When we sleep our energy is largely passive as we enter a restful restorative mode. When we are awake our energy is mobilized for directed action.

Infinity reflects these same two modes. Passivity is its state of absolute oneness, what spiritual traditions call simply the consciousness of I AM, devoid of any specific definition, as it encompasses everything.

The active side of infinity molds that state of undifferentiated wholeness into a specific definition. I AM becomes I Am That. In this mode infinity assumes a definite form, which can be said to be the child of its original oneness.

The child is of the substance of its parent oneness but loses its experience of oneness as it has become a definite, limited mortal being in human form.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby called coming into human form as a separate personality an error because of this illusion of separateness, generated by the birth and identity of the human ego.

For Quimby, the mistaken beliefs of the ego largely generate disease. For him, healing requires ego to restore itself through contact with its underlying oneness, at the substrate of all beings.

For Quimby, that underlying oneness, like the subconscious mind, is capable of creating any state of being, based on truth or error. It imposes no judgment upon the conscious mind’s intentions; it manifests whatever suggestions it receives. It remains for ego consciousness to learn from the consequences of its beliefs.

Carl Jung explained this curiosity of divinity as a quality of God, which is dependent on humankind for its own growth through the experiences of human existence. For Jung, God’s passive state of oneness needs to create separateness in order to know the infinite parts of its inherent oneness.

From this perspective, God, as original oneness, becomes lived by humans, allowing its infinite creative powers to be exercised in human form at the complete control of the human ego.

All human dramas, good or bad, are parts of the oneness of God. From Jung’s perspective, God, through humans, grows as it discovers the karma, or outcomes of various possibilities played out in human life.

This active side of infinity begins with the speaking of the word: “In the beginning was the Word.”

In the shaman’s world, the word is the summoning of intent. Our thoughts and beliefs summon the subconscious mind to gather the energy of intent, to then manifest in physical form, that which is called for.

Following the personally vetted guidance of Thomson Jay Hudson, I recommend stating, redundantly, a healing intent to attract the subconscious mind to exercise its powers of manifestation.

Redundancy is like repetitive prayer that simply blocks out undermining doubt by filling all available space with stated intent. As one achieves positive outcomes with this method, ego confidence expands with it and resistance naturally diminishes.

Neville Goddard introduced the use of imagination to stalk, as the shamans would say, the living experience of one’s intent as already fulfilled.

The shifting of total attention to the imaginative experience of a desire already fulfilled transcends the current fixation of consciousness upon a limited reality generated by the physical senses.

In this alternative imagined reality, the imagination generates the scene of fulfillment accompanied by the heightened emotions of the lived fantasy, even including a subtler experience of physical sensations accompanying the unfolding drama. Jung called this process active imagination.

The effect of such an imaginative exercise is to seed the subconscious mind with a very powerful suggestion to gather physical life to be physically lived to the fullest.

As always, as the guidance goes: “Ask and you shall receive.” However, as previously stated, be very thoughtful what you ask for, as no divine force will check your power, but karma will.

If our intentions are for other than the greater good, we will have to suffer the consequences of our actions. That’s how we all learn.

As well, life in human form is a terminal affair. There are limits to what may be achieved in the time and space of a human lifetime and, ultimately, the human form must acquiesce to change, despite its underlying infinite beingness. Life, in some new form, will go on.

Finally, though exercising both our words and our imagination to summon intent, we have no control over the ways of the subconscious mind. The trail ahead and the time taken for manifestation is literally out of our hands.

Best practice: Simply let go to the subconscious mind.

In word and imagination,
Chuck