*Rare* Neville Goddard "Radio Talk Series: KECA, LA" Excerpts (1951)

Nevile Goddard's radio talk series at station ke CA and los angeles july 1951 by imagination we become excerpts have you ever had a prayer answered what wouldn't men give just to feel certain that when they pray something definite would happen for this reason I would like to take a little time to see why it is that some prayers are answered and some apparently fall on dry ground unless we believe that we receive our prayers will not be answered a prayer granted implies that something is done in consequence of the prayer which otherwise would not have been done therefore the one who prays is the spring of action the directing mind the one who grants the prayer such responsibility man refuses to assume for responsibility it seems is mankind's invisible nightmare we must act on the assumption that we already possessed that which we desire for all that we desire is already present within us it only waits to be claimed that it must be claimed is a necessary condition by which we realize our desires our prayers are answered if we assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and continue in that assumption one of the loveliest examples of an answered prayer I witnessed in my own living room a very charming lady from out of town came to see me concerning prayer as she had no one with whom to leave her eight-year-old son she brought him with her at the time of our interview seemingly he was engrossed and playing with a toy truck but at the end of the interview with his mother he said mr. Neville I know how to pray now I know what I want a collie puppy and I can imagine I'm hugging him every night on my bed his mother explained to him and to me the impossibility zuv his prayer the cost of a puppy they're confined home even his inability to care for the dog properly the boy looked into his mother's eyes and simply said but mother I know how to pray now and he did two months later during a kindness to animals week in his city all the schoolchildren were required to write an essay on how they would love and care for a pet you have guessed the answer his essay one out of the 5,000 submitted won the prize and that prize presented by the mayor of the city to the lad was a collie puppy the boy truly assumed the feelings of his wish fulfilled hugging and loving his puppy every night you like the young boy can yield yourselves to the lovely images of your desires and persist in your prayer even though you like the lad are told that your desires are impossible the secret of success is found in the word prezerv arrance the soul imagining itself into the act takes on the results of the act not imagining itself into the act it is ever free from the result experience and imagination what you would experience in reality were you already what you want to be and you will take on the result of that act do not experience an imagination what you want to experience in reality and you will ever be free of the result prayer is a controlled waking dream if we are to pray successfully we must steady our attention to observe the world as it would be seen by us where our prayer answered steadying attention makes no call upon any special faculty but it does the man control of imagination we must extend our senses observe our changed relationship in our world and trust this observation the new world is not there to grasp but to sense to touch the best way to observe it is to intensely be aware of it in other words we can by listening as though we heard and by looking as though we saw actually hear voices and see scenes from within ourselves that are otherwise not audible or visible with our attention focused on the state desired the outer world crumbles and in the world like music by a new setting Thums all its dis cords into harmonies life is not a struggle but a surrender our prayers are answered by the powers we invoke not by those we exert so long as the eyes take notice the soul is blind for the world that moves us is the one we imagine not the world round about us we must yield our whole being to the feeling of being the noble one we want to be if anything is kept back the prayer is vain we often are deprived of our high goal by our effort to possess it we are called upon to act on the assumption that we already are the man we want to be if we do this without effort experiencing an imagination what we would experience in the flesh had we realized our goal we shall find that we do indeed possess it the healing touch is in our attitude we need change nothing but our attitude towards it assume a virtue if you have it not assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled meditation excerpts I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the feeling of the wish were filled to assume the mask of some other more perfect life if we cannot imagine ourselves different from what we are and try to assume that second more desirable self we cannot impose a discipline upon ourselves though we may accept discipline from others meditation is an activity of the soul it is an act of virtue and an act of virtue as distinguished from passive acceptance of a code is theatrical it is dramatic it is the wearing of a mask as your goal is accepted you become totally indifferent to possible failure for acceptance at the end wills the means to the end when you emerge from the moment of meditation it is as though you are shown the happy end of a play in which you are the principal actor having witnessed the end in your meditation regardless of any anti-climatic state you encounter you remain common secure in the knowledge that the end has been perfectly defined the law of assumption excerpts men believe in the reality of the external world because they do not know how to focus and condense their powers the penetrate its thin crust strangely enough it is not difficult to penetrate this view of the senses to remove the veil of the senses we do not employ great effort the objective world vanishes as we turn our attention from it we have only to concentrate on the state desired to mentally see it but to give reality to it so that it will become an objective fact we must focus our attention upon the desired state until it has all the sensory vividness and feeling of reality when through concentrated attention our desire appears to possess the distinctness and feeling of reality when the form of thought is as vivid as the form of nature we have given it the right to become a visible fact in our lives each man must find the means best suited to his nature to control his attention and concentrate on the desired state I find for myself the best state to be one of meditation a relaxed state akin to sleep but a state in which I'm still consciously in control of my imagination and capable of fixing my attention on a mental object if it is difficult to control the direction of your attention while in the state akin to sleep you may find gazing fixedly into an object very helpful do not look at its surface but rather into and beyond any plain object such as a wall a carpet or any object which possesses depth arrange it to return as little reflection as possible imagine then that in this depth you are seeing and hearing what you want to see and hear until your attention is exclusively occupied by the imagined state at the end of your meditation when you will wake from your controlled waking dream you feel as though you had returned from a great distance the visible world which you had shut out returns to consciousness