I have fond memories of answered prayers through the Tuesday devotion to St Anne during my years in Assumption, Iloilo both as a teacher and as a student.I used to be a devotee of the Infant Jesus of Prague. For a short while I depended on Our Lady of Remedies for my share of miracles Eventually I simply got tired of formula prayers and resorted to personal prayers from the heart.
In the 1990s I read Dr Mann’s “Sacred Healing where he wrote:
“The spiritually wise and awakened being knows that subtle spiritual forces control and direct all of creation. Thought, when conceived in a spiritually conscious state, emanates subtle energy that draws experience into manifestation.”
Ironically by the time one becomes spiritually wise and awakened his manifestation won’t be centered on worldly goods for their own sake.
Thought conceived in a spiritually conscious state is what is manifested. This, I believe is what is lacking in the exercises popularized by “The Secret”. This is not to say that “The Secret” is useless. It is a stepping stone to spiritual wisdom and awakening.