So you have a goal. That’s great! But, it seems impossible to you. You can’t imagine ever accomplishing it. Even just thinking about the goal is frightening. So you might ask, is manifesting the impossible, well, possible?
This post is really an extension of my post about a month ago on current level goals vs. next level goals. In this post, I’ll be adding a third category of goal, which I will call the ultimate level goal. I’ll define exactly what an ultimate level goal is, clarify what the difference is between each of the three types of goals, and explain how you can start easily manifesting the impossible by attaining your ultimate level goals.
Your Ultimate Level Goals
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about goals that just seem so big and far away. These are goals that even to try to pursue them just causes you to get hit with huge amounts of resistance. How do you even start to manifest a goal when it feels impossible to you?
I’ve given some very specific advice over the last few weeks, especially in my post on subconscious structures. However, most of this advice has to do with next level goals, and may not be so useful when applied to ultimate level goals.
You see, just as the process of manifesting next level goals is different from that for manifesting current level goals, while still having some elements in common, so the process for manifesting ultimate level goals is different from manifesting next level goals, while also still having some elements in common. It’s just the next level up.
Once you know how to manifest your ultimate level goals, you will have the complete picture: whether you want to manifest a current level goal, next level goal, or ultimate level goal, you’ll know what exactly to do to get there.
What Is Impossible?
When talking about manifesting the impossible, it seems relevant to define what “impossible” actually means. It’s harder than you may think, because “impossible” means different things to everyone. What seems impossible to one, might seem easy to another.
I mentioned in Spiritual Freedom Support Call #22 that “easy” means different things for everyone, and this is the same principle. It all depends on your own subconscious programming, and your current comfort zone.
For instance, if you’re used to having healthy relationships, then this seems rather easy to you. If someone else came to you and said how hard it is to have a healthy relationship, you might think they were crazy. You’d tell them it wasn’t hard at all. In fact, this is much of the reason I’ve not discussed relationships here very much. It is very much on my current level to have a happy, healthy marriage. So, I just can’t relate as much to those who have a lot of trouble with this.
So what is impossible? Impossible is whatever you define it to be. It is a subjective measurement. Ask yourself, “What is it I currently want, which seems impossible to me right now?” That is your current measure of “impossible”. You might want to mark that answer somewhere for later reference.
What Seems Impossible Can Change
The great news is that your subjective measure of “impossible” can, and indeed will, change over time. It is not static. In fact, it has probably already changed many times throughout your life.
In the beginning months of Co-Creation Coaching, success often seemed impossible. I desperately wanted to succeed, but even thinking about the current state of my business just made me feel hopeless at times. Even a single sale seemed like a monumental feat.
Now, I am regularly receiving orders. And, if there’s a period of time where I might not get as many as I want, I simply set my focus a bit more on increasing sales, and it happens almost instantly, definitely within a day or two. I’ve tested this out repeatedly.
It’s somewhat surreal writing this here, because I’ve written almost these exact words in my manifestation journal, before it actually happened. But, the above is 100% true in current reality.
Look back through your own life, and pinpoint at least one major desire of yours that once seemed impossible, but now seems rather easy to you. It can be anything. Realizing this for yourself is the first step to manifesting the impossible in your own life.
Everyone Has Ultimate Level Goals
It is my sincere belief that every person has at least one ultimate level goal. There are many people who repress these goals, and refuse to admit their existence. But, they still have them. Countless people say, “I’d love to start a business,” or “I wish I could travel the world.” But then, they don’t. They simply remain on their current level, never pushing themselves to do more because it seems too scary. They fear disappointment, so it is safer to remain where they are.
But manifesting the impossible is about imagining the impossible, and finding a way to believe the impossible. Manifesting the impossible is about learning to extend your mind beyond where you are right now, into the future of what you would prefer to experience.
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If you’re not courageous enough to imagine the impossible, then it will always remain impossible to you. You will not move any closer to that goal.
But if you admit to yourself your ultimate level goals, then you can start to move towards them, little-by-little.
Discovering Your Ultimate Level Goals
I asked you earlier to ask yourself what you’ve always wanted, but which currently seems impossible. Were you able to find something?
Your impossible goal shouldn’t be something you can achieve in a few months of traditional effort. It should be something that is so far out there that you have no idea how you could even start pursuing that goal. That not knowing is okay, and even expected, as long as you admit to yourself what it is you really want.
The Three Types of Goals
Before moving on to how exactly to manifest your seemingly impossible goals, I want to do a brief overview of the three goal types that I’ve discussed:
- Current level goals
- Next level goals
- Ultimate level goals
There has been some confusion expressed in the comments about the first two, and I want to explain how exactly the third fits in.
Current Level Goals: What’s Easy to You Now?
I can always identify immediately when someone is talking about manifesting a current level goal. They’ll say something like, “I just felt good about it, let it go and it appeared effortlessly.” But, there was never any doubt about the goal, either, or at least very little.
Everyone has experiences like this. You can manifest $20 here or there, just when you need extra money. One of our commenters recently spoke of getting a part-time job and a significant discount on his insurance, just by briefly intending to manifest greater abundance. That’s the exact definition of a current level goal. The subconscious structures are already in place to manifest that goal, so it comes almost without effort.
The level of your goal is defined by the gap between where you are now and where you want to be, and how much your subconscious structures support you achieving that goal. With a current level goal, the gap is very small, and your subconscious structures are already in place to permit that goal immediately.
How can you tell if that’s true for your goal? Embody the goal within yourself, and see how much, if any, resistance your subconscious mind introduces. If the goal feels easy and effortless, immediately without requiring any inner work, then it is a current level goal. If there is resistance, and it feels like a stretch, or even impossible, then it is not.
