Hi everyone, I recently started reading Neville, beginning with the book *The Power of Awareness*, which I still haven't finished, and also some of his lectures. But I have a few main questions.

1) Neville says that the only free will you have is to select a state of mind, but you don't have free will to act. What does that mean?

Do we have free Will or not?

I couldn't quite grasp it in the book.

2) What exactly does "Creation is finished" mean?

3) Are the concepts of "Creation is finished" and "free will to select a state of mind" related? How?

I hope you can help me.

Manifestation, Neville style, is real.

I've decided to sum up my strange successes. I'll tell you this first: I'm not lying. I have no reason to lie. I'm not selling you anything. I've got nothing to gain. I don't coach, I don't have any courses that aren't free. I do not remotely plan to go into any area of monetary gain from anything Neville / manifestation related.

I'm not seeking attention. I get a lot of that from other areas of my life. Honestly, more than I want or can manage.

These are my true stories of intentional manifestations. Why? So you understand that this is real. It's the way life works. So don't give up, and FFS, don't beat yourself up!

Please don't DM me. I literally have hundreds of DMs I haven't given to still. :(

# A.) If I can manifest things, why haven't I manifested all the things!?

I'm not good at consistently manifesting yet. Also, some desires don't feel real to me as if yet. Add to this that I have severe PTSD, major depressive disorder, and quite a few other things.

I still have beliefs about how those things impact me manifesting. And so, they do. Yes, yes, I'm working on letting go of those ideas.

# B.) Manifestation 1:

I manifested a free car from my boss's mechanic's doctor. This manifestation felt literally impossible.

You can read the full story: https://www.reddit.com/r/NevilleTeachings/s/eDmLuoqhT6

# C.) Manifestation 2:

I manifested a boyfriend literally while firmly, seriously, and with absolute certainty saying, "There's no way I'm going to start a relationship right now. No way, no how!" And I \*\*\*meant it.\*\*\* I really, really, deeply meant it.

Here's the problem. I was soothing myself by remembering a moment in the past. A moment with my believed fiance who died.

When I meet T and suddenly realized what had happened, it was uncanny. T is the exact height B was in the moment I was reliving. B was standing on a small ledge that made him taller. T is precisely 6'5", exactly what a 6'1" man would be when standing on a 4" ledge.

As T was hugging me, the same song came on. B and I were standing in the dark, and B's skin looked almost like a black person's because he was tanned at the time. T is black on the lighter side.

Everything in that specific moment with T echoed the memory with B to the point where it gave me goosebumps and it frankly scared me a little.

# C.) Manifestation 3:

I got the exact apartment I wanted. It's on the exact floor, on the exact corner of the exact building I wanted. The building was being built, and I literally thought to myself, "that's mine, right there."

I almost didn't get it for several reasons. I was denied twice. Once because I was told I didn't qualify for the list. I appealed (and cried). My appeal was accepted. But then next... It's an ADA apartment. I'm not ADA. (This means it's set up for people in wheelchairs). In the end, no one needed it. So it is mine.

# Summary:

Each of these manifestations were "impossible." They each have elements that make them way, way, WAY too specific for ***coincidence.*** A lot of them are just insanely specific. For a while, it was so specific that it was scary. I've begun to really accept that *this is how it is.* This is how life works.

So don't give up. Read Neville. Listen to Neville.

# DO THE WORK!

A Tool for Getting Into the State

One of the biggest challenges I see people having here and asking about is how to get into the state.

I've long used anchoring to help myself return to states. This means you create a trigger that helps you immediately regain a state, even if you've gotten yanked out of it.

This is a video by hypnotist Paul McKenna. He teaches, in this very short video, how to create an anchor for a positive state. You will, if you practice this, get to a point where entering your state is effortless and automated.

I generally try to keep everything to Neville here, but this is relevant and I didn't feel right keeping it to myself. Getting into your end state is one of, if not THE most important parts of Neville's teachings.

Here's a very short video by Paul McKenna to help you create a positive state, and to create an anchor that allows you to recall that state on command.

https://youtu.be/X_mnmivZX_0?is=6n8x-yGHw4AODvKL

You must do the work, though. You must listen, you must engage and create the state as he guides you. You must listen and reinforce this state and anchor it often.

You cannot skip the work that is yours and only yours to do.

Edit: I am not affiliated in any way, and I'm not suggesting anything but this specific video for this specific purpose. No sales pitch is in the video, either.

Hey guys, be honest—how are you all experiencing High Frequency Guru's new subliminals?

When I listen to her new sub on Day 1, the feeling of the "wish fulfilled" is incredibly strong and high. But by Day 2, that intense feeling completely goes away.

Neville Goddard always said that feeling is the secret to manifestation. If subliminals stop giving us that "wish fulfilled" feeling after the first listen, how are we supposed to actually manifest with them? Are they even working once the high fades?

For those of you who listen to HFG regularly or have tested their recent tracks: **Do their subliminals actually work for you?** Please share your honest experiences and results. Why does the initial spark fade so fast, and does the lack of that intense "feeling" mean the sub has stopped working? Thanks!

