Manifesting with the Tree of Life

“We go forward; we go back. Don’t be afraid.” -Leto Atreides

Most conversations about manifestation are aimed at figuring out how to do it. They drill into what blocks it, what supports it, and all manner of methodologies for doing it. The underlying assumption is it’s a voluntary thing like making sushi or creating paper airplanes. The unspoken foundation underlying all these discussions is we have to choose to manifest things and learn how it is done. In this concept of manifestation as a skill some people are amazingly good at it just as some people are gifted at music or sports or figuring out what the tip should be in their heads. Others have to work on it really hard. And still others are broken or blocked or confused or just plain clumsy, as it were, and need help.

But manifestation isn’t a skill. It isn’t a subject to be learned in school. You know: Shop class, Band class, English Lit., Manifestation, Computer Science… Manifestation is a key component to existing in embodied form. It’s necessary in the same way food, water, shelter and gravity are necessary for our health and even survival. Life force, our Prana/Chi, is ever flowing, entering into us from above and flowing through into the earth, while at the same time flowing into us from the earth and upwards into the universe. Why? Manifestation. We are not a closed system like a snow globe. We…