Neville Goddard's Sneak

I was greatly amused with Neville Goddard's instructions in the ladder exercise as related in this video at about 4:45. After teaching how to visualize climbing a ladder (from about 3:20), Neville instructed his class to write out everywhere and to repeat emphatically all the time, "I will NOT climb a ladder!" The joke, if you do not already know, is that the unconscious HAS NO NEGATIVE. Once you think a thing, it exists, and you are asking for it. You can only avert its happening with alternative positive assumptions. For you cannot think a thing in the negative without thinking it FIIRST. I recently posted about dao, the way to becoming like God. No matter how dire your situation, no matter how negative it is, your present situation is your first step in the dao. This is what Merlin R. Carothers was preaching in Prison to Praise and all his books: Your loved one is in prison, strung out on drugs, broken hearted in a divorce, diseased all to hell -- PRAISE GOD FOR IT. There is not a point you, he, or she can get to that is not the beginning of the way back to God. Insisting "I will NOT climb a ladder" means to God, "From the point of climbing a ladder I ascend to You." And Neville had them load it with emotion, feeling, "Really mean it!" Watch God rearrange the world to get you onto a ladder!

Neville often quoted Job 3:25, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me" (KJV). Job was thinking of things he wanted NOT to happen, events he wanted NOT to arise. We create our own world, and the thing is to create only what we want. Do not think of what you do not want, but of what you do want, UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY DO WANT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING YOU DO NOT WANT. Like climbing a ladder, for instance. The class was de facto thinking, visualizing climbing a ladder all day long. And when it works, you, he, and/or she have found Him.