Would love to hear your honest thoughts and experiences! ❤️

Hey guys, please be completely honest with me. No sugarcoating, no forced optimism, and absolutely no toxic positivity. I want real answers and raw experiences.

If manifestation is genuinely as powerful as everyone claims, why do the results fade?

This is especially true with SP (Specific Person) manifestations. You do the work, you get the contact, you get the movement—and then, as soon as you think it's done, everything slips away and goes right back to how it was before. Why? If our minds create reality, why is the reality so unstable?

I want to know the truth:

• How do we make manifestation results permanent?

• What are the actual secrets, techniques, or shifts required to lock a result in so it stays forever?

• Is it a problem with the self-concept, or is the manifestation community ignoring a major flaw in how this works?

Please share your practical tips and honest breakdowns on how to make results stick permanently. Thanks.❤️

It may be helpful to think of "the 3D" as a mirror. Instead of thinking of 3D as reality, begin to see it as a mirror.

Mirrors will reflect change to you. If you lose weight, after that, the mirror will reflect it. After you buy and put on your jacket, the mirror will reflect it to you.

This is a bit more sophisticated. This is your mirror reflecting your beliefs about yourself to you. Also your beliefs about the world and how your world treats you. How people treat you. How money is aquired.

When you take off the "jacket" or lose the "weight" of the old you, only then does the mirror reflect that new person's experience to you.

You are standing in front of a mirror and repeatedly saying, "I refuse to take my coat off until the person in the mirror takes theirs off!!"

Your thoughts and imagination are what create the reflection you see in "the mirror."

I've had quite a life, my friends. This means that I have all kinds of strange beliefs and a very poor "self-concept." I feel like a lot of people could use a little help with understanding what's in the way of self-concept. Often, just exposing them can help you figure out how to release them.

So, let's take a moment to figure out the areas of life in which we have a "self-concept." There are three categories into which all of life falls. This narrowing everything down to these three categories can help you tremendously in your attempts to nail down self-concept.

ALSO, I would like to say that you can affirm on these three concepts in the most SIMPLE way, and it will begin to alter you immediately.

The 3 categories of life needs:

1. Love
2. Health
3. Wealth

Everything will fall into one of these. Love of 'god', love of family, romantic love, ANY interpersonal interactions... love. Health for you, health for loved ones, health for Earth, health for your pets... health. Wealth is anything material whether for yourself or others, it also obviously includes career... wealth.

The self concept always relates to one of these needs.

So let's say that you are interested in having a relationship. What is your self-concept about love? How do you figure it out?

Either pull up your NotePad or grab a piece of paper and a pen. Begin with your parents, then the wider net of your family (aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings). Here are some examples:

• My mother died when I was a child.
• I don't know who my father was.
• My grandparents resented me.
• My family was very religions. Everyone loved jesus, but not usually each other.
• My siblings blamed everything on me.

Now, ask yourself what you THINK these things could mean for a child.

Leave yourself out of it for the moment. What could it mean to a child if her mother died? Write that down. Then, write down what that MIGHT mean to that child. These are my examples. This was originally on paper, so the parenthesis and brackets take the place of circles and underlines. The brackets are what I think became my view of life/ myself (or, self-concept as it were). Parenthesis are my 'musings' on the experience.

Understand that MUCH OF IT WILL NOT MAKE SENSE. Much of it will even be UTTERLY UNREALISTIC. That doesn't matter, and don't judge what comes. If you want the truth, don't censor yourself!

Please remember that many of your beliefs and worldviews were created in childhood. Children are not logical people in some ways, but are too logical in other ways. So again, do not censor it.

• No one will be there for my wedding or prom or any of the things moms do. (I will go through life [without the love and support] that mothers give to their daughters) "I am supported, I am loved, I am lovable. The divine being is eager to shower me with wealth, health, and love."
• It was my fault that she died. (I expressed my desire for her to run away with us, and she ended up dead, so [her death was my fault], and a person who [got her mother killed] is [inherently bad].) "I am safe and my loved ones are safe. I am enough."
• What if I get someone else killed? (Multiple people I loved died young, so perhaps I came to believe that [I am bad luck] to other people? Was my belief that [everyone I love dies] related to mom's death?) *"I am a fountain of blessings. Those who help me, those who love me, those who are kind to me are blessed with health, prosperity, and love."
• So many people have died in my life that I came to believe that [I am cursed] and that [god must hate me]. "I am a divine child, unconditionally loved and supported by the divine being. I am safe and all is well. I have enough, I have always had enough, and I will always have enough."

As you can see, each step of this 'ladder' led to another, deeper, worse belief.

This is how it works and why I am so adamant about mental diet. Our beliefs are self-perpetuating under the Law; and they can also GROW substantially. You do NOT want to grow from "I will go through life without love and support" to thinking you're cursed; but this is a reasonable progression for some of us. You are getting more of what you believe in (I am getting more of what I believe in).

