The Wonders of Disciplined Imagination

By Dr. Joseph Murphy

The Wonders of Disciplined Imagination in the Dr. Joseph Murphy Live! series is the only authorized edition in print.

Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale, and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and Earl Nightingale. He changed the lives of people all over the world and was one of the best-selling authors of the mid-20th century.

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands every Sunday as Minister Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. Over the years, Dr. Murphy has given lectures and radio talks to audiences all over the world. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. His books have sold over 15 million copies. In his lectures he points out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts, and gives his followers guidelines on how they too can enrich their lives.

Never say, "I can't." Overcome that fear by substituting the following, "I can do all things through the power of my own subconscious mind." Make his teachings a part of your life with Dr. Joseph Murphy Live!

• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722526610

Dr. Joseph Murphy

Dr. Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written. Dr. Joseph Murphy has been acclaimed as a major figure in the human potential movement, the spiritual heir to writers like James Allen, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale and a precursor and inspirer of contemporary motivational writers and speakers like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale. He was one of the best selling authors in the mid-twentieth century. His book THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND has sold millions of copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. This book has never been out of print and is still one of the best sellers in the self-help genre.

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The Wonders of Disciplined Imagination

The Wonders of Disciplined Imagination

Dr. Joseph Murphy

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"Imagination is the workshop of God, said the ancient Hebrew mystics. God imagined himself to be man. God became that which he imagined himself to be."

Imagination is portrayed in the Bible under the name of Joseph, for Joseph means imagination. We’re talking about disciplined, controlled, directed imagination. To imagine is to conceive something. It’s to impress it in your subconscious mind. Whatever is impressed in the subconscious is expressed as form, function, experience, and event.

Disciplined or controlled imagination is one of the primal faculties of man. It has the power to project and include your ideas, giving them visibility on the screen of space. We’re told Israel loved Joseph. Israel is the spiritually awakened man who knows the power of controlled imagination.

Israel in the Bible means a man who knows the sovereignty of the living spirit within, who recognizes the I Am within him as the Lord God Almighty and uses it in his life. He refuses to give power to any created thing on the face of the earth.

It is called the son of his old age. Son means expression; old age infers wisdom and knowledge of the laws of mind. When you become familiar with the power of imagination, you too will call it the son of your old age, for age is not the flight of years. It’s the dawn of wisdom. Imagination is the mighty instrument used by scientists, artists, physicists, inventors, architects, and mystics.

When the world said, It is impossible; it can’t be done, the man with imagination said, It is done. Through your imagination you can penetrate the depths of reality and reveal the secrets of nature.

A great industrialist told me one time how he started in a small store. He said, I used to dream of a large corporation with branches all over the country. Regularly and systematically, he pictured in his mind a giant headquarters, offices, factories, and stores, knowing that through the alchemy of the mind he could weave the fabric out of which