Angelic Visions

Part 6 — A Man With A Hammer Sees Only Nails

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If I told you I can read minds, would you believe me? What if I told you, by the end of this post, you’ll be able to read minds too? “Probably not,” you just said to yourself (yes, that is my attempt at a corny joke).

All jokes aside though, reading minds isn’t that difficult. I’m not talking “think of a word, any word, and I’ll guess it,” type mind reading a lá Kreskin – it’s something more subtle than that. And it’s something that on some level, everyone already does all the time — maybe just not very effectively. The basic idea goes something like this:

If I see a man swinging his arm, bashing relentlessly at everything he sees – it’s safe to assume he’s holding a hammer.

Revelatory, I know. But don’t stop reading yet – this is a topic that’ll fast track your manifestation progress.

The “law of the instrument” is a psychological concept that says people tend to rely on familiar tools to solve problems in their lives. More colloquially, it’s understood as the principle that gave this post its title – to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When people ask me questions in DMs or the comments of my posts, I rarely pay any attention to the specifics of what they’re trying to manifest or what their problem is. Not because I don’t care, or because I’m not reading closely what they’ve written, but because that kind of specific information is almost always irrelevant.

It simply does not matter what particular thing you’re trying to manifest, or what obstacles you run into in your pursuit of it. Neville called it “The Law,” for a reason. It applies exactly the same way to everything. Doesn’t matter if you’re trying to manifest a paper clip or a $50 million penthouse apartment. The law is the law and doesn’t change for anyone or anything.

As a result, the important thing to me isn’t what people communicate, it’s how they communicate. All I’m ever trying to see is what tool you’re holding – I don’t care what fastener you think you’re using the tool for. The basic premise of all Neville’s teaching is that the tool you think you’re holding dictates what the fastener you’re acting on will be. Think of it as a “quantum nail.” If you strike at it with a hammer, it’ll be a nail. If you come at it with a screwdriver, it becomes a screw. If you break out your wrench, it’s a bolt. And on and on. The tool you’re holding (or rather, the tool you think you’re holding) is the only thing that ever matters. The fastener you end up encountering will always morph to match the tool.

Again, this is the essence of “feeling is the secret.” A man with a hammer sees only nails.

A person who feels lack, manifests lack. A person who feels hopelessness manifests situations that make them feel hopeless. Most people see it backwards and think “I feel hopeless because of all the hopeless things I experience,” but that’s just a cognitive bias, not an objective truth of reality – and in a minute we’ll discuss a method of exploiting that cognitive bias to our own advantage.

Let’s jump back to the idea of reading minds. If someone talks about the thing they want to manifest in a sad, hopeless way, it must be because they feel sad and hopeless. If they really want to be given specific techniques or exercises, it must be because they believe a specific exercise or technique that they don’t know about yet will be the magic bullet solution to all their manifestation woes.

People who act desperate think desperate thoughts. People who act angry think angry thoughts. Someone who messages me explaining in great detail all the nails that keep popping up in their life must be holding a hammer. It isn’t rocket science. And while you might think it’s redundant or tautological to even point out (I mean, of course how someone feels is the way they feel) understanding what tool someone thinks they’re holding is actually invaluable information.

Notice how I said “thinks.” That’s important. As we’ve covered in previous installations of this series, the narrative someone spins about their life isn’t real. Not in the sense that they aren’t genuinely experiencing it, but it’s not real in any concrete way. You can’t “find” your narrative anywhere in reality. It’s just something you impose on the raw data of your experiences in an attempt to organize them mentally. I mentioned the “quantum nail” before – you can think of this as the “quantum hammer.” Whatever tool you think you’re holding is the tool you’re holding. Not because of any objective reality, but because your state of consciousness determines your reality. Feeling is the secret.

I point all this out because it’s time for you to start reading your own mind. Stop obsessing over all those pesky nails that just won’t hammer in straight. Take a step back and investigate what tool it is you think you’re holding, and how the hammer in your hand might be the reason everything looks like, and quite literally starts to become a nail (remember, we’re talking manifestation here — this isn’t some self help “just have a positive attitude” spiel. When you’re holding the quantum hammer, everything actually does turn into quantum nails).

It should only take a second or two to see this clearly. If things keep happening in your life that make you think the world sucks and is a hopeless evil place, your state of mind must be one of hopelessness and anger. If the person you want to win back just got engaged and more than ever it looks like you’re never going to be with them, you must be in a state of fear about never being with them.

