OK, I'm going back some 40 years into the organization so some of you may or may not have heard this. I remember in my JW life, at different conventions/assemblies when the speakers would be talking about things related to the paradise earth. They would always say, "if you pictured yourself there, then you will no doubt be there."
Now the reason for my question is it seems (and I don't know that much about it) but in the Kabbalah practice, (Jewish mysticism), but one of my friends was telling me about this idea: one of the things you do is if you want something, you picture yourself having it. For example, if you want to make a lot of money in your business ventures or what have you, visualize yourself counting your money. Or if you want to travel to a place you always wanted to go to, picture yourself there, and it will happen. It might help to have visual aids or pictures that you can look at every day to reinforce what you want. The idea is that the "Universe" is there waiting for you to give you these things, and it doesn't dwell on negative thoughts; just positive ones.
So as I was musing over all of this, I just wonder of the WTS may have borrowed this idea of picturing yourself in the paradise earth from Kaballah.
What do you guys think? BTW, my friend is not into it, but she's trying this idea as an experiment to see if it works.