Speaker 1: The purpose of this record is to show you how
Speaker 1: to use your imagination to achieve your every desire. Most
Speaker 1: men are totally unaware of the creative power of imagination,
Speaker 1: and invariably bow before the dictates of facts and accepts
Speaker 1: life on the basis of the world without. But when
Speaker 1: you discover this creative power within yourself, you will boldly
Speaker 1: assert the supremacy of imagination and put all things in
Speaker 1: subjection to it. When the man speaks of God in man,
Speaker 1: he is totally unaware that this power called God in
Speaker 1: man is man's imagination. This is the creative power in man.
Speaker 1: There is nothing under heaven that is not plastic, as
Speaker 1: potters clay to the touch of the shaping spirit of imagination.
Speaker 1: Once a man say to me, you know, Neville, I
Speaker 1: love to listen to you talk about image. But as
Speaker 1: I do so, I inveriably touched the chair with my
Speaker 1: fingers and push my feet into the rug, just to
Speaker 1: keep my sense of the reality and the profundity of things. Well,
Speaker 1: undoubtedly he is still touching the chair with his fingers
Speaker 1: and pushing his feet into the rug. But don't let
Speaker 1: me tell you another one who didn't touch with her
Speaker 1: fingers and didn't push that foot of hers onto the
Speaker 1: board of the street car. It's the story of a
Speaker 1: young girl just turned seventeen. It was Christmas Eve, and
Speaker 1: she is sad of heart for that year she had
Speaker 1: lost her father in an accident, and she's returning home
Speaker 1: to what seemed to be an empty house. She was
Speaker 1: untrained to do anything, so got herself a job as
Speaker 1: a waitress. This night is quite late, Christmas Eve is raining.
Speaker 1: The car is full of laughing boys and girls home
Speaker 1: for their Christmas vacation, and she couldn't conceal the tears.
Speaker 1: Luckily for her, as I said, it was raining, so
Speaker 1: she stuck her face into the heavens to mingle her
Speaker 1: tears with rain, and then holding the rail of the
Speaker 1: street car. This is what she did, he said. This
Speaker 1: is not rain, but this is spray from the ocean.
Speaker 1: And this is not the salt of tears that I taste,
Speaker 1: but this is the salt of the sea in the wind.
Speaker 1: And this is not San Diego. This is a ship.
Speaker 1: And I'm coming into the bell of Samoa. And there
Speaker 1: she felt the reality of all that she had imagined.
Speaker 1: Then came the end of the journey, and all are
Speaker 1: out ten days later, this girl received a letter from
Speaker 1: a firm in Chicago saying that her aunt, several years before,
Speaker 1: when she sailed for Europe, deposited with them three thousand
Speaker 1: dollars with instructions if she did not return to America,
Speaker 1: this money should be paid to her niece. They had
Speaker 1: just received information of the ant's death and were now
Speaker 1: acting upon her instructions. One month later, this girl sailed
Speaker 1: for Samoa. As she came into the bay, it was
Speaker 1: late that night, and there was salt of the sea
Speaker 1: in the wind. It wasn't raining, but they were spraying
Speaker 1: in the air, and she actually felt what she felt
Speaker 1: one month before, only this time she had realized her objective.
Speaker 1: Now this whole record is techty. I want to show
Speaker 1: you today how to put your wonderful imagination right into
Speaker 1: the feeling of your wishful filled and that it remained there,
Speaker 1: and fall asleep in that state. And I promise you
Speaker 1: from my own experience, you will realize the state in
Speaker 1: which you sleep if you could actually feel yourself right
Speaker 1: into the situation of your fulfilled desire and could continue
Speaker 1: therein until you fall asleep. As you feel yourself right
Speaker 1: into it, remain in it. Until you give it all
Speaker 1: the tones of reality, until you give it all the
Speaker 1: sensory vividness of reality. As you do it, in that state,
Speaker 1: quietly fall into sleep, and in a way you will
Speaker 1: never know. You could never consciously devise the means that
Speaker 1: will be employed. You will find yourself moving across a
Speaker 1: series of events leading you towards the objective realization of
Speaker 1: this state. Now Here is a practical technique. The first
Speaker 1: thing you do, you must know exactly what you want
Speaker 1: in this world. When you know exactly what you want,
Speaker 1: make as lifelike a representation as possible of what you
Speaker 1: would see and what you would touch, and what you
Speaker 1: would do, and physically moving in such a state. For example,
Speaker 1: suppose I wanted a home, but I had no money,
Speaker 1: but I still know what I want. I, without taking
Speaker 1: anything into consideration, I would make as life like a
Speaker 1: representation of the home that I would like, with all
Speaker 1: the things in it that I would want. And then
Speaker 1: this night, as I would go to bed, I would
Speaker 1: in a state, a drowsy, sleepy state, the state that
Speaker 1: borders upon sleep. I would imagine that I am actually
Speaker 1: in such a house that were I to step off
Speaker 1: the bed, I would step upon the floor of that house.
