You are God Interpretation

“Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in
you?”1 Corinthians chapter 3
“Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are “gods”?” John
10:34
"I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.” Psalm 82:6
“For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.” Psalm 86:10
“I and my Father are one.” John 10:30
You can accomplish anything because you are god
“Everything is possible for him who believes.”Mark 9:23
“Remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the power to get
wealth.”Deuteronomy 8:18
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened
unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be opened.”Matthew 7:7-8
“The Lord will guide you always, he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land. You
will be like a spring whose waters never fail.” Philippians 4:8
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy—think about such things.”
“The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and
the evil out of the evil brings forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of his
heart, his mouth speaks.”Luke 6:45
“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and
does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done
for them.” Mark 11:23
“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it,
and it will be yours.” Mark 11:24
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
“Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalms 37:4
"According to your faith be it done unto you." Matthew 9:29
“Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and
they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.”John
14:12
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all
these things.” Isaiah 45:7
“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” -Luke
12:32
“I give you this land, just as I promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now
you must go and take the land.” -Deuteronomy 1:8
According to Neville Goddard, and various other teachers and experts, the Bible is
nothing but a psychological representation of various states of consciousness
that we will all experience. The entire book is a story of the redemption of Jesus
Christ, whom Neville refers to as your own wonderful human imagination. “Through
Christ, all things can be done.” Well, Jesus Christ abides in you. Jesus Christ is God
and said we are God, and that we can do the things he has done and greater. Well, if
this is true, we should be able to walk on water, and we can; in our own wonderful
human imagination. You can imagine yourself walking on a body of water. You can feel
the sensation of water under your feet, and feel the satisfaction of performing “the
impossible”. However, most of us could care less about walking on water. We’d much
rather have the desires of our hearts fulfilled. And through Christ, our own wonderful
human imagination, they CAN be fulfilled, and WILL be fulfilled, given we apply this law
in the correct way and persistently. And the way that this is accomplished is through
holding true to your imaginal act or state of mind. The entire Bible is filled with passages
that tell us just this: that what we sow, we reap. The scriptures to the left are just a small
example of numerous accounts in the bible that teach us this principal. It is important to
note the scripture of the 45th chapter of Isaiah: “I form the light, and create darkness: I
make peace and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Well, YOU are the LORD
GOD, so now you can see that any evil or pain that has been in your world was
created by yourself. Equally so, all the joy in your world was created by yourself.
You alone are God and have the power to choose ANYTHING you want. Any
situation, circumstance, object, or experience. So go forth as God, and live the
life you desire. Jesus said: “Come follow me. I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
And this leads us to the next section describing this way of life. A simple, and beautiful
way of life.
Way of Life
"But be ye doers of the word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.”
James 1:22
What Neville teaches, and what the Bible teaches is that this isn’t about just using the
law of attraction to get a million dollars, but about using the law to create a life worth
living. That is the true gift. Sure, you can get a million dollars. You can get whatever you
want. But don’t use this law for just money. Use it for EVERY desire of your heart both
big and small. You are to use this law second by second to create the life/experience
you want. You are constantly planting seeds all day, and the product of those
seeds are either turning into flowers or weeds, based on the quality of your
thoughts, feelings, imaginal acts, assumptions, and perceptions. When you really
start using and PLAYING with the tools that are listed here, you will find that they
will become engrained into you as habit, thus creating a new way of life. You will
also find that they work. And this will make you truly more aware and cautious of your
second to second thoughts and feelings. There truly are no rules but what we make.
The ONLY rule is the law of God’s Game: whatever you sow, you will reap. So let this
be a wonderfully liberating and joyful way of living by tending to our Gardens. Pull the
weeds, plant the flowers and you will have a beautiful garden. Let the weeds grow, and
don’t plant flowers and you will have an ugly garden. The choice is yours AS God.

Testimonials Choosing your primary states

After following the works of Dr.Joe Dispenza, and Neville Goddard, I have Here is a preliminary and pragmatic exercise to applying the law to your life.
witnessed hundreds upon hundreds of testimonials of people achieving the Since you are God and can create anything, it is vital to know what you want to create.
“impossible” by following this way of life. People who have cured the incurable, So I have outlined a few things that will help you understand the ways you can go about
people who have achieved great financial success, people who have saved this. Firstly, it is advised to know what you want to be/do/have/feel/think for your
relationships, people who have lived their dreams and fantasies. And as a beginner entire life. You can take out a piece of paper and make lists for each of these sections
to this way of life, these testimonials were invaluable to witness as a means to boost my and if you would like to go further, you can make corresponding images to each item and
faith, but were also incredibly powerful examples of how to properly apply this law. It is make a “mind movie” out of them. This “mind movie” is a technique taught by Dr.Joe
therefore tremendously helpful to see these testimonials for yourself so that you can see Dispenza and is incredibly powerful in terms of its ability to manifest in the physical
that the true power doesn’t come from “hard work” or any other secondary cause, realm. However, keep in mind that Neville and his followers never had access to
but that the true power comes from YOU. We have all heard of the powers of the technology that could do this, and sometimes having a mind movie can be more of a
subconscious mind, and by following this way of life, that is what we are accessing. The statement in consciousness that you don’t already have what you want. This is all
subconscious mind can create experiences, behaviors, habits, synchronicities, miracles, about FEELING you have everything you desire right now! So don’t think that by idly
and anything you can conceive of. And it is simple the way it works. Truly we were sent watching a series of images on a computer will mean that it will manifest into reality. You
here to play “God’s Game”. This game doesn’t require anything from us. The game simply must move in consciousness to a point where you already possess your desires
is: “what we tell the subconscious mind, is what we receive in reality.” If you feel like a and make it feel natural.
victim, you will receive more situations that make you feel like a victim. If you feel The next thing you may want to do is identify 3-5 of your primary
successful (even if you aren’t), you will receive things that make you feel successful. It states. This could be the state of healthy, wealthy, happy, loving husband, or successful
really is that simple. business man. You get to choose what states you occupy. And the idea is that you dwell
So, my recommendation is to watch as many testimonials from the in these states consistently. For instance, loving husband would mean that your actions
testimonials on Dr.Joe Dispenza’s youtube channel, join Neville Goddard facebook work accordingly with the state. Such as always being nice to your wife. Now if you end
groups, as well as looking up Neville Goddard testimonials. What is amazing about up being mean to your wife, you have fallen out of the state of loving husband and will
Neville is that he never charged a penny for any of his lectures. He knew of this law and have to move back in consciousness to that state. And if you fall out of the state too
knew that he didn’t need to charge a penny. He had all the money he needed and just many times, or to a high degree, that could spell divorce. So you see, this is all about
loved to speak God’s word. His entire family became successful by using this law and to “beingness”. And “doingness” will always come from “beingness.”
this day they are still successful with their business “Goddard enterprises”. Hearing Lastly, if you are unsure of exactly what you want, but know that you want to
Neville speak of incredible stories of the proof of this law is wildly entertaining and up be happy and successful, you can apply the technique that Neville addressed in this
lifting. But the best thing about hearing Neville speak is that he always tells you to go and question at one of his seminars:
test it for yourself. “We are here in this world of experience for a divine purpose: to know Question: Is it possible to imagine several things at the same time, or should I confine
imagination.” -Neville Goddard. He talks about how are purpose here on earth is to my imagining to one desire?
discover who we truly are: God. And we discover this by using our God given power that
is our own wonderful Human Imagination. Furthermore he speaks about our purpose here Answer: Personally I like to confine my imaginal act to a single thought, but that does not
on Earth being to fulfill scripture and act out Chirst’s story of redemption. This is referred mean I will stop there. During the course of a day I may imagine many things, but
to in scripture as the promise and is likened to a Kundalini awakening, and it will be instead of imagining lots of small things, I would suggest that you imagine something
experienced by everyone no matter what, as this is God’s gift to us. So who are we? Well so big it includes all the little things. Instead of imagining wealth, health and friends,
Exodus 3:13-14 tells us: “Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to the sons of imagine being ecstatic. You could not be ecstatic and be in pain. You could not be
Israel, and I will say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may ecstatic and be threatened with a dispossession notice. You could not be ecstatic
say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I AM if you were not enjoying a full measure of friendship and love.
