Lately, I’ve started getting a little angry at the whole manifestation thing. Hahaha, yes, always angry, what can I tell you? And I’m not here to tell you whether it’s real or not. I just want to point out some of the inconsistencies in reality that apparently nobody seems to be looking at. I even searched Substack for articles talking about this, and nothing. Just articles about manifestation techniques, how people manifested the life of their dreams, or how manifestation can be explained through neuroplasticity. Okay.

Maybe Manifestation Is Only 5% of Reality

First, let me tell you that manifestation is very likely only 5% of reality. Considering “conscious manifestation,” meaning everything related to our thoughts, the other 95% is our subconscious, which we obviously cannot control. So there’s really no need to micromanage every tiny corner of your mind and become your own judge 24/7.

Because, yes, manifestation can kind of end up creating exactly that. If I have bad days, if I’m angry, if I’m depressed, then is everything I’ve been manifesting suddenly overshadowed simply because I’m a human being? We cannot expect ourselves to never feel negative emotions or to never have negative thoughts. I mean, a little more and we’d basically be the thought police.

If It Were That Easy…

Thousands and thousands of people write about how they manifested the life of their dreams, and yet no single technique works for everyone in exactly the same way. It’s not simply about repeating affirmations, babe. Or tricking your mind into believing that you’re already living in that reality. If it were that easy, we’d all be living in paradise by now, wouldn’t we?

At the end of the day, I feel like manifestation can sometimes become a mechanism through which human beings try to control absolutely everything. If I am the creator of my reality, then everything depends on me. I can shape reality however I want.

So… should we collectively manifest our way out of the patriarchy? Should we manifest an end to war and hunger? Because from what I can see, everyone seems to be manifesting things for their own benefit, and usually, it’s MONEY. And if manifesting money is really that easy, why do most people struggle with it?

The Subconscious Explanation

I’ve also always believed that because we have that 95% subconscious part of ourselves, which has its own beliefs, things like “I’m not enough,” “I don’t know what to do with that much money,” or similar beliefs would obviously prevent your affirmations from working. But this is just a hypothesis.

I’ve worked a lot on receiving, my wounds, and my subconscious, and here we are, counting coins at the end of the month. And yes, maybe part of my frustration with manifestation comes from the fact that it isn’t exactly working for me. And it’s not like I started yesterday. I’ve been doing this for a very long time. Different techniques, different approaches.

And I feel like maybe manifestation is, at least in part, an expression of the human desire to have control over SOMETHING. But what if that something is only 5%? Would you still keep beating yourself up over every negative thought you have about your reality?

What About Cycles?

Another thing we need to take into account in this matrix is CYCLES. I strongly doubt that you can instantly manifest absolutely anything. How are you supposed to manifest your business becoming successful overnight? That requires patience, building something over time, discipline. How do some people claim that you can manifest three million dollars into your bank account just like that? Spoiler: it hasn’t worked for me so far.

If some manifestation guru talks to you about “manifesting faster” certain things, allow me to doubt it. Allow yourself to doubt it too.

I Don’t Know If Everything Can Be Solved by “Raising Your Vibration”

Also, I don’t know if everything can be solved by vibrating higher. A little Disney Princess-ish as a solution, if you ask me.

There are absolutely horrible people who are incredibly rich, and incredibly beautiful, loving, compassionate people who are incredibly poor. So, considering that in manifestation theory, gratitude, compassion, and love are supposedly very closely connected to abundance… how do we explain that?

Because if abundance were truly a reflection of our internal state, then we should see a much more obvious correlation between being a good person, being at peace, feeling gratitude, and having material abundance. And I don’t know about you, but reality doesn’t seem to work that way.

What About the Things We Never Asked For?

And now I want to bring up some situations that could potentially be explained by the theory that we choose certain experiences before incarnating, but that would make the theory of manifestation fall apart quite a bit.

How are there children who are now famous adults who became famous when they were very young? Without doing anything. It just happened. How do people sometimes meet the love of their life without ever wishing for it or looking for it? How do accidents and catastrophic events sometimes happen?

I’m asking these questions out of curiosity and genuine questioning. We need to start thinking for two and a half seconds about the affirmations and ideas we see online. Just because you noticed that certain affirmations came true in your reality doesn’t mean that manifestation controls 100% of it.

