Gaining Awareness into Use of the Imagination
From The Secret Of Imagining - Neville Goddard 07-20-1970
"A friend became aware that she was dreaming, and here’s a man who intended to hurt her. He got out of the car and came towards her, and she became afraid; and her fright woke her; but instead of waking on the bed, she awoke in the dream. Then she realized, “This is what he teaches. Now I will simply arrest it.”
She didn’t argue with him; she arrested, within her, the activity that animated him, and she said to him, “You are tired. You need a good hot cup of coffee, and then a good sound sleep,” and then she told him exactly what he needed, and then released the activity within her. He shook his head as though something strange had happened within him, and he got back into the car – all in her dream – and drove off. You see, she changed his intention towards her.
This may seem impossible to the world. As I started this lecture, almost everything in this world is so completely unlike what it appears to be. And I am telling you from my own experience; I am not speculating. I am not theorizing.
The power of which I speak is a power within you. That power is not something on the outside; it’s your very Being! It is all your own wonderful human imagination, and you will learn to control it.
Your imagination animates the world in which you live. You change your imagination, and you change the world.
To attempt to change circumstances before I change my own imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of my own being, for my own imaginal activity is animating my world.
If I believe that I am injured or that others are against me, I have conjured them in my world, and they have to be against me.
If I fully believe that all are working towards the fulfillment of my good, they have to work towards the fulfillment of my good.
I don’t ask them. I don’t compel them. I simply do it only within myself, and the whole vast world exists within me. Therefore, it is myself “pushed out.” It’s objectified. I don’t have to change affairs; I only change it within myself, and then every one, though I know him or not by name, – it doesn’t really matter, – it’s myself “pushed out.”
The uses of the Imagination are as endless as is the waking dream. Like the woman in Neville’s text, we can arrest the waking dream by revising it, as she did. Actually what she did was applying a more advanced technique that Neville spoke of, but she USED it in a context of her own experience.
How can we use the Law in ways we haven’t thought of yet?
