Manifestation Basics: Life Is A Celebration

Part Four

Why do we desire anything? Yesterday we discussed the fact that we want things which we believe will bring us happiness. But now we’re asking why? As in, for what purpose do we — infinite beings — create limited mental and physical bodies, identify as them, then poke around in foxholes all day long hoping to find one little morsel of happiness? The whole thing doesn’t make sense.

Neville once said “God became man so man could become God.” But I’m not sure this is a satisfying answer. It feels a little bit like we’re passing the buck — attributing our ceaseless struggles to find happiness to God being on some cosmic scale self-help kick. That’s not a knock on Neville though — it’s a knock on my own misguided interpretation of what he was saying.

Here’s what I think is a clarification of Neville’s statement: “God” didn’t make a carefully thought out, clearly intentioned decision to incarnate in human form. Rather, the existence of humans (and all other life forms, and all non-living things too) is a consequence of God’s omnipresence.

God in “God” form is the unformed, unmanifest totality — everything that ever was, everything that is, and everything that ever could be existing simultaneously in a state of infinite potential. But as groovy as existing in infinite potential is, for God to be God, this potential has to be actualized too. Every last bit of it, all the way down.

Which brings us to — well, to us. Quite literally.

God emanates outward from a single point of infinite potential to a vast expanse of infinite manifestation. Again, everything that ever could exist finds its existence — every physicalization, every mentation, every sensation, every perception. All of it.

And that’s what you are, and what I am, and what everyone and everything you see in the physical world is. God’s infinite potential made manifest in the physical realm of existence. We’re all part of the “everything” in God’s infinite potential, and thus we all exist physically too. 

Great. Now enough with the dreamy metaphysical talk. Let’s get down to business. Why does this matter?

It matters because it’s the root cause of all your desires. A consequence of God emanating outward in order to actualize all his infinite potential is that he has to “forget” he’s God. The physical experiences wouldn’t be actualized in all their forms if we were consciously aware that they’re, on some level, illusory. 

Desires are really a longing to reunify with all our other actualized “forms.” They’re God’s intuition that he is God, and his longing to recognize or remember his inherently infinite unified state. We’ll cover this, and why happiness/love/unity/oneness/peace/beingness/God are actually all synonyms in another installation of this series. At the moment, we’re just laying the groundwork for another point. 

For now, let’s get back to manifestation. When God “remembers” what he is, desires cease to be longings and instead become celebrations. And that’s really what manifestation is — a system of celebrating our godly, infinite potential by manifesting or actualizing all different experiences.

All this is very heady stuff, I know — but I think there’s a practical side to it. 

A useful exercise can be to take the list of things you’re trying to manifest, and simply meditate on each of them with everything I’ve said here in mind. Make a conscious, concerted effort to reframe your perspective — while currently all your desires might arise from a place of lack, they have the potential to arise from a place of celebration. Any desires that don’t have the potential to be celebratory will just fade away over time as you marinate in your understanding of all this — and those types of desires are incredibly, incredibly rare. Make friends with your desires. They too are emanations of God. They’re blessings — little “coming attraction” leaflets that God mails to your conscious mind so you can say “wow, there’s another thing I’m going to get to experience!”

The first step in turning our states of lack into states of celebration is simply seeing the distance between the two things. It should energize and excite you to realize that your desires aren’t burdens that weigh you down or things that you need to work hard to make happen. They’re all things that could be celebrations of Gods emanating outward and “wanting” to actualize every possible iteration of infinity. They come to you because you’re chosen — God wants you to play the role of the person who experiences the thing which you desire. 

When you start to see things clearly again, life becomes a celebration. You don’t feel compelled to try and manipulate or fight with the world. You just enjoy everything. And when every desire arises in you as a potential celebration, they’ll start to manifest at a pace you wouldn’t believe.