Two exercises for tearing Jacob from Esau, which he calls bi-location. First, at home where he knows every part of a room, he sits facing one wall with his eyes closed and looks ahead to see not the wall in front of him but the one behind him, until the room has reversed itself, or he has - and he notes that this tone of reversibility runs through the whole Bible. Second, sitting physically in his living room on the sixteenth floor in New York, he assumes he is standing on the street in front of the apartment house and sees the details on the building's marquee; then, still in imagination, walks back into the building, comes upstairs and sits down where Esau is. The next time he actually went out and took Esau with him, he saw on the marquee what he had not noticed the last time he looked at it physically. The instruction that follows is to sit in one room and view another, seeing what you would see if you were physically there - and never to walk about wholly integrated, as a being that is only a garment of flesh.
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Practice bi-location.
man is all Imagining and he is always where he is in his Imagination
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LectureEsau and Jacob
Practice bi-location. This is the tearing apart of Jacob from Esau. Sit in one room of your home and view another room, and see what you would see if you were physically there
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LectureEsau and Jacob
I was projected with a certain intensity out of my body. I became aware for the first time of this division and that I was more than just this being of flesh and blood.
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LectureEsau and Jacob
I sit in a chair facing one wall, and with my eyes closed, I “look” ahead and see not the wall that is in front of me, but the one that is behind me.
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the next time I actually did go out and took Esau, when I reached the street and looked at the marquee I saw on it what I had not noticed the last time I looked at it physically.
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LectureNorth of the Strip
If I could snuggle into a bed 10,000 miles away and then view my world from that place, I would gravitate there. For I am all Imagination, so I must be where I am in Imagination.
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