When I was little, thanks to my grandmother, I was raised with an understanding that physical reality was a subset of spiritual reality. I used to leave my body at will and travel the world, the Universe, and time, and my desires would be fulfilled quickly. These human abilities are usually activated through ritual and ceremony because collective will is stronger than individual will. Direct activation without others or ceremony depends on inherited predisposition, conscious awareness, and the worldviews we are exposed to as children. These abilities don’t impede our encounters with what other people have manifested, but our own manifestations can help us circumnavigate pit-falls, like water around rocks.

Freedom became more difficult as I entered school. Whenever I took leave from school, it would take about 2 months for my abilities to return. Learning academic versions of reality limits creation. A few examples of my process of manifestation include garage sales and dreaming.

You can find all kinds of things at garage sales, but I noticed a difference in finding needed items between just going and searching and visualizing what I’d really like to find. I went from finding zero or one item to finding everything on my list of 3 to 5 items, even rare items. This process of visualizing also works on the internet, stretching or shortening time and finding and getting the work you want.

With dreaming, I noticed that I could meditate and ask for answers just before sleeping, and then I’d wake up in the middle of the night with explicit answers. I completed my PhD in this way. As an interconnected physical-spiritual entity, we already know everything. Unsolicited dreams often come true and are felt as “deja vu”; I remember the dreams that foretell. Though the physical details may differ, the relational information and feelings are identical.

Similar to sleep-dreaming, daydreaming combines willful desire with subsequent manifestation. On one occasion, I was studying in an empty room overheated by sunlight; I glanced up at the closed window and imagined how wonderful it would feel for the window to be open and a cool breeze flowing in. A few minutes later, I felt a cool breeze and looked up to see the window open. Nobody had entered the room, and I had not left my seat.

At first, when manifestation occurs, we discount it and fill in details to make it possible: “Oh, I must have opened the window then forgot about it.” Humans are trained to discount experiences of flexible time and reality. I do not know how often I have needed to get somewhere and have driven 10 or 20 minutes when driving usually takes 1 to 3 hours.

Another thing that I have noticed is that within this interconnected reality, our minds will also tap into critical events that are about to occur, sometimes as warnings. My life has been saved several times by impulses to act. For example, when I was a passenger in a car, I pulled the steering wheel to the right when we were turning left. My boyfriend thought I was insane and tried to fight me off, but my action was justified a half-second later when a semi-truck sped by us, and we missed a head-on collision by an inch. These things have happened so often in my life that they are ordinary. Nevertheless, I am grateful and feel that I’ve lived a charmed life. But what good is it to be freed within the Universe when there is even one person suffering? It’s a party pooper. Hence, my desire is to work towards creating heaven on earth. How is that for a manifestation?!