After I completed the workshops for Gary’s subscription program I dedicated my energy, effort and time to exploring Imagination, especially in exploring how I would educate Imagination. Among things I did as I developed the Dare To Assume workshops for the series, I listened to recorded lectures from other series of Neville’s work. I had listened to these lectures day in and day out and heard different things each time. Well I heard the words, from Neville, saying we needed to educate the imagination. I played that idea in my mind again and again, “educate the imagination”, “educate the imagination”, “educate the imagination” and finally got it. I had well educated the intellect, but had done nothing for the imagination. I checked around looking for work already done in this area – something about not wanting to reinvent the wheel. But I found nothing. So I realized I had to do it myself. If I wanted my imagination educated, I would have to do the self-educating thing. I was long familiar with the idea of self-education. I had done it for so many things, so why not of my imagination.
I remember what happened when I asked, “How do I educate my imagination?” Instantly, the outline for a most comprehensive program flooded my mind. Covering each dimension of human life, I felt the outline was a roadmap for an adventurous journey. I noted right away the need to move beyond the intellect. I was reminded of challenges we had encountered as we tried to apply Neville’s teachings, consciously recognizing we had not really gotten into the experiences of the assumptions. The “we” I am talking about are folks in the Neville groups. After struggling with this for a while I eventually asked, “How do I get into the experiences of my assumptions?” With the response that came, I saw how crucial the answer was to educating my imagination. Coming from within me, the response was very simple. I received what seemed like instructions to be aware of myself as Imagination. All along I had been thinking of my imagination as something I used. I had seen it as a thing, a tool, a vessel. But I had not thought of it as who I am. So here I had to readjust my thinking. I realized I had to think of myself in new terms, I am Imagination.
Suddenly I realized I am not so much educating my imagination but educating myself as the one who is Imagination. I am educating Imagination. As I caught this meaning and identity of self, I recalled Neville had taught that Imagination is a person and he had drawn his conclusion from the first chapter of the gospel of John. Neville also taught that Imagination is the eternal being within each of us, and that the Bible is written to this eternal being. This was all new information that did not set well with my traditional approaches to spirituality or the programming already in place regarding the gospel of John and the Bible. However, I tested out reading the Bible from the perspective of my eternal being, Imagination, and was totally astounded. I was glad Neville in and through all his teachings encouraged his listeners and readers to test things out, don’t just buy into what he had said. Taking into account other of his teachings – the difference in spiritual and intellectual knowing – I solidified my awareness of being Imagination. Neville taught that spiritual knowing is becoming the thing while intellectual knowing is analyzing the thing, talking about it and comparing it to other known things. After playing around with the idea of becoming the thing in order to know it spiritually, I realized I could become the thing whatever it was only as Imagination. I had no delusions about the limits of being human – being human is limited to what it is, but being Imagination I found no limits. As Imagination I found I could be any person, place or thing and I could do any thing I specified on the stage of my mind. In the process of educating Imagination I found I had to specify the things I was willing to become and then be it.
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