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Most of my blog posts present material I have a clear point of view on, such as how beliefs are formed, how they can be eliminated and how they determine our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. I don’t hold these as “the truth,” but as effective and useful “a truths.” A few posts—like the ones I wrote last December on occurring—present some half-formed ideas I am thinking about and trying to work through. This post on some thoughts on manifesting is like that.
Let me start with two ideas I’ve been fascinated about for a few years.
Here is the first idea:
If you asked someone, “Do things exist?” the response would probably be, “Of course things exist! The world is full of things. Doesn’t everyone know that there is physical stuff out there—that reality is tangible and real?”
But what allows any thing—a hand, a chair, or any other object—to exist? One way to answer is to imagine a specific thing—say, a hand. What if the hand expands and keeps expanding until there is nothing in the universe except the hand. What would happen to it? … Really try to imagine this. … You wouldn’t see the hand anymore. But why?
It would disappear because there would be nothing in the universe that was not the hand. This thought exercise illuminates a very basic concept about reality: We live in a dualistic universe. In order for any thing to exist, there must also be not that thing.
Consider this for a moment. Can you see that any physical object is bounded by “not that object”? If an object did not have any borders— that is, if it wasn’t surrounded by “not that object”—it couldn’t be distinguished from everything else. In other words, it wouldn’t exist.
The same principle also applies to nonmaterial concepts. Love and hate, peace and war, strong and weak, beautiful and ugly—these only exist and have unique attributes because they have been distinguished from each other. For example, the state of war is distinguished from peace by the presence of armed conflict. When there is no armed conflict there is peace. But if armed conflict existed throughout the world all the time, and if the alternative (peace) was unimaginable, you wouldn’t be able to distinguish war from any other state. War, as a condition distinct from peace, couldn’t exist.
Now imagine the universe without any distinctions. It’s just an undifferentiated whole. Can you see that there would be nothing? That’s because in order for anything to exist, it must be distinguished from everything else. If no distinction is made between a specific thing and everything else, there is only an undifferentiated everything—which is another way of saying nothing.
Everything, without any distinctions, is the same as nothing.
Physicist Fred Allen Wolf once said that “the world is only a potential and not present without you or me to observe it.” I would suggest that what physical reality really requires is consciousness to make distinctions.
In making distinctions, we use our sensory apparatus (the five senses) as well as our perceptual framework (language, culture, paradigms, and individual beliefs). But the world isn’t really the way you perceive it. It isn’t any way until you perceive it that way—that is, until you distinguish it that way. In fact, you don’t even sense what’s “out there:’ because there’s nothing out there to be sensed. (Nothing, as we’ve seen, however, is the potential for everything to be distinguished.)
An example comes from a Time magazine cover story on human consciousness.
“A baby born with cataracts—an unusual but not unheard-of condition—and left untreated for as little as six months becomes permanently and irrevocably blind. If a sixty-year-old develops cataracts, an operation can restore full sight. The distinctions most of us make unconsciously and at a glance—foreground vs. background, moving vs. stationary, vertical vs. horizontal, and dozens more—are concepts that the brain has learned. It literally has to wire itself, with neurons growing out to touch and communicate with one another in an ever more sophisticated network of connections. And if those connections are not repeatedly stimulated in the first few months of life, when the brain is still in its formative period, they atrophy and die.” (Emphasis added.)
In other words, moving and stationary or vertical and horizontal are not events “out there”: Rather they are “concepts that the brain has learned” (or distinguished) as a result of having a specific sensory apparatus, without which they couldn’t be distinguished. That means they literally wouldn’t exist. (This is only a brief summary of an idea that’s relevant to this post. It could be developed further into a longer post or even a chapter in a book.)
Here is the second idea (this is actually a part of the Who Am I Really? Process).
There are three ways to “know” something:
First, by understanding it. This is conceptual and involves language and explanation. You can understand that you create your life when someone explains it to you or when you read about it.
Second, by experiencing it. You know you are the creator of your life in a totally different way when you experience it.
Third, by bringing something into existence by creating/distinguishing it. When you distinguish yourself as the creator of your life as distinct from the creation, you know you are the creator of your life in this third way, which cannot even be described.
The following are some of my recent thoughts that appear to be related to the two ideas presented above, but I’m not sure yet how to tie all this together. Any suggestions?
Understanding something as true or even experiencing it as true doesn’t make it manifest. These two ways of knowing are ways of knowing what already exists. The third way to know reality—knowing by distinguishing/creating—brings what has been distinguished into existence.
Making a distinction is sufficient to bring something into existence as an idea. But it needs to be experienced and “brought into existence” for the distinction to actually exist in reality. The fact that a distinction does not show up in physical reality immediately does not mean we haven’t created it. What we’ve distinguished really does exist (as an idea); it just isn’t in physical form yet.
Wants and desires are a function of already-existing beliefs. They arise from already-existing beliefs. You look at what exists and want it to be the same or different based on your values, which are a type of belief. The beliefs are from the past and the wants/desires live in the future. You’re either satisfied with what already is or dissatisfied with what already is. Neither generates or creates. Creation takes place in the present. You make a distinction and bring something into existence as a thought/an idea.
The very act of making a distinction brings it into existence mentally, that thought will then manifest when we act in the present consistently with it.
Behavior can exist in three totally different realms: (1) figuring out how to solve existing problems to reach a goal (focusing on the past), (2) creating a strategy to reach a goal (focusing on the future), or (3) taking advantage of opportunities as they arise consistently with a future that’s already been created/distinguished in the mind (focusing on the present).
How am I using these ideas in my own life? I created/distinguished 5 million people using The Lefkoe Method to eliminate at least one limiting belief by December 31, 2012. At the moment, I have no idea how to manifest 5 million users in just two and a half years. I am doing whatever seems appropriate to manifest that “creation” as the opportunities arise: writing weekly blog posts, writing guest posts, creating a new course to teach people how to dissolve how the world occurs for us, supporting research on the effectiveness of The Lefkoe Method—especially on stress, joint venture mailings, using Twitter and Facebook, etc. I expect that additional opportunities to reach my goal will emerge over time and what currently exists only in my mind will manifest in the world when the time comes.
