Unpoor by Imagining

Hello.

The text below was designed to print onto both sides of an 8-1/2 by 11” sheet of paper using Microsoft Word, 10 point Veranda font and .2” margins on top and sides, zero at the bottom. I wrote it to have something that would help the homeless beggars at the local freeway off-ramp more than just another dollar. Maybe you would like to copy and paste it into Word (or whatever) and print it as a tract for the homeless, too. I know it won’t work miracles, but it might direct them to someone who will . . . 

Change your life to be more successful. Here is practical, practicable advice derived from Neville Goddard:

Change your perception of reality. This is a spirit-based world. The physical world is being compelled to conform to spiritual impetus, so living according to a physical worldview runs against the very nature of the world. This world is the existence of an ineffable Strength, something beyond "spirit" that is becoming. We exist because that Power thinks we do. It is dreaming the whole universe into concrete existence. I call It the Becoming God.

This God is intelligent and powerful far beyond anything we can imagine. The world, mind and spirit are emanations of It. There is no division between things emanated and their source, so every "part" is the whole. We individual, spiritual consciousnesses are living branches of the Becoming God.

Unfortunately, we were born into this world totally ignorant of what we are. We have total amnesia, because to experience this emanation of ignorance and death, we had to completely forget that we are Life! Why did we do that? Because we loved humans and undertook to redeem them from this "death," to lift them up. To raise them, we became them by imagining that we were them. We "died" of our own Life-awareness and imagined their level of consciousness. We annexed their brains and became crucified on these "stakes" of flesh, becoming one with humans so that they might rise with us when we re-ascend through the regeneration of our Life-awareness. This resurrection is the Gospel, the Blessed Hope of the Bible.

The death of our Life-awareness, though, has caused us to miss the mark of being like the Power. Unaware, we think we are the humans we animate and undertake to direct our "own" lives, substituting our ignorant human self-direction for the purpose of the Ineffable. We do as we see fit – in error. This independence is rebellion against the Becoming God. We must repent of this; that is, end our self-lordship and submit wholly to the lordship of the Most High. We can not arbitrarily wake up, but trust the Becoming God to guide us back to full awareness of our being Him.

Our live-wire connection with the Becoming God is YHWH ("Jehovah"), which is the Ineffable's power and wisdom flowing into manifestation. I believe the Hebrew symbols yod-hey-vav-hey refer to the pattern of his flow. It is reliable provision and strength for our every need, including forgiveness for our error and rebellion. YHWH is personified in the Bible as Joshua and Jesus Christ, who take us into the Promised Land. He explains the meaning of the Old Testament scriptures we have misread as history.

YHWH is that Glorious Image which convicts us of sin: “Whoever sees me, sees the one who sent me. I am the Light that came to the people, so that whoever believes in me does not remain stuck in darkness" (John 12: 45-46, Victor Alexander's translation from ancient Aramaic, utilizing notes, emphasis mine). The consciousness we are is the Becoming God, the Light of the Ineffable that became us (the Sender became the Sent!). This is eminently practical, for if we see that the Glory of the Becoming God is the core of our being – the "King" in his Kingdom of OUR imagination – we gain conscience and go forth in humble, deliberate, loving imagining. We start to re-ascend – regeneration has begun! (And if you haven't accepted Jesus as lord yet, be sure he accepts you! Repentance is serious stuff – God is not mocked!)

The key to success on earth is having conscience and choosing right. Love is right, so let everything you do be done in love. Imagine loving thoughts in vivid 3-D. Be dedicated to the lordship of the Ineffable, be right in relationship with others, with right actions and right thoughts.

Whatever we desire, we can become. We become what we believe. Praying, which is imagining, creates a spiritual reality to which the physical world must be conformed. We create the model for "the world to come" by imagining in vivid, feeling, confident 3-D. What would be good? What would be gracious and pleasant, noble and profitable for you and for others? Imagine the world as it ought to be, and write it down. Believe it is created, and that you have it.

Imagine to 3-D concreteness. Make the world you desire real in your imagination (if you desire it, it is real, spiritually). Greet your friends there, hear good reports from them, touch the good things you desire as though they were already physically present. Feel satisfaction and relief, warmth and joy. Thank God with real gratitude.

