Victor Alexander's Latest Story of Jesus Indiegogo Campaign

There are tens of thousands of books, magazines, articles, television shows and movies about Jesus. Why on earth would anyone want to make still another one? Because there never has been one like this. Virtually every single item about Jesus you can put your hands on comes from or is heavily influenced by the corrupted Western view of Jesus: Jesus the miracle-working Son of God. How many times have you ever heard of Jesus being the Manifestation of God?

Your New Testament has four Gospels and then a bunch of letters. Did you know that most of the letters were written before the Gospels were composed? The "church" was a living form of Judaism long before the Western church was anybody's pipe dream. There was a religion being practiced that had almost absolutely nothing to do with the Christianity practiced at the church down your street, or maybe in your house.

I do not know what angle Victor plans to promote in his movie the Story of Jesus (Eashoa Msheekha), but he said in his recent article, The New Ecumenicism, "I don't think the doctrines of American Christianity are compatible with the original Scriptures and the teachings of Maran Eashoa Msheekha" (http://www.v-a.com/bible/AAC/new_ecumenicism.html). What doctrines does he think are per the original Scriptures?

Victor has more than twenty years experience translating the ancient Aramaic scriptures into English, and I know from reading them that he sees exactly how whacked Western Christianity, if you can call it that, has become. Do I agree with him? For scripture, yes; for understanding, I hold closer to mystical Judaism. Would I like to see his vision of Jesus as the Milta, the Manifestation of God, played out on the big screen? You couldn't keep me away.

Please vote for Alexander's Story of Jesus by making a contribution towards its pre-production. Come on, we need to see the other Christianity, the original as Alexander sees it. I covet correction, because I know this stuff is real. Thanks for helping.

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Amen

Creation is the Demarcation of Divine Compulsion

Creation (the action of creating) is imagining. From the idea of what is wanted is the orchestration of the world toward that end. God is the Divine Orchestrator: people and things are compelled by him to manifest the imagined word that has gone forth. We are God (the Divine within us which is us) and can compel the world to manifest our purpose by properly imagining a word. A word is a complete thought. Complete in the sense of containing the imagining of everything that is to become manifest as though it had already become manifest and its consequence is presently being experienced by us through all our senses. I. e., we need mentally move to be there in vivid 3-D imagining.

Have you ever read Genesis chapter one? God has no eyes, ears or mouth. He sees, hears, and speaks by imagining. He imagined the earth, the seas, the land, the animals and man. After the demarcation of what was to be  manifested was the compulsion of everything -- compelled under his orchestration, his invisible influence -- to manifest what he had determined. There was Christ risen, so he is risen. Same Christ as he who is within us. Our being risen as him is our destiny; an inescapable compulsion.

Creation is the demarcation of divine compulsion. We demarcate what is to be manifest, and God orchestrates the demarcation's fulfillment by compelling the world to facilitate that moment. DO NOT FORGET THAT IT IS A MOMENT. Acquisition is transitory: "Tomorrow is another day," and what is gained is futile. So, onward and upward in our thoughts, efforts, and expectations.

God has demarcated our final state, and we are under compulsion to fulfill that moment. As this world's futility becomes clearer, our interest, I think, shall wane as we desire more and more to absolve ourselves of concern about it and abdicate from involvement with it. "What God is doing" shall become our mantra and only interest. And what God is doing shall become our only effort, til we become as he.

Note that what we imagine now initiates compulsion. That is, imagination with intention. Things go better with a plan, because when you plan, you imagine. Still better if you have a strategy, because when you work up a strategy, you imagine. A goal kept before you will help, because you imagine it. Pray, because when you pray, you imagine. When you imagine a state you desire, you can move in your imagination to the state you desire and experience it in your imagination as though you were experiencing it in reality. If you can fall asleep in while experiencing that desired state in your imagination, so much the better, because so great demarcation calls for more compulsion upon the world to manifest your purpose

What do you want to be (as in become)? Stop thinking that you want to become that, for if you WANT to become, you will always want, for that -- want -- is what you are imagining. Think, rather, of what you DID become. Create that in your imagination.

Sharing God's Affliction: the Big Switch in the Theology of Dan Steele (Reading Biblical Characters in the Oneness of God, part 2)

One of the marvelous notes in the Companion Bible, which, by the way, I am not selling, is Bullinger's comment on Genesis 1: 2's 'was.'  It changed my life. This comment popped out at me because of another margin note on Exodus 3: 14's "I AM." That comment was in my old Bible. When I was seven years old and learning to read, I suggested to my mother that I should learn to read the Bible, and if I had one, she and I could read together. She bought me an inexpensive Thomas Nelson KJV Red Letter Bible with a zipper, and honestly, I did not read it much until 1975 when I encountered a deceiving spirit. Providence had me keep that Bible with me until the day I looked up the word 'deceive' in its concordance and read:

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12: 9-12, KJV, courtesy of https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/rev/12/1/s_1179001).

The Bible was right all along, and I was going the wrong way! But that is another story. The margin note in that Bible on Exodus 3: 14's "I AM" said, "Lit. will be or become." 'Am,' 'will be,' 'will become'? The Bible is right, but which is it? Several years of theology school and decades (!) of Bible study did not answer the question for me (it was not the only thing I was looking for, of course), so when I read Bullinger's comment on 'was' in Genesis 1: 2, I was piqued. It read:

"was = became. See Gen. 2. 7; 4. 3; 9. 15; 19. 26. Ex. 32. 1. Deut. 27. 9. 2 Sam. 7. 24, &c. Also rendered came to pass Gen. 4. 14; 22. 1; 23. 1; 27. 1. Josh. 4. 1; 5. 1. 1 Kings 13. 32. Isa. 14. 24, &c. Also  rendered be (in the sense of become), v. 3, &c., and where the verb "to be" is not in italic type. Hence, Ex. 3. 1, kept = became keeper, quit = become men, &c. See Ap. 7."

Appendix 7 says: 

"ITALIC TYPE IN THE REVISED VERSION.
The Revisers ill-advisedly decided that "all such words, now printed in italics, as are plainly implied in the Hebrew, and necessary in English, be printed in common type."
One of the consequences of this decision is that the verb "to be" is not distinguished from the verb "to become", so that the lessons conveyed by the A.V. "was" and "was" in Gen. 1:2; 3 and 4; 9 and 10; 11 and 12, are lost.  See the notes on Gen. 1:2.
For the general uses of various types in the English Bible see Ap. 48."