Do you have any suggestions or comments on these thoughts on manifesting?
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Thx for the reply morty,
I’ll try the hand visualization again. I cannot imagine it filling the universe without understanding the idea of the edge of the universe. Wait…I just did. So I still feel handness, flesh, blood, though I no longer use the word hand. So handness no longer exists. My senses of flesh and blood do. Perhaps I will look back again at your post.
When I think of love, do I need the absence of love to feel love? Perhaps I simply enjoy it and do not know it’s absence.
I agree with you on most scientists. A few who skew towards the new age often use quantum mechanics to assert ability of human consciousness to determine reality macroscopically. In truth, I find this compelling, though not provable yet. Possibly improbable.
I will spend more time with your writing. What I am most interested in is trying it out and seeing what possibilities for joy it could hold. Would such perspectives take me towards or away from truth, joy, love, peace, power? Does it come from a desire to accept or to control?
Will think and feel about this more.
Always enjoy reading your thoughts and I really like the way you pose them as an exploration morty. Allows me to let down my skeptical guard.
Here are some random comments:
I can’t really do the hand visualization. As the hand grows, for me it stays a hand. For it to jump to infinity there is a conceptual hiccup for me. I don’t userstand infinity so it feels like an incomplete or un-useful thought experiment.
Regarding “things”. Im a little unclear in me on the difference between naming, vs. Objects. It may seem brutish, but I would argue undistinguished objects, or ones with no opposite are still there, they are simply undistinguishable by name or concept to us.
All in all, sometimes I wonder if manifestation is simply the human desire to create something out of nothing.. And we simply cannot. And it is our desire to fight mortality that we try in many ways.
That’s not to say we can’t play a huge role in creating our experience of reality through your methods.
However, I am open to a radically different view of reality, yet I have yet to be convinced that for instance, what happens microscopically in quantum mechanics, occurs macroscopically. And I’m a scientist at heart. I’m open to anything yet aware that my desires will lead the evidence…even now :)
-jon
Hi Jon,
Don’t worry about infinity, just imagine your hand expanding until it fills the universe. When it fills the universe there is no longer a not hand, at whihc point the hand disappears.
Tell me one thing that exists with a not that, describe it.To say something exists that cant be described is to change the meaning of “exists.”
I’m not sure that the ruls of quantum mechanics apply to objects we can sense with our sense organs. I don’t think most scientists would claim otherwise (although some LOA people might).
We certainly do create our experience of life. And on some level we create our reality with the distinctions we make.
Love, Morty
Hi,
Regarding manifestation, I have skimmed some of these posts. My current thought is that the desire to manifest, may be a…trap. An old negative belief that we don’t have everything we need. Not sure what more to say about that.
Actually, I will say, it seems when I am in what you call a creator space, I don’t find myself planning, per se. I just do. And I have little if none intention for an outcome.
Another thought is that manifestation and the law of attraction stuff, has always somehow felt “of ego” (whatever that means) to me. The notion has seemed somehow slightly grandiose, like a simple human thinks it is so powerful as to create matter and shift it at will.
While I do understand the power of distinguishing, and creating our experience, and how this can HELP alter material around us, I do not believe we are all powerful creators in some senses. I DO believe we can create much, and most importantly create happiness and love for ourselves.
I see humans as not much different than squirrels, or a rock, and there is a valuable humility in that for me, and a connection and equality of all things, all energy.
As a graduate in physics, I am familiar with the mysteries o quantum mechanics and the power of the perciever to change reality. But what occurs on a micro level is not the same as macro. This is an error many new age philosophers make. While it is POSSIBLE that we create matter with observation, science has yet to fully support that I think.
I think it is probable that “manifestation” is a tool used by well intentioned humans to gain something. A carrot offered to people. A carrot that steals people away from the carrot of now. Knowing that all is good as it is, an what manifests I do not control, but am simply a part of. A dance of matter and energy interacting, that I as a part I the whole, may not be able to fathom, as I am a tiny part of it.
Be curious to know your thoughts morty.
-jon
Re:
“At the moment, I have no idea how to manifest 5 million users in just two and a half years.”
You’ve just “manifested” at least one disbeliever who can recognize how many untruths you pile alongside — and within — your truths. Ask yourself how, and why, you “manifested” me.
Greetings and Salutations! It seems to me that most people on this blog have missed the point. The point being an answer to the question how do I manifest X goal in X time. I’ll try to keep it brief as the answer is pretty simple.
To manifest something you have to believe in the possibility of it’s existence and then increase the probability of it existing through effective action. To make action effective you must bring the weight of your knowledge to bear upon your own intuition thus creating the ability to recognize oppurtunities for more action to further your goal when they occur. Numbers and time frame aside, what you are trying to achieve is to change peoples’ perception from life destructive belief (negative) to life supportive belief (positive). This brings to mind two sayings. (1) You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. (2) When the student is ready the teacher will come. Basically you cannot make people change you can only expose them to the information that has the probability/possibility of doing so. The answer to your question therefore is : Exposure. If you want to realize your goal then you need to expose people to your ideas. Only a small percentage of people exposed will utilize the ideas so you need to expose many more than the 5 million to get the number you are after. Now, you can increase the success rate of people who are exposed if they trust the source of the information. Given these two facts my advice to you would be CONTACT OPRAH WINFREY and get on her show! I am an Australian living in Melbourne. I have lived all over my country and I have never met anyone who didn’t know who she was! Your story is exactly the kind of thing she likes to have on her show, she has a massive audience who trust her so exposure and acceptance of the information will be enormous. Contact her, state your objective and ask for her help.
Hi Jeffrey,
You maker a lot of good points. Thanks for sharing your thinking with all the readers of this blog.
Re: Oprah, we have been trying to reach her for many years. At one point I had over 50 people who had benefited from our work to write to her sharing their experiences. I then followed up. Never was able to reach anyone. I think she would love our work.
