Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

IMAGINATION 383

COMMENTARY

Imagination is too often regarded as nothing more than fanciful dreams, but it is

a tremendously practical, exciting tool. Forget the pejorative terms you may have

heard, such as "having your head in the clouds" or "contemplating your navel. "

This lesson will help you regard your imagination as a useful, vigorous ally in

your pursuit of success.

If further proof were needed, consider that much of the vast Walt Disney

empire was born out of the fanciful thinking of a group that Walt dubbed his

Imagineers, that the space program and many advances in medicine have been

achieved by imagining what might be and then applying science and technology

to making those "pipe dreams" real, and that even our military leaders openly

drew upon Hollywood screenwriters to create imagined scenarios so that those

in charge of the War on Terrorism could prepare countermeasures to the kind of

attacks that weren't covered in conventional military strategy.

Through its interpretative capacity, the Imagination has one power
not generally attributed to it: the power to register vibrations and
thought waves that are put into motion from outside sources, just as
the radio-receiving apparatus picks up the vibrations of sound. The
principle through which this interpretative capacity of the Imagination
fUnctions is called telepathy-the communication of thought from
one mind to another, at long or short distances, without the aid of
physical or mechanical appliances, in the manner explained in Lesson
One, Introduction to the Master Mind.

COMMENTARY

At the time Napoleon Hill was writing the original edition of this book, research

was being conducted which strongly implied that telepathy would soon be a

proven fact. However, by the beginning of the twenty-first century, the evidence

in its favor is still largely anecdotal.