Imagination Fulfills Itself
I say imagination creates reality, and if this premise is true then imagination fulfills itself in what your life becomes. Although I have changed the words, what I am saying is not new. Scripture says it in this manner: "Whatsoever you desire, believe you have received it and you will." This statement goes back two thousand years, yet even before that Jeremiah tells of the same principle in his story of the potter and his clay.
But until imagination becomes a part of your normal, natural currency of thought, you will not act consciously. Like breathing, this awareness must become so much a part of you that you will not turn to the left or the right to praise or blame anyone. When you know this presence it will not matter if you started life behind the eight-ball, or in a palace; as a poor, or a rich child; you will realize that life is always externalizing what you are imagining.
Lacking the knowledge of this principle, you can reproduce your environment - be it pleasant or unpleasant - forever and ever, as you feed your imagination on what your senses dictate. But knowing this principle, you can ignore the present, and untethered by the so-called facts of life, you can imagine the present as you desire it to be and feed upon your desire, rather than its omission.
Now, imagination cannot be observed as we see objects in space, for imagination is their reality. Faucett gives the name, "God" to the cause of the universe, saying: "God, the creator, is like pure imagining in ourselves. He works in the depths of our soul underlying all of our faculties, including perception, and streams into our surface mind least disguised in the form of productive fancy."
Listen to your thoughts and you will hear God's words! A thought that is not felt produces nothing. But a thought producing motor elements reproduces itself! Catch God in a moment of a motor element such as anger, fear, or frustration, being congratulated or congratulating, and you will know what is going to happen in your world. Unless, of course you arrest your thoughts and revise them. Most of us, however, are not aware of what we are doing, so we do not observe the creator. But we can catch him as he streams into our surface mind least disguised in the form of productive fancy.
If, while riding the bus, driving the car, sitting at home, or standing at a bar, you hear a remark and react by moving on the inside, that remark will fulfill itself in what your life becomes. This principle sets you free, if you are willing to assume its responsibility.
But whether you assume it or not, you will fulfill your every motor element thought anyway. So in the end you will not sympathize or condemn, but simply tell those who may be going through an unpleasant experience of this principle, and - if they accept it - let the principle work in their lives. ...
I say imagination creates reality, and if this premise is true then imagination fulfills itself in what your life becomes. Although I have changed the words, what I am saying is not new. Scripture says it in this manner: "Whatsoever you desire, believe you have received it and you will." This statement goes back two thousand years, yet even before that Jeremiah tells of the same principle in his story of the potter and his clay.
But until imagination becomes a part of your normal, natural currency of thought, you will not act consciously. Like breathing, this awareness must become so much a part of you that you will not turn to the left or the right to praise or blame anyone. When you know this presence it will not matter if you started life behind the eight-ball, or in a palace; as a poor, or a rich child; you will realize that life is always externalizing what you are imagining.
Lacking the knowledge of this principle, you can reproduce your environment - be it pleasant or unpleasant - forever and ever, as you feed your imagination on what your senses dictate. But knowing this principle, you can ignore the present, and untethered by the so-called facts of life, you can imagine the present as you desire it to be and feed upon your desire, rather than its omission.
Now, imagination cannot be observed as we see objects in space, for imagination is their reality. Faucett gives the name, "God" to the cause of the universe, saying: "God, the creator, is like pure imagining in ourselves. He works in the depths of our soul underlying all of our faculties, including perception, and streams into our surface mind least disguised in the form of productive fancy."
Listen to your thoughts and you will hear God's words! A thought that is not felt produces nothing. But a thought producing motor elements reproduces itself! Catch God in a moment of a motor element such as anger, fear, or frustration, being congratulated or congratulating, and you will know what is going to happen in your world. Unless, of course you arrest your thoughts and revise them. Most of us, however, are not aware of what we are doing, so we do not observe the creator. But we can catch him as he streams into our surface mind least disguised in the form of productive fancy.
If, while riding the bus, driving the car, sitting at home, or standing at a bar, you hear a remark and react by moving on the inside, that remark will fulfill itself in what your life becomes. This principle sets you free, if you are willing to assume its responsibility.
But whether you assume it or not, you will fulfill your every motor element thought anyway. So in the end you will not sympathize or condemn, but simply tell those who may be going through an unpleasant experience of this principle, and - if they accept it - let the principle work in their lives. ...
Operating at the Level of Cause
There is no "secret" that will bring us to anything that we do not earn through the willingness to live up to the version of self to which that thing corresponds, and moreover, to live up to it for its own sake.
Conscious creating, it turns out, is an act of love, an act of giving the self to the ideal rather than trying to get things from the world.
We cannot escape the assumptions of our own consciousness.
When the creative moment is entered into lovingly rather than for some desired effect, then and only then are we operating at the level of cause. This means that it isn't enough for us to visualize and such.
We have to become the thing we want, until all experience of lack has vanished in the joy of our having come home to our ideal.
Then, as far as we're concerned, the world can come along or not.
And the one who practices this way will discover a great secret indeed.
Requirements
Students have heard me say it repeatedly: “What we want also wants something of us.”
One of the main reasons that the New Age approach to consciousness-as-cause fails is that it overlooks the profound truth that we do not create out of what we want, what we visualize, what we affirm, but out of who we are.
It is one thing to want something; it may be quite another to be willing to live up to it.
And so, in Field practice, we begin by admitting whether or not we’re willing to be what the new identity requires.