You can ask yourself this simple question: “Does this goal feel easy to me?”
Next Level Goals: Changing Your Subconscious Structures
Most law of attraction techniques, as taught, will allow you to quickly and effortlessly manifest your current level goals. However, this doesn’t help with manifesting bigger, more difficult goals, and it definitely doesn’t help with manifesting the impossible. These require different processes than that required for current level goals.
So what is a next level goal? Whereas a current level goal is any goal that feels immediately easy to you, a next level goal is any goal that feels like a stretch. It might even feel a bit scary, though not overly so.
Technically speaking, a next level goal is any goal that requires a small to moderate alteration in your subconscious structures. They do not currently support your goal, and so in order to achieve it, you must change those structures to be more supportive of that goal.
It makes sense that these would require a totally different process. Sending energy down the path of your current subconscious structures is easy, and therefore current level goals are easy. But altering that path is difficult, and therefore next level goals are more difficult.
Imagine you have a house that you’d like to add to. You’re happy with the house overall, but would like to make some additions: perhaps extra rooms, another story, etc. The structure is good overall, but just has to be altered in places. This is just like your next level goals.
You can ask yourself this simple question: “Does this goal feel like a stretch?”
Ultimate Level Goals: Creating Entirely New Structures
As mentioned, current level goals are easy and effortless, and therefore are easy and effortless to manifest. Next level goals require a bit of alteration, and therefore are more difficult to manifest, because you have to make structural changes to your own energy pathways.
But ultimate level goals are the most difficult of all. This is what I refer to when I say, “manifesting the impossible”. Of course, the impossible is subjective, and so manifesting the impossible will be different for everyone. But to you, this goal will feel impossible, or at least extremely unlikely.
Unfortunately, these goals are also the most inspiring. They pour the most energy through your subconscious structures, but because your subconscious structures don’t currently support your goal, it also feels the worst when you really consider it. That’s why it is so tempting for many people to completely repress their ultimate level goals. It’s easier than undergoing the transformation needed to achieve their dreams.
And indeed, “dream” is a great word for describing ultimate level goals. These are your biggest dreams—the dreams that you’ve been holding for years, but never quite knew how to pursue, nor perhaps even had the courage to do so.
Back to our house metaphor, now imagine you want an entirely different house. Perhaps now you have an apartment, and want instead to have a house. Or you have a house, but want a log cabin. Or, you’d like a mansion, but currently live on only a few acres of land. The point is, something major has to change. We have to build an entirely new structure from the ground up.
Terrifying, and Yet Massively Inspiring
It’s not a perfect metaphor, because you’re never going to tear down all of your current subconscious structures and build new ones. But, you’re going to modify them little-by-little, until they look totally different than they do right now. Your current structures support an income of $50,000 a year, for instance, but you want to be a multi-millionaire. Or, you work a dead-end job, but want instead a fulfilling career with plenty of room for growth. Or perhaps you have a traditional job, but want to start your own business.
The point is, it requires such a change to your subconscious structures that it just feels terrifying, and yet deep down, massively inspiring, at the same time.
You can ask yourself this simple question: “Does this goal feel impossible, and yet massively inspiring?”
Manifesting the Impossible Is Possible: Here’s How
I asked you earlier to think of a goal that felt impossible to you now, and yet that you very much desired to achieve. It’s vitally important to admit to yourself what it is you want, so that you can then take the necessary steps to reach it.
So now that you have your ultimate level goal, what is the key to manifesting the impossible? Quite simply, it is to make the impossible feel possible to you.
Making the Impossible Feel Possible
As you saw earlier, things that once felt impossible to you can feel very easy now. So, to manifest your ultimate level goals, you need to do the same thing. You need to change your goal from feeling impossible, to actually feeling easy.
You can’t do it all at once. Similar to next level goals, you must make alterations, and those take time. But, you must find a way to make your goal feel easy to you.
That’s ultimately the greatest key to the law of attraction. Millionaires aren’t millionaires because they feel great all the time. Millionaires are millionaires because money feels easy to them. They are millionaires because they have altered their subconscious structures to support their goal of being millionaires, and it subsequently felt easy.
Therefore, in order to achieve your ultimate level goal, you must make your goal feel easy, by changing your subconscious structures.
Ultimate Level Goals Are Just a Series of Next Level Goals
But how do you even get started making those alterations? Manifesting the impossible is about pursuing goals that are so far above your level that you can’t even imagine how to get there.
However, you can imagine perhaps the first step of getting there. As the proverb goes, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This isn’t just a nice-sounding aphorism. It is the key to making your impossible goals feel possible to you, and therefore attainable.
So, take your ultimate level goal, and ask yourself, “What’s the very first step to achieving this goal?” It should be something that matches the criteria of a next level goal above. Then, set that as your intermediate goal. Yes, it’s difficult, but a whole lot easier than the ultimate level goal you’ve set.
Then, once you achieve that intermediate goal, you set another intermediate goal. With each intermediate next level goal, you come closer and closer to your ultimate level goal.
Each next level goal should only take a few months at the most to achieve. The point is to have many moderate successes, to build you up to the biggest success when you reach your ultimate level goal.
Keep Your Ultimate Level Goal in Mind
And the great news is, the closer you get, the more your ultimate level goal will feel possible. Slowly over time, it will feel extremely difficult, instead of absolutely impossible. And then, it’ll feel challenging. And finally, it’ll feel easy, and you’ll be there.
You don’t have to choose a logical series of steps to your ultimate level goal. It is more important that each next level goal feels closer and closer to your ultimate level goal, and that as you reach each next level goal, your ultimate level goal feels more and more possible to you. In other words, navigate this emotionally, not logically.
