Neville Goddard's Imagination Project: Being Informed by "What We Are In Imagination Is What We Become In Manifestation"
Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was a dancer in New York in the 1920's. He was introduced to and spent the period of the Great Depression learning from a Jew named Abdullah. Abdullah taught what might be called esoteric Christianity. It is a different way of looking at and understanding the Bible, a manner which is called kabbalah. The truth of the Bible is in the doing.
Neville discovered from his application of Abdullah's teaching that what is imagined in faith becomes manifest as one's reality in the future -- there is just the matter of gestation. Neville desired to visit his family in Barbados, and Abdulah told him, "You are in Barbados." Abdullah had Neville imagine that he was actually in the island -- to see the world from there, to sleep in his bed on the island, to see and feel the things that were there as though "there" was "here." Neville learned to give his imagination "all the tones of reality" of really being there and of having made the trip there first class.
To Neville's surprise, it worked. He was unexpectedly given first class passage to Barbados, and it manifested that he was in Barbados having made the trip there first class. And here is the thing: it happened quite naturally. Because it is natural. It is the order of nature. Thought before manifestation is happening all the time; it is every success and failure we have, but we fail to recognize it. The Bible tells us all through the book that this is what is happening, and we misread it.
Neville discovered this technique would always work because it is the nature of God, and if it doesn't work the fault is in us. Hence Neville's project to solve the secret of imagining:
"The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which every man should aspire; for supreme power, supreme wisdom, and supreme delight, lie in the solution of this great mystery. Imagination is the Jesus Christ of scripture, and when you solve the great mystery of imagining, you will have found the cause of the phenomena of life. Imagination is called 'Jehovah' in the Old Testament and 'Jesus' in the New, but they are one and the same being. Divine Imagination, containing all, reproduces itself in the human imagination; therefore, all things exist in the human imagination. When you solve the problem of imagining, you will have found Jesus Christ, the secret of causation" (The Secret of Causation, 12/6/1969).
Neville became student of the Bible par excellence. His perspective is quite enlightening. Having become somewhat familiar with Neville's teaching and that of others in the same vein (e.g., Rabbi Davis A. Cooper and Gregg Braden), I would like to provide you this digest:
The world reflects us. It is the manifestation of our selves' faith, our belief. We are not just the physical people we see, but the spirit/consciousness of God, the imagination we see and think through who is inside us. We are linked to the Original Mind which seems to be without us, but it is that our physical world is pushed out from us -- our beliefs out-pictured. Our consciousness is what makes us "alive," and that consciousness is God's imagination in us. What we genuinely are in our consciousness is what our worlds manifest as our reflection. Thought precedes manifestation.
You might recognize this pattern as Adam and Eve and/or Jesus Christ. Adam is God's consciousness, Eve the power from consciousness to become "living." Christ is the power of God's consciousness and the wisdom of that consciousness, and it brings into manifestation "salvation."
God, by the way, is a verb. Seriously. YHWH (Jehovah) is the 'to be' verb, that of being. It is a great mistake to think of God as someone standing or sitting "over there" somewhere. But it is not a mistake to think of God as a person. God is the action of the Ineffable Person in you and I and the whole universe. And he is calling us to God: "Be ye reconciled unto God" (2 Corinthians 5:20). This is our call to action, Godding, in the imagination of our being, for imagination -- our own, wonderful, human imagination -- is God, the action of the Ineffable.
That we are God is not a vain boast; it is a humbling obligation, for we have been bought with a price. The Imagination of the Ineffable laid down Its power and Its wisdom to become us, that we might become as the Ineffable Person It is.
The world reflects us as we really are just as the universe reflects the Ineffable as It really is. There is quite the lesson to be learned there, for the just shall live by faith. Many take this to mean that redeemed, repentant people shall live eternally for their faith in Jesus Christ, the incarnation of God. This is sort of true, but the incarnation of God isn't some other guy who lived two thousand years ago, but is the power of God and the wisdom of God that is the real us.
Neville learned to utilize the thought-precedes-manifestation reflective nature of reality to God lovingly. Knowing that he was God, as you and I are, he took on the nobility of the Ineffable -- Its integrity and love and benevolence and joy. He made intense effort to hear good things for his friends; as best as I can determine, he considered everyone to be his friend, for there is no condemnation in God. What he did not like, he did not think. What he did want, he did think. And when what happened wasn't what he wanted, he revised it in his imagination to have been what he did want.
And there is the thing: it takes practice. The only way to do it is to do it, over and over and over until it really is what is in our minds. If what is really in our minds manifests on the morrow, we have to make what is really in our minds what we genuinely want. Or wanted. For the nature of the beast is what EXISTS in the mind is manifested. If desire exists, desire manifests. We have to place in our minds the satisfaction of having; not of receiving, but of having received. The feeling of satisfaction, of peace, of health, of wealth is the key. What we want is the feeling, the state of that feeling, not the thing that gives us the feeling. The thing is utilitarian; it facilitates the manifestation of the feeling. So we feel in imagination that everything has worked out well; we feel joy in hearing that so-and-so has recovered; we delight that what was wanted has been received in full.
It came to mind while writing this that you might not be able to so imagine "there" as really as "here." Claude M. Bristol (T.N.T.: It Rocks the Earth) advises to tap at it. By tapping is meant repetition -- keep the satisfaction you desire constantly before you and build upon it. I personally believe this is what Confucius meant by "the investigation of all things" in The Great Learning. Practice hearing until you actually hear; practice seeing until you actually see; practice feeling until you actually feel. Be in that state of believing when you fall asleep.
