Israel Regardie On Neville Goddard

welcome to the reality revolution I'm your host Brian Scott so I've done a lot of lectures on the podcast with neville goddard and i've tried to do a deeper dive and try to learn more about Neville and I found a very fascinating introduction to one of his books and another section of a book it's the same thing but by a popular writer Israel Regardie and I learned a little bit more about Neville now I may not entirely agree with his assessment but this particular transcript that is is written is also an introduction to one of Neville's books and Israel Regardie knew neville goddard and does his version of describing it now Israel Regardie if you don't know who he is is a famous writer he was a secretary to Aleister Crowley he wrote a bunch of books he was kind of a specialist in magic ceremonial magic he wrote a book called The Tree of Life that's very good the Middle Pillar if you can just do a search on YouTube of Israel Regardie you'll hear his voice he does he conducts ceremonies like the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and he knows a lot about Rosicrucian so he has a background in kind of like the secret societies and secret knowledge and so there's a cross section with him and neville goddard and so I was fascinated I wanted to know what he said about Neville and he tries to do his own assessment now I'm going to read this this this in this section to you and then you can kind of pick and choose what you take from it but he does his own assessment and he has an assessment of what Neville is talking about when he says we are God it's a little more in-depth you know it's interesting on on another series I'm doing on Roger yoga there's a section where they say we are not God I did not include that in the in the section only because it wasn't essential and important I didn't want to complicate things but sometimes that is triggering for people and if people don't understand what he means and so I wanted to bring this as a student to you and I'm gonna read this he was a great writer and knew Neville and I think I learned a little bit more about Neville from this so he says near Broadway on 49th Street in New York City is the old actors Church should you go there on Wednesday Friday or Sunday night of any week either winter or summer I can promise you more than a pleasant evening it will be a highly instructive evening you will hear Neville discourse on truth a young man not more than 36 years of age he is dynamic handsome and most charming personality so we can see here that Israel Regardie knew him had it at that at 36 years old he says he was a win he has a winning smile thoroughly and completely disarming his presentation of truth is forceful and sincere charged with feeling and reflecting his own integrity and purposefulness he communicates himself readily from the pulpit four to five hundred men and women flocked to the old actors church on each of these nights that he talks how much of his evident popularity is due to his charm and how much to his dynamic orations is not for me to say some however have hazarded an opinion some suspected is the former nevertheless this judgment does not in the least attract from the value and worth of what he is impelled to teach his method and content of teaching are entirely too good and provocative readily to appeal to so many and to such different varieties of people however that maybe his readers and the listeners must be the judges he does get a crowd and he satisfies most of them Neville is not American and not in a Native American he comes from the Barbados British West Indies having been born in a planters family in the year 1905 evidently he felt a cane sugar plantation was no place for him a wider sphere of action for imaginative flight and spiritual understanding were necessary to him his spirit craved other than a small islet off the mainland of the US so at the age of 17 he came to this country to study drama a man's faith is his fortune he wrote at a much later date it was the title of a book of his evidently he had unbounded faith in himself to have set off youthfully on the unknown possibilities of a career in an unknown land his confidence has stood him in good stead since it has brought him through to a position where he has become a public figure no doubt there are greater heights of achievement and fame awaiting him in the future the year 1925 found him beginning his theatrical career at the Hippodrome which not so long ago was torn down we're moving from New York one of its old landmarks the destruction of this building was a milestone to nevels life it coincided with his departure from the world of theater he entered a totally different public life yet it was a life which at the same time bore certain resemblances to his dramatic career as we shall see he has a wide and varied experience for a young man this Nevel in 1925 he sailed for England with a dancing partner and traveled widely in that country it was there that he became openly interested in the study of occult and mysticism whilst in England he met Arthur Begbie who introduced him to the world of psychical research giving Neville his first taste of the spiritualistic seance it left him I should say a little bit flat but nonetheless he knew afterwards that he was definitely embarked upon a long journey of that he was sure in spite of his dislike of the atmosphere and the procedure of the seance shortly after his return to America in 1926 to continue his theatrical career his interest in mysticism became keener and keener coinciding with a waning interest in the theater I want to emphasize that Neville was a success in the dramatic world he did not retire from the stage to metaphysics because he was a flop not at all his salary from the theatre at times ran to 500 per week a not usually earned by failures this is important to know it will help dispel the popular notion that only failures and life dyspeptic schoo into the metaphysics it was around this time that he became associated with one of the several so-called Rosicrucian bodies I should like to write at length on this subject of Rosicrucians and Rosicrucian organizations however I shall have to leave that for another occasion despite the fact that it is a fascinating subject for research and a lovely topic for a disquisition on the foibles of human nature anyway he had not only became a member of this body and studied with it but embarked upon a definite spiritual and moral discipline imposing upon himself a regime of abstemious living sexual continence and a vegetarian diet it was enough surely to break a stronger person than him from a husky strapping fellow of 176 pounds he rapidly fell in weight to about a hundred thirty-five pounds not only was his efficiency impaired but he became subject to fainting fits and had long spells of weakness and languor at the same time probably because of the dietary and this irrational mode of life and undoubtedly because of the neurological disturbances which would accompany such a procedure a number of psychic experiences occurred to him including involuntary astral projection and momentary clairvoyant glimpses his was a successful theatrical career I repeat this and emphasize it he had featured in six Broadway plays and had traveled all over the country from one theatre to another and his income ran into several thousands per year but because of his mystical predilections and his declining interest in the theatre he finally withdrew from the theatrical career that he had so labor or Boreas lee struggled to build up he became a closed episode of his life yet the experience of the theater gave him something that enabled him in later years to succeed in his newly chosen work his personality and his teaching are both highly dramatic we are not to imagine that various events in a man's life are out of relationship with one another a Barbados plantation dramatic school theatre professional dancing and teaching metaphysics while these seemingly point to a discrepancy in the continuous line of his life that appearance is only due to our lack of insight it is one of the characteristics of our age that we see for superficial consistency failing to realize that there may be deeper levels of reality hidden from view or the true line of continuity may be seen a man's life is in reality a continuum regardless of the number of breaks that may appear in the line of his life a true continuity does exist we must not imagine for one moment that growth and development persist anywhere in nature in a straight line the process of growth involves the idea of a spiral of an apparent occasional backward trend of appearances and disappearances of surges and retreats of endeavors and new endeavors the Hegelian dialectic 'el concept may well be the true story behind all human endeavor there's a forward movement succeeded by its utter negation hard upon this however there is a manifestation of an entirely new order such a cycle persists through the whole nature and man is certainly no exception to that world order if we bear such a concept in mind we will be enabled to understand far more readily the intelligent direction of our lives and in particular the work and life of Neville in this Rosicrucian body Neville remained for many years as a student and probationer but his was finer stuff than his this cult with its narrow pseudo occult just dogmatism its lack of imagination and real spiritual achievement left him cold within for him there was really nothing there life initiation him into its mysteries far more successfully than this occult order gradually he drifted away