Imagination · “Feel It Real”
Quantum Jumping
To rehearse and ‘install’ a desired skill, mindset, or trait by vividly visualizing a doorway into a parallel universe, meeting an alternate version of yourself who has already mastered it, absorbing their state and know-how, and bringing it back to your present life.
Quantum Jumping in 6 lines: Pick one specific skill/trait you want. Relax into alpha (Bagha). See a door to a parallel universe and jump through. Meet the version of you who has already mastered it — watch, ask, learn. Merge with them and absorb the skill and the feeling for several minutes. On 3, jump back through the door into now, keeping the state. Open your eyes — then take real action, and repeat regularly. (It primes; it isn’t a magic wand.)
What it is
Quantum Jumping is Burt Goldman’s signature visualization, developed in his late 70s as he taught himself painting, photography, music, and writing.
The premise (presented as a play on the many-worlds idea from quantum physics): in an infinite multiverse there exists an alternate version of you who already has the skill, success, or trait you want.
In a relaxed alpha state you visualize jumping through a door into that parallel universe, meet that alternate self, absorb their knowledge and way of being, then jump back carrying it into your own life.
Functionally it is a structured, dramatized form of first-person mental rehearsal and self-image work — you rehearse being the version of you who has already arrived. Goldman was explicit that the quantum-physics framing is the vehicle; the engine is vivid imagination.
The Method
Goldman’s process, as set out in Quantum Jumping: Prepare
- Set a clear, specific intention. Decide exactly what you want from this jump — a skill (paint, write, speak confidently), a trait, an answer, or a solution. Goldman insisted intent comes first.
- Enter alpha. Use the Bagha entry (or any relaxed-eyes-closed countdown): tongue to palate, count down, relax head-to-toe into the alpha level. The four steps of the jump
- STEP 1 — Jump. Visualize a door appearing in front of you — a portal between you and your “twin” in another universe. On a count (Goldman uses a short count), step or jump through the door into that alternate universe, the one where the version of you who has mastered your goal lives. Picture their world: the studio, stage, office — wherever your mastered self operates.
- STEP 2 — Meet your alternate self. Encounter the version of you who has already achieved the goal. Interact — treat it like meeting a generous mentor who is you. Observe how they move, speak, work; ask what they know; let them show or tell you how they do it. Notice the feeling of being that accomplished person.
- STEP 3 — Absorb / merge. Take in their knowledge, skill, and state — Goldman describes it as downloading their experience and merging with them, integrating their abilities and confidence into your own consciousness. Stay merged for several minutes, fully inhabiting that mastered self in the first person.
- STEP 4 — Return. On a count of 3, go back through the door and jump into your present universe, bringing the skill and the felt-sense home. Tell yourself you keep what you gained. Close and apply
- Come up and retain the feeling. Count yourself out of alpha, open your eyes, and hold onto the state you brought back.
- Act on it. Goldman stressed that a jump is a beginning, not a magic wand — take real action in the direction of the skill while the inspiration is fresh, and repeat the jump regularly to reinforce it. (Sourcing note: the intention-first rule, the door/portal, the four steps jump→meet→absorb/merge→return, the count of 3 on return, and “it’s not a magic wand — take action” are Goldman’s documented teaching. Faithful paraphrase; short phrases only quoted.)
Source & Lineage
Burt Goldman (1927-2016), “The American Monk,” student of José Silva and Paramahansa Yogananda and the top Silva Method instructor, launched Quantum Jumping with Mindvalley in 2010.
It is a direct outgrowth of the Silva Method’s mental-rehearsal and “mental screen” visualization, dressed in many-worlds language. It is a close cousin of Neville Goddard’s “living in the wish fulfilled” and SATS, of Maxwell Maltz’s self-image rehearsal (Psycho-Cybernetics), and of sports visualization/mental rehearsal.
The Traditions' versions
Silva Method mental rehearsal / mental screen — visualize the desired outcome on an inner screen; Goldman’s parent technique.
- Neville’s SATS & “wish fulfilled” — assume, in imagination and feeling, the state of the already-accomplished self.
- Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics — rehearse the new self-image vividly; the mind acts on the imagined picture.
- Sports mental rehearsal — first-person imagery of executing a skill; the best-supported analogue.
- Inner mentor / wise-self visualization — meeting an idealized advisor figure (here, your future/parallel self) for guidance.
- Future-self / “best possible self” exercise (positive psychology) — vividly imagine the you who has succeeded; measurable mood/motivation effects.
Common refinements
Treating it as a substitute for practice. Goldman himself said it’s “not a magic wand.” Jumping to “master painter” then never picking up a brush does nothing — the jump primes, action delivers.
- Vague intent. A fuzzy goal yields a fuzzy jump. Be specific about the exact skill/trait.
- Watching from outside (third person). The power is in merging and feeling it as you, first-person — not observing a movie of someone else.
- Skipping the felt state. Absorb the feeling of mastery, not just facts. State change (The Inner Creates the Outer) is what carries home.
- One-and-done. It’s a conditioning practice; repeat regularly to reinforce the new self-image.
- Believing the literal claim. Holding the multiverse story as fact can tip into magical thinking and passivity (“the universe will hand it to me”). Keep it as a vivid metaphor and stay active.