I Just Realized... Options

Ok, while skimming a thread about manifesting things, I remembered that when I was younger I might have done it but not realizing exactly what I did.
There was this store that sold some plushies. I looked around hoping they had this particular one but found out they didnt have it. So I remember wishing that the store would sell the certain plushie. Well some time later I found out that the store started to sell the plushie I wished for. Its sorta funny because I remember being excited and shocked that it happened. I think it happened twice but my memory doesnt go that far, but the time it happened stayed fresh in my memory.

So does anyone want to share similar experiences they had? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/banana.gif)

Upon being lucky and having a store get miraculously filled up with things I with to eventually purchase? Often, if you go look in other stores.

Upon being lucky and having a store get miraculously filled up with things I with to eventually purchase? Often, if you go look in other stores.

Well, yeahxD I couldnt help but discuss this even though it was probably 99% coincidence.

Upon being lucky and having a store get miraculously filled up with things I with to eventually purchase? Often, if you go look in other stores.

When you're younger, and less cognitively developed, there's less of a distinction between your own wants and the workings of the world. It seems to the infant that, when they cry, a bottle magically appears out of thin air-- their volition literally seems to govern the world. While we grow out of some of this, there's still some latent desire to have the world work "just the way we want it to" even when we grow up a bit. Depending on how willing we are to see the world from perspectives other than our own, how willing we are to overcome egocentricity, it can be difficult to put aside this kind of magical thinking. When everything in the world seems to refer to "you" and your desires, pending any direct action taken to manifest these desires, it's probably going to turn out to be this kind of magical thinking.

While this seems disappointing, I think it makes the idea of exploring "magick" even more exciting. What is magick if it isn't magical thinking?

There is no such thing as coincidences!

There is no such thing as coincidences!

VitalWinds--

That's probably true, but very difficult to interpret correctly methinks.

Reality as we experience it isn't "objective." We've already interpreted everything we understand in any given moment.

The mind likes to make sense of "things," whatever they are. It's a mistake to make sense of "everything," because it leaves no room for a continual process of learning that takes place amidst an ambiguity of not knowing.

It's also important to not mistake one's own existential interpretation of "why things happened" for anything more than our personal point of reference. You making sense out of everything, and finding karmic meaning in it, good. Everything referencing oneself due to karma or cosmic destiny or a host of any other imaginary things, bad.

There's a difference between our concept of karma, our own wishes, or destiny, and what's actually going on in the world. Reality isn't objective, and it's very important to not mistake our idea of it, and how we want to make sense of it, for the (cough) real thing.

There's a difference between our concept of karma, our own wishes, or destiny, and what's actually going on in the world. Reality isn't objective, and it's very important to not mistake our idea of it, and how we want to make sense of it, for the (cough) real thing.

I agree mostly with this