The Mind and Manifestation

Before you turn away, this is not a woo-woo new age thing. I was as skeptical as you probably are.

There is a way to understand the mind, influence, and manifestation in a way that you may have not considered before. Indeed, I did not for a long time even after studying media psychology.

Before we begin, I need to briefly explain a couple of things.

First, the mind is powerful. It is very powerful. All our actions follow thoughts.

Second, that said, EVERYTHING starts in the mind. Everything. Think wars and genocides. Even before the first bullet is fired or a bomb is dropped, there is a campaign to convince people that the war is worth it — so worth it that people should be prepared to sacrifice to the point of dying for it. Nothing will happen physically until people’s minds are conditioned and changed.

This is the key to understanding manifestation. Mindsets create conditions for other changes to take place in the real world.

In the case of war, leaders will get people to believe that the war is necessary. This change in thinking sets the conditions that would allow for war to occur in the physical world. If these things did not happen, people would not support the war which would make war harder to start and sustain.

There are other ways in which this works. Advertising for example. Billions are spent on advertising for the simple reason that it works even though most people do not think it works on them. Why does it work? It is not forcing us to buy anything on the spot. It is changing our minds to set the condition in which we may be more receptive to and even want to buy something that we did not want to purchase before.

This may seem obvious — more so since I have pointed it out.

And you may be thinking what does this have to do with manifestation? Well, manifestation is the idea that changes in the mind will result in changes in the physical world. (This is manifestation at its most basic level.)

In the woo-woo, new age sense, they say that if you picture something that you desire and continue to picture it while working, eventually you will achieve what you pictured as though your thinking brought it into the world.

Now going back to what I was talking about before. Before a war starts, governments will put out propaganda to convince people that the war is necessary and the other side is evil. Does this create or manifest the war? No, but it allows the war to happen when the government decides to take action.

There is another way this happens which I discussed in Lies: Weapons of Mass Destruction and that is when the lies of a dictator infiltrate a system and when loyalty becomes more important than competence. When this happens, when people can not speak up, when reality can not be acknowledged, and when incompetence hits a critical mass, the conditions have been set in the collective mindset of the system for mistakes and poor judgment to occur with possibly disastrous consequences. I gave examples of Chernobyl, Enron and the economic crisis of 2008.

The mind does have an influence on the physical world or what happens in the physical world — even if it is just setting conditions so that when other things happen outside the system, the system does not respond appropriately to disastrous effects.