Nothing Can Be Missing If You Have The Holy Spirit

DeBorah,

Re What am I still missing?

I was wondering, are you a Pentecostal? Have you been baptized in the Holy Spirit? Do you speak in tongues? If not, what you are missing is Him. You said you tried a number of denominations. There are not many phenomenal healings in spiritually dead churches. They believe in a separate and distant God who is utterly divided from us, a "wholly other" God -- who does not exist. He is hard to get a healing from.

Dan Steele
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Dan,

I have been baptized Pentecostal and in the Holy Spirit, but I have never spoken in tongues, so I guess I'm missing the whole boat.

DeBorah

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DeBorah,

No, not necessarily. There is more, though. It is like wading into a river before you cast yourself into the stream to let it carry you. You feel secure with your feet on the mud of the bank; you are in the water, but you still have control. YOU are reaching for deeper water, to lose yourself and float away! You can be baptized into the Body of Christ without being filled completely with the Spirit. You might just be on Lay-away.

There is baptism into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit, and there are subsequent FILLINGS with the Holy Spirit for works of power. I associate the fillings with ecstasy and the observation that I am not the one doing what is happening -- it is the Holy Spirit. I recently looked at some good sites for how to be baptized and how to be filled with the Holy Spirit. One good one was http://justonetouchfromtheking.com

Dan
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Thank you, Dan. I found the website.

http://justonetouchfromtheking.com

I had a strong feeling come to me over the weekend that I actually focus way too-much on the "fact" instead of focusing on the solution. I heard a strong voice say, "You need to focus on the solution and not the perceived 'problem'."

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

I wonder Who could have said that? I have to thank you now for contacting me in the beginning. You know how the world is ourselves projected, "out-pictured," and actually reflects us? You came to me with the question, "What am I still missing?" I realize that was MY question! I spend my time reading, contemplating, analyzing. I should be doing what is necessary to be filled with the Holy Spirit: worshiping and singing and praising -- Golden Key stuff. I am living below our calling. Thanks for writing; it has put me back on track.

You might ask good, loving Pentecostals and/or Charismatics to come over and talk with you about how to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I am sure some would be more than glad to know you and have the opportunity to minister love and prayer. Jesus may or may not have been here two thousand years ago as a person like we imagined (I do not put it past him), but he is still -- ever -- "he lamb slain from before the overthrow of the earth."

Whether he was crucified for man at the beginning of time or just two thousand years ago, we still must accept him as Lord and be filled with his consciousness. That consciousness, the Holy Spirit, is divine intelligence which is power to become what is imagined by Him, whom we are. Be it then or now, we still must be born again and be FILLED with Him. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all one being, and He has become us that we might become Him. "Ye shall receive Power": His consciousness IS power. At the beginning of time, in Genesis 1, he imagined the Christ, his manifestation, completed. That puts YOU . . . THERE. Absolutely everything necessary for you to be whole and complete as His perfect manifestation -- Him standing in Paradise as the Glory keeping it -- WAS PROVIDED. He imagined you healed (therefore it already exists), and He believes it!

Dan

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Well, I am glad that I contacted you, because you have answered all of my questions and have been very helpful. Thank you very much for your time.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Thank you for asking good questions and for your patience with my answers. I hope I have not been too confusing. After I got baptized in the Holy Spirit, I sought what God has said to man. Too-much intellectual stuff; not enough Spiritual stuff. It is not the knowing; it is the doing. We do not always have to know before we do; he will teach us right there, right then. I wish you a lot of fun and a lot of sun as the Lord restores you

PS: I did not mean to insinuate that you need to be prayed for by others to get healed. As F. F. Bosworth said, "Every baby does its own crying." A hurt child doesn't need a sibling to ask its mother or father for care. He or she goes directly to Mom or Dad and is immediately picked up.

Dan Steele

What do I still need? Everything is Nothing Without God

DeBorah,

One thing I remember very distinctly from my baptism in the Holy Spirit was the resolution to do whatever God wanted. It was when I was giving up the self-control of my life, surrendering it all - absolutely all of it - to him. I abdicated from lordship over my self. I resolved to not do anything of myself, not to breathe, or hold myself up, or think, or do anything unless God gave me an order or direction to do it.

I didn't realize it until now, but I was entering into a marriage arrangement with God. "I will do whatever you say to do; I will go wherever you want to go." I laid my selfish life down and took up his life, turning my life into "our." Then I cast self-control out of myself with the words: "You are Glorious God. I am a mud-man," with the mental acknowledgement of, "I belong to you; I am yours," and then I waited.

I didn't know it, but that was the "price" mentioned by Napoleon Hill I was willing to pay to be accepted by God -- being married to him, submitted, doing everything he wanted WITH him in a partnership.

He didn't tell me to do anything. I continued breathing on my own. Neither did I fall, because he caught me. He was there with me, and the only words he spoke were, "Remember this, and it is all right." He is a man of few words. He has never told me to do anything, just to always be conscious that he is here with me, that we are doing whatever I am doing . . . together. If I robbed banks, he'd go there with me. He'd go to prison with me, too. You can write poetry with him, just be conscious that he is writing with you.

I think people in the healing lines are saying the same thing, "Whatever you want, that I will do." He says, "Whatever it is, that you do it with Me." He likes the idea of marriage, not of us to each other, but of us to him. He is our other spouse. He isn't going to heal you to send you to stand on the porch taking in the sun. He wants to go WITH you. Walk over and stand there with Him. "Come on, Lord, let's go."

Dan
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Dan,

I'm willing to be submissive or submit to God's will; it just seems odd that he wouldn't want a person to be able to move freely and have freedom because paralysis really is hard, very hard, extremely hard.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

"A leper came to him and fell down at his feet, and he prayed and said to him, 'If you wish, you can heal me.' Eashoa was merciful to him, and extended his hand and touched him and said, 'I do wish it, be cleansed.' And within the hour, the leprosy left him" (Mark 1: 40-42; Alexander). God doesn't want paralysis, and while neither do we (who are the responsible part of God), we do not protect ourselves against it by being conscious of him, submitting our day to him, and letting him orchestrate it. He gives us a lot of leeway in how we choose to live our lives, including being unaware to our own harm. You didn't consciously choose paralysis, but he didn't put it on you, either.

We subjected ourselves to futility and affliction to achieve a high calling, because this is the way to get there. He called and you said, "I come." Then this happened. You didn't want it, but now here, which way do you turn? "Get me out of it," or "Get me up to you"? The big healing is upward.

You might watch how many Gods you have. I correspond with Victor Alexander who is expert in ancient Aramaic. He has a blog (http://www.aramaic-bible.net/blog/) that is a forum on the names of God and other things about the ancient Aramaic text. One thing we are discussing is the name 'Eil'. It is a name of God which only appears in the ancient Aramaic. The Hebrew is 'El', but they are different words with different meanings. It is really hard to grasp the differences in concepts, but El in the Hebrew is God, and the Messiah is his Son. Eil, on the other hand, is the Most High God, and the Messiah is HIM, his Manifestation. There is a big difference between Eil and El.

Alexander believes Jesus was here as a person two thousand years ago. I believe he has always been here becoming the Man who is the perfect manifestation of the Ineffable THROUGH us and BY us. When you look in the mirror, you don't see the Ineffable, you think. He is now the womb-man you see. Horribly human, and divine -- the Ineffable! The Messiah is Eil, the Almighty, the Ineffable, the Most High God. And he is us. We just have a really hard time understanding how each of us is all of Him. When it comes to surrendering all of ourselves to him, why not?

Regarding your project to get healed, I have heard and read several times and places that we should not tell others about what we are doing, lest they discourage us. That doesn't make any sense. We don't listen to them anyway, so why should we care if they know? And Jesus said wherever two or more are gathered in his nature, there he would be also. In 1975, when neither Lynn Travis nor I would respond to my mother's prayers for us, she called the Trinity Broadcast Network's prayer line. They prayed for us with her and prayed again for us during their corporate prayer time. Lynn was surprisingly healed of a painful migraine, and I was delivered of a deceiving spirit, revealing to both of us the power of Jesus Christ. We were both saved in short order. With all that you are doing, you might want to have a number of people praying with you and for you. Of course we can be healed at any time, but healings most frequently happen in meetings, crusades and evangelistic campaigns, don't they? I know you have been that route, but try asking friends, neighbors, church members, prayer networks to pray with who you are NOW. You are a lot more knowledgeable and equipped than you were as a kid. You have got a sword now, and are ready to play with the big kids! "With everyone praying for her, DeBorah takes her sword and makes her stand!"

Dan
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Tonight while I was reading my metaphysical science book I received a notification that there was a new video from some Channel that I follow on YouTube. The video is entitled, "God is healing you now."