from it finding his way in response to an inner need into the private sphere of an eccentric Ethiopian rabbi named Abdullah here he studied the Kabbalah a Jewish form of mysticism and obtained illuminating insights into the books of the Bible as he himself says in your faith is your fortune the Bibles are psychological dramas representing the consciousness of man and again if man were less bound by orthodoxy and more intuitively observant he could not fail to notice in the reading of the Bibles that the awareness of being is revealed hundreds of times through this literature he developed an utterly new approach to the whole problem of man and his relationship with the pulsating world of spirit around him entirely satisfied for the first time he became devoted disciple of this giant ethiopian rabbi his imagination became tremendously stimulated envisioning life in an entirely new way no longer was he confined to the sterile formalistic cult philosophy of this Moorabbin Rosicrucian body now he conceived of God and man being entirely one and it altered the whole course of his life the core of man's being was God even though man in his blindness and ignorant did not know it outside of man there was nothing that man had not himself created the entire world was a picture world projected from within the ethiopian soon restore balance to his eager groping mind overboard when in his fanatical vegetarianism his countenance and his crankiness and he became that rare anomaly a human being and he is very human this novel very human indeed with the development of this phase of personality he was able to loosen his hold upon the hem of Abdulla skirt to become a teacher in his own right it was in February 1938 then that he commenced his successful career in New York City at first he met in a small room in a public building in New York were dozens of petty little lecturers held their sway nightly merely a handful of people attended his lectures at the beginning but as his ability grew and he gained confidence in talking and expounding so his audience grew now as I mentioned above you may go to the old actors Church three nights a week and find a tremendous enthusiastic audience he has not yet achieved nationwide fame but no doubt this will come in time in his talks on metaphysics he reveals the Bible as a psychological rather than historical document of the law governing the expression of life he has a genius for interpretation and unconsciously employs an exegetical technique that would surprise many a psychoanalyst and professional interpreter of dreams for example he takes Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo and he interprets it as would a psychoanalyst a dream his interpretations of the story reveals that Edmond Dantes is real everyman adrift on the stormy seas of life trying to steer himself into some Haven of security and attempting to find a refuge against the storm the old priest with his wisdom and understanding who who Dante's discovers in the prison really represents man's awareness of being that ancient unconditioned self locked up since time began within the bosom of man and at the end after Dante's escaped in the sack intended for the body of the old priest now dead because Dante's possesses his insight and finds the buried treasure he is able to fully express himself and impose his will upon the world edmond dantes becomes the count of money crystal man becomes Christ in another place he analyzes the nature and character of the apostles he concludes that they represent the 12 qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man when discussing the story of the disciples feet being washed by Jesus he states that the foot symbolizes the understanding which must be washed of all human belief or conceptions of itself by the Lord the story of Daniel again is the story of everyman those lions that Daniel found in the den are the Lions that beset our pathway through life the problems of money health and relationships with other people these beset all of us most of us in the face of such predicaments becomes so preoccupied with the problem so browbeaten by poverty sickness or marital problems that we are unable to find a solution to them the problem obsesses us it fascinates us Daniel decided to turn his back upon the Lions resorting to prayer that is he turned his gaze inward to his high hem consciousness his real self which alone is capable of solving such problems and so Neville concludes his Exodus by insisting that here too is our way out and that what worked for Daniel will will work for us too I ought to mention at this juncture that during the course of his lecturing career Neville has written and published a considerable number of pamphlets dealing with specific points of his system some of them explained his attitude towards particular themes and problems of the Bible his applications of this theory extend to every phase of biblical theme from that of the world's creation to the crucifixion of Christ from the meaning of circumcision to the significance of each one of jesus' twelve disciples latterly these essays have been gathered together and incorporate into a single volume entitled your faith is your fortune it is upon that volume that I have drawn extensively in order to present what I understand Neville to mean however just as sometimes one feels that the psychoanalyst uses more ingenuity than insight and elaborating a meaning from an inward dream so occasionally one feels that Neville is hard pressing extracting ex archeological meaning from certain sections of the Bible that is the difficulty in using for the thin end of one psychological wedge a book which is so crammed with heterogeneous and diverse stuff that is clearly psychological however he presents in a simple and practical manner the advantage of realizing the identity of man's own consciousness with God as he himself writes I am the eternal nothingness contains within my formless self the capacity to be all things I am that in which all my conceptions of myself live and move and have their being and apart from which they are not Neville's choice of the phrase I am to imply that underlying godlike essence in man is dependent upon several reasons the most obvious is the self assumed name of God which was given to Moses before the fateful visit to Pharaoh I am that I am this phrase is also repeated throughout scripture in the same abstract sense but apart from this Nevel uses it because if we would define ourselves at all we must use I am before we can further qualify it in any way before I can say what I am I must first have said I am before I can assert that I am a man of such and such an age of a certain race residing in a certain country of a certain profession and status I must say I am not that I am this or that but that I simply am I can condition or formulate this limitless expanse of experts traction by enclosing it within the limitations of sex age race country profession etc but still remains there unconditioned unformed and unlimited so also is the basic self of man it can express itself through a variety of masks play an infinite number of parts adopt a maximum of possible roles but it remains nevertheless unconditioned and unformed I am in reality Neville is an atheist it is conceivable that both he and his audience would be shocked to learn of my conclusion yet he himself clearly indefinitely states that outside of man there is no God if man would give up his belief in a God apart from himself recognized his awareness of being to be God he would transform his world from a barren waste to fertile one of his own liking here he allies himself in philosophical principle with the old Buddhist reformed Gotama was a rebel against orthodoxy against Brahmanism against the hindu church and in passing let me say that there is more than one correspondence to between nevels formulation of God and let us say Vedanta philosophy I refer the interested reader to Swami Vivekananda's book the nominee for a first-rate presentation of Vedanta which will certainly bear comparison with the ideas contained in your four faith is your fortune in the chapter on Christian science I have given a resume of Vedanta philosophy the Buddha had realized that so long as man relied upon God in the church with its priests for help of any kind man leaned upon an already broken reed in fact upon a reed that had no tangible existence it was a palpable lie if help was to be obtained in order to solve any of the urgent problems that press upon one in the world of everyday life only one thing could be relied on upon man and his inner consciousness that is the ultimate reality all else may be explained away may be challenged may be denied this alone remains by realizing this fact one isn't able to draw upon secret reserves of strength of inspiration find a hidden source of salvation which could be demonstrated and applied to every experience in the hard cold world of reality this fundamentally is Buddhism and the creed of Buddha God or the wisdom of enlightenment is inherent in the mind of each one of us it is the essence of mind which is intrinsically pure unfortunately it has become obscured the problem is to clear away the obscurity this delusion under which the mind works to discover the light of true consciousness which exists beneath and so with Nevele atheist that he is like Buddha in denying validity to some extra cosmic personal God an aged scholar with beard capriciously pulling strings in some far-off corner of the universe he states categorically that in man is an unconditioned consciousness which is uncreated unmade and unformed and unbound