MANIFESTING_TECHNIQUE
Turning Water into Wine (Repentance as Changing Perception)
This technique involves 'repenting' not as remorse, but as a radical change in perception. It means transforming the 'water' (literal facts or current…
Step by step
- Identify a 'literal fact' (water) in your life or concerning another that you wish to change.
- Define your 'fulfilled desire' (wine) for that situation.
- Mentally 'repent' by actively persuading yourself that you are now seeing the desired state as the new, actual fact.
- Persist in this new perception, seeing the desired outcome in your mind's eye, until it feels completely real and you can no longer conceive of the old fact.
- Once the 'wine of fulfillment' is drunk (the new state is fully accepted internally), do not revert to the old perception or bring up the old fact again, knowing the change is complete.
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God Only Acts
This technique involves 'repenting' not as remorse, but as a radical change in perception. It means transforming the 'water' (literal facts or current undesirable circumstances) into 'wine' (the desired, fulfilled state) by mentally persuading oneself that the desired state is already the reality. This is achieved by persistently seeing and feeling the desired outcome in the mind's eye until it becomes the only perceived truth, for oneself and for others.
On this level you can take that command, “Time to Act” and “No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake.” Water symbolizes the psychological life. In the second chapter of John, the story is told of Jesus filling the stone jars with water. Now, stone is the symbol of literal facts and water the symbol of their psychological interpretation. When you repent by changing the literal facts to conform to your fulfilled desire, your water has turned into wine, for wine is the application of the truth that you have heard. If I heard you were ill, saw this literal fact but wanted to turn this water into wine, I would see you healthy. Then I would repent by actually persuading myself that I am seeing you in the perfect embodiment of health, and so persuade myself of this fact that when I think of you I can see only health. When I see only this new, healthy you in my mind’s eye I have drunk the wine of fulfillment and won’t bring you up any more, as I know what you want to be pictured in my world. Tonight take the literal facts of your life and turn them into the psychological truth they represent. Now, instead of drinking that water, turn it into wine by applying the knowledge you have and repent. Do not be remorseful or feel regretful, but when you see someone in need, fill it, for he is only yourself pushed out.
The biblical command to 'drink wine' and the story of Cana are metaphysical instructions to apply spiritual truth. 'Water' represents the objective, unfulfilled state, while 'wine' represents the subjective, fulfilled state. Repentance is the act of consciously shifting one's inner vision and feeling from the undesirable fact to the desired truth, thereby manifesting the change in the external world.