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

All signs are that God is listening and active in cultivating the awareness and attitude in you to heal the whole you. The physical interests us, but the whole interests him. You think you have been the one asking the question, 'What am I missing to become a whole package'? God has been the one guiding you. When I was in the meditation where I encountered the deceiving spirit which was misleading me, I realized that God/Jesus had been leading him to lead me, and he didn't know it. He was my ignorance, and was used as God's tool to form me. God's plan was to get me trained to be able to cast self-control/lordship out of myself in order to find true submission. He, God, wasn't concerned about the "demon" at all. Not at all. Taking me from him was like taking candy from a baby. When that talent became cultivated, poof, I was gone, harvested from that ignorance. God had been very patient for the ability he desired in me to be formed. When it was, he led me to salvation like you steer a child by turning its head.

I have been healed, and I have seen healings, and I believe the testimonies of healing I have heard. In God's eyes', which are on the End, you WERE healed. Soon, you will be giving your testimony. Does your husband have a place to take you dancing? If you still have a church, I am sure they will be glad to play you a slow one.

Dan

DeBorah is in the Right Dispensation for Healing

Dan,

Even as I type the question I realize you are not concerned, but there is something that I do not understand about one of your posts that I was afraid to ask, what is a charismatic slant? The group Eruption is amazing . You have a great sense of humor. That was the time of really good music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxDEjyfBdE

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

One of the big things in the study of theology is dispensations. You might think of a dispensation as the organization of a household, how the homeowner runs it. Supposedly Adam and Eve enjoyed a dispensation wherein they could do anything in innocence, naked and unashamed. After the fall, it was different. But there was no law given, so that was one dispensation; and again, after the law was given, the household was run differently. Jesus died for our sins, supposedly during his advent, and accepting/joining him we move into still another dispensation.

Mainline denominations believe that after the Apostles died, the gifts of ministry, the "Charismata," that were given to them to establish the church were gone. The church was established, and people are now saved by believing the testimony with faith. I.e., there is no healing, no tongues, no prophecy, no words of wisdom, and quite literally for them, no knowledge. These were all done away with "when that which is perfect is come," the Bible. Any display of the gifts now, "Because we don't have them operating in our lives, and we are the righteous, they must be from the Devil!" Hence, anyone who get saved in their churches is kicked out.

People do get saved, of course, filled with the Holy Spirit (the consciousness of God) and healed and prophesy and receive words of wisdom and knowledge. The Charismata are alive and well in the Bible believing church. We are still in the dispensation of Jesus Christ present and actively establishing the church. THAT is the "Chasimatic slant": Christ is not hid away in Heaven leaving us to be faithful to belief of the Bible's testimony for salvation; he is with us and in us actively conforming us to his image. This dream is an ongoing miracle moment by moment. Here is my favorite passage from Frank C. Laubach's Open Windows, Swinging Doors (written in 1930):

"Do you not see that God is trying experiments with human lives? That is why there are so many of them. He has one billion, seven hundred million experiments going on around the world at this moment.

"And His question is, 'How far will this man and that woman allow Me to carry this hour. It can be as wonderful as any hour that any human being has ever lived. For I who am reaching out toward divine sons have not become satisfied yet.

"'How fully can you surrender and not be afraid?'

"This Sunday afternoon at three o'clock He was asking it of us all. I do not know what the rest of you said, but as for me I answered:

"'Fill my mind with Thy mind to the last crevice. Catch me up in Thine arms and make this hour as terribly glorious as any human being ever lived, if Thou wilt.

"And, God, I scarce can see how one could live if his heart held more than mine has held from Thee these past two hours.'

"Will they last? Ah, that is the question I must not ask. I shall just live in this hour on until it is full, then step into the next hour. Neither tomorrow matters, nor yesterday. Every now is an eternity if it is full of God."

I consider Dr. Frank C. Laubach to be my pastor. I never met him, but I have never loved a man (non-family member) more.

PS: I expect you to be jumping like Precious Davis, the girl in Eruption: You've got a one way ticket to the Truth.

Dan
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A Breakthrough in Attitude May Lead to a Return to Youth, Vigor

Dan,

I had a breakthrough yesterday.

This is a page from a book that I am writing and this particular excerpt is from a breakthrough that I had yesterday.

This is the story that I thought that I would never write. I didn't ever think that I would come to full acceptance of the fact that I am currently experiencing a disability. I still don't think that is a good idea to put negative things after the words I am because I feel is this it's an experience that I am having but I don't want to put the word disabled after the words I am because that isn't who I am. During the course of writing this book I finally felt total acceptance regarding my current experience. Yesterday I had a Reiki level 2 class and it was very intense. We meditated, I learned my lessons and did everything that I was supposed to do to achieve Reiki level 2. When the class was over, I had dinner with my husband then he began to clean up the room and wash dishes.
Then it was time for me to go back and get ready for bed. Upon arriving at my bedroom door (yes it was that dramatic) overwhelming questions kept going through my head. And one question was, how do I feel whole consistently when there is still another part of me that keeps telling me that I should just accept where I am and forget about everything else? My problem with accepting is that I thought that somehow it would completely render me totally and unequivocally lazy. That was my fear.

My husband and I engaged in the lengthiest conversation about acceptance and loving myself and being who I am without giving in to my current experience. I am so motivated by the feeling of acceptance and not fighting against my current experience that I totally just released all of the remaining vestiges of negativity that I had toward's the word 'disabled'. If you've been reading the book earlier on I wrote about how this is an experience that I am having, and yes, society labels me in the category of disabled, or women, or black, but none of those labels are who I am. I am one with God made in the image and likeness of God and everything that God made is good that is who I am. What this body is experiencing which is paralysis or the medical term is spinal cord injury doesn't define who I am on the inside. This experience doesn't define my thoughts unless I allow it to define my thoughts. This disability doesn't define my beliefs unless I allow it to define my beliefs.

Even as I am writing this I realize that the word disabled isn't negative; it's just an adjective that describes my physical condition. I am the one who decided that to say I was disabled or a person with a disability was somehow negative and I can't even begin to tell you how I came to view it as negative. Disabled isn't a negative word, it was my thinking about myself that caused me to put it in its own category the same as society putting me into a category. Right at this very moment I have never felt more free, free from my own prison designed by my mind and my thinking. I hope this helps someone to realize that they do not have to wait until they become perfect not even in their own eyes before they can begin their journey of being doing having the kind of experiences that they want to experience in their life.
I AM alright. I AM #SpiritualAffirmation

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Neville encountered a number of people who had "passed," i.e., died, who had been restored as essentially the same persons in other lives "about twenty years old." It became a doctrine with him that when a person dies, he or she is immediately restored to another life in a physical/terrestrial existence as a person about twenty years old. This really puzzled me -- where's kids? I was a kid. There are kids. How can we all be restored here or anywhere starting as a twenty year old? (This isn't our first dance here.)

Well, now I am sixty-six, and I find that I am still about twenty years old inside. I remember being a kid, and the 'me' inside of me was about twenty years old when I was a kid, too. I was just dumber. But the essential 'me', this imagination perspective experiencer, is always that same dumb kid, hopefully a little bit smarter now (my wife would disagree). Yes, we have bodies, our "spouse" for better or for worse, but the inner consciousness is present almost as a victim of circumstance. "What am I doing here?"

You might want to pray for your body as another entity altogether. It is the one suffering, and it can't argue with societal labels like you can. May I suggest you pray for it to be restored as Sarah was restored "returned" to Abraham? I am going to cut-and-paste the story from Alexander's translation of Genesis from the ancient Aramaic (http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/genesis_17-20.html):

Genesis 17

1. And Abram reached the age of ninety-nine and the Lord revealed Himself to Abram and said to him, "I am* the Eil, the Almighty.* Worship before me and be without fault.
2. "And I shall make my covenant* between me and for you, and I shall enrich you exceedingly."*
15. And God said to Abraham, "Sarai, your wife, her name shall not be called Sarai, because her name is Sarah.
16. "And I bless her and also I shall give you a son from her, and I shall bless him and he shall be the progenitor of nations, and kings of the nations shall be from him."
17. And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and he said in his heart, "After a hundred years a son is born? And Sarah, after ninety years will bear a child?"
19. And God said to Abraham, "Truly, your wife Sarah will give birth to a child for you, and you shall call him Isaac, and I shall make my covenant* with him to [the end of] the universe, and with his offspring after him.
21. "And my covenant I shall make with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear for you, in this lifetime,* in another year."
1. And the Lord revealed Himself to him while he was at the Chestnut of Mamre, as he sat in the entrance of his abode, when the Day became hot. (And you were out taking in the sun.)
9. And they said to him, "Where is that Sarah, your wife?" And he said, "Behold, here at home."
10. And he told him. "She will truly return to you,* as she is alive in this season, and Sarah your wife shall conceive a son," and Sarah was listening at the door of the abode, she was behind it.
11. Abraham and Sarah were old and aged in years,* and Sarah was beyond the age of child bearing women.*
12. And Sarah laughed in her heart and said, "After being all worn out, I will become young again, but will my husband remain an old man?"*
13. And the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Truly, could I bear a child in my old age?'
14. "Is that too great a feat for the Lord? That she return to you in this season revitalized* and a son is born to your wife Sarah?"
15. And Sarah blasphemed and said, "I did not laugh,* it is because I was scared;" and He said, "Do not laugh henceforth."