THAT I AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, “I AM” has sent What would the feeling be like were you ecstatic without knowing what had
me to you. This is My name forever.” So anytime you say “I am”, you are using God’s happened to produce your ecstasy? Reduce the idea of ecstasy to the single
name which is your name. “The words that follow “I am”, follow you!” This is why in sensation, “Isn’t it wonderful!” Do not allow the conscious, reasoning mind to ask
Joel 3:10 it says “Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; why, because if it does it will start to look for visible causes, and then the
let the weak say, “I am strong.”” So if you are in poverty, let yourself say “I am wealthy.” sensation will be lost. Rather, repeat over and over again, “Isn’t it wonderful!” Suspend
If you are sick, let yourself say “I am healthy.” For God, the subconscious mind, will judgment as to what is wonderful. Catch the one sensation of the wonder of it all and
harden your assumption into fact. Truly, these are the greatest gifts we could ever things will happen to bear witness to the truth of this sensation. And I promise
receive: The Law, and the promise. you, it will include all the little things.
Technique #1-Feel it Real (FIR)
This is the most foundational aspect of the law, and it requires that we feel what
we desire to already be in our possession. There are a few ways of doing this, and I
will list them.
1)Use of imagination. Neville says, “With your eyes closed and your physical body
immobilized induce a state akin to sleep and enter into the action as though you
were an actor playing the part. Experience in imagination what you would
experience in the flesh were you now in possession of your objective. Make
elsewhere HERE and then NOW. And the greater you, using a larger focus will use
all means, and call them good, which tend toward the production of that which you
have assumed. You change your future best when you are in control of your
thoughts while in a state akin to sleep, for then effort is reduced to its minimum.
Your attention seems to completely relax, and then you must practice holding your
attention within that feeling, without using force, and without using effort.”
One of the best ways to accomplish this is by taking time 1-3 times a day and
enter a meditative or sleepy state, and then begin to perform your imaginal acts. The
idea is to make in your imagination a scene and sensation that carries as many of the
tones of reality as possible. If you were to climb a ladder in your imagination, you would
make sure to see the ladder from 1st point of view as opposed to 3rd point of view. You
would then feel the ladder in your hands and feel your muscles move as you climb it. You
would hear the clanking of the ladder, etc. If you couple this with whatever thoughts and
feelings you’d be having climbing a ladder, then you have successfully created an
imaginal act. You know you have done this correctly when you can’t tell a
difference between your imaginal act and reality itself. Keep in mind you are literally
creating reality via use of your imagination, and you will find in time that it works and that
your powers of imagination will grow in vividness. Make sure to pause throughout the day
and take even just 5 minutes to do a session for whatever you desire and have fun
watching it come to pass. Use this for “little” things and “big” things. Before you know it,
you will realize there is no difference.
2)We are constantly imagining things all day, and we have been using this power
our whole lives without knowing it. Now that we know we can use it to create
whatever we want, be aware of what you are imagining all day long and begin to change
it to what you desire. You don’t have to enter a meditative state to use your imagination
to manifest, however, for reasons I will list later, you want to make sure to take time to do
a few sessions in the day where you enter a sleepy state to manifest. If we are
overwhelmed trying to live our day to day lives, and be aware of our thoughts, and
practice creating our lives, we will only receive more overwhelm. That’s why entering a
sleepy state can make this much more effective. You are calm and in a position where
you don’t have to think about your normal life.
3)Feeling it real means that we live second to second under the assumption that
we have the things we desire. So if you are feeling truly real, you will notice that your
thoughts, feelings, behaviors, assumptions and attitudes will reflect the state of your
being. This is where things get cool. I.e. If you desired to lose weight, and moved into
feeling that you have already lost the weight, you will be inspired to take a certain action.
This action might be going to the gym or going to sleep. And you will follow through.
Technique #3-Law of Assumption
This technique is very simple and extremely powerful, and if persisted in can
bring about any change you desire. It is simple assumption. All you do is assume that
you already have what you desire. Nothing more. If you desire to be free of debt,
assume that you already are free of debt. It is truly amazing the power we have as
God. That we can simply assume something to be, and it becomes that. If I were to
summarize all of Neville’s techniques, it would surely be to assume that you
already possess that which you seek. This law is so powerful because it allows the
greater mind in you to bring about your desired state. This greater mind knows all and
can do all, and by simply assuming you have what you want the God in you works best.
For by assuming, you use the least amount of effort and your state becomes as
natural as breathing.
We are told in the Bible to put this to the test. “Test me in this," says the
LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and
pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” -Malachi
3:10 We are also told that persistent assumption will bring forth that which you
desire: “And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at
midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has
come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will
answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my
children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, though he
will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his
persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.” Luke 11:5-9
“Daring to assume that all things are possible to imagine, put this one
reality to the extreme test by assuming you are the person you would like to be.
Your reasonable mind and outer senses may deny it; but I promise you: if you will
persist, you will receive your assumption. Believe me, you are the same God who
created and sustains the universe, but are keyed low; so you must be persistent if you
would bring about a change.”-Neville Goddard
When we assume we are that which we desire to be, it requires almost no
effort. Life is all a movement in consciousness and we are constantly moving through
different states of mind throughout the day and throughout our lives. It is easy to see that
which you assume to be, because your actions and reactions to life will be drawn out of
that which you assume yourself to be. If you assume you are unhealthy, your actions and
reactions will be in accordance with that assumption. So, with the power of awareness,
begin to notice what state you are occupying at any given time, and if it is not a reflection
of your ideal, move into the state of consciousness that reflects your ideal as already
being a fact and watch your life change. At the end of the day, mentally go through
your day and assume that you were the person you wanted to be. Assume
everything went the way you TRULY desired it to be. Assume the feeling you would
like to have given everything in your day went according to your highest ideal. You
will notice your mental pictures will change according to your assumptions, and you will
notice your mood will reflect that assumption as well. And finally, you will notice your
actions, reactions, and life circumstances will reflect your most persistent assumptions.
An assumption takes no more than 5 seconds. After which you feel free. And then,
if you notice yourself fall out of your desired state, take 5 more seconds and
assume your ideal until you reach mental impotence. If you dare to persist in your
assumptions, you will notice them harden into fact. So I say, dare to assume. And
dare to be persistent.
Technique #2-
Coffee Game/Telephone Game/Imaginary conversation
This is a great and simple exercise. In your feel it real sessions and
throughout the day, imagine having a cup of coffee with a specific person and
having a conversation that implies your wish is fulfilled. In your imagination, sip
your coffee, feel the texture, the warmth, feel the cup in your hands, see you friend, hear
your friends voice, hear the words you would like them to say, hear yourself saying the
words you would say. Make the closest representation to reality that you can.
Alternately, you can have a conversation over the phone or in person without coffee. It’s
all up to you, but the name of the game is make it as close to what would happen if
it were true.
Throughout the day and in your sessions you can imagine friends and
family members congratulating you about the fulfillment of your wish. Hear their
voice as clearly as you can, feel their presence, see their facial expressions, and
feel what you would feel in this situation as if it were real.
Another great thing to note is what you imagine your friends and family’s
perception of you to be is usually a great reflection of who you are. So anytime you
think of your friends, family, and coworkers, imagine them seeing and treating
you as the person you desire to be. What would they be saying to you given you
obtained your ideal? What would they be saying to each other given you had
obtained your ideal? Hear them in your minds eye saying these things. Often
times, these imaginary conversations can be the most powerful tools in your
manifestation tool box. In the bible it says, “If any two of you agree on earth about
any request that you must make, that request will be granted by my Heavenly
Father.” [Matthew 18:19] Well, all things exist inside of you, and are you.
Everything you see outside of yourself, IS yourself pushed out. So you don’t have
to ask anyone to help you imagine and create that which you desire. You can
bring that person into your imagination and hear them as though it were real.
When the imaginal act is in accordance with the wish fulfilled, you will not be surprised
when it comes to pass. And it will come to pass so long as you don’t dig up the seed and
uproot it. If you do not realize you are God, you will cast doubt as water upon the seed
and the seed will tarnish. This is all a game and a wonderful script for you to realize who
you really are. And who you really are is magnificence to the highest degree. So
when you imagine others, imagine them seeing you as the magnificence that you
truly are, and your worldly relationships will be vastly different. You will see these
people conforming to the ideal that you have placed forth of yourself. They will all
play the exact parts they need to play to allow your imaginal act come to fruition. If you
have a boss or a friend who treats you poorly, bring them up in your imagination and
hear them say what you would desire them to say to you and it you will notice that your
whole world is your imagination pushed out. You will never again ask of anyone for
anything, nor blame anyone or anything for your circumstances. Invest in your ideal self
with the utmost love for your ideal. Imagine for others what you would have them
imagine for you and you will discover that Jesus Christ is inside of you acting as your
own wonderful human imagination.