This isn’t meant to be a judgment – I’m not trying to say you’re wrong or bad for feeling the way you do, or that it isn’t a valid way to feel. I’m just pointing out that if all you see is nails, then you must be holding a hammer.

I hope this is all clear by now, because even if it is, you may still be asking “but how do I change which tool I think I’m holding? No matter how hard I try to pick up my screwdriver, I just can’t seem to let go of my hammer!” Which brings us to our exercise. And it’s a fun one because you can approach it in two completely different ways — and those who struggle to do things the conventional way will actually excel at the second option.

As you go through your day to day life, make note of all the things you experience and how they make you feel — good, bad, or otherwise. Basically, acknowledge if what you’re seeing are nails, screws, bolts, etc. This will offer insight into what tool you’re holding most of the time — some of us will experience a healthy balance, and some of us will realize we never put the hammer down.

Then, while you’re taking note, make a concerted effort to do one of two things.

A) Try and use a different tool. Meaning, make a conscious effort to hold a different feeling than the one you’re used to. This is kind of the standard Neville protocol, but the classics are classic for a reason – even if many people struggle to employ them effectively. When you pick up a screwdriver instead of a hammer, you’ll start running into less nails and more screws. Manifestation 101.

B) Start actively looking for different fasteners. Meaning, if all you ever see is nails, instead of trying to pick up a different tool, just start looking for screws in your life. If all you ever experience are things that make you feel angry and afraid, try to find things that make you feel happy and secure. They can be small – a funny meme, someone holding the door open for you, etc. And you don’t have to see only screws whereas in the past you only saw nails. Start small – if today you saw 100 nails and zero screws, make an effort to find 2 screws tomorrow; then 4 the next day; then 20 next week; etc. Learn to have an Eagle eye for that single screw in a sea of nails.

Here’s the magic of this technique. Because we’re dealing with “quantum hammers” and “quantum nails,” when you change which tool you’re holding, the fastener you encounter will change too, and vice versa.

Option B in particular — if you do lots of SATS and visualization but struggle to change your feelings/beliefs — will prove to be a gamechanger. If you’ve spent years and years holding only hammers, there may just not be a screwdriver in your toolbox. So take the pressure off yourself. Instead of changing your tool, just look for different fasteners. Every time you see a screw, the hammer you’ve been holding will magically morph into a screwdriver.

That’s what I meant earlier when I mentioned exploiting our “I feel x because I experience y” bias. If you feel bad because you experience bad things, then instead of trying to feel good, just start looking for good things. Eventually, you’ll end up feeling good without even realizing it. “I feel x because I experience y” becomes “I experience y therefore I feel x.”

As you experiment with this practice, you’ll realize you’re starting to see more and more screws, and thus, holding less and less hammers. Again, let me be clear: this isn’t just some positive psychology tactic. It won’t be a trick of the mind whereby you notice more and more good things just because you’ve started looking for them. You will very literally start to experience more good things. Your “luck” will improve, so to speak. And it requires almost zero effort — all you have to do is be on the lookout for screws.

To bring us back to where we started, this understanding when honed properly will give you the ability to read minds. I wasn’t being silly when I brought that up at the start. Sure, it’s not a fortune teller “you’re thinking of your friend Mary Sue aha,” type deal, but it’s something more useful. You’ll become deeply attuned to sensing how people interact with the world. I’ve been sharpening my blade for so long now that I will meet people and in a five minute conversation know everything about them — not the literal details of their life, but the full picture of which tools they use to deal with the world. And that gives you a seemingly supernatural ability to predict how they’ll behave in different situations. Ever wonder how Abdullah knew Neville would come to see him — knew it so clearly that he told Neville he showed up late? Yeah, this is how. Abdullah was such a master that he could sense Neville “picking up the tool” that would lead to their paths eventually crossing without even knowing the guy.

EDIT: u/MindMagus pointed out, Abdullah said the Brothers told him Neville would be coming. Still, the point stands. Neville’s energy was being subtly picked up.

But before you get to that level, start by learning to read your own mind. The hammer in your hand is the reason you see only nails. And now you have the power to put it down.

As always, good luck.

My Story: Why I hate Infidelity and Other mutterings

 

 

I never thought I would post on Reddit. I have been reading and commiserating with people and tonight for some reason there was a post that made me want to tell my story. I ask that nobody uses my story no TikTok, Facebook reels, You Tube or any other platform. I am writer and it is my life story in small part, and this is copyrighted material my name is on my account.

