REVISION
Pruning the Vine (Conscious Imagination)
This technique involves consciously examining and eliminating undesirable fixed beliefs, prejudices, and negative imaginal activities from one's mind. It is…
Step by step
- Recognize that your imagination is the 'vine' and you are the 'vinedresser.'
- Identify fixed beliefs, prejudices, and negative thought patterns that are undesirable.
- Consciously decide to overcome or eliminate these 'useless leaves' from your imagination.
- Replace them with assumptions and imaginal acts that align with your desired, lovely outcomes.
- Persist in this conscious cultivation, knowing that your outer world will reflect your inner pruning.
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Self-correctionConscious thoughtBelief systemsInner world
Where Are You Staying
This technique involves consciously examining and eliminating undesirable fixed beliefs, prejudices, and negative imaginal activities from one's mind. It is an active process of self-correction and intentional cultivation of positive thoughts and assumptions.
So, if my Father is the vinedresser then I am the vinedresser. I can’t have another do it for me; I have to actually prune this vine, for my Father is the vinedresser, and I am the Father. That’s what he tells you. So, here I sit, and I try my best to simply overcome these fixed beliefs within me, and these prejudices within me, because I must prune them from this vine if I will grow these full, clean “clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it.” I start with my own wonderful human imagination, and then clean the tree, clean the vine, and grow lovely things in my world, for the whole vast world is but the outpouring of my imaginal activities.
As the 'vinedresser' (being one with the Father), the individual is responsible for 'pruning' their own imagination. This means actively choosing to overcome limiting beliefs and consciously planting 'lovely things' in their imaginal world, knowing that the external world is a reflection of these inner activities.