Sarah was made young again, so young and supple that Abimelech, king of Gadar, sought her for his own wife.

Genesis 20

1. Abraham had taken off from there and moved to the Southland and had settled as a result of his victory in Beth-Gadar. And so Abraham had lived in Gadar.
2. And Abraham had said regarding Sarah, "She is my sister." Abimelech, the king of Gadar, had sent for Sarah to be fetched.

Abimelech did not send for a ninety-year-old hag; he sent for a young, twenty-something babe. Your spinal cord can be made a babe again. Send for her.

Dan

What Abdullah Would Have Said to DeBorah

Dan,

LOA is in the Bible, and yes, it is a little weird that they give all the credit to a law that was created by God.

So...in your humble opinion, if someone hasn't realized their healing, what is it that they're not doing right? Because I have run out of ideas.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Honestly, I think the problem may be the trying to do. It isn't that you are wrong -- we are all wrong. I think it is a matter of just accepting -- accepting him and his doing it. There is a difficult frame of mind to achieve, one of abandonment and abdication, release of all self-control and self-lordship. It is one thing to acknowledge God's kingdom and submit to it mentally, and another to cast all self-influence out of oneself to complete and utter submission. I am not sure all that is necessary to obtain healing, but it is what I found when I was unaccepted by God and needed acceptance. I found a release of my "self," and He caught me, accepted me. You might try, "Okay, I do that."

Dan
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Dan

The painful truth is that you're absolutely right, I just don't seem to be able to convince myself. I mean, I express gratitude, I am grateful and thankful for all that I'm experiencing in one minute, but then when I wake up see another skin eruption, feel more pain in my arm, spasms in my leg -- it just doesn't feel as if it's ever going to happen.

It is almost impossible to not see the facts that are before my very face every time someone picks me up and puts me in the power wheelchair that I have to use. It just should not be this hard to connect with something is inside of me. My husband seems to think that I need to accept what has happened with gratitude, and for the first time last night I think that I have accepted this situation without feeling immense depression and wanting to die. I still find it pretty morbid that this is how God wanted to experience this life.

I am pretty much the epitome of James 1:8, "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." Well, it's time for my morning smoothie -- blackberry, spinach, and apple today. Sounds yummy. Sometimes I wonder if you ask yourself how did this person lined up on my blog? Thank you for the Forum link. It was pretty interesting. I always find it weird when it we exclude people based on gender or for any other reason.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

I am glad you are giving me time on this. Your report tells me that you are making a lot of progress. You might not see it, but I do. I apologize, I just now found The Journey you sent me. I don't usually get attachments and had missed it. Very good composition.

A little about myself: I am 66 going on 67, was saved 41 years ago today at the House of Praise in Kaimuki, Hawaii. I went forward to confess Jesus Christ because I had just witnessed his action. I saw him, as it were, in the display of his power, and the Bible was the only explanation I knew of him, so I went forward to accept him. It took me awhile to get accepted by him. I soon found myself at the Melodyland School of Theology in Anaheim, California. Veterans' benefits paid my way. Most of the professors were former mainline denomination pastors who had been tried and defrocked for the crime of believing the Bible too-much and getting baptized in the Holy Spirit. Yes, it in a crime in most churches -- get saved and you are out!

So I learned the Bible from a Charismatic slant and, fortunately, learned how to read books for what they actually say. This was confusing as I had a Pentecostal background, Charismatic teachers, enough grasp of Greek to parse what the authors were talking about . . . and a Bible and church that had nothing to do with the real world I was in. I'm like, Hey, guys, there is someone here who need to be prayed for and you are talking about getting saved again. Hello?

In my interest in eschatology I happened upon Resurrection by Neville at a used book store. Ah, someone who saw the real world. I could never understand the mechanism of people getting saved by confessing an idea. You believe this so you are forgiven everything, yet this other, better person who hasn't even heard the idea spends eternity in punishment? Neville reconfirmed my idea that salvation is the provision of everything we need to be complete. Forgiveness covers all the guilt, but there is still a lot we need to get in our becoming what God wants us to be. That is why God wanted to experience this life you have -- how could he redeem it if he didn't experience it?

It doesn't all come at once. It is progressive generation: growing, maturing, aligning our character and faith with God's character and faith. I guess that is why Abdullah, when Neville desired to go to Barbados, said, "You are in Barbados!" "I am in Barbados?" "Yes, you are in Barbados, and you went there first class!"

What would Abdullah have said to you? "You are standing on the porch taking in the sun." "I am standing on the porch taking in the sun?" "Yes, you are standing on the porch taking in the sun, and you walked there yourself!"

"Ab, it has been a month, and I don't feel any closer to walking to the porch to stand taking in the sun than I did a month ago." He wouldn't have heard you. "You are standing on the porch! You cannot speak about how you are going to get to the porch when you are already standing on the porch. And you walked there yourself!"

There are different kinds of healing. Laying on hands is fine. God doesn't need it, but it is good. T. L. Osborn preached Jesus. Kathryn Kuhlman loved the Holy Spirit, the woman fallen from the swing repaired the past, the man who lost use of his legs imagined playing polo and hiking the Alps with his friends. I held still to watch my fingertips move out a half-inch. Your injured spinal cord probably just needs a bit of alignment and reconnection. Nothing is too hard for YHWH, God's power to save.

May I suggest that you be vividly conscious of being on the porch, of standing there taking in the sun, having walked there because you were healed, and all your skin eruptions, spasms and pains are remote memory. When you see them till then, think of them as flat, two-dimensional memories. "Oh, yeah, I used to have you. But I don't have you anymore, because I am healed and standing on the porch taking in the sun!" I hope the light doesn't keep you awake at night.

Dan

DeBorah and Simon Peter

Dan,

Thanks for clearing up and helping me understand the whole Black Irish situation, because I'd never heard that before now. No idea about what you're helping me to understand regarding the Bible. It is very disappointing because that means I have pretty much wasted time on all of the different versions of the Bible I have read as well as the eight to ten different denominations I have tried wow. Right now I just feel overwhelmed and confused, but in a good way I think.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

You are doing fine. All that reading and studying stoked your mind full of scriptures that will make more sense when they come to remembrance. There will be a lot of "Ah-ha." I was in seminary and church for nearly forty years before caught on to what God meant when he showed me how I became this man. I thought I was a man who was thinking. I realize now that I was God's thinking that became a man.

God is an intelligence. We are bits of that same intelligence without division from the whole. The church says we are wholly other than God. God says we wholly are God. We are here to fulfill the scriptures. We fulfill them by learning to be the man. The man is the manifestation of all God's attributes and characteristics. This is the "high calling." Big characteristics are faith, hope and love. My wife and I were reading 1st Corinthians 13 today (she uses it to point out my shortcomings). We don't see clearly now, but when that which is perfect has come -- when we have become the Man -- we shall know as we are known.

This is from "The Twelve Disciples" (http://realneville.com/txt/the_twelve_disciples.htm)

"The first quality to be called and disciplined is Simon or the attribute of hearing. This faculty, when lifted to the level of a disciple, permits only such impressions to reach consciousness as those which his hearing has commanded him to let enter. No matter what the wisdom of man might suggest or the evidence of his senses convey, if such suggestions and ideas are not in keeping with that which he hears, he remains unmoved. This one has been instructed by his Lord and made to understand that every suggestion he permits to pass his gate will, on reaching his Lord and Master (his consciousness), leave its impression there, which impression must in time become an expression.

"The instruction to Simon is that he should permit only dignified and honorable visitors or impressions to enter the house (consciousness) of his Lord. No mistake can be covered up or hidden from his Master, for every expression of life tells his Lord whom he consciously or unconsciously entertained.

"When Simon by his works proves himself to be a true and faithful disciple, then he receives the surname of Peter or the rock, the unmoved disciple, the one who cannot be bribed or coerced by any visitor. He is called by his Lord Simon Peter, the one who faithfully hears the commands of his Lord and besides which commands he hears not.