I found Reddit, while finishing my master’s degree. It would be late at night I was fried mentally and emotionally and was just looking for something to look at. And the stories well you guys know you read them they are tragic most of them are incredibly sad. And it started to really bother me, and I could not really figure out why. It did not take me long though.

I grew up not knowing who my father was, I thought he was one person but when I talked to him, he said he was not my father. It turned out my mother lied about it. So, I have gone through my whole life never knowing his name, I never knew anything about him. I was raised by a single mother who was very damaged by the men she let in her life. Her first husband divorced her for another woman and signed away all four of her little children to the state to be adopted out because she could not take care of them, she did not have any money or means of supporting them. And he just wanted to move on with his life. So that was my first legacy. I thought he was my father that was pretty bad. So, a couple of years ago I was hitting some sort of bottom around where to go next in my life. I took a DNA test; I thought maybe I would be able to figure out who my father was. I did not really have much hope though. I went on ancestry and sent in the kit. On January 18^th, 2021 I got the news. This name kept coming up over and over and over again. A name I had never heard of before. A lot of people were attached to it. Some of them had as much DNA as my half-sister. But when you look at ancestry it just says close relative or cousin. I contacted one of the people and I said you are my cousin and she said no I am your sister. My head was spinning, just 15 minutes before that, I never heard of any of this.

That began my rabbit hole so here is the story of my father. My mother was going through her divorce and this man was still married but he was searching for his wife she had left him and so he slept with my mother and a bunch of other people and then just left them in the dust. My mother got pregnant with me so at a time when it was not very accepted, having just lost her four babies, she was having an illegitimate child. She ran away to another state and worked through her pregnancy. Now she had a lot of ‘ticks’ she passed on to me about what men were like and what they should and should not do and watching her go through a few things I am going to tell you it destroyed my ability to really bond with men. I only did one man in my life really and he died young and that was my husband. Other than that, it confused my sexuality young, I had a challenging time forming relationships. I did serial monogamy. I could escape fast. My own mother was really damaged, and I was raised really on my own. A lot of neglect on basic food, clothing, and childcare. It was not until I got sober, I started to put the pieces of my life together. Turns out I am straight. Really straight, and like men. I went to therapy, AA, Ala non, OA, (came in with a food disorder, because you cannot be heavy). For the first 5 years I worked tirelessly. I met my husband in recovery and we married, and I had a son. He died when my son was 6. I stayed clean and sober.

I am abbreviating some of this because if I did my whole story, it is so long none of you would want to read it. This man, my father slept with my mother and then left and slept with a whole bunch of other people and made babies I am reluctant to even tell you how many because I do not know if it did not happen to me, I would not believe it, but it is over 20. And nobody really knows for sure, we feel like there's still people out there that did not get their DNA evaluated on ancestry.com and find all their relatives. This man tore through the lives of several women leaving a trail behind of unclaimed and unwanted babies. He has been gone for a long time; he is not alive. And I did talk to some of my family members and three of them were genuinely nice, but I am not very trusting, and they are vastly different than I am. I am very West Coast progressive, and they are all from the South and very born again Christian. One of them thought I might be evil. And when she told me that on Facebook, I just blocked her.

When it came to Reddit and I started reading these stories I started having emotional responses that I did not understand, a lot of sorrow a lot of frustration and anger like I was taking on people's stories and what I was really doing was processing. I have been in recovery for a long time. I never want to tell people how old I am, that is why I am so vague about it, but it is over 20 years. It saved my life. But this was new, it was the latest information and a new process. And I ended up feeling so much hatred and anger for somebody I had never met because of all the harm he caused me. I had an exceedingly difficult childhood. It could have been worse. But it was bad enough. When I read people's stories and how people would be hurt by infidelity, I cannot tell you, I guess I can tell you. Because a lot of you have gone through it. It is devastating to the point of not being able to bear the pain. I am not sure he is aware I existed; he did tell a judge in traffic court he had 22 children he knew of…. That is hearsay from one of his sons.

So, the reason I am telling you tonight is because I actually thought I was mostly through the processing it I had found a bunch of Subs that I really like about manifesting and history and finished my master’s degree. I mostly was not as affected anymore. And then this one post I read tonight of somebody was deliberately going to cheat on their spouse to get it out of their system and it just came bubbling up from the depths the hatred the anger the pain. They had children. They could cheat, but not leave, they have responsibilities. So, I am writing about it. Also, I have been lurking around here for over six months, and I have been really grateful for the people who have been kind and I have been healing around this and I have to say though it is bubbling up tonight most of the time it does not anymore.

