of the Awakened Truth in the form of the Spiritual adept has always generated immediate opposition; it has always "awakened" a corresponding reaction from the collective ego's self-protective slumber. This fact does not belie the Whole-being efficacy of that "will" which is so aligned with the Totality. It simply means that such opposition itself, having become part of the manifesting pattern, incorporates as occasion of the Teaching Demonstration as well in whatever form expresses through the "confrontation". Initiated alignment of will with the creative Whole doesn't guarantee "smooth personal circumstances"; on the contrary, look at the story of every adept, examine the events surrounding the Masters known to history. Rather it ensures that such events will possess the character of an authentic teaching-demonstration, to all who have the Soul to see. It ensures the Will of the Whole is always done, regardless the partiality and prejudice by which that Whole may be perceived in any given case.

     but how on Earth could anyone ever learn to manifest by reading this....to me, it is the equivalent of the problem,,,,,,mind chatter, which is , in a nutshell,,the problem,,haha! Trying to figure it out just leads to more "chatter",, and, for me anyways, is my biggest obstruction in anything I try to do,,as it keeps me from the present....And if your not there,,,it will never work...so,trying to say,,,this is like this, or that,,creates obstructions...If we all have the forces at our disposal, then we need only become worthy of accessing them,,,and analyzing it isn't going to help.......i will let all that i just read above go,,,i hope !!haha!

      Allison,,I am so glad that you saw something in that book..I posted that list of words here on another post months ago. I think that it is a clever way to purge the  "garbage in the attic"...I am going to find a way to introduce this vocabulary to my chinese students here,,,as virtues,,,and see what happens...there is a simplicity to it that attracts me,,and I hope you see that too...It is , in the end, just being in the present, to catch those opportunities,,,and to find those moments of pure thought,,which is what makes it work...L,,,,T

Yeah, I agree, Todd.  The description is difficult to understand.  I have the same problem with the Ra material. 

The following video is a lot more user-friendly.  In a nutshell, the "missing piece" according to Bernhard Guenther is the collective.  So basically, we create as individuals but before the physical manifestation our thoughts, intentions, desires, etc. co-mingle with those of others and then forms a kind of collective soup before taking physical shape. 

So in this model, we do not create so much as individuals (as many new-agers claim to manifest open parking spaces or more money for themselves), rather we create by a sort of general consensus so that what manifests essentially evolves as we evolve and come to know ourselves as expressions of Source. When we forget who we truly are, within the mass hypnosis of the matrix, we are apt to perpetuate the crud we see before us today.

This makes sense to me.  It explains why what we put out isn't always what we get back.  It stands to reason that the Creator would design a system, that although allowing for the free expression of each individual, is ultimately driven by our expressions as part of the collective.

It's like being a drop in the ocean.  We can separate individual drops of water from the ocean, yet each is a microcosm of the sea itself.  Without the drops there would be no ocean and without the ocean, the drops would be shallow expressions of a much more magnificent whole.

I completely understand where this guy is coming from, where Abraham is coming from, and where many of those who have responded are coming from.  When I first saw Abraham Hicks, I was really excited.  There was no food in my house and I tried manifesting a sandwich. 

I tried my hardest and I pictured someone coming to my house with a surprise lunch.  As most of you can probably figure out, the sandwich never came.  However, within a month I won two prizes at work.  One was an All Star Celebrity Game and the other a pair of Aerosmith tickets.

Before that, I had never really won anything.  I believed that I was just unlucky in that regard and that I had to work for everything I recieved.  I only say this because my mindset changed that day from being unlucky to lucky and the world around me took notice.

Now, with that said, LOA is a great tool, but it is not infallible.  It can manifest into reality under certain circumstances and certain amounts of faith.  I  tend to go back to Jesus' comment about faith the size of a mustard seed and moving mountains, but faith is a self fulfilling prophecy.

If you believe something, you find all the evidence in the world to support it and likewise for the opposite.  LOA is a way to improve your chances, but nothing will ever take the place of work.  You can not just imagine driving the new BMW while not looking for a job and expect to recieve it.   

In my opinion, LOA works to an extent.  We are all co-creators.  We do have a huge amount of control over our lives.  We can improve our lives, but obviously everyone who sees the secret won't necessarily become a millionaire.  You can read about LOA 24/7 for 10 years and it doesn't mean it will work.

I really resonate with something Abraham told that man and I believe many people on this site will agree.  We tend to take on larger loads than we are able to carry.  We worry about chemtrails, war, the powers that be, etc.  That is not our job though.  We need to use the ripple/butterfly effect.

We need to relax, take control over what we have control over, hope for the best, and plan for the worst.  That's life.  It's not fair.  It's not perfect.  But, for those of us that understand the game can enjoy it.  Yeah, there will be tough times, but the most challenging endeavors tend to be the most fulfilling.

So what if our competition is the most powerful people in the world.  So what if we are just a small group.  We have the advantage.  We have the love.  It's time to spread it.  You never know what one  person is capable of.  Sorry for rambling, but this thread has really got me thinking.  I hope this is coherent enough for you.

Peace and Love

Well-said, Fairy and Nick.  These tidbits are filling in the missing pieces for me.

Another thing I recently read said that there is no competition.  No one can be a better me than I can.  So the key is learning who you are, "knowing thyself", and becoming the best you you can be.

In that way, thy will (God's will) is done through me.

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