Technique #4-Naturalness
“The time it takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is
directly proportionate to the NATURALNESS of your feeling of already being what
you want to be… of already having what you desire. The fact that it does not feel
natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failure.
Regardless of your desire, regardless of how faithfully and intelligently you follow the law, if
you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it. Take me seriously.
When you know what you want in life, construct a scene which would imply your desire is
fulfilled. See it as clearly as possible. Feel its naturalness. Experiment until you know the
scene and all it implies is real. Now, to the degree that you believe in its reality, your
experiment will become your experience. I can't tell you how long it's going to take you but
I'll tell you this much. It can be measured by the feeling of naturalness. You can wear a
feeling until it's natural. The moment the feeling becomes natural, it will begin to bear fruit
within your world. I must make that state as natural as I have made my present state. I
must consciously return to my new state constantly. I must feel its naturalness, like
my own bed at night. At first the new state seems unnatural, like wearing a new suit
or hat. Although no one knows your suit is new, you are so conscious of it you think
everyone is looking at you. You are aware of its fit and its feeling until it becomes
comfortable. So it is with your new state. At first you are conscious of its
strangeness; but with regular wearing, the new state becomes comfortable, and its
naturalness causes you to constantly return to it, thereby making it real. Do not stop
there. Keep on imagining and share your results with others. Tell them how to free
themselves from this bondage to Caesar.” – Neville Goddard
When we truly realize we are God and that imagination creates reality, that will
be very unnatural to live with. As William Blake said, “God became man that man could
become God.”. Well, we have been “man” for our whole lives, and this means we have
been asleep to our true identity as God. When we awake to this it can carry a multitude of
different feelings, and surely the feeling of unnaturalness being one of them. First, we will
try to deny this reality, second we will try to rationalize this reality, third we will fear this
reality, fourth we will be curious of this reality, fifth we will begin to play with and test this
reality, and lastly we will fully accept, love, and cherish this reality. So truly this is a
process of becoming, but the great thing about this as said by Neville, “You are here
to discover who you are by getting the things you want.” It is unnatural to assume that
you are God, and that everything in your life and everything in the world was created by
yourself and your imaginal acts. Not only is it unnatural, but it can be frightening because
you will question your ability to control and tame your mind/emotions/imagination. And this
is what is referred to as the “fear of god”. “The fear of the LORD leads to life, So that one
may sleep satisfied, untouched by evil.” Proverbs 19:23 When we begin to fear our power
to create evil, we then begin to choose happiness. And this means we will choose to fall
asleep satisfied, for the satisfaction we sow tonight will be the reaping of tomorrows joy. So
begin to assume that you are a joyous, loving, and merciful God and begin to
assume that you only create good things and it will be so. It truly is that simple.
Practical Exercise: Set an alarm on your phone to go off every hour. Take 1-2 minutes to
be still, and then take a couple minutes to feel as if your desires are fact. This will allow the
feeling to become more natural. The more you do this, and the longer you do this, the more
you draw your future to you.
Technique #5-Revision
Revision is a technique whereby you take a past event, either from your distant past
or your near past, and rewrite it in your consciousness as you would’ve liked to
experience it. This can mean either completely erasing it and supplanting it with an
entirely new experience of your choice, or editing it to conform to your ideal. The way
this is done, is either through living an entirely new scene in your imagination, or simply
assuming that your experience was exactly what you desired. This assumption can be
accomplished through a feeling and a thought. For instance, you can have an experience
and then 5 minutes later assume it was the best experience of your life by creating a feeling
that it was actually the best experience of your life. This feeling can and usually will be
accompanied with some sort of thought as in “That went SO well! I am so happy and
thankful.” Revision can not only be used to change something bad to good, but can be
used to change something good to something amazing. Say someone pays you for a
service and then tips you for that service. You can imagine them having tipped you an
extraordinary amount because you helped them so much and made their day amazing. Or if
you have a conversation with someone, when the conversation is over, no matter the quality
of the conversation, you can recreate it in your consciousness to conform to the ideal
conversation you would’ve liked to have had. You can mentally hear them saying what you
would’ve liked to have heard, and then hear yourself saying what you would’ve liked to have
said in response. You literally recreate the conversation as if it were real, and/or you simply
assume that the conversation was amazing. By practicing and utilizing this amazing tool
of revision, you are changing your experience of consciousness, through
consciousness. This literally changes the fabric of your reality and you will notice
that new experiences begin to conform to the ideals you have planted through
revision. By doing this, you die to your old self/habits/reactions, and begin to
become your ideal self and begin to have experiences that correlate with your new
choice. You see, we are always using revision and have always been using revision
through our entire lives, whether for good, bad, or indifference. And whatever our current
reality is, is a reflection of what we have imagined to be true. So to get out of an unlovely
state or vicious cycle that keeps happening to us, we must change our reactions through
consciousness. And to the degree you feel that your revised experience was real, it will be
experienced in your outer reality as a change.
“As you review your day, it is important to revise each negative reaction so that you
can remember it as what you wished had happened rather than storing that memory
as it did occur. What you think of with feeling or emotion is an actual fact. That which you
experience in the physical world is merely a shadow, reflecting the reality of your imaginal
activity. Therefore, when you revise a conversation, an unhappy experience, or a quality
about yourself, you are literally experiencing it in reality (your consciousness). Dwelling on
past irritations or hurts perpetuates them and creates a vicious circle that serves to
confirm these negative emotions. The circle can be broken by starting now to revise
anything that you no longer wish to sustain in your world. By revising the past, you
rid yourself of any effect it may have on your future. Revision is truly the key, which
can be used to unlock the doors that have kept you trapped in a particular state.
When you read of an innocent boy who was murdered and you react, you activate
something within you. It may be tomorrow’s tooth or stomach ache. I do not know
what it will be, but God is not mocked. As you sow a reaction you reap an act.
Technique #6-Lullaby Method
The lullaby method is a relaxing technique where you imagine your wish
or wishes as already fulfilled and then use a short phrase that implies that fulfillment
such as “Thank you!” or “It’s so amazing.”. The idea is that you repeat this phrase
over and over in a relaxed state, which allows you to dwell in your realized state of
fulfillment. It is important to note that these phrases should come from your
assumption that already have what you desire. DO NOT just mindlessly say “Thank you”
over and over again as a means to get what you desire, but rather say the phrase over and
over from the knowing that you have already received your desire. Surely if you do this
correctly, you will truly feel contentedness, peace, joy, love, gratitude, and a sense of
magical wonder for the world. You could feel all of these emotions at once, or one at
a time in any order. Allow these emotions and your phrase(s) to dominate your mind.
It is important to note that just because this is called the lullaby method, it doesn’t mean that
you should only use this to lull yourself to sleep. You can use this technique all day long,
whether you are in a meditative state or not. However, the more you use this technique, you
will find yourself using it at all times and you will notice the benefits of using this technique
in ALL brainwave states. So if you are wide awake and using it, you will notice benefit. And
you will also notice benefit when you use this in a state akin to sleep.
Here are a list of phrases you could use. However you will notice that if you
move into your state of your wish(es) being fulfilled, a phrase specific to you may naturally
pop up into your head. So keep in mind, this isn’t about “a magic formula” or a “magic
phrase.” YOU are the magic. Be the magic and play with the magic that you are.
Phrases: “Thank you!” “Yes!” “Isn’t it wonderful?” “I love this!” “I love life!” “I’m
SO happy!” “It worked!” “It works!” “It’s so beautiful!” “It’s GLORIOUS!” “I feel incredible!” “I
love my life.” “This is so fun!” “It’s so amazing!” “What a blessing!” “Success!”
“There is another technique I gave you last night. If you cannot concentrate on
an act, if you cannot snuggle into your chair and believe the chair is elsewhere, just as
though elsewhere were here, then do this: Reduce the idea, condense it to a single, simple
phrase like, “Isn’t it wonderful.” or, “Thank you.” or, “It’s done.” or, “It’s finished.” There
should not be more than three words. Something that implies the desire is already realized.
