Neville Goddard's Changing the Feeling of "I"

welcome to the reality revolution today I got another cool lecture by neville goddard from early in his career in 1953 and i wanted to do a little summary of this one read it to you and hopefully it touches you like it touched me it's called the changing the feeling of i for the benefit of those who were not present last sunday and at this time he's giving a weekly speech he says just let me give you a quick summary of the thought expressed here we claimed that the world was a manifestation of consciousness that the individual's environment circumstances and conditions of life were only the out picturing of the particular state of consciousness in which that individual abides therefore the individual sees whatever he is by virtue of the state of consciousness from which he fused the world any attempt to change the outer world before he changes the inner structure of his mind is to labor in vain everything happens by order those who help or hinder us whether they know it or not are the servants of that law which constantly shapes outward circumstances and harmony with our inner nature we asked you last Sunday to distinguish between the individual identity and the state we occupy the individual identity is the son of God it is that I speak of you or to you or speak of myself I mean really our imagination that is permanent it fuses with state and believes itself to be the state with which it is fused but at every moment of time it is free to choose the state with which it will be identified and that brings us to today's subject changing the feeling of I and I hope I will not get the same reaction that is recorded in the sixth chapter of Gospel of John for we are told that when this was given to the world they all left him leaving just a handful behind for when he told them that there was no one to change but self they said this is a hard hard teaching it's a hard thing who can hear it for he said no man cometh unto me save I call him and then it's recorded when he repeated it three times they left him never again to walk with Him and he turned to the few who remained and asked them would you also go and they answered and said to whom would we go we have the word of eternal life I in other words it's so much easier when I can blame another for my misfortune but now that I'm told that no man cometh unto me save I call him and that I am the sole architect of my fortunes and misfortunes it's a difficult thing and so it's recorded it's a hard saying who can hear it who can grasp it and who will believe it and so he said and now I sanctify myself that they also be sanctified through the truth for if this is the truth then there is no one to change no one to make hole no one to purify but self and so we start with the eye most of us are totally unaware of the self that we really cherish we've never taken one good look at the self so we don't know this self for the eye has neither face form nor figure but it does mold itself into structure by all that it can sense to all that it believes and few of us know really what we do believe we have no idea of the unnumbered superstitions and prejudices that goal to mold this inner formless eye into a form which is then projected as a man's environment as the conditions of life so here read it carefully when you go home no man cometh unto me save I call him you didn't choose me I have chosen you no man can take away my life I lay it down myself there is no power to take from me anything that is part of the inner arrangement of my mind all that you gave me I have kept and none is lost save the son of perdition or the belief in God and because nothing can be lost but the belief in loss I will not now assume loss of anything you have given me that is good and so I sanctify myself that they be sanctified through the truth and now how do we go about changing the I first of all we must discover the eye and we do this by an uncritical observation of self this will reveal a self that will shock you you will be all together I wouldn't say afraid but ashamed to admit you've ever known such a lowly creature that had it been God himself who drew near in this despicable form you would have denied him a thousand times before a single would crow you couldn't believe that this is the self that you've carried around and protected and excused and justified then you start changing this self after by an uncritical observation you make the discovery of that self for the acceptance of self is the essence of the moral problem of the world it is the epitome of a true outlook on life or it is the sole cause for everything that you observe what a powerful observation that Goddard makes for the acceptance of self is the assassin essence of the moral problem of the world and we do see a battle of acceptance of self and helping others outside of ourselves constantly on a regular basis it is a part of this very fabric that we're living your description of the world is a confession of the self that you do not know you describe another you describe society you describe anything and your description of the thing you observe reveals to one who knows this law the being you really are so you must first accept that self when that self is accepted then you can start to change it's so much easier to take the virtues of the gospel and apply them as the word of life to love the enemy to bless those who curse us and to feed the hungry but when man discovers the being to be fed the being to be clothed and the very being to be sheltered the greatest enemy of all is that self then he is ashamed completely ashamed that is the beam for it was easier to share with another something that I possess to take an extra coat and give it to another but oh and I know that the truth it's not that I start with the self having discovered and to start with change of that self now let me tell you a story a few years ago in this city Goddard says I was giving a series of lectures down near the lake I can't