Think Like a Mystic

In my previous post about suspending judgment, I made the claim that in order to manifest your desires, you must avoid any logic from the senses while contemplating and imagining the successful outcome of your desire. I also made the claim that your imagination is the creator of all the exists; and as such, there is no other causation or explanation for ANY of the creations, events, people, places, or things in this world EXCEPT that of your imagination. Being that there is no justification which can logically explain the events we witness, except that of spritual wisdom, spiritual truth, and spiritual action, we must continue to view this world independently of the physical causes which bring seemingly bring them forth.

For when we imagine, the entire world will move to bring you the result of your desires. God is the creator, and God lives within, and so there are no other causes or explanations for why things are happening the way they are. No one makes a decision to take action. No one is living independently of you. Your imagination moves everything to action. Only your imagination.

No one's imagination can be in conflict with yours. There are infinite dimensions, possibilities, and copies of you and everyone else living in this world, for each person. No one can dictate you to do anything. You are the director, and everyone else will fall in line with the idea or assumption you carry of them -- and yourself, in your own reality. 

As such, we must realize that "thinking" is a logical process which exists to explain what is happening in the physical reality. Your reasoning is trained to find patterns and project the future. But this "reasoning" or "thinking" does not support you spiritually, not in the way which we have used it in the past, anyway. We must cease from contemplating the world we live in, unless it is directed toward understanding how creation and imagination works. We are not to judge situations or predict what will happen based on the facts and evidence we see with our own eyes, or hear with our own ears. Instead, we must only use our thinking to conjure up novel solutions to the problems we face in this world.

After we imagine, it is our worldly desire to "watch" how things move, "search" for our desires being fulfilled, or "predicting" what will happen, or what will not happen. But our logical reasoning will only work against us, for the logical reasoning is only useful in the physical, non-spiritual world. After we have done imaginal work, we should not tell anyone about it. For if we tell anyone about it, we take a chance at receiving "false evidence", evidence contrary to the truth. The truth is simple: when we imagine something, it must be made manifest in this world -- unless interfered with a contrary, more powerful thought. When we contemplate what we have done, that we have imagined, and if we invite others to do so with us, we are risking uprooting the planted seed by the rake of our own logical reasoning. 

Neville says, "do not even discuss it with yourself after you have imagined", and the reason is simple as just described above. Our logic has no place with our imagination, for logic only brings limitations or false laws. The bible tells us, "Let this mind be in you, that is also in Christ." Christ says, "If you believe, all things are possible." Christ constantly scolds those who try to figure out "how", "why", or "why not". 

Our desires are given to us from God in the first place. Since God is moving us toward our desires, or asking us to imagine, it is proof that the solution is in the imagination, in God. If it were not possible, then God would not move you through the medium of desire in the first place. In the Bible, in the 4th chapter of John, Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman about fetching him water. On the surface, this is a little play inside the bible, but in reality this is symbolism for what I have just told you. It tells you that God is the one who gives you your thirst (your desire). He says that she has created her entire existence through her 5 senses (her 5 husbands), and that the husband that she TRULY desires is not yet her husband, and she there is referring to her SPIRITUAL 5 SENSES, or the Holy Spirit of God, through Christ. 

He is explaining the danger of using your 5 senses, and telling her to move away from using her senses, and switch to using her spiritual sensation (imagination). Jesus also says that you cannot worship God through the 5 senses, but you must worship him through Spirit. That means, do not look for answers in the 5 senses. Do not look for answers in this physical reality. Do not tell yourself why something cannot be done. Just simply imagine it, feel the feeling of it existing already, and then leave it alone. For there is nothing that can be done in the senses. There is nothing that can be done in this world. The greater we understand this, the less we will contemplate our desires after we have imagined them. 

John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

He also explains that we do not need to be in a specific place to imagine. We do not need to be in a church, in your house, in a temple, or anywhere specific. Instead, we are able to do this wherever we want. You can do it where you sit, right now. You can do it when you are at work, when you are driving, when you are about to go to sleep. You can do it in jail, on vacation, when you are out to dinner with your family. No one can ever know WHAT you imagine as you are imagining it, unless the spirit moves to show someone else. But that privilege is all yours, to imagine as you please, wherever you please, whatever you please.

20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

If you want to contemplate the happy ending of your desire, that is fine. For that is spiritual sensation, and the substance of things hopes for, the evidence of things unseen. But the MOMENT you start wondering about how it will happen, the moment you question the ways and means of how it will unfold, you are to stop immediately. For the latter thinking is dangerous, and it is not how to please God. 

"No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him." (Hebrews 11:6)

There are only two ways to displease God, and that is through DOUBT, SENSES, LOGIC, and by the Judgment of Good and Evil. Both of these unpleasing acts create limit in this world. It is not your place to judge something good or bad, for God is the creator of all things. Also, when you start logically trying to think of how a manifestation will unfold, or bring doubt in by studying the limitations of the senses, you are leaving the realm of the spirit, for spirit is the imagination. 

One critical example he gives is when the woman, after talking to Christ, goes into the city and tells the men, "Do not say that it will take 4 months to harvest your fruit. For they are fruitful now for harvest". That is exactly what I am talking about. The senses tells us that because a harvest takes several months, the fields must reep their fruit within 4 months. Instead, the bible is telling us, "I see the fields fruitful now". That is what you must do. Never look at things with your senses, for all that brings is limitation. But if you simply imagine the end, and do not contemplate things with facts, then your harvest will be imminent. It will come sooner, and in a way which is unexpected. For the only thing we should expect is that it is coming to pass. We will not know how, we will not know who will be moved to do it, and we will not know when. But NEVER put limitations on your imaginal acts, for your imaginal act in and of itself is faith, to imagine something can be made manifest through the senses. So why limit it with reasoning and logic? 

28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

In the end, all that is necessary for you to harvest your desires is to imagine them. If there was nothing in the way of your desires, if there was nothing between your desires, if you could just snap your fingers and have everything you want, anything you want, immediately, what would it be? This is the way you must imagine. Never think of the past, never think of the present, never think of the future. Simply enter into a relaxed state where you have complete control of your imagination without effort. When you are there, consider that question: if you could have anything you want, regardless of any limitation, what would it be? Once you have answered that question, imagine the end result of your desire. Once you have imagined it, feel the feelings as if it is already there. THAT is spiritual sensation. THAT is how to please God. Once you are finished, and it felt very real, release it. Do not tell anyone about it. Do not tell your friends, your mother, your father, your spouse, and most importantly, do not even TELL YOURSELF!

Thinking about it will only bring limitations and doubt, and that does not please God. God is the operant power of your mind, and so those logical thoughts, if you choose to contemplate them, will only cause doubt and limitation to enter into the mind of God, which rules the world, and your own self-thought limitations will be cast upon you. 

Matthew 6:6 (KJV)

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.