At some point someone who knows her well will try our work and tell her about it. It will happen.
Regards, Morty
There are only two “things” that exist:
1. Focused energy;
2. Unfocused energy.
Every “thing” that already “is,” is “focused energy.” That which awaits “creation,” is “unfocused energy.”
Thoughts concentrate (visulize) on the unfocused energy and cause it to conform to the shape of the thoughts (creation)!
Hi Arlo,
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Regards, Morty
Alright alright alright that’s excatly what I needed!
One minor note about untreated cataracts in children. There is research being done that points towards vision recovery even after many years of blindness. A TED talk on this subject:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pawan_sinha_on_how_brains_learn_to_see.html
In short, there is hope.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for this information. I’ll check out the TED video.
Regards, Morty
Soul,
You wrote,” If you change your beliefs, eventually at your core you will find a nagging pain, rather an uncomfortable feeling – you will now be addressing your life force – the very fabric of your existence – coming to terms with the innocence/pain realization of your early years will open and allow a footing for your new beliefs to take hold.” This is just what I am feeling now as I rid myself of beliefs that held me back. It is a pain that’s attempting to bring me back to the old comfortable ways. Thank you for explaining it so clearly.
As far as the suicide thoughts, I didn’t want the world to be the way I wanted it to be when I felt this way. What I felt was that I didn’t have the tools(mental and emotional) to live a fulfilling life and considered suicide as a way out. I didn’t see any other alternatives until at the moment of deep inadequacy, “There has to be something better than this.” And I knew that the answers lay within, just not how to access this inner wisdom of the Self that is whole.
You give me a lot to think about and feel about as I continue my Journey. Love and Light
Thank you for allowing my being to have a voice –
So I will come back for today, with a few tidbits – Now, you dont know who I am, I may be a kook * – You will have to give validity to todays ‘occurrence’ through your own knowing, if you are ready. For Morty, I will give you a starting point for your classes:
Generally, most of your readers feel what we will call, the ‘clash of innocence’ .
Free will is nothing more than the allowing of – *creative life force – its expression in a way that brings joy – biologically speaking, all of nature strives toward this potential. You can, if you wish, suffer.
To the suicide, who has given much thought to this act beforehand, the belief is – If I cannot have life my way, and on my terms, I will take that life away.
Men who have money, relationships, seem to have it all – often also fall prey to ill-feeling, disease, or death of the spirit or body. So I will separate the following statement for emphasis:
What you feel is the clash of innocence.
You call it the birth of a belief system. The inception of the given personality’s world view. Pre natal the fetus, naturally has an impetus open to possibility a new life of expression and creativity. Built in, it already knows – biologically how to care for the organism and how to face any challenge that may ‘occur’ within a given ‘theme’. The brain as you recognize it, does make connections to deal with physical life, however I assure you it does not give the *instructions needed for manipulation in your world.
At the inception of beliefs with your parents and peers the innocence begins to clash with pain. You find you cannot be who you wish to be, you must do what you have to do. Innately there will always be great discomfort as your feelings tell you something is not right. Outside conditions begin to direct your life.
What you see in the world has already happened, by focusing on a given condition, you are creating more of it – thus you always get what you concentrate on. That is the main rule, there is no other.
To be able to manifest, you must understand the dichotomy within your psyche. Pain is constricting – there is no expansion and your desires cannot manifest within those conditions. If you change your beliefs, eventually at your core you will find a nagging pain, rather an uncomfortable feeling – you will now be addressing your life force – the very fabric of your existence – coming to terms with the innocence/pain realization of your early years will open and allow a footing for your new beliefs to take hold.
Beliefs are like cities and bridges, you must see the framework of the structures, the cornerstone beliefs are not readily apparent. You are inherently innocent and free, I am telling you that in most cases that was snatched from you – there you will find your * heart.
I am telling you dear reader, use Mr Lefkoe’s program on beliefs, and occurring process, as a *springboard* to launch yourself deeper into your psyche – a journey to find the *supporting structures* – each new construction in your mind’s city will give you *life !
That is all, thank you for this forum.
I am pleased to stumble upon this conversation. I have been sharing with people for years the idea that if a child was born and only experienced utter joy its entire life, the child would never really know what utter joy was as it had nothing of which to compare. We need the darkness to know the light, strong to know weak, fear to know love. We are so quick to judge things as good or bad, not recognizing the necessity of all of it to enable us to create our experience. Keep asking Morty, and so will I.
Hi Michael,
Great point.
It is worth remembering that we need the “bad” experiences in order to appreciate (or even distinguish) the “good” ones. And of course it is possible to change our occurring and dissolve bad experiences after we have experienced them, so we don’t have to live with them for long.
Regards, Morty
Hi
These posts have been very thourght prevoking, i just found a site called timephysics.com that sais , in summery, that time may just be motion in the present moment, as the present moment can not actualy be measured by time, yet motion can speed up and slow down but time can not, and the ideas develop from there. This stuff is blowing my mind, every idea seems to have a paradox, and nothing can seem to be proven 100%.
The theory of relitivity is widley known and accepted, so it is strange that we all still belive the reality that we create in our minds and “see out in the world”, does this theory of relitivity not prove that we are the creators of our lives? But then again, can we prove 100% that we actualy are the creators of our lives and not just creations from a mix of genes, up bringing/nature and nurture?
Ps, great work morty and I look forward to your occoring course
Hi Ian,
I’m not sure that we can “prove” any of this. We can only speculate and then live our lives out of what makes the most sense to us.
We will be announcing the details of the next occurring course in the next couple of weeks. I am more excited about it than anything I’ve been in quite a while. The results of the last one were spectacular. I look forward to having your participate.
Regards, Morty
I have read the above blog and received nuggets of gold in it. I then quickly spanned down and stopped on the first comment that caught My “eye”. The comments were made by Soul. The comments that were made resonated with Me on a deep spiritual level and has Me looking at My core beliefs. I wish to thank you both for posting and appreciate the direction reading this has taken Me!