"It is this Simon Peter who discovers the I AM to be Christ, and for his discovery is given the keys to heaven, and is made the foundation stone upon which the Temple of God rests. Buildings must have firm foundations and only the disciplined hearing can, on learning that the I AM is Christ, remain firm and unmoved in the knowledge that I AM Christ and beside ME there is no savior."

The scriptures we have in faulty Bibles are not that far off. Mostly it has been our misreading what they do say that has confused us. You have seen those switch arms in railroad tracks? At that point the train can go onto either track. At the beginning of our Bibles we were going onto one set of tracks -- God was separate, created the physical universe, Devil deceived us, a lone man was going to come to save us, you get heaven or hell. Switch at the beginning to the other track -- God is the Ineffable's imagining, he has a plan to become fully manifest, he dives into this sphere becoming us becoming his manifestation. On track one we are to overcome the powerful archangel Devil and his hoards of demons. On track two we overcome our amnesia-caused ignorance and its bothersome thoughts and influences. Track one doesn't really exist, so let's switch to track two!

Come on, Lord, it is time for DeBorah to get up and get to work. Let's get her up!

DeBorah: The Missing Man -- Almost Everyone is Dealing With a Faulty Bible!

DeBorah,

I will tell you first as you were kind enough to ask. Almost everyone is dealing with a faulty Bible. That is why their lives are horribly screwed up. The Bible as almost everyone has it is not telling the truth. The translation from the ancient Aramaic in noticeably different. God did not create the physical world in six days. He created the plan for its completion. Note chapter two: after the "creation" of the world in chapter one, there was nothing there yet. God had created a man in the plan of chapter one. In chapter two he has that planned man bringing forth the physical world. In Genesis 1: 2, it says that the earth was "for him and by him." For and by whom? For and by the planned man --- the Man in his imagination.

In Exodus, Moses was perplexed by Jethro. Jethro means 'his jutting or his excellence." This is the ongoing causation of the world. Zipporah means "a little chirping bird"; i.e., it was driving him nuts. He wanted to understand it. In Exodus chapter three, God showed Moses the man, the force of his (God's) causation. THAT is the "holy ground" Moses was instructed to de-mediate: "Get a good feel for this truth." Moses asked, "What is your name?" 'Name' means nature. That is, what is the nature of God and this man together? God said, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh." "I come, Ashur, as his becoming" (Exodus 3: 14; sorry, there is no "I AM THAT I AM" in the real Bible).

The man intended in the plan of Genesis chapter 1 is not going to be complete until the end. But the planned man is complete in the mind of the Father. The mind of the Father is 'Ashur' in ancient Aramaic. He knows what he is going to complete.

For the planned man to become the completed man, he had to deviate into the experience we are having; i.e., he became us. We are being generated into the End Man's character, the nature the Father intended for him from the beginning. We are him . . . becoming him.

THAT is the important thing: EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO BE PROVIDED FOR THE END MAN TO BE COMPLETE -- FROM US TO HIM -- HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY GOD. The man is our salvation -- the provision of everything. There is not anything that can happen that will keep us from becoming the man God intended and created as his goal in the Paradise.

The "man" is a force. It is the Life-giving, Living Branch or emanation of the Father. This is the mature Manifestation of God. When Jacob was in trouble (Genesis, chapter 32), in fear for his life, he clung onto the man! The man in the mind of the Father MUST become the end man, and everything between ignorant us and that man HAS TO BE PROVIDED. This is Exodus 3: 14 again: God has become us becoming the man.

I hope this isn't too complicated. Him, his, man -- it is about an organic whole: we are becoming ripe -- the ripeness, the maturity intended. The man or force intended is always in the mind of the Father. We are growing into the man and shall be the completed man. Jacob said to the man, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." And he was healed: "I see your face is the face of the angel in my vision" (Genesis 33: 10). He has got to make you him. Believe you receive.

Keep hanging on.

By the way, it occurs to me that after you are healed, people will not necessarily be impressed. They didn't see it, and you look fine. "You were a quadriplegic for 25 years? And now you can walk? Good for you. So what else is new?" You might as well just wake up in the morning and get up -- walking -- like any other day and get going on what you need to do. If you can get up, just accept it. Yes, be thankful and grateful, but just accept it.

Dan Steele
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Dan,

So is everyone, including myself and Neville Goddard, dealing with faulty Bible? Or do you know when you are dealing with one? How do you take God for his word if every Bible is faulty? And I have a sneaking suspicion that you are correct that when and if my healing takes place that no one will be impressed. So I will move on and find a job and just be happy that now I can live freely and do things when I choose to do them and I no longer have to be a drain husband and family. Well not exactly a drain, but it is not an easy load!

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Yes, the only real and accurate Bible is the revelation we receive. That is what guided Neville to the depths he plumbed and heights he achieved (and me as I researched what God has said to man). The scrolls of the Torah in the Jewish synagogues have numerous notes of their editing in their margins which were not considered when translated. The translators didn't really speak the languages they translated and, according to Victor Alexander, they made mistakes of translation in almost every sentence.

Sometimes it is an error or perception. God revealed to me that I am his spirit seeing what I see. The interpreters were influenced by their perception that we, "creation," are separate. And so their sentence structures supported their ideas. Reading the Bible with the correct perception helps one restructure the words to what they really meant. That perception is what my recent posts have been about, except for my daughter being Irish. 'Tis lucky to be Irish. ----- is a good, black Irish name.

Dan
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Dan,

I wasn't aware that Irish names came in different colors, but okay. That's my husband's chosen name when his father converted to Islam. And thank you for further clarification talking to you I end up feeling so much better not feeling that I have wasted so many years of my life reading the Bible which may or may not be correct as I have read three or four different versions.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Maybe you are not familiar with the joke about black Irish. Celtic Irish are of course white. After the civil war, many of the freed blacks took Irish surnames. So they are colored but with names like O'Leary and McMurphy. "That's funny, you don't look Irish." "I'm black Irish."

More on theology, if you do not mind. The Bible is completely misread. In Exodus chapter three, Moses discovered that we are God becoming the perfect man. THAT is what the Bible is about. The church theologians misread "I am becoming him" as "I AM THAT I AM." I.e., that he is great and wonderful, eternal self-existence, and we are NOT. Moses' point was that we ARE. And that is the lesson in Genesis: the earth was completed in all its evolution, and we are God going through that evolution unto his perfect manifestation.

The church doesn't even believe that man can become perfect, because they think we live once and are judged at death. We go to either of two eternal existences. This is so grossly absurd that the Catholics created Purgatory for those who weren't that bad. The Bible does not say that we live only once, but that we die only once. That was when God's idea of his perfect manifestation moved into the action of becoming it. He "died" once to become it, and we are his action in becoming it. That Life-giving, living force of God that we shall become in the end is what the Bible calls Jesus Christ. It is a force, the perfect manifestation of God working in us NOW, not a man who shall return from far away to sit on a chair judging the world. When that which is perfect shall come, the little bits we work with now shall fall away because they are so surpassed: we shall know as we are known.

Please visit v-a.com/bible/ and let me know if you can get into the supporters' page where Alexander's translations are available online. I know I can get into it because I am a supporter. If you can, click on Mark and read a bit of the first chapter. You will see in the notes that "Jesus Christ" is a force that is known through revelation. It provides everything we need to become it. THAT is the promise of salvation in the scripture: "On the Mount, it shall be provided!" (Genesis 22: 14). The "mount" is your skull. The perfection is in our minds. Faith is confidence.

I don't blame your father-in-law for converting to Islam. They, unfortunately, think that what our theologians say is what the Bible actually means. They -- Christians, Jews, and Muslims -- are all wrong. You got whacked (in your accident) by compulsion . . . to bring you to enlightenment. Welcome home.

Dan Steele
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Malachi 3: 10: Knowing God and the Law of Attaction Denial: a Letter to DeBorah

DeBorah,

I look upon the Law of Attraction advocates with sadness. They prove God by imagining, but they do not honor him. They say, "It is just my mental 'vibe'."

This reminds me of Malachi 3: 10, which is horribly mistranslated. Every church, minister, priest, pastor and evangelist says that God challenges us to prove him. "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith." Oh, how they love that verse! Can't go a Sabbath without it. But the original said that the Jews DID bring their tithes into the storehouse proving God, BUT THEN DID NOT HONOR HIM AS GOD! You only get this from Alexander's translation of the ancient Aramaic, the original scribal language (http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/malachi_3.html).

God wasn't saying to test him to see if he is there or test to see if he keeps his promises. He was saying, "You test my patience. If I am a Father to you, your providing master, where is my honor?!" (see chapter one). The Jews of Malachi's era proved God and then went to honor idols and the gods in the heavens. The LOA people prove God by reaping the benefits of mental creation and God's manifestation ("If it works, you have found Him" -- Neville), and then attribute their bounty to the attraction factor of their higher mental vibrations. They do not know, and do not want to know, God.

