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Do you believe in manifestation?

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Canwegobacktobegin · 11/09/2025 22:19

So I actually began to study the science behind it rather than “I’m going to magically wish to be a millionaire by the time I wake up tomorrow)

And honestly small things have happened that I can’t say is just a coincidence.

I hadn’t spoke to a friend in maybe 3 months, in fact she was more of an acquaintance and I had a thought about her and that I probably would hear from her again but it would nice if I did. Just hours later she messaged me.

The other day I was stressed over a jacket I wanted to sell that had been on my Vinted for ages (removed, uploaded 4 times). It’s been up this time for weeks with only a couple of likes, I thought I’m going to sell this. The next day it’s sold.

I had a clear image in my head of someone knocking on my door and giving me a package despite me not having ordered anything, A week later I heard knocking (assumed it was my neighbours door, it was early and I was in bed still). Walked out hours later to a huge box left on my doorstep. My mum had used my Amazon Prime and forgot to charge the address)

So yes I am starting to believe after much in-depth research and listening to lectures, that there is science to your subconscious creating the reality that you see.

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MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/09/2025 11:30

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 11:02

Absolutely no one has to hold the same beliefs as I do. It’s not about being offended. I’m not in the least bit offended.

My opinion is that’s it’s inherently cringe to carry on a joke the next day, writing paragraphs taking it even further and looking up photos on google. All because you desperately want kudos from strangers.

"Judge not lest you be judged" (and other esoteric ramblings). Every part of existence is rooted in duality and paradox, and the Ourobouros is a symbol for a reason. Taking things too seriously is where we run into problems.

Inherently cringe indeed. I'll just manifest some positive ownership of that 😌

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 11:48

MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/09/2025 11:30

"Judge not lest you be judged" (and other esoteric ramblings). Every part of existence is rooted in duality and paradox, and the Ourobouros is a symbol for a reason. Taking things too seriously is where we run into problems.

Inherently cringe indeed. I'll just manifest some positive ownership of that 😌

Cringe. Are you not embarrassed that firstly you’re still on this thread and secondly that you’re only able to come up with the same jokes of “I’ll manifest xyz”

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ncduetooutingsituation · 12/09/2025 11:53

Imlyingandthatsthetruth · 12/09/2025 08:41

I stopped at "I began to study the science..."

It’s a fascinating topic.

This is a great explanation of the ‘crazy ideas’.

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MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/09/2025 11:56

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 11:48

Cringe. Are you not embarrassed that firstly you’re still on this thread and secondly that you’re only able to come up with the same jokes of “I’ll manifest xyz”

Nope. Not embarrassed in the slightest. Why do you want me to be embarrassed?

Bumblebee72 · 12/09/2025 12:04

MistressoftheDarkSide · 12/09/2025 11:56

Nope. Not embarrassed in the slightest. Why do you want me to be embarrassed?

I've reached the point with this thread that I'm not sure who is trolling who! Surely noone sets up a thread states that its the poors fault that they poor for not "manifesting" a better life, and then has the check to say others should be embarrassed

heybabeyourhairsalright · 12/09/2025 12:16

Yes I do.

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 12:25

Bumblebee72 · 12/09/2025 12:04

I've reached the point with this thread that I'm not sure who is trolling who! Surely noone sets up a thread states that its the poors fault that they poor for not "manifesting" a better life, and then has the check to say others should be embarrassed

And there you are running with the same boring narrative you created. Who said anything about fault?

If you can’t wrap your head around someone growing up in poverty, living in a deprived area and not being afforded even an acceptable level of education and further opportunities, that deep in their subconscious they may have an ingrained belief that this is their continued experience then I can’t help you.

Your subconscious stores memories, and influencing your behaviour, beliefs, and decisions. It runs on autopilot and influencing your life through automatic reactions and ingrained patterns developed from past experiences.

You dumbing it down to you’re poor because it’s your fault and if you just thought “I’m rich!” then everything will change. That’s your own takeaway and refusal to understand. I’ve never said fault or that the conscious minds thoughts have any influence on life.

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Cinaferna · 12/09/2025 12:37

Bumblebee72 · 11/09/2025 23:27

It's was hardly going to be real is it? But if I do find a pigeon in my living room tomorrow I'm would be tempted to be more open.

You have to truly believe in the possibility of the pigeon appearing, otherwise it won't come. You have to want it and believe with total conviction in that living room pigeon. Anything less won't manifest for you. If you truly deep down believe this is a load of old cobblers, that is what will manifest for you, in the form of - maybe - an online forum discussing what a load of old cobblers it is and how unlikely your pigeon is. 🐦

Bumblebee72 · 12/09/2025 12:48

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 12:25

And there you are running with the same boring narrative you created. Who said anything about fault?