Speaker 1: Were I to leave this room, I would enter the
Speaker 1: room that is adjacent to my imagined room in that house.
Speaker 1: And while I am touching the furniture and feeling it
Speaker 1: to be solidly real, and while I am moving from
Speaker 1: one room to the other in my imaginary house, I
Speaker 1: would go sunk to sleep in that state. And I
Speaker 1: know that, in a way I could not consciously devise,
Speaker 1: I would realize my house. I have seen it were
Speaker 1: time and time again. If I wanted promotion in my business,
Speaker 1: I would ask myself what additional responsibilities would be mine
Speaker 1: were I to be given this great promotion? What would
Speaker 1: I do? What would I say? What would I see?
Speaker 1: How would I act? And then, in my imagination, I
Speaker 1: would begin to see and touch and do and act
Speaker 1: as I would outwardly see and touch and act. Were
Speaker 1: I in that position, If I now desired the mate
Speaker 1: of my life, were I now in search of some
Speaker 1: wonderful girl or some wonderful man, what would I actually
Speaker 1: find myself doing that would imply that I have found
Speaker 1: my state. For instance, suppose now I was a lady.
Speaker 1: One thing I would definitely do. I would wear a
Speaker 1: wedding ring, I would take my imaginary hands, and I
Speaker 1: would feel the ring that I would imagine to be there,
Speaker 1: and I would keep on feeling it and feeling it
Speaker 1: until it seemed to me to be solidly. I would
Speaker 1: give it all the sensory vividness I am capable of
Speaker 1: giving anything. And while I am feeling my imaginary ring,
Speaker 1: which implies I am married, I would sleep. This story
Speaker 1: has stole us. In the Song of Songs or the
Speaker 1: Song of Solomon, it is said at night on my bed,
Speaker 1: I sought him whom my soul loveth. I found him
Speaker 1: whom my soul loveth, and I would not let him
Speaker 1: go until I brought him into my mother's house, right
Speaker 1: into the chamber of her that conceived me. If I
Speaker 1: would take that beautiful poem and put it into modern English,
Speaker 1: into practical language, it would be this. While sitting in
Speaker 1: my chair, I would feel myself right into the situation
Speaker 1: of my fulfilled desire, And having felt myself into that state,
Speaker 1: I would not let it go. I would keep that
Speaker 1: mood alive, and in that mood I would sleep. That is,
Speaker 1: taking it right in to my mother's chamber, into the
Speaker 1: chamber of her that conceive me. You know, people are
Speaker 1: totally unaware of this fantastic power of the imagination. But
Speaker 1: when man begins to discover this power within him, he
Speaker 1: never plays the part that he formerly played. He doesn't
Speaker 1: turn back and become just the reflective life. From here
Speaker 1: on in, he is the affected of life. The secret
Speaker 1: of it is to center your imagination in the feeling
Speaker 1: of the wishful field and remain bearing, For in our
Speaker 1: capacity to live in the feeling of the wishful field
Speaker 1: lies our capacity to live the more abundant life. Most
Speaker 1: of us are afraid to imagine ourselves as important and
Speaker 1: noble individuals, secure in our contribution to the world, just
Speaker 1: because at the very moment that we start our assumption,
Speaker 1: reason and our senses deny the truth of our assumption.