“Isn’t it wonderful”, or “Thank you,” certainly imply that. These are not all the phrases you
could use. Make up out of your own vocabulary the phrase which best suits you. But make it
very, very short and always use a phrase that implies fulfillment of the idea. When you have
your phrase in mind, lift the cloud. Let the cloud ascend by simply inducing the state that
borders on sleep. Simply begin to imagine and feel you are sleepy, and in this state assume
the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Then repeat the phrase over and over like a lullaby, until the
single sensation of thankfulness dominates the mind. Whatever the phrase is, let it imply
that the assumption is true, that it is concrete, that it is already a fact and you know
it. “NOT by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts" Zechariah
4:6. Get into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were
you already the one you want to be. As you capture the feeling of the state sought, you are
relieved of all effort to make it so, for it is already so. There is a definite feeling associated
with every idea in the mind of man. Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish
by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing
you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.” – Neville Goddard
I firmly believe that if you will wisely and daily use the pruning shears of revision that you
will find there is no objective beyond your ability to realize. And I mean that seriously, no
objective beyond your ability to realize. For it is magic, this pruning shears of revision.
It really is not only the achievement of objectives, but if you do it daily, it will awaken
in you the spirit of Jesus, which is continual forgiveness of sin. Now we will go back
to the 2nd of Genesis. It is said "And God placed man in the garden of Eden to dress
it and to keep it." Now when you read the story you think it happened thousands of
years ago. I have come to tell you it is now. You are now in the garden of Eden and
you think you are shut out or banished. You are in it, and the garden is your mind,
but you need--like every gardener--pruning shears. For you have slept, as you are
told in that second chapter; having slept, weeds have appeared in the garden and
the weeds are revealing themselves by the conditions and the circumstances of life.
For your garden is always projecting itself on the screen of space, and you can see
by looking carefully at your world what you allow to grow in the garden of God. But
you have a mission, you have a purpose, it is not to amass a fortune--you can do it if
you want to--it's not to be famous, it is not to be some mighty power, but simply to
tend the garden of God. That's your purpose. You are placed in the garden to dress it
and to keep it, that only the lovely things grow in the garden of God. Now this is how
we do it. At the end of my day, I review the day; I don't judge it, I simply review it. I look over
the entire day, all the episodes, all the events, all the conversations, and then as I see it
clearly in my mind's eye, I rewrite it. I rewrite it and make it conform to the ideal day I wish I
had experienced. I take scene after scene and rewrite it, revise it, and having revised my
day, then in my imagination I relive that day, the revised day, and I do it over and over
in my imagination until this seeming imagined state begins to take on to me the
tones of reality. It seems that it's real, that I actually did experience it and I have found
from experience that these revised days, if really lived, will change my tomorrows. When I
meet people tomorrow that today disappointed me, they will not tomorrow, for in me I have
changed the very nature of their being, and having changed them, they bear witness
tomorrow of the change that took place within me. It is my duty to take this garden and
really make it a garden by daily using the pruning shears of revision. If a branch is unwell,
you prune that branch. You don't accept one thing in the world as final unless it conforms to
the ideal you want to realize in the world. But you do it daily; if you do not prune it daily you
will get out of the habit, then weeds will grow. Every man really is a gardener, a gardener in
the garden of God, for every day is the opportunity to really prune the tree, this wonderful
tree. And so everyone that you meet is a branch rooted in the vine that you are and you are
that special tree in the garden of God, a tree bearing life, a tree bearing fruit for the food of
the nations. You are that one. You try it: then you will know what Blake meant when he said.
"In heaven, the only art of living is forgetting and forgiving. Do you know someone that is
evil? Stop knowing it by bringing him before your mind's eye and carry on with him
the most wonderful conversation in the world, with a tender spirit, a loving spirit, and
believe in the reality of this communion, because if you really do it, you are entering
the kingdom of heaven, for you enter heaven by a loving, knowing communion with a
friend. So make him a friend, if he is a lovely one, no matter what he is, you can prune him
and then as you prune him you are doing the work which you were sent to do for man--and
you are that man--you are placed this day in the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Don't let it continue growing weeds in your world.” -Neville Goddard
Technique #7-State Akin to Sleep
“You change your future best when you are in control of your thoughts while in a
state akin to sleep, for then effort is reduced to its minimum. Your attention seems to
completely relax, and then you must practice holding your attention within that
feeling, without using force, and without using effort. You are in your garden of
Gethsemane or prepared mind if you can, while you are in a state akin to sleep, control
your attention and not let it wander away from its purpose. If you can do that you are
definitely in the garden. Very few people can sit quietly and not enter a reverie or a
state of uncontrolled thinking. When you can restrict the mental action and remain
faithful to your watch, not permitting your attention to wander all over the place, but
hold it without effort within a limited field of presentation to the state you are
contemplating, then you are definitely this disciplined presence in the garden of
Gethsemane. It is a state akin to sleep, but one in which you are still in control of the
direction of attention. You must learn to induce this state at will, but experience has
taught that it is more easily induced after a substantial meal, or when you wake in the
morning feeling very loath to arise. Then you are naturally disposed to enter this state. The
value of physical immobility shows itself in the accumulation of mental force which absolute
stillness brings with it. It increases your power of concentration. The physical body is an
emotional filter. Many human ailments, hitherto considered purely physical, are now
recognized as rooted in emotional disturbances. Pain comes from lack of relaxation.
When you sleep there is no pain. If you are under an anesthetic, there is no pain
because you are relaxed, as it were. If you have pain it is because you are tense and
trying to force something. You cannot force an idea into embodiment, you simply
appropriate it. It is attention minus effort. Only practice will bring you to that point
where you can be attentive and still be relaxed. Attention is tension toward an end,
and relaxation is just the opposite. Here are two completely opposite ideas that you
must blend until you learn, through practice, how to be attentive, but not tense. The
word “contention” means “attention minus effort.” In the state of contention you are
held by the idea without tension. To yield successfully to the wish as an accomplished
fact, you must create a passive state, a kind of reverie or meditative reflection similar to the
feeling which precedes sleep. In such a relaxed state, the mind is turned from the objective
world and easily senses the reality of a subjective state. It is a state in which you are
conscious and quite able to move or open your eyes but have no desire to do so. An easy
way to create this passive state is to relax in a comfortable chair or on a bed. If on a bed,
lie flat on your back with your head on a level with your body, close the eyes and
imagine that you are sleepy. Feel – I am sleepy, so sleepy, so very sleepy. In a little
while, a faraway feeling accompanied by a general lassitude and loss of all desire to move
envelops you. You feel a pleasant, comfortable rest and are not inclined to alter your
position.” -Neville Goddard
16. Question: I would think that if you get too much into the sleepy state there would be a
lack of feeling.
Answer: When I speak of feeling I do not mean emotion, but acceptance of
the fact that the desire is fulfilled. Feeling grateful, fulfilled, or thankful, it is easy to say,
“Thank You,” “Isn’t it wonderful!” or “It is finished.” When you get into the state of
thankfulness, you can either awaken knowing it is done, or fall asleep in the feeling of the
wish fulfilled.
Technique #8-Falling asleep in the wish fulfilled
This technique is one of the most important techniques to master because the
sleep state is the doorway to God. What you take in consciousness into sleep
becomes your external reality in the days to come. One of the best habits to form is
changing the state of your consciousness as you are entering sleep. After your day is
concluded, no matter the outcome of the day, mentally revise the circumstances of the
day to your liking. If there were any negative events that you didn’t like, rewrite those
events to your liking. By revising your day, you clear the slate, which will allow you room
to feel yourself into the state of having that which you desire. A simple way to
accomplish both the revision as well as the wish fulfilled state is by mere
assumption. Assume you had the best day of your life and then assume you are
the person you would like to be. Assume your wishes are fulfilled. This can be
just a simple knowing. Now, any of the tools listed here can be used by themselves
or together in whatever manner you wish. By practicing and playing with these tools you
are learning how to alter and control consciousness to your liking, thus you are acting
as the god that you are, for surely you were likened in his image. So go boldly into your
consciousness and step into the dream that is life knowing you are the OPERANT
POWER to all of life’s circumstances.