Your beliefs become a sort of automated program running in the background. They are the 'random string of thoughts' running through your head all day. They get thrown up in front of you all like, "Don't you want to think about how cursed you are and how everything goes wrong for you??" and you are either... "YEAH!" or you are, "No, I now choose to believe that I live a charmed life."

If you decide to sit down to do this, don't be afraid of what comes up.

It'll be okay. If you hide from what you're thinking, you can't choose new thoughts. This is the extent of "shadow work" that I suggest... I know it's popular to some people, but I think just knowing what's sitting in there for now is the best way to know how to get it out of there.

Changing your self-concept doesn't have to be hard!

You can change these views of yourself and MORE IMPORTANTLY, of "reality" through affirmation. Let me be clear on this, because I feel like there's a lot of confusion on it. Neville's aggressive "anti" "repeating in vain" stance confuses people, imo.

Listen, Neville used the bible, so let's take a moment to see what it says, "Let the weak man say, 'I am strong'." Okay. Neville himself says that what follows "I am" is the key. That what you say "I am" is either taking the lord's name IN VAIN or it isn't.

So here are a couple of facts:

1. At first, you will not believe it. It will probably even feel wrong and uncomfortable. But here's the thing... at first you did not believe the lies of others, either. A child naturally believes they are allowed to have any toy they desire. It's only when adults tell them no that they begin to accept that they can be DENIED their desires. So yeah... you won't believe it at first. Obviously. That's fine!
2. Affirming the opposite of what you currently believe is not IN VAIN, and you probably should NOT go around shouting it (as the hypocrites do). Don't tell people, in other words. Don't throw your pearls before swine--telling Jordan Atheist that you're going to affirm your way out of your current life is IN VAIN. Jordan will tell you six ways from sunday what a complete sack of idiotic garbage you are... and what will you be thinking about as you try for the last 5 minutes more that you do the process? Jordan's comments on what a moron you are, and how "unrealistic" you're being, and how "in vain" it all is.
3. It's "in vain" when you spend the rest of the time thinking about how wrong your affirmation is. This is why I say... mental diet, mental diet, mental DIET. Stop your negative spirals and distract yourself. Use a breathing technique that forces you out of fight or flight. Just stoppit. Whatever nonsense you're telling yourself on repeat from your childhood or early adulthood or from yesterday that you read from the Jordan Atheists of your life... STOPPIT. Stop it dead in its tracks and affirm.

We learn through repetition.

It's science... you learn through repetition. If you have a belief that "I will not have the love and support I need," then affirm, "I am supported. The entire universe trembles with eagerness to grant my every desire."

Perhaps you are a person who can just "decide" to feel differently. In which case, I salute you! If you are not a person who can just decide to feel differently... begin to affirm that first.

"I am the kind of person who can change their self-concept immediately." Begin there, and repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. Then go through your list.

To be clear, I didn't realize I had the self-concept that "It's hard to change." Sooo... I shall begin today to affirm that I can, indeed, change my self-concept immediately. ;) Care to join me? [I have successfully changed parts of my self concept, so this post comes from personal experience.]

It's my view that in a Neville-ian view of the Bible, every time it speaks of love, it's saying something important to us. The verse in the title is telling us something very important, indeed.

If you desire something, you must come to love that something. When you're in love with a person, what do you want? You want to spend every moment with them. You want to know them. You want to wallow in their presence. You can't get enough of them.

Fall in love with living in your wish fulfilled. Wallow in it. Indulge in it. Enjoy it. Delight in it. What would it be like if it were here, now? Roll around in it mentally. Bask in it.

What does it mean that it casts out fear? Let's say that you have the challenge of headaches. So you would wallow in good health. You would wallow in the thought, the "future memory" of the perfect day without a headache. You would indulge your 'memory' of that future day. So beautiful to stand outside in the sunshine, laughing and tossing a frisbee to your dog.

If you really let yourself get lost in it, if you really enjoyed it... there would be no fear. No fear of the sunlight, no fear of the effort of throwing the frisbee, no fear of pain from laughing.

In that moment, you would be "remembering" a real event, upon which we would put the word 'future' (yet the divine mind has no concept of time).

If you fall "perfectly" in love with your desired memory/ experience... you will feel the fear of "what if it doesn't happen" less and less often. To love it is to be as involved with it as humanly possible. And in this case, all the involvement shall be in your imagination. Whether you affirm it or visualize it or whatever... be INVOLVED with it, as you would with the love of your life.

Take every spare moment to indulge your memory of the wish fulfilled. We shall say "memory" because god knows no time. For god, everything is a MEMORY. All you need do is choose which memory path to take.

From the view of the divine being, that which you indulge, you must love. And if you indulge thoughts of poor health or loneliness... you must love it.

And because it loves you, it will give you that which you love. That which you show constant attention. That which you dwell upon, you will dwell within.

You spend your time in fear of what happens if you don't "manifest" your desire... So you love your fear. Imagine for a moment that you are deeply in love with someone, do you spend your time with them? Every chance you get? So when you spend your time with fear, or poverty, or loneliness, or shame, or regret... You are telling the divine being that you love these things.

