FEELING
Feeling the Imagined Reality (Jacob's Deception)
To make the subjective (Jacob) real and supplant the objective (Esau), one must become 'blind' to the physical senses (like Isaac) and engage 'spiritual…
Step by step
- Close your physical eyes to the current, undesirable reality.
- In your imagination, select a desired object or state.
- Engage your 'spiritual sensation' by vividly feeling the texture, weight, temperature, or other sensory details of the imagined object or state.
- Discriminate these details as if they were physically present, proving their existence within your imagination.
- Persuade yourself of the reality of this felt experience, knowing that Imagination is the true reality.
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Many Mansions
To make the subjective (Jacob) real and supplant the objective (Esau), one must become 'blind' to the physical senses (like Isaac) and engage 'spiritual sensation' through imagination. This means vividly feeling the reality of the desired state, discriminating its sensory details as if it were physically present, thereby persuading oneself of its truth.
So I shut my eyes, and − closing my eyes to the facts of life, to the obvious things − I am blind. So, Isaac was blind. I close my eyes; I don’t see it. Then I persuade myself that I am what I would like to be, instead of what reason dictates and my senses dictate. Well, in that projected state, I clothe myself with the other [although] I can’t accept it right now. Imagination is spiritual sensation. Now, take an object. I will just lead you in words. Take a tennis ball in your imaginary hands and feel it. You can feel it. To show you the difference, take a baseball. Can you discriminate between the two? Well now, take a ping-pong ball. Can you discriminate between the three? If these are non-existent, you couldn’t discriminate. How can you say that these do not exist and say that you can tell the difference between non-existent things? They do not, at the moment, exist in your outer mind’s senses – they don’t. But they exist! All things exist now in the human Imagination. That’s where you felt it; you felt it in your Imagination, and Imagination is spiritual sensation.
Imagination is the faculty of spiritual sensation, allowing one to feel and discriminate non-physical realities, which are just as real as physical ones. This deep, sensory feeling makes the imagined state objective and causes it to manifest.