Awake, O Sleeper Ch 15 The Power Of Unlimited Imagination by Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard the Power of Unlimited imagination Chapter 15 Awake, O sleeper Last chapter in the book of Ephesians we are told to awake O sleeper and arise from the dead and Christ shall give you light. This awakening and rising comes about through an inner development. For the Bible is your autobiography. It was you who inspired the prophets to record their visions and it is you who will fulfill their prophecies in a first person present tense experience. First person present tense experience. As you read the Bible, get your mental teeth into it, study its message and your understanding will go deeper and deeper as you travel through life. The Bible teaches self help. Do not look to any leader on the outside. Only look to self by turning within. If anyone offers to do for you what you can do for yourself, reject their offer and turn to Christ. God's creative power in you, who is your life, your light of the world. By changing your thinking, Christ will change your world. The earth spoken of in scripture is the mind of man. It is in this psychological earth that the idea of the kingdom of heaven was implanted. It is in in this psychological earth that the idea of the kingdom of heaven was planted. While in the state of sleep, false doctrines have crept in called tares. They grow with the wheat and will be harvested. Therefore you must become selective and clear the weeds by killing every belief in a power outside of the outside the mind. The man who is rich is complacent, satisfied with his social and financial positions. He is not hungry to grow. If you are complacent, your life will not change. For you will not be hungry or thirst for a higher level of awareness. You and you alone know whether the hunger has come upon you or not. But you have not begun the work you gave yourself to do until you begin to uncritically observe your thoughts. You and you alone, repeating the sentence, know whether the hunger has come upon you or not. Yes indeed. You and you alone will know this. And when you do, you will discover that you are not as truthful, honest or courageous as you thought you were. That's when you begin to uncritically observe your thoughts. Tonight, select a future upon which you want to work. And tomorrow be watchful. Just select the future. Just select a future. Doesn't matter. Remember God, I am all that is right here. Your self concept. My self concept. An old self concept. A coming, a new one. This one, that one, the other one. All flavors of the entire rainbow are here. This is your present self concept. Tonight. Tonight. Think on one. Just think on one. Select the future which you want to work and you want this to work and tomorrow. Just be watchful. Just pay attention to what you're looking at, just even what you are looking at. Question yourself by saying, am I keeping the tense? Do I want this? The tense? T, E N S E tense? I am it not I will or I can. I hope. I don't know what's going to happen. Hopefully this happens. Those are not the right tense. The tense is I am. Am I keeping the tense? Do I want this? Is that the way my friend wants to see him? Am I limiting myself? Is that the way my friend wants me to see him? Or does he have his aspiration that I can lift by seeing him the way he wants to be seen? Then act in your imagination. For imagination is passive while asleep and allows that which is false to take the throne. Remember on the outside all these wonderful distractions getting your attention, hogging up all that wonderful space in your subconscious. When you sleep, your imagination is passive. This is your conscious and this is your subconscious. When you sleep, your imagination is passive. That's why the doorway of impression is while you're falling to sleep. That's the doorway while you sleep. It's passive. Then act in your imagination. For imagination is passive while asleep and allows that which is false to take the throne. Watch your thoughts. And thousands of times, and I mean to tell you that phrase went through these ears because I have to double the thousands and thousands of times. It kind of redefines the manger, doesn't it? That rebirth that's being described right here. Really shouldn't be in December, but it is. It is what it is. It redefines the whole scene you see on the Christmas lawn. The purpose of this teaching is to awaken the Christ who is asleep in man, dreaming different states into being and bring him to the conscious circle of humanity where man is self aware. Once you are aware of your true self, you will no longer condemn sleeping man. Very true. Very true. Forgive them for what they know, not what they do. That's the innocent you will know. They are machines, automatons, who do not know what they are doing. Your desires are not subjective, intangible things, but solidly real. Begin to awaken the Christ in you by clothing your subjective desires in objective reality. Your subjective desires in objective reality. I promise you, the day you do this, they will become facts in your world. They will become facts in your world because you'll be objectified. You will be occupying this objectification. You'll be there. You'll be, you will be in it. It'll be of you. It'll be around you. It'll be one of the upgrades in your environment. Have an aim that you will not lie to yourself anymore. Have an aim. This is your goal. Have