I think I heard you say that you have a loving husband and mother. You have people sticking to you after all this? A loving and supportive family? That is God's love to you. See them as a 'word' of God's love for you: "I AM HERE." If he wasn't, they wouldn't. Be thankful for this: you know God, and he knows you. By the way, my hat's off to your faithful husband. He is amazing.

Another thing if I may, EVERYTHING was created at the beginning. That is part of the original creation in the Ineffable's mind in Genesis 1. The end and everything necessary to attain to it was created in his mind, where it resides today. Nothing more is created, it just comes forth into awareness. So also your healing. The ineffable imagines you complete and whole as his perfect and final manifestation of wisdom and power. You do not need to get it -- it isn't coming from somewhere. You only need to become aware of it. If HE imagines you whole, you are. Imagine you received, and dance lightly on the floor (there are people downstairs).

Dan
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Dan,

LOA is in the Bible, and yes it is a little weird that they give all the credit to a law that was created by God. So...
in your humble opinion, if someone hasn't realized their healing, what is it that they're not doing right? Because I have run out of ideas.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Honestly, I think the problem may be the trying to do. It isn't that you are wrong -- we are all wrong. I think it is a matter of just accepting -- accepting him and his doing it. There is a difficult frame of mind to achieve, one of abandonment and abdication, release of all self-control and self-lordship. It is one thing to acknowledge God's kingdom and submit to it mentally, and another to cast all self-influence out of oneself to complete and utter submission. I am not sure all that is necessary to obtain healing, but it is what I found when I was unaccepted by God and needed to be accepted. I found a release of my "self," and He caught me, accepted me. You might try, "Okay, I do that."

Another thing, as I was figuring which e-mails still needed to be posted, I caught your words in one already posted: "when and if my healing takes place." If? You cannot be believing with an if. I do not mean to criticize or hurt, but where is the confidence of faith in "if"? You need to place your imagining past even "when it takes place." In your mind it needs to be "it TOOK place." You stand and walk and do everything you want because you GOT healed YESTERDAY. Ain't no ifs, ands, or buts about it! Your healing is old hat. Now your mother calls you to breakfast, "DeBorah, honey, it's time to get up." And you do.

Dan

Faulty Scriptures and a False God: How Western Theology Got So Far Afield From the Oneness of Early Judaism and Christianity, and the Interesting Twist in "Paganism"

An unknown man wrote the Pentateuch as Moses because it was revealed to him that God is one and becoming all existence AS that one. The Hindu Vedas and Upanishads shared this view. But not everyone was on board. A great many people believed that there were many gods, that the gods were arranged in councils and hierarchies, and that certain gods had precedence over others.

One of these arrangements was the gods of the zodiac, the "Living Creatures" depicted by the constellations. Thousands of years ago, come springtime -- the beginning of life and resurrection from the "death" of winter -- the earth was ruled by the bull of the constellation Taurus. Hence golden calves, gods with bulls' heads, the master Ba'al, etc. This was all very neatly documented in the religions of astrological worship. But the very slow progression of the wobble of the earth's axis escaped the notice of the religionists, and over a period of about two thousand years the prevalent constellation at spring had become Aries.

"Wait. Say what?" Hipparchus said in 128 B.C. when he noticed that Taurus had been removed from its position of power and Aries had taken its place. He looked at his Idolater's bible, "Taurus rules spring." He looked at the stars, "Nope, it ain't there no more. SOMEONE HAS TAKEN THE BULL'S POWER AWAY FROM HIM!"

This had to be a really big god, a god outside the box, a super-duper Super God powerful enough to move the constellations and "slay" the bull. Hipparchus attributed this to Mithra. I don't know why, but he did, and the religion of Mithraism was born faster than you can say, "L. Ron Hubbard."

Also in that span of time from Moses to Hipparchus, the Jewish priests had been whittling away at notions of oneness in their scriptures. "He has become us to become his manifestation? Then everyone IS him! He is too great for that. And what will people pay us for if they find out that they are him and create their own worlds?" So the priests scrubbed the scriptures of references to oneness and anthropomorphisms that suggested that God has a literal body like, for instance, yours. The truth was hid away in the margins of the scrolls and the common man never heard but about "the Great I AM THAT I AM," the SEPARATE GOD who does not exist.

What the priests created was the perception of a super-duper Super God who stood above and separate from all creation. "Hey," the Mithra worshipers said when they heard about the God of Jesus, "That's our guy." So when the church spread into Europe, the Mithra organization took it over. They took the falsified, dualistic scriptures of the Jews without regard for the margin notes and, without really knowing the source language, MIStranslated the scriptures according to their own conceptual prejudices. Hence, the non-mystical Jews and Western Christians worship a dualistic God apart from themselves who does not exist. Call upon him as you might, he isn't there.

The church assures us the the Bible is infallible and inerrant in the original. Well, duh. Unfortunately, the scriptures they translate are not the original and the translations they make are not true even to these adulterated versions. Yes, I know about the Isaiah scroll. That is one book of inspired poetry, which even if unchanged is difficult to understand if you do not know the man we are nor the man we are becoming.

Ref. David Ulansey: http://www.mysterium.com/mithras.html

Interestingly, some people in that period of time caught on that Moses was talking about the power and wisdom of God being our salvation. The Greek name: Jesus Christ. These people came up with all sorts of explanations of how the power and the wisdom worked, but they perceived that the heart of the matter was the oneness of God

By the way, I still use the King James Version Companion Bible. But as one knows the King James is full of errors, he reads it lightly. I constantly self-correct to understanding it according to Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic and listen for the suggestions and insights from the Holy Spirit who gave the original. 'Taint a better teacher.

Isaiah 6: Dissatisfaction and the Train that "Fills" the Temple

Neville Goddard said the world is the appeasement of hunger. We are dissatisfied, so we imagine something better: "I will do this," or "I will do that." We imagine change. What we have received of the Lord's strength hitherto (the death of Uzziah) has died of its power to satisfy. We want something more, something different, something better.

It was the floor plan of the building, its design, that was the "temple" of God. It was the design of a man: THE Man. YHWH was high and lifted up in the temple, exalted as the Man in the mind of the Ineffable, and the train of his robes covered the temple. Robes that cover? That is all we may imagine in our dissatisfaction on the way to becoming him! We certainly are not going to become the Perfect Manifestation of the Ineffable Most High God, the Source of all, the End-Man in one fell swoop. It is more than an all-day project. Everything in his "robes" is good, right, and holy toward that final goal. It is the sea of good and acceptable possibilities.

When we face adversity, affliction, and futility, it makes us hungry. Hungry for better. This is not our hunger; it is the Ineffable's hunger -- hunger to attain to Its perfect and complete manifestation: "Come on. Let's GO!" He appeases his hunger with our imagining of good potentials. Although everything short of the ultimate goal is sin -- missing the mark (unclean "lips," for it is by the imagination that we "speak.") -- God says, "That's okay, just keep reaching upward toward the perfection that is your destiny to fulfill. You will get there eventually, and I by you." Think nobility, goodness, right, benevolence, patience, love.

Which reminds me of the vav (waw) in YHWH and the faith of the mustard seed. I personally believe that YHWH is not pointed or spoken because it is not a word. I know it means "his becoming," but I think that is a necessary consequence of its inner meaning. 'Y' is the Life-force of the Ineffable, 'H' his desire to manifest, 'W' his power to transcend from intelligence/thought into being, and 'H' his being what he thought (hello, that would be us). Put them all together and they spell "his becoming." "When it works (when you imagine what you want, and receive it), you have found Him" (Neville Goddard; parenthesis mine).

This is like the faith of the little mustard seed. It is not that the seed has little faith yet prevails to become big; it is that the little seed BELIEVES/IMAGINES IT IS A MUSTARD and a mustard is a big plant.

There is a vertical transcendence by which the Ineffable intends manifestation in this horizontal plane. We are wondering all over the place in our ignorance, imagining things amiss. Vav, the power of the intelligence to become what it imagines, is the nail or peg which attaches our being to the manifesting power of the Almighty. Believe a good thing, for faith will rock your world!

Healing in Jacob's Dark Night, Genesis 32: 24-32 and 33: 10

I didn't see this until I got involved with DeBorah's effort to get healed. There is a perfect man that the Ineffable intends for Its manifestation. The Ineffable has imagined what that perfect manifestation shall be, so the "Man" exists in the imagination of the Ineffable now.

The manifestation of that Man is contingent upon our growing up into him. In Exodus 3 the Ineffable revealed to Moses that he (the Ineffable) is that (his imagining which has become us) which is becoming the Man. We are the Ineffable becoming the Man he imagines by our imagining. There is no division between God and man: our imagining is his imagining.