The upshot of all this was that the "I AM" in God's proclamation about himself in Exodus 3: 14 means "I will be" . . . as in becoming!!! "I will be (as in become)" is not his name; it is his nature. God is eternally becoming, and HE IS NOT DONE YET! The Hebrew root verb here is 'hayah,' 1961 in Strong's Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary, page 32 (the most visited page in my concordance). Bullinger's point about 'hayah' is that there is transition involved in what "is." Yes, the one true God is eternally God, but he is developing, maturing, becoming. He is in eternal generation!

Well, I am becoming a bit shrill. What does it matter that God is eternally becoming? He was not as he is now. We are his image, and this image is of his DEVELOPMENT. We are given over to affliction and futility by him to perpetuate our DEVELOPMENT into him. Our affliction and futility mirrors HIS. What affliction and futility could the Almighty, Infinite and Eternal have? He does not have any mirrors to look into, and had to DISCOVER what he is. That was affliction and futility for him, and THAT is what we are doing, because we are him STILL IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING.

Sorry for getting shrill again.

We are not separate from God, and we are not adjunct. Whatever the Ineffable is, It is imagining, and that imagining -- "God" -- has become us. God is all imagination, and God is man, and man is imagination, and every thing is imagined. Not 'imaginary,' but imagined. Therefore, as God said to Neville Goddard's wife, Bill,

"You must stop spending your thoughts, your time and your money; everything in life must be an investment" (1953, "Sound Investments"). Thought is the coin (the investable unit) of heaven. Invest it! You cannot stay the same, for we all are eternally changing, growing, maturing. This death we have been given (and all the "lives" we have within it) is for the express purpose of our developing in the image of the Ineffable. Our growing experience is His image and is revelation of Him (see John 1: 18). I hope you will learn how to look.

You ought never say, "This is me. This is what I am," for we are the process of His growth. Do not get snagged on some idea that you cannot change what you are. There is no static am. This is what you have become thus far. Keep rolling. God will rake us over coals to get us moving, growing, becoming further . . . in this life or the next. We have been and will be doing this generating, developing for eternity until we fulfill our destiny of becoming Him. We are the Eternal. What good, benevolent kindness do you want to become NEXT? Enjoy it!

Reading Biblical Characters in the Oneness of God

It may seem odd that I continue to endorse the old King James Version Companion Bible edited by Ethelbert Bullinger instead of more modern versions. It is because I have yet to hear of a better study Bible (not that I am looking for a better study Bible), and if properly read, the Companion Bible yields a better version than anything short of a literal translation from the ancient Aramaic.

The key is the margin notes in the Companion Bible. Take, for instance, Bullinger's note on Genesis 32: 28: "Israel = 'God commands, orders or rules.' Man attempts it, but always, in the end, fails. Out of some forty Hebrew names compounded with 'El' or 'Yah,' God is always the doer of what the verb means (cp. Dani-el, God judges)."

Take from this that in these eternal natures or states of consciousness which are to be ours, it is the noun portion, in this case God, who is doing (!) the verb portion. I would translate 'Daniel' as God judging. Thus 'Abraham,' where Abram was the Exalted Father and Abraham was the Exalted Father is Merciful, I would translate as the Exalted Father Being Merciful. I can hardly read, "And Abraham said, 'My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for the burnt offering" (Genesis 22: 8), without tearing up. If you are new to this, you might not yet realize that the lamb for the burnt sacrifice is each of us, for Christ, who is that Father, has become every one of us.

This death we have been given is a process. We are to learn and grow and develop as we generated into His likeness by the afflictions and futility of this world. It is fire under our butts. Fulfilling the scriptures is our destiny, and the fulfillment of the scriptures is our being rendered into Him: "Eye saw not, and ear heard not, and went not up upon the heart of man, the things which God prepared for them that love Him" (1 Corinthians 2: 9, per Bullinger); i.e., that we should become Him. We are Him doing it!

This being December 28th, the Church just celebrated Christmas. I was touched by "O Come All Ye Faithful," the English version of Adeste Fideles:

O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant!
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;
Come and behold him
Born the King of Angels:
O come, let us adore Him, (3×)
Christ the Lord.

This is to me:
O come, you who know that God has become the spirit of consciousness -- our imagination within us;
O come you into His House of Bread -- your imagination within your brain!
Come and see Him manifest as the Empowerer of His thoughts within you;
O come, let us behold the Source,
The Power and the Wisdom of the Father who is within us, as us, because He has become us!

I have a feeling that this Jesus Christ, the Power and the Wisdom of the Father who is within us, is the only God we will ever see in Heaven. He is here in us now. O come, let us adore Him!

I hope you had a merry Christmas. I certainly did.

Just Like Neville Said, I Will Bet That Inside You Feel About Twenty Years Old

In a number of lectures Neville Goddard said that after you die you find yourself restored to terrestrial life as a person just like you were in this life, but at about twenty years old. That has bugged me and countless others. Poof! and I am a twenty-year-old with no childhood? Do I now have a false memory of my childhood? What are the children in my life now?

Neville outlived a number of people whom he visited again in their next lives, and they were about twenty years old. My favorite of this type of story was when he was with his sister, I believe, and Jack, his former secretary whom he had buried. It escaped his sister's memory that Jack had died and had been buried by Neville, and there she was WITH Jack, whom she recognized, and Neville recalled it to her memory. How had Jack, who had recently died, gotten to be about twenty years old at that time?

A) When you die has nothing to do with when you are born. It is not sequential. You could be born next on any planet in any of its ages. Jack might have been restored to a childhood years before his death. Maybe that doppelganger is you! (Hopefully we all will graduate from this cycle of births into the next sphere of experience where we die no more.)

B) If Neville met these passed persons in a dream state he might only see them as twenty years old in their lives, without regard for whatever time it was in our time frame.

C) How old do you feel inside? When we are born we suffer complete amnesia as to what we were before. We are still the same people, but have forgotten everything we knew. We learn progressively, but how old is the subtle inner man who is our imagination and the spirit of God? I am now over sixty, but he is about twenty years old. As I reflect on my younger years, when I was just a kid I felt like I did when I was twenty. I was just less learned. The inner man does not change, does not age. Like the lady said when asked how she got to be 112 years old, "I just got old and couldn't help it." Outside. Esau. The inner man, Jacob inside, he was still about twenty years old. We learn to act our age culturally, but inside we are eternally about twenty years old.

I do not know if He is ever going to change.

Good Luck to Maw and the Good Vibe University . . . In Spite of There Being No Such Thing as the Law of Attraction

I noticed in my blogspot data some referring URLs from goodvibeuniversity.com. Checking the site I found that while it is a subscription club about imagining, it is under the banner of the Law of Attraction (LOA).