The key is to hold the ultimate level goal in mind even as you are pursuing the intermediate goals. Try to focus more on the “massively inspiring” aspect than the “terrifying” aspect. Put yourself in the vibrational signature of that goal regularly.
The more you do this, the more you will show your subconscious mind that this is, indeed, possible. As you hold the feeling of the end-point, it will create the shortest path to getting there. You may be inspired to what next level goal to pursue next. You will find your subconscious structures quickly changing to accommodate your dream, and soon, manifesting the impossible will seem very possible.
Bringing It All Together
I know this was a very long post (what’s new, right?). However, to summarize:
- Your ultimate level goal should be a goal that feels terrifying, impossible, and yet massively inspiring.
- The path to your ultimate level goal is setting a series of intermediate next level goals, each of which takes a few months to achieve at most.
- You progressively work on embodying the ultimate level goal, but in a very light and easy way so as to not trigger massive resistance.
- As you achieve each next level goal, your ultimate level goal will feel more and more possible.
This is the key to manifesting the impossible. By taking small, manageable steps, and progressively embodying the seemingly impossible goal, it begins to feel more and more possible, until finally it becomes easy to you.
It comes down to daring to dream, and having the courage to pursue that dream. It won’t be easy, but if you take the necessary steps, you will succeed.
How About You?
Now it’s your turn. Have you been manifesting the impossible in your life? What next level goals can you set to achieve your dream? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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Brandon,
A great post in how to tie together the three levels of goals. Splitting your ultimate goal down into next level goals to make it easier to achieve is a fantastic way to achieve it.
I started a project in the second half of last year but got side tracked with other things but I made a conscious decision to pick it up again today so this blog post was written at the perfect time for me. I know what my ultimate goal is with this project and each smaller step that I take will either be a current level goal or a next level goal. Some of the steps I can easily do, other ones are going to stretch me. I will however keep my ultimate goal in sight in a light and easy way.
Hi Tim,
I’m so glad you liked the post! And good luck on your project.
So much of this is just having the courage to continue and set the goals we want. That’s half the battle, really. And it sounds like you have yours broken down into a nice series of steps.
Yes, I know the first steps I need to take and what I want it ultimately to become. Looking forward to the journey.
Tim, good luck on your project. Even though you don’t know all the steps to take when you get to the intermediate stage, they will reveal themselves to you and the actions you take will be inspired by spirit through your higher-self.
Brandon,
You mentioned journaling briefly in this post and I know that you find it a very good technique. When writing in your journal are you doing it in the past tense, so
“Today was a fantastic day, three more people have signed up for my latest course.”
even though that might not actually have happened on the day you write it.
Hi Tim,
Yes, exactly. I’m doing it in past tense, or present progressive (I’ve been getting so many orders). It works insanely well for me. 🙂
Brandon,
Thanks, I’ll give it a go and see how I get on with it. I already write down three things that I have been grateful for each day so I can easily add a few lines about how my I want things to turn out in the future.
I know it’s cliche, but the word impossible has the word possible in it. ?
Yes, that’s what I do too, I write in the past, indicating that it already happened. On a dimensional level, it did already happen.
Also, I think you mentioned something like this in the post, but I also notice that to achieve a goal, you don’t need to and in fact should avoid all the stuff the others are focusing on such as the statistics (odds are you won’t reach a goal, they’d tell you), the competition (you’ll never make it, there are too many applicants) your resume needs to contain certain phrases and anything else you can think of. I never follow the trends or the stats. I think to do so decreases your power, rather than enhance it.
Hi Kat,
Thanks. 🙂 Yeah the journaling method is wonderfully powerful. I’ve manifested many, many things with that method. And you’re right, it really has already happened.
I agree about not following the trends or stats. Like I said in the post, follow this path emotionally, not logically. You want to get emotionally closer and closer to the goal, even if on the outside it doesn’t look like much is happening.
I just finished reading a higher education article which explicitly stated that one of the secrets to success is showing up. This may seem unimportant but I think it is key, as the author mentioned that the others will stop showing up but if you keep at it, you will make it.
Yeah that’s so true. Show up, do the work, be persistent, hold the vision. You’ll get there. 🙂
I’m for some reason reminded of that movie, “Field of Dreams”: “If you build it they will come.”
Brandon,
A great post in how to tie together the three levels of goals. Splitting your ultimate goal down into next level goals to make it easier to achieve is a fantastic way to achieve it.
I started a project in the second half of last year but got side tracked with other things but I made a conscious decision to pick it up again today so this blog post was written at the perfect time for me. I know what my ultimate goal is with this project and each smaller step that I take will either be a current level goal or a next level goal. Some of the steps I can easily do, other ones are going to stretch me. I will however keep my ultimate goal in sight in a light and easy way.
Hi Tim,
I’m so glad you liked the post! And good luck on your project.
So much of this is just having the courage to continue and set the goals we want. That’s half the battle, really. And it sounds like you have yours broken down into a nice series of steps.
Yes, I know the first steps I need to take and what I want it ultimately to become. Looking forward to the journey.
Tim, good luck on your project. Even though you don’t know all the steps to take when you get to the intermediate stage, they will reveal themselves to you and the actions you take will be inspired by spirit through your higher-self.
Brandon,
You mentioned journaling briefly in this post and I know that you find it a very good technique. When writing in your journal are you doing it in the past tense, so
“Today was a fantastic day, three more people have signed up for my latest course.”
even though that might not actually have happened on the day you write it.
Hi Tim,
Yes, exactly. I’m doing it in past tense, or present progressive (I’ve been getting so many orders). It works insanely well for me. 🙂
Brandon,
Thanks, I’ll give it a go and see how I get on with it. I already write down three things that I have been grateful for each day so I can easily add a few lines about how my I want things to turn out in the future.
