I say the “gift” of manifestation because it is one of the truly amazing gifts that we as a species have been given – the power to create reality using our minds.

Just imagine for a moment what this actually means – that we, as a species, both collectively and individually, of the power to create reality – to form our future and to bring it into being.

Now I don’t think many people who are expert in the world manifestation would disagree with the fact that we actually have that ability. For centuries – nay, millennia – people have been generating reality, creating reality, call it what you may, by setting their minds to particular objectives, and then using a certain set of mental techniques to bring those visions into physical reality.

In modern-day terms, we are probably most familiar with manifestation as a human brain function because of Rhonda Byrne’s remarkable book The Secret, which was also produced as a film in 2006. This book purported to let us all into the secrets of manifestation, although in actual fact it’s fair to say that there was a great deal left to the imagination.

Many of the instructions on manifestation were hidden in the upbeat positivity and affirmations provided by the many people who contributed to the book! Even so, it was a fascinating introduction to the subject from millions of people who might not otherwise have had the opportunity to incorporate manifestation into their lives.

But this kind of work will only take us so far, because there is a big gap between positive upbeat affirmations about the power of the (manifestation) process, and the techniques and detailed information needed to actually make it function in your own life. The law of attraction is a fundamental law of the universe, one which guides and controls the activities of every single one of us – whether we use it or not!

So it holds us all to be practical and wise, to inform ourselves about how we can manifest reality, and to explore just what it actually means to be a manifestor on the planet Earth today.

Now the first obvious thing that comes to mind is that if we are both individually and collectively responsible for creating our future, then something seems to have gone seriously wrong – the state of the planet today, even by the most optimistic judgements, could hardly be called positive, joyful and peaceful.

Indeed, words like ecocide and biocide have been used widely in recent times to describe what’s going on – which seems to be a collective expression of dark shadowy energy, rather like the “dark side of the force” in Star Wars!

And indeed, my proposition is that this is precisely what’s happening: that while we are all granted amazing, in fact unlimited, power in our subconscious, it has both a positive and negative side – white and black, dark and evil, positive and negative… and this is why manifestation, contrary to what many authors say, can be sued for good or evil.

You see, the truth of the matter is that we can use the Law of Attraction for attracting any energy that we choose.

But Let’s Hold On A Moment

But before we look at that, it’s fair to say that the unlimited power in our  subconscious mind is the product of the subconscious mind’s ability to connect with the unlimited and unbounded strength, knowledge, and potential of the universal intelligence.

We are not unique and individual creatures as we would like to think: what we are, in my view, is spiritual creatures living out the material existence on the planet.

And this means that we have that spiritual connection to the universal intelligence which gives us access to all the knowledge and information, both current and historical – and indeed also access to information about those things which have not yet occurred.

It follows, I think that if this unlimited power is available to us, then it could be directed to either negative or positive outcomes – and please bear in mind that positive and negative, dark and light, and good and evil are judgements made by us in our earthly existence. The universal intelligence, no such judgements exist: there just is a “state of being” in which such judgements are an irrelevance.

However the incredible state of negativity that exists in certain parts of planet Earth is probably a reflection of the unlimited negative energy that can be manifested when people turn their minds to the dark side rather than to the positive light side.

While this is an absolute tragedy for us as individuals living out our material existence on the world, and indeed for the planet itself, it is an inevitable consequence of the nature of the human mind and the structure of the archetypal energies that make up who and what we are on an energetic spiritual level.

(If you’re interested in learning more about the archetypal energies, then a useful book to read is King Warrior Magician Lover by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, or Warrior Magician Lover King.)

So my encouragement to you reading this, is to move beyond the immediate concerns that you may have about your existence such as fear of being alone, or fear of being intimate, and to move into a place where you have a more expansive vision of the world and the horizon that lies ahead of us. In other words, you might choose to use the power of your subconscious mind to manifest reality on a grand scale – you might choose to aim high, aim big, in short, to aim for something that will really make a massive difference to the future of the planet and the people in it.