Interesting stuff. I recently started with NAP myself, but my own history with magick prior to this has led me to fear "being put through a wall". I was already put through the wall without calling on Elubatel to give the extra shove! I wanted to return to school and change careers, and setting that intention meant that my life basically fell apart, I lost my job, and I developed a chronic illness that FORCED me to move back home (the path of least resistance for returning to school) and change careers (and resolved once I had!). It was exactly the kind of thing people are describing with Elubatel.
Since then, I've been kind of terrified of setting large scale intentions magickal ly - I suppose I must get over this (as things turned out okay, sorta). My way of doing things now - I've called it "micromagick" forever - is to project manage my magickal work; I break goals up into more manageable segments or chunks. But there may be some truth to... If you have a really large scale goal (the kind you'd do success magick for), you may have to let go of the "how". When I magicked to return to school, I had no idea how this was going to happen; it seemed impossible... But everything lined up, over the next year, to make it happen. In some cases, the misfortune (such as losing my job) paved the way (I was able to qualify for a state program where I collected food stamps and received unemployment benefits while taking college classes). I wonder if some of the "losses" many of us are experiencing doing success magick or working with Elubatel, are like this.
My recent work with Elubatel makes me think (and I felt he was directly communicating this) that meeting him halfway is my (and perhaps others') best tactic. I have been working with him to get employment, but I'm also doing every mundane thing possible as well. I am getting this feeling that the NAP entities work like this.
(I used to do magick to just get things to come to me effortlessly, and it worked. But it also turned me into an awful, spoiled person with no actual life skills.)