ASSUMPTION
Riding the Beast (Imagination into Jerusalem)
This technique involves identifying a desired state (the 'colt on which no man ever sat') at a 'crossroads' between your current reality and your aspiration.…
Step by step
- Identify the desired state you wish to embody (the 'colt').
- Recognize that you are at a 'crossroads' between your current state and the desired state.
- Dare to assume the feeling of being the person you want to be, even if it feels unnatural or illogical.
- Persist in this assumption, 'riding' the feeling without being swayed by reason or external facts.
- Maintain this state of consciousness until it leads you into the 'Jerusalem' of your fulfilled desire.
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The Art Of Dying
This technique involves identifying a desired state (the 'colt on which no man ever sat') at a 'crossroads' between your current reality and your aspiration. It requires daring to 'ride' this new state by fully assuming the feeling of being the person you want to be, despite rational objections, and maintaining this assumption until it leads you into 'Jerusalem' (heaven, a state of consciousness).
Next Sunday is the great drama. I am riding a beast and I am the crossroads. “Bring me a colt on which no man ever sat, that is tied by the road where two ways meet.” Here is a state I have never ridden before. It is so unnatural to feel myself to be the man I want to be and to actually get into that state and ride it without being thrown by reason, which tells me I am made. But if you know the Lord is your Imagination, you can ride it into Jerusalem. We [are] told [we] will find the animal at a crossroads where two roads meet. We are always at a crossroads of what I am and what I want to be. So, can I ride the beast I find at the crossroads and ride it into Jerusalem? Then I am going toward “heaven,” but it is not continuous on my line of motion. It is contiguous. It is adjacent to where I am, for heaven is a state of consciousness. I try to catch the feeling that would be mind if [I were] the man I [want] to be, but that involves a death. I must abandon myself to my dreams as if it were true, and – living in it – I lift it up and make it real.
The 'beast' is the new, unfamiliar state of consciousness that feels unnatural to reason. 'Riding' it means to fully inhabit and persist in the assumption of the wish fulfilled. The 'crossroads' represents the choice point between the old and new self. 'Jerusalem' symbolizes the realization of this desired state, which is a contiguous state of consciousness.