Speaker 1: We seem to be in the grip of an unconscious urge,
Speaker 1: which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar
Speaker 1: things and resist all that threatens to tear us away
Speaker 1: from our familiar and seemingly safe moorings. But I appeal
Speaker 1: to you to try it. If you try it, you
Speaker 1: will discover this great wisdom of the ancients, For they
Speaker 1: told it to us in their own strange, wonderful symbolical form.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately you and I misinterpreted their stories and took
Speaker 1: it for history when they intended it as instruction to
Speaker 1: simply achieve our every objective. You see, imagination puts us
Speaker 1: inly in touch with the world of states. These states
Speaker 1: are existent, they are present now, but they are mere
Speaker 1: possibilities while we think of them. But they become over
Speaker 1: powerly real when we think from them and dwell in them.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a wide difference between thinking of what
Speaker 1: you want in this world and thinking from what you want.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you when I first heard of the
Speaker 1: strange and wonderful power of the imagination. It was in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three in New York City. An old friend
Speaker 1: of mine taught it to me. He turned to the
Speaker 1: fourteenth of John, and this is what he read. In
Speaker 1: my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so,
Speaker 1: I would have told you, I go to prepare a
Speaker 1: place for you. And if I go and prepare a
Speaker 1: place for you, I will come again and receive you
Speaker 1: unto myself. That where I am there ye may be also.
Speaker 1: He explained to me that this central character of the
Speaker 1: Gospels was human imagination. That mansion was not a place
Speaker 1: in some heavenly house, but simply my desire. If I
Speaker 1: would make a living represent of the state desired, and
Speaker 1: then ento that state and abide in that state, I
Speaker 1: would realize it. At the time, I wanted to make
Speaker 1: a trip to the island of Barbados in the West Indies,
Speaker 1: but I had no money. He explained to me that
Speaker 1: if I would that night as I slept in New
Speaker 1: York City assumed that I was sleeping in my earthly
Speaker 1: father's house in Barbados, and go sunk to sleep in
Speaker 1: that state, that I would realize my trip. While I
Speaker 1: took him at his word and tried it for one month.
Speaker 1: Night after night, as I fell asleep, I assumed I
Speaker 1: was sleeping in my father's home in Barbados. At the
Speaker 1: end of my month, an invitation from my family came,
Speaker 1: inviting me to spend the winter in Barbados. I sailed
Speaker 1: for Barbados the early part of December of that year.
Speaker 1: From then on I knew I had found this savior
Speaker 1: in myself. The old man told me that it would
Speaker 1: never fail. Even after it happened, I could hardly believe
Speaker 1: that it would not have happened anyway. That's how strange
Speaker 1: this whole thing is. On reflection, it happens so naturally
Speaker 1: you begin to feel or to tell yourself what it
Speaker 1: would have happened anyway, and you quickly recover from this
Speaker 1: wonderful experience of yours. It never failed me. If I
Speaker 1: would give the mood the imagined mood sense revividous. I
Speaker 1: could tell you unnumbered case histories to show you how
Speaker 1: it works. But in essence it's simple. You simply know
Speaker 1: what you want. When you know what you want, your
Speaker 1: thinking of it, that is not enough. You must now
Speaker 1: begin to think from it. Well, how could I think
Speaker 1: from it? I am sitting here, and I desire to
Speaker 1: be elsewhere. How could I, while sitting here, physically put
Speaker 1: myself in imagination at a point in space removed from
Speaker 1: this room and make that real to me? Quite easily?
Speaker 1: My imagination puts me in touch inwardly with that state.
Speaker 1: I imagine that I am actually where I desire to be.
Speaker 1: Now can I tell that I am there? There is
Speaker 1: only one way to prove that I am there. For
Speaker 1: what a man sees when he describes his will, is
Speaker 1: as he describes it relative to himself. So what the
Speaker 1: world looks like depends entirely upon where I stand when
Speaker 1: I make my observation. So if as I describe my world,
Speaker 1: it is related to that point in space I imagine
Speaker 1: that I am occupying that I must be there. I
Speaker 1: am not there physically, no, but I am there in
Speaker 1: my imagination. And my imagination is my real self. And
Speaker 1: where I go in imagination and make it real, there
Speaker 1: I shall go in the flesh. Also in that state
Speaker 1: I fall asleep. It is done. I have never seen
Speaker 1: it fail. So this is the simple technique on how
Speaker 1: to use your imagination to realize your every objective. Here
Speaker 1: is a very healthy and productive exercise for the imagination,
Speaker 1: something that you should do daily daily, relived the day
Speaker 1: as you wish you had lived it, revising the scenes
Speaker 1: to make them conform to your ideals. For instance, suppose
Speaker 1: the day's mail brought disappointing news. Revise the letter mentally,
Speaker 1: rewrite it and make it conform to the news you
Speaker 1: wish you had received. Or suppose you didn't get the
Speaker 1: letter you wish you had received. Write yourself the letter
Speaker 1: and imagine that you received such a letter. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you a story that took place in New York,
Speaker 1: not very long ago in my audience sat this lady
Speaker 1: who had heard me all numberless times. I was telling
Speaker 1: the story of revision. Not knowing the power of imagination.
