FAQ ON MANIFESTATION, TRANSFORMATION, AND IMAGINATION
JUNE 11, 2006. From emails I've received over the last six months, I've compiled a basic FAQ that connects various parts of my research. I think you'll find it helpful and instructive.
Q: What exactly is manifestation?
A: It's creating what you want, what you desire.
Q: Well, for example, I work at a job, and I make money. I want money. So is my job a form of manifestation?
A: Yes it is, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about specific exercises you do every day that create, with energy, a feedback effect, in which the universe deals you back the cards you want.
Q: The universe cooperates with me?
A: It certainly does when you create what you want with enough energy and intensity.
Q: So manifestation is a mental activity, a mental exercise.
A: Mental is a very narrow word to describe it. It's not just a matter of thinking about what you want. That is not it.
Q: Is it visualization?
A: No.
Q: Is it thinking positive thoughts?
A: No.
Q: Is it waiting to receive gifts from the universe?
A: Definitely not.
Q: Is it focusing on some key phrase?
A: No.
Q: Is it meditation?
A: No.
Q: Is any ritual involved?
A: Absolutely not.
Q: Does it matter if I'n religious or not religious?
A: It doesn't matter at all.
Q: Is it thinking the same words over and over?
A: No.
Q: How does this manifesting affect other people? Am I trying to bend their will to mine?
A: This has nothing to do with controlling other people. That urge, in fact, comes from not being able to manifest what you want for yourself. And if someone, in a perverse state of mind, tries to manifest something that would curtail another person's freedom, it won't work. It'll run to ground and fail. It'll turn up a big zero.
Q: So your method of manifesting what I want is different from all of these methods I've asked about?
A: Yes. My method involves PROJECTING WITH POWER.
Q: You teach specific exercises in your tele-workshops?
A: Yes. Very specific techniques. The two key workshops are MIND CONTROL, MIND FREEDOM, and THE TRANSFORMATIONS.
Q: You also have a product called IMAGINATION EXERCISES FOR A LIFETIME. How does this fit in?
A: Everything begins with imagination, with creative power. The stronger and wider and more adventurous and more ENERGETIC your imagination is, the better you are able to manifest what you desire.
Q: So in that program, IMAGINATION EXERCISES, you teach that.
A: IMAGINATION EXERCISES is a very extensive program in which you and I, side by side in real time, do a whole host of exercises together. You just pop in the CDs and go. Step by step. It's very clear.
Q: And this accomplishes what?
A: It allows you to use your imagination in specific ways so that its power increases by leaps and bounds. As a result of that, when you then do the manifesting exercises---which are aimed at getting what you desire---you will be more effective and powerful.
Q: Power, imagination, manifestation seem to be linked together.
A: Very definitely. When you can imagine what you want, with power, and when you apply that power in the exercises I teach, you get what you want.
Q: That's a very definite statement.
A: It's a true statement.
Q: So I do the manifesting exercises and everything else happens automatically.
A: The automatic part happens after you do the exercises. Here is what I mean. You need to have an intensity when you do the techniques. This is not a lab experiment in which you stand back and watch things happen. This is not a test in which you indifferently wait around and note the outcome, like a technician checking the effects on rats in cages. This is a live process, and you manifest with live energy.
Q: Why?
A: Many reasons. One is, you are creating what you want. What you want IS about desire and energy. You don't desire something vaguely or generally or absently or scientifically. You WANT it.
Q: So the exercises tap into that.
A: You use the exercises to tap into your desires and then manifest them, bring them into being as accomplished fact.
Q: Suppose I'm confused about what I really want. Suppose I don't know.
A: In MIND CONTROL, MIND FREEDOM, there is a simple and powerful exercise you do to uncover, more and more, what you want. That's part of this process. In addition to that, when you do my manifesting exercises, you naturally discover deeper and deeper levels of what you desire.
Q: And then I manifest THAT.
A: That's right.
Q: Are you saying that, at bottom, I really want only one thing?
A: Not at all. Generally speaking, people want many things, many outcomes, many realities.
Q: Does that get confusing?
A: No. The exercises are structured so that you are always manifesting what you really want at that moment, at the moment you are doing the daily exercises. The bonus is, ALL manifesting with these exercises builds up your creative power, gives you many insights along the way, and makes you feel more alive and energetic and joyous and lucid and at the center of your own life. These are major rewards.
Q: Since I'm manifesting what I want, can I just sit back and let the rest of my life go on hold?
A: Of course not. In your life, you should be spending time working toward what you want. The manifesting exercises help that happen faster and smoother and much more enjoyably. Positive things will happen that escape any rational explanation.
Q: Is this magic?