What Would Actually Disprove Manifestation?

Because if everything can be explained retrospectively as manifestation, then the theory becomes impossible to falsify.

If you manifested something you wanted → manifestation.

If you manifested something you didn’t want → subconscious.

If it didn’t happen → limiting belief.

If it happened unexpectedly → you chose it before incarnating.

If it took a long time → you were blocked.

If it happened quickly → you manifested correctly.

So… what would have to happen for us to accept that manifestation doesn’t explain something?

Hello. After years of trying to apply LOA, I am finally realizing that everything is a lie. It’s been really tough for me and I think I would benefit from therapy. This is my first time going to therapy so I am not sure what type of therapy I should choose and what I should look for in a therapist. Any tips would be appreciated 🫶🏻

I literally see it as a cult now. Spent the last 6 months in it due to severe life stress and wanting change.
While immersed in it, I always knew in the back of my head “this is stupid and not real”. But I ignored that thought because believing in this felt like a compulsion. I now know I have ocd. Watching the content and telling myself I had full control over my reality was a compulsion I used for my fearful intrusive thoughts.
Now I have severe dpdr. If you don’t know about that disorder ITS PURE HELL.
But im slowly healing.

This cult does nothing but encourage ocd, anxiety, dpdr , dissociation and harmful coping mechanisms under the guise of spirituality.
I can’t believe I let myself get to this point. I’m so mad at myself.

I still don’t completely NOT believe in the loa but ! I feel like every time I like someone and they give me some mixed signals or signs of disinterest, I take it as a challenge or it just discourages me, motivates me, discourages me, motivates me. Leaving me in this constant state of highs and lows, anxiety, taking me away from myself.
Believing that if someone doesn’t want me that I can fix them or make them more into me.
Well looking back, I have never ever manifested anyone that was already interested in me.
Whenever they like me or love me or make it clear that they want to commit to me, I get bored. I still feel loved, safe, happy but it feels like okay, what’s next?
And the thing is these people that I want SO SO SO desperately aren’t even that attractive or better than me or more interesting or even anything in particular.
I become crazy pyscho stalker obsessed to the point where it’s unhealthy for my brain.
Making fake pages, not giving up when blocked etc, trying to post for their attention, doing witchcraft, finding EVERYTHING about them, making it super obvious that I like them, checking their page and following every TEN SECONDS, just doing shit I shouldn’t be doing
When I hyperfixate on a person, they are all I can think about, from morning til night, I can’t sleep bc I’m thinking of them,
And most of the time, I don’t even know these people or if I do, I’m not even close to them, or if I am close to them, I’m still not as close as I would want to be.
Why is that?
My self concept is “good”, I know I’m attractive I have eyes, I could go on a dating app right now and get free validation from anyone but then if someone doesn’t give me that validation. My brain goes “wait what’s going on??? I need to do something abt this” and my body just gets anxiety, and tries every technique under the sun to feel some sense of control.
My ego CANNOT take rejection and if you were my sp, you would be like what the fuck is she doing.
Even I don’t understand it.
I fall into obsession so easily and I don’t know why.
I have things I could be doing but I focus sp.
My self respect with people who openly desire me is like so high I could cut them off like that but when people don’t want me my self respect goes straight out the window. WHY IS THAT.
When they’re not even that HOT OR COOL OR WHATEVER JUST DIRTY, WEIRD PEOPLE
WHY IS THAT
I’m literally crashing out over this I can’t.
I literally have a sweet loving bf as well and I have been fixated on these other types of people for NO reason.
And this is not just a few days, these feelings of mine last for years or months, they go away then come back stronger,
And I don’t know why.
After a while I am able to let go of these types of people but it takes a long time for me.
I literally have to force myself to detach sometimes or else I literally cannot stay away from that person no matter if they push me away or not.
Please someone give me some advice.
I js unfollowed my sp cause I couldn’t stop checking the page and losing sleep over it for almost 2 weeks. I just cannot deal with these obsessive thoughts
Literally what tf is going on
This is seriously affecting me mentally and physically draining me.
Not being able to get what I want is so soul crushing to me, it literally destroys me and I need help and don’t know what to do at all