If you can’t wrap your head around someone growing up in poverty, living in a deprived area and not being afforded even an acceptable level of education and further opportunities, that deep in their subconscious they may have an ingrained belief that this is their continued experience then I can’t help you.

Your subconscious stores memories, and influencing your behaviour, beliefs, and decisions. It runs on autopilot and influencing your life through automatic reactions and ingrained patterns developed from past experiences.

You dumbing it down to you’re poor because it’s your fault and if you just thought “I’m rich!” then everything will change. That’s your own takeaway and refusal to understand. I’ve never said fault or that the conscious minds thoughts have any influence on life.

This muddles things that are controllable and uncontrollable. I buy that having a positive mind set and making choices that help get you to a position in the future is helpful, but this manifesting it is making sensible and confident decisions. I don't buy that electrons buzzing around in your head can predict and influence Amazon delivering a parcel to the wrong address. Your three examples were externalities. It is quite a big step from your subconscious influencing your behaviour, which is essentially The Chimp Paradox to saying your subconscious can influence third party actions.

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:05

Bumblebee72 · 12/09/2025 12:48

This muddles things that are controllable and uncontrollable. I buy that having a positive mind set and making choices that help get you to a position in the future is helpful, but this manifesting it is making sensible and confident decisions. I don't buy that electrons buzzing around in your head can predict and influence Amazon delivering a parcel to the wrong address. Your three examples were externalities. It is quite a big step from your subconscious influencing your behaviour, which is essentially The Chimp Paradox to saying your subconscious can influence third party actions.

It’s not about Amazon getting the wrong address (that didn’t even happen actually but it’s irrelevant).

Different techniques work for different people and visualisation is one that works for me. I visualised a parcel being left outside my house, I could distinctly see it. I believed it fully that it was going to happen. That image feeds from the conscious mind back to the subconscious.

It made it believe it was a reality and then that’s why I physically saw in my reality. It doesn’t matter about the how the parcel got there, that’s the most irrelevant part.

Your reality is a projection of your subconscious. Thats why everyone’s is different. It’s not magic or pixie dust.

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EuclidianGeometryFan · 12/09/2025 13:06

Canwegobacktobegin · 11/09/2025 22:45

Well it’s not so.

You are confusing manifestation with premonition and self-limiting thoughts.

Perhaps it is just your terminology which is wrong - you need to read more widely around the whole subject area.

Manifestation requires conscious intention.
Premonition is when you just 'receive' images and thoughts, they don't originate in you.
Self-limiting thoughts is e.g. when a person in a bad job with bad pay subconsciously thinks they can't do better and don't deserve better, or various other negative thought-patterns they are not aware of, so never actually try to get a better job. When their thought-patterns and emotions change, then they can go for a better job (which they may or may not get at first, but they are at least on a different trajectory now).

Makemineacosmo · 12/09/2025 13:06

No. It's bollocks.

unsurewhattodoaboutit · 12/09/2025 13:11

There’s lots of things that scientists and the general population have scoffed at that we are now discovering has some basis in fact and science. Quantum theory being one. That sounds completely woo woo but we are now told it exists. So I’m not going to scoff and deride your experience.

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:14

Makemineacosmo · 12/09/2025 13:06

No. It's bollocks.

What an educated provoking response.

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Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:15

unsurewhattodoaboutit · 12/09/2025 13:11

There’s lots of things that scientists and the general population have scoffed at that we are now discovering has some basis in fact and science. Quantum theory being one. That sounds completely woo woo but we are now told it exists. So I’m not going to scoff and deride your experience.

Thank you

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EuclidianGeometryFan · 12/09/2025 13:17

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:05

It’s not about Amazon getting the wrong address (that didn’t even happen actually but it’s irrelevant).

Different techniques work for different people and visualisation is one that works for me. I visualised a parcel being left outside my house, I could distinctly see it. I believed it fully that it was going to happen. That image feeds from the conscious mind back to the subconscious.

It made it believe it was a reality and then that’s why I physically saw in my reality. It doesn’t matter about the how the parcel got there, that’s the most irrelevant part.

Your reality is a projection of your subconscious. Thats why everyone’s is different. It’s not magic or pixie dust.

You are kind of half-right.

Your reality is a projection of your subconscious.
To a limited extent.
But there is also such a thing as co-created reality which is a projection of everyone's subconscious (so some people believe, and I don't think any human is in a position to dis-prove it).

What if your neighbour or you mum was equally strongly "manifesting" that you would NOT get a parcel? Not the best example, as nearly everyone gets parcels from time to time, and your "manifestation" didn't have a specific time frame attached.

The poster who said upthread about job interviews is a better example. Every candidate will be "manifesting" (in your terms) that they get the job - but only one can succeed.

Some other people believe in what might be termed 'occult' or unseen realities, but that these exist in their own right and are not the product of anyone's subconscious.

