Everyone pretty much knows about creative imagination or visualization.
You know, it's pretty...many people have, you know, cut their teeth on that kind of
practice.
You know, you see what you want, you feel that you have it, you bring it into manifestation.
There's nothing wrong with this realization at all.
It's a wonderful evolutionary stage in an individual that's walking this spiritual path.
The only thing about visualization is that it has a level of limitation because you can
only visualize what you know already.
You can take a picture out of a magazine and do a vision board.
You can look at somebody else's life and visualize that for yourself.
You know, so it's within a certain paradigm.
Visioning is catching an idea outside of your present paradigm so that you're making yourself
receptive to the spiritual idea that the universe wants to birth through you that you may not
know about.
In other words, you may be inculturated by your society, by your religion.
In the Western world we have all these models of success.
You're successful if you have a house and two kids and picket fence, two cars.
You know, people get that and they're not happy but someone could visualize that and
manifest it and realize, "Oh my God.
I'm still unhappy."
Visioning is different.
Visioning begins with the spiritual idea that there is planted within each and every one
of us a powerful destiny.
A powerful, unique way that the universe wants to express itself.
So instead of telling the universe what we want, we instead ask a question.
How does...what does, you know, what is the universe's idea of my life?
And we begin to catch that idea, you know.
What is my growing edge?
What must I become to manifest that vision?
What do I already have in my house that I can use to serve the vision?
What must I let go of?
What does willingness look like?
We ask a different kind of question because here's a hierarchy of questions.
Behind every problem there's a question trying to ask itself.
Universe being progressive.
Behind every question, there's an answer trying to reveal itself.
Behind every answer, there's an action trying to take place and behind every action there's
a way of life trying to be born.
So a problem...the world problem comes from emblem.
It's emblematic of the content of consciousness that's being projected onto the screen of
life.
Because the universe is progressive, the universe wants you to ask a question.
So if you have a problem, you have to ask a question.
What is the nature of reality?
What is the nature of prosperity?
What is the nature of love?
The universe will start to answer that.
After it answers that, it will start to give you an action to take.
And then it will birth itself into a way of living.
So visioning begins with a question.
You can say, "What is God's idea of his self as my life?"
So another...analogies are poor sometimes to use but if an acorn were to go into the
visioning process it would say, you know, "What is God's idea of his self as my life?"
It would begin to see an oak tree.
An oak tree that had never existed before.
An oak tree that is so unique that there would be no other oak tree like it and it would
say, "Well what do I need to become for this oak tree to manifest?"
Well you're going to have to die to your littleness.
You know?
The acorn is going to have to crack open.
It's going to have to be planted in the right condition.
It's going to have to let go of its smallness.
It's going to have to embrace the infinite field of divine possibility within its soul.
Eventually the condition is right, it becomes an oak tree.
There are things within us that we have no idea that are even there because we've been
indoctrinated by the society in which we are living.
A high tech, low touch society.
Consumerism, materialism, fear, doubt, worry and so we visualize what we think we want
to be happy.
Nothing wrong with that but beyond that is a gift, a talent, a capacity within us all
that's trying to emerge.
Robert Browning indicated, you know, there's an inner splendor, you know, that's trying
to escape.
So the visioning process invites the inner splendor to come up that may shock our surface
mind.
It may surprise us as to what's trying to emerge and what we must become.
And now outside of our present paradigm the miraculous is there.
It's something trying to happen through us and we keep growing and growing.
So visualization is a stage of our spiritual growth.
It teaches us there's a law in the universe.
It teaches us the friendliness of the universe.
It teaches us that our thoughts transmute themselves into things.
It teaches us that things don't just happen.
They have just.
It's a good teaching stage, but then once we become comfortable and realize that the
universe is friendly we can begin to give up control and ask a higher question.
And now we lose control, we move into surrender.
That's the big game.