even recall the name of the lake but it was some Park View Manor was the place where I spoke and in that audience was a gentleman who sought an audience before the meeting and we went across the street into the little park there and he said to me that he had an insoluble problem I said there is no such thing as an insoluble problem but he said you do not know my problem it's not a state of health I assure you it is looking at the skin that I wear I said what's wrong with it it looks lovely to me he said look at the pigment of my skin I by the accident of birth I'm now discriminated against the opportunities for progress in this world are denied me it's because of the accident of birth that I was born colored man opportunities for advancement in every field neighborhoods that I would like to live and raise a family I couldn't move in where I would like to open up a business I couldn't move into that area then I told him my own personal experience that I came to this country well I didn't have that problem but I was a foreigner in the midst of all Americans I didn't find it difficult yet as he reminded me but that's not my problem now others have come here speaking with an accent but they haven't my skin I was born an American then I told him my an experience of mine in New York City if I were called upon to name a man that I would consider my teacher I would name Abdullah I studied with that gentleman for five years he had the same color skin the same pigment as this gentleman he would never allow anyone to refer to him as a colored man he was very proud of being a Negro didn't want any modification of what God had made him he turned to me and he said have you ever seen a picture of the Sphinx I said yes he said it embodies the for fixed quarters of the universe you have the lion the eagle the bull and man and here is the man that is the head the crown of that creature called the Sphinx which still defies man's knowledge to unriddle it was crowned with the human head and looked carefully at the head nevel and you will see whoever modeled that head must have been a Negro who ever modeled it had the face of a negro and if that still defies man's ability to unravel it I am very proud that I am negro Abdulla said I've seen scientists doctors lawyers bankers from every walk of life seek an audience with old Abdullah and everyone who came thought themselves honored to be admitted to his home and to receive an interview if he was ever invited out and he was he was always the honored guest he said Neville you must first start with self fine self don't be ashamed ever of the being you are discover it and start the changing of that self I strongly believe this I think no matter what your situation where you were born what your where your circumstances are there is a place for you if you find your true frail your yourself your soul's purpose that these things don't matter anymore sometimes it's a part of our spiritual lessons that we go through but there are some times and I have met people that you would think would be discriminated against by the standards of discrimination and they don't because of a concept of self a certain energy that they had Goddard goes on to say well I told this gentleman exactly what Abdullah had taught me that there was no cause outside of the arrangement of his own mind if he was discriminated against it was not because of the pigment of his skin though he showed me signs as large as all outdoors denying him access to an area the sign is there only because in the minds of some men such patterns are formed and they draw unto themselves what now they would condemn that there is no power outside the mind of man to do anything to man and he by the arrangement of his own mind by consenting to these restrictions in his cradle and being conditioned slowly through his youth waking into manhood believing himself set upon would have to set upon but no man cometh unto me save I call him so then someone comes to condemn or to praise they couldn't come unless I call them not a man called Nevel but that secret being that is not Nevel that is not called Nevel the secret being that is the sum total of all my beliefs all of the things that I consent to that form a pattern of structure that secret being draws unto itself things in harmony with itself when that man went away and wrestled with himself he couldn't believe everything I told him not that not but last Sunday morning in the lobby he came forward and he renewed the friendship he took me next door to show me the fruit of his teaching he said Nevel it took me almost three years to really overcome that fixed idea that I by the accident of birth would be a secondary citizen but I ever overcame it now here is my office on Wilshire Boulevard I picked this one not because it was the only one offered four equally wonderful spots were offered me I took this one because it had greater telephone facilities but the others were equally good now here is my office now you couldn't judge my income from this office lovely as it is everything is nice about it but Neville this year I will net a quarter of a million dollars which in 1953 was a huge amount well in America that is still a fabulous sum of money it would be as staggering in any other part of the world but even in fabulous America a manta net a quarter a million is really up in the various highest of brackets and that was the man that a few years ago told me that the whole vast world was against him by reason of the accident of birth he knows now he is what he is by virtue of the state of consciousness within which he is identified and the choice is his to go back to the restrictions of his childhood when he believed the story or to continue in the freedom that he has found this is an amazing teaching and the language may be uncomfortable this was written in 1953 he's quoting Abdullah here but the most important part of this that I want you to get and I see this all the time on Facebook on Instagram on and when I'm people