an aim that you will not lie to yourself anymore. You're looking in the mirror and you're asking yourself, what do I desire? With your eyes open, with your eyes closed. What do I desire? What is my desire? What is my aim? Number one, not to lie to myself anymore. That helps me clear up and accept what the desire is inside of me, so I don't have to see it as a lie or feel it as an untruth. What is it that I desire? What is my objective? What am I about? What do I feel would make me happy? Not what could I do to make my father happy? Not what could I do to make my mother happy? Not. What could I do to make my spouse happy? Not. What could I do to make my children happy? Not. What could I do to make the milkman happy? Not. What could I do to make the postman happy? Not what could I do to make the dog happy? The list is. It gets even longer than that. What could I do to make myself happy? What is my desire that needs fruition? It's my aim not to lie to myself anymore and to accept the truth of my desire. And let me ride that beast. Let me ride that beast from the manger. Work on this feature within yourself. Have an aim that you will not lie to yourself anymore. Work on this feature within yourself. Become extremely observant and honest with yourself. And watch the energy that formerly moved in negative Watch the energy that formerly moved into negative states flow into your greater aim. All you're doing is closing off one path and opening the other. They're closing off one direction where you would send that and taking it to the direction that you want. The other one was a path of habit. Now it's a path of direction. You're in charge. Perhaps your aim is to become a great teacher, not because you want to impose your will upon others, but because you want to awaken in others which you have awakened in yourself. The awakening begins when you feel a separation, a division of the natural and the spiritual. Imaginative you to which all things are possible. It is this spiritual you that clothes your subjective state in reality. By changing the feeling of I, you can direct your life internally and escape the prison of your present state, regardless of what it may be. By thinking from the point of view that the problem is solved, you move from the problem to its solution. Could it be oh my gosh, what a liberating sentence. Of all sentences, just that one. Listen to that one sentence. By thinking from the point of view of the. Excuse me. By thinking that the. By thinking. It's so amazing. It's. I just don't. I'm just so befuddled on how simple, how graceful and how amazing this one sentence is. It is so simply the solution. By thinking from the point of view that the problem is solved, you move from the problem to its solution. And it's that simple. This change of attitude is called the be attitudes. In other words, you are being what you want to be by assuming that you already are it when you know what you want. Consciously clothe yourself in a new concept of self by extracting your eye from the evidence of the senses and placing it in the place you want to be. Taking the I from the evidence of the senses and placing it where you want to be by this assumption or B attitude you have journeyed from one state to another. And if I. And I, if I be lifted up, I draw all men to me. You will know the meaning of that phrase right there. Once you see it, work. Am I again? I know I said it in a previous video, but I'll repeat it here. My wife had some deadlines with her work and they were totally impossible to her mind. She told me what she was leaving to go do that day and these deadlines that were very important and almost completely impossible to her mind. Right when she closed the door, her father in law was in the next room. And I'm in, I'm in the office room which is a room over. He was in the dining room. And I'm in the office past the hallway and I imagine her walk. I close my eyes, I'm doing my. Just an imagining her walking back in with a smile, glad that all these deadlines were met. And I'm high fiving her all congratulations. I give her a hug. I go, that's amazing. That's incredible. Congratulations. Wow. It's amazing. I can't believe it. Congratulations. That was all happening in my mind. Well, she came home and did exactly that verbatim. But what had happened was. What had happened was all the automatons, meaning all the worker bees and they're not. That's not a devaluing statement. What I mean is all these people wanted to work these massive amounts of overtime. It benefited them. My wife's company, she was working for, they wanted to have the project done on time. So they directed and requested overtime of the employee of the workforce. For lack of a better phrase. And they were like, sure, yes. And they all came in 12 hours a day, seven days a week and made it happen. These were totally impossible deadlines, improbable deadlines. One imagining lovingly from one other person who's not even on the job. It was like Dr. Hugh Lin and doing that for the patients at the hospital. I'm trying. What? I'm trying. Why I'm saying this is. I'm trying to share with you that each thought, that each direction of your thoughts means something. Now. I could have went, oh, man, she's going to be hating life if all that stuff doesn't work out today. Oh, boy, she's really going to be exhausted when she gets home because it's probably not going to happen. No, no, no, none of that. Just shut that