Shannara Johnson

Grumpy manifestation queen with 25+ years of LOA experience. Learned the ropes through proven T+E technique (Trial + Error). WYSIWYG personality with wicked sense of humor. Lacking the political-correctness gene, but richly endowed with German bluntness. 

In my Clark Kent life, I'm a seasoned marketing copywriter and editor. When I don the Superhero cape, I'm an LOA blogger, author, paranormal experiencer, natural psychic, Reiki master, certified teacher for Autogenic Training, certified psychotherapist, and former Tarot reader.

Back in my Sedona days, around the turn of the millennium—which makes me sound incredibly old—my friends used to call me the "manifestation queen" because whatever I intensely focused on would manifest in my reality within weeks or sometimes even days. (I added the "grumpy" later after a colleague started calling me the "grumpy German.")

Here's just one story.

I loved cats, but my roommate and best friend D. wouldn't allow one in our apartment. She owned two green iguanas and was worried a cat would consider them a healthy snack. But then our neighbors' cat gave birth to a litter of kittens, and after pet-sitting for a few days, I was in love. Every time I hung out with the little critters, I felt a rush of longing to have a kitty of my own. 

Just a few days later, I was giving Tarot readings at the Earth Mother Father Foundation when a tourist from Australia dropped by to see me. She'd gotten a reading from me a few weeks earlier, and we had instantly clicked. She had a cat carrier with her, with a tiny gray tabby in it that meowed pathetically. She said it was a stray kitten that she and her daughter had taken in to save it from predators (of which there were many in the Arizona desert), but now they had to leave for home and couldn't take it with them. She begged me to take the cat... which I reluctantly did.

I realized that I had manifested this—and I also knew my friend D. would give me hell when I got home with the kitten. She didn't disappoint. The cat had to go, she said, and that was that. Since she was the one whose name was on the apartment lease, I didn't have much of a choice.

So I focused on "un-manifesting" the cat, envisioning a happy outcome for everyone. Again, just days later, I heard from a woman I knew from improv class that her older cat had gotten outside a few months earlier and never returned. She said she'd been heartbroken over the loss, but now she was ready for another cat. She ended up taking my kitten, and for all I know, the two of them lived happily ever after. 

​This is just one example of many. The "instant manifestations" became so frequent that I had to be careful what I focused on, or it might show up on my doorstep.

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What Other People Say About Me

"You are a force of nature."
- David G., entrepreneur, former boss 

"You are the Diet Coke of grumpy."
- Jared D., financial author, former Wall Street trader

"Grumpy manifestation queen, huh? Really? How's that working for you?"
- Jan L., graphic designer, formerly on speaking terms

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