Namaste
Hi Shelise,
Your comment makes real why it makes such a difference for each person to comment: it can help others who are reading the comment.
When I write a post I know that sometimes the greatest value that people receive from it will not be from something I wrote, but from something I inspired someone else to write.
I’m glad that one of the comments was so useful.
Regards, Morty
And lastly:
A personal note to Mr. Lefkoe.
I have given you here what you have asked for. You have explored the areas of value and worth – and now, you are beginning to reach out into ‘mass’ beliefs –
No one will be standing by the pool with a life vest, and you must kick your feet up and swim towards the deep end.
There is no shortage of people (lack) – and you do not have to set a *limit, of people to reach –
Your understanding of the brain comes from theory, people who use earth instruments to measure and reach conclusions. That in itself implies limits, for things unseen cannot be measured with a ruler or x-ray machine.
So I have given you a broadened view of ‘time’ above.
I salute you on your journey, my time here is finished.
That is all
Hi Soul,
You have spent a lot of time participating in this conversation and I really appreciate your comments. You have provided us all with much food for thought.
I would agree that time is a human construction, and I’m not sure that “creations” can get outside of it or ignore it. There are some universal truths and the world as we know it is truly an illusion. But there is both a creator and a creation and we can’t ignore the latter and it’s limitations.
Ultimately anything is possible in any amount of time. Any limitation is a human limitation. And yet we are human, despite also being more than human.
There is much to ponder here.
Regards, Morty
Continued:
You visit your supermarkets on your paydays, you have a finite amount of money that you earned, giving your time away, and you return with a finite amount of food.
Your second false belief, nay, core belief is lack.
Yet you protest loudly, “I know the ways of the world” because you look to your contemporaries for – ideals. You mustn’t spoil yourself you see, because you hold negative connotations regarding what you deserve. Your friends would give you no merits, and offer hearty arguments against now, spoiling – anyone.
Your ideas of the world are false.
Your beliefs are false
Your ideas about you are false
Your ideas about money are false
Your ideas about time, space, and your planet are false.
You were – shown – as a child, the value of money, as your parents would not *Dare, spoil you, for they would certainly hear it from their parents if they did. So you were thrown a nickel here and there, as you mowed your laws and baby-sat. Your nickel vanished as you spent it on yourself, feeling good – you wanted another one.
* I tell you – your beliefs are impoverished, that your beliefs, rather your REALITY is tainted by false concepts en mass, as you copy-cat what you think is ‘ the way-
Now you are saying – “but I have saved a very nice nest egg for myself ” – and I tell you, you are shivering in your boots, because you cannot spend a nickel * – “the law of attraction does not work for me” – You were given a nickel, forced then to repeat actions for another, and by treating yourself kindly and spending it (feeling good), you quickly found out, you needed more, and within that notion was the birth of fear, and lack –
I will give you 100$, you spend it – I will give you 100$, you spend it – I will give you 100$, you spend it – You receive more, and more, – forever * more – because there is no lack, because you deserve it –
Spoil yourself –
For those with ears to hear, let them listen to these comments with their *inner voice – NOT ANYONE ELSE – may your journey be filled with joy – and – *abundance
Now,
Time is a belief, period.
One that you generally would not question, never the less is is within your framework, you live within its structure, day to day.
Yet you must understand the many facets of time – and since you believe you will grow old and die, you are stuck within a given life-span, and you never give thought to any other way – *
Firstly, in your current century of life, time is industrialized. A product of industry – for on your jobs, in an assembly line fashion, you are forced to perform repetitive tasks, punch in – punch out. Most of you resent those restrictions for they press against your innate desire for freedom.
A jungle man, following natural rhythms, an internal clock – concerned with hunting and shelter, would get a – feel * for his time of day – rest when needed, and meet with his appointments as accurately as you do with your watches – He will use his biological clock – where you ignore that function in lieu of gizmos that control your actions. The jungle man is internal, you are external –
Now an ant that our jungle man may step on – living within its own time zone – that ant may live one day – yet its one day would be the lifetime of the hunter. Dont feel sorry for our ant, for its lifetime to it now, would seem – like 80 years.
To you, the industrialized man, to the jungle man, and to the ant (or tree) – time is used as a creative expansion – ** feeling – with a vastly different belief system.
This is your human framework – at the core of all of your surface recognized beliefs, whatever they may be. But, it is plastic, time, and you can see your world from a different lens. If you wish.
This is not the place to go further, however I wanted you (reading this now) to awaken to possibilities you never imagined that you could change, or – influence, from within. Beliefs that you never thought to question.
Best Regards
Thanks for this information. I gathered some hints in your comments to look for more.
I’ve worked on the conventional beliefs, but I hadn’t even considered the possibilities you are posing here, and the implications they may have.
Thanks.
Wow. Love your blog and all the great followup comments. Personally, I find it most enjoyable to manifest ideas from the present. To have such a passion for something that your eyes and ears are constantly “tuned in” to receiving what you need – and then experiencing the joy of things that you need “miraculously” present themselves to you. However you are also working with the future as you have identified a specific number and time frame. Whether you know it or not, you have already started a strategy for getting there (setting a measurable goal, asking us for suggestions). If you’re like me, the next step in your strategy just comes naturally. But I think when you put such a specific goal down, which it appears you consider to be a “stretch” you need to have a multi-step strategy planned out in advance – so it would be interesting to have somebody like “work your ass off” A-ron come up with some concrete steps and strategies for you. I think as you do this you will get a sense of how committed you are to the goal (ie: you will have more of an idea how much work it will be to attain the goal, and whether it is the right goal for you or whether it needs to be adjusted to something you can be fully committed to.)
Hi Athena,
I am engaged in a number of projects designed to help manifest my vision, as I described in my post. So I am working all day every day on whatever makes the most sense that day. And I have some short-term strategies.
But I don’t really know what it will take to manifest my vision. So I take it one day at a time.
As I explained in my post, I don’t think a long-term strategy is appropriate.
Thanks for jumping in and out of this conversation.