I prefer the term 'apoplexed' to 'aghast' and 'flummoxed,' because I really am struck dumb by the fact that anyone could be so dumb as to believe the Law of Attraction. Really? The so-called Law of Attraction is, in my opinion, two points below stupid. Does it work? Sure it works, but it does not work because your vibration is attracting like-vibes; it is working because God is creating the experience you are imagining, and he is creating what you are imagining because you are that God!

Sure, Neville Goddard explained something like the Law of Attraction in a lecture, but he stuck with the idea for how long? Like about that one lecture. The LOA people even call what they do conscious creation. Creation. It is the creation of thought, and from that thought God works in a way you could never yourself devise to create the manifestation of your thought-creation. It works, but it is not your vibration attracting like vibrations -- you don't see gold coins rolling down the street to your wealth-thinking feet!

Why the "Law of Attraction"? To explain away God. Because when imagining works, the only explanation is God. And if God, really God, well, it makes some people uncomfortable. Especially the greedy, self-absorbed and self-serving. As long as God can be explained away or is separated and far, far off, they are happy to think of only themselves. Were they to believe that their imaginations were actually God's, well, that is too close for comfort! (It is Christmas, so let me sing: "Oh, tidings of comfort and greed, comfort and greed. Oh, tidings of comfort and greed!")

Do I mind? Not at all. The Good Vibe University is a wonderful idea! You go, girl! Get rich while you can! Every one of the dollars contributed by your members will prove their worth when they find that there is no such thing as the law of attraction apart from actual magnets and gravity. It is the price of the lesson, and will be worth every cent to the members when they finally learn that there really is nothing except God: "your own, wonderful, human imagination!" --Neville

C. F. Rehnborg (Jesus and the New Age of Faith) was absolutely right. There is something going on that is not what the Jews think it is, nor what the Christians think it is, nor what the LOA conscious creators think it is. What is called for is a new faith in what IS going on, which is God alive and FUNCTIONING in us and through us and to us as "Jesus Christ," the wisdom and power of the Ineffable Most High God which saves us from the effects of our ignorance.

When we were born we took on total amnesia. The amnesia made us ignorant. The above mentioned cults are used of God to lead the gullible ignorant who follow them to the Truth hid within them (both thems). Our ignorance will not withstand the truth of God any more than baby food withstands meat meant for an adult. The cults' demographic is the ignorant, and that is God's demographic, too! The cults get us to SEE that imagining works, and God will get these to see that the Law of Attraction is nonsense. Where can they go from there? Nowhere but to God, whom they find in the working to be the one who is doing the working.

Sorry there is no church for this. Do not be surprised if someone creates one. Stay away from the crystal hawkers and dream-catcher weavers! Candle voo-doo? Personally, I find it better to just go it alone, because everyone wants to drag everything except God into it. God himself teaches wonderfully. And we have Neville.

Imaginal is Not Imaginary; It is the Medium of Fact

In my post, "Oh, Prayer is MOVEMENT" (ref. http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/12/oh-prayer-is-movement-commentary-on.html), I stated that "this existence is really imaginal." Someone corrected me for using the term 'imaginal' where the word 'imaginary' would do. But the word 'imaginary' will not do, because it means something totally different! 'Imaginary' carries the inescapable connotation of something being not real -- imagined with no corollary in fact. 'Imaginal,' on the other hand, is the medium of fact. According to Neville Goddard, that which is imagined as a fact-of-being, i.e., imaginally, and is persistently assumed to be real, will eventually "harden into fact."

And that is exactly the case: our facts are "hardened" imagination: existence is imaginal.

That which is imagined by God has the power to become (what we call) particulate. God imagines being and believes it, and whatever he thinks that he is, he becomes what he thinks. This is the meaning, I believe, of the book of Genesis: Adam (the intelligence of God) has the rib (the creative power) to Eve (give birth to living existence) -- Cain (acquisition) and Abel (transitoriness).

Imagination itself hardens into fact. The odd thing is that it is not the physical aspect that is the form, but the imagined EXPERIENCE. The physical simply facilitates the fulfillment of the imaginal. Because particulate matter is God's intelligence become what he imagines it to be, it moves as he thinks. It all seems so natural, except when he thinks your sick body is healed and it moves all at once to your body being healthy. He imagined my shorter arm being the same length as my longer arm, and I WATCHED my shorter arm grow out about a half inch to match my was-longer arm. Just because Charles Hunter asked for me (along with dozens of others in that particular meeting) to have that experience.

Is this experience transitory? This whole life is. Our reality of "fact" is, in fact, not imaginary but imaginal.

Confucius Was a Moses Without a Voice

Confucius had a oneness view just like Moses, that this life/world/cosmos is the manifestation of T'ian, Heaven, which is God. Moses investigated 'jethro,' God's goodness. Confucius observed Heaven's beneficence. Both were struck by the underlying principle of God's love.

God's Man-plan spoke to Moses in a voice in his imagination. The "angel" of God revealed that he is -- and thus we who are in him also are -- the Manifestation of God. Confucius surmised it.

Why did God speak to Moses and not to Confucius? Moses meditated. That is what "tending the flocks of jethro (thoughts on the blessings of God) on the backside of Mt. Horeb" means. Confucius also deeply considered his version of jethro, but was not a meditator. He was not adverse to spiritual realities, but he did not believe that Spirit, God's consciousness, talked to man. He was a brilliant man, he perceived jen (ren -- "human heartedness" or God's love in man) but he missed out on the insights and revelations that Moses received because Moses was open to spiritual interaction in his imagination, and he was not.

Oh, Prayer is MOVEMENT: A Commentary on Neville Goddard's "The Secret of Prayer"

 9-26-2017 edit: Neville's lecture The Creator explains movement: http://realneville.com/txt/the_creator.htm

11-17-2016 edit: see my post: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/ooooohhhhh-way-to-pray-is-to-represent.html

Some young man has posted an audio of Neville Goddard's "The Secret of Prayer" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9AAcgdhYsQ). Reading the lecture again (at http://realneville.com/txt/the_secret_of_prayer.htm), I finally caught on to what Neville was saying, which is that prayer is psychological movement created in the imagination to where you want to be. You revise your reality and go to the new one. You seem to be here in this sinful (unlike God) reality, but this existence is really imaginal.** So, psychologically, you move your imagined awareness to the noble, God-like state you want to be in. Here you are in need; there you are in solution. "Prayer" is your present awareness of all the senses of actually being where you have moved to in your imagination. Prayer is positional awareness. Be aware of being there.