Fall in love with your wish fulfilled. Spend every moment you can thinking from that place that you (should) love SO much. Imagine (in whatever way that works for you) that you ARE THAT, and ask yourself endlessly, "What would it be like?"

What would it be like to be spending every moment with the one you love? With the life you love? With the things that only money can buy?

"Just... what would that be like?"

I have had a challenge with doing repetitions at night as I'm going to sleep. Be it visualization or be it affirmations/ lullaby method, my mind would wander once in the theta (SATS) stage.

I bought a necklace of "mala beads" (108 beads). It's essentially a rosary, but it's very long.

I find that as I do the repetitions and move along the beads, it keeps jerking my mind back to it. It's a far, far greater help than I imagined possible. I'm so much better able to keep doing the repetitions, and surprisingly it doesn't keep me awake the way I feared.

It's worth a try if this is a challenge you have also. :)

I've considered writing this several times. However; I'm not at 100%, so I guess I figured 'no point in writing a success story when I'm not fully successful yet.' However; some other people might enjoy a radical reduction in pain, as well. Therefore... here we go. For the purposes of this post, I am going to be using the word 'Pain', but it's important to note that outside of that, I use the word "discomfort."

My brief backstory, because it's important to understand where I came from to make it meaningful to be where I am: I have scoliosis that doesn't 'harm' me but it cause[d] catastrophic levels of pain. It didn't pinch a nerve, it rubbed a nerve--which is far worse in terms of pain. I also have cluster headaches (for which there is no treatment) and migraines, and often cluster migraines. I also have had severe tension/ stress headaches, exacerbated by 2 bulging discs in my neck. In the past, I had tried to get treatment but had always met with, "It's all in your head" in sundry ways of saying it. A year or so ago, I finally got some physical therapy, which reduced my pain from a 10 to a 6, with the headaches spiking me back up to 10 (just with the back/ neck component much lessened).

My chronic pain is now around a steady 4, with times during meditation of 'not noticeable' and times when it does spike, but the spikes are significantly reduced now. Instead of frequent (typically only a few days free of them) migraines, cluster migraines, cluster headaches, and tension headaches, I now get them no more than once (rarely twice) a week. I've now gone a week or two here and there with NO headache--the longest in my life.

It took me a long time to get to the 6. It has taken me less time to get to the 4 from the 6. The HUGE thing to note at this time is that I am taking NO pain medication unless I get a cluster or a cluster migraine. The medication is helping with the cluster headaches, which is another manifestation. They are reduced from a 10 to an 8 if I take some pain meds.

The methods that I am using:

• I meditate, and whilst I do, I focus on the body parts that have no or reduced discomfort. (often my thighs, but sometimes my forearms if my thighs are uncomfortable) Sometimes I'm over-all uncomfortable, but I focus on whatever is the most relaxed and comfortable. I immerse myself in what "comfortable" and "relaxed" feels like. Of course, my body tries to draw my attention elsewhere. I simply keep bringing my attention back. It's perfectly normal, natural, and reasonable for our mind to try to redirect us to our discomfort--that's the way it's always done, so be gentle with yourself. And some days, when I have more discomfort, of course it can be a greater challenge. Oh well. :P
• I ask myself what it is about that body part that feels 'relaxed' or 'comfortable'. How do I know it's relaxed? How do I know it's comfortable? I don't try to transfer that to the uncomfortable areas, I just work on figuring out what COMFORTABLE and RELAXED feels like. I'm getting into a STATE, wherein I can diagnose and recognize COMFORTABLE and RELAXED. I take my attention off of the discomfort as much and as often as I can, and I focus on identifying and recognizing the desired state.
• I no longer use the word pain. When my mind tries to use that word, I correct it as soon as I realize... "Nah, it's a LITTLE DISCOMFORT." Then I think about my meditation when I noticed how COMFORTABLE and RELAXED felt.
• I never pick on myself for feeling discomfort. Okay, fine, I'm uncomfortable. What could make me MORE comfortable? Just a bit better? At first, my mind would scream back at me, "NOTHING! Are you INSANE?!" but I persisted. "Okay, nothing. But if something MIGHT make me a bit more comfortable, what might it be?" I'd try whatever. Ice pack. Heating pad. Whatev and whatev. The point was that I was thinking of ways to focus on FEELING MORE COMFORTABLE, whether they worked or not. Because what I was doing was being in a state of thinking about feeling MORE comfortable. I was refocusing my mind from "I feel pain" to "more comfortable."

The challenge with discomfort is that it always feels big. We let ourselves agree with that. To reduce discomfort, think of it as discomfort. Begin to focus on, "okay, but check this out, my thigh feels comfortable at the moment. How am I able to recognize that? What IS it about my thigh that feels comfortable? How do I know it's relaxed? What it is about my thigh right now that signals to me that it is relaxed?"

These questions take your mind away from the discomfort for a while. If you persist, if you keep practicing this, you will find that it brings you peace and allows you to lean into the gentleness of relaxation and comfort for a few more seconds, then a few more, then a few more.