We appear here to become the Man we are in potential. The balance of what it takes for us to become him is our "salvation." EVERYTHING REQUIRED TO BECOME THE MAN IS/HAS BEEN PROVIDED: Genesis 22: 14: "In the Mount of YHWH (the imagination) it shall be provided." Whether you are tall or short, rich or poor, purple or green, human or alien, whole or halt, every possibility of being on the way to becoming the Man shall be filled until all is the Man intended by the Ineffable.

Jacob is our imagination, the God who become us by forgetting itself to human existence to generate the freedom of the Ineffable. Jacob can go where the flesh cannot. Imagining can go to Laban, the Glory of God, and learn of his nature and develop his characteristics: "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands" (Genesis 32: 10). The two bands were the maturity Jacob had gained in learning of the Power and the Glory of God.

Healing in the passage: "Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him" (Genesis 32: 11). Esau is our flesh. It cannot go where the imagination goes, BUT IS SUBJECT TO IT. The Angel of YHWH is the Ineffable's idea of the perfect Man we shall be -- his intention for us. Get this: IT IS GOOD. Salvation toward the fulfillment of that goal shall always be good. Jacob, our imagination, in the stress of its situation grasped onto this basic faith that God's intention for us is for good, to improvement and wholeness. In Genesis 32: 24, Jacob did not wrestle with 'a' man, he wrestled with THE Man -- the good intention the Ineffable has for us. "I will not let you go unless you bless me!" I.e., "Move me on up! I know you intend good for me, I know your Glory and Power, and I want it NOW!"

And God said, "Okay. You have prevailed: now I rule in you!" THAT is what the Ineffable is after, to rule in us and through us unto his becoming his perfect manifestation. Jacob's body, his "brother," was healed: "Now I have seen that your face is the face of the angel I have seen in my vision" (Genesis 33: 10; Alexander). And that is good.

DeBorah: How I Removed the Block I Could Not Move

When I began to ask for the gift of tongues, nothing happened. I asked more earnestly. Nothing happened. I gave God more of me: my body, my mind, my future. Nothing happened. After some time, it dawned on me that God rejected me. Where could I turn? How could I make myself acceptable? I hadn't a clue and began to cry.

My searching mind entered a trance. In my mind's eye I saw what appeared to be a trail in a wash, a river bed. As the trail proceeded a wall raised up on the side, and it got higher as I went along the trail. Then the trail turned into a gap in the wall. I was blocked from proceeding by huge cube -- a giant block! I could not follow the trail to how I could become acceptable.

I was at a loss. Stymied. I could not move the block; it was too heavy. I couldn't jump high enough to climb over it. I couldn't squeeze by it. I thought of backtracking to where the wall was shorter and coming back to the trail from the other side, but the trail went down a hole underneath the block. I had to get down there to become acceptable to God, yet I had no way to get there. I was cut off!

I looked for a name on the block -- what was blocking me? I couldn't find anything. It was just a impassible barrier -- the thing that made me totally unacceptable to God. He wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole. I felt lost and crushed inside. In my mind -- I don't know if I said it out loud or not -- I cried out: "Lord, I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I give it to you." I surrendered big-time. Whatever it was, it was in his hands now.

The block disappeared, and I saw the trail descending. In there I found out what had blocked me and made me totally unacceptable to God: my own self-lordship. I had been ruling over the life God had given me ('Israel' is the exact opposite: God ruling over my life). I had given myself to God as his peer. If I didn't like what he did with me, I was going to take myself back! THAT was a no-go!
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Dan,

This is powerful to read, but I'm not sure I quite understand why God rejected you. Aren't you God's peer? What exactly is going on between you and God?

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

No, I am not God's peer. I am God. There is not another, a separate God, which is what being his peer would mean. God is one and utterly rejects dualism, the concept of anything being apart from him. The whole point of the Bible is that everything is one integrated, organic whole.

Dan Steele

Conversations For DeBorah's Healing

I have become involved with a young woman's project to get healed, or perhaps I should say to find out how to heal herself. She has been a quadriplegic since 1990, when a drunk-driver caused accident damaged her spinal cord. She believes in healing, has seen enough of it and has heard enough testimonies. She has read all the causative imagination literature, but for all her praying and imagining she sits, still, in a wheelchair. Her question is, "What am I missing?"

Maybe you, dear reader, can help. If you see something I am missing or have misstated, or have an idea or perspective you would share that might help DeBorah get her legs back under her, please feel free to contribute via e-mail (imagicworldview@aol.com [yeah, I am that old]) or the comments section below. Let's get DeBorah healed!


Hello, Dan Steele,

You wrote a very interesting post about "I am that I am" in Exodus, and you mention Neville Goddard. Have you read any of his work?

DeBorah
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Hello, DeBorah,

Yes, I have read everything written by him and most of the transcripts of his lectures. I have listened to the basic 130 or so lectures available on youtube.com several times over. I was always amazed at how something new appeared in the lectures every time I listened to them. These were the impetus for many of my early posts on this site. Do you have a question?

Dan Steele
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Dan,

After spending years reading the bible, I thought God was powerful enough to heal, but traditional Christianity wasn't ANY help, and Benny Hinn isn't really healing people. NOW I have read Neville's books and lectures repeatedly since 2009 to prove that God can heal and isn't selective, but to no avail. I know so many people that serve God and read their bible daily, yet their lives are in horrible states. I left religion in 2008, and now I just want to prove that there is a God in my life without the hypocrisy of church. I just can't seem to figure out what I'm doing that isn't working.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Give me time with this, please. I am with you 100 per cent. I got into this search myself because I knew people who had been healed, myself included, and my mother died. I have been healed in that I watched my shorter arm grow out, and twice the pain in my back, once from a hyper-extended disc and once from arthritis, disappeared. Each time the method was different from the others. Charles Hunter simply asked Jesus to heal from the pulpit; elders placed their hands on my back and gave them to Jesus for him to heal me by; and most recently, I simply asked the Intelligence that is Power to heal my shoulder and neck pain. I just said in a deep appreciation of that Intelligence, "You can heal me," and the pain went away that very moment.

I wish I could bottle it. My New Testament professor said, "The Kingdom of God has to do with attitudes." The "Kingdom" of God is his Power -- the ACTION of the Ineffable's intelligence that is power. The night I asked that Intelligence to heal me, I had all of that picture in my head as one thing: the Ineffable, God (us) as Its action, his intelligence, and its power. All together as one big glob -- an organism. With recognition, acceptance, humility, and gratitude, I struck the attitude required for the action. Even if I hadn't been healed, I would have been satisfied with just knowing the truth I perceived in that moment. Healing was icing on the cake. In fact, it was Him saying, "Yes, you are correct."

Neville says to catch the mood. The mood of what you want is an inner feeling that is found, an aspect of the imagination you somehow strike like posing a dream. Have you read page 19 of The Law and the Promise, of the woman who suffered pain since childhood from falling wrong from a swing? She did not easily find the feeling of the wind in her hair and the sensations of swinging, jumping and falling correctly for her mother in her imagination, but when she did find it and repeated it over and over, she recovered.

I do not know if you can find the mood, the feeling of driving by the site of your accident with no incident, or if you can just ask the Intelligence that is Power to heal you like I did. I do know that the whole deal has to do with God's cultivation of a necessary attitude of faith within you.

I do not mean to burden you, blame you, put the onus on you, or any such thing. I am just saying that the cultivation of YOU to his likeness is so precious to God that this stuff -- our afflictions, sufferings, futility, and even our "death" -- are relatively inconsequential to him. HE WANTS HIM! That sounds harsh, but he knows that we are eternal beings (we are him, actually), and there is no real death. Our lives are just events of becoming bit by bit more like Him.

I agree with Neville, that God gave His Son once at the beginning into all this suffering. He became us that we might become more like God. Each of us are the "world" He loved so much that He gave His only begotten Son, and He is angling for attitudes like His to be formed in us. He loves his nature so, for it is the best for us. This is the "Law" that Neville talks about, the very nature of God that is to be formed in us: thinking, love, gratitude, humility, faith -- all the facets and aspects Raymond Holliwell writes about in Working With the Law.

I am glad you wrote and asked, and I hope I have not bored you. You are on the right track: surrendering yourself to Him is what it is about -- not churching and tithing and ritual. I must say, though, that getting our minds to do what we want it to is easier said than done. How nice to have God here with us, in us, and even AS us to help us get it done. Ask Him and see where His imaginings lead you.

Like I said, give me time with this. I would love to see you healed, and would love to be part of your finding the road to it (I fantasize learning myself and then living again with my mother to teach her). God Bless.

