The Unalloyed

From Neville's lecture the Unalloyed there is a sentence that keeps coming back to me, I had listened to this lecture many many times I can almost recite it by heart, but this words have always stuck with me " if the journey seems long is because the children of Israel forget to keep the tense". I am not I was or I will be.
How am I keeping the tense and how I identify the faculties ( children of Israel) of mind in me? But first and foremost am I playing the role of Israel?
Neville also asks in this lecture " for how long are you going to go limping between 2 opinions? if Baal is God then follow him if I Am is God then follow him"
Israel' s choice is to follow I Am. Jacob received the blessing, the light of understanding, that the real Self is the inner self, the invisible Me whose name is I Am. And I Am has a dwelling place. A home called the Kingdom of Heaven, and doesn't our home reflect our nature? Isn't it home where we let go and can be ourselves.? So I am at "home" naturally is life, wisdom,love, peace, substance, strength, power. Israel makes the choice of following Baal, ignorance and fear or affirms the power of I Am and for this I rule my mind as the Lord, " beholding the mountains full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha" ( spiritual I am) II Kings 6.
So this is when the journey begins, I make the choice as Israel.
My children, the mind faculties need to keep the tense, I rule over them to acknowledge my name: I Am already that which I desire to be.

Jacob had twelve sons and each one have a metaphysical meaning representing a faculty of the mind, a faculty is a natural ability or power, already existing but it needs to be nurtured and developed , so I am starting with the first four sons and see I they are keeping the first person present tense :

Reuben : faith as in discernment, sight, in the outer " for Jehova hath LOOKED upon my affliction"
This is what his mother said of Reuben when he was born, so I look at the outer, not as Annabelle but as Jehova, the experience in the outer has one cause and look within to locate the cause, the concept I am has given life to, the self begotten son I had given to the world, if my experience is my offspring then I am the cause. It really does matter why or how this concept came to be my identity, discernment does not need to become a therapy session, if the memory of the why hinders my ability to move forward in my journey then I revise it. Period. I am following I Am, the inner journey, the realm of Spirit not Baal with its impermanent and changeable shadows and human point of view reasoning. Oprah' s. "aha " moment so to speak.

Simeon : " Jehova has HEARD that I am hated" so I am heard the cause, if I am not the one whom I desire to be is because I am not being love. If I am the one who I desire to be now and feel the reality of it, then I am dwelling living and having my being in love. The feeling of being in love and being loved back by our beloved is the mountain top feeling , the highest of all highs.
I am so loved by my own very self and I love my powerful sense of being so much that I now give myself the desire of my heart. Simeon means hear and obey, so hearing is not good enough, we must obey, if understanding with its light has made clear to us who the cause of our experienced is then we must obey this spirit of understanding and see ourselves as Jehova. Jehova looked, Jehova heard.

Levi : " now this time my husband be joined unto me" we are joined to what we love. Am I loving my God, with all my heart, might and soul? The power of feeling. Is my feeling of being that one I desire to be enough to bringing it into being? So I need to start at the beginning , God.
Do I believe in a god? Do I believe in a greater mind in a world greater than this physical reality? Do I believe that there is power and wisdom housed in me? Do I believe in scripture and the wonderful promise that I am awakening to discover that I am the sustainer and creator of all I see?
The Lord told Moses not to make graven images, meaning not to make mental pictures of God A long bearded King in the sky looking down on me, most of the time in dissaproval, is an image that from time to time flashes in my mind even after all this years, when it does if allow it to be my graven image of Who God is then I worship that false image of who I am. Instead I take a deep breath and simply acknowledge that the one that breaths, Me, is God. Do I exist? I must certainly do. But who Am I? So yes I exist, but who I am really? So it is basically a matter if identity.
So I go back to Reuben , judgement and discernment. Sitting quietly I take one area of my life. Observe the concept I hold on that subject ( opinions, like dislikes what my mother told me about it) and see how many of those concepts have BECOME physical events in my world. If I can match them am I not their Father? So which concepts am I going to love and give my full attention as I would a lover?

Judah : "this time I will praise Jehova". Praising and thanksgiving for I know I am that which I desired to be. If feeling anything else than gratitude the I am not keeping the tense.

More on this subject later

Annabelle

Faith -how to awaken Peter

Neville Goddard 11-28-1969


THE AWAKENING OF FAITH



Those who experience the Christian mystery are charged with the responsibility of telling others. Their aim is the awakening of faith in God. For, as Paul, I ask the question: "How can men call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how can they hear unless there is a preacher? And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!' But not all have heeded the gospel, for Isaiah says, 'Who, O Lord, has believed what he has heard from us?' So, faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes from the preaching of Christ."

Now Christ is not a person outside of you who lived 2,000 years ago. Christ is the cosmic being who became humanity by burying himself in every child born of woman. Ask the average person if they believe in God and many of them will say, Yes. But when asked to define Him, they will describe someone other than themselves. So, "How can men call upon one in whom they do not believe?"

I tell you: the only God in the universe is your own wonderful human imagination. When you say: "I am,” that is God. There is no other God other than he who is encased in the limitation of your little garment of flesh. How can you call upon him, when you do not believe you are he? And how can you believe in him of whom you have never heard? What preacher ever told you that your own wonderful human imagination is God? They paint a word picture of a god outside of you, but that is not the true God. And when someone comes and tells you who He really is, the idea is blasphemous. No one wants to believe that he is creating the conditions of his life; but God is the only causative power, as there is nothing but God. Everything is caused by Imagination. He is the only reality. So, how can you believe in him of whom you have never heard? And how can you hear of him unless there is a preacher? And how can there be a preacher unless he is sent?

This morning's paper contained an article saying that scientists have discovered that the so-called throne Peter was to have sat upon 2,000 years ago is only 900 years old. They have now taken the chair out of its encasement, but are keeping it as a holy relic, when it was never any more than a piece of wood upon which some self-appointed nut sat while calling himself the emperor, the pope, or holy one. But now after a thousand years of nonsense the truth has been revealed. What are we going to do when man does not want to hear the truth that he is responsible for his own life, that his imagination is the only God?

When you look out on the world you may think you had nothing to do with its creation, but you did. You do not know it yet, because its purpose has not been revealed to you. But by the restriction and limitation of your own creative power, you became your created world that you may expand beyond it and create a still greater world for even further expansion of yourself. God is ever expanding his illumination. He took upon himself the limit of contraction called man, the limit of opacity called man, that he may break the limitation and expand. That's the glory of it all.

I have experienced scripture and am under an obligation to tell it. Like Jeremiah, "If I say, 'I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,' there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my being, and I am weary with holding it in and I cannot." I must share my experience with others to encourage all to believe in God, but it is my responsibility to tell them who God is.

When men believe the characters of scripture to be historically true, they are taking truth and modifying it to the limitation of the weakness of the human soul. They are not characters of history, but personifications of the aspects of the human mind. This is true from Jesus, down. Jesus is the personification of the fulfillment of the plan that you set up in the beginning of time. Having created the plan before the world came into being, you and I entered our creation. Jesus is the fulfillment of our plan. When his story fulfills itself in you, you must tell your brothers who are sound asleep, to wean them from the nonsense told year after year of some external God to whom they must pay homage, when there is no external God. It is Christ in Man who is his hope of glory, and Christ is God's plan of redemption which was set up before that the world was. That plan is in the depth of every being, waiting to be awakened and fulfilled.

Now we are told that the Pattern Man said: "Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." Put the little word "is" in this sentence as: "Unless you believe that 'I am' is he, you will die in your sins." Those who heard that statement did not know that he was speaking of the Father, but the Father is the cause. Just as your father is the cause of you - for without a father you could not be, so must all life be fathered. So I say to you: "Unless you believe that your I am is the father of your life, you will continue to miss your goals in life." Your I AMness is the Lord Jesus Christ and there is no other. How do I know this to be true? Read his story as told in the gospels.