God if one can only find God in oneself by an ecstasy of feeling and interior states of prayer and meditation one also becomes free like God poverty sickness and need fall away they are only the products of conscious thinking and feeling the products of the mind that has divorced itself from its divine roots these things are the results of denial the denial that man's consciousness in its deepest levels in what we call the subconscious level is God and able to create and destroy man's world it can destroy the present world in which we all live of sickness sorrow in need of one kind or another and it can create happiness health and fullness and plenty of every conceivable kind on every plane of existence many people by accepting and applying the principle that he has disclosed to them have experienced what they had first thought were miracles there is no new doctrine that he has taught it is ages old both the doctrine and its implications have been known and taught since time began but they are new to some people they have heard it for the first time and credit must be given to him Nevel can put it over extremely well with its implicit II and with force on the other hand some people find themselves intellectually in sympathy with his teaching yet discover that they are unable to make it work they struggle and struggle and still no results are forthcoming these fall by the wayside attacking him in his system even becoming a vindictive some of these suggest that when some of nevels disciplines obtain satisfactory results they do so only because they've been hypnotized by Nevel now I have seen this in some Facebook groups where people deny Nevel and it's true he goes on to say the sort of person who can make this sort of statement have not in the least understood the fundamental psychological factor in nevels teaching nor the fundamental fact about Neville himself it is a very simple fact Neville is a dancer I have watched Neville dance he is superb he has a magnificent body I've already remarked that he has charm and is very handsome when he dances his muscles move with the live suppleness which one associates with the trained athlete his every movement suggests power in repose the effortless ease of the cat with its undisguised sensuality and force of movement as an artist he knows the value of alternate relaxation and tension above all he knows the his metaphysics and his system are a dance of words a dance of mind a dance of feeling and unless you can dance with him his system is likely to be unproductive his system is in reality strictly personal an offshoot of his own personality to make it work as he has done you to must become like him an artist and every fiber of his being he has the capacity to sink himself wholeheartedly and imagine actually be in the task at hand he is an artist and has passion and fire on hand at every moment the artist in him is truer than his desire to expound publicly this system he does expound he has the ability spontaneously to apply his own teaching it is quite another story however to teach the practical element of his system to those who are not artists who have not his mana t'v or emotional capacity to engage in this ecstatic dance of the mind which evidently means so much to him possibly in his audience there are individuals here in there having the necessary artistic and mystical temperament identical really not only to absorb the truth as Neville presents it but make immediate application of it [Music] to demonstrate successfully as the cliche goes the average person with his commercial prosaic mind is an unimaginative sterile attitude to life uninspiring employment and home is incapable of realizing that inner spiritual being which Neville implies by I am such a person cannot evoke that intensity of feeling that temporary madness that Neville demands of all those who would apply his teaching successfully a fiery white-hot passion is but a phrase to them consequently and being unable to whip themselves into such an emotional frenzy which can be focused in certain predetermined directions his words fall on barren ground yet in one sense this is not their fault life has dealt hardly with them I do not blame them in any way I am full of sympathy for them in their plight of all the metaphysical systems which I am acquainted neville's is the most evidently magical but being the most magical it requires for that very reason a systematized training on the part of those who would approach and enter its portals it requires a dynamic alteration of viewpoint a revolutionary turning around of the mind an entirely new and radical attitude to life and living must be developed not merely intellectually but emotionally above all it demands that the student must learn the gentle art of relaxation not by turning the back on body and ignoring its demands but by learning the simple technique of so doing Neville knows the art of relaxation instinctively he is a dancer and a dancer must of necessity relax hence I believe he does not fully unconsciously realize that the average person in his audience does not know the mechanism of relaxation does not know how to let go it is true he speaks of relaxing close your eyes and feel yourself to be faceless formless and without figure approach the stillness as though it were the easiest thing in the world to accomplish this attitude will ensure your success but for the average person this is hardly advocate a little more detailed scientific instruction is imperative not only so but the average individual does not know how do we vote powerfully his feelings and emotions he doesn't understand the means whereby he can arouse this passionate intensity so necessary to complete identification with or recognition of the unconditioned faceless formless consciousness of which Nevel speaks to some extent it is possible to succeed more easily with women than with men women are essentially more emotional than men the average male is entirely but repressed from an emotional point of view from early boyhood he has taught either directly or indirectly that it is ish to show his feelings by early adolescence his feelings are pretty well hidden so that when he achieves true adulthood he has no feelings at all his emotions are totally repressed into the dark hidden depths of his unconscious life and he is completely and thoroughly inhibited even his mind must suffer from such violence never must we forget that the emotional life is the mainspring of every other phase and aspect of our lives what wonder that we become ill and impotent and needy both physically and mentally this is the problem of the average adult approaching all forms of metaphysics the problem of the male primarily but to some extent true of the female - in the face of such repression where violence has been done to the emotional life and all feelings have inhibited a serious question arises what course of practice may be engaged upon that will evoke from out the depths the emotions so necessary to the cultivation of this passionate intentness which conduces to experience peer atchoo experience and ability to demonstrate Neville if not adequately to this situation is at least wise whether he did this deliberately or intuitively it is not possible determined but his step certain serves a useful purpose he knows that the average person approaches his lectures has had a religious training of some kind this may have been forgotten and straight from but in Area Annette and variably it remains in the individuals unconscious in some form or another emotional intensity is of necessity associated with this early infant ill training in religion there were the first prayers the mother taught us all when we prayed in love and reverence with her early experiences in Sunday school and the first feelings of awe and wonder and love that arose with them such memories are retained never forgotten and are stored within hypnotic experiments reveals the distant Anasta T of even the most trivial events in our minds Neville therefore casts a magical cloak of religion about his system advocating the study of the Bible as revealing this psychological drama of which he speaks and using the Bible he draws directly upon the level of consciousness which goes far back into time for most of us to infancy and the emotions were still powerfully active in our small childish worlds and drawing upon this level which he does through the use of the Bible he draws by association upon all the power and energy which are tied up in the stratum of our minds this he stimulates and whips into dynamic activity so that it will accomplish the purpose of a which the system speaks whether this technique is wholly successful or even desirable is another story occasionally it works very often it does not sometimes the listener is so completely inhibited and repressed that even the stimulus of the Bible is unable to awaken the magical power of the unconditioned consciousness what he wills and to make manifest which he envisions of all the popular teachers of metaphysics Neville is possibly the most broad-minded some many months ago when I was engaged in some practical experiment work with hypnosis and suggestion I extended an invitation to Neville to be present after the experiment was over I put - Neville that the crucial factor in all metaphysics and new thought was auto suggestion he had just witnessed a hypnotic demonstration in which an individual performed certain physical and intellectual feats which in his waking state would be quite impossible for him through meditation and prayer the devotee of metaphysics is able to perform many things which