Our thoughts and emotions are spiritual seed that is planted toward a future harvest. T. L. Osborn said, "Seed is prophetic; if you plant wheat, you can bet that what comes up is going to be wheat." What seed you plant is critical! It shall become your manifest reality. When and how? That is up to the Becoming God, and it may take some time for the seed you plant to come up, but it is coming "like a freight train!"

What we believe and give credence to is seed. If you say, "I do not want this," what are you seeing and giving credence to? That which you do not want. So, what seed have you planted? That which you do not want! Imagine what you want as though you have it. Faith is positive. Negatives don't work! And if you say, "I want this," what are you seeing and giving credence to? Your wanting. What seed have you planted? Wanting! This, oddly, is positive. Imagine what you want as though you have it. Imagine the end you desire. Believe and give credence to that end's existence as present.

Thankfully, we can revise bad seed by imagining better ends. Before you sleep each night, review the day's events. Revise them, imagining each event as you would have had it. If you were rejected, imagine being accepted. If something didn't arrive, imagine it did arrive. Neville said, “Imagine vividly, over and over again, raising your imagination to the level of vision, until it takes on all the tones of reality.” Go for feelings, both tactile and emotional, repeating each event until you feel that you have established spiritual reality. Then, fall asleep in your spiritual world!

There is difference between wishful thinking and imagining. Wishful thinking is like watching a movie. You see yourself as being distant and disconnected to you. Nothing in a daydream has effect on you – you watch yourself and others as an idle fantasy. Imagining is more intense and immediate. You do, you are there, things have effect. There is a sense of reality. Wishful thinking won’t get you beans. Imagining, though, will get you the world.

For example, during the Great Depression, penniless Neville wanted to sail to his home in Barbados. His mentor, Abdullah, told him, "You are in Barbados." That is, what Neville desired, he should believe he had. Physically, Neville was in New York; mentally, he saw palm trees, smelled island fragrances, and slept in his bed in his father's home on Barbados. A check eventually came for passage, but only steerage was available on the ship. Abdullah said, "You are in Barbados, and you went there first class!" A last minute cancellation bumped him up to a first-class cabin.

Drafted during World War II, Neville was qualified by his age for a discharge, but his request was denied. He slept in an Army barracks, but mentally he slept at home with his wife and daughter in New York – he vividly saw his home and felt its comforts. The Army changed its mind and gave him the honorable discharge.

Neville knew a man who had been a very poor boy in Russia. One of his jobs had been to exchange currency at the bank. He imagined how it would be if the teller made a mistake and gave him a roll of silver coins instead of an identical roll of copper. He imagined having food and clothing. The next day, the teller made that mistake. From that experience, the boy learned how to create by imagining. God orchestrates the fruition of what we imagine. The boy became a successful business man. When merchants didn't pay their bills, he imagined having the payments and wrote thank-you notes to the merchants (not sent, of course). Then the payments came!

A man who had always hiked the Alps and played polo with his friends lost the use of his legs. He vividly imagined hiking and playing polo with his friends, which he would certainly do if he had use of his legs again, and before long, he was hiking and playing polo again.

A young woman had lost her father. She had no other immediate family, and in her sadness, while riding a trolley home from work, she imagined she was traveling by ship to an exotic port and starting a new life. An unexpected inheritance from a distant relative allowed her to sail to the destination she had dreamed of – and taught her the power of imagining.

Neville had a vision of a rich family. The family patriarch had imagined the hotel he wanted to build as though it already existed. On his empty lot, he would say he "remembered" when it was an empty lot, “. . . and now here is this grand hotel, with this ornate lobby, ballrooms and balconies . . ." Everyone he described his vision to could "see" his hotel and “remember” the empty lot. Then the ways and means to build it came about.

A student of Neville’s visited a man who had lost his job. The mill he worked at closed before he had qualified for retirement. She "remembered when" he was afraid he had lost his job and retirement (implying that he had not lost them after all). The mill decided to remodel and reopen, and recalled him to work.

Do you get it? Pray, imagining you have what you want. "We call not out loud, but by an inner effort of intense attention. To listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create" (Neville Goddard, Mental Diets).

Coincidences? Not if the Bible is true and we are God. "Arise, O God (you!), and let your enemies be scattered." Imagine life as you want it to be, as though the end you desire now is – and it will become.