Regards, Morty
Wow, Morty, this is good!
You make a very important point–that creation takes place in the present! I’ve just started a new blog where I’m talking about my mom having cancer and how I watched her change her mind, back and forth, about it over time. It was evidenced by her health over many months, as she created anew in several different “presents”.
I enjoy your blog and this post really inspired me!
One thing you said jumped out at me at the end of your post (“my goal…will manifest in the world when the time comes”). I would submit that there is no big Shipping Department in the sky where the Judgmental Shipping Clerk looks at your order and says “Oh, Morty–his order probably shouldn’t be shipped for 30 days (or two years or when the time is right).” haha
I believe (though I’m not able to practice it well yet) that delivery can be instantaneous or slow-moving according to our resistance. This is where I have to learn to allow without resistance or find out where my resistance is and deal with it–just as your work attempts to help people to do.
Maybe we don’t realize we’ve actually, “energetically” checked the box on our order that tells the clerk “Ship in approximately two years–if then–I’ll have to get back to you on that.”
What do you think?
Hi Chris,
I’m happy to hear that this post inspired you.
When you create you should always create “this or better.” Don’t limit manifestation and allow the universe to give you more than what you asked for or faster.
So I am open to more than five million and less than two and a half years. I do expect it to manifest and at present I’m not sure what opportunity will present itself to make it possible. It could be a project I am already working on or something new that will show up in the future.
But I am “allowing” it and not trying to “make it” happen.
Regards, Morty
Thanks for all your inspirational work Morty. Getting better and better.
Hi Farrell,
Glad this post was useful. That’s my intention when I write it.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Regards, Morty
Morty,
This reminds me of people’s reaction when I tell them I don’t believe in an all-powerful entity running our lives. When I stated my belief, my SIL’s husband got angry and thought that he would see everyone he knows when we’ve died. His “hand” was his religious belief. For myself, after reading The Secret book and watching The Secret movie, I still felt like there was something missing. I wrote and repeated affirmations as well as writing lists of things I am grateful for and making two vision boards on losing weight and manifesting my future. None of it “felt” right at my deepest core. And nothing happened. Nothing fundamental changed. My layers of negative beliefs prevented anything positive from manifesting. Now I feel all kinds of insights and feelings bubbling up; my Self at last is free to express itself and its expressions-wants and desires-are connecting with the Universe like it is meant to. I truly feel like a Creator. Love and Light
Hi Lauren,
I have more questions than answers in this area, but I do think that, with rare exceptions, negative beliefs will make it more difficult to manifest our desires.
Negative beliefs are only part of the problem, but an important part.
I’m thrilled to hear the beautiful results from eliminating some beliefs.
Regards, Morty
to reach 5 million people,well, first please be honest. I was lured to the website promising free and being asked for money. that was a huge turn off. Now i am bombarded with Lefkoe spams. Decide if you really want to help people or want to make money. it seems all these methods are helping gurus to be rich and leaving desperate people in poverty.
And you guys should stop referring people “creating things” pretending to be god.
I don´t know if you agree, but helping people and making money doesn’t have to be disociated. Every person helps herself, giving a service to others. Almost nobody would expect a doctor, or a teacher, or a plumber or a website designer to give their service for free, so I don’t see why Mr. Leftkoe should give all and charge nothing. Seems that you haven’t used the free videos to eliminate a belief that he offers, and haven’t read the free entries on the blog. I invite you to do so, to realize that this guy offers a great value.
It’s only what I can percieve.
be well.
I agree with Cesar on this one.
While a person could help a small number of people for free, it would just be a matter of time before they went bankrupt and had to take a job that limited their ability and oppertunities to help others. At best then they would be helping others as a hobby and at worst they would give up and stop trying to help others (now this second group in not likely to include Morty, but I have seen this befall many people in the healing comunity). Seeing as Morty’s goal is to help 5,000,000 in a two year time span. If he is going to have any chance of doing so then he will have to charge for his services. If he does not then he will be lucky if he manages to help even a few hundred people.
anyway, be well, Andrulanix
Hi Eagle,
Sorry if you were misled. We offered you the chance to eliminate a few beliefs for free. We did that.
We then spent about a year and many thousands of dollars creating our various packages that you can purchase if you choose. And you don’t have to purchase anything to get the free beliefs.
I also agree with Vincent and Cesar: what is wrong with making money from helping people? What a great way to make a living! Everyone has to make a living. So it would be great to find people who are willing to pay you because you’ve created so much value in their lives. Is getting paid to work on an assembly line making cars more moral than getting paid to help people be happy?
Thanks for raising the issue so we all could comment on it.
Regards, Morty
Regards, Morty
A few things to say to a few people (or more accurtly about what a few people say):
Cesar; Anomyous soul speaks of the endless now. The eternally present moment that is all that exists. This moment is where the enlightened mind dwells, and while we are allways here our mind, our thoughts, and our emotions have blinded us to this. You may think that you are not blinded to the now but stop and look at your thoughts (without judgement) and see how all thoughts, and the emotions they create, are constructed out of memories of the past, and wishes or fears of the future.
Everything that you create in your “future” is a re-creation of your past. When you do cause any change is the creation of different events by focusing on what you want instead of what you fear. However as long as you (mentally) act from the past or future, the “future” that you create will always contain similar problems to the past, no matter how different the scene is.
When one realises that the past and future are simply concepts we use to explain the presance of memory and the reasons for change; Then one can by paying attention to their thoughts, and the games they play to trap our minds in the past and future, one can escape their self created prison of circumstances. Once free from the delusion of time they can then make change that will come with true, lasting happiness rather than simply brief pleasures. For it will be easy to enjoy the life and things you create (should you still choose to do so) when your happiness is not dependantant on the continous presute of things that are incapable of giving true, lasting joy.
Finally on this, statements that Morty should use his system to let go of his belief of time is made because, if succiful this would cause a shift of awareness that could trigger a full awakening.
Chris: To be techinical, the “who am I really process” will create a state of “making your mind go blank” if it is done fully as you will at least momentarily in a state of pure awareness.
