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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Vision]]'''''====

===='''''[[Vision]]'''''====

Today I wish to discuss a [[practical]] application for a term familiar to you and attempt to [[demonstrate]] how this [[phenomenon]] may be used for your benefit. The term I will use is “your [[mind’s eye]]”. By way of example, if you will follow my train of thought you will see where it leads. [[Imagine]], if you will, using your mind’s eye that you are [[transported]] to a dense [[jungle]] surroundings. In this jungle surroundings the moss is deep on the ground; the vines weigh heavy in the trees. The smell of damp earth and growing, living [[organisms]] is pronounced, and as you are making your way through this jungle path before you you come upon a stone structure. You assess this [[structure]] to be similar to those you are familiar with from your [[experiential]] base as some form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_temple#Pyramids_and_temples Mayan temple]. You notice through your other [[senses]] that the stones are old and cracked, that the jungle has invaded this structure once obviously maintained and pristine, now overgrown from lack of [[care]]. You are able to make your way up the carved stone [[steps]] and rise to a location on this [[platform]] where you may reach the crown of the trees around you. There you are provided with this [[perspective]] of dense jungle surrounding you as far as you may turn and see in any [[direction]]. You hear the sounds of exotic birds, even of the monkeys in the trees. You are familiar enough with all of this [[stimulus]] and input to your [[senses]] so that this reality you are now observing -- even though you are sitting in a room in north Idaho -- is due to the fact you have reconstructed this [[image]] based upon aspects of [[reality]] that you know to be real and true to you. Therefore with but a few simple suggestions you are able to re-assimilate these characteristics and realities quickly back using your [[mind’s eye]] to assemble this collection of sensory input which may transport you at once to a dense jungle and a [[temple]] therein.

Today I wish to discuss a [[practical]] application for a term familiar to you and attempt to [[demonstrate]] how this [[phenomenon]] may be used for your benefit. The term I will use is “your [[mind’s eye]]”. By way of example, if you will follow my train of thought you will see where it leads. [[Imagine]], if you will, using your mind’s eye that you are [[transported]] to a dense [[jungle]] surroundings. In this jungle surroundings the moss is deep on the ground; the vines weigh heavy in the trees. The smell of damp earth and growing, living [[organisms]] is pronounced, and as you are making your way through this jungle path before you you come upon a stone structure. You assess this [[structure]] to be similar to those you are familiar with from your [[experiential]] base as some form of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_temple#Pyramids_and_temples Mayan temple]. You notice through your other [[senses]] that the stones are old and cracked, that the jungle has invaded this structure once obviously maintained and pristine, now overgrown from lack of [[care]]. You are able to make your way up the carved stone [[steps]] and rise to a location on this [[platform]] where you may reach the crown of the trees around you. There you are provided with this [[perspective]] of dense jungle surrounding you as far as you may turn and see in any [[direction]]. You hear the sounds of exotic birds, even of the monkeys in the trees. You are familiar enough with all of this [[stimulus]] and input to your [[senses]] so that this reality you are now observing -- even though you are sitting in a room in north Idaho -- is due to the fact you have reconstructed this [[image]] based upon aspects of [[reality]] that you know to be real and true to you. Therefore with but a few simple suggestions you are able to re-assimilate these characteristics and realities quickly back using your [[mind’s eye]] to assemble this collection of sensory input which may transport you at once to a dense jungle and a [[temple]] therein.

Now, given what you all know to be true and real and [[factual]] about spiritual [[reality]], it remains an option open to you and one worthy of exercising to assemble those [[traits]] and aspects of what you understand to be [[truth]] about your spiritual realities, and through the use of this same [[mind’s eye]] to transport you from your current realm surrounded by [[materialism]] and challenges before you to a point of perspective where you may glance down upon your current setting from a distance much as you would see across the tops of the trees to a far distant place. You may also look back down upon your current [[surroundings]] from a much enhanced spiritual platform. It is as easy as this [[exercise]] you undertook to draw your senses into assimilating these impressions together again, to project your seat of [[observation]] from where it may reside materially to where you may desire it to reside in the spiritual plane. From this perspective on high it is far easier to see the subtleties and details of your current surroundings with new, enhanced perspective and [[values]] so that what appears to be random and [[uncertain]] becomes merely [[paths]] through the jungle you observe. From on high you may see that they begin at this point and lead to that point, but from down in the jungle you are unable to determine where this or that path may lead. It is only with the perspective of looking down onto that set of circumstances that you are graced with the perspective provided allowing you to make some wider ranging [[decisions]] based upon where you deem that path to be going or this path to be leading you.

Now, given what you all know to be true and real and [[factual]] about spiritual [[reality]], it remains an option open to you and one worthy of exercising to assemble those [[traits]] and aspects of what you understand to be [[truth]] about your spiritual realities, and through the use of this same [[mind’s eye]] to transport you from your current realm surrounded by [[materialism]] and challenges before you to a point of perspective where you may glance down upon your current setting from a distance much as you would see across the tops of the trees to a far distant place. You may also look back down upon your current [[surroundings]] from a much enhanced spiritual platform. It is as easy as this [[exercise]] you undertook to draw your senses into assimilating these impressions together again, to project your seat of [[observation]] from where it may reside materially to where you may desire it to reside in the spiritual plane. From this perspective on high it is far easier to see the subtleties and details of your current surroundings with new, enhanced perspective and [[values]] so that what appears to be random and [[uncertain]] becomes merely [[paths]] through the jungle you observe. From on high you may see that they begin at this point and lead to that point, but from down in the jungle you are unable to determine where this or that path may lead. It is only with the perspective of looking down onto that set of circumstances that you are graced with the perspective provided allowing you to make some wider ranging [[decisions]] based upon where you deem that path to be going or this path to be leading you.