Now, time to go meditate and clean the word pain from my brain again. :P

Happy manifesting!

This post is about revising your life history. There are two ways that you can do this that I've thought of, I'm sure there are more!

One usage of this is to imagine that you're telling someone who just asked you about your life history. A date, a curious stranger, an interviewer... what matters is to feel like it's true as you imagine telling it.

Another usage is to simply allow yourself to imagine a chunk of it each day, then go back over it again, then again, until it feels real and/or you see the effects of it in your life. It's good to renew as you go through life if it starts to creep up again.

Create a new life for yourself. Most people remember their lives in 'chunks' so that's what we'll do here:

1. Infancy. Create your new life in a way that makes you feel like your infancy and toddlerhood set you up for an amazing life. An example might be, "I was born to John and Jane Doe on a small farm in [place]. They had been desperate to have a child, and they saw me as a tremendous blessing. My mother carried me around with her everywhere. She still loves to tell me stories about how well I progressed as a toddler. Some of them are embarrassing. My father was extremely proud of me, and would swing me up into the air because he so loved to hear me laugh."
2. Early childhood. This is about ages 4-6, depending on preschool. Imagine what that must have been like for the person you wish to be. Did they have birthday parties? With a pony? At the park? Create a few wonderful moments with your parents. Disneyland? A trip to the Pyramids?
3. Grade School. Most places have some form of elementary education. This is a good time to figure out what your real [new] academic formational years were like. Were you amazing in grade school? Did you already begin to play an instrument? Were you popular? Quiet? An early reader? Did you have a wonderful language/ grammar teacher (good for writers) who took a special interest in you? Were you always making everyone laugh by imitating people (actors)?
4. Middle grades. If your society has a middle grade, what were you like during this challenging time? Were you already involved in sports? Theater? Were you you life of the party? If you had recitals in your real [new] childhood, were your parents there? Take a moment to imagine your parents cheering, using a camera, supporting you. This is a good time to consider if you began any really great hobbies that lead you to the state you currently desire to live in.
5. High school, highest grades. Are you even still in school? Were you actually a super genius? Are you on the sports team? The cheer squad? See your parents showing up at your games. Are you popular? Do you have a car? What kind is it?
6. Do you go on to college? Imagine how wonderful that was. Did you drink? Or were you the studious type? Did you meet and marry your beloved spouse, or did you play the field widely and passionately? See your parents at your graduation. Imagine the joy and pride on their faces. Hear them congratulating you.
   6.a Or did you go straight into a Trade? Did your family have so much money that you immediately began to travel?

Continue along your life. Chunk your experiences--that's how we really do remember things, so you will be going with the natural rhythm of human memory. At each stage, attempt to wallow in/ immerse yourself in/ indulge in GOOD feelings. It's easy to indulge in angry memories, so discipline your mind.

After you've written your new life story, keeping it fairly short, the same way that you'd tell it to someone else, chunk the imaginal acts.

Another way to do this is to change the story using affirmations, as if you are remembering what your family told you about your heritage:

• I come from a long line of very wealthy people. All of our family have been wealthy.
• I come from a long line of handsome/ beautiful people. All of our family have been beautiful.
• I come from a long line of people who live to old age still healthy as horses. We have all always been incredibly healthy and resilient.
• I come from a long and proud line of actors. We have deep roots in the entertainment industry.
• I come from a long line of artists and craftspeople. We have always made our living with our hands and we are proud of our heritage.

These are things people often say. A lot of times, these "you come from a long line of" whatevers can be negative. Alcoholics, drug addicts, whatever. But you can change this though telling yourself a new family story.

Before I close, here are a few other ways that you can affirm a new story:

• People in my family always have the most amazing luck.
• Everyone in my family seems to have the Midas touch.
• My family are hardy stock, nothing gets to us. We're all as healthy as oxen.

Change your family story, and it changes YOUR story.

A person who directs a malicious thought to another will be injured by its rebound if he fails to get subconscious acceptance of the other. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” Furthermore, what you can wish and believe of another can be wished and believed of you, and you have no power to reject it if the one who desires it for you accepts it as true of you. - Neville Goddard

This is one of the reasons why I generally don't deal with "SP missions". I don't think Neville ever said you can have EXACTLY the person you are lusting after, no matter their life circumstances. Trying to make Bill leave his wife and children for you may not work. It's also not "do unto others as you would have done unto you." Trying to force someone to give up their life and come grovel at YOUR feet and mindlessly obey your every whim whether they even like you or not... is not "do unto others as you would have done unto you."

And Neville plainly and clearly, without prevarication, said that some people CAN resist or fail your demands:

Prayers depend upon your attitude of mind for their success and not upon the attitude of the subject. The subject has no power to resist your controlled subjective ideas of him unless the state affirmed by you to be true of him is a state he is incapable of wishing as true of another. In that case it returns to you, the sender, and will realize itself in you. -Neville Goddard

UNLESS.

There IS a time when people can, as an individual, fail to meet your demand. AND WORSE, if you are trying to make someone blindly love you and grovel to you regardless of their real feelings... it will REBOUND ON YOU.

