The nature of intent, probability, natural laws and what this says about reality

[ArcaneHuman]

In our spirals I class we worked with a coin. Forgive me if I employ the wrong language but we were to channel our intent into it to practice what intent and conflicting intents and agreements and such feel like. When i first started working with the coin it didn't feel right. I was strictly spinning the coin and trying to intend that it lands on tails each time. This whole way of relating to it felt forced and it felt like i was really trying and exerting effort trying to break a law of nature. In the follow up class we spoke about how the coin has its own intent. 

On my trip to the library today i found a coin and i said to it like... you're my new coin. And naturally it worked out different. i felt like it was a bit more special to me than my other coin. And oddly enough i changed the way i worked with it intuitively. Instead of trying to will it to break its coin-like loyalty to the laws of probability i decided it would "tell me" what it landed on after the fact before i looked at it. I had quite some success with this. I'm not going to push this intent too far because i feel like once again it would be breaking the laws of nature. But yeah... i'm just wondering what lessons i can take away from this experience. Like... it seems like we have to understand the rules of reality to shape it. Of course... maybe there are people who can will the coin to land on tails ten times in a row... but i don't think i have that kind of power personally. Also i know that part of me doesn't want that kind of power... for a multitude of reasons. Any comments on all this are appreciated.

[Belle]

Hi Thomas,

The intent for that exercise is not so much to get 10/10 which must be a bonus if you can get that, however the most important is to raise your awareness of how your intent moves, what is your feeling when moving or not moving and how does it feels to you when the coin is aligning to your intent or not. If you felt its forced, then it might be where you position yourself and its understandable that we humans we normally use our minds and our minds has been conditioned to believe that we don't have power or doing something not normal is against the natural laws and that its impossible to do such thing,, so many stories that we hang on and believe that we don't realized those conditioning stopped us from moving forward and coiling us towards our evolution as human species and the entire creations so if you want take the barrier and those that we have been conditioned to.. then break that wall... use Intent. 

It is however why we emphasize self healing- to remove all those idea of what you believe & think you are, once you see your essence, you will have less or maybe no fear of breaking rules of reality or even fearful of your power. Fear is only in our minds so free your mind, though I don't promise its gonna be easy..

Belle

[ArcaneHuman]

yah. that's good advice. i really do feel like empowering ourselves is integrally important at this time. i've been healing for a long time now but the recapping seems to be adding some oomph to the transformation of self. Thank you.

[Vargtid]

 ArcaneHuman,

You and I obviously don't practice the same "faith", but we are Shamans nonetheless; so I don't understand a lot of your verbage.  BUT  one thing I do know is that when you find it you will know.  I've never been a healer.  I knock on the door to the other side to understand spirits.  But again, just we don't all have the same faith, we also follow different schools.  That's okay.

I've had many items which I only found by the cessation of looking.  I can recall a day in the forest a long time ago where I searched for a specific stone, but ultimately could not find it.  In my time in the forest I found myself a hunter, and found my medium as bone.

Take my experience as you will, but the moral of the story is that maybe if you look too hard you won't find it.  I found my calling somewhere I never expected.  That said, I've done this for over 20 years.  We live outside of society and their norms.  I don't mean to suggest my path, nor would I ever, but maybe restricting yourself is limiting your perception?  Just an idea, knowing nothing of the books you've read or where you come from.

-Varg