An interesting observation is when I had my old Chevy Lumina I loved and appreciated my car. It always looked good and drove like a dream. I sold it to my brother I am not sure it lasted a year after I sold it to him.

He locked his keys in it and was stuck someplace so he smashed out the window, rather than get a new window from the junk yard that would have been more work he bought a door and replaced the original black door with a white door.

One thing went wrong after another until he junked the car. I had it for years with no problems. He beats his cars into the ground.

Could this be some kind of consciousness thing or could it be because I took care of my car? I don't know. I am more leaning toward I took care of my car so it worked well for me.

Surprised this has not been posted "Christine". A Plymouth Fury! with consciousness.

In pagan, pantheistic, and other societies it is believed that everything has consciousness. India religions have felt this for melinna. It was about 600 years ago that thought began to turn in the direction of these spirits, or gods (about 13 million of them) were actually related to internal states of consciousness. But there is still a feeling that objects have consciousness.

There are a lot of "unexplained" phenomena. I knew a flight attendant who was on a plane that had an oven, salvaged from a plane that crashed, where most people died. The flight crews began seeing ghostly faces in it. They pulled it from the plane. But, I guess this was more of a haunting.

Cars and motorcycles can take on a persona. I had a Porsche I named "Lucretia." It seemed to often not start when I had a date with a woman, but never a problem when I was alone or with a male friend. Was Lucretia (Borgia) jealous?

A good friend in Australia is a CPA and not given to flights of fancy, but he has a small altar by his computer. He has spent a lot of time in Java, where this sort of 'magic' is common. His Chinese wife makes little rice bowl offerings to his computer. He even praises it. He has never had a crash, virus or any problems.

In Java, it is believed by many that if you had an accident in your car, you had the incorrect dashboard alter.

@Catherine - Personally I feel it is your feelings toward the car that may be manifesting these situations. Yeah, I know, what else is new? <grin> Don't go beating yourself up about this like I did/do!

Just one of the great things I have learned on IQ is that while you do create your own reality (I have known this a long time), that if you hold yourself in a state of blame for having created same, you put yourself outside your Vortex where you have no power to change the 'bad' situation, in fact you may compound it! This can create a nasty loop. You feel bad about the situation and attract more needed repairs as your "mind chatter" increases

Stingray has some excellent suggestions in his "Manifesting Experiments" you know.

I have found the best thing for me to do is to turn away from the 'problem' and find something that gives you Joy. Anything! Does not have to be - in fact should not be related to your problem.

This better feeling place allows your "mind chatter" about your 'negative' situation to subside where you can be presented with a better answer. The answer and the question are always together.

Or you may need a better dashboard altar. <grin>

I do feel, this morning, that I am a bit unqualified to make an answer as I am need help, myself with a situation.

Reminds me of an story where a mother took her child to Gandhi. She asked Gandhi to tell her son to stop eating white sugar. Gandhi told her to come back in two weeks. She did as she had been told. When she returned, Gandhi leaned over to the son and said, "You must not eat white sugar, it is not good for you." The mother asked why he had wanted her to return two weeks later for him to tell her son. The great man replied, "Because two weeks ago, I was eating white sugar!"

I am going to start another thread.

Hi Catherine, If you think your car is wonderful than it will go like a dream and if you think your car is full of crap than it goes like crap. You are your cars consciousness and your car is an extention of you when driving.

When you have problems you shall notice that not only cars but all other appliences and things will start to play up. The reason they say things allways go wrong in threes. When your life is smooth and problem free than everything else seems to behave.