Speaker 1: He goes to sleep at the end of his day,
Speaker 1: tired and exhausted, accepting as final all the events of
Speaker 1: the day. And I was trying to show that man should,
Speaker 1: at that moment, before he sleeps, he should rewrite the
Speaker 1: entire day and make it conform to the day he
Speaker 1: wished he had experienced. Here is the way a lady
Speaker 1: wisely used this law of revision. It appears that two
Speaker 1: years ago she was ordered out of her daughter in
Speaker 1: law's home for two years. There was no correspondence. She
Speaker 1: had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in
Speaker 1: that interval, but not one was ever acknowledged. Having heard
Speaker 1: the story of revision, this is what she did. As
Speaker 1: she retired at night, she mentally constructed two letters, one
Speaker 1: she imagined coming from her grandson and the other from
Speaker 1: her daughter in law. In these letters, there expressed d
Speaker 1: affection for and wondered why she had not called to
Speaker 1: see them. This she did for seven consecutive nights, holding
Speaker 1: in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received,
Speaker 1: and reading these letters over and over until it aroused
Speaker 1: within her the satisfaction of having heard. Then she slept.
Speaker 1: On the eighth day, she received a letter from her
Speaker 1: daughter in law. On the inside there were two letters,
Speaker 1: one from her grandson and one from the daughter in law.
Speaker 1: They practically duplicated the imaginary letters that this grandmother had
Speaker 1: written to herself eight days before. This art of re
Speaker 1: vision can be used in any department of your life.
Speaker 1: Take the matter of help. Suppose you were ill. Bring
Speaker 1: before your mind's eye the image of a friend. Put
Speaker 1: upon that face an expression which implies that he or
Speaker 1: she sees in you that which you want the whole
Speaker 1: world to see. Just imagine he is saying to you
Speaker 1: that he has never seen you look better, and you reply,
Speaker 1: I have never felt better. Suppose your foot was injured.
Speaker 1: Then do this construct mentally, a drama which implies that
Speaker 1: you are walking, that you're doing all the things that
Speaker 1: you would do if the foot was normal, And do
Speaker 1: it over and over and over until it takes on
Speaker 1: the tones of reality. Whenever you do in your imagination
Speaker 1: that which you will like to do in the outer world,
Speaker 1: that you will do in the outer world, the one
Speaker 1: requisite is to arouse your attention in a way and
Speaker 1: to such intensity that you become wholly absorbed in the
Speaker 1: revised action. You will experience an expansion and refinement of
Speaker 1: the senses by this imaginative exercise, and eventually achieve vision
Speaker 1: in the inner world. The abundant life promised us is
Speaker 1: ours to enjoy now. But not until we have the
Speaker 1: sense of the creator as our imagination can we experience it.
Speaker 1: Persistent imagination, scented in the feeling of the wish fulfilled,
Speaker 1: is the secret of all successful operations. This alone is
Speaker 1: the means of fulfilling the intention. Every stage of man's
Speaker 1: progress is made by the conscious, voluntary exercise of the imagination.
Speaker 1: Then you will understand by all poets of stressed the
Speaker 1: importance of controlled, vivid imagination. Listen to this one by
Speaker 1: the Great William Blake. In your own bosom you bear
Speaker 1: your heaven and earth, and all you behold. Though it
Speaker 1: appears without, it is within in your imagination, of which
Speaker 1: this world of mortality is but a shadow. Try it,
Speaker 1: and you too will prove that your imagination is the creator.