At the end of the video embedded in the blog post before this one (dated Nov 19th), Barry showed a picture of an iceberg\u2026 but not just the part that 90% of the world thinks about when they think of an iceberg.<\/p>\n
The picture showed its (much larger) bottom part too — the foundational “hidden”\u00a0 part that floats beneath the deep, dark, shadowy icy waters, while the TOP white part gives the illusion<\/em> of standing alone in the peaceful, tranquil sunlight.<\/p>\n You’ve likely been shown pictures like this before, or the deep-seated and widespread roots of a tree, and told how it illustrates our inner world sustaining our outer world — or how our roots create our fruits — which is all very true in the right context.\u00a0 But that’s only a part of the power in this imagery… and it can be misleading if you don’t understand that the maple tree can’t become an evergreen, and the iceberg can’t hang out in tropical Caribbean waters if it wants to exist for long.<\/p>\n What the picture also presents is an understanding of duality — the yin\/yang “dark, hidden” side of our physical reality — that can have more functional control over your own life than a)<\/strong> you’ve been told and b)<\/strong> you’re probably ready to even hear about or investigate\u2026 unless, that is:<\/p>\n You’re truly open to dropping the same old, rah-rah pie-in-the-sky me-too rhetoric that permeates the spiritual-growth mentoring crowd\u2026 and\u2026 then be mature and brave enough to go from the “navel-gazing, self-absorbed” stage of manifesting to the responsible, considerate, spiritually-accountable manifestor who can accept that you are living in a flytrap reality.<\/p>\n If you haven’t already BS’ed yourself (or if the so-called Manifesting Mentor Elite hasn’t BS’ed you) into thinking that outside circumstances don’t affect your ability to create your own reality, click the Continue Reading link.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Know that our world and everything we see in its compass and everything we can touch constitute only one half of the cosmos. The world we do not see is equal to ours in weight and measure, in nature and properties. From this it follows that there exists another half of man in which this invisible world operates. If we know of the two worlds, we realize that both halves are needed to constitute the whole man; for they are like two men united in one body.”<\/p>\n – Paracelsus<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In other words, the RESULT of what you see in the physical always has a mutually-inclusive metaphysical (unseen) counterpart to it, often fueling or giving energy to the physical aspect of itself.\u00a0 A light-bulb filament gets charged by electricity, a water molecule gets formed by two hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to a single oxygen atom, and to take it up several macrocosmic levels (notwithstanding the length of this article, we DO like getting to the point), experienced reality<\/span> is created by perception<\/em><\/strong> of reality.<\/p>\n And, what is perception made of?<\/p>\n Simple… nothing more or nothing less than Thought Energy — vibrating particles swirling around in the heads of any human who’s ever put forth any effort to desire something, or think about what they want their world to be like, whether individually or on a grander “let me include some other people<\/em>” scale.<\/p>\n Er, guess what? That’s anybody with a pulse.<\/p>\n This individual and collective thought energy is vibrating constantly, buzzing through the ethers like the air from an always-on\/never-ending fan. The universe picks it up and reflects back to you exactly the same amount of proportionate<\/em> energy that you put out.<\/p>\n Contrary to popular belief, it’s not emotional about it either \ud83d\ude42 It just is (your emotions affect it, but only because they affect you… it doesn’t give emotion back).\u00a0 As in, it doesn’t differentiate different types of energy in your life.\u00a0 We tend to agree with Neale Donald Walsh, of Conversations With God<\/em> fame, who says that the universe, per se, is completely mechanical in its response to you.<\/p>\n To expand on this and ramp up the BS detector a little here, nor does it subscribe to the “it wants for you what you want for yourself” mantra that so many well-meaning, but parroting, teachers try and pass off. This idea is nothing more than spiritual gobbledygook and VERY misleading\u2026 only adding to self-delusion.<\/p>\n We’ve seen way too many people fall into this enlightenment trance<\/strong><\/span> where they inoculate themselves from acknowledging, researching or knowing the details (the truth) about anything controversial, negative, or emotionally\/mentally straining. The idea, in their way of thinking, is to present themselves as evolved crusaders of love and light, and superior to anybody who does, talks about, or engages in anything less than “uplifting” or “feel-good”.<\/p>\n We come across people in our community practically every week who take the all-or-nothing, what-my-guru-said-goes<\/em> route to self-growth.\u00a0 They’re the ones who completely bypass the at-my-own-pace <\/em>self-exploration fun train ride that COULD give them time to enjoy the view while soaking in what they’re experiencing.<\/p>\n Rather than approaching self-exploration from a position of strength<\/span>, and allowing their logic, rationale, and critical intellect to help them sift and sort through what new information (i.e., CD, teleseminar, interview, book) to invest in and spend time on, they devour anything in sight delivered by a “guru figure” who presents themselves as being somehow superior to the student at hand.