ASSUMPTION
Assuming the Wish Fulfilled (Imaginal Travel)
To 'prepare a place' means to mentally occupy a desired location or state, assuming you are already there, feeling its reality, and perceiving the world from…
Step by step
- Choose a desired location or state you wish to experience.
- Close your physical eyes and imagine yourself physically present in that location.
- Engage all your senses: feel the warmth, detect the odors, see the surroundings from that perspective.
- Mentally orient yourself by perceiving other known locations relative to your assumed position.
- Persist in this imaginal act until it feels completely natural and real.
- Fall asleep in this assumption, if possible, to deepen its impression on the subconscious.
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Imaginal ActSensory VividnessFeeling NaturalBridge of Incidents
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To 'prepare a place' means to mentally occupy a desired location or state, assuming you are already there, feeling its reality, and perceiving the world from that new perspective. Persist in this assumption until it feels natural, even if physical senses deny it.
So, I can go and prepare a place. So, I tried it. I tried assuming that I am where reason would deny it, my senses deny it, but I remained in that state until it seemed natural to me, just seemed natural. Well, then, I went there. And, then, I opened my eyes upon the world that I had shut out, and it was a shock to find myself back in the chair. ... Barbados, where I was born, is a little tropical island in the West Indies, and I assumed that I was actually on my bed in my mother’s home that I knew and loved so well. And to prove that I was actually there, I just imagined the world relative to that position. I saw the world – not from my place in New York City, I saw it from Barbados. So, mentally I saw the world as I would see it if I were in Barbados. I thought of my place in New York City, and I saw it two thousand miles to the north of me. I thought of other places, and they were all related to where I am assuming that I am, and I fell asleep in that assumption.
This technique demonstrates that Imagination is the true self, capable of transcending physical limitations. By assuming a desired state or location and perceiving from it, one sets in motion a 'bridge of incidents' that will lead to its physical manifestation.