I Am A Mudman, And Like It Or Not You Are A Mudman, Too: A True And Literal Story

What is a mudman? Consider yourself. In 1975 I asked Jesus for the gift of tongues. I really did not know what it was, but I had seen and heard people speaking in tongues, and knew we were supposed to receive it. Asking, I found God wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot (three-meter) pole. Trance-like, I saw mud scooped from the ground in the shape of a man and stood in front of me. Seeing within it, some of the mud formed into bones, some into muscles and sinew, some into organs and blood vessels and nervous system, eyes, skin, hair, blood--into a complete physical human. But it was not alive. It had everything but life.

Then it was given life: it breathed, and blood flowed. And it saw. And it thought. I wondered, "What does this new being think of what it sees?" It was a rhetorical question, but God answered by showing me.

The mudman looked out across the plain it had just come from. "This is earth," it thought. "The sun will set, and it will get cold. I had better find shelter in those hills over there." Naked as a jaybird, it started walking toward the hills in the distance. My visual perspective followed along right behind it, a little higher and a bit to the left. I wondered what it saw, and then I could see as though through its eyes. I wondered what it thought, and then I could hear its thoughts. I became embedded in its brain as if I were him. I became the mudman.

Bits of fear trickled in, apprehensions, concerns, and desperation. If I slept on the ground, wild animals might find me and eat me. Could I make a fort among the trees for safety? Here is a cave, but might there be an animal inside already? How do I approach to get inside? Hmm. I'll make a spear. I will need fire. I need to find firewood. What plants are safe to eat? How will I know unless someone dies, and there is no one here but me. Should I plant first, so I won’t be hungry tomorrow?

Then it hit me. I mean it smacked me upside along the head like a two-by-four. There was a moment of insight, fear, and shear terror, for I saw it: "I" was ruling "my" life. I was directing everything, deciding what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. I ruled my life, BUT IT WAS NOT MY LIFE TO DO SO WITH! Only a few moments prior I was just lifeless mud scooped from the earth--a package of dissolved minerals totally inanimate--and then I, this lifeless form of mud, was MADE alive--to live--by God's grace. For His purpose! "MY" LIFE WASN'T MINE!! What I was doing in directing and controlling this life myself was theft, robbery, and rebellion! "My" life was GOD'S life. I had no right to rule it, to lord over and direct it. I was made to live by Him, FOR Him. He must have had some purpose in mind for me when He made me to live. Whatever it was, I had deprived Him of that purpose. I was a thief in His eyes. I had stolen His life and robbed Him of whatever use He had planned for me.

Control. Who is in control? By my controlling HIS life as separate I had earned His condemnation and merited His rejection. And as long as I controlled His life, God COULD NOT accept me. Where could I go? What could I do to remedy this situation? The only thing I could think to do was to get my self-control out of me, to divest myself of it. So I cast my control of myself out of myself as if it were a demonic force. Emptied of it, I was surrendered to the mercy of God. I honestly thought I would fall face-first onto the floor as a totally uncontrolled blob, but I found myself caught, as though I was somehow suspended. I did not fall, so I assumed I could pick up on fulfilling His purpose, the purpose for which He had created me and had given me life in the first place. I took my place as a simple, humble mudman given life for His purpose and listened for His directions. All He said was, "Remember this, and it is all right."

My self-lordship theft and rebellion were forgiven. I was accepted! God had had a work-around plan, Christ, and I had found the key: recognition, honor, humble surrender, and submission to His will. I was overwhelmed with relief and gratitude. And then He filled me with His Holy Spirit. Part and parcel with this infilling was the Holy Spirit's pronouncement of praise and love and appreciation for God's wonderous mercy and grace that I, a bundle of dissolved minerals, should be given His life, His Eternal Life, forever. The Holy Spirit took over the operation of my mouth, and all that worship I had for God came out in a tongue I could only recognize as "oriental." This heart was so lifted up, so emotional and adoring in appreciation. When I get that way again, the Holy Spirit still speaks.