Finally A-ron; You do make some good points in regards to the nescisity of needing to use action to attain whatever you are trying to manifest. Simply put this becomes necessary due to the fact that to manifest your desires, you need to be a varrible in the equation that brings about the manifestation. As a general rule this will amount to some form of action although there will sometimes be cases where you may have a minifeatation occure without action. Note that such cases are rare overall and usually involve instances where you intended to act but the manifestation happened too quickly (this will seldom happen in instances where there is not even an intent to act). This will not be the case in every one of the exceptions but most will be this type of instance.
Now in my own book, I speak of the 4 stages of understanding the law of attraction, and this view is primarally the first stage of ‘psychology’. This however is perfectly acceptable as this is the stage that humans who haven’t attained enlightment need to work from. The other stages can enhance the process and the results, but unless you are using the enlightened mind (refering back to the endless now) you will be unable to work directly with those levels (unless you are one of those rare people that are capable of complete faith in something, no doubt at can exist which is why this is rare). This also returns us to Chris’s comment as well since the brief moments of inner silence, or ‘pure awareness’ is another way to enter into the enlightened mind, which is why it helps.
any way be well.
Andrulanix
Thanks for your words Andrulanix!
I think I understood your answer. I would like to know more about your book. Where I can find what is it about?.
[Now in my own book, I speak of the 4 stages of understanding…]
Thanks!
At the moment I am hammering out the details with publishers. If you wish when I know when the offical publication I will gladly let you know. I just need to know where to send or post the information.
As for why both your own book and my own would mention four stages of understanding something, my guess is that you have also realised that most things that a person would have need to understand would have multible levels to it. In general a person will come to the conclusion that at least one stage of understanding of something beyond their current level of understanding exists (as long as they are honest with themselves).
Anyway, be well, Andrulanix
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Hi Vincent,
Your post is what I have been dreaming about: people commenting on other people’s comments, so that everyone learns from everyone else. Thanks so very much for your contribution.
I think the trick is: How to get into and operate from what you call the “enlightened mind.” In that sate you might well be able to manifest without action, but I doubt many people get into that state or if they do, are able to sustain it.
I’m not sure what I believe about time. I arbitrarily said five years and I will do whatever I do and it will manifest whatever it does. Five years is just an arbitrary way of keep score.
Regards, Morty
Hello
could it be that it is as simple as working in the hear and now that opens up opportunity/change. If working in the past keeps us in a non productive difficult/painful place and working in the future is impossible because it does not yet exist the only place to be is in the hear and now because it is from hear we can learn from the past and sow the seeds of ideas to make our future. Morty you are very cleaver you have put your idea out there and now you just have to wait for the answers to come back
Hi Elaine,
I’m open to any answers from anyplace.
Thanks for your contribution.
Regards, Morty
Morty,
I’m so glad I read this stream of ideas and comments today. As I read your words, especially the first section where you said ” In order for any thing to exist, there must also be not that thing,” it really resonated.
As an artist, when I create a picture of something, there is a part of my brain/hand connection that is equally focused on the shape of what is NOT that thing. In fact, I find that’s one of the most important elements of defining what ends up looking/feeling beautiful to me – that I was attentive to what was not that thing.
In art classes it’s called drawing “negative space” and is a style all of its own, where the results can be surprisingly wonderful – but that’s not what I’m talking about. Like you, I enjoy manifesting particular things as a Creator. So when I draw a leaf in a way that I intend for you to really see how magnificent “I see” that leaf to be, one of the things my mind/hand will do is carefully eliminate everything that distracts from that, so that we are focused together on the creation of “Wow, I never noticed THAT before” because I never focused on JUST that before.
So as I’m writing these words, it’s reminding me on a larger scope, of how I’m creating my business in a similar way. By focusing on everything that Rainforest ECO is, and carefully defining what I see, while creating mental boundaries around all the things it’s not (in my mind as Creator) and decreeing that as so with my funding pitches, customer FB and blog posts and offers – “IT” is taking on its own life, it’s own I AM, that I as Creator gave first form to.
Thought sparking: it’s the positive and negative polarities of this dimension, the male and female union that makes new life – the what it is and what it isn’t, being of equal and intrinsic value to define the manifestation of…
I often share your impatience around “time” (I intend Rainforest ECO to serve its purpose as a social enterprise making a significant contribution to reforestation within the next 10 years), while also understanding that might just be another belief to dissolve – that it “has to happen” that fast, or at all, because of other things I happen to believe.
Anyway, great food for thought, as I go about this day defining my Creation with discernment, calling it into matter with the Love of my Attention…
Thank you Morty, for sharing your thoughts so openly…
Morty,
I’m so glad I read this stream of ideas and comments today. As I read your words, especially the first section where you said ” In order for any thing to exist, there must also be not that thing,” it really resonated.
As an artist, when I create a picture of something, there is a part of my brain/hand connection that is equally focused on the shape of what is NOT that thing. In fact, I find that’s one of the most important elements of defining what ends up looking/feeling beautiful to me – that I was attentive to what was not that thing.
In art classes it’s called drawing “negative space” and is a style all of its own, where the results can be surprisingly wonderful – but that’s not what I’m talking about. Like you, I enjoy manifesting particular things as a Creator. So when I draw a leaf in a way that I intend for you to really see how magnificent “I see” that leaf to be, one of the things my mind/hand will do is carefully eliminate everything that distracts from that, so that we are focused together on the creation of “Wow, I never noticed THAT before” because I never focused on JUST that before.
So as I’m writing these words, it’s reminding me on a larger scope, of how I’m creating my business in a similar way. By focusing on everything that Rainforest ECO is, and carefully defining what I see, while creating mental boundaries around all the things it’s not (in my mind as Creator) and decreeing that as so with my funding pitches, customer FB and blog posts and offers – “IT” is taking on its own life, it’s own I AM, that I as Creator gave first form to.
New thought dawning – it’s like the positive and negative polarities of this dimension, the male and female union that makes new life – the what it is and what it isn’t, being of equal and intrinsic value to the manifestation. (Hmm, need another cup of tea for that to sink in….)
