What do you imagine?

I imagine, too.

[Photo by me]

The other day I was walking, and I came across one of those mini-libraries where you can just grab a book, and I grabbed a copy of The Power of Imagination: The Neville Goddard Treasury. I had never heard of this book, or Neville Goddard, for that matter. According to the cover, what I had in my hands was “His Greatest Visionary Writings in One Collection.” According to the book description on Amazon, Goddard is a “modern mystic […] who has enthralled a new generation of readers with his simple but radical principle that your imagination is God.” I am not much for God, but I am much for imagination, so I was intrigued. By the way, the book is very big. Regardless, I took it home. Generally, I’m not reading many books these days, because I don’t want my precious brain soiled with the influence of any one else’s book while I write my book, but I thought with this one, I’d make an exception. Besides, I don’t really read it, per se. Rather, when the spirit, as it were, moves me, I open up the book to a random place and read some of it. Basically, this book is like The Secret, before The Secret. Also, I would just like to point out that I have not read The Secret, although I am aware of what it is. While the Amazon description asserts that “From the late 1930s until his death in 1972, Neville promulgated one basic, extraordinary idea, which he restated with freshness and verve in more than ten books and hundreds of lectures: The human imagination is the Jesus Christ of Scripture, and the world around you is the out-picturing of your emotionalized thoughts,” it is very easy to ignore the Jesus Christ of Scripture parts, if that’s not your bag, and instead just tune into the Power of Your Imagination parts, which is totally my bag. Basically, as I see it, Goddard believes that if you can imagine things, they can become real things. You have to basically, like, assume the thing you desire is done by using your imagination, and then the thing you desire will be done in reality. I mean, it sounds sort of silly, but the point is that it gets you to turn off your rational, strategic brain and tune into your intuitive, creative brain. I like this idea very much. I think imagination is what helps us survive. In any case, it has got me using my imagination more, meditating more, previsioning more, if you will. The world is not a good place for imaginings; too many realities get in the way. The interior is a good place for imaginings; in the mind, all things are possible.

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