will ask me questions and and they will always preface it by saying oh I live in this country and it's just a such a poor country and I'll never be able to achieve anything this country my family my color of my skin if you have some situation that you have a belief in your mind that you cannot overcome that is the beginning of the problem it does not matter you are responsible for the world that you live in based on your own consciousness you've been told from birth that you are respect that you are a result and you have nothing no control over it and that you live in this country and that your because of the country you live in that you have no other choices but it's not true if you learn how to change your concept of I you are responsible for your own state of consciousness so as Goddard says you and I can be anything in this world we desire to be if we clearly define our aim in life and constantly occupy that aim it must be habitual don't do it once every once in a while make it every day make it more than once a day the concept we hold of self that is Noble must not be put on just for a moment and taken off when we leave this church we feel free here we feel that we have something in common that's why we are here but we are going to wear the noble concept we now hold of self when we go through the door and enter that bus or we are going to constrict ins that were ours prior to coming here the choice is ours and the hardest lesson to learn is there is no one in this world that can be drawn into your world unless you and you alone call him so do not do what they did thousands of years ago for that is the beginning of the secession of the great truth so we are told they turned away from it never again to walk with it and the few who remained didn't like it either but where would they go if this world is the word of eternal truth not that it's true for this day and age but if this is the law of being and in all dimensions of my being it holds good if this is eternally true then let me just learn the lesson now though I wrestle with myself as he did for three years so so the changing of the feeling of the eye is a selective thing because the unnumbered states are infinite states but the eye is not the state so the eye is not the state the eye believes itself to be the state when it enters and fuses with it so he was presented with a state and without the Faculty of discrimination in his youth he fused with the state and believed these restrictions were true and it took him three years to disentangle the eye from these fixed ideas with which we had lived for so many years now you may take only a moment or you too may take yourself three years I can't tell you how long it's going to take you but I'll tell you this much it can be measured by the feeling of naturalness you can wear a feeling until it's natural the moment the feeling becomes natural it will become and begin to bear fruit within your world so I told this story at a small gathering here in the city and not not very many asked questions about it but three people asked but he must have had money before he must have had known the right people he must in some way have had some substance to start it because how can you go out to lone $100,000,000 and call that a real fact of being that you have that to loan and tell me you didn't have someone who had it or you yourself didn't have it I did not ask the gentleman about the individual facts of the case I went into the office I saw it I didn't look at his books he volunteered this information and gave me the figure of a quarter of a million nett for that year I have not checked or in any way verified the statement I believe it implicitly but I will not go along with those who believe that unless you have certain things to start you can't apply this law we are told from birth of laws to restrict us to the world that we have we are our creative powers are used against us over and over again we're locked into a system that locks our mind and our creative powers from the true fourth dimensional powers that we have by giving us beliefs that reflect back on us forcing a world that we had no choice until now to make as we wish you can start now from scratch and choose the being that you want to be you aren't going to change the pigment of your skin but you will find your accent or the pigment of skin or your so-called a racial background will not be a hindrance for if a man is ever hindered it can only be the state of consciousness in which he abides that hinders him man is freed or constrained by reason of the state of mind in which he persists if you persist in it well then I will say persist in it but I warn you no one cares and that it is an awful blow when a man discovers that no one no one but himself really cares so we find ourselves weeping with ourselves in the hope of getting others to weep with us and what an awful shock when the day arrives we discover that no one really ever cared they will give us some little listening ear for a moment just as they were passing by but they really didn't care when we make that discovery we shake ourselves out of it and boldly appropriate the gift our Father gave us before the world was so let me show you the gift you've read your Lord's Prayer possibly daily but you read it as a prayer from a translation of a translation which does not reveal the sense of the Evangelist the real translation you will find in Ferrara fentons work where in the original it is written in the imperative passive mood which is like a standing order a thing to be done absolutely and continuously so that you can look now upon your universe as one vast Internet machinery where all things happen there isn't a thing to become all things are taking place [Music] so it is written in this manner but I will must be being done thy kingdom come must be being restored I will must be being done thy kingdom must be being restored it is the only way you could express if you would Express the imperative passive mood but from