WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD AND HOW TO FIX IT: NEVILLE GODDARD'S "UNLESS I GO AWAY"

Note: You know what? This was so good I continued to work on it and posted a revised version at http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-is-wrong-with-world-and-how-to-fix.html


I was listening to Neville Goddard's "Unless I Go Away" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sux5iWH-Vmk) for the umpteenth time when I realized that the vision he described clearly explains why there is pain and suffering and confusion in the world, as well as what the Abomination of Desolation and the Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit are.

Neville says that he saw an enormous field full of enormous and lovely sunflowers. Each sunflower had a human face, and they all moved together "in rhythm to God's command": "if one swayed, they all swayed; if one smiled, they all smiled; if one frowned, they all frowned." Neville knew he could not compare to the majesty of any one of these flowers, but he, at least, was free, while every one of them were fixed in the ground. "I was more free than all of them put together, and millions more, times any number." Right next to the field of sunflowers was a dreadful dump, where they throw all the garbage of the world, and, seeing a rat, Neville tried to catch it. He caught the rat, and he put it into a cage. Then the vision faded. 

Yes, that explains why there is pain and suffering and confusion in the world, as well as what the Abomination of Desolation and the Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit are. Here is how: The whole thing is an illustration of God. YHWH, the creator God, is ONE consciousness made up of myriad consciousnesses (Hebrew: e'had; see Deuteronomy 6:4). As the Most High God "moves" by desiring--his "commandments"--the e'had's consciousnesses follow like sunflowers tracking the life-giving light of the sun. In perfect agreement, their vivid imaginings of his desires manifest dimensionally, creating and directing the universe. The faces on the sunflowers are our individual consciousnesses. Yet we are as little children in that the Most High God is free and self-developed, while we are not. We are God . . . and yet not like him! And what has the Most High God desired? That we be mature like him, including being independent, individual, and free. 

"Onward and upward to becoming more like the Most High," said we in agreement. "Let us make man in our image: the Eternal Life-giver, independent and free, in control, self-directed and self-developed." A tall order that takes a lot of time to mature and the generation of consciousness, awareness and character. We imagined and created the END of what he desired for us to be in the future. 

To become THAT--both him and free--we had to forget all that we are as God and go back to square one--to complete ignorance. We are still in heaven, but we have completely scrubbed it from our awareness and dwell in our dream of growing up into the freedom of God's son, the son of man. The temporary ignorance is the problem.

Welcome to the dump. The field and the dump are not separate places, but one. We are in the field, dreaming the dump. We think we are humans in the dump, altogether forgetful of our true, divine nature. To propel our dream along in generating THAT consciousness, we put ourselves into these "cages"--the five bodily senses whose limiting we experience as humans. We have become like immoral, greedy rats to push us to become more like the Most High who is holy, independent, individual and self-generated.

Limits to propel us? Surprisingly like marriage. As unconscionable humans with the Eternal hidden inside (see Ecclesiastes 3: 17), boy, what a mess we make of things, and how we want relief from it! This is our wisdom: trapped "naked and unashamed" (ignorant in our cages), the light that lighteth every man (read the divine life, "Adam") is us, and yes, we desire (read with intense imagination, "rib/Eve") expression (read Cain, Abel).  It is our higher consciousness, the Shining One (read Jesus Christ, Serpent/YHWH*) within us, who attacks our self-lordship--idea of our being separate from God. We resist ("Thou shalt not eat" isn't a commandment, it is a lament!) until the love and wisdom of God win out and we see Jesus Christ for what he really is, the effulgence of God's Glory within us. Then we submit to him--we "eat" of the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil and gain conscience. Finally, we are on the road to fulfilling God's will for our lives!

With conscience we "go upon our bellies" humbling eating the dust--learning through human life--until we lead ourselves to the resurrection from the dead, which state we are presently in in the forgetting of our divinity. In the final Resurrection, memory will return, and we will be alive as God and free. 

No, they didn't teach me this in Sunday School, either (but they should have!). Who could imagine that the Bible actually means what it says? 

