Dear Soul Arcanum:
I am writing a book on a relationship, and I have completed the manuscript. Something exciting is happening, and I don’t understand it: for the first time in my life, I am meeting people with the names of the characters I used in the book. I have been careful not use common names. Also, whenever I am watching TV shows or films, they seem to be somehow related to the theme I have written about, and they all point to my storyline and the characters in my book. This is so exciting and interesting, but sometimes I feel strange about the whole thing. Please tell me how I am supposed to interpret this. Am I manifesting this by focusing on my book and characters, or in writing the book, was I anticipating the future? Or is it just an unexplainable coincidence? (If it were one incident or if it was just one person, I would have accepted it as a coincidence). Please tell me what is happening to me!
Thanks and Regards!
– Muralidhar
Dear Muralidhar:
Wow! This strikes me as a very powerful demonstration of the law of attraction in action. When we write a book, we are basically creating a “world” in which its story is true. That “world” may not be physical in nature, but it exists on a mental plane. The same is true of all that we imagine and say. To put something in writing, however, is especially powerful, for in putting it down on paper (or even a computer screen), we begin to bring it into this dimension in a lasting form. No doubt you went back over the story again and again in editing it, so you have given a lot of energy to its creation.
We write a book or a story in the same way we create our own realities! Whatever we focus upon expands. Whatever we make a habit of thinking about becomes a habit of experience. This all reminds me of the tragic lesson that Christopher Reeves has demonstrated for us all. Remember, early in his career, Christopher Reeves was our Superman; he was as strong and virile as men get. Years later, in “Above Suspicion,” he played a man who had been paralyzed by a bullet wound to the spine, and was confined to a wheelchair. Just after that movie was released, he was paralyzed in real life by a spinal injury in a horseback riding accident, and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since. As soon as I heard about this, it hit me like a ton of bricks: he was so good at getting into character that he manifested the condition of his character in his reality.
Another interesting question came to me as I read about your experiences. Which comes first? For example, did you draw the names of those characters from the future, or are you now attracting them into your experience because you focused on them in the past? I believe there is a quantum level where cause and effect can no longer be discerned as separate entities. They are so interdependent that one can not exist without the other. What happens in the future depends on the past, but what happens in the past is also dependent on the future. (At this level, time is not linear.)
This idea was illustrated in the most recent Harry Potter movie (Prisoner of Azkaban). In the film, two characters travel back through time about a day, to try to change the future. When they arrive back in the past, they realize that they were THERE the first time events took place, for as soon as they made the decision to travel back, it had already happened that way. In reliving those experiences with the “hindsight” of the future, however, they were able to make better, more informed choices in order to create what they wanted from there on out. (It’s mind boggling to me, too!)
So what we can learn from the tragic story of Christopher Reeves, as well as your very interesting description of how your book is coming true in your life? Whatever we imagine ourselves to be with power and focus is what we will become, so it’s very important for all of us to write happy stories and play happy characters. This is true not just for the actors, writers, and artists of the world, but at a figurative level for all of humankind. We should tell others happy stories as well, instead of complaining about our problems. We should imagine happy endings instead of worrying. We should visualize ourselves as healthy, strong, joyful and prosperous.
We should choose what we watch or read with care. We should also choose whom we spend time with or listen to with care. In a nutshell, we should make sure our minds are ever focused on what we DO want, for clearly our imagination is powerful, and can be used to create health or handicaps, wealth or poverty, happiness or misery.
If there is anything in your book that you don’t want to see manifest in your experience, I encourage you to rewrite it with a happy ending. Imagine a powerful, uplifting happy ending, and spend some time focusing your (considerable!) creative power on that. You can leave the finished product as it is for publication, though I do encourage everyone reading this to think about what others are likely to manifest as a result of focusing on your words, whether they’re written or spoken. This goes for books, articles, letters and emails, as well as spoken words in speeches, meetings, lectures and even casual conversations.
While awareness of how incredibly powerful our minds are may be unnerving to those whose mental habits are undisciplined, we should all give thanks for demonstrations of the power of imagination. Just think: the same forces that allow our negative thoughts to wreak havoc in our lives can be consciously harnessed to fulfill our highest dreams. I think your book coming true in real life is wonderful! It affirms our Divine power to create our own experiences.
Thank you for sharing your amazing story with us all.
– Soul Arcanum
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