MANIFESTATION: CREATING THE LIFE YOU LOVE DAVID SPANGLER THE LIFE YOU LOVE DAVID CREATING MANIFESTATION: 7 Manifestation Creating the life you love 5 2 6 4 3 1 Card deck and Manual David Spangler Illustrations by Deva Berg Manifestation Creating the life you love ALSO BY DAVID SPANGLER Blessing: the Art and the Practice Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent The Call A Pilgrim in Aquarius Everday Miracles Revelation: The Birth of a New Age Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred The Story Tree The Lorian Association PO BOX 1368 Issaquah, WA 98027 www.lorian.org Manifestation Creating the life you love David Spangler Illustrations by Deva Berg Manifestation Creating the life you love Copyright © 2004 by David Spangler All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. The characters and events portrayed in the card layout examples herein are fictitious. Edited by Julia Spangler and Jeremy Berg Cover art and illustrations by Deva Berg Published by: The Lorian Association PO Box 1368 Issaquah, WA 98027 ISBN 0-936878-12-6 Spangler, David Manifestation: Creating the life you love / David Spangler Library of Congress Control Number: 2004099424 First Edition: December 2004 Printed in the United States of America 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 www.lorian.org Acknowledgements This Manifestation Deck began as an exercise in a workshop I was teaching on manifestation. I gave the participants blank 3 X 5 cards and a list of words to write on them. Then we used those cards both to create images of what each person wished to manifest and to attune to what steps they might take to support their manifestations. The basic card mechanics I introduced that day remain essentially the same, but the cards themselves have gone through a rich evolution in the months since. This evolution has definitely been a collective project. Many people have contributed to it. I particularly want to acknowledge Jeremy Berg, who really inhabited the concept and potential of these cards from the beginning, encouraged me to pursue their development, and discussed every card with me (including some that did not make it into the deck) along the way. He even road-tested earlier versions of the deck in workshops he taught (and he is an excellent teacher). He truly shepherded this project into the form you now have, and it is filled with his love and enthusiasm. Of equal importance was Deva Berg, Jeremy’s daughter. She gave unstintingly of her time and energy in the midst of a busy professional life to create the illustrations for the cards. She had the uncanny knack of taking a few ideas I shared with her over the phone and turning them into the pure gold of inspired imagery. She truly made the deck come alive. The evocative power of the cards, so vital in a deck of this nature, is due to her artistry and skill, as well as her own considerable attunement to the spirit behind this process. I want to acknowledge the many friends and the participants in my online and face-to-face manifestation workshops who took the concept of these cards, made their own decks, and in effect playtested them, giving me valuable feedback. You are too many to name personally in the space I have here, but you each know who you are. This deck would not exist without you either! Thank you. However, I would like to single out for appreciation my oldest son, John-Michael, who took the cards in an earlier version and worked with them, giving me very helpful insights from a younger person’s point of view at a time when I was stuck and really needed that help. And last, but never least, I would like to thank my most wonderful manifestation, my wife Julie who used her considerable editorial skills to give this manual greater clarity than it would have had otherwise. Thank you, sweetheart! Thank you, one and all, everyone who participated. You are manifestors supreme! And thank YOU, dear Reader, for buying this Deck and making it your own. May all your manifestations dance gracefully from your dreams into your lives. Manifestation Creating the life you love Contents Chapter One: Manifestation ....................................................Page 1 Chapter Two: The Manifestation Deck ................................... Page 5 Chapter Three: Using the Presence Cards ............................. Page 17 Chapter Four: Special Circumstances .................................... Page 35 Chapter Five: The Synchronicity Cards ................................. Page 39 Chapter Six: Using the Synchronicity Deck .......................... Page 41 Chapter Seven: Synchronicity Card Meanings ..................... Page 55 Chapter Eight: Examples ......................................................... Page 77 Chapter One: Manifestation At one time or another we all want something. It might be a toaster, a car, a job, peace of mind, a change of lifestyle, or a new friend. There are many ways of going about getting what we want. We can earn it. We can buy it. We can make it. We can find it. Sometimes—probably most times—the way to get what we want is obvious. If we want that new toaster, we can go to a kitchen shop and buy one. But sometimes it is not obvious. Maybe we don’t have the money for a toaster, or maybe there’s no place where we live that sells them. At that point we might give up. Or we might realize that there are other resources we can draw on than just the usual financial or physical ones. These are resources of imagination, thought, feeling, and spirit. They are the resources of manifestation. Manifestation can be thought of as getting what you want when you don’t know how you’re going to get it. It is a process that works with an invisible, underlying order of interconnectedness in the world around us. The Manifestation Deck and this Manual are designed to help you access this deeper order and work with principles of manifestation. The Manifestation Deck won’t tell you if you should get a new job, move to a new location, or find a new friend. The Manifestation Deck can have oracular results, but that is not its primary intent. The cards are not masters of your life. They cannot tell you what to do. They can only suggest. The creative decisions are yours. You are the responsible person. You are the one with the creative power to shape your life. The Manifestation Deck is a tool to access that power. 1 Synchronicity Manifestation is the art of making something visible and tangible. In ordinary ways, you do it every day. When you get up in the morning, you manifest a cup of coffee by brewing it. So that you can have toast with your coffee, you manifest a new toaster by going to a store and buying it. You manifest the money for your toaster by working for it. You manifest a friend to share coffee and toast with you by being friendly and inviting. But sometimes something you would like to have or a person you would like to meet appears in your life in extraordinary ways, through seeming coincidence or, to use a word from psychology and physics, through synchronicity. A friend of mine wanted to buy some special bells for her mother for her birthday but extensive searching had failed to turn up any store that carried these rare items. One day she was calling a friend on the phone and was surprised to hear an unfamiliar voice at the other end announcing that she had reached a gift shop. The name of the shop was unknown to her, but on a hunch, she asked the clerk if they happened to carry the brand of bells she was looking for. “Why, yes,” said the clerk. “It just so happens we just started stocking them. In fact, I think we’re the only store in the area that does!” In the parlance of this book, my friend “manifested” the bells. She didn’t plan to dial a wrong number, and even if she had, how would she have known just which wrong number to dial to get a gift shop that was totally unknown to her? But my friend’s focus upon these bells and her intense desire to acquire them for her mother activated a deeper level of organization and interconnectedness underlying the surface world where we usually conduct our affairs. A seemingly magical process was set into motion that brought her and the bells together in a way she could not have expected. This kind of manifestation has a sense of wonder about it. When it happens, you may feel expansive, as if boundaries have fallen away and you now stand in some vast unobstructed open space in which all things are possible. There is a sense of 2 effortlessness about it. In that moment you are touching a creative presence we all have within us. The very nature of such synchronistic occurrences, though, seems to put them outside your control. They are like acts of God: blessings and miracles over which you have little power of manipulation. You cannot make them happen in the same way you can bake a loaf of bread or buy a toaster or work at a job to earn a living. How do you create a coincidence in your life? Yet there are people whose lives seem filled with such synchronicities. Are they special in some way, favored by the gods and blessed by life? No. Though such synchronicities seem to be magical and miraculous, they actually obey principles, which can be learned. The Manifestation Deck you now own is based on those principles.