Most of the time I do not think about him. I married a decent person who was nothing like that. He just died young. When I had relationships earlier (I married at 38) I stayed in control with everybody I dated, except one person and that was at the bottom of my drinking. But I never put myself in a position where I could not get out fast. If I were uncomfortable, I left them or sabotaged it so they would leave me. There is a lot of damage there, I did not let people near me, I did not trust them. Joining Reddit has helped me a lot, it has also taught me a lot of empathy and compassion for other people. I just wanted to get that off of my chest I used to think I did not belong on Reddit somebody told me it had a bad reputation. And now I am fully convinced like in recovery in the room of drunks that I sat down in that first day in I belong here too. And there is recovery there was recovery around my mother's stuff and around the alcohol so there's recovery around this too and I am really glad to be here. And thank you for listening,

American Eugenics and Ethnic Cleansing Predated Nazi Germany

Repost from Reddit

u/walterherbst

 

Unknown to most Americans, long before the Nazis became involved in ethnic cleansing, the United States was doing the same thing. It was called eugenics, a pseudoscience that gained prominence after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the end of World War I. It was based on the fear that a devastated Europe and the rise in Communism would eventually inundate the United States with Communists as well. It was decided that Eastern and Southern Europe were the areas most likely to spread communism to the US, so a decision was made to restrict immigration to what were called “Nordic” or Anglo-Saxon countries. There was no basis in truth for any of this, but there was an anti-Communist, fascist movement in the U.S. among elites who believed the American way of life was being threatened.

In 1918, World War I Army venereal disease specialist Paul Popenoe co-authored a widely used textbook, Applied Eugenics, which argued, "From a historical point of view, the first method which presents itself is execution… Its value in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated." A 1918 Carnegie Institute report suggested that an effective means of getting rid of “defective germ-plasms in the human population” was euthanasia. The most common method of carrying this out was establishing local gas chambers, a harbinger of things to come.

There was even a close personal relationship between Carnegie Institute scientists and Germany's Fascist eugenicists during the 1920s. "There is today one state," Hitler wrote, "in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States." In 1934, as Germany's sterilizations exceeded 5,000 per month, the California eugenics leader C. M. Goethe returned from Germany and told a colleague "that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program."

So, it was not surprising that the Immigration Act of 1924 lowered the quota of allowable immigrants to two percent of the total foreign-born in America. It was based on the total number of foreigners that lived in the United States in 1890 when third-world immigration was at a much lower level. It ensured immigration from Britain and Northern Europe increased, while it decreased from areas like Southern and Eastern Europe. By 1928, 376 separate university courses in some of the best American schools, with some school enrollments exceeding 20,000 students, included eugenics in their curriculum.

The insanity gained traction among wealthy elites and spread as a desire to cleanse the nation of potential Communists grew. The Carnegie Institute established a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, enabling researchers to plot private details of a vast number of people. By 1928, courses on eugenics were taught in some of the best American schools. Eventually, sterilization laws were passed in Indiana and Virginia, compulsory for patients in mental institutions. California led the way, conducting 1,278 forced sterilizations in 1933 alone, 700 of which were done on women. Scientists could label anyone as "genetically inferior" who did not fit neatly into a preconceived category. Forced sterilization became justified based on this. Even the Supreme Court considered eugenics in a 1927 decision, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes writing that it was essentially humane to “prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”

The hysteria came to an end after World War II as the United States overwhelmingly rejected eugenics, and immigration laws were changed. But it did not undo the damage that was previously done to countless victims.

To learn more, please check out It Did Not Start With JFK, Volume 1, published by Sunbury Press.

Desire vs Fulfillment: Practical steps to take. How to practice to get what you want

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u/everythingwithin

 

Manifesting Techniques

What’s the difference between a desire and fulfillment? Your perspective relative to the object of desire. If that’s a person, desire means you view yourself far away. Fulfillment means you view yourself together with them. If it’s money, desire means you view yourself as not having enough to use the money for your goals. Fulfillment means you’re abundant in money and you have more than enough to pull strings where you see fit. If it’s a personality trait or a way of being, desire means you don’t believe you deserve to be that, so you don’t allow yourself to be it.

Desire is begging, seeking. Fulfillment is allowing, accepting. Allow yourself to be worthy. Accept that you have what you want. Feel deeply that it’s already true. That’s how you change states.

Allow, accept, feel. If you get stuck on a step, meditate on what allowing, accepting, or feeling means.

Allowing it, to me, means you see it as a possibility for yourself. It’s something that doesn’t disgust you. If you were that, if you had that, yes you would be a different person, but that’s someone you might enjoy being. You might allow yourself to be that way, and to have that life.

