[...] Let him imagine himself performing varied vigorous activities until he is nearly exhausted, and then imagine the ensuing deep relaxation.

[...] He should in his exercises imagine strenuous exercise, running very fast for example, until in his mind’s eye his muscles are fully relaxed.

[...] Strenuous exercise, not necessarily overdone you understand, but strenuous exercise physically and imagined, will in itself lead to the kind of deep relaxation that he also must learn now to achieve, and which is needed by the system.

His imagined exploits should definitely include such vigorous pursuits with the accompanying relaxation. [...]

[...] As other personalities then have looked into this room, then imagine yourself looking into other environments. Open up your imaginations in this regard ...throw off the shells of habit ...all kinds of habits (pun to Gert, a former nun). [...]

[...] Your imagination, at least now, can lead you to think in terms of various dimensions personality can take ...for your intellect is highly limited in this regard. [...]

To understand what the larger self is, you must try to imagine yourself in an environment that is not physical... [...]

Now you can close your minds to such possibilities, or you can open your imagination and inner perceptions and try to perceive them. [...]

To a child, play and work are often one and the same thing, and parents can utilize imaginative games as a way of reinforcing ideas of health and vitality. When a child is ill-disposed or cranky, or has a headache, or another disorder that does not appear to be serious, parents can utilize this idea: have the child imagine that you are giving it a “better and better pill.” Have the child open its mouth while you place the imaginary pill on its tongue, or have the child imagine picking the pill up and placing it in its mouth. [...]

[...] They imagine themselves to be in all kinds of situations. [...] They try out the roles of other family members, imagine themselves rich and poor, old and young, male and female.

(4:05.) In other cases of a child’s illness, have the child play a healing game, in which he or she playfully imagines being completely healthy again, outdoors and playing; or have the youngster imagine a conversation with a friend, describing the illness as past and gone. [...]

[...] If your child believes that a particular illness is caused by a virus, then suggest a game in which the youngster imagines the virus to be a small bug that he or she triumphantly chases away with a broom, or sweeps out the door. [...]

[...] You have thus far believed that you must train your great imaginations and your intelligences to confine themselves and their activities to the physical world as you have been told it exists. In childhood, before you so leashed your imaginations, however, you each had your own dreams—dreams that awakened you to other portions of your own identities. [...]

[...] Alone, the imagination becomes less imaginative over time.”

WHEN YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE.
THE WORLDS OF IMAGINATION AND REASON, AND THE IMPLIED UNIVERSE

[...] The Worlds of Imagination and Reason, and the Implied Universe.”

[...] If you want, imagine that they have dials and you flip them off, one by one. Then imagine that the Inner Senses have another set of dials. Imaginatively, turn them on. [...]

(Early in the morning, Jane said, she had successfully managed to imagine herself back at 458 West Water Street, cleaning the place, washing the windows inside and out, very agilely climbing about—doing all of those things she’d loved to do, even to hosing down the house from the outside. [...]

(Jane had engaged in her spontaneous actions re 458 in response to Seth’s suggestions in the last session—that she imagine others complementing her on how well she was doing, and so forth. [...]

(“He didn’t seem to do too well with the suggestions you gave in the last session—that he try imagining others commenting on how well he looked and was doing—”)

[...] I did not want him to strain, imagining himself upright under conditions that still would seem strange to him. [...]

[...] Your thoughts and imaginations do cause your activities. [...] The physical facts of going down the stairs sideways existed first in imagination, and were materialized. You need not deny the physical fact, but if you understand what causes physical facts then you change the direction of your imagination, thought and expectations in order that the following future facts will not be like the ones that so displeased you.

You spoke to Ruburt about imagination, and he must learn to use it for his benefit, through imagining himself free and well. [...]

As you were reading today, your imaginations are centered in the wrong direction. [...]

[...] You are doing the same thing with his symptoms that he does with them, that so annoy you: prolonging them in time in your imagination, and you have less reason to do so.

(9:55.) Your imaginations help you bring elements of that inner implied universe into actuality. Your imaginations obviously are not limited by time. You can imagine past and future events. Your imaginations have always helped you form your civilizations, your arts and your sciences, and when they are united with your reasoning processes they can bring you knowledge about the universe and your places in it that you can receive in no other fashion.

[...] In other words, of course, I hope to inspire both your imagination and your intelligence in this chapter and in this section of the book, devoted to such subject matter.

Imagine, now, as far as you are able, the existence of All That Is, a consciousness (pause) so magnificently complex that what we may call its own psychological compartments are, literally now, infinite. [...]

[...] I can’t imagine animals doing so, for instance—they have no need to!

If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be automatically materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring forth the conditions that will give them reality in physical terms. If you would have good health, if you would have good health for the child, then you must imagine this as vividly as, in fear, you imagine the opposite.

[...] Now, to our fine young lady: you must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination, for you allow your imagination too full a reign. [...]

It has been acted out imaginatively and physically, with some changes and variations. [...] This scene will change not necessarily because of any particular effort to reenact the scene differently imaginatively, but because of the overall “as if” game. [...]

[...] Even if you want to play it with him, it is extremely important that it is an “as if” imaginative game.

