Neville Goddard: the Religionist
I suppose most people imagining to manifest THINK they are following Neville Goddard's technique of causation without realizing the NATURE of his imagining. His technique appears to be simple enough of a process. But after performing steps a, b, and c, many are disappointed to find that it seems not to work. Not fast enough, anyway: "I can't wait. Where's the beef!?" While lots of things may keep it from working, I think primarily it does not work because causative imagining is not just a process, it is an attitude.
Neville did not want to leave behind any sort of religion or "ism," but the truth is he wanted to leave an awareness. He super-believed in God -- read the Bible every day -- and he had no doubt that all his audiences also believed in God. Even before he met Abdullah, he was a strict vegetarian -- "No smoking, no drinking, no sex . . . no anything!" At that time Neville believed in God, but he did not really know God.
Neville's study with Abdullah was about God. That is what kabbalah is about: the discovery of God. Abdullah gave Neville this crazy process, to believe that he was where he was not, that the desire God had given his heart was fulfilled, and Neville discovered that his God was this God: his own, wonderful, human imagination.
"Man is all imagination; God is no more. The Eternal Body of God . . . is the Imagination."
For Neville, imagining was an act of worship, for this is the one true God. Faith translated into appreciation. The process of salvation, of getting whatsoever you desire according to the Law (the very nature of God), was not a process but an attitude. "It is praise; it is thanksgiving." It is appreciation, gratitude, and it is confidence. You thank God for what you have received as a desire in your heart (see Psalm 37), and know that if He has given you His Word, He is faithful to perform His Word and shall certainly give you its out-picturing in physical manifestation.
This is all underlying background in Neville. This is what he brought to the table. He was a believing, insightful servant. One cannot imagine like Neville without believing like Neville, and one cannot believe like Neville without knowing God like Neville.
"But Dan, you say that I am God." Indeed you are, my bright little star, and knowing God like Neville means knowing that you are God . . . and how God is you . . . with all that entails in you. It is an awareness, aware of being the Man in the middle: God incarnate.
Please see my next post.
Neville did not want to leave behind any sort of religion or "ism," but the truth is he wanted to leave an awareness. He super-believed in God -- read the Bible every day -- and he had no doubt that all his audiences also believed in God. Even before he met Abdullah, he was a strict vegetarian -- "No smoking, no drinking, no sex . . . no anything!" At that time Neville believed in God, but he did not really know God.
Neville's study with Abdullah was about God. That is what kabbalah is about: the discovery of God. Abdullah gave Neville this crazy process, to believe that he was where he was not, that the desire God had given his heart was fulfilled, and Neville discovered that his God was this God: his own, wonderful, human imagination.
"Man is all imagination; God is no more. The Eternal Body of God . . . is the Imagination."
For Neville, imagining was an act of worship, for this is the one true God. Faith translated into appreciation. The process of salvation, of getting whatsoever you desire according to the Law (the very nature of God), was not a process but an attitude. "It is praise; it is thanksgiving." It is appreciation, gratitude, and it is confidence. You thank God for what you have received as a desire in your heart (see Psalm 37), and know that if He has given you His Word, He is faithful to perform His Word and shall certainly give you its out-picturing in physical manifestation.
This is all underlying background in Neville. This is what he brought to the table. He was a believing, insightful servant. One cannot imagine like Neville without believing like Neville, and one cannot believe like Neville without knowing God like Neville.
"But Dan, you say that I am God." Indeed you are, my bright little star, and knowing God like Neville means knowing that you are God . . . and how God is you . . . with all that entails in you. It is an awareness, aware of being the Man in the middle: God incarnate.
Please see my next post.
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