E.T. - It’s All in Your Imagination
Submitted by Emerson Troward on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 2:55am.
-
Perhaps the greatest lie told to humankind
is that of “mere imagination.”
Most of us recognize the power of imagination to create works of art,
great inventions, even scientific breakthroughs.
But this homage is impersonal and hollow.
It has nothing to do with us.
The truth is, imagination is a force for creating without peer,
and many of us will go our whole lives never realizing the jewel
we carry hidden within us.
All the world’s leading spiritual paths teach that divinity lies within humankind, the spirit of That which keeps the planets and atoms spinning,
which clusters itself effortlessly into an endless parade of forms,
and which rises to the stature of self-consciousness in us:
the I-AM that declares the mystery of itself as something beyond doubt,
and wildly prolific.
Think of how terrifying the first daydreams must have been
to those beings who were learning about the power of imagination
to take them anywhere,
to defy the confines of time, space, and natural law
that constrain and define our outer life.
On the canvas of imagination, we’re free to paint
whatever version of ourselves we wish;
it need meet no other standard than that it please us.
This rich inwardness is, however, only the very beginning of the story.
Goethe, Thoreau, Shakespeare, and many other
great thinkers and writers who became initiated
into the mysteries of creative consciousness have testified that,
if we will only persevere in “the direction of our dreams,”
we will find a response from the world.
“The harvest is rich, but the workers are few.”
Practice is not just intellectual understanding.
To see results, one has to put one’s understanding to the test.
One has to be willing, for example, to consider that,
in a world that is fundamentally mysterious and incomprehensible,
we can’t say what limits there are, if any,
to the creative power of our imagination.
What we dwell on, we soon dwell in.
What is the mood of our thinking throughout the day?
What is our predominant stance?
Worry? Fear? Criticism? Conflict? Disappointment?
Do we find it easier and more natural to expect favorable outcomes,
or the opposite?
It takes a reaching honesty to travel to the end of our indulgences,
but oddly, these indulgences often are in things
we would rather be rid of once and for all.
The man who gives himself over to imagining the worst
is setting into motion the hardest of lessons.
He will not be able to hide from them.
-
But the one who uses the divine gift to enjoy his inner life,
regardless of surrounding conditions, perhaps even despite them,
will reshape those conditions from the inside out,
for the same imagination that lives at the center of us
lives at the center of conditions.
-
Why not explore the power of imagination with a new boldness?
What do you imagine would happen if you dared to trust that
there is no such thing as “mere imagination”
except in that we render our imagining powerless
by our reluctance to trust it and our readiness to abandon it
the first time the evidence contradicts our dreams?
What if we took even a single week off from the evidence
and all manner of contrary conclusions,
and kept solidarity with the truth of our imagining without a single lapse?
What would we find?
We would soon prove that our imagining
creates our world in every detail.
-
http://www.fieldcenter.org/realities/
-
The Assumptions of Emerson Troward
-
note to self: ... relax and breathe
-
-
»
- Emerson Troward's blog
- Login or register to post comments
-What we dwell on, we soon dwell in.-
Oh man...good one....
The Perfect Universe
-
THE ONE WHO DESIRES TO HEAL must stop seeing, reading about, discussing, or listening to conversation about sickness.
There is no other way under the sun except as we let go of that which we do not desire, and take that which we wish to have.
There is too much of this deceiving ourselves into thinking that we can do two ways at once.
We may deceive ourselves and possibly other people, but the law remains the same, a Law of mental correspondences, and nothing else.
We cannot go beyond our ability to realize the truth, water rises only to its own level.
In our patients as well as in ourselves and our environment we will reflect what we are, not at our best in the few moments of silence,
but in the long run of ordinary life and thought.
To acquire the larger consciousness is no easy task.
All that we have believed in which contradicts the perfect whole
must be dropped from our thought,
and we must come to realize that
we are now living in a perfect universe,
peopled with perfect spiritual beings,
each of which
(coupled with the Great Divinity)
is complete within himself.
-
We must see that we are one in the great one,
and then we will not separate or divide, but unite and add to,
until in time we will find that we are living in an entirely different world
from that in which we had once thought we were living.
-
Of course, this will meet with much opposition from those unenlightened souls whom we must contact in the world.
But what of that?
Remember, the great man is the one who can keep in the crowd,
...the calm, even thought,...the deep divine reliance on principle.
And more, this is the only way to help or to save the world.
In time all people will come to the same understanding.
You are lifting up the standard of life, and those who are ready
will follow.
You have no responsibility to save the world except by exemplifying the truth.
The world must save itself.
All are alike; there is no difference between one person and another.
Come to see all as a divine idea;
stop all negative thought; think only about what you want,
and never about what you do not want,
as that would cause a false creation.
-
Too much cannot be said about the fact that all are dealing with only one power, making and unmaking for man through the creative power
of his own thought.
If there is something in your life that you not want there,
stop fighting it---forget it!
-
Ernest Holmes
note to self: ... relax and breathe
-
Some people...
qualify 'positive vibrations' (the term wears on me now regardless of its truthiness) with the size of the desired result...
I don't care for that...
Sometimes I wonder what the blog would look like if I actually wrote some of the things I think of writing before I think from more sides of it...there would be a lot more FUCK YOU's...I'm sure...
Speaking of... I notice that most of the Fuck You's have come from the men on this blog..women don't seem to tend towards that here...just an observation..
perhaps even despite them
--But the one who uses the divine gift to enjoy his inner life,
regardless of surrounding conditions, perhaps even despite them,
will reshape those conditions from the inside out,
for the same imagination that lives at the center of us
lives at the center of conditions. --
:)
Yeah, I think I still have..
...a bit of cow poop residue on my dwelling shoes.
Anyway. :)
I'm fading too fast tonite.
Hopefully, we can talk another time soon.
Sweet dreams.
And, have a happy Sunday.
L&A,...
&xoxox...
sr
note to self: ... relax and breathe
-
Goodnight, Sweets
:)
L&A... !
Some people call that unempathetic..
-To acquire the larger consciousness is no easy task. All that we have believed in which contradicts the perfect whole must be dropped from our thought,-
Which I can see..but I also see the 'science' in that concept...
I doubt that Olympic athletes or football players - for lack of a better analogy subject - sit around dwelling on what they cannot do...
Rockstar (almost too trippy to believe)
IBVA brainwaves (below)
note to self: ... relax and breathe
-
Regarding your comments above, Alice...
I empathize with what you're saying, but...
As you know, Alice,...I don't know.
And, I barely know that. :)
I just try to stay consistently positive in cyberspace while remaining true to myself as best I can.
I don't "take the bait" in cyberspace anymore, even though sometimes I think I want to.
In real life, it's more of a challenge when it comes to refraining.
Especially when dealing with my greatest teachers.
Anyway...
I'm sending more love vibrations your way.
--
Thanks for being you.
--
Talk to you soon,...
xoxox,
emerson troward, sr. :)
SR
I used to be like that too..more lighthearted...more positive..and not a bait taker... (which was a fun challenge)...still is sometimes...but I guess like women who get synchronized periods...being on the blog I have changed in certain ways...
♥-vibes
2-u-2.
-A