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon
men, in slumberings upon the bed. Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth
their instruction. “ Job 33: 15-16 "As in heaven, so on earth" Matthew 6:10; Luke
11:2. As in the subconscious, so on earth. Whatever you have in consciousness as
you go to sleep is the measure of your expression in the waking two-thirds of your life
on earth. Your subconscious gives form to your desires only when you feel your wish
fulfilled. Night after night, you should assume the feeling of being, having and
witnessing that which you seek to be, possess and see manifested. Never go to
sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in the consciousness of
failure. Your subconscious, whose natural state is sleep, sees you as you believe
yourself to be, and whether it be good, bad or indifferent, the subconscious will faithfully
embody your belief. Disregard appearances and feel that things are as you wish
them to be, for "He calleth things that are not seen as though they were, and the
unseen becomes seen.” Approx., Romans 4:17. To assume the feeling of satisfaction
is to call conditions into being which will mirror satisfaction. "Signs follow, they do not
precede". Proof that you are will follow the consciousness that you are; it will not
precede it. You are an eternal dreamer dreaming non- eternal dreams. Your dreams
take form as you assume the feeling of their reality. Do not limit yourself to the past.
Knowing that nothing is impossible to consciousness, begin to imagine states beyond
the experiences of the past. All creation, as we told you last night, takes place in the
state of sleep, or that state which is akin to sleep -- the, sleepy drowsy state. We told
you last night the first man is not yet awakened. You are Adam, the first man, still in the
profound sleep. The creative you is the fourth dimensional you whose home is simply
the state you enter when men call you asleep. The sensation which dominates the
mind of man as he falls asleep, though false, will harden into fact. Assuming the
feeling of the wish fulfilled as we fall asleep, is the command to this embodying
process saying to our mood, "Be thou actual." In this way we become through a
natural process what we desire to be.”-Neville Goddard
Technique #10-Mirror Game/Mirror World
The mirror Game is a technique where you either look into a mirror in
your normal physical world, or in your imagination and dare to see yourself the way
you would like to be seen. Not just physically, but emotionally as well. See yourself
as beautiful, see your self as confident, see yourself as successful, and see your
self as pure radiant love. Look at the mirror and what it reflects in the background.
Do you like what you see? If not change it. Imagine you are seeing the background
of some lovely place. Maybe a new home. Maybe a new job. Change your reality by
changing what you see in your minds eye.
The mirror world is everything that exists in your outer reality. It is not
separate from you. It is truly your inner self pushed out. So pay attention to the
mirror world for it is always reflecting what is going on inside of you. Do you have
lovely things and lovely people surrounding you? If not, it is showing you that you
assume “reality” isn’t full of lovely people and things. If you desire something
different, ignore your senses. Ignore reason. Assume life to be lovely. Try it and
see. But always NOTICE what the world is reflecting back to you. Pay attention and
KNOW you are the operant power of “reality”.
“Look at yourself in the mirror and dare to see radiant health and happiness
reflected back to you. Then say within yourself: 'I remember when my reflection was so
different." Persist in seeing your new image reflected there and you will resurrect that
state. Your image, your concept of yourself or of another, is in your own wonderful human
imagination who is Christ and Christ is the only God. Do you like what the mirror reflects
back to you and your background tells you? If it is not what you would like to live with,
don’t accept it. Rather, look into the mirror of your mind and assume that you are what
you would like to be. Declaring that you are now it, don’t look away and forget the image
reflected there, but persist in your assumption. Live in that awareness morning, noon and
night as though it were true, and no power can stop you from experiencing its truth.
You mean that if I simply imagine that I am the man that I would love to be, that’s all that I
need do? Just try it. Imagine that you are already the man that you would like to be, the
woman you’d like to be, your friends are and total strangers are as you would like them to
be. Just imagine it. Try it. This world is made up of horrible dreams which the one within
every individual is dreaming. That one must and will awaken, as you hear the story and
put it into practice through repentance. The word "repentance" comes from the Greek
word "metanoia," which means "a radical change of attitude." This change must be so
radical that it gets right down to the root, the I AM. Think of your world as your mirror. Do
you like what you see there? You know you can live with it or ignore it, but perhaps you
would like to see it differently. If you would, repent by persuading yourself that you are
seeing a world to your liking. Persist in your repentance, for to the degree that you are
self-persuaded it is so, it will be so. When you see your reflection, whether in a mirror or in
the surface of a pool, you are looking into the face of God. Look in the mirror and SEE
God! Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change
the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face.
Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your
conceptions of yourself.The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing within
yourself. If you know this, you are set free and a series of events will unfold within you to
reveal the story of salvation.”-Neville Goddard
Technique #9-Remember when
“This principle can be used in a destructive or constructive way. You can say: "I remember when
this was a glorious building and look at it now" as you become aware of rubble where once a
glorious building stood. Or you can stand on rubble and say: "I remember when this was all
rubble," as you imagine a glorious building. You can say: "I remember when my friend had
nothing and now he has much," or: "I remember when he had much and now he is so poor." It's


entirely up to you how you use your imagination, but the operation of your creative power is
completely up to you. You make the decision, and are therefore responsible for its effect on the
world. Having nothing, you can become aware of being surrounded by wealth, and
feeling wealthy you can say: 'I remember when I had nothing." Does that statement not
imply that the state of poverty no longer exists for you? I remember when. Now you fill in
the events, the desires and the fulfillments. I remember when. Do not those words imply
memory? I tell it to you now in the hope that you will put yourself in an “I-remember-
when” mood and trust your memory, because memory is your own wonderful human
imagination, the one and only creative power of God scripture calls Jesus Christ. Look at
yourself in the mirror and dare to see radiant health and happiness reflected back to you.
Then say within yourself: 'I remember when my reflection was so different." Persist in
seeing your new image reflected there and you will resurrect that state. Your image, your
concept of yourself or of another, is in your own wonderful human imagination who is
Christ and Christ is the only God. Take what I have told you this night to heart and put it
to the extreme test in this world of Caesar. There is no limit to your creative power.
Simply stand on your new belief and say to yourself: I remember when. The key is this:
While in a state you no longer desire to express, you must move inwardly by claiming: 'I
remember when I was in a state I did not like." If you can remember it you are no longer in it.
Instead you are becoming aware of your new state as a present objective fact. And if you will
remain faithful to your new awareness, it will crystallize. You will find yourself moving across a
series of events which will lead you to the fulfillment of your desired state. How it will come
about I do not know. I only know it will unfold. Start now to remember when your friend wasn't
well by imagining he is healthy. Remember when your daughter was single by imagining she is
married. Go through life remembering when. You must have a frame of reference by which you
can detect movement. Memory is such a frame. Perhaps your friends remember you as poor
and unknown. You can move by assuming you have changed so much that they no longer
recognize you, and from that frame of reference you can observe the expression on their faces.
Those who love you will empathize. Those who do not will show envy. If you see envy don't try
to change it, for their envy will become a resisting force which will help you move forward.
