Liz Oertel, Shamanic Healer

On Imagination

I found this, from T. Lobsang Rampa's book "Wisdom of the Ancients":

  "IMAGINATION : Imagination is the picturing of one's desires or one’s fears, and imagination is the greatest force of all, greater than will-power, greater than love.   It is an old lore of psychologists that in any battle between the will and imagination, the imagination always wins, and if we try to conquer imagination by brute will-power then  we cause a neurotic condition.  The imagination still wins because the imagination causes a breakdown, so that the imagination must conquer. 

There cannot be love without imagination.  One imagines the charms of one's beloved, or one imagines that one has met one's ‘twin soul’ (as rare as apples on a gooseberry bush while on Earth!), and one imagines all the pleasures with love undying of being married to such-and-such a person.   In passing, it needs rather more than just animal passion to keep two people in harmony.

If the imagination says that one shall not do such-and-such a thing, then, no matter how strong the will, a person cannot do it.  Could you, for instance, walk along a plank suspended across the tops of two ten-story buildings?  No matter how strongly the plank was anchored your over-worked imagination would say that you were going to fall, and then you would fall, to the delight of the onlookers and to the profit of the Press who would be sure to be there. 

If you want to get results you will have to control your imagination so that it and friend will-power work together in harmony. "

 

You haven't heard from me in a while . . .

because I was so occupied with work and other issues, and I have moved to a new location in Bridgeport, Connecticut, near the Fairfield town line.  No easy feat, let me tell you!  New classes will be posted soon, and also a workshop I am working on for sometime in June or July on crystal energy and healing the earth, with a guest teacher who specializes in crystals that I know we can all learn from.  So . . . Stay Tuned!

Last night I saw James Arthur Ray speak, you probably remember him from the movie "The Secret". I have always liked the way he translates universal principles in down to earth ways that people can understand and practice.  James truly speaks from real experience and  he is a wonderful teacher. His new book is titled "Harmonic Wealth" (he does not define wealth as money) and I do recommend reading it and applying what he says to the different areas of your life, or more appropriately, to the the different areas of your CONSCIOUSNESS!  I'll bet you didn't know he has immersed himself in shamanism, for many years, in different countries too.  I'll write more commentary on Mr. Ray's work in other postings. 

I hope you're all enjoying the onset of Spring.  The return of the outer light really helps the inner light to shine!