he could not have done otherwise it seemed to me that there must be some connection in the case of hypnosis hetero suggestion is responsible in metaphysics self or Auto suggestion may be the underlying factor now it did not strike Neville as at all contrary to his principles of truth that this should be so in fact he accepted my idea willingly remarking that man has become by reason of defective early training hypnotized out of his knowledge that he has godlike in nature therefore what could be more reasonable than to employ suggestion not as a means of superimposing additional ideas on an already heavily burdened psychological apparatus but to awaken and evoke from within what is already there and has been there for ages dormant latent and unseen hence his system really amounts to little more than this when all the extraneous details are limited in and the cloak of the Bible and the terminology are flung off it seems that he demands complete relaxation in order to become aware of the deeper levels of the mind the unconscious when in that ecstatic state brought about by the contemplation of phrases and versicle is in the Bible you must drop into the unconscious the suggestions or desires that one wishes to be fulfilled such simple acceptance of your desires he says in this recent book is like the dropping of fertile seed into a never prepared soil when you you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential you've done all that is expected of you this in effect is a perfect statement of the rationale of Auto suggestion in another place he speaks of the efficacy of faith as an important adjunct to successful demonstration for example he writes the beliefs in the potency of drugs to heal diets to strengthen monies to secure are the values or money changers that must be thrown out of the temple the thieves who robbed you are your own false beliefs it is your belief in an thing not the thing itself that aids you here is a very wide agreement with modern psychological knowledge every doctor knows that fully half of his patients would respond equally well to a regime of sugar coated pills as to specific medical therapy even surgical operations have the effect only of providing the patient with what he longs for unconsciously and thus enabling him to get well it is the suggestive value of these factors which is effective psychoanalysis has much to teach us about the hypnotic or suggestive value of any therapeutic event it is effective provided the patient's emotions can be shifted or transferred away from the formation of symptoms the phenomenon of transference is just as ever-present in the lecture hall as it is in the consulting room or clinic daily and hourly we give ourselves countless suggestions and we permit her others to do the same for us life for many people consists of suggestion and counter suggestion every few minutes over the radio in the subways and streetcars and newspapers and magazines suggestion is thrust at us until we succumb to its insidious appeal modern selling and advertising seems to consist almost exclusively in how cleverly one can suggest to the members of the general public that they must purchase things not wholly necessary to them it is not faith that renders effectual the drugs and medicines and so forth that the advertisements blare out to us they inform us that these things are effectual and because of long continued emphasis we come to accept those suggestions when we are in trouble and use such advertised articles they succeed not because of an inherent virtue they possess nor because of faith but they succeed only because the advertisement have suggested to us that they will succeed though emphasized by Neville faith and belief seem to be a facade for our lack of understanding why suggestion sometimes works and why at others it fails it is not faith in the old religion sense that it is effectual as it is necessity and the feeling that it is one in extremis when the rules of applying Auto suggestion are closely adhered to in every way success must inevitably follow therefore we say that such a person had faith moreover we must remember that faith is an emotional quality it evokes an intensity of feeling which is one of the indispensable factors in a successful unconscious reception of the suggestion or the desire or the mental image faith has no scientific validity in itself it is simply convenient as an emotional accident and when all other things fail and despair has set in then faith stimulates the whole nature to respond to the next healing or saving situation that will arise so far as nevels teachings go the theory is inevitably bound up with the practice in philosophy is the means by which demonstration may be manifested God is the beginning and an middle of the theory and practice and since this is so we can do no better than to consider a bit more carefully what he means by God the book your faith is your fortune attempts at the outset to present the supreme problem with which all philosophies religious or otherwise are confronted if God is infinite omnipresent eternal and omnipotent how does he bring that world into being and what part does that world play so far as he is concerned Christian theology based upon the Bible attempts to solve that by a miraculous creating creation from nothing God created the world and everything in it and that is that and so far as Neville is influenced by the Bible and Christian teaching he follows more or less the same miraculous theme adapting it however to his particular conception of God the world is your consciousness objectified relates equally well to the original creation of the world as it does to the constant renewal and creation of our own particular worlds the conceived ER and the conception our wand but the conceived er is greater than his conception God is the conceived in the whole of his creation is his conception naturally God is greater than his conception which through though part of him and of his own substance is that identical with him in the beginning was the unconditioned awareness of being and the unconditioned awareness of being became conditioned by imagining itself to be something and the unconditional wareness of being became that which it had imagined itself to be so did creation begin this quotation from one of his pamphlets before Abraham I was really sets forth in a nutshell the whole of nevels teaching implicit in the single sentences contain everything that he believes in in conversation with him and in his writing he states restates and emphasizes this concept in a dozen different ways with all the fluency and eloquence and feeling at his disposal the rest of his teaching is merely explanatory of and dilatory upon this one in fact in stating his idea of how the world and everything in it evolved and came into being we are not to imagine that he is contenting himself with mere metaphysics Neville is not abstract nor is he a philosopher we learned from him nothing new of dialectic of logical world processes nor of ontology he's not interested in expounding an elaborate cosmological theory let me emphasize again the fact that he is an artist and the artists imagination continuously flows forth into creation and activity so with Neville he is pre-eminently a practical person it is his fundamental belief that his primal consciousness man's unconditioned awareness of being had once unbound unformed and which conceives or imagines itself to be something other than it really is mirrors itself in our every act and thought every hour and every minute of every day of our life before God could conceive of something other than himself or fashion within himself some conception or other he had first to be moved by desire hence the emphasis placed upon Neville by desire for him it is the Savior and Redeemer desire for him is holy and creative providing the dynamic impetus to the whole of life and living it is the nature of Godhead which will save us from our limitations break up open the bars of prison and make us whole once more look upon your desires as the spoken words of God and every word a prophecy of that which you are capable of being do not question whether you are worthy or unworthy to realize these desires he says accept them as they come to you give thanks for them as though they were gifts and again every problem automatically produces its solution in the form of a desire to be free from the problem thus we see all important role that desire plays and his system if the desire is intense enough and can be reinforced by sufficient feeling and reach a high enough voltage it must necessarily manifest itself objectively if God can be moved by desire sufficiently to evolve conceptions which can as it were clothed themselves in form so also can man for God is only the consciousness of man is awareness of being himself man is that primal consciousness man is God not as he commonly knows himself but deep down in his heart unconsciously as man knows himself he is obviously limited in manifold ways however in the secret place of the Most High he is unconditioned formless faceless and uncreate and his desires come true they're always mirroring themselves outwards projecting themselves objectively whether he is aware of it or not it is essential to stress this differentiation which I believe Neville has failed to do sufficiently man is not call God saving the deepest levels of his soul man can come to this realization when he is very quiet and still only when the motion of thinking mind which is the superficial self has been stopped altogether can man know in the silence that I am is God he will know that his