Neville Goddard 1955 How To Use Your Imagination

the purpose of this record is to show you how to  use your imagination to achieve your every desire   most may not totally unaware of the creative  power of imagination and invariably bow before the   dictates of facts and accepts life on the basis  of the world without but when you discover this   creative power within yourself you will boldly  assert the supremacy of imagination and put all   things in subjection to it when the man speaks of  God in man he's totally unaware that this power   called God in man is man's imagination this is  the creative power in man there is nothing under   heaven that is not plastic as potters clay to the  touch of the shaping spirit of imagination once a   man said to me you know Neville I love to listen  to you talk about imagination but as I do so I   invariably touch the chair with my fingers and  push my feet into the rug just to keep my sense   of the reality and the profundity of things well  undoubtedly he is still touching the chair with   his fingers I'm pushing his feet into the rug but  now let me tell you another one who didn't touch   with her fingers and didn't push that foot of hers  unto the board of the streetcar it's the story of   a young girl just turned 17 it was Christmas Eve  and she is sad of heart for that year she had lost   her father in an accident and she's returning  home to what seemed to be an empty house she   was untrained to do anything so got herself a job  as a waitress this night is quite late Christmas   Eve it's raining the car is full of laughing boys  and girls home for their Christmas vacation and   she couldn't conceal the tears luckily for her  as I said it was raining so she stuck her face   into the heavens to mingle her tears with three  and then holding the rail of the streetcar this   is what she did he said this is not rain but this  is spray from the ocean and this is not the salt   of tears that I taste but this is the salt of the  sea in the wind and this is not San Diego this is   a ship non coming into the Bell Samoa and there  she felt the reality of all that she had imagined   then came the end of the journey and all are out  ten days later this wheel received a letter from a   firm in Chicago saying that her aunt several years  before when she sailed for Europe deposited with   them three thousand dollars with instructions  if she did not return to America this money   should be paid to her niece they had just received  information of the aunt's death I were now acting   upon her instructions one month later this girl  sailed for Samoa as she came into the bay it was   late that night and there was salt of the sea in  the wind it wasn't raining but they were spraying   in the air and she actually felt what she felt  one month before only this time she had realized   our objective now this whole record is technique  I want to show you today how to put your wonderful   imagination right into the feeling of your wish  fulfilled and that it remained there and fall   asleep in that state and I promise you from my own  experience you will realize the state in which you   sleep if you could actually feel yourself right  into the situation of your fulfilled desire and   continue therein until you fall asleep as you feel  yourself right into it remain in it until you give   it all the tones of reality until you give it all  the sensory vividness of reality as you do it in   that state quietly fall into sleep and in a way  you will never know you could never consciously   devised the means that will be employed you will  find yourself moving across a series of events   leading you towards the objective realization of  this state now here is a practical technique the   first thing you do you must know exactly what you  want in this well when you know exactly what you   want make as lifelike a representation as possible  of what you would see and what you would touch and   what you would do when physically moving in such  a state for example suppose I wanted a home but   I had no money but I still know what I want I  without taking anything into consideration I   would make as lifelike a representation of the  home that I would like if all the things in it   that I would want and then this night as I would  go to bed I would in a state a drowsy sleepy state   the state that borders upon sleep I would imagine  that I am actually in such a house that were I to   step off the bed I would step upon the floor of  that house will I to leave this room I would enter   the room that is adjacent to my imagined room in  that house and while I am touching the furniture   and feeling it to be solidly real and while I am  moving from one room to the other in my imaginary   house I would go some to sleep in that state  and I know that in a way I could not consciously   devise I would realize my house I have seen it  work time and time again if I wanted promotion   in my business I would ask myself what additional  responsibilities would be mine were I to be given   this great promotion what would I do what would  I say what would I see how would I act and then   in my imagination I would begin to see and touch  undo and act as I would out believe see and touch   an act where I in that position if I now desired  the mate of my life where I now in search of some   wonderful girl or some wonderful man what would  I actually find myself doing that would imply   that I have found my state for instance suppose  now I was a lady one thing I would definitely   do I would wear a wedding ring I would take my  imaginary hands and I would feel the ring that   I would imagine to be there and I would keep on  feeling it and feeling it until it seemed to me to   be solidly real I would give it all the sensory  vividness I am capable of giving anything and   while I am feeling my imaginary ring which implies  I am married I would sleep this story is told us   in the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon it  is said at night on my bed I sought him whom my   soul loveth I found him whom my soul loveth and I  would not let him go until I brought him into my   mother's house right into the chamber of her that  conceived me if I would take that beautiful poem   and put it into modern English into practical  language it would be this while sitting in my   chair I would feel myself right into the situation  of my fulfilled desire and having felt myself into   that state I would not let it go I would keep that  mood alive and in that mood I would sleep that is   taking it right into my mother's chamber into the  chamber of her that conceived me you know people   are totally unaware of this fantastic power of  the imagination but when man begins to discover   this power within him he never plays the part  that he formerly played he doesn't turn back and   become just the reflective life from here on in  he is the effect of life the secret of it is to   Center your imagination in the feeling of the wish  fulfilled and remain bearing for in our capacity   to live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled lies  our capacity to live the more abundant life most   of us are afraid to imagine ourselves as important  and noble individuals secure in our contribution   to the world just because at the very moment that  we start our assumption reason and our senses deny   the truth of our assumption we seem to be in the  grip of an unconscious urge which makes us cling   desperately to the world of familiar things and  resist all that threatens to tear us away from   our familiar and seemingly safe moorings what I  appeal to you to try it if you try it you will   discover this great wisdom of the Ancients for  they told it to us in their own strange wonderful   symbolical form but unfortunately you and I missed  interpreted their stories and took it for history   when they intended it as instruction to simply  achieve