A Little More for Someone and Sometime Readers: How to Sneak Up on Imaginal Experiences

Are you stuck seeing things in your imagination like watching a scene on a movie screen, or like you were watching a play from a distance? Rabbi Jeff Roth explains in Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life Exodus chapters 33 and 34. You are the son born. In your meditation you are in a cleft of the rocks -- your factual life -- as you watch the scene of your desire from a distance. You need to get into the scene, to enter the play and become the actor on the stage -- to have the experience of the result of your wish's fulfillment. Define exactly the nature you have on stage as the version of God's imagination you desire: "I am Merciful, Gracious, Generous of Spirit -- My Grace and Zeal are bountiful -- I safeguard grace for thousands of generations, I forgive sins and obligations, but I absolutely do not sanctify those who sin and fail their duties; however, I do command the love of parents upon their children and upon their children's children, to the third and fourth generations": I am Wonderful, Successful, Talented, Respectful, Loving, Noble, Gracious, Happily Married, Profitably Employed, Healthy, Grateful, (&etc.). Approach the desired 'you' in the scene from the rear and enter him or her from behind the head. Look through his or her eyes -- look out through them -- and be the person you wish to be. Now his hands are your hands to feel with and his ears are yours to hear with. Now on the stage, give the scene you have planned all the tones of reality over and over until it is your cubic reality. Nappy time.