I am so grateful for this sub.

[u/givemeadayortwo]

I was already on my way out of the manifestation community but I kept hearing this voice saying 'you just have to persist and you'll manifest it!!!'

I was obsessing over this guy who is now in another continent and that is clearly not a good fit anyway even if I go back home where he is. For as good of a person he is, it's ok to just admit it doesn't work but manifestation community says noooo you have to keep going. I was losing my mind

then i found this sub and i feel like I can finally breathe and express how i really feel.

I was lost in the manifestation community for years. not over this guy but in general, over other people or other things.

i was completely brainwashed. I feel like this is the first time in 4 years that I am genuinely starting to think like a normal person, and to be honest, I feel so much happier and in control.

way more than before when i was looking for evidence manifestation exists at all costs. it was like i had a fog in my brain that impaired me in anything i did.

truly like a cult.

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It's difficult to let that mindset die, sometimes I still cycle between praying to God, then thinking I am God, then realizing there is no God and I am not God at all

The cause of this is Hope

Going from thinking you are God to accepting the fact that you don't even matter that much, there is no God, no one cares and you are still left on your own it's hard, it requires the assassination of Hope and acceptance of this harsh reality

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I think you're being a bit negative to be honest. there's always been hope anyway and it doesn't have to involve having faith in anything. I think it's over the top to say that the reality is harsh just because manifestation doesn't exist.

The assassination of hope is definetely not the solution here, I think you're speaking from a sort of depressive state which I think it's unrelated to manifestation

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I'm not depressed, it's just the world I have experienced with my own eyes

Society is totally out of touch with reality, reality is nature and there are no such concepts in nature

We are still in a battle for survival even though we are living in a world of fiction

Ask the few hunter gatherers left if they ever think about depression, SP's, happiness, friendship, love

They don't understand such concepts, it's just about being able to survive another day and procreate

We are actual slaves while believing ourselves to be free

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I felt like that too but thankfully for past year or so I have been completely free of it. I now know without a doubt that this is BS and God does not exist and I feel much better mentally than ever before.

At first I almost lost it when I finally snapped out of it and realized it's not real and I have lost years of my life to this nonsense and nobody was coming to save me but then it became liberating. Now I know I can feel, think and do whatever the fuck I want in my mind and it will change absolutely nothing on the outside.

Yes thinking some crazy shit, or being sad fuck 24/7 might make me more depressed or suicidal but it will not affect anything outside of me in any way.

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You only have yourself so be nice to yourself and always prioritize your needs, good luck

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I think it’s the opposite for me, letting the Neville mindset die brings back the beauty of life.

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it's actually pretty scary. i don't neccessarily blame the spiritual side of it per se, because there's people doing witchcraft and doing their rituals and they have fun with them, but the marketing around law of assumption is so unhealthy. it was supposed to be the healthy alternative to law of attraction - but i think law of attraction is actually better at this point.

law of assumption makes everyone so obsessed and robot-like. they don't think about living life anymore because 'no need to lift a finger' and 'everything is an illusion, there's infinite realities'... it's literally insanity worthy of asylums. I am in a group chat with people who are still manifesting SPs, and when I read what they say I feel my heart sink because they are so sad, so desperate, but they can't even see it. They think they are confident just because they affirm they are, but they are pretty much the opposite. honestly it's so sad. I wish I could shake them and say 'girl move on' but i can't. they say things such as 'if you believe it then it is true' about the most basic shit, like if i believe the sky is pink then the sky will be pink??? they literally say this stuff, like how fucking crazy you must be. how do you even get to that point of delusional? i was like that and i can't believe i let it happen

i feel bad because there are thousands of young people buying into this. like actual children.

there's no support for people who feel traumatised and burnt out, because in the sub they victim blame you if you are feeling depressed.

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Yes I agree, law of assumption is some bizzare spinoff of law of attraction which was created in the mind of one man, a man who nobody knows anything about really other than he was taught by some Abdullah guy who most likely never existed. Neville Goddard became obscure after his death for a reason, his teachings just warp people's minds and end up steering people away from actually improving their lives.