Do you move yourself to being in the solution when you pray, or is it remote and distant? Biblical prayer is moving there.*

In his book Prayer: the Art of Believing, chapter one (http://www.prayertheartofbelieving.com/), Neville explains the Law of Reversibility which unifies the universe, which is that all transformations of force are reversible:

"Mechanical motion caused by speech was known for a long time before anyone dreamed of the possibility of an inverse transformation, that is, the reproduction of speech by mechanical motion (the phonograph). For a long time electricity was produced by friction without ever a thought that friction, in turn, could be produced by electricity. Whether or not man succeeds in reversing the transformation of a force, he knows, nevertheless, that all transformations of force are reversible. If heat can produce mechanical motion, so mechanical motion can produce heat. If electricity produces magnetism, magnetism too can develop electric currents. If the voice can cause undulatory currents, so can such currents reproduce the voice, and so on. Cause and effect, energy and matter, action and reaction are the same and inter-convertible.
"This law is of the highest importance, because it enables you to foresee the inverse transformation once the direct transformation is verified. If you knew how you would feel were you to realize your objective, then, inversely, you would know what state you could realize were you to awaken in yourself such feeling. The injunction, to pray believing that you already possess what you pray for, is based upon a knowledge of the law of inverse transformation. If your realized prayer produces in you a definite feeling or state of consciousness, then, inversely, that particular feeling or state of consciousness must produce your realized (i.e, fulfilled) prayer. Because all transformations of force are reversible, you should always assume the feeling of your fulfilled wish" (emphasis and parenthesis mine).

So, just as something happens and you become aware of it, inversely, you become aware of "it" -- your being in the state you desire -- and then that something happens. This is the depth of the "rocket science" the universe is hinged upon and operates by: God is becoming us; we are becoming Him.*

"They were people," my friend protested when I told him about the symbolic nature of the Bible and how all the characters are actually states we each go through. It does not matter that the biblical characters were people. The stories are not about them as people, but as psychological states. Laban's goats and sheep were sacrificial animals that followed one after another; i.e., thoughts. 'Jacob' is the subtle, inner man within us. He sees spotted and produces spotted. He sees striped and produces striped. What you move your genuine, inner awareness to is what you get. (When it works and you get what you were aware of, you have found God -- your own wonderful, human imagination! When you can turn control over to him, you become 'Israel': literally God-ruling-as-man in Hebrew.)

In The Secret of Prayer, Neville explains an exercise Abdullah gave to practice movement by:

"My old friend, Abdullah, gave me this exercise: every day I would sit in my living room where I could not see the telephone in the hall. With my eyes closed, I would assume I was in the chair by the phone. Then I would feel myself back in the living room. This I did over and over again, as I discovered the feeling of changing motion. This exercise was very helpful to me. If you try it, you will discover you become very loose with this exercise."

Practice, practice, practice. Abdullah famously (to fans of Neville, anyway) told Neville, when he desired one October to go to Barbados, that he was already in Barbados -- while Neville was most certainly was in New York City! Abdullah told Neville to imagine, nevertheless, that he was in Barbados having sailed there first class, and to go to sleep imagining that he was in his bed in his mother's house on Barbados. This Neville did, and while penniless in New York, he spent Christmas in Barbados having sailed there first class!

Neville also regularly practiced revising his day. What events did not go as desired during the day, before he went to sleep each night he revised in his imagination to their having gone as desired. The expected check did not arrive in the mail? He rejoiced in having received it, giving thanks and gratitude. He moved to the having of the results he desired, and fell asleep in that state.

It seems to me that churches and synagogues should certainly be able to teach this process of prayer to their congregations. When we pray, we are supposed to believe that we have what we desire (Mark 11: 24). This is called 'faith,' to psychologically move to the state of the desire fulfilled. Move to the having! Hold in persistent assumption -- faith that you do have -- and you will have.
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For your convenience, Neville's "The Secret of Prayer" (parentheses and emphases mine):

The word "prayer" means "motion towards, accession to, at or in the vicinity of". Orienting myself (mentally) towards New York City, I have made a motion, an accession to. As I act in the vicinity of (New York City in my imagination), I see my friends relative to (me in) New York City. Having done this, let me have full confidence in my imagination, knowing he (God, my imagination) is the being who made the motion. Blake's words are true: "Man is all Imagination, and God is Man and exists in us, and we in Him. Man's Immortal Body is the Imagination, and that (our Imagination[s]) is God Himself!"

You can not only move in space but also in time and fulfill your every desire (see page 19, The Law and the Promise http://www.law-of-attraction-haven.com/support-files/the-law-and-the-promise-neville-goddard.pdf). Prayer does not have to be confined to what a person calls self. You can pray for another by feeling they now have what they formerly wanted, for feeling is a movement. The first creative act recorded in scripture is motion: "God moved upon the face of the water."

A friend recently had a fantastic vision, during which he asked: "Did I learn anything?" and I answered: "Yes. You learned how to move." Then everything was transformed, as conflict deceased, a hovel became a castle, the battlefield a sea of ripened wheat, and he was escorted into his eternal home. Prayer is motion (your motion in imagination to the state of awareness of having whatsoever you desire). It is learning how to move toward a change in your bank balance, your marital status, or social world. Learn to master the art of motion; for after you move, change begins to rise up out of the deep. The technique of prayer is mastering (being master of) your inner motion. If you are seeing things you would like to change, move in your imagination to the position you would occupy after (!) the change took place.

Everything and everyone in your world is yourself pushed out. (Read that sentence several times, and consider.) Any request from another - heard by you - should not be ignored; for it is coming from yourself! You came down from a world of light to confine yourself to this body of darkness. Now a spark from an infinite world of light, one day you will remember that world and awaken, but in the meantime you must learn to exercise the power of your mind. Having remembered the infinite world of light, I now know that everything is myself, as all things are contained within me. (When you have time, visit Gregg Braden's "Seven Essene Mirrors," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBsczafvaA and several other sites. Ignore his 1980's hair.)

Prayer is psychological movement. It is the art of (psychologically) moving from a problem to its solution. When a (lady) friend calls telling of a problem, we hang up, and I move (in imagination) from the problem state to (the state of) its solution by hearing the same lady tell me the problem is now solved.

A friend recently shared this dream with me: We were in a garden and he told me all of his desires, when I said: "Don't desire them, live them!" This is true. Desire is thinking of. Living is thinking from! Don't go through life desiring. Live your desire. Think it is already fulfilled. Believe it is true; for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact.

When you are learning the art of prayer, persistence is necessary, as told us in the story of the man who, coming at night, said: "Friend, lend me three loaves of bread." Although his friend replied: "It is late, the door is closed, my children are in bed, and I cannot come down and serve you," because of the man's importunity, his friend gave him what he wanted. The word importunity means brazen impudence. The man repeated and repeated his request, unwilling to take no for an answer. The same is true in the story of the widow. These are all parables told to illustrate prayer. (Practice once, and practice twice, and practice once again, even if it takes a long, long time.)

