Arresting the Action (Stillness of Consciousness)

Step by step

1. Encounter a scene in your inner vision or a dream-like state.
2. Intuitively recognize the internal activity that animates this scene.
3. Consciously 'still' this internal activity within your own consciousness (described as 'in my own brain').
4. Observe the external world freeze, with all motion ceasing.
5. Examine the frozen scene, recognizing its nature as a projection.
6. Release the internal activity to allow the world to resume its motion.

Related Bible passages

• John 5:26

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Question And Answer

This technique involves intuitively stilling an internal activity within one's own consciousness (as if in the brain, even while in Spirit), which causes all external motion and activity in the perceived world to cease. The world becomes frozen, like clay, allowing for observation or potential alteration, before releasing the internal activity to resume normal motion.

I came into a restaurant, and there were four people seated at a table, two sons in their early 20’s and their parents, the father and mother. One boy was bringing the food to his mouth to eat it, and the waitress came through a little door, and she was all dressed in the same kind of a dress she would have a hundred and fifty years ago – very stiffly starched; her collar was starched, her sleeves were starched, and she was animated. Through the huge, big bay window I could see leaves falling. It was the Fall of the year, and I could see the leaves coming down slowly. I could see a bird in motion, and I could see the wind blowing the grass. Here was an animated restaurant. At that moment I knew intuitively that if I could arrest that activity that I felt within me that everything would stand still. And, strangely enough, I knew how to arrest it. Now, you want to know how to do it. I can only say, at that moment when you come upon such a scene and you know – you will know how to do it. I simply stilled an activity in my own brain, as it were. Yet, I was in Spirit. Here my body was on the bed. I felt something in me stand still, yet my consciousness was alive and completely alert. I knew what I’m doing. But at that moment the boy bringing his food to his mouth couldn’t bring it. The waitress walking, walked not. The bird flying, flew not. The grass waving, waved not. The leaves falling, fell not. Everything stood still. I examined them, and they were all as though they were made of clay. Then I released – in me – the activity, and the bird continued to fly, the waitress continued her intentions to serve the food, and the boy eating the food brought it to his mouth, and everything moved on as it had intended.

This experience demonstrates that the external world is animated by the individual's own consciousness ('life in himself'). By arresting internal activity, one can temporarily stop the external world, revealing its nature as a projection of the self. This is a taste of the 'power of the Age to come' and a precursor to being able to change the world motivationally from within.

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