Ask And It Is Given: Learning To Manifest Your Desires

This is the third and most important step in the manifestation process, the step in which the individual chooses to allow the universe to grant them their desires. The book posits that allowing is best achieved by paying close attention to one’s emotional state surrounding any given subject.

Abraham introduces themselves as a collective consciousness, a term that functions in different ways throughout the book. In the case of Abraham, the term appears to describe a group of discrete energetic beings who have been brought together by their mutual intention to help humans achieve a higher level of universal understanding. In other areas, the term is used to refer to a general cloud of omnipresent consciousnesses, with each individual being acting as a physical manifestation of the collective.

The text employs this phrase to refer to the emotion that an individual is feeling most frequently in connection to a specific desire or situation. When carrying out the processes designed to move up the Emotional Guidance Scale, people are advised to identify their current emotional set-point on that scale and use it to choose the practical process that would be most effective in that particular moment.