The Lord's Prayer teaches the oneness of us all. It begins: "Our Father." If God is our Father, are we not one? Regardless of our race or color of skin, if we have a common Father, we must have a common brotherhood. (We are, actually, the same Imagination.)

Eventually we are all going to know we are the Father; but in the meanwhile, persistence (in psychological movement) is the key to a change in life - more income, greater recognition, or whatever the desire may be. If your desire is not fulfilled today, tomorrow, next week or next month - persist, for persistence will pay off. All of your prayers will be answered if you will not give up.

My old friend, Abdullah, gave me this exercise: every day I would sit in my living room where I could not see the telephone in the hall. With my eyes closed, I would assume I was in the chair by the phone. Then I would feel myself back in the living room. This I did over and over again, as I discovered the feeling of changing motion. This exercise was very helpful to me. If you try it, you will discover you become very loose with this exercise.

Practice the art of motion (that is, practice the art of moving), and one day you will discover that by the very act of imagining, you are detached from your physical body and placed exactly where you are imagining yourself to be - so much so that you are seen by those who are there.

Being all imagination, you must be wherever you are in imagination. Moving in your imagination, you are preparing a place for your desires to be fulfilled. Then you return, to walk through a series of events which will lead you up to where you have placed yourself. In imagination, I can put myself where I desire to be. I move and view the world from there. Then I return here, confident that, in a way unknown to me, this being (God, the imagination) who can do all things and knows all things, will lead me physically across a bridge of incident up to where I have placed myself. You can move in imagination to any place and any time. Dwell there (where you are going to) as though it were true, and you will have learned the secret of prayer.
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Take my message to heart and live by it. Practice the art of prayer daily, and then one day you will find the most effective prayer is: "Thank you Father." You will feel this being within you as your very self. You can speak of it as "thou" yet know it is "I." You will then have a thou/I relationship, and say to yourself (!): "Thank you, Father". If I want something, I know the desire comes from the Father, because all thought springs from Him. Having given me the urge, I thank Him for fulfilling it. Then I walk by faith, in confidence that he who gave it to me through the medium of desire will clothe it in bodily form for me to encounter in the flesh.

---Don't get in the habit of judging and criticizing, seeing only unlovely things(!)---. You have a life - live it nobly. It is so much easier to be noble, generous, loving, and kind, than to be judgmental. If others want to do so, let them. They are an aspect of yourself that you haven't overcome yet, but don't fall into that habit. Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the Supreme Actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He*
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*There are three single asterisks on this page:
1) Biblical prayer is moving there.*
2) This is the depth of the "rocket science" the universe is hinged upon and operates by: God became us, we become Him.*
3)Simply thank your heavenly Father over and over and over again, because in the end, when the curtain comes down on this wonderful drama, the Supreme Actor will rise from it all and you will know that you are He*
All these together, I believe, are what "Ahiyeh Ashur Hiyeh" actually means in Exodus 3: 14 (according to the original text in the ancient Aramaic -- please see lead paragraph, http://v-a.com/bible/, and note on Exodus 3: 14, http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/exodus_1-4.html, provided for your convenience below). You would never get the correct understanding from the water-down Masoretic Text, which never said "I AM THAT I AM" in the original. Because the original did not agree with the priests' theology -- they could neither understand nor do it, let alone teach it -- they changed it! The original is so rich in meaning that Alexander could not translate it into English. Ahiyeh means "Me, really Me, am really coming." 'Coming,' though, is not from one place to another, but from degree to degree, like amping up the wattage on a volume pot (switch). Ashur is the Creator God of Nineveh, from which the Aramaic language comes. It took me awhile, but I have finally resolved that Ashur is Imagination, by which God has created everything (when he "says," he imagines!). Hiyeh means His Becoming. When we -- God's Imagination -- imagine, His greater will comes forth as His becoming. 'His becoming' is also the meaning of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton: YHWH. No, it does NOT mean I AM. But when we pray imagining, and it works, we have found Him in His becoming! His becoming = our imagination, and you can bet that he speaks to us there!

**http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/12/imaginal-is-not-imaginary-it-is-medium.html.

One attempted to correct me for using the term 'imaginal' where the word 'imaginary' would do. 'Imaginary' would not do, because it means something totally different. 'Imaginary' means not real; imagined with no corollary in fact. 'Imaginal' is, in reality, the medium of fact. That which is imagined by God's intelligence has the power to become (what we call particulate): His intelligence believes that it is what ever it thinks that it is, and it becomes what it thinks. This is, I believe, Adam (the intelligence of God) having the rib (the creative power of God) to Eve (give birth to living existence) Cain (acquisition) and Abel (transitoriness). Our reality of "fact" is, in fact, imaginal; it is NOT imaginary.



Exodus (Liberation) chapter 3, from Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic:

1. And Moses shepherded the herds of Jethro,* his king priest and he fetched him sheep for the altar, and he came to the mountain of God at Khooriv.
2. And there appeared to him the angel of the Lord through the waves of fire from inside the sun disc, and he saw that the sun disc itself did not burn up.
3. And Moses said, "Let me see, this must be indeed a great vision, that is why the disc is not burning up."
4. And the Lord saw that he was approaching to look closer, and so God called him from inside the disc, and He said, "Moses," and [Moses] said, "Behold, it is I."
5. And He said to him, "Do not come near, take off your sandals, because the land that you stand on is holy ground."
6. And He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid himself from the faces* that he saw, because he was afraid to look at God.
7. And the Lord said, "I have indeed seen* the slavery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard the agonies of their enslavement, because I know what ails them.
8. "And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to take them up from this land to an expansive and good land, to a land that flows with milk and honey, to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
9. "And now, behold, the agony of the Children of Israel has reached me* and I can also see the persecution by which the Egyptians oppress them.
10. "Now come, I will send you to the Pharaoh, and take my people, the Children of Israel, out of Egypt."
11. And Moses said to God, "Who am I to go to the Pharaoh and bring out the Children of Israel out of Egypt?"
12. And God said to him, "I will be with you and this is the sign that I am sending you, when you conduct the exodus of the nation from Egypt, you shall work here before God on this mountain."
13. And Moses said to God, "Behold, as I go to the Children of Israel and say to them, 'the Lord God of your ancestors has sent me over to you," and they tell me, 'what is His name?' what shall I say to them?"
14. And God said to Moses, "Ahiyeh-Ashur-hiyeh,"* and He said, "this is what you will say to the Children of Israel, "Ahiyeh has sent me over to you."
15. And again God said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the Children of Israel, that the Lord God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, sent me over to you -- this is His name to the end of the universe and this is how you shall commemorate me from this century to the end of all the centuries,
16. "Go and gather all the elders of the Children of Israel and say to them that the Lord God of your ancestors has revealed this to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so as to say this to you, that you shall memorialize this memorial, of all that He has done for you in Egypt.
17. "And you shall tell them that He brought you out of the enslavement of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, to the land that flows with milk and honey.
18. "And I shall make them heed your voice, and you and the elders of the House of Israel shall enter into the presence of the king of Egypt and you shall say to him, 'The Lord God of the Hebrews has revealed this to us now that we must go and spend three days in the wilderness and make a sacrifice to our Lord God.'
19. "And I know the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, and it is not in his power to do so.*
20. "And I shall extend my hand and strike the Egyptians and I shall perform wonders among them and then I shall send you [all out.]
21. "And I shall give the nation to be perceived kindly in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go, you do not go empty-handed.*
22. "The wife shall ask her neighbor, and the residents of her house for gold plates and silver plates and clothing, so that you may cloth your sons and your daughters, and the Egyptians shall allow it."