Feel Chosen, For You ARE Loved (If You Want Love, Do Not WANT Love; But Rather FEEL Loved, For The Feeling You Assume Is The Future You Create)

"I hope to get you to feel that you are wanted, that you are chosen, that you are the elect," begins Neville Goddard in "Feel Chosen." Feel like Gordon MacRea's character in the movie "Oklahoma!" --even more so, many times over. Says Neville: "As we are told, 'He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world" (Ephesians 1:4, emphasis mine). THAT should get us singing, Oh, the glory of it! THIS is the word, the message that is true! We are the beloved of God--David (the meaning of the Hebrew word david is "beloved"), chosen in Christ by Him before the foundation of the world. We should be in the heights of ecstasy 24/7 for this truth.

"But man will not believe it; he will not believe that he is that important."

That we are God's chosen in Christ IS true, but we consider God a liar. We DISbelieve. "Who listens when they hear Us, and to whom is the arm (power) of Maryeh (the Lord) revealed?" (Isaiah 53:1 Alexander). What was said by AHYH? "In exchange for His casting Himself to death and to be counted among the abominable, and yet He shall carry off the sins of many and deal with (intercede on behalf of) the abominable" (Isaiah 53:12 Alexander). THAT is David. I see me in there, the abominable who had disbelieved, sins carried off and reconciled with God.

"For this is how [much] God loved humanity, that he gave forth his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him does not perish* (go to oblivion), except that they may have life everlasting. For God did not send his Son to the world* (the people) to condemn (judge) people, except that people shall live* (be saved [by Him]) by his hand* (grace). Whoever believes in him, is not condemned" (John 3:16-17a Alexander, emphasis mine).

It is CHRIST'S right to forgive us. For HE, at the end of our becoming HIM, was the Beginning of HIS becoming US. This is complicated, yet ever so simple. Neville Goddard explains it in "Where And When Did It Happen?" (Unfortunately, the available text in Horowitz's book is, in my opinion, inadequate. I count over one hundred variances from what Neville says in the lecture. It's a paraphrase, maybe? The audio lecture should be listened to.) In and as Christ God became individualized as us, for we to become Him. We are in Him, of Him, through Him, and to Him--the Beloved of God, to become Him. YOU!! I am speaking about you and me. God loves us so much He went through hell for us, to make us Him. We are the man, the flesh He became. He suffers US. And only we can turn it around. Learn of Him, adopt His character and nature, His ways and opinion. Let us receive the Holy Ghost and humbly let His Spirit direct us where She will--feeling the glad happiness of being the chosen all the while. Isn't it wonderful!?
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Edit: I made a slight mistake when I was saved in 1975. Finding that I had mentally separated myself from God, making myself untouchable to Him, I had volitionally cast self-control out of myself and repented of my self-lordship, achieving full surrender. I had not yet been forgiven and accepted by God, but I said, "You are Glorious God; I am a mudman. Whatever you tell me to do, that I will do," as though I HAD ALREADY BEEN forgiven and accepted. He hadn't killed me, so I unwittingly assumed His tolerance of me was a done deal. That was when God said, "Remember this, and it is all right," forgiving and accepting me, making it truly a done deal, and then giving me the ecstatic joy of the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Remember this: I am His life, mentally keep it a done deal, and be imbued with His Holy Spirit.

You Were Him, You Are Him, You Will Be Him--That is the Reward

The Beginning (Genesis 1:1) became us. We are Him in the flesh. Who we will be in the future is the Lord, ourselves perfected in timelessness. Our Lord is ourselves in God-state. All of us are Him: He is all of us after we graduate from this process. From there--outside of time--He returns to us on the way to get us there. One Guy is the whole shebang, the Beginning and the Perfection and everything in between. Thinking of God(s) as people is really confusing. We cannot think of another person without some sort of separation and distance conceptualized with it. We can say 'immanent', but we cannot escape the sense of 'other'. God is not so. He IS us, and we ARE Him. He is our savior; Himself then--what we shall be--working on US now. He goes full circle from beginning to end THROUGH us. We are His T. A. D. (Temporary Assigned Duty/ three days in the grave/ working out the faults), but He is ever Himself.

He began us. He is working on us. We will become Him and work on ourselves, which has already happened. We are Jesus Christ come in the flesh. Out "there," ourselves pushed out, is what we make it. It is our creation. What would He make it? There you go. Do it.