consciousness is God and that which is conscious of being is the son bearing witness of God the Father when Neville speaks of consciousness in this way he would have done better to have used another specific term better might have been the word unconscious or even the subconscious mind and to have reserved the word consciousness for what he calls the Sun that which man is conscious of being or calling into manifestation unless we differentiate in this way we run headlong into an unescapable but highly unpleasant conclusion that we are mad in our mental hospitals there are hundreds and hundreds of inmates who insist quite consciously and deliberately that they are God it is a pathetic experience to see and hear them we must not say that their statement is any different from ours being their minds are unbalanced that they are insane we must avoid this pitfall more rationally we must define our thinking terms more carefully nevile's system contains this clarification if not explicitly then implicitly it only needs to be brought out more definitely we are not God in our waking conscious state but there is some part of our personalities of which normally we are not conscious which can be called God or I am this saves us from the horns of horrible dilemma that we too are insane but this differentiation we are enable to retain some degree of sanity and balance the entirety of our life is rooted in the unconscious I am truly as the Bible says and him we live and move and have our being without God or it's psychological equivalent the deep consciousness of man the unconscious we have no life whatsoever we only believe that we are masters in our own house that we are independent and that we do not need God but that is because we have we like to flatter ourselves we're vain and egotistical the truth is that we are dependent to a startling decree upon proper functioning of the unconscious psyche and we must therefore see to it that our roots are in the right place the various events and experiences that occur to us and the things that come to us in the course of daily life are the result of its out picturing the projections of this unconscious psyche which we develop within even the contents of our conscious thinking and imagination spring form and depend completely upon the activity of the unconscious all thought and ideation and the predisposition to certain types of experience are constantly being evolved within us unconsciously God and the unconscious our words then that bear and a nun equivalent meaning and irrespective of what it really is in itself this much is true that we cannot live apart from it in any way we know very little about the unconscious and only a little more about the way it works but we assume that in some way that conscious thinking self evolves out of but still has its roots in its inchoate darkness in the child we can see this growth of an ego occur at an early age watch speech and understanding develop and see mind grow where before there was only irrational irresponsibility life and the unconscious existed long before the child could say hi and when this eye disappears as it does for all of us during sleep or coma life and spirit or God still continue as our observationally mean form us we assume that this process taking place in the individual is a rapid-fire recapitulation of a psychic process which occurred thousands possibly millions of years ago in the development of humanity when mind gradually and ever so slowly made its appearance on the evolutionary scene mind once evolved out of the unconscious and even today is still dependent upon it man's present conception of himself has evolved out of his unconditioned awareness of being which if called upon can alter the conception in strange and wonderful ways God and the unconscious are one these terms imply the same reality and as all things flow from God as his conceptions so in the same manner this the form of our environment emanates from the unconscious as God creates the world through the formulation of his own a man unitive concepts so also the unconscious creates its own world your world is your consciousness objectified the tragedy of today is that we do not know this we are out of tune with the infinite having currently lost our contact with the unconscious world of inner reality the true source source of life today therefore we are people tragically cut off from our roots from our creative and spiritual roots and the upshot is that we are impotent and worthless and ill the law of creation is first conceiving then becoming that conceived all things evolved out of the know thing and without this sequence there's not anything made that isn't May if therefore our world which is the particular environment of any one of us is distasteful and hateful to us we first must remember that it is the reflection of ourselves the world is your consciousness objectified how to change it follows logically upon the thesis of creation wastes no time trying to change the outside stresses Nevel change the within or the impression and the without or expression will take care of itself if our environment is unfavorable it presupposes the fact that at some former time we must have conceived it either knowingly or unknowingly we must first have evolved it has a possible within we must have mirrored it into being from out of ourselves and identified ourselves with it [Music] to create a new world it is useless to alter the pieces of the puzzle outside new conceptions must be formulated within conceptions which the conceive can handle as it were to form into new objective realities without how does one make these new conceptions how does one employ this faculty it is ours as the conceived of all things consciousness or God is the magical Faculty which has all power and can miraculously alter change create and destroy forms ideas and beings the foundation of all expression is consciousness there is only one power and this power is God consciousness it kills it makes alive it wounds it heals it does all things good bad or indifferent consciousness dwells within that which his consciousness of being I am is the Lord in his temple it is imperative therefore to call upon the aid of the deep self upon God he magically can rearrange all the component parts of the body the environment and the surrounding world which is his temple to coincide a little better with the heart's desire only God has the vision the power to foresee and arrange how events may develop we can provide the goal by formulating the wish upon the manner in which it will occur and how it is entirely beyond us that is completely in the hands of the unconscious its wisdom will know best how to dictate the course of future events how this could possibly be is indicated by young in one of the psychological essays in his book modern man in search of a soul they're discussing the nature of the unconscious he says that it contains certain primordial dis instinctual patterns that have come down to us from the past these patterns mark definite processes of development and evolution moreover he adds if it were permissible to personify the unconscious we might call it a collective human being combining the characteristics of both sexes transcending youth and age birth and death and from having at his command a human experience of one or two million years almost immortal if such a being existed he would be exalted above all temporal change the present would mean neither nor less to him than any year in one hundredth century before Christ it would be a dreamer of age-old dreams and owing to his immeasurable experience he would be an incomparable prognosticator he would have lived countless times over the life of the individual of the family driving people he would possess the living sense of the rhythm of growth flowering and decay I do not feel it is an exaggeration man or conviction that in anywise borders on superstition to assume that the details of working out the wish may safely be left to the superior experience and wisdom of our inmost self the real problem seems to be not that the unconscious is incapable of fulfilling the wish more - the problem is how to enlist its power on our behalf how to employ it you cannot serve two masters or opposing states of consciousness at the same time Neville is adamant on this score take your attention from one state and placing it upon another you die - the one from which you have taken it and you live and Express the one which you are United like Daniel we must insist Neville turn our backs upon the Lions confronting us and forget them in order to pray this is the first step then to turn ones back to the evidence of one's senses to ignore the world which one's mind and all the faculties of ones being perceives we've already seen that he claims the world to be merely the outside picture of an inward spiritual state it remains therefore to ignore the immediate problem that one finds ahead of him whether it be one of money of sickness of love position or whatnot leave it alone Nevel urges his disciples and turn the attention away from it such neglect will cause it to deteriorate to die whilst the newly directed attention is focused on the construction of new conceptions which will out Lehrer themselves in new worldly conditions put the old out of mind altogether reformulating ones being on an entirely divine basis affirming oneself to be basically a god will instigate such radical alterations in the environment as one desires when this expansion of consciousness is attained Nevel says within this deform --less deep of yourself give him form to the new conception by