our every objective you see imagination   puts us in blame in touch with a world of states  these states are existent they are present now but   they are mayor possibilities while we think of  them but they become overpower ly real when we   think from them and dwell in you know there's  a wide difference between thinking of what you   want in this world I'm thinking from what you  want let me tell you when I first heard of the   strange and wonderful power of the imagination  it was in 1933 in New York City an old friend   of mine taught it to me he turned to the 14th  of John and this is what he read 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 you may be also he explained to me that  this central character of the Gospels was human   imagination that mansion was not a place in some  heavenly house but simply my desire if I would   make a living representation of the state desired  and then into that state and abide in that state I   would realize at the time I wanted to make a trip  to the island of Barbados in the West Indies but I   had no money he explained to me that if I would  that night as I slept in New York City assumed   that I was sleeping in my birth father's house  in Barbados and go some to sleep in that state   that I would realize my trip while I took him at  his word and tried for one month night after night   as I fell asleep I assumed I was sleeping in my  father's home in Barbados at the end of my month   an invitation from my family came inviting me to  spend the winter in Barbados I sell for Barbados   the early part of December of that year from then  on I knew I had found this Savior in myself the   old man told me that it would never fail even  after it happened I could hardly believe that it   would not have happened anyway that's how strange  this whole thing is on reflection it happened so   naturally you begin to fear or to tell yourself  well it would have happened anyway and you quickly   recover from this wonderful experience of yours  it never failed me if I would give the move the   imagined mood sensory vividness I could tell  you unnumbered case histories to show you how   it works but in essence it's simple you simply  know what you want when you know what you want   you're thinking of it that is not enough you  must now begin to think from it well how could   I think from it I am sitting here and I desire  to be elsewhere how could I while sitting here   physically put myself in imagination at a point  in space remove from this room I'll make that   real to me quite easily my imagination puts me in  touch inwardly with that state I imagine that I am   actually where I desire to be now can I tell that  I am them there is only one way to prove that I am   there for what a man sees when he describes his  well is as he describes it relative to himself   so what the world looks like depends entirely upon  where I stand when I make my observation so if as   I describe my world it is related to that point in  space I imagine that I am occupying there I must   be there I am not there physically no but I am  there in my imagination and my imagination is my   real self and where I go in imagination and make  it real there I shall go in the flesh also when in   that state I fall asleep it is done I have never  seen it fail so this is the simple technique on   how to use your imagination to realize your every  objective here is a very healthy and productive   exercise for the imagination something that  you should do daily daily relive the day as   you wish you had lifted revising the scenes to  make them conform to your ideals for instance   suppose the day is male not disappointing news  revise the letter mentally rewrite it and make   it conform to the news you wish you had received  or suppose you didn't get the letter you wish you   had received write yourself the data and imagine  that you receive such a letter let me tell you   a story that took place in New York not very  long ago in my audience at this lady who had   heard me old numberless times I was telling the  story of revision it may not knowing the power   of imagination he goes asleep at the end of his  day tired and exhausted accepting his final all   the events of the day and I was trying to show  that man should at that moment before he sleeps   he should rewrite the entire day and make it  conform to the day he wished he had experienced   here is the way a lady wisely used this law of  revision it appears that two years ago she was   ordered out of her daughter-in-laws home for two  years there was no correspondence she had sent   her grandson at least two dozen presence in that  interval but not one was ever acknowledged having   heard the story of revision this is what she did  as she retired at night she mentally constructed   two letters one she imagined coming from her  grandson and the other from her daughter-in-law   in these letters they expressed deep affection for  and wondered why she had not called to see them   this she did for seven consecutive nights holding  in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she   had received and reading these letters over and  over until it aroused within her the satisfaction   of having heard then she slept on the eighth day  she received a letter from her daughter and all on   the inside there were two letters one from her  grandson and one from the daughter-in-law they   are practically duplicated the imaginary letters  that this grandmother had written to herself eight   days before this art revision can be used in any  department of your life take the matter upheld   suppose you were ill bring before your mind's  eye the image of a frame put upon that face an   expression which implies that he or she sees in  that which you want the whole world to see just   imagine he is saying to you that he has never  seen you look better and you reply I have never   felt better suppose your foot was injured then  do this construct mentally a drama which implies   that you are walking that you're doing all the  things that you would do if the foot was normal   and do it over and over and over until it takes  on the tones of reality whenever you do in your   imagination that which you would like to do in the  outer world that you will do in the outer world   the one requisite is to arouse your attention in  a way and to such intensity that you become wholly   absorbed in the revised action you will experience  an expansion and refinement of the senses by this   imaginative exercise and eventually achieve vision  in the inner world the abundant life promised us   is ours to enjoy now but not until we have the  sense of the Creator as our imagination can we   experience it persistent imagination centered in  the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the secret   of all successful operations this alone is the  means of fulfilling the intention every stage   of man's progress is made by the conscious  voluntary exercise of the imagination then   you will understand why all toys have stressed  the importance of controlled vivid imagination   listen to this one by the great William Blake in  your own bosom you bear your heaven on earth and   all you behold though it appears without it is  within in your imagination of which this world   of mortality is but a shadow try it and You too  will prove that your imagination is the Creator

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Length: 19min 17sec (1157 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 30 2012

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[u/EdgarAllenFroYo]

This lecture. I think covers the fundamental tenants of Neville's practice. At least enough to get you started tonight.

Time to start being doers of the word. Not hearers only.

[u/SincerelyTesh]

Thank you

[u/lavendervibe]

Man I really like his voice. Something about it that draws me to him and understanding him better.