Having been born from above, he said: "I am from above and you are from below. Where I am going you cannot now come." Why? Because, having fulfilled scripture he is returning to the source with the knowledge that he is the source. It isn't that you will not come, but that you cannot come until you have fulfilled what you agreed to fulfill before that the world was.

You and I agreed to dream in concert and we will not break our pledge to each other. We came down from heaven and descended right into our creation, where we are playing the parts we agreed to play, and as long as we think of God as another we are sound asleep. But when the time is fulfilled, one is sent to awaken his sleeping brothers, saying: "He who sees me, sees him who sent me, for I sent myself." And who am I? I am the one you call God. I call him Father, for, having found him I know that He and I are one.

We are told that the one who was sent was called Paul. It was Paul who spent his days from morning to evening testifying to the kingdom of heaven and trying to convince all to whom he spoke about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets. Some were convinced by what he said, while others disbelieved. But he welcomed everyone who came. That's all I can do.

Having had the same experiences as Paul, all I can tell you is what I have experienced. I know that Jesus Christ is the only reality. He is God the Father, housed in you as your awareness of being. You will know this to be true the day you are possessed by a peculiar vibration which scripture calls "wind", saying: "The wind blows where it will and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell whence it comes or whether it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." When the wind possesses you, your entire body will vibrate and you will awaken in the tomb where you buried yourself, to realize that no man took your life; you laid it down yourself. That you have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again. You laid your creative power down within your own creation (which is Man), for "Eternity exists and all things in Eternity independent of Creation which was an act of Mercy." Man is part of the eternal structure of the universe and you laid yourself down within Man. That was your act of mercy.

Now, I would like to change the word "creation" to "re-creation", for it is a transcending of one's own creation. I, Divine Imagination, came down into my own creation, and by recreating it I transcend it to awaken myself from this body of death. One day you, too, will awaken within your skull to find yourself entombed. You will come out to find the symbolism of scripture concerning the birth of Jesus Christ surrounding you. But it's all about you, not another, for you are Jesus Christ, coming out of Golgotha - your own skull. The babe wrapped in swaddling clothes will be there and those who witness your birth are there; but they cannot see you, as you are now God's begotten and God is Spirit. Jesus Christ is a pattern, buried in you, which you will experience one day; then you will know that the Bible is your own personal, spiritual biography.

Let men have their so-called holy relics and all the other things, and forgive them as they do not know what they are doing. They are the blind leaders of the blind. The other day someone asked me if the Bible was all I ever talked about. They thought it was very limited and monotonous, but I find it a never-ending mystery.

I preach Christ crucified on humanity, not on some little piece of wood in the Near East 2,000 years ago. There never was any man who was crucified in that manner. Oh, we have insane men, like our Hitlers and Stalins, who will crucify a man because of his belief. In our own land men have hung other men on trees thinking they are doing God's business; but that's not the story of Christ, for he became humanity that humanity may become God.

Now, no one ascends into heaven but he who first descended from heaven, the son of man. Buried in you is that son, who is going to come out of you; and, coming out of you, he is the son of man, one with the one who descended from heaven, who is God. Listen carefully: "I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star." Yes, I am the root, the father of David; yet I am David's offspring. So the father of David and the offspring of David are one and the same being. David, the symbol of humanity, always does the Father's will. Everyone and everything here is doing the Father's will. Say "I am.” That's the Father. Condition your "I am" by saying "I am prosperous" and you are doing the Father's will.

In the 3rd chapter of the Book of Samuel (the word "Samuel" in Hebrew means, "his name is God" (Sam-u-el), the Lord spoke to the boy Samuel, saying: "Those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me, they shall be lightly esteemed." In other words, your concept of yourself is either your honor or your dishonor. If you feel little when you meet someone, you are dishonoring God. Have you ever met anyone you thought more important than you? He may be richer, bigger, stronger, or more handsome. He may be everything you think you are not; but if you felt small in his presence because he had more money, was wiser, stronger, or better dressed than you, you are dishonoring God, as God's name is I AM. And "He who honors me, I will honor, and he who despises me shall be lightly esteemed."

The boy Samuel, believing God to be another, heard a voice seemingly coming from without; so he went to the prophet Elijah (which means "My God") and he was told to go back and dream again. This he did only to repeat the dream. Three times he heard the voice calling him, until he knew who the Lord was and grew into his oneness to become the great prophet.

The Samuel in you speaks, saying: "Those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed." If you feel inferior towards anyone you are despising the name of God, which is "I am." Don't let anyone make you feel little. They may try to do it, but only if you feel small already. If you don't feel little it does not matter what or who they are. You may not have a nickel in your pocket, but you won't feel little when you know that God is your imagination. You can't be more than God, so you are God. Do not walk the earth in an arrogant way, but never let anyone put you down.

I was born on a little island called Barbados. The island is just like a large farm, where everything is planted in order to produce a dollar. We planted sugar cane from which we received its produce of molasses, rum, etc. When I was a child we had no chemical fertilizers. The animal products called manure were used to put life back into the fields. When we would scatter this on the field to fertilize it, we would call it broadcasting. (This was long before telephones, radio, or television.) Now we have a broadcasting industry which tells us that we will lose our hair, teeth, and everything, if we don't buy a certain product. Isn't that BS? And then from BS they go to MS (that's more of the same thing as it's piled higher and higher). That's the world, so let no one here make you feel little. You are God! He is buried in you as your own wonderful human imagination.

In the 13th chapter of 2 Corinthians, Paul invites you to test God, saying: "Come, test yourself. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" That's quite a challenge. If Jesus Christ is in you and you know he is your human imagination, which you believe creates reality, you can test him by imagining that you are what - at the moment - your reason denies and your senses deny. Now, can you believe in your imagination? Can you awaken your faith in the true God who is your human imagination? Try it. Walk as though you were the person you desire to be. Ask yourself how you would feel if it were true, for feeling creates life. This is brought out in scripture. We are told that Isaac was blind when he said: "Come close, my son, that I may feel you." He could not see what he was assuming, so he sought the feeling. Throughout scripture you find the blind father calling his son to be felt and touched. When Joseph placed his sons before Jacob (who admitted being blind), he crossed his hands as he blessed the boys, then justified his act.

Now I ask you: what would the feeling be like if your desire could be felt? How would you feel now if you were the man you want to be? Catch the feeling and believe in Jesus Christ, knowing he is your imagination. Everything is possible to imagine, but it takes faith to create its reality. Just as I said earlier: first you must hear then acceptance will come through faith.

How can men call upon him in whom they have not believed? The average person does not believe in himself. Before I wrote the first chapter in my book, Your Faith is Your Fortune, I wrote one little line saying: "Man's faith in God is measured by his confidence in himself." I can't tell you what criticism I have had because of that statement; but it's still there, for I know it is true. Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself, because your true self is God. So, how could a man call upon himself when he does not believe in himself? And how can he believe when he has never been told? And how can he be told unless there is a preacher? And how can there be a preacher unless he is sent? So one who has experienced scripture is sent, as I have been sent.

So I say to you: you don't owe anything to anyone because God Himself became you. Even though you can't pay rent and you haven't eaten much today, within you is the being who owns the universe, who created and sustains it. His name is "I am.” Rather than calling upon his name, call with his name, by saying: "I am free, I am wealthy; I am rich, and I am healthy." The "I am" that you are is the creative power of the universe.

I have personally experienced the story of Jesus Christ in detail, so I know what I am talking about. I am not theorizing. Christ in you is God's plan of salvation and God in you is your "I am." When you experience the story of Jesus Christ it will be in the first person, singular, present tense. You don't see another. You are the one who first resurrects and is born, as scripture unfolds itself within you. I stand before you as a witness and, like Paul, I spend my last days from morning to night testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince everyone that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets. You came here only to fulfill scripture. Christ is in you and must fulfill himself in you, so let no one make you feel little, and don't you feel arrogant.

