On Neville Goddard's "Consciousness is the Only Reality"

I took The Power of Awareness with me to a long wait, and not wanting to read the logic of the first chapters over again, I started in the back. I often read or reread books that way -- go straight to the conclusion. I read the words "consciousness is the only reality" as if it were the first time I had ever read them. A light went on. "His present situation was only a manifestation of his concept of himself," Neville said. Oh. I had just dealt with an anonymous inquirer who wanted a shopping list of what to do to manifest, as if the cosmos were a giant vending machine: "put in the correct change and down the chute comes your . . . ." We do not do to get things but to become something. We change our conception of self.

I think a lot of us have it all wrong. When Neville says consciousness is the only reality, what he means is that consciousness is the ONLY reality. We tend to think that this world is the one reality and that consciousness, imagination, is myriad fantasies that can become real. It is actually the exact opposite: consciousness is the ONLY reality and this world is myriad illusions of that consciousness. Consciousness is primary. What we normally call reality is but a conception of Self played out from consciousness.

This reflection is but a conception of Self (with a capital 'S'). It is not necessarily your individual self or my individual self. THAT is one of our big mistakes: we think that we are individuals creating our own worlds. We are, but we are all of the same Self. Capital 'S.' Dial down to my post The Prophet Structure: Dealing with the Double Mind. In the comment section I am asked if a child raped imagined that act to create it. Of course not. But the horrendous act was a conception of Self. Some individual's self, and all of our selves together. We are a package. There is ignorance in all of our conceptions of self, some worse than others. What are we to do about it?

When Freedom Barry was accosted in San Francisco by a drunk, he put the principle to work. He imagined the man whole and in need of nothing. Some time later he was greeted by the same man, whole and in need of nothing. We can redeem our brothers and sisters by changing our conception, our consciousness, the consciousness of the Self. We are the operant power of the WHOLE PACKAGE. That is the 'one' -- e'had -- in Deuteronomy 6:4. One that is many. They will agree. So pray.

I said above that I skipped the first chapter of The Power of Awareness. My next post goes back to it.