Don't Imagine: Assume!
Don't be silly, Danny. Assuming anything is imagining. All assumption is done in the imagination.
Aye, that it is, luv. But that is the problem. We have all been told to imagine, but the guy telling us to imagine meant for us to assume. Assuming is imaginal, but it is different from imagining. In imagining you know that you are not it. That is a big handicap to overcome. In assuming you believe that you are.
Yes, it is all done in the imagination. But assuming is a hunk of an attitude: I'm there, this is real, I'm thinking from it, everything else is two-dimensional. In an assumption you can investigate all things like Confucius said to in The Great Learning, and you can find a certain one thing that is contingent on your wish being fulfilled.
Neville investigated being granted passage on the steamship. The ship had to anchor outside the harbor, he and his family would take the tender out to it, they would have to make their way up the gangplank, he would be both happy and sad to go as he waved farewell to his family on Barbados. It is a big thing to assume that you are in. But he would only be on that gangplank if he was already granted passage. No tickie; no plankie. If he is on the gangplank, then he and his family must have been granted passage.
So Neville assumed he marched up the gangplank. The smell of the ocean, the salt on the handrail, the movement of the ship and tender--he ASSUMED his present reality. He got the effect of getting the tickets securely experienced . . . by imagining? Yes, by ASSUMING.
Neville used the term 'assume' frequently. Almost any taped lecture: "Nevertheless that night I slept in Barbados. I ASSUMED that I'm in Barbados in my mother's home. And then I saw America relative to Barbados, and it wasn't under me that night; it was north of me about two thousand miles." Assumed. That's the tool.
Aye, that it is, luv. But that is the problem. We have all been told to imagine, but the guy telling us to imagine meant for us to assume. Assuming is imaginal, but it is different from imagining. In imagining you know that you are not it. That is a big handicap to overcome. In assuming you believe that you are.
Yes, it is all done in the imagination. But assuming is a hunk of an attitude: I'm there, this is real, I'm thinking from it, everything else is two-dimensional. In an assumption you can investigate all things like Confucius said to in The Great Learning, and you can find a certain one thing that is contingent on your wish being fulfilled.
Neville investigated being granted passage on the steamship. The ship had to anchor outside the harbor, he and his family would take the tender out to it, they would have to make their way up the gangplank, he would be both happy and sad to go as he waved farewell to his family on Barbados. It is a big thing to assume that you are in. But he would only be on that gangplank if he was already granted passage. No tickie; no plankie. If he is on the gangplank, then he and his family must have been granted passage.
So Neville assumed he marched up the gangplank. The smell of the ocean, the salt on the handrail, the movement of the ship and tender--he ASSUMED his present reality. He got the effect of getting the tickets securely experienced . . . by imagining? Yes, by ASSUMING.
Neville used the term 'assume' frequently. Almost any taped lecture: "Nevertheless that night I slept in Barbados. I ASSUMED that I'm in Barbados in my mother's home. And then I saw America relative to Barbados, and it wasn't under me that night; it was north of me about two thousand miles." Assumed. That's the tool.
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