I cannot meet anyone I do not respect. He may be the one who shines my shoes but he is God. I am shining my own shoes in the being who is doing it and I respect him. He has to pay rent, buy food and clothing. Just because he plays the part of shining shoes doesn't mean he is less than. Behind these masks we are all brothers. I knew you before that the world was. At that time we were one being who is God. We are made up of a brotherhood of infinite brothers. Yet, in spite of the number we will all know each other individually and distinctly, as we return to the one being. We came down and became fragmented into our own creation. We are going back to the one being we really are, who is God the Father. You are He and one day you are going to know it from experience.

Now let us go into the silence.




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Neville Goddard 11-28-1969


THE AWAKENING OF FAITH



Those who experience the Christian mystery are charged with the responsibility of telling others. Their aim is the awakening of faith in God. For, as Paul, I ask the question: "How can men call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how can they hear unless there is a preacher? And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who preach good news!' But not all have heeded the gospel, for Isaiah says, 'Who, O Lord, has believed what he has heard from us?' So, faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes from the preaching of Christ."

Now Christ is not a person outside of you who lived 2,000 years ago. Christ is the cosmic being who became humanity by burying himself in every child born of woman. Ask the average person if they believe in God and many of them will say, Yes. But when asked to define Him, they will describe someone other than themselves. So, "How can men call upon one in whom they do not believe?"

I tell you: the only God in the universe is your own wonderful human imagination. When you say: "I am,” that is God. There is no other God other than he who is encased in the limitation of your little garment of flesh. How can you call upon him, when you do not believe you are he? And how can you believe in him of whom you have never heard? What preacher ever told you that your own wonderful human imagination is God? They paint a word picture of a god outside of you, but that is not the true God. And when someone comes and tells you who He really is, the idea is blasphemous. No one wants to believe that he is creating the conditions of his life; but God is the only causative power, as there is nothing but God. Everything is caused by Imagination. He is the only reality. So, how can you believe in him of whom you have never heard? And how can you hear of him unless there is a preacher? And how can there be a preacher unless he is sent?

This morning's paper contained an article saying that scientists have discovered that the so-called throne Peter was to have sat upon 2,000 years ago is only 900 years old. They have now taken the chair out of its encasement, but are keeping it as a holy relic, when it was never any more than a piece of wood upon which some self-appointed nut sat while calling himself the emperor, the pope, or holy one. But now after a thousand years of nonsense the truth has been revealed. What are we going to do when man does not want to hear the truth that he is responsible for his own life, that his imagination is the only God?

When you look out on the world you may think you had nothing to do with its creation, but you did. You do not know it yet, because its purpose has not been revealed to you. But by the restriction and limitation of your own creative power, you became your created world that you may expand beyond it and create a still greater world for even further expansion of yourself. God is ever expanding his illumination. He took upon himself the limit of contraction called man, the limit of opacity called man, that he may break the limitation and expand. That's the glory of it all.

I have experienced scripture and am under an obligation to tell it. Like Jeremiah, "If I say, 'I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,' there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my being, and I am weary with holding it in and I cannot." I must share my experience with others to encourage all to believe in God, but it is my responsibility to tell them who God is.

When men believe the characters of scripture to be historically true, they are taking truth and modifying it to the limitation of the weakness of the human soul. They are not characters of history, but personifications of the aspects of the human mind. This is true from Jesus, down. Jesus is the personification of the fulfillment of the plan that you set up in the beginning of time. Having created the plan before the world came into being, you and I entered our creation. Jesus is the fulfillment of our plan. When his story fulfills itself in you, you must tell your brothers who are sound asleep, to wean them from the nonsense told year after year of some external God to whom they must pay homage, when there is no external God. It is Christ in Man who is his hope of glory, and Christ is God's plan of redemption which was set up before that the world was. That plan is in the depth of every being, waiting to be awakened and fulfilled.

Now we are told that the Pattern Man said: "Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." Put the little word "is" in this sentence as: "Unless you believe that 'I am' is he, you will die in your sins." Those who heard that statement did not know that he was speaking of the Father, but the Father is the cause. Just as your father is the cause of you - for without a father you could not be, so must all life be fathered. So I say to you: "Unless you believe that your I am is the father of your life, you will continue to miss your goals in life." Your I AMness is the Lord Jesus Christ and there is no other. How do I know this to be true? Read his story as told in the gospels.

Having been born from above, he said: "I am from above and you are from below. Where I am going you cannot now come." Why? Because, having fulfilled scripture he is returning to the source with the knowledge that he is the source. It isn't that you will not come, but that you cannot come until you have fulfilled what you agreed to fulfill before that the world was.

You and I agreed to dream in concert and we will not break our pledge to each other. We came down from heaven and descended right into our creation, where we are playing the parts we agreed to play, and as long as we think of God as another we are sound asleep. But when the time is fulfilled, one is sent to awaken his sleeping brothers, saying: "He who sees me, sees him who sent me, for I sent myself." And who am I? I am the one you call God. I call him Father, for, having found him I know that He and I are one.

We are told that the one who was sent was called Paul. It was Paul who spent his days from morning to evening testifying to the kingdom of heaven and trying to convince all to whom he spoke about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets. Some were convinced by what he said, while others disbelieved. But he welcomed everyone who came. That's all I can do.

Having had the same experiences as Paul, all I can tell you is what I have experienced. I know that Jesus Christ is the only reality. He is God the Father, housed in you as your awareness of being. You will know this to be true the day you are possessed by a peculiar vibration which scripture calls "wind", saying: "The wind blows where it will and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell whence it comes or whether it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." When the wind possesses you, your entire body will vibrate and you will awaken in the tomb where you buried yourself, to realize that no man took your life; you laid it down yourself. That you have the power to lay it down and the power to lift it up again. You laid your creative power down within your own creation (which is Man), for "Eternity exists and all things in Eternity independent of Creation which was an act of Mercy." Man is part of the eternal structure of the universe and you laid yourself down within Man. That was your act of mercy.

Now, I would like to change the word "creation" to "re-creation", for it is a transcending of one's own creation. I, Divine Imagination, came down into my own creation, and by recreating it I transcend it to awaken myself from this body of death. One day you, too, will awaken within your skull to find yourself entombed. You will come out to find the symbolism of scripture concerning the birth of Jesus Christ surrounding you. But it's all about you, not another, for you are Jesus Christ, coming out of Golgotha - your own skull. The babe wrapped in swaddling clothes will be there and those who witness your birth are there; but they cannot see you, as you are now God's begotten and God is Spirit. Jesus Christ is a pattern, buried in you, which you will experience one day; then you will know that the Bible is your own personal, spiritual biography.

Let men have their so-called holy relics and all the other things, and forgive them as they do not know what they are doing. They are the blind leaders of the blind. The other day someone asked me if the Bible was all I ever talked about. They thought it was very limited and monotonous, but I find it a never-ending mystery.

I preach Christ crucified on humanity, not on some little piece of wood in the Near East 2,000 years ago. There never was any man who was crucified in that manner. Oh, we have insane men, like our Hitlers and Stalins, who will crucify a man because of his belief. In our own land men have hung other men on trees thinking they are doing God's business; but that's not the story of Christ, for he became humanity that humanity may become God.

Now, no one ascends into heaven but he who first descended from heaven, the son of man. Buried in you is that son, who is going to come out of you; and, coming out of you, he is the son of man, one with the one who descended from heaven, who is God. Listen carefully: "I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star." Yes, I am the root, the father of David; yet I am David's offspring. So the father of David and the offspring of David are one and the same being. David, the symbol of humanity, always does the Father's will. Everyone and everything here is doing the Father's will. Say "I am.” That's the Father. Condition your "I am" by saying "I am prosperous" and you are doing the Father's will.

