Arresting Motion (Stopping Time)

Step by step

1. Recognize the power within your own skull (imagination).
2. Exercise this power to 'arrest' activity within you, causing the external world to stand still.
3. Observe the frozen world and its inhabitants.
4. (Optional) While the world is arrested, change the motivations or attitudes of others in your imagination.
5. Release the arrested activity within you.
6. Observe everything continuing its course, fulfilling its purpose (or new purpose if motivations were changed).

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Imagination Plus Faith

This is a mystical technique where one exercises the power within their own skull to arrest activity, causing the entire external world and all its inhabitants to stand still, as if frozen or dead. Upon releasing the arrested activity, everything resumes its course. Neville also suggests the possibility of changing motivations during the arrested state.

You have the power within you, and one day you will exercise it. You will arrest it in you, not in the world. You will release something that you feel within your own skull, and you will make it stand still, and when it is arrested, the whole vast world stands still, and it will look as though every one were dead. Every being that one second before was so animated and so alive is now dead. It is just as though it is made of clay or marble, and you look at it and you are amazed. Then you release within you the activity that you froze, and everything continues on its course. The bird that stopped in space – well, the bird should fall, shouldn’t it? Suddenly a bird is arrested. It did not fall because of gravity. If the waitress is coming through and I arrest within me her activity, she wouldn’t fall. She was in motion, and she simply stands still supported by the earth or the floor. But a bird in flight, that bird certainly should continue to fall because I arrested its motion. It didn’t fall! The bird stood still in space, and she stood still, and the diners dining – everything stood still. As I released within me the activity that I had arrested, everything continued to fulfill its purpose. Now, I could have changed their motivation and then released it. They would have changed their attitude towards life, and they would have thought that they had originated it.

This demonstrates the ultimate control of the individual's imagination over objective reality and time, proving that the world is a dream controlled from within. It is a manifestation of the divine power within.

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