claiming and feeling yourself to be that which you before you entered the state desired to be you will find that within this formless deep of yourself all things appear to be divinely possible anything that you sincerely feel yourself to be while in this expanded state becomes in time your natural expression we must as I have described above switch out our minds away from the consideration of the immediate problem nevel says that instead of saying out of sight out of mind we really should reverse the phrase by saying out of mind out of sight this concept is peculiar not merely to Neville but so far as I know is common to all metaphysical and modern religious movements of today it is not a valid concept however on any logical or scientific ground but it is in effect just this contradictory illogical phrase that commends it to the meta physicians for they say after Saint Paul but the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God but it does not follow that this world's folly is God's wisdom so that the modern way of dealing with any kind of problem staring it right in the face and attempting to find out the hidden psychological meaning for its existence is totally disregarded on the hypothetical ground that once the attention is removed from it it must disappear this manifestation will remain in sight only as long as it takes the force with which the conceived are I am originally endowed it to spend itself before suggesting that I think this procedure is highly illogical and baseless I ought to state that I am very much in sympathy with a great deal of the content of mysticism I'm also well aware of the limitations and inadequacies of this thinking principle and that the services of a higher or different faculty must be called upon to lead us out of the maze into which the use of the mind alone will land us nonetheless then conscious thinking itself has a definite role to play and it seems for us to extend the field of its operations so that ultimately it may include within its sphere most of what hitherto was called unconscious this idea of out of mind out of sight is one of the common metaphysical fallacies which on the surface sounds so penetrating and seems so true to get something out of mind is surely to eliminate it from sight but there's no indication that the mental content thus disposed of has actually been eliminated altogether we may not be aware of it but once an ostrich has buried its head in the sand it too is totally unaware of anything that it may be in its vicinity such reasoning as this was valid in the days before depth psychology came into being when it was really thought that to take one's mind off certain thoughts and feelings really destroyed them nowadays however we know that people can so handle various emotions and ideas has to become totally unconscious of them we may deny consequently that we ever entertain such thoughts and feelings we've repressed them utterly that is to say forcibly forgotten them so severe and intense is the repression and forgetting that many of us really and truly believe that we never had them on the other hand though these thoughts and memories are now unconscious there are no less realities than if they were fully present in the conscious mind in fact they are not only present and real but a very great deal more potent sometimes disagreeably so they've been hidden in the darkness of the unconscious levels of the psyche which is the kinetic factor in our lives that which is in reality the power behind the throne it is the machine-shop of the body and mind these repressions rather than conscious states are the true psychological content that out picture themselves in the creation of the adverse social economic and family conditions that we loathe so much and try to eliminate from our lives these are the dynamic conceptions which we blindly feed to the magical self underneath the conceive are of all things who as a result can only turn these conceptions into realities says Neville God your awareness is no respecter of persons purely impersonal God this awareness of all existence receives impressions qualities and attributes defining consciousness namely your impressions I will extend his idea by saying that the unconscious is no respecter of ideas it is impersonal and will turn into realities whatever ideas are thrust into its sphere good bad and indifferent there is danger in turning our backs on problems however much desirable it may appear to do so there's entirely too much clinical evidence available today confirming the fact that it is the whole content of repressed ideas and experiences that become projected into the world of reality forming our sickness social problems and all else beside the problem confronting one is itself an out picturing of oneself we can learn much of ourselves about the true self within from a study of the unsolved problem confronting us it ought to receive a great deal of study and meditation to stimulate to ask why many times before we begin to use these metaphysical methods to eliminate them sometimes we would do better to swallow it and accept it bitter pill that it may be nasty medicine often does us more good than simply to have refused to take it it is an offense against our own integrity and intellectual honesty first to assume that what is present in our external world picture is but a projection of the mind and then to ignore it utterly that visible projection from within it seems more rational before attempting to make new spiritual images within to inquire why previous pictures were created that will create such untoward effects that displease us so what meaning have they what is the significance of this problem this environment the situation meaning there must be otherwise the whole structure of our existence Falls around us like an inchoate mass of cards our spiritual work hence must be so to enlarge our understanding of life and of ourselves that we divine a meaning in every single and isolated phenomenon as the unity leader Charles Spearman writes in his book Christian healing the material forms that we see about us are the chalk marks of a mighty problem being outworked by the one mind to comprehend that problem and to catch a slight glimpse of its meaning we must grasp the ideas that the chalk marks represent this is what we mean by studying mind back to nature ma man is mind and he is capable of comprehending the plan and the detailed ideas of the supreme mind apropos this technical consideration of ignoring facts or of denying them because there are only reflections of inner conceptions which the conceived are of all things has thrust into the outer world nevel also gives us a commentary upon one of the little stories in the Bible he calls our attention to the book of numbers where it is said that there were giants in the land and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers and we were in their sight as grasshoppers explaining that in the light of this particular system he says today is the day the eternal now when conditions in the world have attained the appearance of giants the unemployed the armies of the enemy business competition etc art the Giants which make you feel yourself to be helpless grasshopper we are told we were first in our own sight helpless grasshoppers and because of this conception of ourselves we were to the enemy helpless grasshoppers convincing as this sounds at first sight unfortunately it is not altogether as true as it sounds I know men who are considered by the world to be very great men they've achieved much having position and power and money yet within themselves they are consumed by gnawing inferiority feeling themselves the helpless grasshoppers of which numbers speaks however no one knows it no one knows or even suspects their helplessness their internal conflict their never-ending doubt and self torture they and they are only are aware of it it goes on all through the hours of the day continuing in their dreams at night but never is it suspected even for one moment by their friends their most intimate friends and colleagues it is a secret the none must ever share never does the world divine it because they never divulge it like many other public speakers even successful actors I am sure Neville is frequently especially at the beginning of his public career felt considerably nervous and frightened just prior to delivering a lecture so far as the audience was concerned he appeared not in the least frightened or nervous but calm collected employees I myself have experienced this so many times that it is no longer funny and a friend of mine who has delivered thousands of lectures including radio addresses invariably becomes nervous and fearful to the extent that his physiological functions are temporarily in feared with yet he is successful and is no grasshopper to the world however much of one he may had seemed to himself some even consider him one of the Giants things are not always what they seem it is not always true that we can be to others what we are to ourselves I may be worthless and valueless to myself yet of inestimable worth to hundreds of thousands of people life cannot be reduced to a few simple formula capable of application to the world at large nor is it altogether true that we evaluate ourselves anew and feel ourselves to be Giants do we actually become Giants many a braggart and egoist has strutted like turkey-cock about the world even in the small familiar sphere of our own lives telling us of his own importance of what a giant he is this is impressed upon us daily almost hourly yet all we feel about his evaluation of itself is sorrow and pity