🦄 The system is the system
Book of TREE 3.18: manifesting for materialists 3/10
In part two of manifesting for materialists, you took stock of where you are compared to where you want to be. Now it’s time to have a look at your surroundings. This is the landscape where you will be doing the work of manifesting.
We’ll start big: the universe doesn’t care about you.
(Note: If you believe the universe does care about you and you find that helpful, go for it. This is a guide for materialists who don’t believe that and doesn’t do us any good to pretend we do believe it.)
Wanting something does not mean you are entitled to it.
You are not perfect the way you are.
If you are poor, the system is rigged against you.
If you’re also a woman or a minority, it’s extra rigged against you.
You need help from people and people need help from you.
There’s nothing you can say or hope or pray that will change anything on that list. The system is the system.
Hold up, you may be saying, I thought TREE was supposed to cheer me up. This is entirely depressing.
You could see it that way. Or you could see it as liberating. If the universe doesn’t care about you, you don’t have try and keep it on your side. If you’re not entitled to stuff, you don’t have to feel bad when life doesn’t hand it to you.
Accepting that the system is the system grounds you in reality. This is essential for materialist manifestation. And it relieves the pressure trying to turn it into something else.
(Note: Maybe the thing you want to manifest is a change to the system. You may be able to do that, if it’s a human-created system, but you still start with accepting that it is what it is right now.
My oldest daughter was home for the weekend and she brought me this:
Grow slowly
Jeff
Finally tuned in to writing after moving. I can do this and not unpack. Moving took 3 months, all consuming. I am tightening the purse strings and going to teach yoga here where I moved. Apartment life is really a good season for me. I see me blossoming, becoming, preparing. 🪷