Accepting it means you willingly receive it, and you believe it’s now yours. You know it’s true. This can take time, but one way is to imagine yourself being that way already. That’s why SATS is so powerful. Daydream. Do whatever you need to do inside yourself to believe it.

Feeling means you feel it in your body enough that your body behaves as if it’s true. I’m not saying you must act a certain way in order for your desire to be reflected, but if you really are that new person who has the thing you want, you’ll naturally spend your time differently.

It’s one thing to know and feel that it’s true, and in truth, that’s over half the battle won. Another facet of this work is mental diet. It’s more than just positive thinking. You must also think from the perspective of fulfillment. That is, if you think of the new house that you want, you should think things like, “I’m so grateful to be living in my new home,” “My new bedroom is so inviting; I’m going to sleep very well tonight,” and “Who would be the happiest if I invited them here to hang out?”

Very often people will feel they have something, but when their mind thinks of it, they say things like, “I wonder when I’ll get to see what my new house looks like,” or “I hate living here. When will I be living there?” You should always think of the new house in a way that implies you already have it.

When you know you have it, you feel you have it, your body is acting as if you have it, and your mind is thinking as if you already have it, you’re completely done. Because this is how you would feel, how you would act, and what you would think were it already yours. You’re aligned. You’ve begun to shift, to travel. The final step is to persist until it becomes reality in the secondary world, in the outer world. Travel takes time. You’ve bought the ticket and you’re on the right train. You will surely arrive when the train stops at your destination.

Persist in all of these things: knowing, feeling, acting, and thinking. At first, your senses will still show you evidence that what you’re believing is not true in the outer world. But you already know the true world is the inner world, and is it true there? Of course, it is! It already is so within. So persist. Then the day will come when your senses will agree with your inner reality, and you will be able to say that you have walked by faith, and not by sight.

Don't Get Side Tracked

Reddit repost

u/AitheriosMist

Let me ask you people here a question: when you read a post here on this subreddit that gets your attention and 'makes it click' for you, what do you do after? Let's say two days after reading it, do you remember what it said? Do you have these lessons present (really present) everyday?

I'm telling you this because it seems people usually forget things and get caught up on other everyday stuff so they get sidetracked. Or maybe they go down a rabbit hole of techniques, videos, posts, etc.

You better understand that we've all been programmed in different ways that are not compatible with how the law works, so your default state is probably not the most optimal for conscious manifesting. The only way to reprogram your mind and change your life is consistency. So especially in the beginning is very important to have the key ideas present in your everyday life, at least until it's integrated in your mind and your way of life. Not trying to push an assumption here but I do believe you can't do this overnight, or after reading a post or watching a video, it needs consistent mind work. It needs trial and error too, it's a process, it's an art that can be mastered. It probably needs motivation too, the most amazing changes in people's lifes come after they get fed up with their lifes, or after some events that lit a fire in their hearts, if you really grasp the idea that you can get everything you've ever wanted with the law and you're still not motivated, then I don't know what to tell you. Wait a minute, I do know: discipline. Discipline conquers what motivation doesn't, but you still need to put in the consistent work. Once it's mastered and really integrated, you'll not be sidetracked anymore since it becomes your default state.

So my tip here is to get these key ideas, these posts that made it click for you, and save them. Make a list, a diagram, a drawing, recording, whatever you want, make it simple and keep it short, and read it, watch it, hear it everyday. As many times as necessary, so it gets into your skull, because you'll probably forget it otherwise. Hell I even have a small tattoo that says I AM on my wrist, and I see it everyday. Do it until you no longer need reminders because it's part of you.

So to end this post I'll list some of those key ideas that I have saved in my own journey, feel free to add some of your own if you like:

• It's all about you and your mind, 3D is just an output of your mental state.
• Every thing or person that is relevant to you (especially if you put them on a pedestal) shows you something about yourself, use them to be conscious and realize what you need to work on.
• Circumstances don't matter since they are not set in stone, they change as you change.
• Don't focus on getting things, focus on giving yourself the wish fulfilled.
• Creation is finished, you don't have to force anything, you can't lose anything, just connect to the reality where you already have it.
• You can have bad days or low moments, don't repress them, but observe them from a distance and let them pass, they always pass if you let them.
• You don't need permission to live your best life and your wish fulfilled, forgive and forget to be free. A God is boundless.
• People will act the way you expect them to (EIYPO), not the way you like to, unless it becomes an expectation, you can't fool yourself with this one.