Plz help me understand how am I supposed to be OK with my desire never getting fulfilled?
I tried dropping the wants you mentioned but I cannot be OK with it never happening.
I found this post a little confusing because there are so many things that seem genuinely impossible, like:
making a three-sided planar figure that is completely a square and completely not a triangle
making the number 2 plus the number 2 equal the number 5 mathematically (I don’t mean 2 objects plus 2 objects, like 2 ducks plus 2 ducks might equal 5 ducklings. I mean the mathematical numbers themselves.)
making something and its opposite true at the same time, in the same place, in the same way, under the same definitions
These things seem logically impossible to me.
There are also things that are not logically impossible but seem impossible in the practical sense, like:
flying by will alone, like Superman, from the ground to the sky in real life (not a dream or a hallucination)
blowing up a real Death Star floating outside Earth
making friends with a real unicorn (not a horse with a horn taped on, haha).
I’m assuming this post refers to possible things that just feel rather unlikely to people, rather than things that are actually logically impossible or impossible in practice. It gets a little frustrating because so many people say, “You can do anything!” when what they really mean is, “Well, no, you can’t do anything logically impossible, and no, you can’t do really off-the-wall things…all I meant was, you can do several things you thought you couldn’t.” That’s nice, but that’s definitely not “anything.”
Hi Lisa,
Yes, obviously logically impossible things are not possible. For instance, 2 + 2 will never equal anything but 4, in any universe ever in existence. It will never happen no matter how much you really, really, really want it to happen.
As far as things not logically impossible, but still practically impossible, that’s where things get a bit fuzzy.
See, you seem to want to define “real” as something you can see and touch and interact with using your physical body. The Universe doesn’t have such a strict definition of “real”. If you started really intending to interact with a unicorn, you might start having lucid dreams where you meet unicorns, or reading books with unicorns, or even maybe having a unicorn as a spirit animal, and interacting with them that way. Anything we can imagine in the Universe is indeed real, but not necessarily “real” in the physical sense.
So if you restrict “real” to anything existing in the physical plane, then correct, anything is indeed not possible. But if you allow for the Universe to fulfill that request in different ways, then I do believe anything is possible in a quite real sense.
Maybe you can’t fly like Superman, but you can lucid dream and have the experience of flying, or astral project and go anywhere you want in seconds.
I also think that perhaps you take it too literally. if I say, “anything is possible”, then you respond with, “But you can’t make 2 + 2 equal to 5,” well yes that’s technically true, in a tautological sort of way, but that goes without saying. No god, goddess, angel, archangel, or any other being can do that either. Those who believe in an omnipotent god don’t really believe that god could make 2 + 2 equal to 5…so technically he’s not omnipotent. But, it’s like that classic question, could God (a god) create a rock he can’t lift? If yes, then he is limited in his ability to not lift it, and so not omnipotent; and if no, then he can lift any rock, but is limited in his ability to create unliftable rocks, and so still not omnipotent.
So you can get into logical infinite loops like that…but I just don’t see it as useful. Functionally speaking, I do believe that anything is possible, but the set of “things” which is included under “anything” may not be the set you were expecting. 🙂 Sorry for the slight mathematical answer.
The point is, any goal that you might have in life, if you set it as a goal and work towards it, is possible, given that you take the necessary steps and do the requisite inner work to reach that goal.
It seems very strange that we would be given so many desires that can only be fulfilled in the astral rather than the physical plane. I guess I need to go live in the astral rather than spend so much time in a place where my dreams are impossible.
I wouldn’t say it’s an either/or. We are both spiritual and physical beings. The problem comes in when you want the manifestation to be solely physical. Have one foot in the physical and one foot in the spiritual. We’re meant to have both.
But let the Universe show you how it can help you to realize your dreams. You may be surprised. But you have to believe it is possible, first. That’s the start of it. Without that belief, or at least openness, it can’t happen.
It may help to list a few of the kinds of “impossibility,” just so we can differentiate your view from that of others. There are:
logically impossible–violates the laws of logic (especially the law of noncontradiction, but also mathematics)
physically impossible–violates the natural laws of our physical world (like the law of gravity, for instance. Violating the law of gravity isn’t logically impossible, since the natural laws differ from universe to universe. Scientific constants may be different in other universes than ours.)
epistemically impossible–violates knowledge already obtained, relative to a person. (If I know Joe Schmoe is a lifelong bachelor, then it’s epistemically impossible for me that he has a red-haired wife. If you don’t know that he’s a bachelor, then it might be epistemically possible for you that he has a red-haired wife. He doesn’t, but so far as you know, it’s possible he does. Epistemic possibility means “possible, so far as I know.”)
practically impossible–violates prudence. Sometimes people mean just that it’s very hard and impractical. Sometimes they mean given past events and the laws of the universe, it’s no longer possible. It was the kind of thing possible in itself, but now too late to accomplish.
It’s true that some theologians and philosophers would say that logically impossible things should be excluded whenever you make a statement like, “You can do anything.” For example, take the statement, “All things are possible with Christ.” Lots of Christians believe this. Some of them believe, “All things, even logically impossible things, are possible with Christ,” but this is a pretty hard position to hold, and most of them wind up denying it without meaning to very quickly. So I think that you’re right that most people who hold a believe like this exclude logical impossibilities from the conversation.
The question becomes more interesting when you consider the second category: physically impossible things. This is where I’m not sure what your view is. Going back to the Christian idea, Christians divide on whether physically impossible things should count or not. Some Christians say, “All things, even physically impossible things like violating gravity, are possible with Christ.” (Whether or not God would actually want to do this is a separate question; they just say he could if he wanted.) Others say God can’t violate scientific law. It’s an open question–quite a debate! 🙂 Which does your view fit with? Do you believe that physically impossible things are actually possible with manifestation techniques?
