We often focus on the law of attraction with the goal of manifesting something we want. What does that even mean? What are the many faces of manifestations?
Defining manifestations
In the context of the law of attraction (LOA), people tend to use the word manifest to mean consciously producing something in the physical world as the result of focused thought in conjunction with the law of attraction. We utilize the actual rules to produce some kind of change in our lives.
The more we pay attention, the more often we observe the law of attraction assembling circumstances and events to match our thought processes. That in itself is convincing, but the whole point is to utilize the LOA consciously to form a better life around ourselves.
We attempt to manifest some kind of outcome, and that outcome is our manifestation. Theory without practical application is generally pretty worthless, so readers are encouraged to use what they learn. When trying to demonstrate to ourselves that LOA actually works, we usually attempt to manifest something small (because our belief isn’t quite there for the larger stuff) but unusual enough that it wouldn’t ordinarily appear otherwise.
Our recent example
This is a recent example that happened to us. It’s not terribly exciting, but it does perfectly illustrate the process.
We love our Yeti coffee mug. It’s reusable, well well-insulated, and the cap seals nicely for those tight right turns when running late for work. Recently, we saw a friend had lost her magnetic cap, so we gave her ours.
In the following couple of weeks, our OCD kicked in full speed! We fully intended to get a replacement on Amazon, but we never remembered while in front of a computer. We had a vague enough awareness of the lack (vague enough to keep forgetting), but complete faith that it was a solved problem. Surely Amazon sells replacement caps. Problem solved. Not a big deal.
In short, we had no resistance to any form of resolution. It never even occurred to us to “use” the LOA.
While in a parking lot putting our mother’s recent purchase in her trunk, mom asked “What’s a yeti?” We smiled, and began to look up while saying, “Funny you ask…” In her hand was a brand new-looking Yeti magnetic cap she had just picked up in the parking lot. Thank you very much, and yes, we washed it before using.
What’s the p-value of that? When was the last time you looked twice at trash in the parking lot in dim light? When was the last time our mother bent over to pick up anything she didn’t absolutely need?
This is one of the ways the law of attraction works in the physical world, one of the many faces of manifestations. Our attention might dart in a direction it wouldn’t normally dart, and inspiration produces effortless follow-through.
The smiling faces of manifestations
Other faces and other hands, the example above has a chain of custody bringing our manifestation. St. Germain calls this type of manifestation an “indirect precipitation” in his Alchemy book.
[…] the law does not fail. In most cases where direct precipitation does not occur, if the effort and the technique be pursued in full faith that the call compels the answer, an indirect precipitation will sooner or later be brought about whereby through one hand or another the desired manifestation does take place.
St. Germain, Alchemy, Chapter 7
It might appear much of the time, particularly for simpler chains of custody, that our focused thought alters the future somewhat making these things appear in our experience. The law of attraction assembles all cooperative components. It directs attention, inspires action, coordinates timing, and everything else, but this universal song and dance happens outside of space and time.
We saw in The Mechanism of Free Will that our (conscious and unconscious) manifestations actually change both the past and the future. The word frivolous would be an understatement when considering how much is involved in manifesting a stupid magnetic cap, but this is how our physical world works. We swap timelines almost constantly. Things are not as solid as they appear. The past and future are not as rigid as anyone suspects.
Other types
Our earlier post Watch for Premanifestations contains various other modalities along which manifestations might arrive.
If the intent is to feel better yourself, then the emotional response you receive from thinking more productive thoughts is the manifestation. Abraham speaks to this all the time; the emotional response you receive is a manifestation.
Likewise, if the intent is to surround yourself with happier people, then indirect participation (observing similar manifestations in others) is the manifestation. It can be an indication of what you’re attracting, or it can be the end goal (or both).
Dreams can be a manifestation aimed at showing us what we’re currently attracting.
The law of attraction assembles all cooperative components. Those assemblies, whether they directly include us or not, can be thought of as manifestations. So the question really is, what isn’t a manifestation? Everything experienced in the physical (uni)verse is a manifestation specifically designed to know thyself just a little more.
Direct manifestations
Ramtha teaches his students a more direct approach. Baird T. Spalding’s expedition contained many examples of direct manifestations. St. Germain’s Alchemy book is primarily focused on direct manifestation, or precipitation as he calls it. These are the most direct manifestations.
Direct manifestations appear out of thin air. There is no chain of custody. Of the many types, this is obviously the least common manner of producing manifestations. The physical (uni)verse is set up to behave by default the way we’re used to experiencing it. To override the default takes definite focus and knowledge of the process.
Probably the most widely known examples of direct manifestations involve mass-to-mass conversions of water into wine and precipitating loaves and fishies out of thin air.
St. Germain
St. Germain calls on his reader to become aware of and meditate on a cloud of energy that surrounds all physical structure and fills all empty space. He’s most likely referring to vacuum energy which is the energy that exists in all space. Every teaspoon of empty space has enough vacuum energy to boil all the oceans of planet Earth. The physical (uni)verse has no shortage of energy from which to create new matter (E=mc2 style). We’ve already seen that subatomic particles are constantly popping in and out of existence from this energy source.
It’s then a matter of specifying precisely what and where you want your manifestation to be. Imagine the cloud filling in the gaps and creating the structure desired.
Ramtha
Ramtha distinguishes this a little further. Mass-to-mass manifestation is the transformation of something weighing, say, N grams into something else weighing N grams. The first step is to dissolve the outgoing object, and the second step is to build up the new object. Masters are said to carry small pebbles in their pockets which they would convert into gold coins as needed.
“No people are going to give this to you. It is not going to happen in any particular place. It is not connected to anything else. This is what you want and nothing similar. And it is not about time. And you have to make those orders very clear. It is now.
[…] and it needs to be constructed out of these things that you do not have an attachment on but recognize.
They are taking coagulated thought, releasing it, and re-forming it.
Ramtha, A Master’s Key for Manipulating Time
More advanced students are given something closer to St. Germain’s method.
In closing
Everything’s a manifestation when you realize your inner being’s goal is to utilize physical existence to grow all that’s known.
More relevant for our point of view, manifestations happen in any number of ways as the law of attraction responds to our vibrations. The more we pay attention, the more we’ll see the correlation. As you steer your own thought processes toward what you want, you’ll better understand the causation. And as with anything, practice makes perfect.
