The Neville Goddard Challenge: Do What You Did Before
"You make a big deal about God creating the world by first IMAGINING WHAT SHALL BE THE END, and you make a big deal about God becoming us by imagining and our being, although temporarily "ignoranced," God. What is the point? Who cares? What does it get us?"
It gets us the world we create. Let's learn what we did in the first place to create the world and do it again and again and again to create a better world and to learn how to be more like God.
Take the Neville Goddard Challenge and create at least one new world:
Choose something that you really, really want, a sincerely desired thing; something good and noble and beneficial for yourself as well as for others. Say, for example, that you desire a job which would benefit your employer and pay you well--a steady job for which you are appreciated.
Create a scene in your mind of something that MUST happen if what you desire is true, and which implies that what you desire IS true. For example again, if you HAVE the job you desire, your appreciative employer would shake your hand while handing you your paycheck, and would say sincerely, "I really appreciate your work. We are going to keep you around for a long time," or something to that effect.
Fill in the details of your imaginal scene. Are you wearing a suit or clean, casual work clothes? How do you feel in them? How do you feel facing your employer and shaking his or her hand? How does it feel to see and receive the check, to hear the compliments? What will your family members say now that you have a steady and financially rewarding job for which you are appreciated?
Sit down and relax, and enter a sleepy, drowsy state almost at the verge of sleep. Let the floodtide of sleep almost carry you away, but hold onto your control of your consciousness.
You know a lot of "facts" that say that you do not have the job you desire. Let the flood drown those facts; let every one of them die. You, you just float up on your own trip to experience what YOU desire. Bring your imaginal scene to mind and play it as your present "real" experience. Feel your clothes, smell the room, see the paycheck, feel the handshake, feel the excitement and the accompanying relief, hear the compliments and feel the pride and the anticipation of sharing this joy with your family.
Believe it, and do it again, and again, and again--vividly, until it takes on "all the tones of reality." Feel the check as though it were real and sense your inner the excitement. Intensely listen so as to actually hear. The scene should mount up in you to the intensity of a vision, up to a point of release where you feel inside that "It is so." And fall asleep in that state.
I must warn you, however, that if it is so there, it is no longer so here. The "salvation" part of the name 'Jesus' means destruction, the removal of the present to make room for the coming. Your present world may get pretty upset in the transition. Do not panic, believe that everything turned out well.
On the morrow, do not doubt what you have created. You don't have to do it again, but don't doubt it. Some things you desire might need you to put yourself forward, to apply and to interview, to do what needs to be done. Other things may be more complex, confusing; things for which you can only pray and fast, that is, imagine to vision, and then do nothing. There isn't anything too hard for God who is our salvation, provider and our imagination--so you are in good company.
The effort costs you nothing. What "world" do you want? What would it be like if you were really there? Be THERE and let this time and place be a flat, two-dimensional memory. If you remember this time at all, say, "I remember when I didn't have this. But now look at my world! Now I have . . . " and describe to yourself and those with you the wonderful situation you HAVE there. See, hear, feel those things unto a consummation of vision, and be appreciative of them, grateful for them.
If your day stands in the way, revise each day you had with the day you wish you had had, as though it were the day you did have. That is, each thing that went wrong, imagine it as having gone right. Hey, when we were creating this world we probably had to fix a lot of days. I mean, look at what happened with man!
What will you do, friend, when it works? If it works, you have found him who is the creator of the world, the Creator God . . . who created you . . . who in creating you . . . became you . . . and made you him. When it works, he is saying to you, "You are me." Now, why on earth would he want to be you or me? For us to become him of our own free wills?
There is a certain theme in the Bible, something like the "scarlet thread of redemption." It is that the Most High is great, and "I have sinned." Sinning doesn't mean that we do something wrong--that is a given, it is just that we are not like him. We are not like him a lot. Well, okay, okay, we ARE him, but we are not him like we are supposed to be. That is an attitude of heart to learn. That is why in the New Testament Jesus keeps ragging on the Pharisees and Essene lawyers and scribes: they were keeping the Law as rules to perform when it is an attitude of heart to perform, and they just couldn't perceive it for the attitude that it is.