Everything needs resistance in order to move. So if you discover one who desires to play the
part of envy, let him play it. Dare to assume you are the one you really want to be. Use your
same circle of friends, but this time see them from a different angle. Observe their faces and
listen to their whispers as they look at the new you and remember when! Now, some of you are
having physical and emotional problems. As I told a friend tonight, no one ever promised
you that it was going to be easy to bring forth the greatest gift in the world, so don't
expect it. There will be problems, horrible problems; but be of good cheer, for we are told
in the 16th chapter of John: 'When a woman is in travail she suffers, but when the child
is born she forgets everything because of the joy that the child is born." You are
destined to know such joy, for the child to be born in you is Christ Jesus, the creative
power of God.” -Neville Goddard
Technique #11-Be still and know you are God
“I want to talk to you about the first principle, which you can always fall back on
when in doubt. This first principle is: "Be still and know that I am God." No matter
what happens turn within and be still. Know that your awareness is God and that all
things are possible to you. Test yourself and you will prove this statement in the
testing; then you will be free from your former limitations of belief. No matter what is
happening on the outside turn to the first principle. Start by being still, then claiming: "I am
God." Ask yourself: "Is this true?" You will never know the truth until you test it. Let us now
look at some of the "I am" statements of scripture. I am the resurrection. I am the life. I am
the way. I am the truth. Are these statements really true? Yes, I have stilled myself and
know that every statement is true, from experience. Being human I wanted things in the
world of Caesar, as undoubtedly you do, too. I wanted a trip I could not afford, yet I
traveled over 5,000 miles by being still and saying to myself: "My awareness is God and all
things are possible to him. therefore what I am imagining will come to pass." Then I began
to imagine I was on a ship sailing towards Barbados. I remained faithful to that act, when
suddenly I received a letter from the family saying they would take care of all of my
expenses if I would come home for Christmas. So I proved it. Then I tried it again and
again, and the more I tried it the more I realized that the statement in the 46th Psalm was
true: that God really is my own wonderful consciousness, for I learned to be still and know
that I am God. Relax. Be still and question yourself, saying: "Are you really God?" Address
yourself as though you were two. "If you are God and can do all things, prove it to me by
giving me my desire so I can feel its presence now." See if he will prove himself in
performance and when he does, do it again. Keep on asking and when he proves himself
here on this level, then let these things which can't be put to the test come through, for they
will. If you are not familiar with Scripture, read it in the 46th chapter of the Psalms of David,
the 10th verse “Be still, and know that I am God,”– then, to whom could you turn? It’s an
inner communion with Self. But man talks to an outside god and pleads with an outside
god, and begs an outside god.So, prayer is the subjective appropriation of the objective
hope. That is what I call “faith in God,” which is nothing more than faith in my Self, for the
Self of man –the true identity of man – is God! That is the “Jesus Christ” of Scripture. “Do
you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Test yourselves and see.” That is what we are
told to do in Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. Read it in the 13th chapter, the 5th
verse, of 2 Corinthians. “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are holding to the
faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?” I am trying to
show you that the ancients told the same story in all the stories of the Bible. All that they
are trying to tell us is how to become that which we want to be. And they imply in every
story that we do not need the assistance of another. You do not need another to become
now what you really want to be. You are functioning three-dimensionally and you cannot
seem to reach the fourth-dimensional world where your present desire is already a
concrete objective reality. You cannot seem to reach it because your senses bar you from
it. Reason tells you it is impossible, all things round about you tell you it is not true. You can
satisfy self by appropriating the feeling that you are what you want to be. And this
assumption though false, that is, although reason and the senses deny it, if
persisted in will harden into fact. By actually embodying that which you have assumed
you are, you have the capacity to become completely satisfied. And it will come to pass in
the outer world as a natural fact.”-Neville Goddard
Technique #12-Mental Diets
“Talking to oneself is a habit everyone indulges in. We could no more stop talking to
ourselves than we could stop eating and drinking. All that we can do is control the nature
and the direction of our inner conversations. Most of us are totally unaware of the fact
that our inner conversations are the causes of the circumstance of our life. We are
told that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." But do we know that man's thinking
follows the tracks laid down in his own inner conversations? To turn the tracks to which he
is tied in the direction in which he wants to go, he must put off his former
conversation, which is called in the Bible the Old Man, and be renewed in the spirit of
his mind. Speech is the image of mind; therefore, to change his mind, he must first change
his speech. By 'speech' is meant those mental conversations we carry on with ourselves.
Watch your conversations carefully; are they from premises of fulfilled ideas? If
they're not, go back and make them and make them actually correspond to the ideal
you want to embody in this world. So I warned you every time I have taken the platform
that the knowledge you have now is of no avail unless it's applied. A little knowledge if
carried out in action is more profitable than much knowledge which you neglect to carry out
in action. If you had all the knowledge in the world and you didn't put it into practice, you
wouldn't awaken. The world is a magic circle of infinite possible mental transformations. For
there are an infinite number of possible mental conversations. When man discovers the
creative power of inner talking, he will realize his function and his mission in life. Then he
can act to a purpose. Without such knowledge, he acts unconsciously. Everything is a
manifestation of the mental conversations which go on in us without our being aware of
them. But as civilized beings, we must become aware of them and act with a purpose. A
man's mental conversations attracts his life. As long as there is no change in his inner
talking, the personal history of the man remains the same. To attempt to change the world
before we change our inner talking is to struggle against the very nature of things. Man can
go round and round in the same circle of disappointments and misfortunes, not seeing them
as caused by his own negative inner talking, but as caused by others. One day a girl told me
of her difficulties in working with her employer. She was convinced that he unjustly criticized
and rejected her very best efforts. Upon hearing her story, I explained that if she thought him
unfair, it was a sure sign that she herself was in need of a new conversation piece. There
was no doubt but that she was mentally arguing with her employer, for others only echo that
which we whisper to them in secret. She confessed that she argued mentally with him all
day long. When she realized what she had been doing, she agreed to change her inner
conversations with her employer. She imagined that he had congratulated her on her fine
work, and that she in turn had thanked him for his praise and kindness. To her great delight,
she soon discovered that her own attitude was the cause of all that befell her. The behavior
of her employer reversed itself. It echoed, as it had always done, her mental conversations
with him. The prophet said, "Be ye imitators of God as dear children." How would I
imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they
were seen, and the unseen becomes seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and
kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer
from the premise that he had praised her work, and he did. Our inner conversations
represent in various ways the world we live in. Our individual worlds are self-revelations of
our own inner speech. We are told that every idle word that men shall speak they shall
give account thereof.
Technique #13-Law of Reverse Effort
“Now before we go into our moment of silence there is something I must make very clear,
and that is this effort we discussed last night. If there is one reason in this whole vast world
why people fail it is because they are unaware of a law known to psychologists today as the
law of reverse effort. When you assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled it is with a
minimum of effort. You must control the direction of the movements of your attention.
But you must do it with the least effort. If there is effort in the control, and you are
compelling it in a certain way you are not going to get the results. You will get the
opposite results, what ever they might be. Very few people can sit quietly and not enter a
reverie or a state of uncontrolled thinking. When you can restrict the mental action and
remain faithful to your watch, not permitting your attention to wander all over the place, but
hold it without effort within a limited field of presentation to the state you are contemplating,
then you are definitely this disciplined presence in the garden of Gethsemane. Prayer is the
most wonderful experience man can have. Unlike the daily murmurings of the vast majority
of mankind in all lands who by their vain repetitions hope to gain the ear of God, prayer is
the ecstasy of a spiritual wedding taking place in the deep, silent stillness of consciousness.
Praying, then, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be rather than
begging God for that which you desire. If your prayer brings no response, there is
something wrong with it. The fault generally lies in too much effort. Serious confusion
arises when man identifies the state of prayer with an act of will. The sovereign rule is
to make no effort. If this is observed, you will intuitively fall into the right attitude. The
day you fully realize the power of assumption, you discover that it works in complete
conformity with this principle. It works by means of attention, minus effort. Thus, with
least action, through an assumption, you hurry without haste and reach your goal
without effort. Because creation is finished, what you desire already exists. It is
excluded from view because you can see only the contents of your own
consciousness.” -Neville Goddard
Question: Isn’t there a law that says you cannot get something for nothing? Must we not
earn what we desire?
Answer: “Creation is finished! It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the
kingdom. The parable of the prodigal son is your answer. In spite of man’s waste,
when he comes to his senses and remembers who he is, he feeds on the fatted calf of
abundance and wears the robe and ring of authority. There is nothing to earn.
Creation was finished in the foundation of time. You, as man, are God made visible for
the purpose of displaying what is, not what is to be. Do not think you must work out your
salvation by the sweat of your brow. It is not four months until the harvest, the fields are
already white, simply thrust in the sickle.”-Neville Goddard
Practical Exercise:
Practice the State Akin To Sleep ONLY for 5 minutes 2-3 times a day for a month. Just enter
and explore the state akin to sleep so it become NATURAL AND EFFORTLESS to you.
Note: You can still do your regular sessions every day too. This might sound like a lot, but
really – if you do 3 “state akin to sleep” practice sessions that are just 5 minutes each –
that’s ONLY 15 minutes a day. If you do 3 Feel It Real sessions a day too – 5 minutes each
– that’s only 15 more minutes. “Is 30 minutes a day to transform your life worth it?” Spend
the rest of the day, when you are aware of this, walking in the assumption that life IS exactly
as you desire it to be, and yield to this new reality. Yield to the power of God.