A: I'll try to boil it down. As I said, it's definitely NOT about ritual or mysterious trappings or burning candles or chanting. None of that. But magic really means: superceding the supposed rules of the space-time continuum. That's a clear definition of magic. And in that sense, this is definitely magic. But you see, the word magic is loaded with all sorts of baggage for people. They think of waving wands and doing spells and all that. This has NOTHING to do with that. It has to do with you.
Q: Where does the transformation come in?
A: When you do the exercises on a consistent basis, old emotions and thought patterns and seeming obstacles recede into the background. They become of secondary importance. Your whole outlook improves and moves to a higher and deeper level. You're no longer a card-carrying member of the consensus culture.
Q: What does that mean?
A: Your life has less and less to do with solving sticky problems and working to stay afloat. You need less effort and you have more power. You aren't in a soap opera. You're not only directed at your goals with much greater clarity, you're getting what you want. So you don't need to pay attention to the familiar irritations so many people waste their days on. What you are creating is much more interesting and exciting than what the culture is giving you. Your inner energy is free and flowing. You KNOW. You aren't guessing or rooting around for answers.
Q: As far as what I do desire, do you make suggestions?
A: NO. I'm not in the business of telling you what you want. Only you know that. Only you find that out. For yourself. That's the way it is and has to be, and that also makes it free and thrilling for you. You're launched on your own path all the time. That's exactly what freedom is about, what freedom is for.
Q: So in addition to getting what I want, I'm on a path that is central to my life?
A: Definitely. This is the path that starts from you and your core and moves outward. It doesn't come at you as indoctrination or intellectual clap-trap. It's realer than real, and it's the path along which you graduate into full being, full Self.
Q: I'm interested in the paranormal.
A: Another tricky word loaded with baggage. Manifestation is all about the paranormal from the get-go. It zings right out beyond the average and the mundane and the normal; it goes far, far beyond all that. As I said, it exceeds all the so-called rules of the space-time continuum. It proves to YOU that you can create, with energy, with power, what you actually want---and the universe will accommodate you. The universe will shape itself and re-arrange itself to give you the reality you desire. If that's not paranormal, I don't know what is.
Q: Is this cheating?
A: Cheating is when you limit yourself and try to fit into the consensus of what is average and unhappy and bored. That is REALLY cheating. Cheating yourself. Cheating is when you utilize your skills and self-deception to convinve yourself that you have to accept what is given to you by other people. Cheating is living out your life in the role of the "average person." Typically, it's all backwards. The culture is backwards. Forget all that nonsense.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
THE STORY OF POWER
JUNE 10, 2007. This article relates to our June special, which is all about real empowerment...click on the link above for information.
Power radiates outward from a person who has it. Power is not about domination and coercive control. That is the false mask of power. That is what some people do when they see life solely in terms of who controls and who is controlled.
Washington DC is good place to explore the false mask, but what sane person has the time or the inclination?
True power gives back to the one who has it. It flows out and it flows back. The space-time continuum makes the accommodation and cooperates.
Most people are afraid of having or using power. This is because they have brainwashed themselves into believing that this quality IS the mask. It's also because they are afraid they will be perceived as standing apart from the herd of sheep. It's also because they're afraid that, when they try to exert power, they'll discover they don't have any.
I have a few things to say about all this. First, everyone has power. Second, radiating it is not a false thing and therefore most other people will not be put off or alarmed by it. The exceptions to this rule are professional victims and those who live off the stale end of envy.
But you know what? Underneath it all, professional victims and those who draw their energy from envy know, down deep, they are playing a trick. They know. They are simply trying to chop off little pieces of someone else's power. That's their whole stock in trade, and they know they are doing it.
Ignore them. They're not worth your time. They never solve any problem for themselves or anyone else. Their lives are dedicated to causing problems.
Power radiates for several purposes: because it can, and it feels natural, and it is life-giving and enhancing; and because it is involved with manifesting realities that reflect what the soul desires.
Power brings futures into being.
The more you radiate this power, the more you move beyond the foolish games of the culture. The more independent and happy you are. I seem to remember a document written about 230 years ago that made a few statements about independence.
One phrase comes to mind. The pursuit of happiness.
How can you do that and get there without projecting power?
You can't.
You can try to tap-dance around that one and make all sorts of excuses and induce some sort of amnesia, but it won't work.
The wonderful thing is, when you expand the range and energy of your imagination, and when you utilize that new and improved imagination to manifest what you truly want, you are naturally radiating power. It's there. It's always there for that purpose.
All this is as natural as walking down the street or drinking a glass of water. What makes it seem unnatural is the self-induced conditioning we tend to apply, in order to fit in and become "normal" and "equal." These fantasies may be interesting, but only for a little while. Then they become dull and ingrained and, above all, boring. Then we want something more.
Well, this imagination/power/manifesting IS something more. It is the great spaceship leaving the dock on the routes of invention and discovery.
That's what I opt for, and I think you do, too.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