I think we agree that we live in both the physical and the astral. I just think our consciousness is usually preoccupied with one or the other. If you’re living a physical life, most of the time, your consciousness is here. You do spend some time consciously in the astral when you’re dreaming, but daily life in the physical demands a lot of attention when you’re awake. I was just saying if most of the activities, places, and people you want to engage with are possible in the astral but impossible in the physical, then it makes sense to move over to the astral completely. If you stayed physical, you could still consciously interact with the astral a little bit from the physical side, but not very much. That likely wouldn’t be satisfying if most of your dreams were only possible in the astral.
Hi Lisa,
Very interesting discussion.
I believe that logically impossible things are actually impossible in all possible and theoretic universes. However, this only counts for us in the “illusion”: in Absolute Reality, none of it applies. All things both exist and do not exist within the One, and there is only One, so math has no meaning.
I believe that these are possible if one truly transcends the ego and becomes master over their reality. There have been many reports of masters who have teleported, bilocated, levitated, and much, much more. How many of these accounts are true, I have no idea, but I believe that ultimately, we can gain control over the physical laws.
Epistemologically impossible things are by definition impossible in our reality. However, it’s possible, and even likely, that Joe has a red-haired wife in another parallel universe. I’d count this as real. Is it possible he does in this universe? NO, of course not. But again, you get into trouble when you go around limiting your definition of “reality”, especially because reality is on shaky ground to begin with.
These are almost never impossible, but indeed can be very difficult. Anything can be attained near instantaneously, but it doesn’t mean it is easy to do. There are certain things that are improbable, and yet improbable does not mean impossible.
I disagree. Trust me, if your higher self and spirit guides thought that you were better off learning on the other side, you’d be hanging out over there right now. You’re over here, and that means necessarily that you’re meant to be here, and have things to learn and experience here.
I do believe your desires can be fulfilled here, it’s just that you’ve shut them down so much due to believing they were absolutely impossible, and nothing but the literal fulfillment of each of those desires would do, that you’re not allowing the Universe to create the shortest path to your ultimate fulfillment. We all deserve, and can achieve, our ultimate fulfillment, but we have to give the Universe the chance to do that.
Abraham once discussed an experience where Esther woke up, and saw all of the characters from the Wizard of Oz coming down her driveway. She got up, seemingly walked through the wall, and interacted with them for a while. Then she came back in. Now was this a dream? Was it reality? Could anyone else have seen it? Who really knows? And, it doesn’t matter.
But, when your mind is in the strict position of “This can never happen in any meaningful way that would fulfill me,” well you are collapsing that probabilistic wave function to the impossibility of what you desire, again and again and again. If you loosened up on that a bit, then things could move.
I appreciate the time you put into answering my post, Brandon. (It’s farther up the page; I just couldn’t get this reply to go up there.) I will take your words to heart. Thank you for being willing to discuss these things.
Hi Lisa,
I moved your comment up to the proper thread just so it makes sense. 🙂 To reply to a long thread like this, just find the last comment in the thread that has the reply link. 🙂 I know it can get confusing.
Anyway, I appreciate your words. I’m always willing to help in any way I can.
I believe all these things are possible, but not probable or relevant. I truly believe that anything is possible in an infinite universe, remember there are infinite parallel universes, some of them are soooo different from ours that we can’t even wrap our logical minds around how they work. However, for most people these things are simply not relevant.
I know it’s cliche, but the word impossible has the word possible in it. ?
Yes, that’s what I do too, I write in the past, indicating that it already happened. On a dimensional level, it did already happen.
Also, I think you mentioned something like this in the post, but I also notice that to achieve a goal, you don’t need to and in fact should avoid all the stuff the others are focusing on such as the statistics (odds are you won’t reach a goal, they’d tell you), the competition (you’ll never make it, there are too many applicants) your resume needs to contain certain phrases and anything else you can think of. I never follow the trends or the stats. I think to do so decreases your power, rather than enhance it.
Hi Kat,
Thanks. 🙂 Yeah the journaling method is wonderfully powerful. I’ve manifested many, many things with that method. And you’re right, it really has already happened.
I agree about not following the trends or stats. Like I said in the post, follow this path emotionally, not logically. You want to get emotionally closer and closer to the goal, even if on the outside it doesn’t look like much is happening.
I just finished reading a higher education article which explicitly stated that one of the secrets to success is showing up. This may seem unimportant but I think it is key, as the author mentioned that the others will stop showing up but if you keep at it, you will make it.
Yeah that’s so true. Show up, do the work, be persistent, hold the vision. You’ll get there. 🙂
I’m for some reason reminded of that movie, “Field of Dreams”: “If you build it they will come.”
Brandon, something you guys mentioned in the last call still irks me. It’s about your aunt, or Christine’s aunt. The one who is 51 and always says she could have been something else but just doesn’t budge from her present situation and Christine mentioned there’s always her next life. I think that’s what gets me- why not go for it in this one? If there’s no chronic disease and she has her health, why not in this one? I guess I just mentally put a deadline at 50 or something when I heard that. Is the problem that she won’t leave her comfort zone?
A 50 year old friend of mine is dating a much younger guy of 35, so to me there’s no barrier of sorts. I wouldn’t even ask if she’s a young 50 or old 50 in the case of your aunt, just saying that there must be a reason you guys mentioned her next life and my guess is perhaps she is not willing to allow her boat to leave the pier?
Hi Kat,
Yeah, it’s really sad. Unfortunately she just isn’t willing to go there. She’s actually Christine’s step mother. Awesome woman, but she won’t let her dreams fly, so to speak. It’s sad to me, because dreams are so important.