and by its very presence and forms you that you have been self deceived into believing that the object of your contemplation was real but if you remain faithful to your vision this sustained mental attitude will give reality to your visions and they will become visible concrete facts in your world define your highest ideal and concentrate your attention upon this ideal until you identify yourself with it assume the feeling of being it the feeling that would be yours were you now embodying it in your world this assumption though now denied by your senses if persisted in will become a fact in your world you will know when you have succeeded in fixing the desired state in consciousness simply by looking mentally at the people you know this is a wonderful check on yourself as your mental conversations are more revealing than your physical conversations are if in your mental conversations with others you talk with them as you formerly did then you have not changed your concept of self for all changes of concepts of self result in a changed relationship to the world the spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire the key to progress in life and to the fulfilment of dreams lies in the ready obedience to the voice unhesitating obedience to its voice is an immediate assumption of the wish fulfilled to desire a state is to have it man by assuming the feeling of the wish were filled and then living and acting on this conviction changes his future in harmony with his assumption to change his future is the inalienable right of freedom loving individuals there would be no progress in the world order not for the divine discontent in man which urges him to higher and higher levels of consciousness again today speaking of changing your future I wish to stress the importance of a real transformation of self not merely a slight alteration of circumstances which in a matter of moments will permit us to slip back into the dissatisfied a man and your meditation allow others to see you as they would see you wear this new concept of self a concrete fact you always seem to others the embodiment of the ideal you inspire therefore in meditation when you contemplate others you must be seen by them mentally as you would be seen by them physically or your conception of yourself an objective fact that is in meditation you imagine that they see you expressing this nobler man you desire to be if you assume that you are what you want to be your desire is fulfilled and in fulfillment all longing to be is neutralized this also is an excellent check on yourself as to whether or not you have actually succeeded in changing self you cannot continue desiring what has been realized rather you are in a mood to give thanks for a gift received your desire is not something you labor to fulfill it is recognizing something you already possess it is assuming the feeling of being that which you desire to be it is through desire that you rise above your present spear and the road from longing to fulfilment is shortened as you experience an imagination all that you would experience in the flesh were you or your friend the embodiment of the desire you have for yourself or him experience has taught me that this is the perfect way to achieve my great goals for others as well as for myself however my own failures would convict me or I to imply that I have completely mastered the control of my attention I can however with the ancient teacher say this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press towards the mark for the prize - 'the excerpts the original birthplace of imagination is in love love is its lifeblood god is love love never faileth infinite creative spirit is love the urge that caused infinite unconditioned consciousness to condition itself into millions of sensitive forms is love our concept of our self determines the scenery of our lives we are ever our own jailers the prison doors that we thought closed are truly ajar waiting for us to see the truth man ever surrounds himself with the true image of himself says Emerson every spirit builds itself a house and beyond its house a world and beyond its world a heaven no then the world exists for you for you the phenomenon is perfect what we are that only we can see feeling is the secret excerpt the world that moves us is the one we imagine not the world that surrounds us in the imagination lie the unexplored continents and man's great future adventure recognizing the power of feeling let us pay strict attention to our moods and attitudes every stage of man's progress is made through the exercise of his imagination and feeling by creating an ideal within our mental sphere we can feel ourselves into this ideal image till we become one and the same with it absorbing its qualities into the very core of our being the solitary are captive can by the intensity of his imagination and feeling affect Myriad's so that he can act through many men and speak through many voices extend your feelers trust her touch participate in all flights of your imaginations and be not afraid of your own sensitivities the best way to feel another's good is to be more intensely aware of it be like my friend and have more of a feeling for the health the wealth the happiness you desire ideas do not bless unless they descend from heaven and take flesh make results or accomplishments the crucial test of true imagination as you observe these results you will determine to fill your images with love and to walk in a high and noble mood affirm the reality of your own greatness excerpts in the creation of a new way of life we must begin at the beginning with our own individual regeneration the formulation of organizations political bodies religious bodies social bodies is not enough the trouble we see goes deeper than we perceive the essential revolution must happen within ourselves everything depends on our attitude towards our self that which we will not affirm within our self can never develop in our world this is the religion by which we live for religion begins in subjective experience like charity it begins at home man is constantly looking about his world and asking what's to be done what will happen when he should ask himself Who am I what is my concept of myself if we wish to see the world a finer greater place we must affirm the reality of a finer greater being within ourselves it is the ultimate purpose of my teaching to point the road to this consummation I'm trying to show you how the inner man must readjust himself what must be the new premise of his life in order that he may lose his soul on the level he now knows and find it again on the high level he seeks creativeness is basically a deeper receptiveness a keener susceptibility the future dream must become a present fact in the mind of anyone who would alter his life every great out picturing is preceded by a period of profound absorption when that absorption is filled with our highest ideal when we become that ideal then we see it manifest in our world and we realize that the President does not recede into the past but advances into the future this is essentially how we change our future a now which is elsewhere has for us no absolute - meaning we only recognize now when it is at the same time here when we feel ourselves into the desired state here and now we have truly changed our future this is a challenge to us all what concept are we holding of ourselves and the higher regions of our soul

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Published: Sat Jul 30 2016