We have a tall order before us: to become the Ineffable we are from and of and are. Our project is utter reality in imagination, for what we are in imagination is what becomes in manifestation. By and by we shall become the flow of God. Tap. Tap. Tap.
Neville discovered from his application of Abdullah's teaching that what is imagined in faith becomes manifest as one's reality in the future -- there is just the matter of gestation. Neville desired to visit his family in Barbados, and Abdulah told him, "You are in Barbados." Abdullah had Neville imagine that he was actually in the island -- to see the world from there, to sleep in his bed on the island, to see and feel the things that were there as though "there" was "here." Neville learned to give his imagination "all the tones of reality" of really being there and of having made the trip there first class.
To Neville's surprise, it worked. He was unexpectedly given first class passage to Barbados, and it manifested that he was in Barbados having made the trip there first class. And here is the thing: it happened quite naturally. Because it is natural. It is the order of nature. Thought before manifestation is happening all the time; it is every success and failure we have, but we fail to recognize it. The Bible tells us all through the book that this is what is happening, and we misread it.
Neville discovered this technique would always work because it is the nature of God, and if it doesn't work the fault is in us. Hence Neville's project to solve the secret of imagining:
"The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which every man should aspire; for supreme power, supreme wisdom, and supreme delight, lie in the solution of this great mystery. Imagination is the Jesus Christ of scripture, and when you solve the great mystery of imagining, you will have found the cause of the phenomena of life. Imagination is called 'Jehovah' in the Old Testament and 'Jesus' in the New, but they are one and the same being. Divine Imagination, containing all, reproduces itself in the human imagination; therefore, all things exist in the human imagination. When you solve the problem of imagining, you will have found Jesus Christ, the secret of causation" (The Secret of Causation, 12/6/1969).
Neville became student of the Bible par excellence. His perspective is quite enlightening. Having become somewhat familiar with Neville's teaching and that of others in the same vein (e.g., Rabbi Davis A. Cooper and Gregg Braden), I would like to provide you this digest:
The world reflects us. It is the manifestation of our selves' faith, our belief. We are not just the physical people we see, but the spirit/consciousness of God, the imagination we see and think through who is inside us. We are linked to the Original Mind which seems to be without us, but it is that our physical world is pushed out from us -- our beliefs out-pictured. Our consciousness is what makes us "alive," and that consciousness is God's imagination in us. What we genuinely are in our consciousness is what our worlds manifest as our reflection. Thought precedes manifestation.
You might recognize this pattern as Adam and Eve and/or Jesus Christ. Adam is God's consciousness, Eve the power from consciousness to become "living." Christ is the power of God's consciousness and the wisdom of that consciousness, and it brings into manifestation "salvation."
God, by the way, is a verb. Seriously. YHWH (Jehovah) is the 'to be' verb, that of being. It is a great mistake to think of God as someone standing or sitting "over there" somewhere. But it is not a mistake to think of God as a person. God is the action of the Ineffable Person in you and I and the whole universe. And he is calling us to God: "Be ye reconciled unto God" (2 Corinthians 5:20). This is our call to action, Godding, in the imagination of our being, for imagination -- our own, wonderful, human imagination -- is God, the action of the Ineffable.
That we are God is not a vain boast; it is a humbling obligation, for we have been bought with a price. The Imagination of the Ineffable laid down Its power and Its wisdom to become us, that we might become as the Ineffable Person It is.
The world reflects us as we really are just as the universe reflects the Ineffable as It really is. There is quite the lesson to be learned there, for the just shall live by faith. Many take this to mean that redeemed, repentant people shall live eternally for their faith in Jesus Christ, the incarnation of God. This is sort of true, but the incarnation of God isn't some other guy who lived two thousand years ago, but is the power of God and the wisdom of God that is the real us.
Neville learned to utilize the thought-precedes-manifestation reflective nature of reality to God lovingly. Knowing that he was God, as you and I are, he took on the nobility of the Ineffable -- Its integrity and love and benevolence and joy. He made intense effort to hear good things for his friends; as best as I can determine, he considered everyone to be his friend, for there is no condemnation in God. What he did not like, he did not think. What he did want, he did think. And when what happened wasn't what he wanted, he revised it in his imagination to have been what he did want.
And there is the thing: it takes practice. The only way to do it is to do it, over and over and over until it really is what is in our minds. If what is really in our minds manifests on the morrow, we have to make what is really in our minds what we genuinely want. Or wanted. For the nature of the beast is what EXISTS in the mind is manifested. If desire exists, desire manifests. We have to place in our minds the satisfaction of having; not of receiving, but of having received. The feeling of satisfaction, of peace, of health, of wealth is the key. What we want is the feeling, the state of that feeling, not the thing that gives us the feeling. The thing is utilitarian; it facilitates the manifestation of the feeling. So we feel in imagination that everything has worked out well; we feel joy in hearing that so-and-so has recovered; we delight that what was wanted has been received in full.
It came to mind while writing this that you might not be able to so imagine "there" as really as "here." Claude M. Bristol (T.N.T.: It Rocks the Earth) advises to tap at it. By tapping is meant repetition -- keep the satisfaction you desire constantly before you and build upon it. I personally believe this is what Confucius meant by "the investigation of all things" in The Great Learning. Practice hearing until you actually hear; practice seeing until you actually see; practice feeling until you actually feel. Be in that state of believing when you fall asleep.
We have a tall order before us: to become the Ineffable we are from and of and are. Our project is utter reality in imagination, for what we are in imagination is what becomes in manifestation. By and by we shall become the flow of God. Tap. Tap. Tap.
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