off. Go the other direction. Because you've been paying attention to your reactions and so now you're directing your reaction and you're going into the pot. You're taking it from where the old habit was and. And you turned your ship around and now you're taking it to that positive result. And then you really, literally watch the automatons. Not saying, and I'm not saying anybody's devalued as a human, but they wanted to work overtime. Those people wanted that for their reasons. They probably had a bill or a toy for their child they needed to purchase, etc. All these different reasons just come up out of nowhere. You don't realize when you're imagining lovingly, that and I, if I be lifted up, I draw all men to me. That's exactly the phrase. If I be lifted up, I lift up in here and I imagine lovingly, I lift all men to me. It's to them, they just feel like it was their idea. They completely, totally, if you interviewed them, they all would imagine that, yeah, I needed to, you know, pay down this credit card or pay off this toy or whatever it is. Everybody's got their own reason. It's. What do we call it? A miracle? A coincidence? What do you call it? I call it imagine lovingly. That's what Neville calls it. I say calls because it's. I like to think of Neville in the active present tense. Once you have lifted yourself up into the new states, abide there. Do not come back to the testimonies of your senses, but remain in your desire until a different world is established. Every change in the feeling of I automatically produces changes in the external world. Therefore, you must learn to die daily in regard to your old beliefs. You must remember. He's saying must a lot in this book. So every time he does pay special attention. You must learn to die daily in regard to your old beliefs. Your old beliefs are of this old self concept. These are where the old beliefs reside. You must learn to let these die off because your trip is from your subconscious. Your new occupation is right here and your new son is born. You breathe life into the idea here. The conception happened. The new son was born here. Old beliefs must go by the wayside. You must learn to die daily in regard to your old beliefs. This can be tricky. This can be tricky. What do you believe? How long do you think you believed it? Do you claim right now that your father believed it, so you're supposed to believe it? Do you claim it was the belief of your grandpa that taught your father? You claim that your great great grandpa taught your great grandpa? I'm the family genealogist, excuse me. Do you claim that you deserve to have those beliefs because you had them all along? You must learn to die daily in regard to your old beliefs. The statement, those who lose their life for my sake will find it means letting go of all that you now consent to. Remember you're consenting to thoughts. If you lose it, you will find your I reclothing itself on a higher level of being, thereby causing a new expression in your world. That new expression being your new reality. When you go in. When you go in a new direction. The journey is made in the mind. A physical journey may follow, but the journey must be made on the inside first. Where you are is what you psychologically are at that moment. An enlightened being lives on the mountaintop and. And the human imagination, when completely controlled, is personified as a being called Jesus Christ. It's fascinating. One sentence, man. Just one sentence right there. I gotta repeat it because it's too good. It's too juicy. It's too much like the tasty venison right there. An enlightened being lives on the mountaintop. And the human imagination, when completely controlled, is personified as a being called Jesus Christ. As long as you are violent, you are asleep. What is violence? Violence is any thought that you know is violent. We don't even have to break them down. You know a thought is violent. When you think it, you know it. You don't have to be shame, in shame about a violent thought trespassing on your neighbor, your neighbor trespassing on you. You don't have to be in shame about it or guilty about it. None of that. You just need to Change from the direction of that. You say. That's not what I want to do. I'm going this way. My desire is right here. My desire and my desire only is this direction that thought might come in. But it's not going to have a home here. It's not going to find fertile ground here. I'm not involved with that anymore. Period. And you must do this over and over and over. How long does it take? How long does it take? How many times must I do it? Persist, persist, persist, persist. How long must I do it? As long as it takes. Whatever it takes. You, because you are unique. You're not me. You don't want to be me. You don't want to get in line behind me. You and your own line over here on your own. And you're an independent, spontaneous, loving creature. Doing this at your own pace, your own desire sets the pace. You need to follow in that. But persist. Those thoughts come in, uh, out, out, out. Stay. Stay true to your desire, to your objective. Violence doesn't fit. You know what a violent thought is when you think it, so just push it out. As long as you are violent, you are asleep. Awaken the spiritual you by watching your actions and reactions to life, and you will lose your impulse to retaliate. What happens to you here is not important, but how you react to what happens