I guess my ultimate level goals look something like this:
1) Time travel
2) Stop aging
3) Manifest instantaneously (like with the snap of a finger)
Indigo,
I’ve read accounts of mystics and masters who have done some stuff that people believe are just not possible. Realities have been changed and they’ve used their astral bodies to appear to people at that very moment, before that person went on to do something, so these things are possible but not relevant to most people, as you’ve state. Of course, I was drawn to these accounts because I know it’s all possible. I just wanted to add this tidbit.
Hi Indigo,
Those are definitely some ultimate level goals! But, like Kat said, I have heard accounts of these things happening. It takes a huge amount of spiritual development and detachment from the ego, but this is truly at the ultimate level of reality.
I found this post a little confusing because there are so many things that seem genuinely impossible, like:
making a three-sided planar figure that is completely a square and completely not a triangle
making the number 2 plus the number 2 equal the number 5 mathematically (I don’t mean 2 objects plus 2 objects, like 2 ducks plus 2 ducks might equal 5 ducklings. I mean the mathematical numbers themselves.)
making something and its opposite true at the same time, in the same place, in the same way, under the same definitions
These things seem logically impossible to me.
There are also things that are not logically impossible but seem impossible in the practical sense, like:
flying by will alone, like Superman, from the ground to the sky in real life (not a dream or a hallucination)
blowing up a real Death Star floating outside Earth
making friends with a real unicorn (not a horse with a horn taped on, haha).
I’m assuming this post refers to possible things that just feel rather unlikely to people, rather than things that are actually logically impossible or impossible in practice. It gets a little frustrating because so many people say, “You can do anything!” when what they really mean is, “Well, no, you can’t do anything logically impossible, and no, you can’t do really off-the-wall things…all I meant was, you can do several things you thought you couldn’t.” That’s nice, but that’s definitely not “anything.”
Hi Lisa,
Yes, obviously logically impossible things are not possible. For instance, 2 + 2 will never equal anything but 4, in any universe ever in existence. It will never happen no matter how much you really, really, really want it to happen.
As far as things not logically impossible, but still practically impossible, that’s where things get a bit fuzzy.
See, you seem to want to define “real” as something you can see and touch and interact with using your physical body. The Universe doesn’t have such a strict definition of “real”. If you started really intending to interact with a unicorn, you might start having lucid dreams where you meet unicorns, or reading books with unicorns, or even maybe having a unicorn as a spirit animal, and interacting with them that way. Anything we can imagine in the Universe is indeed real, but not necessarily “real” in the physical sense.
So if you restrict “real” to anything existing in the physical plane, then correct, anything is indeed not possible. But if you allow for the Universe to fulfill that request in different ways, then I do believe anything is possible in a quite real sense.
Maybe you can’t fly like Superman, but you can lucid dream and have the experience of flying, or astral project and go anywhere you want in seconds.
I also think that perhaps you take it too literally. if I say, “anything is possible”, then you respond with, “But you can’t make 2 + 2 equal to 5,” well yes that’s technically true, in a tautological sort of way, but that goes without saying. No god, goddess, angel, archangel, or any other being can do that either. Those who believe in an omnipotent god don’t really believe that god could make 2 + 2 equal to 5…so technically he’s not omnipotent. But, it’s like that classic question, could God (a god) create a rock he can’t lift? If yes, then he is limited in his ability to not lift it, and so not omnipotent; and if no, then he can lift any rock, but is limited in his ability to create unliftable rocks, and so still not omnipotent.
So you can get into logical infinite loops like that…but I just don’t see it as useful. Functionally speaking, I do believe that anything is possible, but the set of “things” which is included under “anything” may not be the set you were expecting. 🙂 Sorry for the slight mathematical answer.
The point is, any goal that you might have in life, if you set it as a goal and work towards it, is possible, given that you take the necessary steps and do the requisite inner work to reach that goal.
It seems very strange that we would be given so many desires that can only be fulfilled in the astral rather than the physical plane. I guess I need to go live in the astral rather than spend so much time in a place where my dreams are impossible.
I wouldn’t say it’s an either/or. We are both spiritual and physical beings. The problem comes in when you want the manifestation to be solely physical. Have one foot in the physical and one foot in the spiritual. We’re meant to have both.
But let the Universe show you how it can help you to realize your dreams. You may be surprised. But you have to believe it is possible, first. That’s the start of it. Without that belief, or at least openness, it can’t happen.
It may help to list a few of the kinds of “impossibility,” just so we can differentiate your view from that of others. There are:
logically impossible–violates the laws of logic (especially the law of noncontradiction, but also mathematics)
physically impossible–violates the natural laws of our physical world (like the law of gravity, for instance. Violating the law of gravity isn’t logically impossible, since the natural laws differ from universe to universe. Scientific constants may be different in other universes than ours.)
epistemically impossible–violates knowledge already obtained, relative to a person. (If I know Joe Schmoe is a lifelong bachelor, then it’s epistemically impossible for me that he has a red-haired wife. If you don’t know that he’s a bachelor, then it might be epistemically possible for you that he has a red-haired wife. He doesn’t, but so far as you know, it’s possible he does. Epistemic possibility means “possible, so far as I know.”)
practically impossible–violates prudence. Sometimes people mean just that it’s very hard and impractical. Sometimes they mean given past events and the laws of the universe, it’s no longer possible. It was the kind of thing possible in itself, but now too late to accomplish.