In the 3rd chapter of the Book of Samuel (the word "Samuel" in Hebrew means, "his name is God" (Sam-u-el), the Lord spoke to the boy Samuel, saying: "Those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me, they shall be lightly esteemed." In other words, your concept of yourself is either your honor or your dishonor. If you feel little when you meet someone, you are dishonoring God. Have you ever met anyone you thought more important than you? He may be richer, bigger, stronger, or more handsome. He may be everything you think you are not; but if you felt small in his presence because he had more money, was wiser, stronger, or better dressed than you, you are dishonoring God, as God's name is I AM. And "He who honors me, I will honor, and he who despises me shall be lightly esteemed."

The boy Samuel, believing God to be another, heard a voice seemingly coming from without; so he went to the prophet Elijah (which means "My God") and he was told to go back and dream again. This he did only to repeat the dream. Three times he heard the voice calling him, until he knew who the Lord was and grew into his oneness to become the great prophet.

The Samuel in you speaks, saying: "Those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed." If you feel inferior towards anyone you are despising the name of God, which is "I am." Don't let anyone make you feel little. They may try to do it, but only if you feel small already. If you don't feel little it does not matter what or who they are. You may not have a nickel in your pocket, but you won't feel little when you know that God is your imagination. You can't be more than God, so you are God. Do not walk the earth in an arrogant way, but never let anyone put you down.

I was born on a little island called Barbados. The island is just like a large farm, where everything is planted in order to produce a dollar. We planted sugar cane from which we received its produce of molasses, rum, etc. When I was a child we had no chemical fertilizers. The animal products called manure were used to put life back into the fields. When we would scatter this on the field to fertilize it, we would call it broadcasting. (This was long before telephones, radio, or television.) Now we have a broadcasting industry which tells us that we will lose our hair, teeth, and everything, if we don't buy a certain product. Isn't that BS? And then from BS they go to MS (that's more of the same thing as it's piled higher and higher). That's the world, so let no one here make you feel little. You are God! He is buried in you as your own wonderful human imagination.

In the 13th chapter of 2 Corinthians, Paul invites you to test God, saying: "Come, test yourself. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?" That's quite a challenge. If Jesus Christ is in you and you know he is your human imagination, which you believe creates reality, you can test him by imagining that you are what - at the moment - your reason denies and your senses deny. Now, can you believe in your imagination? Can you awaken your faith in the true God who is your human imagination? Try it. Walk as though you were the person you desire to be. Ask yourself how you would feel if it were true, for feeling creates life. This is brought out in scripture. We are told that Isaac was blind when he said: "Come close, my son, that I may feel you." He could not see what he was assuming, so he sought the feeling. Throughout scripture you find the blind father calling his son to be felt and touched. When Joseph placed his sons before Jacob (who admitted being blind), he crossed his hands as he blessed the boys, then justified his act.

Now I ask you: what would the feeling be like if your desire could be felt? How would you feel now if you were the man you want to be? Catch the feeling and believe in Jesus Christ, knowing he is your imagination. Everything is possible to imagine, but it takes faith to create its reality. Just as I said earlier: first you must hear then acceptance will come through faith.

How can men call upon him in whom they have not believed? The average person does not believe in himself. Before I wrote the first chapter in my book, Your Faith is Your Fortune, I wrote one little line saying: "Man's faith in God is measured by his confidence in himself." I can't tell you what criticism I have had because of that statement; but it's still there, for I know it is true. Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself, because your true self is God. So, how could a man call upon himself when he does not believe in himself? And how can he believe when he has never been told? And how can he be told unless there is a preacher? And how can there be a preacher unless he is sent? So one who has experienced scripture is sent, as I have been sent.

So I say to you: you don't owe anything to anyone because God Himself became you. Even though you can't pay rent and you haven't eaten much today, within you is the being who owns the universe, who created and sustains it. His name is "I am.” Rather than calling upon his name, call with his name, by saying: "I am free, I am wealthy; I am rich, and I am healthy." The "I am" that you are is the creative power of the universe.

I have personally experienced the story of Jesus Christ in detail, so I know what I am talking about. I am not theorizing. Christ in you is God's plan of salvation and God in you is your "I am." When you experience the story of Jesus Christ it will be in the first person, singular, present tense. You don't see another. You are the one who first resurrects and is born, as scripture unfolds itself within you. I stand before you as a witness and, like Paul, I spend my last days from morning to night testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince everyone that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets. You came here only to fulfill scripture. Christ is in you and must fulfill himself in you, so let no one make you feel little, and don't you feel arrogant.

I cannot meet anyone I do not respect. He may be the one who shines my shoes but he is God. I am shining my own shoes in the being who is doing it and I respect him. He has to pay rent, buy food and clothing. Just because he plays the part of shining shoes doesn't mean he is less than. Behind these masks we are all brothers. I knew you before that the world was. At that time we were one being who is God. We are made up of a brotherhood of infinite brothers. Yet, in spite of the number we will all know each other individually and distinctly, as we return to the one being. We came down and became fragmented into our own creation. We are going back to the one being we really are, who is God the Father. You are He and one day you are going to know it from experience.

Now let us go into the silence.

Be still know now

Just as it is, all is well, the nature of the self is always being expressed and it is good . The nature of the self is wonderful, migthy counselor, the Father of all, the prince of peace.
Abide in the self, the invisible I , the nature of this I will reveal itself , be still. It is wonderful.
Instructions are given, " my sheep hears my voice", revelating whom is the Cause Of all things, the peace that brings down the walls of the literal mind is pushing out all that is not natural.
I Am that I Am, there is not another.

Me a name I call my Self

That was my line on the Sound of Music 4th grade play, the song and the movie are just a few of my favorite things. The memory of me as a chubby 10 year old wearing a maxi dress made specially for this performance came back to me as I listened to this lecture by Freedom Barry called “Experience”, it startled me as I listened to him give a name to Causation :Me. It startled me because the psyche, the personification of the Being as me, has not caught up to the intellectual acceptance of Causation as Me. There is great value in self inquiry or vichara as an effective technique for metanoia, it is the great tool that Tolle describes in the power of now, but the experience of Self’s true nature is not enough, hopefully I will be proven wrong, there has to be a movement of Self, an ascending is not enough, to appropiate is the act of mercy that Blake talks about when he says “eternity exists and all things in eternity, independent of creation which was an act of mercy”.

Me, Cause, the kingdom of heaven that is at hand, closer to me that my hands and feet, even closer than breath, and that Being that is Cause is a four fold being which must appropiate the ideal in all four level: spirit, mind, emotions and flesh, but to succeed as a friend of mine used to tell me “start from the top”. Recognizing the Being is first, going back to Cause is first, loving Cause with all my mind, with all soul with all my heart, that is the command, the recognition by all levels of Being of who is Causation.

Me, a name I call My Self.

http://certainworld.com/f12/experience.htm

Lost and Found, Home at last

The Creation of the World

1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
              

                Ontology,: A class manual in fundamental metaphysics  

                  There is only One Mind, One Being, God is Mind

                  "Heaven" means concept and the sum total of all ideas

                  "Earth " is manifestation, also consisting of thoughts.

     "Water," whether in earth, or under or above the earth, is also thought.

   

   

The Creation Process based on the  Ontology Manual,   Neville-Goddard-Creation-Faith,  Walter Lanyon's I Came and lectures of Abraham-Hicks.

“In the beginning God” Genesis I

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelled IN us” Gospel of John

BE CONVERTED 

• First, you realize that all is Mind and Mind's ideas manifested.