for such a poor fool nevertheless Neville's underlying idea is essentially correct but there is a misunderstanding of levels upon watch we must apply his principle his system demands as I have suggested above a better definition of terms a more exact usage of words it is not our conscious evaluation of ourselves which means very much it is what we feel about ourselves deep down in our hearts and that unfortunately is not known to most of us what we feel in the unconscious side of the psyche what Neville calls our awareness of being that is what people will feel about us I may feel a worm unconsciously but no matter how much I may consciously overcompensate for this unconscious inferiority and suggest that I am a giant the world will know me for a worm on the other hand while my conscious evaluation of myself may be very low my real and unconscious appreciation of myself as revealed for example in dream may be terrific in which event sooner or later the unconscious view will win out and I will actually become to myself and to the world one of the Giants those around me in my environment may then feel that I am potentially more than I express and I may really say to of me that he is a gigantic personality if he could express himself as one day he will apart from these theoretical considerations Neville's technique is fascinating and psychologically intrusive it will be more graphic to consider it in connection with a certain problem though I select a specific type of problem let it be understood that Neville himself believes it to be applicable to any contingency that may arise and that its limitations are really unknown for example suppose that we have having attended his lectures and learned something of his principles you find yourself confronted by a certain problem a bill has just arrived for five hundred dollars on your house all your money is gone no loan can be arranged from the bank or friends and you just do not know where to turn you're worried beset by anxiety and ready if not to commit suicide then at least pull out every hair of your head an awkward situation to be in especially if you are getting bald like the author what to do I can almost hear Neville suggest that you should sit down or lie on your couch in a comfortable position close your eyes begin to murmur over and over I am I am NOT I am this not I nor I am that but just quietly affirming your own awareness of being the fundamental fact of your consciousness as relaxation of both mind and body ensues you will sense a feeling of floating in space try and feel to the constant repetition of this deific phrase that you are unconditioned faceless and formless the primal consciousness which is the true self underlying the normal activities of mind and body develop this state of consciousness until you feel that you are identified with it with the acquisition of this awareness imagine that $500 which you simply must have is already in already in your possession to be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are being conscious of being namely poverty Neville says prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated assume the position positive consciousness of the thing desired with your desire defined quietly go within and shut the door behind you lose yourself in your desire feel yourself to be one with it remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desire and this relaxed an exalted mood you should then switch your mind over to the nature of your desire it will not do when so elevated emotionally to affirm I want $500 for that would only emphasise your lack your need of money this emphasis would constitute a further suggestion which would manifest itself inevitably in the perpetuation of the material condition and it is just this that needs to be overcome you must remember that Neville defines God as your unconditioned awareness of yourself when defining yourself you must first of all state I am before following it up with your name sex color age nationality and so forth now in this highly relaxed state of being in which you affirmed yourself to be God the unconditional I am consciousness it must follow that the next stage is to condition this abstract unlimited awareness of being in a certain predetermined way it is useless from a practical point of view state that a certain Amun II is required but it is a good technique to affirm emphatically that I am abundance or that I am substance the infinite supply from which all demands shall be met a complete identification of the primal being with the desire is imperative this conditions the initial formless consciousness so specifically that it immediately becomes modified according to the terms of the suggestion or affirmation and in accordance with nevile's formulations this suggestion is the seed that will be vitalized by God to grow into an actuality for all to see how would you feel if you had this money now how would you feel if the problem were now ended depressed or elated then try to encourage this sense of ecstasy of jubilation in having this money feel keenly that a check of $500 has immediately been written and your mind rid of the specter which has been haunting you and assuming such terrifying proportions feel yourself in the presence of your dearest friend asserting your problem to be solved and that you have the money to pay this bill imagine and feel piously that he too participates in your jubilation he shakes your hand vigorously and embraces you so happy as he become that anxiety and worry are shaken from your shoulders all things gravitate to that consciousness with which they are in tune to all things disentangle themselves from that consciousness with which they are out of tune consciously define yourself as that which you desire claim yourself to be that which you want filled full neville asserts that if we would only encourage such states of consciousness steadfastly eliminating weary and fear and trepidation encouraging this sense of joy and happiness external conditions of necessity change themselves consciousness being Lord and Master you are the master magician conjuring that which you are now conscious of being if therefore you have become conscious of having and become being the money will which will set you free from your problem some event will occur to externalize this inner vision how it would occur is not known to many of us but a materialization of the spiritual state would ensue not in some supernatural manner like manna falling miraculously from heaven there would be no violation or cessation of natural law but in some way through the people already known to us possibly through some means already at hand an offer would be made which produced the $500 many people have claimed to have applied this principle and found it to be practical almost in spite of themselves his treatment of the problem of time is very interesting in this connection let us assume that the 500 dollars which we discussed above had to be produced within the space of a few days it is Wednesday now by Sunday that money must be forthcoming or else what is to be done about it what procedure should be followed at first the procedure would be identical with that described above not only is that money to be arrived but it is already here suppose that this money were to arrive from out of the blue on Sunday here you are tense fretful and consumed with anxiety your mind has been crowded with contemplation of the dire possibilities and contemplation of sheriff's dispossessed notices and so forth in the meanwhile in due course sunday arrives and someone hands you five hundred dollars what would the state of your mind be use every ounce of your imagination and feeling that you have fantasize freely on the pleasure the relief from tension and actually holding in your hand that $500 imagine waving that cheque Leafly right under your Neville's and nose 500 in your possession now all your problems can go to the devil and you're saved you and I have said time and again why today feels just like Sunday or Monday or Saturday we've also set in the middle of the summer why this feels and looks like the fall of the year this is positive proof that you and I have definite feelings associated with these different days months and seasons of the year because of this association we can anytime consciously dwell in that day or season which we have selected in other words since we associate definite emotional tone values with certain days of our seasons we can easily conjure up imaginatively those days or seasons in our mind sunday has for most of us a well-defined set of images and feelings which can readily be a vocht for purpose of our exercise if today were Wednesday and you decided that it would be quite possible for your desire to embody a new realization of yourself by sunday then sunday becomes the point in time that you would visit to make this visit you shut out Wednesday and let in Sunday this is accomplished by simply feeling that it is sunday begin to hear the church bells begin to feel the quietness of the day and all the sunday means to you actually feel that it is Sunday when this is accomplished feel the joy of having received that which on Wednesday was but a desire feel the complete thrill of having received it and then return to Wednesday the point in time will you left behind you in doing this you created a vacuum and consciousness by moving from Wednesday to Sunday Nature a pouring a vacuum rushes in to fill it thereby fashioning a mold and the likeness of that which you potentially create namely the joy of being having realized your defined desire by dwelling now on