Dan Steele
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Dan,

Thank you for answering my email Dan. You're the first person that didn't just regurgitate Neville's words back to me when I asked them a question. Dr. Joseph Murphy, Reverend Ike, Emmet Fox, Ernest Holmes, are other authors that I have read, but mainly I read Neville Goddard because I feel empowered. Many events in my life have been scary as you noted. However, with the pruning shears I've lessened the severity of them during my inner conversations. Any guidance will BE greatly appreciated. Admittedly it's very difficult to realize that I am the cause of the states my life has gone through. Walking again would not only heal my body but also my mind AND set me free. I look forward to reading your reply.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

It is my pleasure to communicate with you, and I am hoping for you. You will understand that I am not always on computer and e-mail. I try to check regularly. The authors you mention are the right sphere to be seeking in. I might mention T. L. Osborn, also. There were a lot of his overseas campaigns on youtube. If you watch any of them, you can fast-forward to where he starts preaching. Always fascinating to me. You have to translate his expectation of an outside God to act to the inner man in each of us becoming aware that he or she is God. Healings are a knock on the head with a two-by-four that say, "Yes, you are God, and I am HERE!" For when it works, you have found him!

I am not very familiar with Emmet Fox because my former Christian leaders warned me against him. I take that as an endorsement now. I did read The Golden Key online, which is to forget what you want and instead lift praise and worship to God. 'Praise' is everything you know about him. You may have read my post about Janet Gunther, my friend and neighbor who gave me tuberculosis. She was having a personal time of praise and worship in her living room. In her contemplation of the wondrousness of God, she got lifted up in emotions to where she felt she was actually in heaven worshiping before Him, and the Life was present within her and flowing through her. She heard a distinct voice say, "You are healed." She went to her next checkup and yes, she was healed -- the hole in her lung was filling in with new material. She had Golden Keyed herself. And I had to take anti-tuberculosis medicine for the next half year!

Keep Him in mind. Imagine yourself dancing with Him.

Dan Steele
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Dan,

Healing from tuberculosis -- just any healing period is amazing. Sometimes I just wish I could touch people on their shoulders and they could just get up off their wheelchairs.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

You can imagine those people well, which is what you would be doing in your mind while touching their shoulders. Imagining someone else well is an outpouring of love and faith, no? I think it is a good exercise. How would they feel if they were healed? Try to feel that.

I wanted to share one other thing. It is hard to explain, but I am sure that it is there. It is an attitude or state of mind related to surrender. I receive Guideposts Magazine, and I see it in many of the stories. It is when we give up. Been praying and hoping for years to no avail, and finally just up and say, "Okay, Lord, I have been praying for this breakthrough for years and it hasn't gotten me anything. Maybe you don't want it for me. Whatever you do want for me is fine and dandy with me." And then exactly what they have been endeavoring for for years occurs. Have you seen this?

It is something of a head-knocker: "I want it, and can't get it. Then I give up on it, and you give it to me." Wanting is the Catch 22 of the spiritual realm. Neville Goddard, Joe Vitale, and several others have pointed out that what we imagine is what we generate into manifestation. If we imagine wanting (or if wanting is our imagining), we generate the manifestation of wanting. And on we go, wanting and wanting and wanting. It says to me that the nature of God includes an element of release to whatever happens. I said in a recent post that the Intelligence-that-is-Power-to-become-what-is-imagined imagined the particulate existence of the Paradise, and thus the "Big Bang." We have a universe on the way to Paradise, but most of it is wandering gases and dark energy -- particles of manifested Intelligence that are just floating in abeyance, waiting for the opportunity to become what they were manifested for. Eternity is a really long time, and the Eternal One is patient. He doesn't sweat waiting. He is reaaaally patient. But then again, he doesn't mind our saying, "'Excuse me, a little help here, please," because our becoming the Paradise is what he is after -- the mature Manifestation of his own emanation.

Yes, you are that, and you are getting close. Lord, a little help here, please.

Dan Steele
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Dan,

I have heard of people giving up and then receiving exactly what they were asking for. I have tried that on occasion. I believe I panic. I think maybe God forgot that this is what I want after 20 plus years. I don't think that God has forgotten. There's just something I'm missing. You're right about seeing people healed in my mind's eye.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Something came to mind about you and I forgot to mention it. It was to imagine yourself as an actor in a play in which you have gotten what you desire-- to pretend that you are that actor in the play. That is the perspective you are looking for: "I am that actor." And then put yourself in the play and experience and sense her vision, hearing, and feelings walking, dancing, climbing, running, kicking.

Another thing is, have you read my posts about Exodus 3: 14 and Genesis 1: 1-2? I have been hitting Exodus 3: 14 for a couple of years, and more recently realized that Genesis 1: 1-2 says the exact same thing. I only realized this because I read the translation from the ancient Aramaic (the first language of the Bible) according to a mystical Jewish manner of reading. Not everyone's cup of tea. There is a "him" mentioned in each verse -- third person singular. In Exodus 3: 14, God says the he is this third person's becoming. In Genesis 1: 2, it says that the earth was for "him" and by "him" -- the same third person. The third person is ourselves when we become mature. This is the "his excellence" (Jethro) that enchanted Moses. Moses saw our future in Exodus chapter three -- the man.

You see, God has not forgotten; he is engineering. You think that you have caused your life. You act out of compulsion. There is a state of mind, an attitude, an emotion of joy or gratitude or awe that you are seeking, and it might not include healing. It might just surpass healing in its grandeur and worth to you. Like I said, healing is just icing on the cake of revelation.

Another fellow you might not know of is Father Bede Griffiths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zYEFgrc6Lc. I think you will like him. I learned about advaita from him, "Not one, but not two."

Dan Steele
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Dan,

The idea of not healing sends me into a tailspin, and then there's everyone whose lives are put on hold having to take care of me that could be freed as well as me, which would finally give me an opportunity to live a life filled with light and fun instead of scariness.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

Sorry. I didn't want to put scariness on you. Was my poor attempt to lift your mind to a higher state: the thought of what, in your mind, could be so grand that healing would pale in comparison?

Dan Steele
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Dan,

Looking forward to your post. Maybe you can help me understand how scariness would elevate me to a higher level because I am not comprehending at the moment.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

No, 'scariness' was an association you brought in. I am hunting for a way to introduce a perspective or frame of mind that doesn't have God as a big old shiny guy with long hair sitting on a big chair on a glass sea surrounded by worshipers. There are invisible forces which create and form the world. You are, I hope, familiar with the concept of a spectrum: shine one light through a prism and it breaks into a bar of all its elements -- a display of all the ingredients it is comprised of. I imagine God in this way: I see a vertical spectrum with the Ineffable Source of everything in the spectrum at the top. Descending from the top is the Ineffable's imagining, that action of the Ineffable we call 'God.' This is consciousness of being -- not of being anything in particular, but just being -- simple awareness. Then we have awareness of intelligence, of power, of intent of the Ineffable, Man, and all the stuff/actions it takes to manifest Man.

All of the stuff in the spectrum is the Ineffable. We are among the forces that are included in making up Man, albeit we are at the bottom of the spectrum. What man shall be has already been determined, and as such already exists in the mind of God. The invisible force we call Jesus Christ is the Life-giving, Living Branch or emanation of the Ineffable. He is not a dude standing by a big guy in a chair, but is the force of the Ineffable to make us into the man, the perfect emanation of Itself. Sorry you asked?

"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever," is the invisible force that heals thousands at crusades and services and in homes as a warm greeting: "Yes, I am here." I admire your gumption to find him. I know that I am him, and you are him -- we are all the same One. And every morning I wake up saying, "I love you, Jesus." There is no distance to him. We are him on the way to becoming the manifestation of Him. The soup is not done yet.

That invisible force is in you right now. Neville likened it to a golden, liquid light in our being, in the solar plexus and brain. May I recommend that as you approach slumber you imagine the invisible force that is God -- Jesus Christ, the Life, the Ineffable -- as a light within you, and that you love it and appreciate it. It is you and you are it. And aside from that appreciation, that you imagine the day you just had as you would have spent it if you could walk and do all the things you want to do? This is kind of a big assignment: combine joy, appreciation, and purpose. And somewhere along the line, try to get up, starting with your weakest point (starting with your strongest isn't faith that you have received).

Dan Steele
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Dan,

I am glad that I asked and your answer is impeccable. Thank you for your time.

DeBorah
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Dan,

When you have time, would you please share your healing story? Especially the part about being your arm grow right before your very eyes? I would greatly appreciate appreciate the encouragement, because I think it is time for me to call God on the carpet so to speak as Reverend Ike would say.

DeBorah
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DeBorah,

I have written about it somewhere on my blog. I took a quick look for "Charles" on Blogger. I guess I have written about the experience a dozen times or so. It is one of my anchor points ("This I KNOW!").
http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/12/imaginal-is-not-imaginary-it-is-medium.html
http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/11/lets-get-you-successful-together.html
http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2015/08/write-your-own-bible.html
Enjoy and, I hope, be encouraged.

