Roy Eugene Davis, How to use the Technique of Creative Imagination
Set aside a period of time every day for practice in the creative silence and learn to work on the subjective level, so that you might see the results of your inner work projected in the world of three dimensions. Foreword
For I always experience in this life that which I feel to be possible. I can only experience without that which I feel to be true within myself on a feeling level. pg. 4
The common question is: “How long will it take to realize the dream, once it is established according to the practice?” This is determined by the individual’s own ability to accept it as true. When one gets and holds the feeling during daily activity that the dream is a reality, then it will be soon. The secret lies in the ability to make the feeling vivid in the quiet state. Do not project yourself into the future to experience the desired event, make then, now. Collapse time. Don’t go to another point in space to experience the event; bring there, here. Experience vividly here and now as though it were true. You will know that you have succeeded when you cease to yearn for the experience and instead, find yourself experiencing it. pg. 29
It is based on the principle that physical experience always follows psychological assumptions. … Real progress is not the result of evolution, but rather is the result of man’s ability to project himself into new situations psychologically, and then move into the situation physically. pg. 30-31
In this higher understanding we do not depend upon physical action to bring us a desired result. [but instead from altering your vision during the exercising of creative imagination] pg. 34
All that takes place to make your dream a reality is the result of your state of consciousness, or your new concept of self, gained in the silent practice of altering your vision during the exercising or creative imagination. Everything stems from self. pg. 34
It is not so much what we do that determines our lot in life, but what we expect. pg. 35
To summarize the technique:
1. Physical relaxation in a quiet place.
2. Vivid creation of a scene, in the imagination, one which would imply the dream fulfilled.
3. Go deeper, into a state of sleep, to “set” the new state in consciousness. pg. 36
But it is possible to get rid of the pain associated with memory…
Revision is the method of releasing past painful experience so that the memory of it does not monitor present time situations. … pg. 55
In revising the experience, our main interest is not in wiping out the memory of the past, but in erasing the pain.
Here is the technique: You assume an attitude similar to the one which is assumed for the practice of the technique of creative imagination – relaxed and in a quiet room. Bring before your inner vision the scene of the past painful experience which seems to give you the most trouble. Start just before the emotional part and run through it like a motion picture scene. Without feeling there is little or no reality. Run through it with feeling, as though you wished it had happened. Not as it did happen, but as though you wish it had happened. Then run back to the beginning and do it again. Do this with feeling, until you erase the pain. When you play it back as though you wish it had happened, you neutralize the energy pattern in the subconscious, or erase the picture which had been instilled therein. pg. 56
