Isaac's Blessing (Feeling the Unseen as Real)

Step by step

1. Send Esau (your present problem/objectified world) hunting: Close your eyes and take your attention away from objective limitations.
2. Fix the natural time and place for your desire's realization: With eyes closed, sense and feel the reality of the desired time (e.g., 'feel like Sunday') and place ('thereness' becomes 'hereness') until consciously established.
3. Invite Jacob (the solution) to fill this space: In imagination, see/sense the desired thing, draw it close, feel its nearness, reality, solidity, and natural placement. Feel the thrill of accomplishment and joy of possession. Then open your eyes, knowing the fixed psychological state will objectify itself.

Related Bible passages

• Genesis 27:1

Related ideas

Freedom For All

This three-step technique, based on the Isaac and Jacob story, involves: 1) Removing attention from the current problem (Esau) by closing eyes. 2) Fixing the desired time and place in consciousness by feeling its reality. 3) Inviting the solution (Jacob) by imagining and feeling the desired state as present and real, experiencing the thrill of accomplishment, which then objectifies itself.

First: Send your first son Esau – your present objectified world or problem – hunting. This is accomplished simply by closing your eyes and taking your attention away from the objectified limitations. As your senses are removed from your objective world, it vanishes from your consciousness or goes hunting. Second: With your eyes still closed and your attention removed from the world round about you, consciously fix the natural time and place for the realization of your desire. With your objective senses closed to your present environment you can sense and feel the reality of any point in time or space, for both are psychological and can be created at will. It is vitally important that the natural time-space condition of Jacob, that is, the natural time and place for the realization of your desire be first fixed in your consciousness. If Sunday is the day on which the thing desired is to be realized, then Sunday must be fixed in consciousness now. Simply begin to feel that it is Sunday until the quietness and naturalness of Sunday is consciously established. You have definite associations with the days, weeks, months and seasons of the year. You have said time and again “Today feels like Sunday, or Monday, or Saturday; or this feels like Spring, or summer, or Fall, or Winter.” This should convince you that you have definite, conscious impressions that you associate with the days, weeks, and seasons of the year. Then because of these associations you can select any desirable time, and by recalling the conscious impression associated with such time, you can make a subjective reality of that time now. Do the same with space. If the room in which you are seated is not the room in which the thing desired would be naturally placed or realized, feel yourself seated in the room or place where it would be natural. Consciously fix this time space impression before you start the act of sensing and feeling the nearness, the reality, and the possession of the thing desired. It matters not whether the place desired be ten thousand miles away or only next door, you must fix in consciousness the fact that right where you are seated is the desired place. You do not make a mental journey; you collapse space. Sit quietly where you are and make “thereness” –“hereness.” Close your eyes and feel that the very place where you are is the place desired; feel and sense the reality of it until you are consciously impressed with this fact, for your knowledge of this fact is based solely on y our subjective sensing. Third; In the absence of Esau (the problem) and with the natural time-space established, you invite Jacob (the solution) to come and fill this space – to come and supplant his brother. In your imagination see the thing desired. If you cannot visualize it, sense the general outline of it; contemplate it. Then mentally draw it close to you. “Come close, my son, that I may feel you.” Feel the nearness of it; feel it to be in your immediate presence; feel the reality and solidity of it; feel it and see it naturally placed in the room in which you are seated; feel the thrill of actual accomplishment, and the joy of possession. Now open your eyes. This brings you back to the objective world – the rough or sensibly felt world. Your hairy son Esau has returned from the hunt and by his very presence tells you that you have been betrayed by your smooth-skinned son Jacob, --the subjective, psychologically felt. But, like Isaac, whose confidence was based upon the knowledge of this changeless law, you too will say – “I have made him thy Lord and all his brethren have I given to him for servants” That is, even though your problems appears fixed and real, you have felt the subjective, psychological state to be real to the point of receiving the thrill of that reality; you have experienced the secret of creation for you have felt the reality of the subjective. You have fixed a definite psychological state which in spite of all opposition or precedent will objectify itself, thereby fulfilling the name of Jacob – the supplanter.

This method teaches how to use subjective feeling to supplant the current objective reality with a desired one, by consciously withdrawing attention from the old, establishing the new time/space, and then intensely feeling the reality of the desired state.

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