Causation and The Sphere of Common Experience
It occurs to me that we consider causation by imagining to be quite exceptional, while it is supposed to be the norm.
I am sure that when a person first learns that imagination is causative--that he or she is in fact God become man and is Christ, the Power and the Wisdom of God and can have whatsoever he or she desires--that the first impression is to come up with something really big and radical to prove it by: a miraculous healing, a fantastic job, promotion, or really big house or the like. But the spiritual reality we are discovering is the norm: it is always there, and it is always functioning.
Can we take the super-duper experience of creation by faith out of the meditative state of intense, vivid imagining and actualize that same faith and vivid imagining in the common sphere of affairs? We blindly go through life without purpose, reacting to whatever situation confronts us. There is a purpose, YHWH, and I think we should be "up" in causative imagining "24/7" . . . YHWHing. YHWH is God in covenant relationship with man. And we ARE that God.
I am certainly not the first to come up with this concept. Dr. Frank C. Laubach proposed and attempted the same, with varying degrees of success, in Game With Minutes. Laubach was and is my hero, a spiritual giant of unsurpassed spiritual depth. He changed this world by teaching it how to read--he spent his life loving it. He didn't know all the stuff we talk about in this blog, of being God or imagining like Neville talked about, he just did it. And he did it with the great humility. It took me seven years to find my first copy of Channels of Spiritual Power, and I'll still buy any clean copy I find.
My point, though, is that the expectation of the meditative state also can be immediate expectation of the moment-by-moment daily experience; the "exceptional" should be our common experience. What we have an earnest of is supposed to be the norm. How will our worlds be then?
I am sure that when a person first learns that imagination is causative--that he or she is in fact God become man and is Christ, the Power and the Wisdom of God and can have whatsoever he or she desires--that the first impression is to come up with something really big and radical to prove it by: a miraculous healing, a fantastic job, promotion, or really big house or the like. But the spiritual reality we are discovering is the norm: it is always there, and it is always functioning.
Can we take the super-duper experience of creation by faith out of the meditative state of intense, vivid imagining and actualize that same faith and vivid imagining in the common sphere of affairs? We blindly go through life without purpose, reacting to whatever situation confronts us. There is a purpose, YHWH, and I think we should be "up" in causative imagining "24/7" . . . YHWHing. YHWH is God in covenant relationship with man. And we ARE that God.
I am certainly not the first to come up with this concept. Dr. Frank C. Laubach proposed and attempted the same, with varying degrees of success, in Game With Minutes. Laubach was and is my hero, a spiritual giant of unsurpassed spiritual depth. He changed this world by teaching it how to read--he spent his life loving it. He didn't know all the stuff we talk about in this blog, of being God or imagining like Neville talked about, he just did it. And he did it with the great humility. It took me seven years to find my first copy of Channels of Spiritual Power, and I'll still buy any clean copy I find.
My point, though, is that the expectation of the meditative state also can be immediate expectation of the moment-by-moment daily experience; the "exceptional" should be our common experience. What we have an earnest of is supposed to be the norm. How will our worlds be then?
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