is. Your reactions define you. They tell you where you are. For you attract life in its most minute detail. The Bible does not teach reincarnation. Its central teaching is the rebirth of consciousness into ever higher and higher levels. You must be born by water and spirit, not water only. Except for the man born of spirit, he cannot enter the higher level of being, being called the kingdom of heaven. Now listen closely. You must be born by water and spirit, not water only. What is it you're born into? What breaks in the mother when you're coming into the world? Except for the man born of spirit, he cannot enter the higher level of being called the kingdom of heaven. In this series of lectures, you have received psychological instruction about how to go about working on yourself. Your mind has been washed of certain errors, baptized and born of water. But unless the truth is applied, you will not be born of the Spirit. The word Mary means water. Christ, the I in you is born of water. And of the Holy Spirit, the outer, you cannot receive instructions. He is literal and takes things literally, thereby receiving nothing but stone. The righteous man, however, is conscious of being the man he wants to be, while the foolish man steals from himself by not claiming his desire. Every time you See a man less than what he wants to be, you have robbed him of that, of the state necessary to externalize it. Very important sentence. Let me repeat the outer you cannot receive instructions. And if you're watching this video and you've made it all through these videos to now, the outer you doesn't know why the heck you're watching these videos. Your mother, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, wife, husband, children, neighbor, they can't understand why you're watching these videos. But the inner you, born of spirit does know why you're watching these videos. There's a very, very important reason that you're getting through the outer you. The outer you is a big shield. It's a big shell. It's a big to do of whateverness. But the inner you who wants to wake up will put up with the outer you taking all the business from other people who don't understand what this is. What's Neville, what is this guy talking about? The outer you cannot receive instructions every time you see a man. This sentence is profound, okay? And it's very real because it gives us the responsibility of what we choose to see when we see others. Are we going to take the responsibility and imagine lovingly? If we do, and we are, not only do we become the shepherd, the good shepherd, but we just simply imagine lovingly. That's what we do. We are imagining lovingly when we see our brother the way he wants to be seen, if we see him the way he doesn't want to be seen. Let me read the sentence. Every time you see a man less than what he wants to be, you have robbed him of the state necessary to externalize it because you've stood in judgment. Be not as the heathen who by vain repetition hopes he can get the ear of God. Rather, when you pray, go within and close the door, okay? And your father who hears in secret will reward you openly. You have but to change the feeling of I. Close the door to the outer world and fill yourself into the state your friend desires with a plan program. See him and talk to him from the promise that he is that person already. Congratulations, man. It's amazing. I'm so happy to hear about your new opportunity. You hear his voice saying, yes. It's great. It's wonderful. I can't believe it. It's just all happened so fast. Yeah, that's awesome. Hug, hug. High five. Happy, Happy. Keep the door of reason and logic closed and walk in faith that what you have heard and seen in secret will be rewarded openly. And it will, I promise you. I'M sitting right here telling you it works. Just do it. In the famous words, I was in the military. And I just. Was. Was. We were. I was brand new and we. We were in this special school in Tennessee. And, you know, it's like you go to boot camp and then you go to school, and then you're going to teach you the further. Further education. And we had spare time on our hands, and we're going. And we're. With all this first time doing some kind of work. It was a work detail. And this guy says to me, he's in charge of all of us. He says, you guys get. He says to me, and I think one other guy, get that paint right there and them brushes and just go paint that fence over there. And I'm like, I'm 18, fresh out of high school. I don't think I painted anything yet. I says, how do we. What do we do first? He says, looks at me solemnly and just says this. Just do it. I mean, he was a big dude, and we were much smaller than him, and we were like, okay. At the time, hazing had been stopped in the military, but it still seemed there was a potential left in this man. So we weren't going to push anything back at him past him telling us that once or twice to just do it, all right? And it wasn't with the smile I'm showing you now. It's funny because it's hindsight. Keep the door of reason and logic closed. Walk in faith that you, which you have heard and seen in secret will be rewarded openly. And it will. The Bible was written by the conscious circle of humanity. You enter this circle at the moment of wakefulness, not composed by men. But the Bible is divine instruction with limitless interpretations. Obviously, it is a test in the development of your understanding. And as you