Don't be like them, O Living, Life-Giving Branch you find yourself to be when you desire and what you desire becomes. Find the Law as attitude, the attitude you had when you died of the life you had in order to become you.
It gets us the world we create. Let's learn what we did in the first place to create the world and do it again and again and again to create a better world and to learn how to be more like God.
Take the Neville Goddard Challenge and create at least one new world:
Choose something that you really, really want, a sincerely desired thing; something good and noble and beneficial for yourself as well as for others. Say, for example, that you desire a job which would benefit your employer and pay you well--a steady job for which you are appreciated.
Create a scene in your mind of something that MUST happen if what you desire is true, and which implies that what you desire IS true. For example again, if you HAVE the job you desire, your appreciative employer would shake your hand while handing you your paycheck, and would say sincerely, "I really appreciate your work. We are going to keep you around for a long time," or something to that effect.
Fill in the details of your imaginal scene. Are you wearing a suit or clean, casual work clothes? How do you feel in them? How do you feel facing your employer and shaking his or her hand? How does it feel to see and receive the check, to hear the compliments? What will your family members say now that you have a steady and financially rewarding job for which you are appreciated?
Sit down and relax, and enter a sleepy, drowsy state almost at the verge of sleep. Let the floodtide of sleep almost carry you away, but hold onto your control of your consciousness.
You know a lot of "facts" that say that you do not have the job you desire. Let the flood drown those facts; let every one of them die. You, you just float up on your own trip to experience what YOU desire. Bring your imaginal scene to mind and play it as your present "real" experience. Feel your clothes, smell the room, see the paycheck, feel the handshake, feel the excitement and the accompanying relief, hear the compliments and feel the pride and the anticipation of sharing this joy with your family.
Believe it, and do it again, and again, and again--vividly, until it takes on "all the tones of reality." Feel the check as though it were real and sense your inner the excitement. Intensely listen so as to actually hear. The scene should mount up in you to the intensity of a vision, up to a point of release where you feel inside that "It is so." And fall asleep in that state.
I must warn you, however, that if it is so there, it is no longer so here. The "salvation" part of the name 'Jesus' means destruction, the removal of the present to make room for the coming. Your present world may get pretty upset in the transition. Do not panic, believe that everything turned out well.
On the morrow, do not doubt what you have created. You don't have to do it again, but don't doubt it. Some things you desire might need you to put yourself forward, to apply and to interview, to do what needs to be done. Other things may be more complex, confusing; things for which you can only pray and fast, that is, imagine to vision, and then do nothing. There isn't anything too hard for God who is our salvation, provider and our imagination--so you are in good company.
The effort costs you nothing. What "world" do you want? What would it be like if you were really there? Be THERE and let this time and place be a flat, two-dimensional memory. If you remember this time at all, say, "I remember when I didn't have this. But now look at my world! Now I have . . . " and describe to yourself and those with you the wonderful situation you HAVE there. See, hear, feel those things unto a consummation of vision, and be appreciative of them, grateful for them.
If your day stands in the way, revise each day you had with the day you wish you had had, as though it were the day you did have. That is, each thing that went wrong, imagine it as having gone right. Hey, when we were creating this world we probably had to fix a lot of days. I mean, look at what happened with man!
What will you do, friend, when it works? If it works, you have found him who is the creator of the world, the Creator God . . . who created you . . . who in creating you . . . became you . . . and made you him. When it works, he is saying to you, "You are me." Now, why on earth would he want to be you or me? For us to become him of our own free wills?
There is a certain theme in the Bible, something like the "scarlet thread of redemption." It is that the Most High is great, and "I have sinned." Sinning doesn't mean that we do something wrong--that is a given, it is just that we are not like him. We are not like him a lot. Well, okay, okay, we ARE him, but we are not him like we are supposed to be. That is an attitude of heart to learn. That is why in the New Testament Jesus keeps ragging on the Pharisees and Essene lawyers and scribes: they were keeping the Law as rules to perform when it is an attitude of heart to perform, and they just couldn't perceive it for the attitude that it is.
Don't be like them, O Living, Life-Giving Branch you find yourself to be when you desire and what you desire becomes. Find the Law as attitude, the attitude you had when you died of the life you had in order to become you.
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