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*3:6 Lit. Ar. idiom retained: "Visions" or manifestations.
*3:7 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Seeingly have seen."
*3:9 Lit. Ar. id.: "Entered upon me."
*3:14 Lit. Aramaic: (1) "Ahiyeh": "the One Who Comes in His Coming," the absolute sense of "the One Who Comes." (2) "Ashur": "the Beginning Spark that kindles the Fire" or "the Light." (3) "Hiyeh": "His Coming." (4) "Ahiyeh" and "hiyeh" are related forms of the same word. They mean more than "the Coming." They signify also the "Eternal Presence," "the Ever-Present," and the "Never Ceasing Intent of the Comer to Come." (5) In the same way, "Ashur" signifies "the Uncreated Creator who Creates Everything from Nothing." (6) Also, "Ashur" signifies: "Above-the-Flames."
*3:19 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "It was not in his clutching hand."
*3:21 Lit. Ar. id.: "Bare."

'Abraham' Does NOT Mean The Father of Many Nations (Edited July 28, 2016)

I heard it again on the radio: "God gave Abram a new name, Abraham, which means Father of Many Nations." I could cry every time I hear it. If 'Abraham' means "Father of Many Nations" in Hebrew, why did God have to tell him that it means Father of Many Nations? I mean, wouldn't the word already mean that?

'Abram' means Exalted Father. That is God in you. It is a state. 'H,' the fifth letter in the Hebrew alphabet, symbolizes mercy and grace. Put into 'Abram,' the name still means the Exalted Father, but now that state is full of Mercy and Grace. So the state of Abraham means Merciful Father or Gracious God -- the God of Love, therefore he shall be the Father of the Multitude, or, of "Many Nations." Because of this quality you become aware of, of love and mercy, you become the Father of Many Nations. The change in the nature of your state has a consequence!
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I just happened to listen to Neville Goddard's lecture "Imaginal Acts Become Facts" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN7lDWP9gT8), and at 1:25-30 minutes into the lecture Neville explains, "(the state of) Abraham (is) the Father of the Multitudes" (parentheses mine). Who is the Father of the Multitudes? The Merciful Father is the Father of the Multitudes. Get it? Abraham, the Merciful Father, is a state you and I pass through. We take on the attitude, the persona and roll of being the Merciful Father to Multitudes. We are imbued with love for others and act mercifully toward them. It is a state we get into mentally and emotionally, and this state is instrumental in our becoming spiritually restored to youthful fruitfulness and bearing -- entering into -- the state of Laughter. From this our inner man, Jacob, segues to Laban for enlightenment as to how to pray effectively and returns as Israel -- prevailing to be God ruling as man. Yes, the Bible is history -- YOUR history. It is the history of our psychological growth into the mature emanation of the Eternal Source.

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From Victor Alexander's translation of James from the ancient Aramaic:

James 2

21. Was not our father Abraham made righteous through works, as he raised his son Isaac to the altar? 22. You can see how his faith led to his works, and through the works his faith molded him. 23. And the Scripture was fulfilled that said, “It was that Abraham believed in Allaha, which was reckoned to him as righteousness,” that he was called Allaha's Mercy, “Av-ra-him.” * 24. You can see that it was through works that a human being is made righteous and not through faith alone. 25. Likewise, Rahab the adulteress, was it not through works that she was made righteous, that she received the spies and got them to escape by another route? 26. Whereas the body without spirit is dead. Likewise the faith without works is dead.

Footnotes: *2:23 Aramaic name: “The Father is Merciful.”

and from his translation of

Isaiah 41

Who called the generations from the beginning? It is I, I am the Lord, the Beginning and the End, it is I."*
5. "The islands saw me and the outskirts* of the earth feared me; they succumbed, made offerings* and came." 6. And a man helped his companion and to his brother he said, "Be strengthened!" 7. and the carpenter encouraged* the smith, who flattens with the mallet and works it, saying, "The seams are beautiful,"
and they fasten them with nails so as not to move. 8. "Now, Israel my servant, the Ya'koob* I chose,
the offspring of Abraham my kin,* whom I strengthened. 9. "[Whom] I called from the edges* of the earth and its [outermost regions]* and to whom I said, 'You are my servant, I chose you; I did* not denigrate you.' 10. "Fear not because I am still with you, and do not stammer because it is I* who am your God;

*41:8.1 Lit. Aramaic name retained: "Jacob." *41:8.2 Lit. Aramaic idiomatic term: "Rakhmi": "one who loves me" or "one who has mercy on me."

and

Proverbs 8

17. "I have mercy on those who have mercy* toward me, and those that seek me find me.
18. "Opulence and honor are mine, and the ancient possessions and the righteousness.
19. "And my fruits are better than precious gold and my treasures* [are more] than choice silver.
20. "I walk through the path of righteousness and the avenues of judgment.
21. "And to surpass the expectations of those who [show] me mercy, and I shall fulfill their ordination.

and

Matthew 12

1. At that time, Eashoa was going around [some] farmlands on the Sabbath, and his disciples got hungry and began to squeeze the heads of grain and eat. 2. The Pharisees, however, seeing them, said to him, "Behold, your disciples are doing that which is not Lawful on the Sabbath." 3. He told them, "Did you not read what David did when he became hungry, and those that were with him, 4. "How he entered the house of Allaha and ate the Lord's bread of offering, that which was neither Lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him? 5. "Or did you not read in Scriptures, that the high priests in the temple absolve the Sabbath and they are not cheating? 6. "However, I am telling you, there is someone greater than the temple here.
7. "Or if you knew what it meant, 'Mercy I desire, and not sacrifice,' you would not have held accountable those who were not cheating. 8. "For the Son of Man (David, the Christ, our actions) is the Lord of the Sabbath" (parentheses and emphasis mine).


