IMAGINATION
Imaginal Sensation (Touching the Invisible)
Engage all five senses within your imagination to make an imagined object or state feel real. By discriminating between different imagined sensations (e.g.,…
Step by step
- Choose an object or desired state to imagine.
- Close your eyes and mentally engage all five senses (touch, sound, sight, smell, taste) with the imagined object/state.
- Focus on the sensory details, making them as vivid and real as possible.
- Discriminate between different imagined sensations to confirm their existence in your mind.
- Persuade yourself that this imagined reality is real, accepting it as fact.
Related ideas
No Other Gods
Engage all five senses within your imagination to make an imagined object or state feel real. By discriminating between different imagined sensations (e.g., the feel of a tennis ball vs. a baseball), you prove that these imagined objects exist in a spiritual dimension. The key is to accept the reality of the imagined state to the point of self-persuasion.
Imagination is spiritual sensation. Now, I don’t need the actual object before my senses or to touch it with my hand at the moment. I can imagine it, but can I touch it in my imagination? Well, see if you can’t touch it now. Think of a tennis ball. Just think of a tennis ball. Well, it’s out where? Can you bounce it and hear it? Bounce it in your imagination, and hear it. Can you hold it? Can you feel the texture? Can you smell it? All right, you’ve done that much. But you will say, “That’s all imagination; that is unreal. It doesn’t exist.” All right. Now, take a baseball. Do the same thing to the baseball. Does it bounce? No, it’s harder; it doesn’t really bounce in the true sense of the word. Well, does it feel like the tennis ball? No. Does it smell like it? No. Well, if you can discriminate between these two substances – these two objects – well, then, they must exist. You can’t discriminate between nothings. If one is nothing and the other is nothing – well, then, you discriminate. You can only discriminate if they exist. They exist, invisible to mortal eye; but they exist. Now, everything in this world exists in the same way. If you bring it into your mind’s eye, it exists. All it needs on your part is the acceptance of the reality. Can you believe that it’s real? If you can agree that it’s real to the degree that you are self-persuaded that it’s real, it will become real.
Imagination is 'spiritual sensation,' and by actively using it to feel and experience a desired state, one gives reality to that state, which then manifests in the physical world. This demonstrates that the invisible world of imagination is the true reality.