Neville Goddard and Nevillization: How Well Can You Imagine?

We talk about Neville Goddard and Nevillization, but this technology goes back far beyond the times of Moses. Technology: the use of imagination, of which the universe exists. God appears to be a field--a medium--of intelligence, power, and person; i.e., of imagination. OF this imagination we exist. And the question seems to be: "How well can you imagine?"

Speaking of Nevillization, commenter Unknown 2:28 PM said... "I can't ever seem to get the scene realistic no matter how much I try to add sensory vividness. The images are always vague. I am also seeing it through my eyes. Any advice please?"

I replied... "Interestingly, How Well Can You Imagine? is already in my next post's title block. I will give you my two cents worth, and then invite others to correct or add to it." Which I heartily do. I continue:

It is great that you are practicing. Practice makes perfect . . . over time. The scene you are forming should be an end state--your already having received what you want--with feelings of joy and satisfaction. You only need a snippet of that, but with deep feeling of its being real. Write it down and rehearse being there in mental experience when you read it. Build up the experience whenever you review it.

If you practice meditation, do your mantra or whatever, and when you enter your dream state remember the scene you wish. Do not write off asking God -- the Consciousness -- to help you achieve the state in imagination. Practice more bi-location. While you are in one place, imagine what you see and feel in another place. Your mind needs to move to the other location, so that you are thinking from it. FEEL something there -- a hand, a desk, the window, a check or letter. Can you imagine feeling the wall near you? Is it smooth or textured? Warm or cold? Does it have a paint scent, dust scent, or a smoke scent? How do you feel emotionally? Investigate where you are (even though you are not there).

You are watching your scene through your eyes? Cool. Watch it from the audience, get up and walk around to the side of the stage, and walk on to play your part. Imagination is speech -- say it loud. Ask God, your imagination, what Heaven would be like for you. Let your imagination run wild and ponder it. For one thing, what you want would be past. Whatever would come after what you want would be past, too. Let your mind absorb that wonderfulness -- everyone you love and everything you need -- and do not worry about your scene. Worship of whatever God is is all right. You exist WITH that one, and It is listening to YOU. I think this is a time to be humble and submitted. Contrite, and full of joy. With all that is in heaven, what you want right now might not seem so important after all. Leaving it up to the Big Guy is often found to be the key to receiving what is even better. You are not even going to know what is coming.

I assume in this that you are ready for bed, in a dreamy, sleepy state, floating in your mind above all the facts that say your desired state does not exist. You are representing the state you want to experience to your subconscious mind with complete forgiveness of whatever states already exist. Whatever presently exists is going to go away--be consumed naturally--in the change. It is going away every moment, anyway, so be thankful and praise-giving that better is coming.

Manifestation’s working is God's "Howdy-do." Listen well.

Any other suggestions, friends?

Well, I will add this: If you cannot imagine seeing, how well can you imagine hearing? “To listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create” (Mental Diets). Hear as though you really heard.