The Aramaic Version: Not Your Parents' Bible

Victor Alexander has translated the Scriptures of the Church of the East. Their perspective is notably different from the Scriptures of the Western Church: the Holy Spirit is feminine; God is the Father AND the Son AND the Holy Spirit; believers have lives, and disbelievers have oblivion--the differences are myriad.

A quick story: When I was saved in 1975, I noted that this world is not as I had known it. There is another layer of meaning and power giving it another set of values, values we are normally oblivious to. Soon after that Jesus spoke to me "audibly" in my physical brain, so I set out to find out what He had said to other people. I got into seminaries and studied Western Christian theology. I became uneasy with the church teaching one thing and the Bible saying another. It was like that disparity I had perceived between the regularly known earth and the spiritually known earth.

Then I found out about the Eastern Aramaic versions of the Scriptures and sought them out. OMG! It is a whole different Bible. "How did they ever get that out of this?" I often asked myself. Well, the Western cultures saw the Scriptures differently than the Eastern cultures. They added their values and adjusted their translations so that the Scriptures made sense to and reflected their world. But the Scriptures did not say those things. The Church of the East read what the Scriptures actually said, and kept it that way. Hence the disparity.

If you have the money (Merry Christmas!), I recommend getting Victor Alexander's Aramaic New Testament (ISBN 9781456475789) and reading it with constant referral to its footnotes. While I do recommend Vic's Old Testament Scriptures, you should know that it is the ten books of the Old Testament Vic has translated thus far (and he isn't going any farther). I far prefer the individual books of the Old Testament, but I do not think Qohlat (Ecclesiastes), which is in Old Testament Scriptures, is available as an individual book. The Scroll of Hosea, which is not included in Old Testament Scriptures, is available as an individual book.

No, Victor does not pay me anything for my recommendations. This blog is my ministry, and recommending the closest thing to the original scriptures in English is a part of that. If you had to choose between my teachings and Alexander's version of the Scriptures, I'd say go with Alexander. Good God yes, get what you can of them while you can. Get what reflects the spiritual world we do, after all, really live in.
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Vic was for awhile stricken with a disease. He has pretty much recovered. Do not be put off by what he wrote while he was ill. All his work with the Scriptures was completed before he got sick.

The World Is Psychological

We are all born into this scientific, physics-based secular world where everything just seems natural. Gravity, matter, light, life, growth and death are just the way things are. It works, there isn't anything we can do about it, and there is no need for any "god." But then some of us find this to be a simulated, psychology-base spiritual world manifesting God--like it or not.

There isn't much question about what is right in front of us. We can learn all about it by experimentation. We can learn of the invisible, spiritual world by experimentation also, but the results are less readily apparent, being symbolic and hidden to outsiders. Both worlds exist, separated only by perception. The spiritually ignorant think what they do not want, and, the world being psychological, God produces for them what their thought tolerates and allows for, for that is the wrong way to think 'not'. To think 'not' is to not think at all, to tolerate nothing but what is desired instead.

How does he feel, the winner, the successful, the victor? To Whom does he owe? Whom does he honor and recognize as his success-giver? The spiritually ignorant see only the intolerance, and what they do not want.

It Started With A Little Demon

The Manifestation has a little demon because its Source has a little demon. It was known before the beginning that ignorance would resist, lead off in the wrong direction and need redemption. "Forgive them; they know not what they do." A Savior was required from the get go. He is in us and through us, i.e., from us and of us--we end up Him. HOW we end up Him has always been.

Receiving No-thing

The Ineffable is No-thing. It created God, the heavens and the earth out of No-thing. The Messiah is cut off and receives No-thing.

Solipsists Unite!

That the world is myself pushed out and nothing external to my mind exists does not mean that my mind is the only one to which nothing external exists. There is obviously a bunch of us--all of us. It is just that few of us know it. We are literally a point of view, and what we see is the condition of our self. The thing is, we are not alone. The one showing us is God, and the condition is His message. He is showing us because we are Him in fault. We are not going to stay this way. Everything outside of our self is our self pushed out, including Jesus Christ, or if you would, God. He is our end, what we turn out to be. As such He was our Beginning. That is the thing about God: He is the only game in town. All the fuzz between us is His intelligence facilitating our (His) becoming like Him as He is. That is our end, which again is the beginning of whatever comes after we are as He is.