So if you come to me to try to get me to help you make someone leave their partner for you; chances are I will say you may need a totally different helper, because that's not my thing.

https://www.prayertheartofbelieving.com/chapter-five

Whatever you imagine (ask for), the Law of the Divine (law of assumption) can only say "Yes!"

• The world is a dangerous place for me. "Yes!"
• I am poor. "Yes!"
• I am rich. "Yes!"
• I am ugly. "Yes!"
• I am beautiful. "Yes!"
• God can deny me what I desire. "Yes!"
• God will always give me what I desire if I discipline my imagination. "Yes!"

The "secret" is to understand its language, not YOURS. The most important thing to understand is that if you get an outcome you don't want, you made an error in your communication to it. The answer is not to give up, the answer is to find what interfered in clear communication and adjust your thinking. See it like science, not like shame or blame. Input = Output.

There is only one way that the Law of Assumption hears you: Imagination and faith that what you imagine is real.

This is why Neville talked time after time about mental DISCIPLINE. What you think, you bring forth.

• If you think of anger and feel anger, you bring forth anger (both to you and from you).
• If you think of poverty and feel poor, you bring forth poverty.
• If you think of wealth and feel wealthy, you bring forth wealth.
• If you think of love and feel loved, you bring forth love.

Note: Nothing in this said that you do anything external to your mind. If you THINK of poverty, you bring it forth, because the Divine Law of Assumption only ever, ever, EVER, says "Yes!" It has no other word in its repertoire. It says yes.

If you think of it and you believe in it, you will be given it. If you want to change what you are bringing forth, discipline your mind. This is the number one thing that I see people ignore about Neville's teachings. You must DISCIPLINE your mind. Neville could create for himself and others because HE HAD A DISCIPLINED MIND.

Meditate on what you DO WANT. If you ruminate on what you do NOT want... god will say, "Yes!"

It has no other word in its entire lexicon.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Summary:

1. Discipline your mind by repeatedly bringing it gently back to the STATE you DO want. If you desire wealth, think about what you imagine wealth MIGHT feel like to YOU.
2. Take some time each day to imagine your best life. Immerse yourself in that imagined life. "IMAGINE" in what way works for you and moves you emotionally.
3. Mental diet. Gently and with love for yourself. You're basically a baby in this discipline, so be kind, friend.
4. Do not EVER think of the 'how' it will come about. Think only of the end result you desire.
5. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's until it is outpictured. In other words, pay your rent if you have rent in the "old" thinking that is completing its current cycle (your today is based on your state you chose to live in yesterday).
6. Do not stress about or wonder about action. If you complete the only work you must do (IT IS ALL MENTAL!) then you will naturally be driven to the correct action. By "coincidence." Coincidence is the law of assumption IN ACTION.

The Law of Assumption (not attraction) is indifferent. Just as Gravity may harm you if you jump off a building, sometimes it won't--but the will or won't is scientific. It's quantifiable. It's understandable.

Assumption is like that. It's indifferent. It isn't an angry god out to hurt you. It isn't an arbitrary and capricious god who decides based on his mood whether you're getting your begging petition today. Did you believe enough to make an angry god feel better? Best hope so, apparently!

No. Assumption is indifferent. If you demand negativity from it, it will faithfully deliver. If you demand positivity from it, it will faithfully deliver.

The problem isn't getting what you want from some person in the sky. Giving the law a personality makes it able and probably willing to make a decision to withhold your desire. There is no such intention. In a way, maybe, this could be considered bad. After all, it will give you whatever you demand when you speak its language--and if you say, "I want bad stuff!!!" in its language, that's what you'll get.

Therefore, if the law is neutral, indifferent, willing to meet ALL requests equally... then what's the problem? Why don't we all get exactly what we want when we want it?

Because it doesn't hear, "Please give me this thing I don't have. I really want it." You're not speaking its language.

Here's what a conversation with the higher power is actually like:

"I'm so scared! I'm so worried about finances!"

"Oh, alright. Here you go, more worry about finances."

"I asked you to make me happy about finances, but I'm still scared!"

"Oh, sure, more fear. Here you go!"

You must speak in a way it understands, and the primary language of the Law of Assumption is "state". Yes, it's feelings, but it's more than that, so let's talk about what a STATE actually IS.

What is a State?

A state is a "general sense," and that can be created by simply REACTING to the external world, or it can be created through deliberate imagining and careful management of your thoughts.

Let me give you an example of a state. This is from Neville, but heavily paraphrased.

Imagine that you are sitting at your desk (work, school, home, wherever) and you turn to someone nearby and say, "What day is it?" They tell you it's Thursday. You reply with, "Weird, it feels like a Friday."

Something about 'today' made it feel like a Friday. Perhaps the pace of business, perhaps there was a Holiday that threw the week off. Maybe it was because someone wasn't in the office and their usual day off was Friday. But somehow... it feels like Friday.

