Mental image

isolated from all else apart from all the results it is going to produce on other planes than its own it forms as just said part of the content of the consciousness of its creator part of his inalienable property it cannot be separated from him he carries it with him during his earthly life carries it with him through the gateway of death carries it with him in the regions beyond death and if during his upward travelling through those regions he himself passes into air too rarefied for it to endure he leaves behind the denser matter built into it carrying on the mental matrix the essential form on his return to the grosser region the matter of that plane is again built into the mental matrix and the appropriate denser form is reproduced This mental image may remain sleeping, as it were, for long periods, but it may be reawakened and revivified.

Every fresh impulse from its creator, from its progeny, dealt with below, from entities of the same type as its progeny, increases its life energy and modifies its form.

It evolves, as we shall see, according to definite laws, and the aggregation of these mental images makes the character.

The outer mirrors the inner.

And as cells aggregate into the tissues of the body and are often much modified in the process, so do these mental images aggregate into the characteristics of the mind and often undergo much modification.

The study of the working out of karma will throw much light on these changes.

Many materials may enter into the making of these mental images by the creative powers of the soul.

It may be stimulated into activity by desire, and may shape the image according to the promptings of passion or of appetite.

嗯哼。

”And the right behavior will reap the right results。" 所以你的未来的自己呢，你不去探索，当你探索了以后呢，你会更有一个 mental picture；更有 mental picture 了以后呢，你就会变成一种身份的认同。我认同我是这样子人，我认同我是一个要跟大家做朋友的人，我是一个医人，我是一個i人哦。所以很多人来讲说：“啊！我遇到人，我就是 i 人”，那真的讲久了以后，对不对？真的就是，就哀掉了[笑] 好。

对，我覺得這個部份，他这个進程哦，这——他好像听起来分成4个步骤嘛。

没错。

So how do you build this specific mental muscle when your physical body requires rest?

That is a great question, and it's where we transition into the science of mental imagery and visualization.

Ah, visualization.

Yes.

Exactly.

The scientific literature has zero interest in cosmic manifestation.

The efficacy of mental imagery is entirely grounded in neurobiology, specifically a concept known as the functional equivalence hypothesis.

The functional equivalence hypothesis.