Few get this, and those who do not think we are insane, or stupid idiots at least. "They are mad! Why do we listen to them? Crucify them!" Hell is temporal, T.A.D. We will all get there eventually (Himness: we are all in the grave already). But the take-away today is the End-Guy. YOU!! Your and my end is Him. He is real, and He has come in our flesh--He is our imagination, our self . . . on the way according to our perception, but a done deal according to His. He is the real deal. As our end, He has already been there; He has graduated, ascended, attained to Godhood. As God He transcends the loops and flips of our departure at the beginning and generation to the end He is. He is both wholly other and ourselves. I readily bow my knee . . . to what I shall be. What we shall be.

Edit: The Greek word euaggelion, though it is translated "gospel," means "reward." Jesus comes to our consciousness proclaiming, "Repent, and believe the Gospel." The reward: our becoming Him.

The Conceptualization Of God As Separate, Other, Divided From Oneself Is The Great Blaspheme, Abomination, And Apostasy--Foolishness Which Must Depart: We Are INCLUDED In And Are Of The One

We blaspheme the Holy Spirit by not believing that we are She! I hold that "God" is the Consciousness of the Ineffable Being, and that we are parts of His Imagination--Adam and Eve (He is Adam, we are Eve). He creates "stuff" by imagining--what we call assumption. "Before the Beginning (the Son of God), (the Ineffable) created (assumed) God, the heavens, and the earth." That is as literal a translation of Genesis 1:1 as I can come up with. This world we now experience is the "stuff" of that. All of this is Him--Consciousness.

The world is all psychological, subject to and influenced by thought. Our assumption is His--God's, and/or vice versa. If we can learn to control our assumption (heaven) to alignment with His (God), it becomes (earth). This entails recognition that all of this is His work. There need be full surrender and submission to His doing in our doing: Babylon is never our building (see the Book of Daniel chapter four).

What Direction Was God's Reference In The Baptism In The Holy Ghost?

It was a simple enough statement: "Remember this, and it is all right." But to what did "this" refer--the prior stated attitude, or the forthcoming reality?

Big problem. I had asked Jesus for the gift of tongues. This was in 1975. He wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole (that's about three meters). Rejected, I was crushed; I sobbed. I sought why he rejected me. It came down to my self-lordship--I still maintained final control over my life; I was not truly surrendered and submitting to him. I cast self-control completely out of myself. He caught me. Fully surrendered, I said, "You are Glorious God; I am a mudman. Whatever you tell me to do, I will do." Then I shut up and listened. He spoke: "Remember this, and it is all right." He forgave me. I was accepted! The ecstasy was palpable. I filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in a tongue.

But to what did God refer when he said, "Remember this, and it is all right"? Was it to my attitude of submission in what I had just said, "You are Glorious God; I am a mudman. Whatever you tell me to do, I will do"? Or did God speak in faith of the forthcoming imbuement with the Holy Ghost--as though it had already happened? "Remember this--what's about to smack you upside along the head, and it is all right."

Believe it or not, this comes from Rabbi Daniel Lapin's teaching on television. He said that Abel's Hebrew name was Hebel--"zero." It is the same word Solomon uses in Ecclesiastes for vanity. It means vain, nothing, absurdity, transitory--zero. A google search gave me as translation: breath, delusion, emptily, emptiness, fleeting, fraud, futile, futility, idols, mere breath, nothing, useless, vain, vainly, vanity, vanity of vanities, vapor, worthless. Not a nice thing to name your kid. But this is something in us. Something killed by Cain--acquisition. Is it submission--the making of yourself zero before God? Recognition of the--all the things mentioned above--of our lives?

On my knees before God, I entered hebel. Mudman was what I was, formed of imagination and given life that was not mine--nothing. I zeroed my self, and He filled me; everything was all right. This is where I need to be: "They then went out and preached every place, and YHWH helped them and began filling them with signs that they performed" (Mark 16:20 my take on Alexander). First zero, then out and preaching . . . and He does the signs. "Remember this, and it is all right."