I often share your impatience around “time” (I intend Rainforest ECO to serve its purpose as a social enterprise making a significant contribution to reforestation within the next 10 years), while also understanding that might just be another belief to dissolve – that it “has to happen” that fast, or at all, because of other things I happen to believe.
Anyway, great food for thought, as I go about this day defining my Creation with discernment, calling it into matter with the Love of my Attention…
Hi Alana,
Your comments make me think of what Michelangelo said: I could see the “David” in the block of marble and just chipped away everything that wasn’t the “David.”
I agree with you that the principles in my post can be applied to art, and probably a lot of other areas too.
Thanks for joining the conversation.
Regards, Morty
A-Ron – good points. While some of what’s publicized about the “law of attraction” is valid, I think it’s a popular concept in America because we’re looking for a magic pill, absent the GRIND. We’ve misconstrued these principles as a tactic to get something for nothing. I have such admiration for the person that simply puts their head down, denies themselves short-term pleasures, and works their tails off to get what they want………..hmmmm…then again, I wonder if working my tail off as a requirement for what I want is a self limiting belief???
Hi Chinny,
You’ve made an excellent point. Although you may need to take appropriate action to manifest your thoughts in physical reality (you probably do), that does not mean that effort and struggle are necessary. THAT probably is a belief worth eliminating.
Thanks for joining the conversation.
Regards, Morty
In my opinion, the “law” of attraction/manifestation is largely nonsense, at least on a conscious level. I think what people believe they are manifesting by simply creating a burning desire and thinking about it all the time, is only a small part of the equation. The other parts involve massive action, planning, making mistakes, re-calibrating, dedication, commitment, and more action (and no, passion is not necessary, as it’s more of a momentary “burst” of energy).
To get your 5 million users is going to require more than simply really, really, really wanting it. It’s going to require hard work, dedication, etc. I think it’s more important to understand why you want those users, as opposed to setting some arbitrary goal. And when I say “why,” I mean the truth as you see it, not some idealistic “I want to save the world.”
There’s so many moving parts to getting what you want, it’s impossible to correlate any fragment of the equation to its successful attainment. Analysis of the whole grounded in reality will lead you to the real truth.
Love ya Marty!
Hi A-ron,
At this time in my life, I tend to agree with you, as I indicated in my post (and see the other responses to others’ comments above).
I am clear about the reasons for the 5 million (as an intermediate step) and what it would look like. We get several emails a day from around the world from people telling us how after years of struggle, our work has helped them eliminate their burdens and barriers to a happier life. And how their new-found freedom is affecting their family and people they work with.
I image what the world would look like if several million people had that same experience. At some point, probably more than 5 million, we will reach a “tipping point” and so many people will be telling so many more people that there will be nothing more for me to do except create more belief-eliminating programs and develop more process to help people (like the new Lefkoe Occurring Process).
And as I said in my post, I so not have a long-term strategy, but I daily look at the opportunities that are presenting themselves and taking advantage of as many as I have time for. And the number is growing daily and the support of others is growing daily too.
Thanks for your post.
Regards, Morty
I have no suggestions as I am only on my first cup of coffee this morning :) but I just wanted to say that reading this is a great start to my day. I can so relate to your thought processes and I appreciate that you are able to communicate these things clearly, and that you allow others to witness it.
You are really on to something, Morty.
One thing (and this is sometimes a challenge) I’ve found helpful, regarding manifesting, is to remember the difference between
thought and awareness (which is more to do with your description of the present). Easier manifestation definitely comes from that place of “who am I really” the presence behind, above, or whatever from thought. sometimes it is difficult to get into that feeling of awareness because of constant stimuli and mental chatter– training the mind to go blank (via meditation) once in a while certainly helps with this I’ve found, as does your “who am I really” process.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for joining the conversation.
I’ve thought for a long time that the “creation” can’t manifest thoughts directly into reality whereas maybe the “creator” can. But if this is to work (and I’m not sure it will), at the very least you would have to truly experience yourself as the creator and really believe all the way down that what you say will manifest just because you say it.
That takes a level of development very few people ever reach. Which may explain why so most people have a hard time manifesting their thoughts.
Regards, Morty
For Annonymous Soul
Please can you explain me a bit more about this concept you told:
[… the electron signals must ‘leap’ (in faith), jumping the synapse takes time.] (What I know is that process only takes miliseconds).
I’m also intrigued on finding whats is like “changing the beliefs that make up the very fabric of creaturehood”?; that sounds strange to me, I want to understand more.
or Could you tell me where I can find more info about what you said?
Thanks.
Morty, the manifestation of the 5 million persons has already occurred. Those 5 million already have received your request in the spiritual level. It is now up to them to follow their intuition to triggered the desire of change.
By just thinking and believing that an event, that we want, has happened, the manifestation of it, in both realms, spiritual and material occurs.
Thanks for the great work you are doing.!!
How can this happen?.
[By just thinking and believing that an event, that we want, has happened, the manifestation of it, in both realms, spiritual and material occurs.]. I’m very interested to know how can this be. I’m very grateful to hear some thoughts about it.
Regarding your concern, I will use one of the expression of the most said decree in history. Our Lords Prayer.
The Master lets us know “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven” and “Believe what you are asking for as being received”.
When you decree, speak with conviction, want from the heart, 2 vibrations are created, one material and one spiritual.
Immediately the creation process starts, the law of precipitation kicks in. All the necessary elements and processes are put in motion to make reality your wish.
This process can take a day, a week, a month, a year or ?
Why? because it will manifest itself in the same proportion that you believe. So “It is not what you think, it is how you think.
Just look in your past memories, if there was a moment when you thought of something that you wanted, and later on someone else did the same thing. Probably, you said:” Look that dude is doing the same thing a thought about” or, ” That is what I wanted to do and did nothing about it”.
Your creation, that one you did nothing about it, was deposited in the bank of spiritual ideas, because you did nothing about it, it became available to someone else. 2 realms material and spiritual, “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven”
Thanks for your answer.