Wednesday on the sense of ecstasy and freedom that you would have on Sunday when the saving shekels arrived you project yourself forward in time and since time according to most metaphysical teaching is but a creation of man's consciousness a form of his thinking and feeling time in itself may be superseded and future events anticipated for now as the Bible says now is the appointed time not tomorrow not Sunday not of even next year right now at this very moment one may save oneself such states of consciousness demand not merely a mental concentration and steadfastness of purpose an indomitable will and courage but an ability to feel a high capacity to evoke at a moment's notice an enormous potential of emotion whether the average person can do this is another matter certainly some people can do it Neville I'm sure can do it but he is an artist a dancer he has been enabled by his training by his life's discipline to assume a definite role he can adopt a certain part acting it out as though it were true his is the ability and capacity to achieve identification with mental images with a personality other than his own that is an intrinsic part of his emotional makeup that is why such states of consciousness are open and available to him as naturally as they are to similarly trained and similarly constituted people but John Doe is not I'm afraid capable of such unrestrained flights of feeling and imagination his mind has been entirely too prosaic his feelings too inhibited his imagination entirely too restrained for such flights into empyrion I do not say that in in the last analysis that such feats are impossible to the average person but I do insist that training is necessary training in the art of letting go in the discipline of feeling and in the analysis of psychological states this takes such time and effort there are few willing to embark upon a way of life than it implies the expenditure of much time and labour but if they do not wish to do so then such states of consciousness and such states of spiritual achievements must remain mere dreams fantasies visions of another world completely beyond their reach though my sympathies are largely with Nevele both as to many of his conceptions and technical procedures yet I feel that several factors are absent from his method he's absolutely correct and placing emphasis on feeling by means of this intensity of feeling all things become possible but the problem is to provoke such an intensity a storm of madness of emotion by means of which a communion with the unconscious self may be established this certainly has not been adequately dealt with more oval Neville advises relaxation one must relax to the point of floating and lose one awareness of one's body but how shall we achieve such deep relaxation this is not easy for most of us what instruction does Neville give you take your attention away from your problem and place it upon your being you say silently but feelingly I am simply feel that you are faceless and formless and continue doing so until you feel yourself floating floating is a psychological state which completely denies the physical through practice in relaxation and willingly refuse to react to sensory impressions it is found to develop a state of consciousness of pure receptivity I feel inclined to wager larger odds that most who hear him or any other teacher of metaphysics have not the least notion as to how to relax there is nothing metaphysical in relaxation by following a few simple rules which operate in accordance with known physiological and psychological laws a deep state of freedom from neuromuscular tension can be induced I propose dealing with this thought on a later page and suggest an elaborate technique for adequate relaxation moreover and more and far more important what shall we do about developing this intensity of feeling merely relaxed will not do it one can relax lose complete consciousness of the body flow beautifully away from awareness of sense in mind and still be as cold blood as as a fish Neville's method is sound enough but the difficulty is that few people are able to muster up this emotional exaltation or this intellectual concentration which are the Royal approaches to the Citadel of the unconscious as a result of this definite lack of training or technique the mind wanders all over the place and a thousand and one things told totally unrelated to I am are ever before their attention I believe but the ancients had superior methods confronted by the same problems and by the same lack of training they evolved methods which have stood the test of time to some people they prescribed a long course of psychological training having as its logical objective the development of tremendous power of mental concentration this training may have come to be known as yoga to others not temperamentally capable of this or unwilling to engage upon such discipline arduous to the extreme they worked out other methods anything that will extend to exalt the mind and feelings is useful music and color poetry and perfumes anything that will intoxicating and senses within certain limits is utilizable it is more difficult to describe invocation another method they implied it is simpler to explain it by quoting several examples of them in these pages so that the reader can develop some idea of their content and power in ecstasy the writers of these invocations were well-acquainted with what we call the I am principle for they employed it throughout but not alone as we shall see so this is a wonderful summary and explanation of neville goddard teachings by a true metaphysical master in hid in his own right is real regarding and I recommend just look up his real Guardi he there are some meditations that you can find of his he was a brilliant man and his teachings are very powerful and I thought that this might be helpful and I mean it's easy for me to read the lectures and like he says the lectures that use these biblical language are appealing to a childlike part of us that remembers way back that influenced our unconscious and dela bleah it really did and that is the power behind these biblical references I know that many of people have turned off my lectures and other lectures that you've heard of Neville because I was that person when you hear these biblical references but this really elaborates the core of Neville's teachings and how to get the power out of them Neville was an actor he was a dancer and he could relax understanding the power of relaxation and also how difficult it can be how difficult it can be to evoke powerful emotions and so I thought that you would find this explanation powerful and a great way of referencing Neville's work so tell me what you think is his real Cobra Guardi wrong I believe his summary is very very accurate and powerful and helps elevate my understanding of Neville and it's very interesting that he met Neville Goddard so I thought that by sharing this it would help you I'm always thinking of all everyone out there and I imagine love happiness and health for all of you but I know people struggle with these techniques and other techniques influencing your subconscious is important and check out my episode on hacking the subconscious mind one of the first episodes I ever did and I look back on my own journey of reality creation I had just barely barely accessed Neville really only feeling is the secret and maybe some other but that thing it was important and in me hacking my subconscious mind and finding ways to understand hypnosis and meditation were the keys when I started seeing powerful changes in my environment around me but I see people all the time on Facebook groups on on Twitter and Instagram that say hey I give up Neville is just not working for me I've tried everything and so I give you this as a basis if you've hung with me for this whole time look back if you're struggling and you're not achieving the results that you want to achieve it may be that you are not relaxing properly that you're not using your concentration that you're not affecting your subconscious and so this gives you an idea that yes it can be hard but if you continue that it's possible now interestingly a link to this is my 12 lessons in Roger yoga I recommend you read those I think that I've got about 4 episodes of that up so far and these are the old masters that were teaching us how to concentrate and understand the the self and these are very sometimes rudimentary exercises and they explain how they can you know by by focusing on things that are unimportant you can control the mind but the key is finding a way a method a technique to control your mind to relax yourself to access these states gives you great power to do so so let me know what you think I'd love to hear your comments in the in the comments what you think about Israel Regardie is interpretation of neville goddard it's always fun to go on these journeys with you and thank you so much for sticking with me this long into this lecture i really enjoyed it it really it added a lot to my understanding i hope it did for you as well for all episodes of the reality revolution you can go to the reality revolution calm and for coaching go to advanced success institute comm it's one of my passions if I can't help you I'll find somebody that can but if you're struggling with this maybe I can help you I have several different programs I can even create meditations specifically for you and so thank you so much for joining me on this journey and thank you and welcome to the reality revolution you [Music]

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Published: Tue Dec 31 2019