See my post: "If You Appreciate the Messiah, Be Merciful to God . . . Your Lowest Neighbor, 'the Poor'" (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/if-you-appreciate-messiah-be-merciful.html)

Note that they call upon the Son of David to save them; e.g., "Have mercy on us, son of David" (Matthew 9: 27) That is us! Our human actions are the "son of David, the Christ." We are the ones who save! Not our flesh, but our inner spirit, our imagination. THAT is God.

An Interpretation of Neville Goddard's "How to Use Your Imagination"

Note February 18, 2018 post: Sensing the Presence of God as the Secret of Neville Goddard's 3D Imagining Technique (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2018/02/sensing-presence-of-god-as-secret-of.html).


My transcripts of Neville Goddard's 1955 recordings How to Use Your Imagination and Mental Diets and the article Secrets of Neville Goddard's 3D Imagination are this blog's most popular posts

https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/06/neville-goddard-text-how-to-use-your.html

 (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-use-your-imagination-text.html, http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2014/06/mental-diets-text-improved-version-of.html, and
http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-secrets-of-neville-goddards-3d.html, respectively). I am not going to go over these texts here -- you can read them on your own, but I think I can tell you what Neville is trying to say especially in How to Use Your Imagination.

When he says, "It never failed me if I would give the mood, the imagined mood, sensory vividness," he is talking about awareness of the concrete reality of the "imagined" scene.

"Whenever you do in your imagination that which would like to do in the outer world" is about awareness of this seemingly concrete (though imagined) world.

"The one requisite is to arouse your attention in a way and to such intensity that you become wholly absorbed in the revised action . . . and . . . achieve vision in the inner world" is about having awareness of the "physical" qualities of the state you desire as though it were your present reality.

"Persistent imagination, centering in the field of the wish fulfilled, is the secret of all successful operations. This alone is the means of fulfilling the intention" (emphasis in the original). I.e., awareness of the wish in its fulfilled , concrete state is the key to manifesting that state in physical reality.

One has to become aware of being "there" and experiencing what is wished for after it has become . . . as though it had become . . . before it has become! It is a physically post-state consequent to what is purposed (wanted/desired) that is to be imagined.

The idea is to become aware of being there. E.g., you want a promotion, so be aware of people congratulating you for the promotion received, or be aware of doing the work you will do consequent to the promotion. Or you want a spouse or a relationship, so you feel the ring you would wear and/or the feelings of pride, security, joy, comfort, satisfaction, etc., you would feel after the wedding or in the relationship. Become aware of the end of what you intend and dwell in that state. (It is my hypothesis that that is what Genesis chapter one is all about -- God imagined the end, and we are on the way there being generated to the end state he [we] imagined).


I posted the following comment on my Secrets of Neville Goddard's 3D Imagination article:

"The thing you are here looking for is awareness. While you are "imagining" the state you purpose to manifest, become aware of being in that state. Become aware of it in the sense of knowing that you are there and it is real and concrete. Neville speaks of sensing the location and experience you want in vivid, three-dimensional reality. He means to become aware of it. "Feeling is the secret"? He means awareness is the secret. Know exactly what you want, go into that sleepy, drowsy state just before sleep, and become fully aware of the state you desire. What you would do and hear and see and feel, were the state you desire real, become aware of doing. Become aware of the reality of the unreal, and it will become real.

"First, you do it in your imagination, but you are aware that you are imagining. You are seeing it from a distance. Do it again more aware of being there, more really experiencing the senses. Do it again sensing your reality there with concrete tactile sensations. Do it again aware that you are thinking from there, where you are going and are, for the moment, mentally existing.

"Neville said to do everything in love. Aim for the benefit of everyone aware that we -- God: the Heavens and the Earth -- are all one. It is an imagic world."

-- Dan


I am possibly here going to help you more than anyone else ever has. Neville taught you to go into a sleepy, drowsy state approaching sleep before visualizing what you desire. In that sleepy, drowsy state you are to feel yourself lift off and float free of the conditions of your daily reality that evidences that you do not have the state you desire. Your assumption concerning yourself lifts off the rocks of "Facts" that hold you aground, and you are free to float to whatever condition you want your reality to be -- you become the Creator of a new assumption which will progress into manifestation in time.

That is real good, but have you ever heard of descent? No? Well, I did not just make it up, but I did recently remember it (it took me forty years, but oh well). Descent has everything to do with awareness. Eh, tell you what, let's give it its own post: http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-descent.html.

The Descent

A funny thing happened to me on the way to salvation. I rejected Christianity and got involved with all sorts of different religions and wound up practicing occult meditation at the metaphysics bookstore in Honolulu. The main tool in the practice was guided-imagery meditation, wherein the leaders would give the group images to imagine and mentally interact with.

First, we would be led to relax thoroughly to a sleepy, drowsy state -- but still fully awake in our consciousness -- and then descend a number of steps down an imagined stairwell, ten or twelve steps down to an imagined workshop in our subconscious. We were acutely AWARE of the steps and of the descent down to the workshop.

During my last occult meditation, I was instructed to build a door in the wall of my workshop and to allow an ascended master to come in to teach me secret mystical things one-on-one. I constructed the door by becoming aware of such a thing being there and, with some trepidation, I opened it. It was dark out there in the endless nothingness beyond consciousness, but I did perceive a ramp that descended from some higher place to, well, to my front door.

Lo and behold, here was Jesus Christ, supposedly the real one, descending to teach me the spiritual things he taught his disciples but which the church through corruption had lost. As he approached I was feeling a bit leery, but he was glowing and for all appearance looked like Jesus Christ should: beard, robe, and all. As I gazed at him, suddenly I could see through the glow and into him. He was all darkness within -- a deceiving spirit. I closed the door.

I am telling you this for two reasons: the necessity of awareness and of descent. Awareness because everything we did mentally hinged upon our awareness of it. We became aware of our muscles and relaxed them. We became aware of the steps and of our descent down them. We became aware of seeing things and touching and using things. Yes, I have been in the lagoon with the blue oyster, acutely aware of it and everything else there. But the descent was not to a demonic realm; it was to a spiritual realm, to a deeper, richer experience of the spirit WHICH I AM. Yes, there was a "demon" there, but so was God there. God is always there because both he and the "demons" are me. The "demons" are my ignorance, and they are always screwing with me, but God is ALWAYS also here goading me to overcome them. This is his show!