Dan Steele
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DeBorah,

I still think about what you might be missing, too.* When Charles Hunter asked everyone to compare the lengths of their limbs and asked Jesus quite directly to make them all the right length, I concentrated only on not moving whatsoever. I heard Charles praying, but I only concentrated on watching closely and not moving at all. I saw my left hand's finger tips move forward about 1/2 to 5/8's of an inch to match the right hand. I didn't feel a thing. There were several people who had significant differences on the stage (this was at the Melodyland Christian Center's Charismatic Clinic). One woman who had one leg four inches shorter than the other was standing there with 4" of her ankle sticking out of her pantsuit. She was laughing because all she wore were pantsuits and she needed a whole new wardrobe. Can't say her husband was as happy.

One thing to remember is that God will not be put into a box. I know people were healed in T. L. and Daisy Osborn's ministry. Fascinating to me is one video in particular where T. L. is still praying for one woman after others had been healed. He repeats verse after verse to her of the promises he claims for healing in his ministry. She is standing there waiting for God to heal her. T. L. is reciting the verses. She doesn't get it. She thinks he is announcing an outside God who is going to do something spectacular. She waits patiently. He is proclaiming the inside God who has done something spectacular. T. L. finally has to ask her to sit down.

There are any number of techniques of healing. Largely, it has to do with one's frame of mind. People at healing services generally are just there with some sense of belief and expectation. They sit there or stand at the alter with blank stares like deer stuck in the headlights. I wonder if the blankness has to do with submission. My friend Janet at Melodyland School of Theology was in a private devotional. She was contemplating the glorious things she knew about God (do I hear, "Emmet Fox's Golden Key?"), and got so caught up in it that she felt that she was literally -- not figuratively -- at the throne of God among the angels and throngs of saints worshiping Him. With a heart about to burst of love and adoration, she HEARD a voice say, "You are healed." Ever notice how God likes three-word sentences? Not a rule: I said, "You can heal me." Four.

Abdullah and Neville gave us a technique: "You are . . . " You have listened to God's Law and His Promise how many times? Neville told Abdullah, "I want to go to Barbados." Abdullah said, "You are IN Barbados!" Neville lived and slept in Barbados in his mind for a month. The woman I mentioned in The Law and the Promise (page 19) took a long time and a lot of effort to get to the point where she was a little girl again feeling the wind in her hair and the sensation of swinging. Neville took time and effort to get to where he could feel himself climbing the gangplank of the ship he needed to sail on. I know you know all this, but have you been able to BE the actor on the stage of YOUR play, wherein you play the part of having been healed and feel all the things of there and then over and over and over? That is a tall, order, isn't it?

I think you might want to create a checklist of things for healing: submission, gratitude, nobility, adoration, a scene to be sensed of a situation after having been healed, the perspective looking from that place, thinking FROM that place, feeling and seeing and hearing over and over and over and over again, sleepy/drowsy state, return to unconditioned awareness (Your Faith is Your Fortune) -- all the things that seem to go into causation by imagination. Napoleon Hill adds one thing in The Law of Success, and that is the price you will pay for success. He throws that into the mix from left field without any further explanation. I can only think that Hill became an evangelist of Success as his payment. Might have something to do with putting one's "hand to the plow."

Dan Steele
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Thank you, Dan. As much I want to be healed a part of me wants to give up, because I'm just drowning in self doubt and fear even though I daily read positive authors and say affirmations. There's no clear answer. I just want to feel whole.

DeBorah
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You can't give up, because if you give up, you will just be gived-up. You need your own Twelve-Step one-day-at-a-time attitude: "Just this one day, I will succeed."
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I did exactly that by making a list of successes and wrote about my feelings. This exercise I will do again. I cannot give up. You're right.
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DeBorah,

I am sure it is hard to suspend self-doubt and fear. I want to add to the previous e-mail something interesting about the woman on the swing. For her, the accident never happened. In her imagination, she went back to the past  and convinced herself that she had ever landed correctly -- she had never twisted her back! Can you remember the day of your accident? The smell of the car, the sound of the motor, the rattle going down the street, shifting gears, the music on the radio, the things you saw out the windows, the conversation you had with friends? and the other driver? You changed lanes and drove right by him. Never really noticed the guy! No condemnation to him, because THE ACCIDENT NEVER HAPPENED! Your day just went on. You got to say hi! to the person you were going to see.

It wouldn't cost you much to go to sleep in that event-less passing, passing the person who hit you over and over and over, until that moment of passing or the greeting after is your present and continuous reality.

Dan Steele
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* See http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/03/deborah-how-i-removed-block-i-could-not.html

The Law of Attraction is a Fraud! There is No Such Thing . . . and How to Use It

The Law of Attraction supposedly works on the principle of intensely imagining what you desire to raise your vibration to attract items of similar vibration. What a crock of bs. There is no such thing. The divine spirit that is our consciousness and imagination by concentrated, intense imagining with belief, creates the goal that its life-force shall manifest. There ain't no attraction; it is causation.

This is what the real Bible is all about. Neville Goddard called it the Law of Assumption. For we -- the psychological forces in us -- are ever causing what we assume to be true, be it good, bad, or indifferent, to manifest.

You want? By faith believe you received and imagine -- assume -- that your life is that which it would be if you had what you want. What would your life be like? How would it feel? Pick out a significant consequence that would follow having what you want and experience it in your mind. Really experience it. Make the intense effort to feel and hear and see that moment of your life as though it were your present. Be there and think from that place, as though you were an actor on a stage in the play of your assumed life. Do this in a sleepy, drowsy state and do it over and over and over again until you fall asleep in the action.

Attraction? That's a crock made up to deny the divine spirit that animates our being and causes our assumptions to become our reality. Let your LOA be the Law of your ASSUMPTION.
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PS: https://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2019/05/why-i-still-believe-so-called-law-of.html

Straightening Out Your False Bible

Almost everyone is dealing with a faulty Bible. That is why their lives are horribly screwed up. The Bible, as almost everyone has it, is not telling the truth. The translation from the ancient Aramaic is noticeably different. God did not create the physical world in six days. He created the plan for it at its completion -- he set the goals. Note chapter two: after the "creation" of the world in chapter one, there was nothing there yet! God had created a man in the plan that is chapter one. In chapter two, he has that planned man bringing forth the stuff of the world. In Genesis 1: 2, it says that the earth was for him and by him. For and by him whom? For and by the planned man in the mind of the Father.

In Exodus, Moses is perplexed by Jethro. Jethro means 'his jutting over" or "his excellence." This is the ongoing causation of the world. Zipporah means "a little chirping bird"; i.e., "his excellence" was driving him nuts! He wanted to understand it. In Exodus chapter three, God showed Moses the man, the force of his (God's) causation. THAT is the "holy ground" Moses was instructed to de-mediate: "Get a good feel for this truth: grasp it." Moses asked, "What is your name?" 'Name' means nature. That is, what is the nature of God and this man together? God said, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh." "I come, Ashur, as his becoming" (Exodus 3: 14; sorry, there is no "I AM THAT I AM" in the real Bible).

The man intended in the plan of Genesis chapter 1 is not going to be complete until the end. But the planned man is complete in the mind of the Father. The mind of the Father is 'Ashur' in ancient Aramaic. He knows what he is going to complete.

For the planned man to become the completed man, he had to deviate into the experience we are having; i.e., he became us. We are being generated into the End Man's character, the nature the Father intended for him from the beginning. We are him . . . becoming him.

THAT is the important thing: EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO BE PROVIDED FOR THE END MAN TO BE COMPLETE -- FROM US TO HIM -- HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY GOD. The man is our salvation -- the provision of everything unto our becoming him. There is not anything that can happen that will keep us from becoming the man God intended and created as his goal in the Paradise of his imagination.

The "man" is a force. It is the Life-giving, Living Branch or emanation of the Father. This is the mature Manifestation of God! When Jacob was in trouble (Genesis, chapter 32), in fear for his life, he clung onto the man! The man in the mind of the Father MUST become the end man, and everything between ignorant us and that man HAS TO BE PROVIDED. This is Exodus 3: 14 again: God has become us becoming the man.

I hope this isn't too complicated. "Him," "his," "man," -- it is about an organic whole: we are becoming ripe -- the ripeness, the maturity intended for the Manifestation of God. The man or force intended is always in the mind of the Father. We are growing into the man and shall be the completed man. Jacob said to the man, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." And he was healed: "I see your face is the face of the angel in my vision" (Genesis 33: 10). He has got to make you him. Believe you receive.

Keep hanging on.