For by their words they shall be justified, and by their words they shall be condemned. We
abandon ourselves to negative inner talking, yet expect to retain command of life. Our
present mental conversations do not recede into the past as man believes. They
advance into the future to confront us as wasted or invested words. "My Word," said
the prophet, "shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in all the things whereto I sent it.” How would I send my
Word to help a friend? I would imagine that I am hearing his voice, that he is physically
present, that my hand is on him. I would then congratulate him on his good fortune, tell him
that I have never seen him look better. I would listen as though I heard him; I would imagine
that he is telling me he has never felt better, he has never been happier. And I would know
that in this loving, knowing communion with another, a communion populous with loving
thoughts and feelings, that my word was sent, and it shall not return unto me void, but it
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Every stage of man's progress is made by the
conscious exercise of his imagination matching his inner speech to his fulfilled desire. As
we control our inner talking, matching it to our fulfilled desires, we can lay aside all other
processes. Then we simply act by clear imagination and intention: we imagine the wish
fulfilled and carry on mental conversations from that premise. The right inner speech is
the speech that would be yours were you to realize your ideal. In other words, it is
the speech of fulfilled desire.It was a flash of the deepest insight that taught Paul to
write: "Put off the former conversation, the Old Man which is corrupt, and be
renewed in the spirit of your mind. Put on the New Man." "Put on the New Man," and
“be renewed in the spirit of your mind," is to change your inner conversation, for
speech and mind are one - a change of speech is a change of mind. For ends run true to
origins. If you would reap success, you must plant success. The idea in your mind which
starts the whole process going is the idea which you accept as truth. This is a very
important point to grasp, for truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon
"facts." When the girl imagined that her employer was unfair, his behavior confirmed her
imagination. When she changed her assumption of him, his behavior reflected the change,
proving that an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact. The great
secret of success is a controlled inner conversation from premises of fulfilled desire. The
only price you pay for success is the giving up of your former conversation which
belongs to the Old Man, the unsuccessful man. The time is ripe for many of us to
take conscious charge in creating heaven on earth. To consciously and voluntarily
use our imagination, to inwardly hear and only say that which is in harmony with our
ideal, is actively bringing heaven to earth. If we do not like what is happening to us, it is
a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet. For man, we are told, lives not
by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having
discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on Words or inner
talking, we should feed into our minds only loving, noble thoughts. For with Words or inner
talking we build our world.”-Neville Goddard
“The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies
that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are
inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner
convictions or “conversations.””-Neville Goddard
Extra-Consciousness/Awareness/Dwelling Place
Your sessions should be an actual experience in consciousness of NOW having/being
the thing desired. They should be a surrender- a complete immersion in the state of
the wish fulfilled, where you just lose yourself in your love for that state.There's a vast
difference between that, and doing your sessions to make something happen, or to try
and force yourself into the desired state.Again, don't make this a rehearsal. hat can
easily become like a chore, and feel systemized. Like you're just doing your sessions
to make something happen. You want to surrender to the experience, knowing that
what you're doing- seeing/hearing/smelling/FEELING is real, that it is a fact NOW.
Question: How often should I perform the imaginal act, a few days or several weeks?
Answer: In the Book of Genesis the story is told of Jacob wrestling with an angel. This story
gives us the clue we are looking for; that when satisfaction is reached, impotence follows.
When the feeling of reality is yours, for the moment at least, you are mentally
impotent. The desire to repeat the act of prayer is lost, having been replaced by the
feeling of accomplishment. You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If
you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want
it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts,
shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal
act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach
the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you
touched it and virtue went out of you.
Question: My husband and I are taking the class together. Should we discuss our desires
with each other?
Answer: There are two spiritual sayings which permeate the Bible. One is, “Go tell no man,”
and the other is “I have told you before it comes to pass that when it does come to pass you
may believe.” It takes spiritual boldness to tell another that your desire is fulfilled
before it is seen on the outside. If you do not have that kind of boldness, then you had
better keep quiet. I personally enjoy telling my plans to my wife, because we both get such
a thrill when they come into being. The first person a man wants to prove this law to is his
wife. It is said that Mohammad is everlastingly great because his first disciple was his wife.
Question: Do you use affirmations and denials?
Answer: Let us leave these schools of thought that use affirmations and denials. The best
affirmation, and the only effective one is an assumption which, in itself implies denial
of the former state.The best denial is total indifference. Things wither and die through
indifference. They are kept alive through attention. You do not deny a thing by saying it does
not exist. Rather you put feeling into it by recognizing it, and what you recognize as true, is
true to you, be it good, bad or indifferent.
(It is important to notice the things that you give life to. Whether they be good, bad, or
indifferent. Your thoughts, emotions, imaginings, assumptions, and perceptions are
like fuel to the fire of any particular state of consciousness. So get in the habit of
noticing what you are giving life to, and learn to move in consciousness to states that
you desire. And then learn to make your desired states a dwelling place to which you
always return.)
Extra-Sin
"So I bring you a message to make you conscious: man must awake from the
dream where he is simply an automaton. He moves like a machine, then he begins to
awake and when he awakes then he is not that man at all that he seemingly in the past
played for eternity. He awakes into a new being, a new man. And the new man is
identified with completely new words. He speaks only the kind things; he is incapable of
any unlovely thought in the world; he is incapable of even listening to the unlovely for
inwardly he speaks only the kind, only the loving things of the world. Then he finds
himself awakening a man within that was asleep; he awakens the second man which is
called Christ Jesus in the Bible, which I tell you now is your own wonderful, loving
imagination. When imagination awakes it is incapable of being exercised in any way
outside of the loving way. So every time you use your imagination lovingly, you are literally
awakening this inner man and you're mediating God to man.
Now what is sin? Sin means "missing the mark," missing the road, "missing
the goal" in life. If you haven't a mark you can't sin. If you have a goal in this world and
do not realize it and miss it, then you have sinned. So his purpose is to show man how not
to sin in this world. No condemnation. He has come only to show man how not to miss his
objective in this world. Listen to these words from the 8th chapter of John carefully: 'If you
remain in my word you are my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will set you
free." Questioning this statement, the people said: 'We are sons of Abraham and have never
been in bondage to anyone." To this Christ replied: 'He who commits sin is a slave to sin." You
were taught to believe that sinning is when you do something wrong, but I say you are sinning
when you miss your mark in life by failing to move! If, tonight you find yourself in a state you
no longer desire to express, you must learn how to move into your desired state. If you
do not move (mentally) you continue to live your undesirable state, thereby sinning and
missing your mark in life! Regardless of what you may desire, persist in feeling its
fulfillment, for if you do, feeling will become believing.  As told in John 8:24: "I told you that
you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he." This is
not a man talking to me. This is taking place in the depths of the soul of man. If you don't
believe now that I AM the one that I would be, then you are missing your goal and you are
sinning. So it does not come from without; it is not caused by anything on the outside at all. My
health problems are not caused by conditions and by environment, or anything else; it is
caused only by sin – and sin is missing the mark. There is only one being – one person in the
world – who can hit that mark, and it is God. God forgives sin, as told us in Isaiah: "I am the
Lord, I am thy Savior, and there is no other savior."(Isaiah 43:3-11) You will be saved from what
you are. There is only one being in the world that can save you, and that Being is "I AM." So,
you save yourself. What would it be like were it true – if I were now the man or woman I would
like to be? Assume it and dare to believe it and walk as though it were true, and no power in
this world can stop it. How? Don't ask me. But if it took the entire world of three billion to play
parts to aid me in the fulfillment of my vision, they would play it without knowing they had
played it. Another word for sin in the Bible is "trespass." In our wonderful Lord's Prayer,
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." It is a minor
infraction of this principle. "Trespassing" means an individual lapse, a temporary
relapse. We all do it, every day, all day long. If today you and I can say The Lord's Prayer
– but really say it – and ask forgiveness for our trespasses and let him show mercy for
having gotten off the mark as it were, by claiming “My sins are forgiven.”.”-Neville  experiencing in your imagination that which you would like to experience. You are free.
Extra-The Pearl of great price
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who
finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”
Matthew13:45-46 So great is this pearl, so valuable, it takes everything that you own to
buy it. Now you don’t go and liquidate your stocks and bonds… you don’t sell your
homes; you don’t sell anything in the world of Caesar. But it takes everything that you
now believe in other than it to pay for it. You believe in astrology? You’ve got to sell it.