To imagine that one can enjoy abundant supply while entertaining all manner of belief in lack is pure fantasy.
To think that one can conjure the perfect partner through this technique or that while yet being unwilling to be the perfect partner—that is a formula for disappointment.
So, we look away from manifestation.
We take our hands off it, as it were, and turn our attention solely to the question of identity, for out of the answer to this question issues the reality within which we find ourselves.
When we talk about the creative power of consciousness, of intention, of identity, we’re talking about our willingness to inhabit the identity that corresponds to the desired fulfillment.
It is, then, never about “stuff,” but solely about self.
Furthermore, to amount to anything, to move the levers of nonlocality, this willingness must be unconditional, wholehearted, undertaken for its own sake, and a requirement.
Along these lines, we say, “You can have anything you want, the moment you’re no longer willing to settle for less.”
So, for example, I can be in a loving, generous, deeply fulfilling relationship, but only by being willing to live up to the same standard by which I want to be treated, and only by being unwilling to accept lesser relationships.
It is axiomatic in Field practice, when we find ourselves “bilocated,” or facing contradictory versions of self, that “either version will cost us the other.”
And so, we have a choice to make. Field training allows us to make that choice deliberately, wittingly, consciously, with resolve—rather than unwittingly, out of habit, prompted by unexamined assumptions or old payoffs we’ve outgrown.
More than anything else, Field training presents a path through which we may become more deliberately the best version of self that we can imagine.
The promise of such alignment, as we call it, is rich beyond what we may have imagined.
Is it any wonder, that such a prize would only be offered to those who are willing to take it on as a requirement?
Students have heard me say it repeatedly: “What we want also wants something of us.”
One of the main reasons that the New Age approach to consciousness-as-cause fails is that it overlooks the profound truth that we do not create out of what we want, what we visualize, what we affirm, but out of who we are.
It is one thing to want something; it may be quite another to be willing to live up to it.
And so, in Field practice, we begin by admitting whether or not we’re willing to be what the new identity requires.
To imagine that one can enjoy abundant supply while entertaining all manner of belief in lack is pure fantasy.
To think that one can conjure the perfect partner through this technique or that while yet being unwilling to be the perfect partner—that is a formula for disappointment.
So, we look away from manifestation.
We take our hands off it, as it were, and turn our attention solely to the question of identity, for out of the answer to this question issues the reality within which we find ourselves.
When we talk about the creative power of consciousness, of intention, of identity, we’re talking about our willingness to inhabit the identity that corresponds to the desired fulfillment.
It is, then, never about “stuff,” but solely about self.
Furthermore, to amount to anything, to move the levers of nonlocality, this willingness must be unconditional, wholehearted, undertaken for its own sake, and a requirement.
Along these lines, we say, “You can have anything you want, the moment you’re no longer willing to settle for less.”
So, for example, I can be in a loving, generous, deeply fulfilling relationship, but only by being willing to live up to the same standard by which I want to be treated, and only by being unwilling to accept lesser relationships.
It is axiomatic in Field practice, when we find ourselves “bilocated,” or facing contradictory versions of self, that “either version will cost us the other.”
And so, we have a choice to make. Field training allows us to make that choice deliberately, wittingly, consciously, with resolve—rather than unwittingly, out of habit, prompted by unexamined assumptions or old payoffs we’ve outgrown.
More than anything else, Field training presents a path through which we may become more deliberately the best version of self that we can imagine.
The promise of such alignment, as we call it, is rich beyond what we may have imagined.
Is it any wonder, that such a prize would only be offered to those who are willing to take it on as a requirement?
Responsibility
Living creatively depends on the willingness to take responsibility.
In fact, this is such an important feature of our practice that we go a step further: the responsibility we take must be radical.
This means that we’re willing to regard our consciousness as cause even in situations where the situation we’re facing appears to be caused by the will of others.
Now, some students have an intention that equates responsibility with blame.
This is something expected of very young children at a certain developmental stage, but it can hinder us greatly as adults, because it can deter us from willingly accepting the prerequisite of conscious creatorship.
A person may not realize that he or she intends such an equation, but it’s obvious in how he or she shows up in the world.
There’s always an excuse.
Someone else is always at fault.
There’s always a ready justification, a rationalization,
a fall guy.
Such an intention establishes us firmly as the effect of conditions, and how can we take up causal authority while we’re busy being the effect?
A great deal can be learned by pondering the notion of collusion.
The idea here is that nothing makes us a victim without our permission, without our tacit cooperation, and this is the theoretical foundation of radical responsibility.
A person may be in an abusive relationship with someone, be hurt repeatedly, and desperately desire a better situation.
Yet, the victim is not without responsibility, for he or she stays there, tolerates it, participates in it, and to this extent, gives it a green light.
Remember that it isn’t desire that creates our reality but willingness.
As long as we’re willing to have or be less than the good we want, that willingness sets the bar of our suffering.
But once we put the universe on notice that “I am this, and nothing less,” and our good becomes a requirement of our being, then nothing can stand between us and the greater good we desire.
“We can be whatever we want, the moment we’re unwilling to settle for less.”
This week, you may find it useful to look at any situation in which you feel stuck or are struggling, and ask yourself how you might be colluding in the matter to keep things exactly where they are.
Perhaps you’ll even explore the subtle way that you’ve been giving tacit permission to the very conditions you so want to see change.
If you do this even for a moment, you may see a new opportunity appear, a new door that you can open and walk through to a better reality.
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