Neville Goddard's Ten-Second "Flash" Salvation of Double Theredom

In his audio lecture, "God's Law and His Promise," Neville Goddard describes his aiding in a woman's salvation. This was not the salvation of her soul, but she had written to Neville that she urgently needed to sell a property for a set price, and to do so was going to take something of a miracle. She asked Neville to "use your talents lovingly on my behalf." Neville used his response as an example of HOW to pray for a friend. Almost.

I say almost because Neville left out an important part of the process, which I will mention in a moment. He does say in the lecture that he spent all of about ten seconds to mentally render aid to the woman, a woman who simply attended his lectures and he considered a friend. He knew exactly what the woman wanted, for that was fresh in his mind from reading her letter, and he was already in his big easy chair, so he simply sat back and relaxed, brought her before his mind's eye and heard her say that everything had worked out exactly as she had requested. He felt that it was done and then went on about his business, never giving the matter a second thought until a few weeks later when he received her letter of thanks. Talk about "easy salvation."

What Neville did not mention in this lecture, his regular audience already knew. I recently caught what was unsaid as I listened to Audio Enlightenment's presentation of Your Faith is Your Fortune, which some saint placed on Youtube and Audio Enlightenment has graciously not taken down (the digital print version is also available online, as Neville and his family left his legacy in the public domain). In the moment that Neville sat back in his easy chair, he performed what he describes in chapters 1 through 3 of Your Faith is Your Fortune, which is this: in about a second, he went back to zero.

Back to zero? Yes, back to being the unconditioned awareness of being, God, because no man  can sew a new patch on an old garment. We do not create the situation we want from the situation we are in, but from the situation God is in: it is God's becoming of another state of us. It is, "he who believeth on "Me,'" "except you believe that 'I am He,'" and "who can forgive sins except for God? . . . but so that you may know that the son of man is authorized on earth to forgive sins (because he is God)."

The end we desire shall be God's  manifestation, not ours. Yes, we are God, conditions of God, which is what makes this so cool: when we relax, we can go back to being him whom we are without  our present condition, back to zero: the unconditioned awareness of being. Our present condition is an old garment of his, an old wineskin. We have to let these old, cursed conditions go to their demise (death) and accept new, living conditions--new "garments."

So when Neville sat back in his overstuffed easy chair, he let go of his present condition of knowing the woman's need and, for a moment, "floated" as the unconditioned awareness of being itself, i.e., as God Almighty: like formless light aware of being, but not aware of being any thing at all.

When you want to create, relax and flash back to being the unconditioned awareness of being you were before you conditioned yourself by imagining being you. You have since become the conditions you imagined--you. Neville wanted to become another state of being, the state of HAVING HEARD from the woman that everything HAD worked out the way she wanted, so, from the state of "zero," i.e., God, he imagined himself to be that. He assumed the standpoint of unconditioned and formless God imagining his feeling of joy and satisfaction, relief, etc., as he would feel HAVING HEARD the report . . . until he felt the virtue of its existence leave him. And then he dropped it. The seed was planted. If you plant a seed IN GOD, you will  enjoy its harvest.

Neville knew that he could not still be one who wanted  to hear the report and one who had  heard the report. So, between his receiving the woman's request and imagining the situation's desired end, he erased  his present condition. He let it go and went back to zero, to the state of unconditioned awareness of being: "Before the world was, was the Manifestation, and that Manifestation was with God, and God was that Manifestation" (John 1: 1); "Seek ye, first, the Kingdom of God, then all these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6: 33, "then" in the original).

What have we learned?

A) Know exactly what you want to be  as God's fulfilled condition; his end condition.

B) Relax. Go to the brink of sleep, but do not fall asleep . . . yet.

C) Abandon your existing, conditioned self-awareness.

D) Flash back to being unconditioned  awareness of being and "float," as it were, as the living light of God's being.

E) As  the unconditioned  awareness of being, imagine being  the fulfilled condition you desire. Intensify your imagination with vivid 3-D sensory perception and all concomitant (included) moods and emotions.

F) When you feel "virtue" has gone out of you, the seed is planted and you can fall asleep or go on with your business, confident that in due time you will enjoy the harvest of your act.

Total time for such work, says Neville, should be no more than about ten-seconds.

Keep reading scripture and see that this is not voodoo, witchcraft or sorcery, but is the Gospel preached. And do this work for yourself each night: What event did not go well during the day, revise  before you go to sleep. If you got angry, for example, "sin not" by going back to zero and revising  the event--do not let the sun go down on your wrath.