Historical Case Studies | Library — Manifesting University

anonymous (wife)

Wanted to build a new home on a piece of land she owned. No contractor had been found despite months of searching.

Practice: Every night for several weeks she imagined walking through the completed house — sensing its rooms, its walls, its feeling of being home.
Outcome: An unsolicited contractor appeared at her office, said he "didn't know why" he had stopped in, and proposed to build the house.
Time: 3 weeks

"One day a stranger entered our office and identified himself as the contractor whose name my wife had mentioned weeks before. In an apologetic manner, he said, 'I don't know why I stopped here. I normally don't go to see people, but rather wait for them to come to me.'"

anonymous (woman)

Wanted to find and own a specific type of beautiful home — one she had never seen but could clearly imagine.

Practice: Nightly imagined herself lying down and falling asleep inside the exact room she desired — a great redwood-walled room with a 28-foot arched ceiling.
Outcome: She found and moved into a house that matched the imagined room in every detail she had held in mind.

"I do not think I breathed for the next minute or two, for I had walked into the most exquisite room I had ever seen. The solid redwood walls and the brick of a great fireplace rose to a height of twenty-eight feet terminating in an arched ceiling."

F.B.

Needed to sell a piece of land that had been a financial burden for years. No buyers had materialised despite an agent's listing.

Practice: For one month, every night, imagined seeing the signed sale papers and feeling the relief and satisfaction of having sold the land.
Outcome: In early October, a buyer appeared and completed the sale. The legal and practical obstacles that had prevented the sale dissolved.
Time: 1 month

"Late in July I wrote to a real estate agent of my desire to sell a piece of land which had been a financial burden to me. His negative reply listing many reasons why it could not be sold did not discourage me."

anonymous (woman)

Wanted to meet the right partner and felt lonely and overlooked despite many social attempts.

Practice: Each night imagined scenes implying she was loved and accompanied — not picturing a specific person but feeling the emotional reality of a loving relationship.
Outcome: Within weeks she met the man she married. The relationship matched what she had imaginally rehearsed.
Time: weeks

"I repeated this imaginary scene for one month, night after night. The first week in October he 'found' me. On our second date, I knew my dreams were rightly placed."

anonymous (photographer)

Had one successful photography studio and wanted a second but all efforts to establish one had failed.

Practice: One night, restless in bed, imagined the feeling of having already opened the second studio — the busy activity of running both locations.
Outcome: Within a week, circumstances arranged themselves to make the second studio possible without the obstacles that had previously blocked it.
Time: 1 week

"My partner and I worked hard and were very successful, but after a year I was still not satisfied, I wanted more... One night as I retired, I was restless and decided to try imagining I already had the second studio."

C.H.

Wanted to build financial independence through a horse-racing system.

Practice: Nightly imagined seeing bank statements showing a balance of $11,533 — the exact figure his ten-step system would produce. Held the scene until it felt real.
Outcome: The system worked as imagined. The financial outcome he had rehearsed in imagination materialized.

"My imaginal scene did not end there. Immediately after seeing my bank balances I would turn my attention to my horse racing system which, through a progression of ten steps, would bring my winnings to $11,533.00 with a starting capital of a few hundred dollars."

anonymous (couple)

A real estate deal kept collapsing due to legal complications. The broker said nothing could be done.

Practice: The couple imagined the papers signed, escrow closed, and themselves already settled in the new home — the feeling of a done deal.
Outcome: The legal obstacle that had appeared insurmountable dissolved. The sale completed.
Time: weeks

"The broker asked us to sign a paper which he said was not binding in any way but would give him first chance at the sale if our other deal went through. We signed the paper and later learned that in California Real Estate law nothing could have saved us."

anonymous (woman)

Valuable jewellery was stolen. Police investigation had found nothing.

Practice: Stopped relying on external investigation and instead imagined holding the jewellery in her hands — the tactile and emotional reality of having it back.
Outcome: The jewellery was returned through an unexpected channel that the police had not located.

This lady knew of the secret of imagining before she called in the police, but imagining — in spite of its importance — was forgotten owing to attention being fixed on facts. However, what reason failed to find by force, imagining found without effort.

Wanted to return home overseas during wartime when all travel was blocked.

Practice: Fell asleep each night imagining he was already in his bed at home — fully sensing the familiar room, the familiar feeling of being there.
Outcome: Within weeks, unexpected orders came through that brought him home. The barrier circumstances presented dissolved.
Time: weeks

He imagined himself to be in his own bed. He felt the reality of being home. He assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Then he slept.

anonymous (woman)

Had a difficult and dismissive employer and wanted the working relationship to change.

