he problem, it turns out, when writing a story about manifesting – the noughties new-age trend now making a pandemic-inspired Gen Z comeback – is that everyone you meet will proclaim they’ve manifested you.
Before the pandemic, Starr worked for a jewellery brand, but was furloughed in March 2020. Like so many others, she felt “displaced, lost and confused”; deep-rooted issues she’d been ignoring came to the surface. At one point, she says, she was on the verge of a breakdown. She threw herself into self-help books and podcasts, and it wasn’t long before she started reading about manifesting.
It’s hardly the first time people have sought answers in faith following trauma. After the First World War, for instance, there was a sharp rise in spiritualism: after so much death, people found comfort in the thought that death itself wasn’t the end. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a noted proponent. Mediums became such a menace that the authorities were forced to use antiquated Witchcraft and Vagrancy Acts in order to target them.
Before the pandemic she was always working or travelling. When it struck, she was single, “and I had nothing but time on my hands… I started to get curious, who am I really?” She found her way to the works of manifesting expert, and was sure the techniques were working, she tells me, after she completed a six-day audiobook course and found herself the very next day bumping into the man who would become her boyfriend.
I was intrigued by the latter and got talking to Natalie Benmayor, founder of wellness jewellery label Capsule Eleven. Benmayor launched her brand in the pandemic. She’d started seeing the numbers 11-11 everywhere , and realised they had special significance for manifesting. She had the idea for a company selling high-end “spiritual” jewellery items, which, she says, she subsequently manifested.
“People did need it, they felt hopeless,” she says of the sessions she hosted, noting that many people started crying. “It was amazing how vulnerable they could be.” Last May, her company,, started selling do-it-yourself manifestation kits and Marrone began hosting professional sessions once lockdown ended.
Marrone, meanwhile, says she is forever getting Instagram DMs from young people asking how they can manifest their goals: “It’s crazy, like, 13-year-olds DM me, asking, like, how do I manifest? How do I use crystals?”“On any social media there’s always an unhealthy side,” she allows, “but this is not an unhealthy thing to promote.”
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