It’s true that some theologians and philosophers would say that logically impossible things should be excluded whenever you make a statement like, “You can do anything.” For example, take the statement, “All things are possible with Christ.” Lots of Christians believe this. Some of them believe, “All things, even logically impossible things, are possible with Christ,” but this is a pretty hard position to hold, and most of them wind up denying it without meaning to very quickly. So I think that you’re right that most people who hold a believe like this exclude logical impossibilities from the conversation.
The question becomes more interesting when you consider the second category: physically impossible things. This is where I’m not sure what your view is. Going back to the Christian idea, Christians divide on whether physically impossible things should count or not. Some Christians say, “All things, even physically impossible things like violating gravity, are possible with Christ.” (Whether or not God would actually want to do this is a separate question; they just say he could if he wanted.) Others say God can’t violate scientific law. It’s an open question–quite a debate! 🙂 Which does your view fit with? Do you believe that physically impossible things are actually possible with manifestation techniques?
I think we agree that we live in both the physical and the astral. I just think our consciousness is usually preoccupied with one or the other. If you’re living a physical life, most of the time, your consciousness is here. You do spend some time consciously in the astral when you’re dreaming, but daily life in the physical demands a lot of attention when you’re awake. I was just saying if most of the activities, places, and people you want to engage with are possible in the astral but impossible in the physical, then it makes sense to move over to the astral completely. If you stayed physical, you could still consciously interact with the astral a little bit from the physical side, but not very much. That likely wouldn’t be satisfying if most of your dreams were only possible in the astral.
Hi Lisa,
Very interesting discussion.
I believe that logically impossible things are actually impossible in all possible and theoretic universes. However, this only counts for us in the “illusion”: in Absolute Reality, none of it applies. All things both exist and do not exist within the One, and there is only One, so math has no meaning.
I believe that these are possible if one truly transcends the ego and becomes master over their reality. There have been many reports of masters who have teleported, bilocated, levitated, and much, much more. How many of these accounts are true, I have no idea, but I believe that ultimately, we can gain control over the physical laws.
Epistemologically impossible things are by definition impossible in our reality. However, it’s possible, and even likely, that Joe has a red-haired wife in another parallel universe. I’d count this as real. Is it possible he does in this universe? NO, of course not. But again, you get into trouble when you go around limiting your definition of “reality”, especially because reality is on shaky ground to begin with.
These are almost never impossible, but indeed can be very difficult. Anything can be attained near instantaneously, but it doesn’t mean it is easy to do. There are certain things that are improbable, and yet improbable does not mean impossible.
I disagree. Trust me, if your higher self and spirit guides thought that you were better off learning on the other side, you’d be hanging out over there right now. You’re over here, and that means necessarily that you’re meant to be here, and have things to learn and experience here.
I do believe your desires can be fulfilled here, it’s just that you’ve shut them down so much due to believing they were absolutely impossible, and nothing but the literal fulfillment of each of those desires would do, that you’re not allowing the Universe to create the shortest path to your ultimate fulfillment. We all deserve, and can achieve, our ultimate fulfillment, but we have to give the Universe the chance to do that.
Abraham once discussed an experience where Esther woke up, and saw all of the characters from the Wizard of Oz coming down her driveway. She got up, seemingly walked through the wall, and interacted with them for a while. Then she came back in. Now was this a dream? Was it reality? Could anyone else have seen it? Who really knows? And, it doesn’t matter.
But, when your mind is in the strict position of “This can never happen in any meaningful way that would fulfill me,” well you are collapsing that probabilistic wave function to the impossibility of what you desire, again and again and again. If you loosened up on that a bit, then things could move.
I appreciate the time you put into answering my post, Brandon. (It’s farther up the page; I just couldn’t get this reply to go up there.) I will take your words to heart. Thank you for being willing to discuss these things.
Hi Lisa,
I moved your comment up to the proper thread just so it makes sense. 🙂 To reply to a long thread like this, just find the last comment in the thread that has the reply link. 🙂 I know it can get confusing.
Anyway, I appreciate your words. I’m always willing to help in any way I can.
I believe all these things are possible, but not probable or relevant. I truly believe that anything is possible in an infinite universe, remember there are infinite parallel universes, some of them are soooo different from ours that we can’t even wrap our logical minds around how they work. However, for most people these things are simply not relevant.
Brandon, something you guys mentioned in the last call still irks me. It’s about your aunt, or Christine’s aunt. The one who is 51 and always says she could have been something else but just doesn’t budge from her present situation and Christine mentioned there’s always her next life. I think that’s what gets me- why not go for it in this one? If there’s no chronic disease and she has her health, why not in this one? I guess I just mentally put a deadline at 50 or something when I heard that. Is the problem that she won’t leave her comfort zone?
A 50 year old friend of mine is dating a much younger guy of 35, so to me there’s no barrier of sorts. I wouldn’t even ask if she’s a young 50 or old 50 in the case of your aunt, just saying that there must be a reason you guys mentioned her next life and my guess is perhaps she is not willing to allow her boat to leave the pier?
Hi Kat,
Yeah, it’s really sad. Unfortunately she just isn’t willing to go there. She’s actually Christine’s step mother. Awesome woman, but she won’t let her dreams fly, so to speak. It’s sad to me, because dreams are so important.
I guess my ultimate level goals look something like this:
1) Time travel
2) Stop aging
3) Manifest instantaneously (like with the snap of a finger)
Indigo,
I’ve read accounts of mystics and masters who have done some stuff that people believe are just not possible. Realities have been changed and they’ve used their astral bodies to appear to people at that very moment, before that person went on to do something, so these things are possible but not relevant to most people, as you’ve state. Of course, I was drawn to these accounts because I know it’s all possible. I just wanted to add this tidbit.
Hi Indigo,
Those are definitely some ultimate level goals! But, like Kat said, I have heard accounts of these things happening. It takes a huge amount of spiritual development and detachment from the ego, but this is truly at the ultimate level of reality.
