The world you behold is not a world of causes,
But a world of effects.
Most of us spend our entire lives fighting with the shadows on the wall,
Trying to rearrange the furniture of our lives without ever realizing that the room itself is a projection of our own mind.
Neville Goddard Neville Goddard brought a message that is both terrifying and liberating.
You are the sole creator of your reality.
Not through your hard work,
Not through your luck,
But through your imagination.
When you stand before the mirror of life,
You cannot force the reflection to smile.
You must smile first,
Then,
And only then,
Does the reflection respond.
This session is an exploration of that smile.
It is an invitation to stop being a victim of your circumstances,
And to start being the conscious architect of your destiny.
We will journey to the mechanics of the soul,
The law of assumption,
And the profound silence of the I am.
Let go of the person you think you are.
For the next 30 minutes,
Allow yourself to simply be.
To understand the universe,
You must first understand the two words that govern every breath you take.
I am.
Neville taught that I am is the name of the divine within you.
It is the unconditioned awareness.
Before you are a man or a woman.
Before you are successful or struggling.
Before you are healthy or ill,
You are.
This is the canvas.
Everything else is just paint.
The tragedy of the modern human is that we have forgotten the power of what we attach to those two words.
When you say,
I am tired,
I am lonely,
Or I am lacking,
You are not merely describing a state.
You are commanding the universe to bring that state into being.
You are the potter,
And your words are the clay.
In the philosophy of the East,
There is a concept called wu-wei,
The art of effortless action.
Neville's work is the western bridge to this truth.
Effort is the sign of the ego.
The ego struggles.
The ego fights.
The ego tries to make things happen,
But the spirit,
The imagination,
Simply assumes.
If you want to change your life,
You must perform a radical act of internal revision.
You must die to your present self.
You cannot bring the old limited version of yourself into the new life you desire.
To be wealthy,
You must leave the poor man behind.
To be loved,
You must abandon the rejected one.
This is not a mental trick.
It is a spiritual rebirth.
You must walk through the world as if you already are what you want to be.
Not because you are pretending,
But because you know that the inner reality is the only reality that matters.
Ask yourself now,
If I were truly the person I dream of being,
How would I stand?
How would I speak to myself in the silence of my own mind?
Would I still be searching,
Or would I be resting?
Neville often quoted the Bible,
Not as a historical record,
But as a psychological manual.
He defined faith not as a blind belief in a distant God,
But as the subjective appropriation of the objective hope.
This means that you must give your dream the tones of reality.
You must make the unseen,
Seen.
You must make the there,
Hear.
The physical world is delayed,
It is like an echo.
When you shout into a canyon,
There is a pause before the sound returns to you.
If you do not understand the delay,
You might think the canyon is silent.
Most people give up during this silence.
They think their imagination has failed,
Because they cannot see the result immediately.
But the law is certain,
If you can feel the reality of your wish,
If you can truly touch it in your mind,
It must,
By law,
Harden into fact.
Feeling is the secret.
But what is feeling?
It is not an emotional high,
It is not the excitement of a lottery win.
Feeling,
In the Neville sense,
Is the sense of naturalness.
If you have lived in your house for ten years,
You don't walk through the door and scream with excitement,
Because you have a roof over your head.
You simply feel a quiet,
Settled,
Natural sense of belonging.
This is how you must feel about your dream.
It must become so natural to you,
In your imagination,
That its physical appearance seems almost mundane.
Go into the sats,
The state akin to sleep.
In that drowsy,
Meditative state where the senses are quieted,
Play a short three-second scene that implies your wish is fulfilled.
Perhaps a handshake,
A hug,
Or the sight of a specific document.
Loop it,
Over and over,
Until it takes on the sensory vividness of reality.
One of the greatest hurdles for the seeker is the question of how.
How will I find the money?
How will I meet the person?
How will the healing occur?
Neville is very clear on this.
The how is not your concern.
When you occupy the end,
You set in motion a bridge of incidents.
This is a series of events,
Often seemingly random or even negative,
That lead you,
Step by step,
To your goal.
You might lose a job,
Only to find a better one.
You might take a wrong turn,
Only to meet the person you were looking for.
You are limiting the infinite intelligence of your imagination.
You are trying to build a bridge with toothpicks when you have the power of the stars at your disposal.
Trust the delay.
Trust the silence.
If you are living in the end,
You are no longer an anxious beggar.
You are a king or queen,
Waiting for the delivery of a treasure that is already yours.
Consider the lilies of the field.
As the old texts say,
They do not toil,
They do not spin.
They simply unfold into their own perfection,
Because they do not doubt their own nature.
You are no different.
Your only toil is to remain faithful to your inner vision,
Even when the outer world screams otherwise.
If you find yourself falling back into doubt,
Do not fight the doubt.
Simply observe it,
And then return to the feeling.
Return to the I am.
Every day,
We consume thousands of thoughts.
This is our mental diet.
Most of us eat junk food,
Rumors,
Fears,
Criticisms and self-doubt.
And then we wonder why our lives feel unhealthy.
To master the law,
You must become the gatekeeper of your mind.
You must refuse to entertain any thought that does not align with the version of yourself you wish to be.
Neville also introduced the concept of revision.
This is perhaps his most magical tool.
At the end of your day,
As you lie in bed,
Review the events of the day,
If something didn't go as planned.
If you had a conflict or a disappointment,
Do not accept it.
Rewrite it in your mind.
Replay the scene as you wish it had happened.
Hear the words you wanted to hear.
Feel the outcome you desired.
By doing this,
You are literally changing the vibration of your past.
And since the future is built upon the vibration of the past,
You are changing what is to come.
You are not stuck in time.
Time is a loop.
And you are the one holding the needle.
Think of your life as a script.
If you don't like a scene,
You don't have to live with it.
You can edit,
You can refine.
You are the writer,
The director and the lead actor.
The audience,
The world,
Is simply waiting for your next move.
There is no one to change but self.
This is the pinnacle of Neville's teaching.
If you find someone in your life to be difficult,
If you find the world to be cold,
It is because you are carrying a coldness within.
Everyone you meet is a mirror.
They are playing the part you have assigned to them in your own drama.
If you change your concept of them,
They must change their behavior toward you.
They have no choice.
They are moving according to your script.
This is not about manipulation.
It is about love.
When you see the best in someone,
Even when they are showing you their worst,
You are offering them the highest form of grace.
You are seeing the I am in them,
Which is the same I am in you.
As we draw to a close,
Recognize that you are far greater than you have been led to believe.
You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean,
In a drop.
The walls of your room.
The city you live in.
The stars above.
They all exist within your consciousness.
You are the dreamer.
Dreaming the dream.
And the dreamer can wake up at any time.
Take a long,
Slow breath.
Feel the weight of your body,
But also feel the expansion of your mind.
You now hold the keys to the kingdom.
Use them with care.
Use them with love.
Do not seek for signs.
Let the signs follow you,
As you go about your day,
Or as you drift into sleep.
Remember,
You are already that which you seek.
You are already there.
The journey is over.
The work is finished.
It is done.
Thank you for being.
