• Ananya Ghosh

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the creative abilities of the human imagination and how God dwells within human beings in the form of their wonderful imagination, which is responsible for the creation of their individual realities. Every individual, whether aware of the creative power of imagination or not, is always imagining and shaping his external reality, consciously or subconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly, favourably or unfavourably. The goal, however, is to be more aware of our thoughts and make more conscious imagination in order to create a reality which is favourable to us. This paper seeks to engage with the idea of imagination and God as one and the same thing, through William Blake’s visionary understanding of reality as opposed to the sensationalist understanding of the physical world. The paper also briefly discusses Blake’s notion of the presence of God reflecting in human qualities through his poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience respectively. Blake’s concept of imagination not only influenced the Romantic poets (for instance, Coleridge, who sought to bring into his poetry a “willing suspension of disbelief” by suspending one’s critical faculties and to believe in the unbelievable through the power of imagination), but also the spiritual philosophy of the twentieth-century American author Neville Goddard. This paper also brings in Biblical references to state that the Bible can be seen as a parable of human psyche or a book of psychology instead of a book of historical records, as has been mentioned by Neville Goddard in many of his lectures. Towards the end, the paper seeks to understand the way in which the subconscious mind works and how the subconscious takes commands from the conscious mind to program or reprogram a story or a belief in it which, as a result, determines the kind of life or reality an individual creates for himself. The study has been conducted by making use of secondary sources like books, innumerable websites and YouTube videos.

God, Imagination, Reality, Bible, Subconscious Mind.

"William Blake's Idea of Imagination and its Influence on the Spiritual Philosophy of Neville Goddard.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.3126-3131, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905V33.pdf

"William Blake's Idea of Imagination and its Influence on the Spiritual Philosophy of Neville Goddard.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp3126-3131, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905V33.pdf