B,
I wish we can talk more about the topic Lisa started and delve into it, because I think that is the real deal. I started it once with someone on Melody’s blog and the discussion was really good! But of course, we had to come back to this reality we have to deal with. I think, since the vibration is low, this is what we have to deal with. Of course, we focus on money, cars and the like. But, if people think the use of language and inventing stuff is far out, the Universe is the limit at a higher vibration.
And no, I cannot prove this, it is just from what I feel from a past life and from accounts I’ve read, but who really wants proof? To want proof would be limiting and does one really want that? To want proof is like killing the essence of what is, in my opinion. It shows lack of faith, which is a requirement for this process. And I know in science we must prove everything, yet, as scientists, we are really in awe of everything and admit in the grandness of it all. I think the focus should be taken away from proof and aligning ourselves with all that is. I know, I know, who will do that? My point is there is more to it that meets all the senses, which you already know obviously, and so much more beyond that this LOA stuff we talk about here barely scratches the surface. Yet, we still have to deal with what goes on here, so it is good that there is support. 🙂 It is just unfathomable to me that we deal with a lot of bs here when we are such spiritual beings, you know? I’m still trying to figure that out.
Hi Kat,
I totally agree that there are no limits. This reality is an illusion at its very core, and because of that, it can be twisted into any form we choose. We are the creators of this reality, collectively.
However, it requires not believing in the realness of reality, so to speak. It requires not taking it seriously, and despite what the world shows, choosing what we want to have anyway. That’s really the essence of all of this.
The more we transcend that, the more we can change it.
Great post Brandon, thank you. 🙂 I’m going to save it for future reference. I came across another post on the same subject earlier today, (goals that feel “impossible”)!
I especially like this part:
“But manifesting the impossible is about imagining the impossible, and finding a way to believe the impossible. Manifesting the impossible is about learning to extend your mind beyond where you are right now, into the future of what you would prefer to experience.”
Thanks Moonsparkle. I’m so glad you enjoyed the post. 😀
It’s true that we have to work on believing in what we want, no matter how impossible it seems. That’s really the key to it. You gradually embody the goal, day-after-day, until it seems feasible to you.
B,
I wish we can talk more about the topic Lisa started and delve into it, because I think that is the real deal. I started it once with someone on Melody’s blog and the discussion was really good! But of course, we had to come back to this reality we have to deal with. I think, since the vibration is low, this is what we have to deal with. Of course, we focus on money, cars and the like. But, if people think the use of language and inventing stuff is far out, the Universe is the limit at a higher vibration.
And no, I cannot prove this, it is just from what I feel from a past life and from accounts I’ve read, but who really wants proof? To want proof would be limiting and does one really want that? To want proof is like killing the essence of what is, in my opinion. It shows lack of faith, which is a requirement for this process. And I know in science we must prove everything, yet, as scientists, we are really in awe of everything and admit in the grandness of it all. I think the focus should be taken away from proof and aligning ourselves with all that is. I know, I know, who will do that? My point is there is more to it that meets all the senses, which you already know obviously, and so much more beyond that this LOA stuff we talk about here barely scratches the surface. Yet, we still have to deal with what goes on here, so it is good that there is support. 🙂 It is just unfathomable to me that we deal with a lot of bs here when we are such spiritual beings, you know? I’m still trying to figure that out.
Hi Kat,
I totally agree that there are no limits. This reality is an illusion at its very core, and because of that, it can be twisted into any form we choose. We are the creators of this reality, collectively.
However, it requires not believing in the realness of reality, so to speak. It requires not taking it seriously, and despite what the world shows, choosing what we want to have anyway. That’s really the essence of all of this.
The more we transcend that, the more we can change it.
Kat, I won a national Scholarship for the national Federation of the blind in 2014. I was one of the thirty winners. Six hundred applied, in fact, that many apply every year, and their only thirty winners. It took me a few tries, but I just knew I was winning a national scholarship. Stats and odds are good tor helping to formulate a strategy and to see where you stand, but walking your path will put the proper synchronicities in line for you to get what you need to succeed.
Thank you Justin. I needed that!
Showing up is one of my winning strategies. My best ability is availability.
Justin
So, my speech software just says graphic on your last comment Kat. What was that supposed to be?
It’s a smiley face with sunglasses. Like, cool. 🙂
Great post Brandon, thank you. 🙂 I’m going to save it for future reference. I came across another post on the same subject earlier today, (goals that feel “impossible”)!
I especially like this part:
“But manifesting the impossible is about imagining the impossible, and finding a way to believe the impossible. Manifesting the impossible is about learning to extend your mind beyond where you are right now, into the future of what you would prefer to experience.”
Thanks Moonsparkle. I’m so glad you enjoyed the post. 😀
It’s true that we have to work on believing in what we want, no matter how impossible it seems. That’s really the key to it. You gradually embody the goal, day-after-day, until it seems feasible to you.
Kat, I won a national Scholarship for the national Federation of the blind in 2014. I was one of the thirty winners. Six hundred applied, in fact, that many apply every year, and their only thirty winners. It took me a few tries, but I just knew I was winning a national scholarship. Stats and odds are good tor helping to formulate a strategy and to see where you stand, but walking your path will put the proper synchronicities in line for you to get what you need to succeed.
Thank you Justin. I needed that!
Showing up is one of my winning strategies. My best ability is availability.
Justin
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So, my speech software just says graphic on your last comment Kat. What was that supposed to be?
It’s a smiley face with sunglasses. Like, cool. 🙂
Can you help, what I want is to manifest a person from 1980 here into my reality. This of course seems impossible but what next level goals should I start with? I have no ideas.