We are human-divine beings—how does that work, exactly? Have you ever tried to manifest something you desire and been frustrated with the results?  Read the Full Episode Hello, and welcome. My name is Alix, and I am an intuitive life coach, energy healer, and channel for the wisdom and healing of the archangels. I help my clients get the answers they need so that they can manifest the lives and the abundance they desire. Thank you for joining me today. In this episode of Manifesting with the Archangels, I’m going to share with you the truth about manifesting as I understand it from my work with the archangels. If you’ve ever tried to manifest something and been frustrated with the results you got, then this episode is for you. We are human-divine beings. We are capable of working with Source energy, our higher selves, and our human bodies and minds to cocreate the lives and the abundance we desire. The new age, positive thinking movement and its teachers have opened up a world of possibilities to us. We know that we humans have the power to partner with the divine to manifest love, wealth, and happiness. The only problem is, there is no clear curriculum, no precise road map for exactly how to cocreate the things we want. In fact, there are many misconceptions circulating about how manifestation works, and those misconceptions can prevent us from getting the results we want. I often hear my clients say, “But I did the work! I did everything I was supposed to do, and nothing happened. I still didn’t get the raise, or the boyfriend, or the new job.” The truth is, it’s not enough to meditate and pray, to ask the divine for what we want, and then to sit back and wait for it to arrive—although you may have been taught that it is. There is also no predetermined amount of work required to manifest our goals. Instead, there’s actually a set of skills and a lifelong process of practicing those skills. Think of a contractor. He or she might initially learn from more experienced contractors how to use all of the tools and materials of the trade—sawzalls and levels and nail guns and paint sprayers. Over time, the young contractor gains in experience, and he or she may begin to tackle more complicated products. Eventually, the contractor will have a huge repertoire of wisdom, skill, and tools, and he or she can produce exemplary results even when faced with a very complex and challenging restoration or design-build project. Learning to use our innate divine abilities is at least as difficult as learning to build a house from the foundation up, and there is an additionally complicating factor. Living as fully-empowered, fully integrated human-divine beings is actually a fairly new thing on the planet. We have had lots of practice living as unconscious humans, disconnected from our divine natures. We have also had many spiritual teachers and practitioners who renounced many aspects of their human flesh in order to connect more deeply with the world of Spirit. But the middle ground—the place where we chose to live as fully human and simultaneously fully divine—that is relatively uncharted territory. During the last few decades, more and more humans have been stepping into that territory—choosing to be fully human and also fully divine. Spiritual teachers from a variety of wisdom traditions are finding a platform and an audience for their information about how humans can work with their divine natures. But in some ways, we’re still in the early stages of our collective awakening. Unlike that young contractor, we don’t have a communally accepted set of tools and procedures for using those tools. We don’t have a widely agreed-upon skill set and knowledge base, yet, for understanding our divine nature. It’s been my experience that each of us finds the teachers we need ...