Building Appropriate Pathways to Manifestation

[Malkuth]

This is increasingly feeling like the new center of gravity and the right area of focus.

With the upcoming release of Ascension Life Chamber right around the corner, this feels like a good time to open up a creative space around this topic: building appropriate pathways of manifestation.

In this case, I mean appropriate to you.

Figuring out what is right for me is an experiential process. We learn this through action.

And it’s important to have creative freedom to use your life and your circumstances as your sketchpad and drawing board. It’s good to have an attitude of flexibility and active exploration; but also energy and vigor, to try things.

[Malkuth]

Till the soil

then

Work the soil

[Fractal_Explorer]

Undoubtedly one of the biggest things I struggle with. Having a solid plan and organizing things has never been a strength of mine. I still have a course I bought on licensing music and turning that into a full time money earned that I haven’t cracked open yet.

I think for me it’s the what ifs, that get in the way. The fear, uncertainty, lack of confidence, etc. It all walls off the ability of my mind to actually move forward with a plan. The other issue being when a desired manifestation is so far out from reality I lose my ability to believe in the possibility of it.

Then there’s the current life I’m living in full of challenges that make it harder to engage in the pathways to manifestation. Stuff I need to resolve just so I can be in this world comfortably excluding the challenge of those ambitious goals. Like climbing a mountain just to get to an even taller mountain. It can be exhausting just thinking about it.

So I guess for me I’m still stuck in the prep phase of gearing up for building these pathways. But my biggest fear is never getting to it because I’m stuck on a hamster wheel of trying to execute on ambitious goals when there’s no fuel in the tank so to speak. Undoubtedly this comes down to my environment and finding lifestyles that energize vs drain me. But I’m not there yet and the catch 22 is the lifestyle that seems the most energizing is the one I have to dedicate a massive amount of energy to get to.

All in all it seems like it’s vital for me to do something, anything no matter how small or insignificant to keep laying down the path brick by brick. I think it’s just really easy to get disheartened when it feels like the days are flying by without much to show for it.

And it feels like I live in a world that’s just designed to use and exploit me if I don’t keep my guard up and have the strength to break away from the common narrative a lot of people get sucked into.

I just realized this has nothing particularly useful in it terms of actionable things to improve manifestations. I guess that’s where I’m stuck

[Malkuth]

Recognize and strategize around your true line of scrimmage.

That phrase came to me when I was thinking about the concepts in your post.

Recognize where the true battles have been happening, and you’ll be forced to acknowledge that you’ve been nothing short of heroic.

To me, the way you describe things is sometimes out of touch with the true efforts you’re making and the true challenges you’re facing. It’s almost like you believed you weren’t ‘supposed’ to be having those battles, so you just ignored them.

As a result, day by day, you keep gaining ground, you keep falling and stubbornly rising again to your feet, you keep triumphing and growing ever greater in strength and power; and since you’re ignoring those battles in the first place, you label it as ‘Nothing Happened.’

That’s the shift I imagine for you: not that you’ll get better at succeeding and making progress; but that you’ll get better at recognizing your success and progress; and acknowledging just how much it means.

I think that what you wrote is full of pathways of manifestation.

Your whole journal is one long pathway of manifestation. The inner battles that you’ve fought—and in many of which you’ve kicked ass—are the sites of manifestation. You’ve literally been manifesting a strong frame, a flexible perspective, and an intention to represent and advocate for yourself and what you’re about. This process has been real. Serious work.

I recognize it.

And I know that more is yet to come.

[Fractal_Explorer]

Damn, I needed to hear that. It is hard to get that external perspective sometimes so it means a lot.

You’re definitely right.

@Malkuth

To me, the way you describe things is sometimes out of touch with the true efforts you’re making and the true challenges you’re facing. It’s almost like you believed you weren’t ‘supposed’ to be having those battles, so you just ignored them.

All my life man. I’ve been waging an internal battle nobody else really sees and I don’t give myself enough credit for it. The challenges have always been real but never felt real.

Thanks again. This has helped me shift perspective on where the manifestation is really happening in my life.

[Malkuth]

Respect, brother.

[Malkuth]

Ideas on “Problems” and “Failure”

Every problem in your life is also a hidden Pathway to Manifestation.

What is a problem?

It is a place where 1) you are putting out effort and 2) conditions are overwhelming to the point of discomfort and pain.

In other words, a problem is a situation in which you are acting to improve an outcome but for whatever reason it does not currently seem to be working.

But before we get to the ‘it’s not working’ part, let’s freeze-frame on the first part: you are putting out effort. You are acting to improve an outcome.

That’s a pathway to manifestation

For people without appropriate tools, the right response would be, ‘Sure. So what?’

But for people with tools like the ones we have, any part of life in which you’re consistently putting out effort or taking action is a gold-mine. This is a place where the subliminals (or your other tools and practices) are given plenty of fuel to work with.

“It’s Not Working”

Now for that second bit. So-called Failure.

Similar to ‘problems’.

Failure is a label that we use for situations in which 1) we have not attained our desired standards and 2) we are in discomfort and pain.

Keep an eye on that second condition. It’s the same as the one for problems.

Our perceptions, choices, and judgments are usually disproportionately influenced by the factors of Discomfort and Pain. This influence is usually subconscious. It’s happening all the time, and we’re unaware most of the time.

Look: Failure = Efforts not reaching standards + Discomfort and Pain

If you remove (or reframe) the discomfort and pain, guess what it becomes?

Practice

Anyone who is practicing anything, repeatedly puts out a great deal of effort and repeatedly falls short of ultimate standards and misses the mark.

This is literally viewed as the best method of improvement.

Only a fool expects initial practice sessions to have no mistakes.

What changes Practice into Failure is the introduction of an artificial endpoint of evaluation.

You give yourself 3 months to practice. After that, you “test” yourself and you either pass or fail.

Okay. Why 3 months? What if you meet the standard in 4 months? Is that a failure?

How do you choose the point at which to stop calling it practice?

For most of us, that choice is made unconsciously when our subjective experience of pain passes a certain threshold. At that point, the signal “STOP” is sent out. And we start to look at a situation as if it is finished.

IT’S NOT FINISHED

[Malkuth]

Right now, I’m running Dragon Reborn.

I find this title to be kind of mysterious. Then again, I kind of find every title to be mysterious. But this one is even more so.

Pathways to Manifestation seem to work in unique ways when it comes to Healing/Inner Development programs.

As the 1st Noble Truth of Buddhism states: There is a certain unsatisfactoriness inherent in sentience itself. Or as it’s more plainly translated: “Life is Suffering”.

On a practical level, this means that there will always be ample pathways to manifestation for a Healing program.

Sharing personally here, I’ve found an odd feature of Dragon Reborn in my life: External Manifestations.

I’ve noticed interpersonal crises and conflicts sometimes seeming to intensify. Not completely randomly mind you. It has happened in relationships where hostility might have been simmering beneath the surface.

Some of my activities that facilitate internal development are: to process my ideas verbally in an audio journal or in writing, to discuss experiences with caring or supportive people, to get regular physical exercise, and to meditate/contemplate regularly.

[Fractal_Explorer]

@Malkuth

I’ve noticed interpersonal crises and conflicts sometimes seeming to intensify. Not completely randomly mind you. It has happened in relationships where hostility might have been simmering beneath the surface.

This is interesting I’ve noticed this too. Not with dragon reborn, just healing in general. When things are getting closer to being released there’s more outward manifestation of it as it moves from purely subconscious to more conscious awareness