How did we descend to the deeper experience of the spirit? We simply imagined walking down steps AWARE that we were descending down steps. Later, when I asked for the gift of tongues, I was rejected by Jesus Christ. I quickly caught on that I was asking flippantly and got serious. I gave everything I could think of. Still no go. Desperately seeking how to be accepted, I slipped into a trance. I was in a wash, a riverbed, and followed a path to a tall wall along the river bed that had a gap in it. The trail led through the gap, but I was blocked from following the trail any further by a huge block. I did not know what the block was. I could not reach to climb over it, and I could not go around it, for the path led not past the block but down a hole underneath it. I needed to get down that passage to find acceptance and could not, because the block blocked my way!

I was aware of the impossibility of my moving this immense, solid block out of my way on my own, and that this unidentified block was what I had NOT yet given to God. How could I surrender what I did not know? I said of the block, "I do not know that it is, but I give it to you." It disappeared, and I saw the hole the path went down. I became aware of the deeper sphere of the spirit. In that sphere I became aware of the actions taken in having become me, God's life-spirit encased in a mud-man, and I became aware that my "block" was my own self-lordship! I ruled my life without recognition of the Source of my life nor the purpose the Source had for my life. Ungrateful and rebellious, I was "giving" myself to God as though I were his peer, like if I did not like what he did with me, I would take myself back! I repented of this and cast self-lordship's self-control out of myself -- NONE OF WHICH I COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT HAVING LEARNED IN THE OCCULT THE SENSE OF AWARENESS AND THE DESCENT INTO DEEPER REALMS OF THE SPIRIT. It is God's occult to use as He sees fit, and I thank Him for sending me into it for that training. Well spent, I think.

Neville says to get into a sleepy, drowsy state bordering sleep but still in full control of your mental faculties. Yes. And I say, imagine there that you are descending to a state of deeper spirituality. Descend. You know, you just imagine this stuff. Not that it isn't real, but it is real because you imagine being aware that it IS real. Abandon the shallowness and flippancy of the things you have learned, the doctrines you believe, the stories you have heard and the superstitions you have imagined. They are intermediaries to your experience of the spiritual realm; i.e., they come between you and the reality of God. Take the "sandals" from your feet and stand on the holy ground of awareness of God in you.

Do not misread Exodus 3: 5. When God says, "Do not come near," he is saying, "You, as you are, with all the bs you believe, do not come near Me. Give up all the crap that you are holding onto instead of Me, your 'sandals' which hold you away from Me, AND EXPERIENCE MY REALITY DIRECTLY. Now, what do you want? I'll become what you imagine."

The funny thing is, whenever I get there, I can't think of anything I want but him.

Oops. I forgot to mention that the Descent appears in the baptism in the Holy Spirit as Jared (Genesis chapter 5). The antediluvian patriarchs are overlapping states we go through unto the state of Noah, the resting in God. The patriarchs "names" need to be translated. They are actually natures -- states of conscious awareness which give birth to numerous thoughts and emotions.

The Descent may also be that flip that occurs when the intelligence of the Ineffable by its own power becomes what is thought. The faith of the mustard seed, as you know, is the knowledge that it is a mustard, so it becomes one. I am reminded here that this intelligence and power that is God descended to become us. We might not look like a deeper, richer experience of the spirit, but hell (here) is where heaven is forged. This state of death is hell, where our worm dies not nor fire is quenched. While "death" from here gives some respite, we are stuck here until we fulfill scripture by overcoming and ascend to where we were before better than we were before. We descended to learn humility and freedom, to become better, so this is a better place than where we came from. Continue to descend to humility and be aware of being humble, contrite, and lowly of spirit. You might just find yourself in a spiritual bear hug.

Our Backwards Way of Solving Problems

In spite of knowing what to do about problems, I catch myself thinking of how to deal with them the old-fashion, backwards way: by discussing, reasoning, explaining, demonstrating, negotiating, and educating. I have a lot of patience, and a lot of procrastination.

I find myself dreaming of a life I wish I had but do not have, because I am stuck with the life I do have (i.e., things are not going my way). I am keenly aware that exactly this is creating my life: my dream with the sense of stuckedness . . . is the creation of the stuckedness! This is much akin to Neville Goddard's wife's problem with her boss: she argued with him constantly in person because she argued with him constantly in her mental conversations (see http://www.realneville.com/txt/Mental_Diets.html). I have much envied her ability to alter her mental conversations with her boss in her imagination. Just as I envy Neville's revising the day every night before he went to sleep. I know to do these things, but life has not been conducive to actual doing.

What, you might ask, am I supposed to be doing about problems? Two of Neville's lectures come to mind: "If You Can Believe" and "Live In The End." Put these two ideas together: in your imagination, live in the world wherein your problem is solved, and believe that it is the world that you are living in. That, I am convinced, is the forward solution to our problems. I believe the Bible: "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." Because what we believe . . . becomes! I think it, so it is it.

Biblical believing is belief in having. Say, for instance, that you really enjoy your job and want a promotion for more responsibility at work. Do not believe that you can get a promotion; do not believe you deserve a promotion; do not believe you will get a promotion; do not even believe that you have been chosen or are satisfied that a promotion is forthcoming. Imagine you have got the promotion and believe that you are in the state of HAVING GOT it. Your scene is what you would do AFTER the promotion. Believe you are doing THAT.

Say you are a teacher and your students are not interested in your subject. Can you convince them that your topic is really interesting, necessary, and advantageous to know? Good luck. Imagine those are your students' opinions and believe that YOU HAVE, in the state of your experience with them, evidence of those opinions. No, let's push this back a bit further. Imagine you go to the local university for a graduation, and the graduating class is all your students! Believe their success. Congratulations.

In "The Law of God and His Promise" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eyqadF9R9Y), Neville used his own experience of needing tickets for a voyage from his old family home on Barbados back to New York. To get the tickets, he imagined boarding the ship he was to sail on, believing he HAD GOT the tickets for the voyage. You see, he did not imagine purchasing the tickets, writing the check, receiving them, holding the tickets in his hands. He imagined what it would be like if it were already true that he HAD the tickets. What would he do then? He would board the ship with his family. What would THAT be like? He would ride the tender with his family out to the ship at anchor and walk up the gangway holding the salty rail, and then turn with them to wave a both joyous and sad farewell to his father, sister and brothers. He imagined the scene and BELIEVED the boarding . . . and then he received the tickets!

I know I have to imagine a scene in the end I desire and believe it. The trouble is, I just can't decide what end I want! I do not want for anything except for some things to go my way, freeing up some time. I am really hard to shop for for Christmas.