• Second, you realize that both Constructive and negative thoughts cannot proceed from the same source. "The same fountain does not send forth both sweet water and bitter." (James 3:11)

• Third, you realize that you have the wisdom necessary to identify thoughts and the capacity and intelligence to distinguish Constructive Thoughts from negative.

• Fourth, you realize and declare that You have the power to direct Constructive thoughts and the ability to rule out and replace any negative thoughts that may offer themselves to you for acceptance.

• Fifth, you realize and declare that YOU are Intrinsic mind filling all place and creating and directing all ideas and their manifestations.

• Sixth, you realize and declare that you can SEE your concepts, and their manifestations, and that you can see that all ideas are operating harmoniously and that they are good.

The First Day :

"Let there be light." That is, "Let there be wisdom and understanding, in order that I may perceive these concept and comprehend them. And there is wisdom and understanding. And I see that it is good. And I call this Wisdom : Day. And the absence of this Wisdom I call Night." This concludes the "first day."

All is Mind and all ideas are manifested,  the mental equivalent of and idea is reflected in the world which is nothing but a shadow.

Assignment , read Genesis 1.   

Tools:

Metaphysical Bible Dictionary

Strong Concordance

Peace, be still

The argument ceases, it is beyond human understanding and opinions.
Peace that brings down the walls built by human personality, it can be experienced in eternity, NOW.

Feeling is the secret

It works

Lucero Espiritual

“lucero espiritual eres mas alto que el hombre yo no se donde se esconde en este mundo historial” Juancho Polo Valencia


En este mundo creado por nuestras historias buscamos el Lucero Espiritual, la estrella del universo, escondido en el mundo historial ahi es donde esta. Calla, Aquietate, aqui en el mundo donde estas , estoy Yo, Yo Soy el Lucero Espiritual, iluminando el universo,


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJrfoycgoI

The law and its operation

Taken from Resurrection by Neville Goddard

Consciousness is the one and only reality. The cause of all manifestation.

Conciousness is "divided" in two parts:
The conscious mind, that generates ideas and the subconscious that receives the ideas that man knows to be true and makes them into form. The conscious mind is what man knows, the subconscious mind is what man is.

Through man's power to think and feel and his freedom to choose the idea he will entertain he has power over all creation.

Imagination is the ability to think and feel, a controlled imagination is necessary to control the ideas we want accepted by the subconscious.

The subconscious transcend reason, it contemplates a feeling as a fact existing within itself and on this assumption proceeds to give expression to it.

Through the medium of feeling ideas are impressed on the subconscious, which is the womb of creation.

Based on the above, which I have tested with success, I consider the following to be wise advise from Abraham-Hicks " folks you have to care about the way you feel". Creative visualization, is very effective if the tones reality are intense enough, which is the key to plant the chosen idea on the subconscious. How to do this? I only know one way : practice, practice , practice.

Past and future Are all in the NOW

The Law Of Inverse Transformation By Joseph Murphy

Consciousness is the one and only reality

“The way to use your imagination creatively is this. Relax in a chair or on a bed and close your eyes. First
determine what it is you wish to experience. Then, in this state of complete relaxation, bring to mind the end
result of what it is you desire. In other words, if you were seeking a promotion at work, the end result might
be that people would congratulate you on your promotion. You might move to a larger office. You would
enjoy an increase in pay. Take any one of these events and, with your eyes closed, actually hear your friends
congratulate you on your promotion. Feel their hand in yours as they tell you how happy they are for you. By
actually feeling that you are being congratulated, your imagination will go to work to bring about that state in
your outer world. You need not be concerned about how this will be accomplished. Your imagination will use
whatever natural means are necessary to bring it about. “I am the beginning and the end.” “My ways are past
finding out.” What you do in imagination is an instantaneous creative act. However, in this three- dimensional
world, events appear in a time sequence. Therefore, it may take a short interval of time to realize in the outer
world what you have just experienced in imagination. After you have performed this act in your imagination,
open your eyes and go about your normal, natural affairs, confident that what you have done must come to
fruition in your world. Make your inner conversations conform to your imaginal act. You have planted a seed
and you will soon see the harvest of that which you have sowed. “ Neville Goddard



http://everano.unitecnologica.edu.co/

It is hot and humid, four weeks, it has been a long time... I’m home. Cartagena has always been home, holder of the secrets, playground for shoeless escapades, a memory eraser, a back bone builder. And still hot as hell... home sweet home.

Fotografia de Catalina Franco Restrepo http://www.catalinafrancor.com/blog/autorayblog/

FREE ONENESS :The Link- The Space Between

From Ask by Walter Lanyon:

THE SPACE BETWEEN


“The space between the cruse of oil and the manifestation of abundance stems from the belief there are vacuities in God. The space between is like the apparent space between electricity and equipment ... nothing can take place until a tiny fuse is inserted and the "space between" is filled. The omnipresence of God needs only this fuse (you) of complete recognition or belief to cause the oil to start flowing and from three drops come barrels of oil. It will not stop flowing as long as there is an empty measure.
All this lovely symbology is nil until man discovers that he is the fuse: - the thing which fills the space between something and nothing, and causes manifestation to take place. No wonder Jesus stressed the importance of being silent. No wonder He asked you to be absent from the body, and to come out into the ONENESS of spirit wherein you would find FREE ONENESS. Free Oneness is an Oriental expression of oneness with God. Man is then freed from all beliefs of degrees of life. It is wonderful.
So you enter into the Space Between. You are now at the place where the invisible becomes visible. No one believes this. That is why you are told to place the coal of fire on your Lips, and to go within and shut the door. This law is much disobeyed by earnest seekers of the Light who cannot understand why there are no results, and why the oil does not pour. Yes, you are to borrow vessels not a few. And it means just that. You have been living in a world of limitation.
When you enter or become the "Space between" the flow fills everything around you, - and neutralizes the belief so completely that the problem of lack and limitation does not exist in your universe.
Enter into the Place between and let the flow of light come through you and fill all measures not for the sake of self aggrandizement, but for the free oneness of you and God.
Yes, you are the space between ... Enter in and let the flow of LIFE begin to take place. You, yourself, are the answer to prayer. Free ONENESS:
Take it into the sanctuary. Take that word and return unto Jehovah, - the point of power and creation, and see what takes place in the movement of ONENESS when it is freed from the involvement of your human belief, teaching, and thought. You are suddenly a new creature in this light and understand how it is that FREE ONENESS moves by its own power, and has nothing to overcome. It suddenly arrives and IS, and so do you go within and shut the door and stop telling of and about, and begin to experience the action of FREE ONENESS in your own life. Yes, it is like the man who found the pearl of Great Price and bought a field and buried it, after he had let go of all the old worn out cliches and ideas he had picked up from the man whose breath was, and is, in his nostrils. And that buried pearl will illumine the whole earth. Go in - shut the door - put the coal of fire on the lips. IT IS WONDERFUL.”

A mental equation

Ask by Walter Lanyon
"All problems are only mental equations. They have no actuality. They all start with the acceptance of a false equation. Even the problem in arithmetic have to be made up in order that you may return to the place from which you started - the NO PROBLEM-place, The One, Everything in human thought must eventually return to the ONE- Life in the raw- the undesignated substance which is everywhere present and appears when recognizion takes place"

One way to recognize the existance of something is by touch, to touch is to bring closer, to experience, an ideal becomes reality by repetition, by constantly bringing up in us the feeling that would be ours if our ideal were now a fact.

" He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love " Ephesians 1:4

Attitude is the secret

Feeling is an attitude, a consciousness of something, this something may be independent of perception of the physical senses, it is a sentiment that determines our actions, and most importantly the substance that permeates our inner conversations, the monologue that is constantly taking place between self and self. Attitude, Feeling, Neville Goddard says is The Secret. It governs our life.

