I am doing real well with my amaginary phone to the spirit world.I stared 2 months ago,and have had some 40 names,some had past over some 50 years ago.something happened some weeks ago,when i got a name of someone who is still alive.I thought i would give it a rest.then just yesterday I asked if this person who was still alive if he had a son who had the same name.my brother said yes he did have a son who was killed in a car mishap.So now I can get back to my phone and see if i can get more contacts.George

I Am Dude wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 1:38pm:

What kind of reply is that suposted to meen.well lets it pretend,but it works

I second Bets. A stumbling block in focused imagination is the imaginary part which can make it seem the whole thing is just made up and a personal phantasy. But that doesn't seem to be true. My approach is, as in the nonphysical we don't have a reality which is to the physical degree supported by a "hard" environment and it's rules, we, coming from the physical awareness, have to make our way into the nonphysical by creating an environment which is similar to the physical, so that we're able to interprete nonphysical input and bring it back to our physical awareness.

Such a tool can be an imaginary telephone, as it's purpose is communication.

Spooky

Nice story Alan. I think it's probably a great example of the way 'communication with God' as on the other thread operates.

Much like the option of being aware (which I think is another way of saying the same) it's available to us all the time, but we're mostly not 'listening'. Or more to the point only capable as a result of our beliefs of receiving input through those channels we (at the ego level) deem acceptable.

Even little children have their belief systems. They have their limitations and needs to have their beliefs stroked to make it possible for them to receive at their own level too. No more than all of us - I suspect that to Source there's not a lot of difference between a child and any of us insofar as needing to find a way through that's not been closed off by our beliefs is concerned.

By beliefs I don't mean about religion, although that could indeed be a big decider of what we're open to. I mean the everyday assumptions we make about the nature of ourselves and the reality we inhabit, and the nature and/or existence of God.

God is around us all the time, literally contained in and speaking to us all the time from everybody and everything. But we can't open to this, can't normally see -  we go around waiting for a bush to go on fire, and a voice to speak out of it or whatever.

Since burning bushes are pretty rare we instead head off looking for 'special people' able to too or at least given cultural permission to communicate with Source, and then try to decide using our intellect between the 'genuine' and the 'impostors'......

George, I like the idea of you on your imaginary phone. Are you writing everything down?

Once I had a dream, not long after joining this forum, in which I was talking on a borrowed phone....with Bruce Moen! I looked at the phone (he had lent this phone to me in my dream) and it had a small compartment with chocolates in it.

I really didn't want to give him back his phone, but I think I did.

So, if you've got a hotline to Love, I gotta say, it works for me....  blink