the latin from which our translation was made there is no first a orest of the of the imperative passive mood so we have it in the way we have it but it does not reveal the intent of the mysteries if you will see all things are now you don't become you simply select the state that you would occupy occupying it you seem to become but it is already a fact every aspect of that state and its most minut detail it's worked out and taking place you by occupying the state seem to go through the action of unfolding that state but the state is completely finished and taking place so now you can choose the being you want to be and by choosing a being other than what you are now expressing you start the change of the feeling of I a beautiful explanation of the concept that we live and something akin to an an archive of scripts movie scripts imagine that there movie scripts of your life you have an infinite number of scripts that you can choose from and so what you're doing when you're manifesting and becoming and going through this process of manifesting you're not necessarily visualizing one thing that comes to you you're choosing a script that will bring you to that the script involves that particular scene you're moving to a life line where that script is and so everything will happen naturally and you're in script let the script play out don't over question it once you once you tune into it you left let it play out so what he's saying here is all you have to do is that the state is happening now in this moment now is the state you can switching out of any state all you got to do is Express the way it is start the change of the feeling of I now how will I know that I have changed the feeling of I by beginning first with an uncritical observation of my reactions to life and then noticing my reactions when I think I am identified with my choice if I assume that a man I am the man that I want to be let me observe my reactions if they are as they were I have not identified myself with my choice for my reactions are automatic and so if I am changed and I would automatically change my reactions to life so the changing of the feeling of I results in a change of reaction which change of reaction is a change of environment and behavior but let me warn you now a little alteration of mood is not a transformation it's not a real change of consciousness because as I change my mood for the moment it can quickly and rapidly be I would say replaced by another mood in the reverse direction when I say that I was changed as that gentleman changed his mood his basic mood his state of consciousness it means that I that having assumed that I am when the moment denied what my reason denied that I remain in the state long enough to make the stable state to make the state stable so that all of my energies are flowing from that state from that state I am no longer thinking of that state I'm thinking from that state so what whatever a state grows so stable as to definitely expel all of its rivals then that central habitual state of consciousness from which I think defines my character and is really a true transformation or change of consciousness when I reach that state of stability watch my world mold itself than in harmony with this interchange and men will come into my world people will come to aid and they will think they are initiating the urge to help they are paying only their part they must do what they do because I have done what I did having moved from one state into the other I have altered my relationship relative to the world round about and that changed relationship compels a change in behavior relative to my world so they have to act differently towards me so imagine I had this thought as we were as he explained it because I have talked about parallel realities we are constantly shifting in and out of different parallel realities and the future portions of the parallel realities for you exist in an information in a level of information that you actually can get feelings about in the same way that people get feelings if they avoid going into the airplane that crashes or they get feelings and that you had knowledge in the alternative states that have certain events that happen and they're constantly just shifting where who we are is not our life that we live which is constantly shifting in out of different life lines and so when he says that it is the the state that you want to be in is happening now it really does bring on that model of all these parallel universes exist right now in this moment in another universe that state exists and so we really don't know the interaction we replace with all these parallel realities but we know that the future is just a script and so at some point these script will merge with that parallel reality because it's the physics of it is all built out it might be a little bit different but it'll be there's a general movement towards that and so that's what you're doing on a really complicated level if you want to understand how your mind you're constantly just shifting in and out of these different life lines go into a negative life line suddenly everything's not working your refrigerators not working your washer and dryers not working it's because this in this life line the dust is bad or something happened there's always a result so the more and more I'm learning about combining these things he is stating this without an explanation of that but it's so true and it's just very powerful and I love the way he explains it so when changing I you start with the desire which will and we will unfold and elaborate on in other lectures for it starts with desire desire is the spring of action for you must want to be other than what you are we fail because we do not fall in love what enough with an idea we aren't I would say moved enough to want to be other than what we are if I could get you to be completely in love with some state to the point where it haunted the mind I would almost prophecy that you would in the not