"through his power to imagine and feel and his freedom to choose the idea he will entertain, man has control over creation. Control of the subconcious is accomplished through control of your ideas and feelings"

Neville describes the subconcious as the female aspect of man's mind, he calls it the "womb of creation", it receives ideas and it gives form and expression to them. Like the soil in a garden may only produce the expression of the seed that has been planted by the gardener, our subconscious mind can only give form to thoughts that our conscious mind accepts as true. The soil nurtures and becomes one with the seed, it covers and protects it, in a process not created by human thinking it gives life to that seed until it blossoms into the full expression of All the tiny little seed was meant to be. So it is with our thoughts. Plant a seed (ideal) in the garden of the mind, nurture it , give it what it needs, water it with attention, affection and appreciation, watch it grow, see it blossom into its highest expression.

Metanoia

From Neville Goddard’s lecture “The Nature of God” :


“To think of the Bible's events as historical, and the characters recorded there as persons such as you and I, is
to see truth tempered to the weakness of the human form, unable to stand the strong light of revelation. But
I tell you: it is in us, as persons, that the nature of God is revealed.

One day, whether you be male or female, you will reach the state of Paul, and your journey in the world of death will come to its end.

Paul is a state you enter when, having been introduced to Christianity or Judaism, the secret behind the
words is revealed. In the state of Paul, you discover you are the Lord Jesus Christ who is God the Father.

Paul says: "When it pleased God to reveal his son in me, I conferred not with flesh and blood."
When the vision is yours, to whom could you turn to ask what they thought of it? They would tell you that you were insane, so you would turn to no man; rather you would abide in the vision and dwell upon it.

The fundamental story of scripture is a metamorphosis - a complete change of form. Like the grub worm is
transformed into the butterfly, so man - as we understand him - is turned into Jesus Christ. And when it
happens in you, there is no one to whom you can turn. It is a fact you cannot deny. Christ will unfold in every child born of woman. He must, for God cannot and will not fail to fulfill his promise in all.

The word "Saul" means "to inquire; to ask." Entering the state of Saul, you are questioning life - its purpose
and plan. Is there a God? Why am I here? Saul's is a questing mind, one which is seeking an answer to the
phenomena of life. This eternal truth is housed in every being who walks the earth. One day you will find Christ as your very being. You who say "I am" before you state your name, will experience all of the eternal, spiritual states spoken of and named in scripture, to arrive at the final state called Paul.

Enter any state and you become that state. While in the state of wealth, everything you touch turns
to gold. In the state of success, you could turn a failing business into a successful one, for in the state of
success you cannot fail.

You are not a success or a failure, but the occupant of a state. Although you remain untouched by any state,
when you enter one, you express it. Put yourself into the state of health, and you must express health. Enter
the state of fame, and no power can stop you from expressing it.

If all things are possible to your imagination, then all things are possible to imagine! How would you act if
God imagined you as you want to be? How would you feel? What would you do? Then do it. Feeling its
reality, have faith in your imaginal act. Desire is your hope. Your imaginal act is your subjective
appropriation of the hope you want to objectify. Now, faith is the link between God's power and your
desire. He doesn't question your desire. He who is all creative power and know-how, simply gives it to you.

That is Christ, he who is defined as the power of God and the wisdom of God.


One day you will enter the state known as Paul; but right now you are Saul, seeking the cause of life, not
knowing it is your very self.

Tonight, set your hope fully upon this grace that is coming to you; for Christ in you is your hope of glory!
Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? Test yourself and see, for all things are possible to him.
Think of something you would like that reason says you cannot have. Now, assume it's yours.
Your assumption, though false in the sense that it is denied by your reasonable mind, if persisted in will
harden into fact. You do not need to know the means that will be employed to bring your assumption to
pass; all you are required to do is persist in your assumption and allow your own wonderful human
imagination to give it to you.

All things are possible to your imagination. It's up to you to provide the necessary link between your
assumption and its fulfillment. That link is faith. Having assumed your desire is fulfilled, your faith in that
assumption will cause it to harden into fact. That is the law.”

Law of reversability

"The acceptance of the end wills the means. And the wisest reflections could not devise more effective means than those which are willed by the acceptance of the end"
Neville Goddard

"In order to change external conditions you must change the cause"
Joseph Murphy

"so it is with the Power within-once you touch the nature, at that moment you receive "whatsoever" you can ask for and it is no miracle or demostration but a natural movement of the unseen in the place of manifestation"
Walter Lanyon

"most people give attention to whatever is in their view and then accept the inevitability of their emotional response to those thoughts...conversely when you think thoughts which you feel passionate or happy or loving or eager you are creating a partnership or relationship with power, clarity and Well-Being"
Abraham-Hicks

Choose Again

Law of Attraction (That which is like unto itself is drawn) is a wonderful thing, because it is responding to the vibration that is within you. And sometimes we know that you feel like you wish you could start over. You wish you could be rid of opinions and attitudes, and points of frustration. You wish that you didn't have to have had that experience that now is affecting the way you feel.

And we're wanting you to take delight in every experience that you have lived, because out of it has been born the new preference. And as you begin, more and more, to turn your attention to the new preference, then the things that you are specifically choosing will dominate the patterns that are unfolding in your experience, and you will proudly proclaim yourself the deliberate creator of your experience.

Ah, it is so much simpler to control your vibration than it is to control the world. And since you, now in your time/space reality, have visual, sensual interaction worldwide, and since you have a news mechanism in place, believing that it is to your advantage that they point out everything going wrong, there has never been a better time in all of the history of physical Beings, focused in this time/space reality, to make a decision that: "Nothing is more important than that I feel good, therefore nothing is more important than that I learn creative control of my own vibration."

Because you live in a Universe that is joy-based, in a Universe that, at the basis of it, is utter Well-Being.

Abraham-Hicks
http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/journal.php?eid=182

The Holographic Universe, a subject worth exploring to understand Law of Attraction, ‘In all thy getting, get wisdom and understanding“.http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html

The Sphere Within

"share in God's inheritance, share in the part of being God, for he is your inheritance, and God is all. You can recreate anything when you know you are the creative power and the creative wisdom of God. This is the gift God is preparing us all to receive"
Neville Goddard

Faith lives in Me, I am the sphere within, the awareness of being, The Son of God, Jesus Christ.

I am that I am - The Story-

'Whatsoever You See ME to Be, That is What You Are'

