Cultivate Seeing the Invisible
In my post, "Canaan, the Perfect Country and 'The First Thing is You Must Know Exactly What You Want' -- YOU!!" (January 25, 2020), I said, "'The first thing you do,' Neville repeatedly said of his technique, 'you must know exactly what you want in this world.' We must decide exactly what it is we want in life.
“Cultivate that. It isn't one thing. Don't think just, 'Chocolate.' Expand. What you want is lot of specifics, 'a land flowing with milk and honey.' You want the land, the house, the job or business or sources of income, the friends and the family, the time and the climate and the government, & etc.. What we each want is 'the perfect country, Canaan.' Contemplate the Canaan for your life."
Rereading Neville Goddard's 1948 Lesson 5, "REMAIN FAITHFUL TO YOUR IDEA," I see something else to be cultivated. This idea is a bonanza to anyone having a hard time visualizing and/or deciding what it is they really want: learn to see the invisible spirit world of the past and future as concrete reality in the present. Says Neville in Lesson 5:
"The natural view confines reality to the moment called NOW. To the natural view, the past and future are purely imaginary. The spiritual view on the other hand sees the contents of time. The past and future are a present whole to the spiritual view. What is mental and subjective to the natural man is concrete and objective to the spiritual man.
"The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit renders us totally blind to what, otherwise, we could see. To cultivate the faculty of seeing the invisible, we should often deliberately disentangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally feeling it and sensing it until it has all the distinctness of reality.
"Earnest, concentrated thought focused in a particular direction shuts out other sensations and causes them to disappear. We have only to concentrate on the state desired in order to see it.
"The habit of withdrawing attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on the invisible develops our spiritual outlook and enables us to penetrate beyond the world of sense and to see that which is invisible" (bold emphasis mine).
The contents of time are invisible states, but are real and "there." They are all that is in potential. Maybe they occurred in a past life, or will occur in some future life. We can disentangle our thoughts from the present and explore those states as heightened daydreams. They do not have to be exactly what you want in life. I think it is all right to window shop in fantasy among possibilities that can be. We do as much on the car lot, clothing store, and in shopping for a home. "Hmmm, this cheesecake, or that cheesecake?" Try them both -- take 'em out for a spin before you decide.
“Cultivate that. It isn't one thing. Don't think just, 'Chocolate.' Expand. What you want is lot of specifics, 'a land flowing with milk and honey.' You want the land, the house, the job or business or sources of income, the friends and the family, the time and the climate and the government, & etc.. What we each want is 'the perfect country, Canaan.' Contemplate the Canaan for your life."
Rereading Neville Goddard's 1948 Lesson 5, "REMAIN FAITHFUL TO YOUR IDEA," I see something else to be cultivated. This idea is a bonanza to anyone having a hard time visualizing and/or deciding what it is they really want: learn to see the invisible spirit world of the past and future as concrete reality in the present. Says Neville in Lesson 5:
"The natural view confines reality to the moment called NOW. To the natural view, the past and future are purely imaginary. The spiritual view on the other hand sees the contents of time. The past and future are a present whole to the spiritual view. What is mental and subjective to the natural man is concrete and objective to the spiritual man.
"The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit renders us totally blind to what, otherwise, we could see. To cultivate the faculty of seeing the invisible, we should often deliberately disentangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally feeling it and sensing it until it has all the distinctness of reality.
"Earnest, concentrated thought focused in a particular direction shuts out other sensations and causes them to disappear. We have only to concentrate on the state desired in order to see it.
"The habit of withdrawing attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on the invisible develops our spiritual outlook and enables us to penetrate beyond the world of sense and to see that which is invisible" (bold emphasis mine).
The contents of time are invisible states, but are real and "there." They are all that is in potential. Maybe they occurred in a past life, or will occur in some future life. We can disentangle our thoughts from the present and explore those states as heightened daydreams. They do not have to be exactly what you want in life. I think it is all right to window shop in fantasy among possibilities that can be. We do as much on the car lot, clothing store, and in shopping for a home. "Hmmm, this cheesecake, or that cheesecake?" Try them both -- take 'em out for a spin before you decide.
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