grow, its understanding deepens and deepens. Although man wraps himself in conditions which are states, these are all states, conditions, self, concepts. His true being is. I am. Anything man will consent to, he will manifest in his world. Can you accept as fact what your reason and senses deny? Can you accept as fact what your reason and senses deny? Yes. Okay. I see myself in the hallway, that new house. It's as natural as the hallway of my current house. I just did it. You just did it. You just did it yourself, right then. Can you see yourself in that relationship like the couple in that car? I mean, I must admit, when I was single, that was something I noticed. I would see a couple in a car and I would notice, how are they relating to Each other. It just. That was something that. I mean, I didn't go around seeing how do people count rolls of coins? That wasn't important to me. I went around seeing how do people relate to each other. That was an observable idea that meant and was important to me. It paid off for me later because relationship became that important to me that all those little observations mattered. They all added up. They all came from within. Can you accept as fact what your reason and senses deny? Or you must always bow to reasons dictates. The same consciousness that produces health produces sickness, wealth and poverty. Whatever you agree to be conscious of, whatever you affirm as true, you will manifest. Think about this one sentence while you're sitting listening to your thoughts. Listening to me. Part of you is listening to me. Part of you is not. Part of you is listening to your thoughts. Part of you is listening to me. Here's the sentence. Whatever you agree to be conscious of, whatever you affirm as true, you will manifest. You're giving consent. When you're conscious of a thing, it doesn't matter who the label is that gives you that news. All knees must bow to imagination. Behold, we are transformed into the same image. Can you behold a given situation and make it so natural that you are transformed into its image? Listen to the sentence again. Can you behold a given situation and make it so natural that you are transformed into its image? You can. When you all imagination feel the naturalness of the image you behold. Divinity is not divided. Divinity is not divided. Although it appears so because we have all these self concepts, we could not be able to. We would not. Could not. It would be impossible for us to change this self concept to this self concept if we were divided. We can't be divided. To be able to do that by simply impressing your subconscious and watch it objectify without any effort. We couldn't do that if we were divided. Divinity is not divided. Divine imagination and human imagination is not divided. Divinity is not divided. Therefore everyone is but a projection of the one. You are told to love your neighbors as yourself, for there is no other sanctify self, not another. Working on others will not change them. Only by changing yourself will others change. That follows true with imagining lovingly for your friend about their new job, their new relationship, their new bank account, whatever their new health. Your imagining lovingly isn't changing them, it's changing you. Remember, if you're here and you believe your friend is sick and you imagine lovingly for him to be well, and he all of a sudden becomes well, you sacrifice this self here's you, the new self that believes he's well. He's over here, the sick self. And he becomes the new well self. But you have to sacrifice this self, whichever one I pointed at here, whichever one you are, that you believed he was sick. You sacrifice by imagining lovingly that he's well. So you make the sacrifice about you. You changed yourself. He has a choice to go from the sick to the well. That's the sacrifice he makes on his initiative, his volition, his wanting and having a desire to be well will meet up with your sacrifice, your imagining. These will come together because in that subconscious network where everything combines that will be picked up, what Seth called a psychic bridge will be formed. Seek confirmation of your ideas and you are not growing. All textbooks are man made and uninspired from on high. Stick to them and you will remain on their level. Believe in self. Trust your human imagination and you will grow in wisdom and in stature. And as you grow, you will outgrow your former beliefs. M tasty venison Chapter 15 Awake o sleeper the Power of Unlimited Imagination Post Script we are God's children, destined to be God himself. And God creates everything he individualized. As you consents to resolve only to hear what is good concerning yourself and another, so everything that enters your mind will contribute to a life of joy, feasting on higher states. Divinity is not divided. Therefore everyone is but a projection of the one. When you know the spiritual being within you, you will assert the supremacy of imagination. What a wonderful chapter and what a close to most amazing book. The Power of Unlimited Imagination. Also known as the creative use of imagination. This had two extra chapters. The playlist will be in the proper order of how I came to them. First here and then I just continue the chapters in this book. Wonderful, wonderful book. I hope you enjoyed it. We'll see you in the next chapter. Wonderful, wonderful book. I hope you enjoyed it. We'll see you in the next chapter.