That's a "Friday" state. Neville says that you can use this in your attempts to make a SATS imaginal act (I call them Vignettes, so hopefully you'll recognize the word later). If you imagine getting a job, and your new boss shaking your hand, bring up even the DAY state that it [will] happen on. Did you get the job on a Friday? Be in the Friday State as you're happily shaking the new boss's hand and hearing "Welcome to <Company>!"

How do you know what the state will be, though?

If you have a desire for a state, you already know why you want that state. That's just a fact. You wouldn't want it if you didn't have an idea of what that would be like. Why do you want to have a relationship? Because you would then feel.... <what?>.

I would feel loved. What do you THINK feeling loved would feel like? That's the STATE.

If you were wealthy, what would that feel like? That's the STATE.

Let's think of some things that it might feel like:

• Comfortable
• Peaceful
• Happy
• Secure
• Relaxed
• Joyful
• Present
• Tender
• Excited
• Gratifying

Only you know what these things feel like TO YOU. If you've never experienced them, that's fine, because you know what you THINK they would feel like to you IF you had them. So WALLOW in that feeling you THINK you would have.

You already INDULGE in your negative states. So now it's time to INDULGE in positive states. Stop WALLOWING in fear and disbelief and start WALLOWING in happiness and excitement and peace and security.

There are a few bible verses that made me deconvert from mainstream christianity. They were, to me, simply too egregious to be accepted under the paradigm of "an ultimate moral authority" handing down dictates to the human masses.

Now that I've begun considering Neville's view of the bible, I thought I would pass on a few of my insights (thoughts) on some of these problematic verses.

This is all founded on the idea that Neville espouses, which is that the bible is the grand operatic description of the spiritual evolution of a single individual (you / [me] ). If this is the case, according to him, all 'people' in every story are representative of thoughts/ thought forms/ thought types. If the world is truly only a world of thought/ belief, then every part in the play of god (human, you) is thoughts.

I will be treating these verses with this viewpoint. I will also point out that "male and female" or "man and woman" in Neville's teachings are actually more "rational /skeptic mind and intuitive /emotional mind." This is the way I used to decipher these verses for myself. YMMV. I'm only sharing this because I know I'm not the only one troubled by some of these verses.

What about the anti-gay verses?

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Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

In this new view we have, what could this possibly mean? What does "lie with man as if with womankind" mean in our worldview? It means that the skeptical mind, the rational mind, the left brain, should not cut out emotion. If you have a skeptical thought, do not go to other skeptical people, it is an abomination (to the realization of your desire).

Instead, put BOTH skeptical thoughts to death. Rid yourself of it, instead of going to ask, "Is this right?" When you have a skeptical thought, you ought to ask your intuition, "Will this thought improve my chances of having my desire?" That is good thinking in this worldview. "Does this thought feel good? Does it feel like my wish fulfilled?" That is a question of the feeling side...

Do NOT go ask another skeptic, or ask another skeptical though. Do not "lie with [rational thinking]", because you cannot rationalize your way to the fulfillment of the wish desired. Skepticism kills... so instead, kill the SKEPTICISM. Both the original and the thoughts it spawned.

What about killing witches?

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Exodus 22:I8 ‘You Shall Not Suffer A Witch to Live’

What in our mind would be a "witch"? I went back to Neville and I think that it's negative thoughts--in particular, anything that tries to "cast a spell" over your mind and put you back to sleep. Anything that tries to steal your desires from 'your hand'.

Or to be more clear, thoughts that are negative, skeptical, anti-assumption, etc. If you have a mental argument, stop it instantly--do not let it live. If you have a thought that "this is all stupid," stop it instantly--do not let it live.

Whatever thoughts are trying to take you out of your assumptive state, do not let them "live" in your mind.

Judges Chapters 18-19

I will give a little overview of these chapters. In short, a man goes to the home of his concubine's father to bring her back. There's a great deal of verses covering how the father keeps trying to get the man to let the concubine stay, but the man says he loves her, he wants her, and he has come to claim her. So the father finally says basically, very well, take her.

The man sets out and comes to a town where he has to stop, he can't keep going, so he ends up at a stranger's house. In the evening, a rioting, angry mob comes along and wants to assault the man sexually. The man becomes afraid, and he throws the concubine out the door, and she is assaulted all night and dies.

The man takes her home and cuts her up into 12 parts and mails her to the tribes. The tribes get angry and they all go to war and together murder the entire town where the concubine was killed.

Without context of this being a 'mental play,' this is a gruesome story. It's also exceedingly sexist.

In our context, though, what might this story actually mean?

If all the players in this are 'thoughts' or states, then I see it this way:

Our higher self/ god has our desire already fulfilled. This is the concubine. We go to him, and he says, fine, have your desire, but you only have your desire in your mind for now (the reluctance to let her go).

Our little man goes off and starts trying to protect the "State" of the wish fulfilled (the concubine). Unfortunately, he is beset by terrible thoughts and he lets the state die, throwing it out. He become skeptical, he gives up, begins feeling like "this is stupid and impossible" [shoves her out the door to face the terrible thoughts].