Christ Stories

The Ineffable, the No-thing, does not have a physical mouth. It can think, though, and what It assumes to exist does. THAT illustrates the Ineffable. The Ineffable speaks to us through illustrations, stories. We can see the world as stories which illustrate the Ineffable. The Bible is a collection of stories specifically about Christ, the Messiah or Milta of God, which I believe to be the Consciousness of the Ineffable. We, if we do indeed exist after my last post, are that--Divine Imagination.

The Christ stories are not secular history; they are ILLUSTRATIONS. Do not expect them to be physically literal or historically accurate. They are stories told to illustrate values of things invisible--God. So there is symbolism, allegory, parable. The literal part is the invisible, the spiritual.

It occurs to me that we ourselves are Christ stories, mid-stream and with running ends. Even if we are points of imagination and everything is ourselves pushed out--imagined only--what we do with our imaginations in applied physicality illustrates our attitudes as God. If you are God, what are you going to do? Figure out the best . . . and assume it. Believe it. Let yourself be Christ's story, the story of Man, whom God became, becoming God.

Edit: It also occurs to me that if all is our self pushed out, so is the Jesus who appeared in the first century and to so many through the ages. T. L. Osborn said he saw Jesus in physical, cubic reality (my paraphrase). I heard Jesus in my brain also in that manner--not a thought, but a voice. O that He be in me! Myself pushed out. Let me push a little harder. Hmmm. It seems I recall Neville pushing himself hard within his skull. What happened?

The Problem With Neville Goddard's Restoration As A Twenty Something: A Belated Real Reply To Marek

A question regarding Neville Goddard's teaching on restoration came to mind: What about recollections of one's childhood? I googled "Neville Goddard on restoration," and came upon my own reply to Marek, who had asked me about the same back in 2016:

Neville Goddard's Riddle: How Are We Restored as Twenty-year-olds?

Reading what I had written, I realized I had not answered Marek's question, not really, which was to make sense out of what Neville had said. Well, I didn't have an answer at that time. Neville's doctrine of restoration has serious problems with it. In short, it doesn't make any sense in this world--it can't work. Neville's teaching is that we, the spiritual inner man within these physical bodies, being eternal elements of God's imagination, when this body we inhabit dies, we shed it as a garment and are restored as the inner man of another physical, young adult in a similar world to continue like experiences. This is something we have been doing for unnumbered ages, living and dying and being restored each time--as we have up to now--until we graduate to a higher non-physical experience. Neville's students understandably had problems with the mechanics of this process. Here are some of the questions asked during those lectures, courtesy of Mr. Twenty Twenty:

Rare Neville Goddard – Neville Goddard Answers Questions 1970 – Part 2, Posted on January 13, 2017, by Mr Twenty Twenty

And here are some quotes from Neville's lecture "Salvation History" 02-12-1968:

The Bible is an incredible story of how God became man that man could become God. The history of God contains eternity, which has neither beginning nor end; therefore, salvation history is forever taking place. God's will must be being done absolutely and continuously, because it is eternal.

As you walk in time, human history is yours; as you are born and die, restored to life you die, only to be restored and die again. Human history goes on forever, until salvation history invades time and becomes the individual's autobiography. And if the history of the Lord Jesus Christ becomes your history, are you not the Lord?

This is a world of time, where all things begin and end. Although death appears to be, there is none. Those who remain experience their death, but to themselves they do not die. Instead, they are restored to life in a young body with nothing missing. There they will get older and eventually die, to be instantly restored - again unaccountably new - in a terrestrial world like this one, to go on and on and on. That's restoration; but the birth from above is something entirely different. That occurs when infinite God gives himself to the individual. He does it by inserting his story of salvation into time, possessing the individual, then unfolding himself from within, fulfilling salvation history.

When the history of salvation invades you, individually, you will awaken from a long, long sleep to find yourself being born from above. The symbol of your birth as that of a little child wrapped in swaddling clothes will be there, as well as the witnesses. Even then it seems incredible, as you hold the child in your arms - just as scripture states a child was placed in the arms of one called Mary. And if the child is a symbol of the savior, who is the Lord God Jehovah; are you not your own savior?