Practice: Instead of rehearsing grievances, she revised her imaginal view: imagined the employer treating her with respect and warmth. Held that imaginal assumption daily.
Outcome: The employer's behaviour changed without any external confrontation. Colleagues noticed the shift and asked what had happened.
Time: several weeks

She ceased imagining her employer as difficult and began imagining him as considerate and kind. The outer man then conformed to her inner assumption.

E.R.

Wanted a specific senior position that seemed out of reach given internal competition.

Practice: Imagined vividly receiving congratulations from colleagues after being appointed. Repeated the imaginal scene until it felt natural and already done.
Outcome: Was appointed to the position. The congratulatory scene he had imagined played out almost exactly.

E.R. imagined that friends and colleagues were congratulating him on his new appointment. He heard their voices, felt the handshakes, and let the scene feel natural. Shortly afterwards he received the appointment.

anonymous (nurse)

A patient was given up as hopeless by the medical team. The nurse refused to accept the prognosis.

Practice: The nurse persistently imagined the patient walking out of the hospital fully recovered — held the imaginal end in defiance of the medical facts.
Outcome: The patient made an unexpected recovery and was discharged.

She kept the imaginal picture of him walking out of the hospital, healthy and whole. Reason failed to find any cure; imagining found what reason could not.

anonymous (business owner)

Needed the right business partner to expand operations. No suitable candidate had appeared through conventional search.

Practice: Imagined the feeling of already having the right partner working alongside him — the collaborative conversations, the shared goals, the sense of relief.
Outcome: The right person arrived within a short period through a connection no deliberate search had found.

Nothing appears to our senses that was not first imagined. The partner he needed came, not through effort, but through the subtle thread of imagining the fact of partnership accomplished.

anonymous (man)

Had an unresolved and painful argument with his wife. The atmosphere at home had become cold and distant.

Practice: That evening, mentally revised the argument — replayed the event as if it had gone warmly and lovingly, ending in affection rather than conflict.
Outcome: When he returned home the following day, his wife's manner had completely changed. She was warm and affectionate without any explanation.
Time: overnight

He revised the argument in his imagination, playing it through as it should have been. The next day he found his wife had changed — not because she knew what he had done, but because he had changed his imaginal act.

anonymous (woman)

Had received bad news about her son that caused her great distress.

Practice: That night revised the event — imagined receiving instead a reassuring message about her son, and fell asleep in the feeling of relief and love.
Outcome: The feared outcome did not materialise. The situation resolved in the direction she had imagined.
Time: within days

Revision of the day's events, imagining them as they should have been, impresses the subconscious with a new fact and erases the impression left by the original, undesirable event.

anonymous (woman)

Wanted a promotion but kept trying to visualise specifics that felt forced and unnatural.

Practice: Stopped trying to picture scenes and instead worked to catch and sustain the mood of success — the general feeling of being recognised and valued.
Outcome: The promotion came. She noted that it was the feeling, not the specific picture, that had been the operative force.

Moods are the harvest of imagination. She caught the mood of success and let it saturate her. The specific circumstances that followed were imagined by Infinite Intelligence, not by her managing mind.

anonymous (man)

Owed debts that seemed impossible to pay given his current income and savings.

Practice: Imagined the specific feeling of relief and freedom that comes when debts are fully paid — not picturing how the money would come, only imagining the end.
Outcome: Money arrived from an entirely unexpected source — one he could not have predicted or engineered.

He did not know how the money would come. He only imagined the relief of having paid every debt. The senses said it was impossible. Imagination proved the senses wrong.

anonymous (woman)

Wanted a specific fur coat she had admired but could not afford.

Practice: Each evening entered fully into the sensory feeling of wearing the coat — its weight, its warmth, the feeling of wearing it in public.
Outcome: The coat was given to her as an unexpected gift from someone who had no reason to give it.

She entered into the feeling of the wish fulfilled. She wore the coat in imagination before she wore it in fact. The gift came when she had ceased straining and was simply dwelling in the end.

anonymous (student)

Needed to pass a difficult examination that would determine career progress. Had previously failed.

Practice: Imagined the feeling of already having passed — seeing the results, feeling the relief and satisfaction of success.
Outcome: Passed the examination.

The feeling of the wish fulfilled is the key. He assumed the feeling of having passed, sustained it, and slept in it. The examination confirmed what imagination had already settled.

R.O.

Had sent a business letter that provoked a hostile response. The professional relationship was at risk.

Practice: That evening revised the exchange — imagined re-reading a warm, cooperative response in place of the hostile one that had actually arrived.
Outcome: Within days the correspondent's attitude changed completely. Subsequent communications were cooperative and constructive.
Time: within days

R.O. revised the letter in imagination. He read a friendly reply. He felt the goodwill between them. The outer correspondent, though unaware of the inner revision, responded as if the revision had been real.