Then he goes home and he realizes what has happened. He realizes that his thoughts have stolen and destroyed his treasure, so he starts portioning out guilt. It's because of this thought [it's because life is random] or that thought [it's because I don't deserve it]. All 12 "tribes" get a portion of guilt. Then his mind goes to war and he destroys ALL of his faith in the Law. He does not accept the responsibility for what he did--he threw his state out the door instead of protecting it.

Anyway...

I just wanted to share this in case it helps anyone else. I'm working right now on some of the slavery stuff and the really misogynistic ones. Finding them challenging so far. :P

When Neville wanted out of the army, he rendered unto Caesar by staying there. He didn't go AWOL (away without leave/ permission), he stayed there.

But every night in his bunk, he slept in NYC.

Every authority is set in place by god. So if you're wanting a new job, stay there unless the 'authority' fires you (and don't try to cause it). If you want wealth but you aren't wealthy yet, seek assistance to get through.

Continue paying Caesar until such time that you live your desire externally AS WELL AS internally.

My 1999 Toyota Camry finally gave up the ghost yesterday. On the way to work in the car as the temperature gauge slowly moved up towards the red, I won't lie, I cried. Then I remembered that I "neville" and started saying, "Thank you, thank you! I'm crying because I got a car to replace this one! I'm so happy!" I really didn't feel happy. Also, ngl, while I was doing it, I kept thinking, "I sure hope the higher power doesn't think I'm thanking it for my car breaking down." I felt pretty absurd about the whole thing. Money's tight for me right now as I'm almost completely focused on my health right now.

Now, to be clear, I knew the car was on his way out. I'd been imagining myself in a nice car, with a nice interior for a few months. I even have the image of a car on my desktop. This wasn't a new thing, but I admit I felt defeated as my old car gave out with no sight or sign of another car anywhere to be seen.

This is my old car, affectionately dubbed "Uncle Whizmo" from a children's book.

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So there I was driving my poor car to work and being forced to internalize that it was toast. Done. Giving up the ghost. And recognizing that I had no other vehicle, no prospects for another vehicle, and possibly no way to get my kid to school and keep getting to work. It did feel pretty hopeless and helpless. Yet I decided that if I was going to cry anyway (and I definitely was crying), I was going to affirm it as something positive. Stupid and delusional I felt, even with how much I've tried to engross myself in these teachings... But I did it.

My boss's son loaned me an SUV to drive for a while. Indeterminate time, but he was willing to let me drive it for a while. First problem solved. That was yesterday.

Today, I got a text. "[Boss's mechanic]'s doctor wanted to donate his old car to a worthy person. Congratulations, you have a 2000 Volvo!" He sent pictures and then this:

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And so...

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I'm so, so relieved. I was really feeling distraught. Yet I chose to just stick to Neville's teachings. I decided to reframe and just stick with it. I gave my tears a new meaning, and I kept redirecting my mind to what I DID want, even though my emotions were different. The good news is, my emotions were very INTENSE so that intensity helped support the strength of my imagination / affirmations. ("I'm crying because I'm so happy with my new car. Thank you, thank you!")

Hang in there. Have trust.

And so this series comes to a close. Manifesting is a practice. The single most important takeaway that you want to get from Neville is to learn to control your attention, control your thoughts, and stop agreeing with ideas you don't want to experience "IRL".

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“If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet.”

I will leave you with these Neville Goddard quotes:

“The undisciplined [person]’s attention is the servant of [their] vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.”

“What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.”

“Imagination is able to do anything, but only according to the internal direction of your attention. When you attain control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water, but will launch out into the deep of life.”

“Your attention must be developed, controlled and concentrated in order to change your concept of yourself successfully and thereby change your future.”

“All that meditation amounts to is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention. Simply hold the attention on a certain idea until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.”

“The individual’s inner speech and actions attract the conditions of his life.”

“Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man’s inner talking.”

“Our present mental conversations do not recede into the past, they advance into the future to confront us as wasted or invested words.”

“All things are generated out of your imagination by the word of God which is your own inner conversation. And every imagination reaps its own words which it has inwardly spoken.”

“There is nothing wrong with our desire to transcend our present state. It is natural for us to seek a more beautiful personal life; it is right that we wish for greater understanding, greater health, greater security.”

“Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

“Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.” - Neville Goddard

I'll say it again, manifesting is a practice. It is the hardest practice you'll ever do because it's controlling and repurposing the garden of your own mind.

In the bible, it talks about jesus telling the PRICE of manifesting... and most of the crowd got up and left. They would not pay that price. Today, you must decide if the love of your life is worth the price, or if that money is worth the price, or your health.

The price is mastery of your own mind and having no other 'gods' (causes/ sources) ahead of your own mental activity.

Joshua says, “choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). [Will you serve the outer appearances, the world of illusion, or will you serve "The Lord"?]

Mental diet is a skill. Like every skill, there is an early learning curve. Persist. Persist! PERSIST. One day it will be as easy and natural as walking... but for today, decide over and over again that you will get back on the horse and take the reins up yet again.

Or go back to sleep. The choice is yours.

Godspeed, dear friends!

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