I was thinking about the experience of Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich.
Hill used a meditation where he imagined a meeting with men he admired such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Robert Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Luther Burbank, Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie. As some point the meeting became very real to his mind these people had behaviors on their own. Hill wrote … “I was astonished by the discovery that these imaginary figures became apparently real….”
It was like a real conversation it even scared Hill and he interrupted the use of this technique. This is a beautiful example of perfect contemplation. Read More→