Why is there pain and suffering and confusion in the world? It is because we begin life in forgetfulness--"ignoranced" as reprobate rats, deficient and apostate, thinking that we are the body and that we are separated from God. Our deficiency plays out in our doing everything stupidly: we imagine every bad thing that can happen, which causes it to happen. What we fear manifests, because it is what we have imagined. We are--unbeknownst to ourselves--the creator God, creating our own ill "fate" by imagining it.

The abomination of desolation is our sense of separation and division from God. Our bodies and brains are the temple of the Holy Spirit--the sense of division from God has no place there! To believe that we are separate from God is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, whose witness is: "Listen! O Israel, YHWH your God, YHWH--who is the Most High AND you, is ONE made up of many" (Deuteronomy 6: 4).

The grievous sin of thinking that God and ourselves are separate we must adamantly refuse, for never in eternity will God accept even the notion of division between him and us. Is it your sin? If you believe that God, the Lord or Jesus Christ is some thing other than yourself, then yes, yes it is. How can a man be less than deficient if he doesn't believe that Jesus Christ--God Almighty--is in him (Second Corinthians 13: 4-5)? And "in" means IS! 

In heaven, what we want is exactly what we imagine. What we want for ourselves is to develop--from scratch--the moral character to make free-will choices for the good of all. So, as humans we continue to get slammed by all the bad things we ourselves freely think. And so it will go until we learn to believe what the Bible truly teaches our Source's nature, which is the Law we are supposed to be following (see Raymond Holliwell, Working With the Law). Once we can perform even an iota the Law in our heart (it has to do with attitudes--the church is 180 degrees off on "the fall," Adam's final submission), then we can receive the Promise. 

Human need is replaced with surpassing abundance (jethro/shua--"salvation") by the expansion of God, Yah, whom we are. We are within us, as us, becoming more and more like the Most High God. This is the Gospel Moses proclaimed: "Ahiyeh Ashurhiyeh"--"By bright, creative imagining, I become his becoming" (Exodus 3: 14, my take on Victor Alexander's translation of the Aramaic). 

Imagine well, my friend, for you are becoming free in maturity, an independent individual who also just happens to be the One True God. 

* It should perplex that there is so much said about Satan in the New Testament and so little in the Old. The Hebrew word for serpent, nachash, means to hiss, mutter or whisper, and carries the sense of fascinate and enchant; whereas the Chaldean means brass, copper--from the idea "to be bright." Note that the ancient pictograph for YHWH was the combination of a ram's head AND A SNAKE (together representing strength and wisdom--power that is conscious). Obviously, the ancient Semites didn't associate the shining serpents with any evil being, but with God their savior! 

Simmer down, simmer down. Satan does mean opponent, its root word "to attack, to accuse," but who is doing what to whom? Adam, the life-giving consciousness in complete amnesia (forgetting its divinity in the "flip" from--here you go: from being the consciousness of God in the "sunflowers" to being the ignorant consciousness of "rats") thinks that it is the body and that it is completely separated from God. Whereas we should be completely aghast at our nakedness, in our ignorance we are completely unashamed.

Moses never entertained the notion of an anti-Christ Satan other than the ignorance and doubt our own darkened minds. In our immature attempts of religion we "step" on Christ's headship. Our ignorance is the anti-Christ! The "serpent" who was "more subtil than any beast of the field" was the one who had made them . . . Christ in us! 

The strength and wisdom to overcome our ignorance is within us. Ask God within to increase, and lay your selfish self-lordship down. "How fully can you surrender (your ignorance and doubts to God) and not be afraid?" (Frank C. Laubach, Open Windows, Swinging Doors, parenthesis mine).

What good things you want, go back to your "sunflower" consciousness which is creating your world and imagine them from there. You ARE the consciousness of God, so imagine the things you want as if they were had--complete and presently possessed. Imagine their fulfilled end--create your plan's outcome, and trust the infinite and Almighty God to bring them to pass in some way you could not possible accomplish on your own. When it works, you know that you have found him--Christ in you, the hope of Glory.