<\/p>\n The same flawed belief that tells them, “The more serene, peaceful and positive I am with life and others, the more the universe will care about, recognize and deliver on my desires” is the same flawed belief that tells them, “you only have to focus on what you want to completely control your reality.”<\/p>\n Again, without sounding like we’re intentionally trying to piss on anybody’s parade, universal laws are impartial and unemotional. This is why people who seemingly don’t deserve it (ex-cons) or aren’t playing the hard-core spiritual quest game (e.g., the people who don’t go to the popular, high-gloss seminars or buy every new metaphysical book of the week) can be master manifestors\u2026 at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n We’re completely aware that 90% of our LWL community has been told by popular stage-walking mentors that\u00a0 Manifestation and Personal Peak-Performance is achieved by FOCUSING on internal energy, employing gratitude, visualizing wanted desires, and not reacting or giving attention to the undesirable scenes that are “out there”.<\/p>\n We once believed that as well\u2026 as a matter of fact, since the inception of ManifestLife.com in early 2005, we’ve certainly had a lot of fodder to play around with — collective wisdom and conversational insight from multiple mentors that we’ve nibbled at, chewed on, sometimes gulped down, sometimes spit up, and even occasionally gargled with.<\/p>\n So, in honor of some of the profound, paradigm-shifting private discussions we had about things, we’re passing on some key morsels to you (but, not anything that we’ve spit up):<\/p>\n Most people manifest (consciously and unconsciously) from a position of programmed (not “real world”) knowledge<\/strong>.\u00a0 We didn’t come into this physical reality to isolate ourselves from others who don’t think like, talk like, or act like us… especially if the uncomfortable thought, discussion or deed causes us to withdraw from seeing it as part of ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Spiritual practice, like religion, can get out of hand to the point of pretentious bullshit, when we attempt to shun anything and anyone who offers information that doesn’t fit our self-imposed view of reality.<\/p>\n Here’s what somebody forgot to tell you<\/span>:<\/p>\n Regardless of how much time and effort you spend in tidying up your “inner world”, the physical world continues to roll on outside of you and independent of you. Obvious to most of you reading this, hopefully! Nonetheless, something very slight<\/em> worth pointing out, as we think this logic escapes some people.<\/p>\n After all, don’t the so-called big name Manifestation Gurus tell us all that we have the innate power to mold, shape, and form the world around us from the inside-out? Of course!<\/p>\n Yet, not if we’re so thick-headed and self-serving that we don’t give a shit about the big-picture OUTSIDE (the world we perceive that we have no control over) and aren’t curious enough to figure out how to discern our own self-designed life (reality) from it.<\/p>\n Recently Barry had an email exchange from a community member who was bent on telling us how disappointed he is in some of the emails, blog posts, and reports that we research and write that don’t (to sum up his complaint in a few words) “leave a good taste in his mouth<\/em>.”<\/p>\n He also went on to say that us explaining how there are hidden “outside forces” that regulate and manipulate the truth behind our political, corporate, and financial systems is “too conspiratorial for his taste.<\/em>”<\/p>\n He’s a ManifestLife portal member, and we introduced the idea of a flytrap reality<\/em><\/strong> — a false reality, a fantasy, that is provided by the media, institutionalized eduction and licensed authorities at all levels — about a year ago.<\/p>\n If you didn’t have access to our private, members-only portal then, you wouldn’t have read about it from us.<\/p>\n We always find it amusing when somebody clings onto their own little boxed-in interpretations of the world for the pure sake of trying to maintain their own status quo under the umbrella of social proof<\/em>.<\/p>\n As this portal member told us: “Well, Proctor, Ray, Canfield and all the others tell us that we’re 100% responsible for everything that happens to us and that we have absolute reality-creating control over our life.<\/em>”<\/p>\n Well, excuse us, but the last time we checked, James Ray doesn’t think like that. In his interview with Barry, he emphatically states that OUTSIDE circumstances ARE the RESULTS of the inner-world of the collective<\/strong>…. In other words, the “unseen” OUTSIDE world is directly<\/span> tied to our personal “unseen” INSIDE world, and everybody we’re directly tied to, in more ways than most care to know.<\/p>\n And in Heather’s interview with Jack Canfield, he talked about a formula that Heather has passed on to you guys many times by now… E + R = O<\/strong> (Event + Reaction = Outcome).\u00a0 In the interview, Heather “nutshelled” this by saying that you don’t control the Event, but you control your Reaction to it, and that affects the Outcome… and Jack agreed.<\/p>\n In other words, your personal small-picture outer-world reality (Outcome) is affected by your inner-world Reaction, but you still never get to control the original big-picture outer-world reality (Event).