Coming down to earth, God invades the world of time and lifts you out of time into eternity. Then you will return for a little while, where your glory is hidden by the garment you wear. You will tell your experiences to those who will listen, until that moment in time when you depart never to return again.

No one should gloat about this, as everyone will rise as the same being. There is only God redeeming Himself into the one body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all; and you will know that you are He!

All things begin and end in time, but there is no beginning or ending in eternity. It just is! The history of Salvation was not composed by God. It was always so. It was His plan to be inserted into time and redeem humanity!

(End of quotes from "Salvation History")
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Okay, back to Marek's question!

I did not see a way Neville's process of restoration could work in this world. How could we all be restored as adults without childhoods? Then I remembered a recent comment which complained that Neville's views were based on solipsism, the belief that only one's self exists or is knowable. Well, maybe that commenter has a point. Neville verily insisted that everything is the self pushed out. We change the cubic reality of the display by changing the assumption of the inner man. You think you are here, and you are, but if you think you are there, you are. We pass through states of physical reality, but they are not real except for their purpose, which is to generate us to Godhood. Yes, that is the Hindu doctrine of maya, "illusion."

So the childhood we recollect and the present we see are both imagined illusions. All concreteness is the Divine Intelligence imagining itself to be matter to facilitate the physical necessity of the illusion. As far as I know, none of y'all are real--my mind is here alone, never moving--and I exist only as a point of imagination. What then? Fulfill the purpose: do the destiny. If we are here, there is God. Mentally, and thus physically, honor and obey Him. Do good. Help. Intervene. Give that water. Teach your children well. Have faith. Do everything in love. Believe. One thing I love about Victor Alexander's translations from the Aramaic is God saying that those who do acts of love "mercy Me." And that if you mercy Him--He being the inner man of another person--you are His relative. Granted, that other person might not even exist except for his or her purpose, to give you HIM--God--to honor and love.

Well, I have really enjoyed talking to myself tonight. And if you are reading this, maybe you wrote it. OMG, we're all talking to ourselves. Myself. I wonder if Chuck Stockdale would agree.

Dear Messiah (That’s You!), the Son of God is Man, and the Son of Man is God--What Makes Us Them is the Holy Ghost

"God became man that man might become God." I have heard it hundreds if not thousands of times. "Heresy!! Man will never become God! Where does it say anything like that in the Bible?" You know darn well that Adam, literally "the Blood of the Divine," was the Son of God. And you should know that Jesus, his son, was raised a Life-giving Spirit--God, and we in Him. John 14:20 should make it clear: "In that day you will understand* (know), that I am in my Father and you, you are in me and I in you" (Alexander).

There is no separation between us. The idea of separation is the great error, the heresy, the abomination, and the apostasy. There is no forgiveness for separation. William Marrion Branham noted that the Pentecostals on the day of Pentecost were the JEWS who were gathered at Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost. The 120 gathered in the upper room were Pentecostals, but with the outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon them they became the Church of the First Born, the born-from-above Imagination, the Eternal Body of God

I have called myself a Oneness Pentecostal with the caveat that we are included in the One. The "I am in Him and He is in Me and I am in you" tells me that there are not three tiers in the One, there is only one. It is a single tier system--there is only one level. YOU are in me, I am in you, and GOD is in all. We--you, me, and all y'all--are the Messiah--Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: the Father is the Son, and the Son is the Father--we are all three. THAT is what this is all about. "Christianity" means "I" am the Messiah.

The Suffering SERPENT? "Neville Goddard's Final Lectures"

I was looking for where Neville said he had or would visit his students in spirit. I believe I read that somewhere in Mitch Horowitz's Neville Goddard's Final Lectures. As I picked up the book it happened to open at page 43, where on the top line it says Christ in man is "the suffering serpent." I had not corrected that mistake. Neville, of course, said suffering servant, as per Isaiah 53 (right at 12:00 in the audio). That brought my total of errors found in the book up to 675. I am tempted to listen to all the lectures again to see if I can bring the total up to an even 700.