You believe in numerology, in teacup leaves, and all these things? No matter what you
believe in as a power to control you, you’ve got to sell it. It takes the belief– all these
beliefs– and you’ve got to sell them. No one will buy them from you! But you give
them up as value-less! Therefore, there’s no price attached, no value whatsoever. But you
can’t hold on to one thing you now believe in as a power that controls your life and still hope
to buy the pearl of great price. Everything you now believe in, whether it be even the drugs
that you take, even the things–the diets, if you’re a vegetarian and you think that’s the way to
God… if you’re a meat eater and you think that’s the way to God… if you’re a nonsmoker,
nondrinker, and that’s the way to God… or if you are a smoker and a drinker and that’s the
way to God. There is no way to God but Christ. I AM the way. There is no other way. And
here he defines it, that he is the only way in the world to everything in this world that you and
I seek. And it takes everything that we own– as to beliefs that we think are powers to guide
our life– to pay for that pearl of great price. If you think for one moment you can hold on to
one little thing in the event this doesn’t work, you can’t buy the pearl. And so when I buy the
pearl, I go all out and live by it. And there is no other being in this world. And this pearl is your
own wonderful human Imagination. That’s Christ. When I buy the pearl of great price, there is
no other pearl like it. I sell all in this world to buy it. I sell all beliefs in powers other than
my own wonderful human imagination. But like all the great things of scripture, you
can’t buy wine, buy milk, without money, without price. The only price you pay for it.
Not dollars and cents; you give up your belief in powers outside of Christ Jesus, and
Christ Jesus is your own wonderful human Imagination. And everyone, because he has
imagination and everyone can imagine and everyone can believe in the reality of his imaginal
act, is free. It sets a man free.For we are told: If you believe my word and abide in my
word, then you know the truth, and the truth will set you free.Well, how does he define
the truth? He said, “I AM the truth.” He said, “If you know my word, you know the
truth” and “I am the truth.” If you abide in this, then you’ll be set free. Live this way in
the world, trusting one hundred percent in the pearl of great price. May I tell you, it will
not fail you. But you can’t modify it. You can’t hold back one little reserve thing. I’m
speaking from experience. You’ve got to give up every belief in this world in a power
outside of Christ to buy Christ. There is nothing but Jesus Christ. You either believe in
him or you don’t believe in him.” -Neville Goddard
Since we are all Men on the path of discovery to our truest selves (God), we will discover a
great power with in us, but along the way we will forget that power at times and blame things
outside of ourselves as the cause of our misfortunes. As told in scripture, “The stone that the
builder refused, shall be the head cornerstone.” Learn and practice the master key of
awareness. Become aware of when you refuse that great stone (your wonderful human
imagination), and become aware of when you accept it as your head corner stone. For the
times that you truly accept it, will be the times that your creation and manifestation is
effortless.
Extra-The art of dying
“Take what you know of this law, and use it towards your own personal good fortune in the
world of Caesar. It's simple. Go to the end and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Don't
ask anyone to help you. Ask no one if it is right. If you like it, assume you have it.
Remain faithful to your assumption, and that Being who is going to erupt in you will
take you to that end. If you find yourself moving from your fulfilled desire, go back to it,
and once more assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Do this and your assumption will
harden into fact.”
In the Bible we are told of a story that involves two sons, named Jacob and Esau.
These children have a blind father named Issac. Esau is a hunter that is really hairy (likened to
the outer man, the man of senses and reason). Jacob, is a smooth skinned lad (likened to the
inner man, the man of spirit and imagination). In this story, the blind father tells the sons to go
hunting, but that when they come back, Esau will receive his blessing. Jacob, wanting to
receive the blessing, waits for his brother to leave and then puts on the skin of another dead
animal as to disguise himself as his hairy brother Esau. Then he goes to his father and the
father says: "Who are you?" He said: "I am your son, Esau." The father says, "Come closer, I
can't see you, come closer that I may feel you." He persuaded the father he was Esau and the
father gave him the blessing that belonged to Esau. [This story is showing us how to get out of
unlovely conditions of life and into the conditions which we desire. When “Esau” (your present
reality/the reality of your senses and reason) leaves (Esau leaves by either you ignoring Esau,
or by inducing a state akin to sleep), you supplant Esau with Jacob (your imaginetion) through
FEELING. The father says, “come closer that I may feel you.” So God takes what we feel to be
true and gives us a blessing according to that. And this is the art of dying. We die to our old
selves and to our old states of life by assuming we are the person we desire to be and
that our lives are as we desire them to be. "Walk not according to the flesh but
according to the Spirit." Romans 8:4 Flesh would be my senses. My senses deny that I
am what I would like to be. Let us not walk by flesh - let us walk by the Spirit. Spirit is to
see it in my imagination as though it were true. When you call on the name of God, you
don't say “in the name of God, so-and-so”; you ask with the name of God, and to ask with the
name of God you say: "I AM wealthy, healthy, secure" - then you believe it.
You don’t think of HOW it will happen. “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be
also.” John 14:2-3 So here, what are these “mansions” spoken of? They are states. All states
are eternal, and they exist now. Every natural effect in this world has a spiritual cause,
and not a natural. So to make a state physically manifest we make the adjustment in our
imagination, and then the physical will follow. This means that a series of events will take
place in the physical world in terms of actions and events. But it will not feel like we are doing
it. And we aren’t. And this is why we do not have to think of how it will occur, for it has already
occurred. But man is afraid; he dare not so abandon himself to a dream, and so never
"dies." So Blake was right when he said: "There is nothing like death: the best thing in
life is death.”  So live in any desired state and then as conflict arises resolve it and die
to it and then move into another state. Thus we grow and outgrow; thus man awakes.
So begin to experience and create new things in your imagination. Break your cycles by
Extra-The Promise
"I discovered that the one who is the Being of beings, the God of gods, was my
very self. Then He began to awaken in me, as I learned to overcome everything external to
myself. And as I did, I realized that I was the cause of the phenomena of my life. I accepted
this fact one-hundred percent and he fulfilled his promise: "To him who conquers I will give
the Morning Star.” So here is God's promise to man that he will bring forth, out of man,
himself. He is buried in man. We are all destined to be God the Father, and yet individualized.
I know I will never lose my individuality and you will never lose yours, and yet we are one. You
do not earn the promise; it is a gift, it is all grace. No man is good enough to earn it. The
promise is unconditional. You will not rise as two, but as one, yet there is no change of
identity, no change of your wonderful individuality. It’s the same self, but now includes a far
greater awareness than before, a self who is none other than God the Father.
 I urge you to question everything that I tell you, everything you read in the Bible,
and everything you hear from some pulpit, ceaselessly. One day you will discover that you are
the life of the world, that everything you think of as permanent and independent of your
perception is within you. You will know that the world reflects your thoughts.  Question the one
being who can give you all the answers. He will. Then he will reveal himself to you in the first
person singular in a present tense experience. Everyone is going to have these experiences,
but when I do not know. Don't let anyone tell you that you have so many days, months, years,
or lifetimes to come. Challenge it now! Ask yourself to prove it to you now. Then let him unfold
within you. And it will happen.
We are told, “He who has not loved does not know God, for God is love.” But, in
spite of all the horror of the world, I know from experience that God is love. When you stand in
the presence of the Risen Christ you have only one emotion, only one feeling and that is love.
Now that you and God are one, no man, or organization of men can put you asunder. You are
one with the body of love. Wearing the Human Form Divine, He embraced me and
incorporated me into his body of Infinite Love. Wearing his body of love, I stood before
Almighty God who said: "Time to act." Then I was sent back into this world to tell the story of
God as the infinite power of the human imagination!”-Neville Goddard
  "And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the
top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending
on it!" -Genesis 28:12 [The promise can be likened to a Kundalini experience, and when you
experience it, you have access to both Heaven and Earth, which is why it says “And behold,
the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!” You will take what you
experience in heaven, which is pure love, peace, and joy and you will bring it back to
Earth to share with all. The promise is said to be a gift and that you cannot will it into its
occurrence. However, if you truly desire it, you can use the Law to experience the promise.
The promise is all love. So assume the feeling of God’s Love until it becomes natural to
you. Assume the feeling of God’s Peace until it becomes your natural state. Assume
the feeling of God’s joy until it becomes your default emotion. You will know the
promise then.]
“I urge you to use your own wonderful creative power and deliberately move into
the state of your choice. Make it now by occupying the state long enough so that it feels
natural. The moment the feeling is natural, wealth is yours! Tonight fall in love as God.
Imitate him as a dear child. Love any state so much you die to any other. Live there, as
God, and you will live there as man also. Fulfill every desire of your heart, for in time it
will all pass away. And always remember who you are, for you are love, the one and
only reality of the world, and that, which endureth forever.”-Neville Goddard