<\/p>\n Telling us that we’re fear-mongering and conspiracy hacks for bringing forth unbiased, non-mainstream information about life, history, government, freedom, and the core-level underpinning of universal laws and the mind is the equivalent of saying there’s a grand international conspiracy amongst Manifestation teachers to force feed the same simplistic feel good<\/em> gumball down people’s throats that The Secret<\/em><\/a> <\/em>keeps gagging people with.<\/p>\n While we do agree that a lot of mentors selling personal-growth and metaphysical how-to information are self-serving and give followers just enough information (usually ego-coddling woo-woo stuff) to come constantly back for more, the last time we checked, Canfield and his buddies at the Transformation Council<\/em> didn’t sit around at some exotic island, smoking cigars, coming up with a super-scheme to dupe the masses.<\/p>\n Yeah, sure… agreed… we definitely DO need less copy-cat teachers trying to spoon-feed their readers with only stuff that they think they want<\/span> to hear: as in 100% Polly-Annaish\u00a0 sizzle about how they can get whatever they want out of life, or affect change for the greater good by ONLY<\/em><\/strong> concentrating on or taking action on their INNER state.<\/p>\n Look, let’s face it: it’s always more appealing and comfortable to think that in being a part of the conscious creation\/law of attraction brotherhood\/sisterhood (whatever the hell that is), we can define our own safe, protective rules and create interesting laws which bow down to us, rather than us bowing to them\u2026 all that makes us feel in control.<\/p>\n Well, that’s false deceptive control\u2026 if you really want to have infinite control and a connection to unyielding inner-strength, quit ignoring<\/span> what the hell is TRULY going on around you (good, bad, or ugly).<\/p>\n In order to thrive as self-reliant, free-thinking, powerful manifestor, we must make a pact to take an iconoclastic stance on what we intuitively know to be questionable…<\/p>\n In other words, it’s imperative we SEE the world we live in with eyes wide open<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n We become empowered when we have put ourselves in a position to overcome, adapt, and improvise around NEW information that might actually not feel too good (like bad medicine) when going down the hatch.<\/p>\n “We allow manipulated beliefs to infiltrate our sense of reality and thus attract the same experienced reality. This is how we are manipulated into victim mode and the mind-prisons of religion, politics, race, and so on, by accepting the implantation of belief.”<\/p>\n – David Icke<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The truth about what events have taken place, especially over the past 50 or so years, to create a global, Orwellian, fascist\u00a0 state of existence, ain’t gonna feel too good. Not only, if you chose to LOOK, will you find that, like Jim Carrey’s character in The Truman Show<\/em>, you’ve been conditioned to see only what you’re meant to see<\/span>, but\u2026 you’ll have a greater understanding of what our friend and fellow self-improvement writer, Roger Haeske<\/a> once told our community:<\/p>\n “Yes, definitely\u2026 it’s the best way to find a solution to a problem. You focus on what you want not on the problem. It’s the best way to manifest what you want out of life, but I don’t believe it’s going to give you absolute control of every aspect of your life.<\/p>\n Remember, there are many other people out there manifesting and creating through their own thoughts and actions. There’s no question that someone else’s and in fact the group creation affects others in the group. At least here in this physical reality.<\/p>\n Yes I know these thoughts are not shared by all of the manifestation teachers, but I think if we simply analyze things objectively including adding the influence of our own thoughts and actions, we’ll see that we don’t have absolute control. How would that even be possible? Our absolute control would be over-ridden by someone else’s absolute control of everything.<\/p>\n Do we expect to break the laws of nature simply through believing it? I still haven’t seen any humans flying, just through the power of thought. (And dreams don’t count. )<\/p>\n Do we expect to rewrite any governmental laws simply by visualizing it to be so? Let’s get realistic and not live in complete fantasy.<\/p>\n Do what you wish with the information about conspiracy theories. I believe it’s good to at least know and not live in the illusion they are creating for the general public.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Okay, before this gets too long (don’t worry, we’re sure we’ll being doing a Part 2, as there are always great debates and discussion around stuff like this), we have to say something else:<\/p>\n Ultimately, the key in manifesting any thing, even with the awareness of there being forces beyond our control, is purity of INTENTION<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Visualization, focused thoughts, meditation, gratitude, etc. (tools) all make up the patterns available to us (they’re what turn on that photocopy machine); yet, it’s our personal expectations and our heart-connection that determines what we actually create and experience (i.e., if the machine will output precisely <\/em>what we’ve input. Meaning, what we feel we should receive, or how we should receive it and when.)<\/p>\n The more tools of the trade we employ on a consistent basis, the faster we can get the universe to turn on the universal photocopy machine. When we manifest from the heart, however, it connects us to our higher-self\/soul and the choices (the output) are much less likely to be either hollow, shallow, or detrimental to ourselves or those around us.<\/p>\n
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