This morning, one of the Angels told at the table, that when she reached her room in New York one evening, she was rather tired, and sat down to relax for a short time. Almost immediately she had a vision that she was FATHER, and this went on for some time until she awoke from it and found herself separate. FATHER replied as follows: 'When you still your conscious mentality and live unto GOD you will be what you say I AM. Your vision and your conscious concentration will bring into actuality, or into materialization, your conviction and conscious realization of being who you say I AM. When you still your conscious mentality after having made a complete surrender, concentration, consecration and a complete sacrifice, then you will be still consciously, in your preconceived expression. Your mortal consciousness will have been stilled and you will be no more who you think you are, but you will be Whom you think I AM. Now I don't want anyone to misunderstand that and think that I AM Who you say I AM, but you will be who you say I AM. So that does not prove that I AM Who you say I AM, but it proves that you believe that I AM Who you say I AM, and you believe it so vividly, you gaze upon it so vividly, that it tends to reproduce itself in your lives.'
'Now whether I AM what you say I AM or not, that is beside the question. You remember the story of the lion-faced boy that was born with a face just like a lion because his mother was supposed to have seen a real lion before he was born, but that does not say that she did actually see a real lion. The materialists refuse to believe that CHRIST was different from any other man, and they do not believe in His saving power over any other. But you have visualized so vividly and so firmly the CHRIST here, that to you it is true, while to others it is not true. And even the world at large, they believe that you all think it is true and they believe that many are being healed, but as they say, they could not be healed because they do not believe.'
'So you see that is the idea; it is according to one's faith and one's consecration, according to one's sacrifice that he makes, and his stressful believing. You must believe stressfully enough to arouse your internal nature to a high pitch to make the mental and spiritual conception in your nature to produce the actuality of this on the material plane. That is why gestures and suggestions may be stressfully implanted in the soil of your soul and upon your mind that your mind might conceive them, for unless some stress is made in words, deeds and actions it would not take on the average soul or mind. But to make these gestures and suggestions and stressful affirmations and declarations, etc., it will pierce the hardest and most rebellious mind, and it will penetrate into it when these are stressfully employed, or imputed unto you. So that is the thought. Then if you only slightly believe, it will contact the slightest belief and will, no doubt, penetrate that belief and will cause that belief to be impregnated with your belief, and that belief, through that conception will take form. It is Wonderful! So it is a great thing to believe in things that are good, for whether they are true or not, it tends to be true to those that believe stressfully and enthusiastically enough.'
'So as I say, whether you are ME or not, whether I AM Who you say I AM or not, it makes no difference, but if you believe stressfully and enthusiastically, your belief, contacting your inmost nature, will conceive the idea that I AM what I AM and that I AM there, producing and reproducing MYSELF, creating and recreating MYSELF there according to your faith, relaxation; consecration and sacrifice. So you plainly see it is good for one to have a sample and an example to go by. The sample and the example is not always that which will be. The grain of corn that is planted is not the corn that will be, but it is a seed idea. That is why it is called seed corn. Mankind places the idea of the future corn in that grain of corn and in all which he plants, and so be calls it a seed. He has the idea that it is the kind of corn that he desires to bring forth, and because that idea is there, it is a seed idea expressed in the likeness of that which he desires and that seed idea is planted, and when you plant it, you are believing that it will produce fruit after its own kind according to the idea you have of its kind; and so it is with you in spirit and mind. So again I say, whether I AM anything or nothing, whatsoever you see ME to be, that is what you are. When you shall have relaxed your conscious mentality, when you have stilled your conscious mind, then you will be that which you have gazed upon and attracted to yourselves. It is Wonderful !'http://www.libertynet.org/fdipmm/wogr/31wogr08.html

Brandi Carlile The Story , favorite performance of this great song

Life of prayer Neville Goddard and Jose Silva

I have read Neville Goddard's Prayer the Art of Believing many times,  back in 1995 it helped with my understanding of what true prayer really is, an affirmation, a statement of what is already so, not a request to change the mind of the One I am praying to but a process to transform the mind of the One that prays.

The feeling of doubt that lingers in our minds everytime a desire arises starts as children,  we expect our parents to fill our every need and of course they cannot live up to those high standards, no human can,  and we start realizing that perhaps fulfillment of desire is a "hit and miss" kind of thing, those of us raised in religious households, like myself, are taught to pray to God for certain things that are impossible for our parents to give or fix,  only to obtain the same results as with our needs that we think our parents should meet,  sometimes it's "yes", most times is "no".    In this process of asking and most time not receiving the idea of powerlessness begins to take hold of our self image.  The only explanation to this fickle behavior by a god that sometimes is not in the mood to please us (otherwise known as god's will) is that there is no explanation (otherwise known as god's mysterious' ways).

There are many concepts we pick up in life,  we are constantly bombarded with all kind of manipulated and tainted opinions,  the attack comes for everywhere,  well intended sometimes,  but they do not have to be accepted,  and this simple statement is the basis for a life of prayer.  A life of constant and present mind renewal, alert and committed to the life we want to live,  loyal to the ideal "Me".  Prayer is bringing this ideal of who we desire to be closer and closer to the present moment until we no longer feel like an impostor but as the authentic blessed being for whom All things are possible.  By using Neville's techniques of immobilizing the body in a state akin to sleep,  I find the Silva Mind Control Long Relax exercise a good tool,  we quiet  the mind and reach a higher level of awareness (Silva refers to it as Alpha level) that allows for the conscious supplanting of ideas onto the subconscious.  Ideas that are more in alignment with our desire.  To supplant is to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy,  by mastering the art of prayer we may supplant by assumption.  "The earth was formless and empty and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters" (Genesis The Beginning),  by reaching the Alpha level using Silva's method we reach that state of awareness that is formless and empty,  the noise and chatter of our internal dialogue is "paused",  the Spirit of God (Our awareness) alone lingers over infinite psychological states (the bible refers to this states  as "water") and then we assume the feeling that would be ours if we knew that our desired is now realized.  This simple method given to us by Neville if practiced regularly does not fail.  If we ASSUME that our prayer has been answered (Thank You Father for you have heard me and I know that You hear me ALL WAYS).  

Assume :  To take for granted or without proof, definition given by dictionary.com,  this is a pretty tall order for the one that by habit and default thinking have identify and surrender to the world seen with the mortal eye,  that faith,  which is defined by Neville as "loyalty to the unseen reality" and that an absolute requirement to master the art of prayer, only comes with understanding.   That is the first step of creation, "Let There be Light"  let there be wisdom and understanding of who and what we really are.  How much power and control we think we have over our life?  Are we a little worm, begotten by dust and condemned to return to the earth?  Or are we more than that?  Is it possible that there is an unconditional Source of Love that became us and sustain us?  Is it possible that there is a rhyme and reason to our existence after all?  Maybe we are more powerful than we think we are, that just by the fact that "success against all odds" is a sentence that have been used by many to describe actual events that had been catalogued in the realm of the impossible,  then I conclude that yes,  there is more to us that meets the eye, the mortal eye that is.

Prayer The Art Of Believing

Seduced by God

"You and I can contemplate an ideal, and become it by falling in love with it  " Neville Goddard

Mastering the art of doing nothing is hard work,  specially since the work to be done has nothing to do with physical action.  Doing nothing is an act of surrender to love and mystery.  I allow myself to be seduced by Love.  

My mother, my niece and I.   I love them with passion,  it drives me crazy when I notice our shortcomings,   but a smile from any of them makes life sweeter.

  

Seduced by God

Advise from Don Miguel Ruiz for the Dream Master

“By being a dream master, we change as fast as the dream changes. And we adapt to the dream, instead of resisting the dream, and guide the dream in whatever direction we want to.
Rule number one: Don't believe me. I don't want you to believe me but I want you to listen and make choices-- your choices. If what I say doesn't work for you, leave it. but if it works for you and that is what you want, then make it yours.
Rule number two: Don't believe yourself. Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie-- it is not true. And by believing yourself, you create all the imitations that don't allow you to be what you really are. Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say, listen to what you think, listen to what you believe. And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind, open your intelligence and make choices.
Rule number three: Don't believe anybody else. Don't believe them at all. Open your ears and your mind, listen and make choices.
If you follow these three simple rules, you can go anywhere in the world and still protect your new dream of love and heaven in your mind. You have to be aware of what it is that you believe. You have to listen to that voice and make choices.