distant future externalize that state within your world and the reason we fail we aren't hungry enough to change for either we do not know the law or we haven't the urge or the hunger to really bring about the change for the feeling up for the changing of the feeling of I results in the change of reaction which change of reaction results in a change of world if you would like your world and you are complacent about it you haven't started up the road of mysteries for the very first beatitude appeals to one who is not complacent blessed are the poor and spirit you must be poor in spirit not complacent not satisfied the man who thinks that by reason of birth the religion that he inherited at birth is good enough for me that he is not dissatisfied he is not I would say moved that being is complacent and therefore he is not poor in spirit is very rich in spirit there's is not the kingdom of God for if I could stir you make you dissatisfied with self then you will not recognize that self and set about to change it for the only field of activity for man is within himself and on himself you do not work on the other the day you change self that day you change your world little quote at the beginning of this particular passage that I want to focus in on is the changing of the feeling of I results in the change of reaction so how would and that's a question that you can ask yourself as you go about developing this thing that you desire and how you how would you react what would your reactions be from that state where your wishes fulfilled what would your reactions be there are things you don't know so open yourself up to me somebody says hey let's go to this party something random what would be your reactions we give yourself some real-world things to test about what your reactions would be so the next part is I just want you to imagine that you're in 1953 and you're sitting with the people that are listening to this lecture I think it was a theater in LA that he did these every Sunday because you can feel like you're part of this and you can share in this exercise that he has at the end I'll leave some couple minutes of music at the end of this so that you can hopefully try his exercise now he says now I see my time is going to its quick end and so in the remaining minute I've left here let me not urge you because if you come to the meeting tomorrow night not really hungry you wouldn't benefit but I do hope that many of you are there even if you are stirred to the point of trying to I would say disprove what I told you I would accept that challenge for in the attempt to disprove it I know if you were sincere in your attempt you would prove it so he's telling them as a challenge I know you guys don't believe me all the people in the audience that you don't believe me that's fine go ahead and try it so I hope many of you will come and take this feast with us we are here in the city at the Ebell for 15 minutes Monday through Friday I don't know whether I think that's where he was actually speaking as mr. mr. Smith told you for three consecutive weeks if you can't take all and I do hope many of you will take all then pick out the titles that appeal to you tomorrow night to me is basic it's the importance of defining a name in this world having a goal for without an aim you are aimless and you are warned in the book or I would say in the Epistle of James that the double minded man is unstable in all his ways let not such a man believe that he shall receive anything of the Lord for he is like a wave that is driven and tossed by the wind oh wow like a wave sort of become particle you need to focus on one thing that man never reaches his goal so you must have an aim tomorrow I guess at the time he's giving this lecture he had a group of consecutive lectures so he's telling them he was going to show the importance of defining desire there are certain schools who teach you to kill out desire we teach you to intensify desire and show you the reason for such teaching show you what the Bible teaches about desire and now we will come to the help that many of us have asked for today those who were not here on Sunday let me remind you that it is a very simple technique as I told you on Sunday anytime that you exercise your imagination and do it lovingly on behalf of another you're meditating God to man so we sit quietly and we simply become imitators of our Father and he called the world into being by being the thing he would call and so we sit and we listen as though we heard someone congratulating us on having found what we see so we go to the end of the matter and we listen just as though we heard and we look as though we saw and we try in this manner to feel ourselves right into the situation of our answered prayer and there we wait in silence for just about two minutes so they will lower the lights to aid you and let me remind you if you want to clear your throat please do so if you want to shift your position in the chair do so feel as though you are alone at home because if you don't and you try not to disturb the neighbor you will not be able to exercise your imagination on behalf of anyone so now I will take the chair and simply listen attentively just as though you heard I'll make you this promise the day you were very still in mind and really become attentive you will hear has coming from without what really you are whispering from within yourself now you sit in this auditorium listening to Neville for it is timeless a place that you can access and imagine closing your eyes and living from the feeling of the answered prayer and you can meditate God demand by on behalf of another using your imagination on another and for the next two minutes imitate find the new I change the feeling of I go through that process [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome to the reality revolution [Music]

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Length: 42min 58sec (2578 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 14 2019