Up to now you both have been playing the illness game strongly, in your imagination both creating symptoms, imprisoning Ruburt within them in the present, seeing them in the future, and examining future events in the light of present symptoms.

In his “as if” game, have Ruburt imagine he is having his period, buying his Tampax. [...]

You are imagining a situation in which there is no sound to be heard; whether or not you have ears, there is no sound. Then, imagine that, suddenly, a raindrop falls and makes a first sound... [...] And imagine the impact and the beauty of that sound. Then slowly imagine other sounds appearing in the world, appearing in the same way that a flower might appear, so that sounds begin to be born in the universe. Imagine, then, the joy of hearing that sound in a world that had known none. Whatever sounds, then, that imaginatively come to you, feel the brilliance and miracle of them as they are born out of the silence. [...] In all of this, do not think about your ears, but do the imaginative exercise exactly as I have suggested it. [...]

Imagine for an experiment, now, a world in which there is no sound. Do not imagine that you are deaf. [...] But imagine that the world itself has no sound for anyone to hear. [...]

[...] Now, you use your imagination well. So imagine these new sounds as they would appear, until you are really dazzled.

[...] “What is there to hear?” “What are they saying?” “How bad is my hearing today?” You must instead sensually enjoy those sounds that come to you, and even imagine sounds when you are alone. [...]

[...] As it occurred, however, [man] began to make great distinctions between the world of the imagination and the world of nature, until finally he became convinced that the physical world was real and the imaginative world was not. [...]

[...] Imaginative interpretations seemed like pretensions. [...] What you call abstract art tried to reverse that process, but even the abstract painters did not believe in the world of the imagination, in which there were any heroic dimensions, and the phase is largely transitory.

I did mean to mention that man’s use of perspective in painting was a turning point (early in the 15th century), in that it foreshadowed the turning of art away from its imaginative colorations toward a more specific physical rendering—that is, to a large degree after that the play of the imagination would not be allowed to “distort” the physical frame of reference.

The main issue, however, in that particular era, was a shared belief system, a system that consisted of, among other things, implied images that were neither here nor there—neither entirely earthly nor entirely divine—a mythology of God, angels, demons, an entire host of Biblical characters that were images in man’s imagination, images to be physically portrayed. [...]

For an exercise, then, imagine for a while that the subjective world of your thoughts, feelings, inner images and fantasies represent the “rockbed reality” from which individual physical events emerge. [...] Imagine that physical experience is somehow the materialization of your own subjective reality. [...]

Your world and everything in it exists first in the imagination, then. [...]

[...] In a way, the world is like a multidimensional, exotic plant growing in space and time, each thought, dream, imaginative encounter, hope or fear, growing naturally into its own bloom — a plant of incredible variety, never for a moment the same, in which each smallest root, leaf, stem, or flower has a part to play and is connected with the whole.

This recognition does indeed involve a new performance on the part of your own consciousness, a mental and imaginative leap that gives you control and direction over achievements that you have always performed, though without your conscious awareness.

2. Imagine that each card is a little different in shape or size from the one below it so there is a progressive change from the bottom of the stack to the top. [...]

[...] He cannot see up or down, as we cannot see (or even imagine) our fourth dimension. [...]

The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet (intently). The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities. [...]

[...] I want you to try and imagine actual events, as you think of them, to be (pause) the vitalized representations of probabilities—that is, as the physical versions of mental probabilities. [...]

[...] Very simply: You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. [...]

[...] They help focus both mind and imagination. [...]

As much as possible, playfully (underlined twice) imagine your worries floating away. It might help if you imagine balloons, one labeled insurance, another health, and so forth — then imagine them floating away, or popping open, or whatever. [...]

[...] Imagine yourself answering questions that have been put to you. You need not imagine that you are hearing clearly. If you imagine that you are answering the questions, then it will be taken for granted that you have heard them correctly. [...]

[...] The world is not as tumultuous as you imagine it to be, and you can hold your own within it. [...]

[...] When man believed the world was flat, he used his thought processes in such a way that they had great difficulty in imagining any other kind of world, and read the evidence so that it fit the flat-world picture.

[...] You do not imagine impediments.

(Pause.) There is an exercise Ruburt read that will help here, where one imagines the eyes sinking backward into the head. [...]

If you began to think in terms of beautifully produced books, without imagining impediments, then automatically the process would begin. [...]

(10:28.) Now: (Long pause.) Mankind is a species (long pause) that specializes in the use of the imagination, and without the imagination language would be unnecessary. Man from his particular vantage point imagines images and events that are not before his eyes. The applied use of the imagination is one of the most distinguishing marks of your species, and the imagination is your connection between the inner worlds of reality and the exterior world of your experience. [...]

I want to discuss reason and imagination, then, and those subtle variations that unite the two. [...]

[...] Imagine anything that you like that is pleasant to you. [...] Then imagine yourself stepping apart from yourself in whatever way you choose. And then imagine that all about you there is another dimension and you need only take one step at a time ... [...]

[...] You can use your imagination and imagine perhaps that you hold an arrow and want to direct it to a proper location. [...]