I hope you too will get Horowitz's Neville Goddard's Final Lectures and listen to the lectures yourself. Do not hesitate to get the book just because it has errors like this. Take it as a finish-it-yourself project. You are going to read the lectures anyway, so why not make each one a game, a puzzle? How many mistakes can you find in this lecture? How many more (or less) in that one? Who has found the most? The effort of listening closely will help you grow. Faith comes by hearing, and the hearing will be well worth it!!

We Do Not Change TO Do It, We Change Because We DO Do It

Not to become, but because we are.

We do not assume because it will, but because it did.

Neville Goddard "Technique" Put Very Nicely

It is little exaggeration to say that everyone rehashes Neville Goddard's technique of manifestation. This video put it very nicely, though calling the technique rare is a stretch, almost as much as saying manifestation takes only 24 hours:

Manifest In 24 Hours Using Inner Dialogue Technique | Law Of Assumption Neville Goddard

I especially appreciated the highlighted quotes:

"As we control our inner dialogue matching it to fit our FULFILLED desires, we can lay aside all other processes" (emphasis mine).

"If I already were who I want to be right now, what would my inner dialogue be?"

"Leave aside all past conversations and speak from the new, present conversation."

So do not look forward to success you want, look back on success you HAD.

Neville Goddard's Invisible Negative Not Technique

What you see is what you get. If you see yourself wanting, wanting is what you get. If you see what you do not want to happen, what you do not want to happen is what you will get, because that is what you see. WE CANNOT SEE NEGATIVES. In our minds we see the thing we do not want, but it is emotionally unwanted, not visually. You have to force yourself with discipline to see what you DO want--the good, desired alternative to what you do not want. You can not-want what you do want in order to get it, for when you do not want it, you see it, not the negative of it. Get it? "I don't want a million dollars!!" What do you see? Yourself with a million dollars. What do you get? What you SEE.

The Topic Is Resurrection: Life Is Opportunity For Its Process

Resurrection is what we are born to. We really do not have much say in the matter, for God is DOING it, come hell or high water (literal truth!). We are here to resurrect, to attain to the godhood we left. You may have heard that life is just the process of dying. It is not. Life is the process of becoming alive more in the likeness of God than we were before the Beginning. 

Resurrection is not an event; it is a process that transpires over the course of our lives. We are in the process now, and have been in every restoration. Some people are coming to the end of this part of the procedure. Their interest is not in the obtaining of things no matter how pleasant, but in spiritual advancement. For them (as for all of us), this life is an opportunity to resurrect. The key ingredients in the recipe are honor and love.

I have in this room a banner of Chinese calligraphy - the traditional character ài, Love, and text from First Corinthians 13. I particularly like this explanation of the character ài:

Etymology: In traditional Chinese, people write this character as "愛 (ài)." Now it is simplified to "爱 (ài)." The parts of "爫" and"夂" both mean actions. "心 (xīn)" means heart. So the Chinese character "爱" or "愛" means to love people through your actions and with your heart.

"To love people through your actions and with your heart." For those people--all people--are God's manifestation. Life is just an opportunity to honor and love God, and we should never miss a beat. That might just be the one tattoo I would get: Opportunity. "Love" is a nice, inspirational sign. "Opportunity" would be better. "Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed" (2 Kings 13:18). And Elisha became angry with Joash, because the arrows were prophetically opportunities to throw off darkness by the Light of Life--the Holy Ghost. "I'll take just three opportunities." "There will be a lot more!" Take all the opportunities you can.

Saving up your money for a rainy day
Givin' all your clothes to charity
Last night the wife said, "Oh boy, when you're dead
You don't take nothing with you but your soul
Think!"
- Ballad of John and Yoko

I have missed a LOT of opportunities in my life. I hope to miss less.

Satanism

It is not lost on me that one's supposed secretive control over another is the very definition of Satanism.

From LostNomad: "2005 Elite Insider Interview From ATS"

I received a comment by LostNomad on my post "Bill Donahue is Teaching What the Church was Supposed to Teach." I visited Lost Nomad's site and found an interesting, uh, "interview": "2005 Elite insider Interview from ATS." If you are a fan of and understand Neville Goddard's teachings, you may be able to follow and get something out of Insider's cryptic explanations.

PS: By the way, the hidden hand is a signal of alignment with a particular secret society.