ArtTheClownIsNotAMime · 12/09/2025 13:25

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 11:48

Cringe. Are you not embarrassed that firstly you’re still on this thread and secondly that you’re only able to come up with the same jokes of “I’ll manifest xyz”

Hun, you have no place to talk about others being cringe and embarrassing. You've shown yourself to be uneducated, gullible, and illogical.

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:27

EuclidianGeometryFan · 12/09/2025 13:17

You are kind of half-right.

Your reality is a projection of your subconscious.
To a limited extent.
But there is also such a thing as co-created reality which is a projection of everyone's subconscious (so some people believe, and I don't think any human is in a position to dis-prove it).

What if your neighbour or you mum was equally strongly "manifesting" that you would NOT get a parcel? Not the best example, as nearly everyone gets parcels from time to time, and your "manifestation" didn't have a specific time frame attached.

The poster who said upthread about job interviews is a better example. Every candidate will be "manifesting" (in your terms) that they get the job - but only one can succeed.

Some other people believe in what might be termed 'occult' or unseen realities, but that these exist in their own right and are not the product of anyone's subconscious.

Well I’m only just into the researching element. But from what I’m understanding the parcel was MY reality and what I want to see, so it’s irrelevant what others experiences are. They are living their own reality where maybe I don’t have the parcel. That’s going into the realms of quantum mechanics which I couldn’t even begin to explain as I’m not knowledgeable enough on.

All theories that don’t need to be believed if you don’t want to. Last night I pictured a white van parked across from my house, today I woke up with exactly that.

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EuclidianGeometryFan · 12/09/2025 13:43

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:27

Well I’m only just into the researching element. But from what I’m understanding the parcel was MY reality and what I want to see, so it’s irrelevant what others experiences are. They are living their own reality where maybe I don’t have the parcel. That’s going into the realms of quantum mechanics which I couldn’t even begin to explain as I’m not knowledgeable enough on.

All theories that don’t need to be believed if you don’t want to. Last night I pictured a white van parked across from my house, today I woke up with exactly that.

Be careful - if you believe that you are in a reality whereby you received the parcel, but your neighbour could be in a reality whereby you did not receive the parcel, then you are on very thin ice. You are in danger of losing your grip on any "reality" and becoming open to falling into severe mental illness or psychosis.
I just don't believe it works that way.

Carry on reading and researching.
But as they say, don't be so open-minded that your brain falls out.

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:49

EuclidianGeometryFan · 12/09/2025 13:43

Be careful - if you believe that you are in a reality whereby you received the parcel, but your neighbour could be in a reality whereby you did not receive the parcel, then you are on very thin ice. You are in danger of losing your grip on any "reality" and becoming open to falling into severe mental illness or psychosis.
I just don't believe it works that way.

Carry on reading and researching.
But as they say, don't be so open-minded that your brain falls out.

😂😂

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Kingsleadhat · 12/09/2025 14:06

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 00:48

In science, "nonduality" suggests that concepts often seen as separate, like observer and observed, or mind and matter, are actually different aspects of a single, fundamental reality rather than distinct entities. While rooted in spiritual traditions, the concept is explored in contemporary science through fields like quantum physics, neuroscience, and consciousness studies, which investigate how seemingly separate phenomena can arise from a unified underlying essence

What do you mean by science? Non duality is a spiritual/philosophical concept, not a scientific one

Bumblebee72 · 12/09/2025 14:12

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 13:27

Well I’m only just into the researching element. But from what I’m understanding the parcel was MY reality and what I want to see, so it’s irrelevant what others experiences are. They are living their own reality where maybe I don’t have the parcel. That’s going into the realms of quantum mechanics which I couldn’t even begin to explain as I’m not knowledgeable enough on.

All theories that don’t need to be believed if you don’t want to. Last night I pictured a white van parked across from my house, today I woke up with exactly that.

Maybe you should work with Evri. Differing realities of where parcels are is their area of expertise.

Negroany · 12/09/2025 14:16

Surely your mum manifested the parcel by, you know, actually ordering it.

But, again, you don't understand what manifestation is.

Canwegobacktobegin · 12/09/2025 14:34

Negroany · 12/09/2025 14:16

Surely your mum manifested the parcel by, you know, actually ordering it.

But, again, you don't understand what manifestation is.

No you clearly don’t know what it is.

And going online to order something is not it HTH.

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Crushed23 · 12/09/2025 14:46

Haven’t RTFT sorry.

I don’t believe in manifestation in the way you’ve described it at all. However I do believe in manifestation in the sense of positive thinking, visualisation and acting in line with your desired future self increases the chance of you achieving your goals. This has been my experience throughout my life. Periods of pessimism have led to bad things compounding, whereas when I’m positive/optimistic, I am more likely to action things that bring me closer to my goals.

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