And that is what my "Four Agreements" are about. They are the way to re-create the dream. And the result is what we call the mastery of love, which is a way to live your life and a way of being, in your own way and with your integrity, just the way you are. It is a dream that is completely love.
But you need to do your work to change your beliefs and your ways. You need to become a dream artist. It is the supreme art that all human beings have.
The Four Agreements: Number one is to be impeccable with your word, which means that you never are going to use the word against yourself. You never go against yourself. The second agreement is: Don't take anything personally. If you don't take anything personally, you will not be offended wherever you go. Because the truth is that whatever people do or don't do, it is not because of you.
Number three is don't make assumptions because the way we learn to dream the dream is based on assumptions. That is how we create all those big dramas. By not creating assumptions, we avoid all those lies-- we recover part of our integrity. And the most important agreement is: Always do your best. For sure, you always can do your best. And your best changes all the time-- when you are sick or tired, your best is different than when you are awake and fresh. But by always doing your best, your are always going to be content with yourself.
If you make the choice to do your best and believe it, that is your best. You have the power to make the choice. And magic begins to happen in your life. This is the mastery of life. This is the goal of the Toltec. This is the path to personal freedom."
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I just noticed

Spring is here I just noticed that birds have been singing louder everyday, my neighbor across the street is building a deck on his backyard by the lake in preparation for the summer months that will be here before we know it. My body is ready for the humidity and unrelenting heat of a summer vacation by the beach, shedding 40 pounds of anguish and self doubt, it happened while doing not much, trusting that in the not doing by choice or by force I would find the stilness of just being. Spring is here, sunny days with the occasional rain that brings a winter like gloomy feeling but the light keeps shining, small victories, pigeon's nest by my window, Saturday afternoon movies, Saga Bay beach watching a little boy frolic and make beleive while the sky grows orange.

Spring is here nobody knows how it happens it just does.

Seduced by God

Angels, Mystics and Saints

If You Don't Know, You Just Don't Know
"I knelt at the So-called tomb of Jesus and prayed. A "Christian" standing beside me said, "Do you believe in that?" I went up the Sainted Stairway in Rome on my knees. A "Christian" beside me said, "Well of all the superstitious persons." I showed some Hollywood party crashers who came to my home one night a lovely, life sized Buddha, and said to them, "If you burn a piece of incense and say a prayer it will come true." They did - and went away telling the world that I was a worshiper of Buddha.
I burned a candle in a CATHOLIC church - knelt and prayed. A person said - what?
If you take nothing with you nothing is there - If you do not understand it doesn't matter.
Anyone who is healed at the Shrine of Lourdes takes with him the Recognition of the Truth - and so - if you don't see you just don't - too bad. "When ye pray believe that ye receive - and that is the LAW. It is not according to the ideas of man.
If you do not know God, you cannot see Him in hell. That's where you need Him most - not in a church house."  Walter Lanyon  excerpt from  2 A.M.

I remember my guardian angel from childhood,  he wore a blue robe had white wings and stood on the nightstand next to my bed for years,  it was the last image in my mind right before I went to sleep, specially the first few nights I started sleeping alone in my room,  it was given to me by my mother,  my 3 brothers each got one but I doubted that they were as devoted to theirs as I was to mine, after all they shared a room and did not have to sleep in the dark by themselves,  it was around this time I started to wish for a sister,  it was lonely being an only girl.  This blue porcelain figure brought me comfort just like many rituals in the catholic faith bring my parents comfort and there is no amount of pedophile priest reporting that would deviate them from the strength needed to go on  that their catholic faith and traditions have given them.  I left the catholic church a long time ago even before the child abuse scandal broke,  I embrace the new thought teachings with passion, ever since I read Norman Vincent Peale's  book about the true nature of God I embarked on a path to prove to myself and my entire family that this suffering in the valley of dead idea could not possibly be God's will,  that this was an invention of our making to explain the unexplainable,   the events that seem to take our breath way and left us feeling secretly blindsided and betrayed by a God that has promise to love us and take care of us,  a God that just in case he couldn't take care of us Himself had a legions of angels and saints as a back up but even with all that help many prayers went unanswered.

So I had put the idea of angels and saint away, discarded along with a big man in the sky taking care of me, god is in me, all is within, the new thought teachers preached from the pulpits, books, worshops, podcast, twitter, or whatever new and advance pulpit technology provides.  I get it,   nothing is "out there",  consciousness is the one and only reality,  I get it.  It is very clear and for the first time I have come to realize that all is sustained by thought,  not that I am in total charge of this manic child that spews thoughts every second of the day but I am getting pretty good at observing and not reacting to every single thought that rises from me.  But there is something that has been missing,  in order to rise in consciousness there has to be an assumption that I am an spiritual being having a human experience in a SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE,  and recognizing the existence of that spiritual universe allows to make contact with Heavenly Creatures, angels, mystics and saints that are willing and available to help, that are ever aware of us and LOVE us,  how could they not if they are present in us as ONE.   It is time for me to let go of religion and get on with Life,  yes there are many traditions from my catholic upbringing that I find useless,  I find religion absurd and a process of brain washing and manipulation but is just part of the "descending" that Neville Goddard's talks about,   in the "ascending" I appropiate the ideas that are useful and provide "an inner crutch",   no longer seeing rituals for the weak or superstitious  mind ,  after all if there is something that has been proven by new and non new "thoughters" is that a thought held in mind produces after its kind,  so what is wrong with an experience that includes angels that lift me up so my feet won't trip on stones?  Sounds good to me!

 Creo en angelitos

who is taking care of me? Who, Me??? Me? umm... ME

Intellectual understanding if the first step to know our own Self,  the mystic is not on blind faith path, it leads nowhere.  The fact that the mystic ASKS for understanding implies that there is that mustard seed size faith that is enough to start the journey,   and that is the beauty of Grace,  that even when not recognized is still present no matter how long it takes us to acknowledge that we are holding the answer to our prayer.  In the metaphysical bible dictionary John The Baptist is described as "high intellectual perception of Truth not yet quickened by Spirit",  occupying this state of mind allows for the understanding asked for in the statement "let there be Light",  clearly the "business of the Father" are to be handled in the flesh,  with eyes open and in every aspect of our life for the Father is Life,  and Life is NOW.    The mind as my servant is overshadowed by ME,   and is now Disciplined Imagination,   thoughts still may feel like wild horses but  they could not drag me away from the place of growing assurance that I know occupy.

As children to be taken care of by a parent is expected,  we can still do that, as we grow in understanding we recognize Who is the Real Parent, we discover who has been "doing" the taking care of.


wild horses could not drag me away

Nadie le quita lo bailado, o lo fumado o lo que se ha disfrutado

Se murio la abuela, Teresa Gutierrez,  memoria de mi juventud en Colombia, no me acuerdo de la trama de la novela en si pero si me acuerdo de que no me perdi un solo capitulo y tengo grabada en mi memoria la figura de Teresa Gutierrez en su vestido negro protagonizando el caracter principal como "La Abuela", recuerdo su voz, fuerte y con tonos masculinos,  siempre lucia rigida como un palo y era el caracter mas diabolico de la television colombiana.  Pues se murio ayer a los 80 y pico, puso su cabeza en el hombro de su nieta como si se fuera a dormir y se durmio... para siempre.  Su hijo dice que Teresa Gutierrez vivio una vida plena, bailo lo que tenia que bailar, fumo lo que tenia que fumar, tuvo los novios que tenia que tener, y trabajo como actriz, su pasion,  desde que empezo la television en Colombia en los 50's hasta el ano pasado.  Se pasaba horas jugando solitario, viendo television,  actuando y amando a su familia, tenia una relacion hermosa con su nieta a la que le toco el privilegio de prestarle el hombro para el descanso final,  no se detalles de esta relacion pero la nieta dijo "me adoraba" en el reportaje que publica el tiempo.  Que hermoso saber que alguien nos adora, que en los ojos de ese alguien no hay nada en nosotros que pueda condenarse.  Quien me adora?

No hay nada mas liberador que saber que el amor que se recibe no tiene razon de ser,  simplemente somos amados por que si, porque existimos,  ni pena ni gloria es requerida.  El dia puede pasar y simplemente me muevo de un punto a otro en mi casa, combinando uno que otro quehacer , un cigarillo en el balcon,  leer... los dias transcurren a veces pesados a veces livianos,  viviendo es los unico que se puede  hacer,  sin esperar por nada,  la vida es plena en este momento.  No hay mas nada hasta que pongamos la cabeza en el hombro de un ser al que adoramos y siguer durmiendo.

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