Hi,
I know a lot of people, including Rhonda Byrne the creator of “The Secret,” do believe that all that is necessary to manifest in the physical world is to create something mentally (and feel it deeply, etc.).
I am open to that possibility. But all the evidence I’ve seen, including my own personal experience, is that action is required also.
See my explanation above.
Regards, Morty
Hi Morty: I am in total agreement with you.
In my explanation I say that if you don’t act towards what you want your idea or desire is deposited in the spiritual realm, for someone else to take advantage of it.
Also it is necessary to really look into yourself if nothing happens. Any emotional or rational limitation will delay the manifestation of what is wanted.
For the sake of enlightenment, another way of manifestation is by giving. I have gone thru wonderful experiences, The Master teaches “That even I glass of water will be returned a hundred fold”.
Food for thought.
Thanks Morty
And one last comment, I do not want to take up too much space in your blog !
Using your method on yourself now, eliminate your belief of time. Set a starting point, and go from there, to see what understandings arise, and to break apart core belief structures relating to the most basic human frameworks. For you, the pioneer, you must go beyond the common beliefs – go further in.
Your home has constant electrical current fed to it. It is already there, period. Yet you need to activate it to shed some light. Now, your bedroom may be further away, in space say, than your bathroom, so it may take you longer to get there. You are already familiar with the route to each, so the pathway in your brain is constructed, however the time it takes you to flip the bedroom switch is different from point A, say, to B or C.
The current for the overall home is always on, however, it is only you, pondering your possibilities, choosing this and that – what to create, what room to enlighten – and as you jump the synapse of your home, room to room, it takes time – you see. IF, you watch a clock.
We forget now, there is no end, there is only forever the creative pursuit, the inspiration, the means within the so called end. How do you feel while you do what you do, and think about what you think. What is the experience like ? Does it bring you joy ?
You are counting people, as you count time, and both are the illusion. In what you do, in what you think, seek the joys of expression – and what if you reach 4 million 2 hundred thousand instead of 5?
Lastly, what I am saying here, use the Lefkoe method on the beliefs that make up the very fabric of creaturehood. The belief bridges that hold the structures of the framework of your planet and society. Do not be afraid what you will find, ye have asked, and ye shall receive.
Warm regards.
For Annonymous Soul
Please can you explain me a bit more about this concept you told:
[… the electron signals must ‘leap’ (in faith), jumping the synapse takes time.] (What I know is that process only takes miliseconds).
I’m also intrigued on finding whats is like “changing the beliefs that make up the very fabric of creaturehood”?; that sounds strange to me, I want to understand more.
or Could you tell me where I can find more info about what you said?
Thanks.
“changing the beliefs that make up the very fabric of creaturehood”
Now, you can ‘reach’ those areas of your psyche that allow access to beliefs such as ‘I’m not good enough’, for example. You allow yourself to go there. Usually you tread the shallow end of the pool, so to speak, for safety – before diving further.
We only suggest you keep going. For at the bed of humanity lies agreed upon mass beliefs – and there is no reason you cannot search there. We suggested Mr Lefkoe try that, as he is attempting to pioneer certain concepts.
You say it takes ‘ milliseconds ‘ for the electrical impulse’ to leap the nerve endings, and we say that millisecond could be one hundred years, as your lifetime could be considered, one large leap.
Begin today, to question time, to do physical research, reach to understand the concept fully – relate what you discover to your own life, and as you do, you will find and explore your own insights – see how you feel –
Warm regards to you
Thanks a lot!
I’m still not clear about what you said, I get some part of the information but still in a theorethical level.
But anyway I’m very grateful for your answer.
Thanks a lot, I’m glad you answered! :)
Hi Cesar,
Thanks for participating in the conversation.
Regards, Morty
Hi,
You seem to be saying in different words what I tried to express. The very act of stating 5 million brings it into existence. But I do not think that sitting in a room alone doing nothing will result in the 5 million manifesting in physical reality, even though it does exist energetically or in some other way.
So what does it take to manifest in the physical world? To create and then do whatever comes naturally, take advantage of the opportunities that the “act of creation” will provide, and manifestation will follow.
Thanks for all the comments. Do not worry about taking up too much space on my blog. I am interested in what you have to say and other readers are also.
Regarsds, Morty
Dear Morty,
5 million have already used your method.
Begin to explore the core human framework of time. ‘tick, tock – the belief of moments, one after the next. I am physical, and I will live within the seasons, as time passes, I will have a past and future.. I will even wear a watch !
But now, my dear friend, we are getting ‘ahead’ of ourselves !
In your explanation, as you play with the concept of the brain, I will take you a step further, for as the ‘pathways’ are formed, and now I am trying to speak in basic terms, the electron signals must ‘leap’ (in faith), jumping the synapse takes time.
“5 million people will someday (false belief about the true nature of time) hear of my methods!” You have built structures, quite physical, and with the neuronal endings firing the gaps you will see reality – however the time it takes from one ending to another, may be a lifetime – In a truer sense, it has already happened.
Understanding this, will fill in quite a few holes –
For before you pray, God has answered – you see. God does not need a brain ! You now, all of you, with your physical brains – you are arriving at the concert late, although to your eyes you are right on time.
I am always here, listening – we will see where you go ‘next’.
Warn regards for a timeless day –
If we as creators focus too much on the way we create then we will become focused on the how and not on what we want to create. The main lesson for me lately has been emotion and passion and getting back into my emotional mind, which so often gets dismissed. Is seen as a disability because it supposedly clouds out the thinking mind. Perhaps it’s time we recognize our emotional mind for what it is, a powerhouse of creation. For when we feel good, we create in the positive. So I have sought out ways old and new to feel as good as I can. And I have allowed my emotional mind back in to the equation, for our emotions tell us the true story if we are willing to listen carefully.
Hi Gabrielle,
I agree. We need to allow ourselves to learn from our feelings, our “emotional mind.” But it too is not the whole story.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Regards, Morty