Conversations with Ed, a Former 2x2er, About Neville Goddard, Visions and Freedom: Part 3

Dan 

Hi. I don't really understand a lot except what I read in Neville's books and some of my own study, I find it hard to meditate and still enjoy the things I always did; e.g., football! I do have a hunger though for these truths and am reading everyday, Neville says these visions just simply mark your progress. I don't really know what it means. It just disappeared out of view in a strange manner! I do feel good after meditating but so many distractions! I have a hunger for the knowledge but sometimes fail putting it into practise! Thank you for replying!

PS: What do you believe the vision of the child signifies? It was being held by a woman. In last message you said, "this is where I come in", what do you mean and what should I be doing?

Ed

Ed,

Slow down, friend. I am just a normal fellow who has Pentecostal experience and has studied the Bible and people for forty years. I was last an aircraft mechanic and inspector. Aryeh Kaplan said something very interesting about visions in his book Jewish Meditation, that you cannot necessarily apply meaning to visions. They may have meaning--or not. Trying to interpret them can be dangerous. They are not there to guide you. They are more of a "Hi" from your imagination, which is what, I believe, you saw. "Yeah, I am here. Take care. See ya!"

The cult you were in (there are hundreds of them) interpret prophecy as future-telling, that the prophet has prescience or sees the future and speaks of future events. I believe prophecy to be the revelation of God in the present. You are the lady and the child: they are your imagination, you are God, and you all are one. He in you was saying, "This, Ed, is what is going on."

Listen, if you have not yet, to Neville's lecture "Unless I Go Away." He didn't have a clue as to what the visions meant. Over the YEARS meaning came.

Excuse me, this is an aside. I have listened to "Unless I Go Away" many times because I have these downloaded audio lectures on my mp3 player and listened to them many times on the way to work:

Call Upon Self

Creating with Imagination - Rare TV TALK 1955

God's Law and His Promise

Is Causation Imaginal

Imagination Plus Faith

How to Use Your Imagination

Unless I go Away

The Pruning Shears of Revision 08.08.1954 Full ( read by the late Gary Nordgren)

This is Your Future 3-12-1971

Prune the Vine

The Secret of Imagination

Believe It In

Just because I know this stuff and believe it is scriptural does not mean that I can do it or even try. I do not think we need to manipulate our reality beyond our faith in God BEING us. Please read some of my recent blog postings. I just recently saw the course of ministry factor. That being our life as a course of ministry, kind of like the 2x2 cult but without the lies or interest in money or control over other people's lives. Just doing well for others, blessing them--not looking for world peace but just being it. And by the way, I will probably edit these e-mails and use them as posts on my blog to help other people. I won't mention you by name other than Ed and might not even specify the cult by name. Might not, but what I read online about them makes not mentioning them a challenge.

Sorry about football. Education changes our value system! Consider playing it a ministry to yourself and others, perhaps, and try not to get hurt.

"In last message you said "this is where I come in", what do you mean and what should I be doing?" Answer: We are all related in one big imagination. YOU had a question and the big imagination knew you were going to ask me and cultivated that answer in me BEFORE YOU ASKED. It wanted me to have it in hand when you did ask. God is pretty cool. The Ineffable Most High God is zero distance away. What for you to do? I suggest praising God IN you for being you and leading you toward your destiny. This is His interest; it is what He is doing. You are just now learning that you are Him. Have a heart of gratitude, say, "Thanks."

Dan