I have been thinking a lot on what and how to explain Manifestation as an altered state of reality? 

Firstly, in simple terms: Manifestation refers to a physical sign that something is happening or being solidified in reality. Manifestation essentially means to bring something tangible into your life through attraction and your belief system. 

I think one way I have come to understand manifestation is biology scaling to physics. 


This post therefore, traces the biological roots of manifestation through my understanding. How the gut, the brain, and even quantum processes create the subjective experience of reality, and how belief mobilizes biology to sculpt outcomes.

We often speak of the mind as though it begins in the skull. It doesn’t. It begins in the gut.

The gut-brain axis is a two-way communication system where trillions of microbes act as silent architects of thought and mood. These microbes, when in balance release neurotransmitters. For example, 95% of the body’s serotonin originates here and modulate inflammation that affects emotional regulation. When the microbiome is in balance, neuroplasticity improves, BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) rises, and the individual is better equipped for resilience, focus, and goal pursuit. That is the bridge from biology to “manifestation”: a well-tuned gut ecosystem optimizes mental states that make achievement statistically more likely.

When dysregulated, the same network clouds perception- biasing us toward anxiety or threat detection, sabotaging decision-making before the conscious mind even weighs in. You can only manifest from the reality you perceive, and your biology determines that perceptual baseline.

Manifestation is a product of clarity and belief, and clarity begins in the vibrant ecology of your belly. 

Now consider the possibility that consciousness is not entirely classical. Theories such as Penrose and Hameroff’s Orch-OR hypothesize that microtubules in neurons sustain quantum states, making consciousness a quantum computational process.

If valid, observation itself wouldn’t merely interpret reality. Instead it would collapse superposed states into specific outcomes. In this light, perception becomes an active participant in the fabric of reality. The observer effect moves from physics into biology.

This could also explain why intuition, synchronicities, or “altered states” feel like brushes with another plane of reality: if part of the brain operates at quantum depths, then it is tuned to probabilities and entanglements our classical senses cannot ordinarily grasp. Manifestation here becomes a probabilistic narrowing of many worlds into the one aligned with our most coherent intentions.

Skeptics rightly point out that the brain’s warm, noisy environment is hostile to quantum coherence. Yet biology repeatedly surprises. Photosynthesis, avian navigation, and even olfaction exploit quantum effects in ways once thought impossible. The question isn’t whether life uses quantum mechanics - but whether the mind leverages it in a way that matters for reality construction.

Robert Lanza’s “biocentrism” makes a radical claim: consciousness doesn’t emerge from the universe; the universe emerges from consciousness. Space and time, in this framing, are biological constructs- rules of the game created by perceptual apparatus. Possibility is that this is what was known clearly in Ancient Eastern Philosophies like that of vedanta, Buddhist and alikes. 

Physics seems to conspire with this view. In the double-slit experiment, whether a particle is a wave or dot depends on whether it is observed. Consciousness is woven into causation. From this vantage, manifestation isn’t bending reality; it is simply consciousness navigating among its own self-created states.

We often ask why the universe is “fine-tuned” to life. Biocentrism flips the inquiry: there is fine-tuning precisely because consciousness is the projector, not the byproduct. Manifestation becomes not a suspension of natural law but a reframing of what natural law actually is.

If the above sounds too speculative, neuroscience provides a concrete anchor: belief physically alters the body. The placebo effect reduces pain, lowers blood pressure, even modulates immune function. Mindsets that cultivate possibility—such as the “growth mindset”—literally restructure synapses through neuroplasticity.

The principle is straightforward: perception dictates biology, and biology dictates action. Expectation rewires networks in the prefrontal cortex, primes reward circuits, and biases attention toward opportunities. Over time, this self-reinforcing cycle shapes outcomes that feel “manifested,” but are in truth the emergent product of belief shaping biology, and biology shaping behavior.

In closing, the philosophy of Sphiroza suggests:  human free will may itself be an illusion. Connecting, this, it would imply we are biological beings shaped by genetics, environment, and complex biochemical cascades-each decision arising from intertwined causal threads beyond conscious control.

From this standpoint, manifestation is not a free act of will but the unfolding of predetermined biological and quantum processes that give the appearance of choice and agency. However, recognizing the limits of free will does not diminish the power of intention. Understanding ourselves as part of an intricate, self-organizing system invites humility and profound responsibility.

So, If your freedom is only apparent, how will you live differently? How will that change your relationship with your thoughts, with your intentions, with manifestation itself?

Pri

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