Case Histories Ch 23 The Power Of Awareness by Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard, Power of Awareness, Chapter 23, Case Histories. This is about that time when you really want to hear some case histories. It will be extremely helpful at this point to cite a number of specific examples of the successful application of this law. Actual case histories are given. In each of these, the problem is clearly defined. And the way imagination was used to attain the required state of consciousness is fully described. In each of these instances, the author of this book was either personally concerned or was told the facts by the person involved. This is a story with every detail of which I am personally familiar. In the spring of 1943, a recently drafted soldier was stationed in a large army camp in Louisiana. This is a story about Neville, about his experience, so keep that in mind as we read through. He was intensely eager to get out of the army, but only in an entirely honorable way. The only way he could do this was to apply for a discharge. The application then required the approval of his commanding officer to become effective based on army regulations. The decision of the commanding officer was final and could not be appealed. The soldier, following all the necessary procedure, applied for a discharge within four hours. His application was returned marked disapproved. Convinced he could not appeal the decision to any higher authority, military or civilian, he turned within to his own consciousness. Determined to rely on the law of assumption. He turned within to his own consciousness to rely on the law of assumption. Okay. The soldier realized that his consciousness was the only reality. The soldier already realized this. That his particular state of consciousness determined the events he would encounter. I still can't even believe Neville made it to the boot camp and to this fort he was stationed at in Louisiana. I mean, obviously for the story. Because this one, this is one of the early stories that when I first. In my first year of studying Neville, it had me within my first couple months is when I came across this story in one of his audio lectures. And it just blew my mind. Because World War II, I thought, was this massive hold on everybody that nobody could escape its grasp if you were drafted per se. But after this, it really. It really showed me personally how flexible our reality is. It's all consciousness. Okay, here we go. The soldier realized that his consciousness was the only reality. That his particular state of consciousness determined the events he would encounter that night. In the interval between getting into bed and falling asleep. He concentrated on consciously using the law of assumption in imagination. He concentrated on consciously using the law. Excuse me, in imagination. He felt himself to be in his own apartment in New York City between getting into bed and falling asleep. So he's in this sets, he visualized his apartment. That is in his mind's eye, he actually saw his own apartment, okay. Mentally picturing each one of the familiar rooms with all the furnishings vividly real. I mean, it's not hard to imagine. If you had to call a friend to go into your house to get something for you, you, you could guide them to the exact spot in the exact drawer in the exact room after they walk in the house. And you could tell them what not to bump into on the way to getting what you want them to get out of a drawer in the back bedroom of your house. You could easily guide them there. So there's no reason why you can't travel there mentally, psychologically, if you are not there. So what Neville's doing here is he's only picturing himself remotely in another spot than he actually physically is. He's using the law of assumption. He happens to look at his senses and they tell him he's in the army camp in Louisiana. But mentally, psychologically, he's making the impression in his subconscious that he's actually at home in his apartment in New York City. With this picture clearly visualized and lying flat on his back, he completely relaxed physically. In this way, he induced a state bordering on sleep, at the same time retaining control of the direction of his attention. When his body was completely immobilized, he assumed that he was in his own room. Now remember, now what's going on here? He has a desire. Now he's completely immobilized. But he's stating here in the story, after being completely immobilized, this isn't on your way to bed when you're imagining something, you could be standing in the shower. Don't get me wrong. I've done plenty imaginings and they've worked out wonderfully. When you're standing in the water, there's some kind of state there that is similar to this. But he's showing us that he was completely immobilized lying down. Very important point, desire. Physically immobilized. With this picture clearly visualized. I'm going to repeat this part. With this picture clearly visualized of his home and lying flat on his back, he completely relaxed physically into his dream image. In this way, he induced a state bordering on sleep, at the same time retaining control of the direction of his attention. When his body was completely immobilized, he assumed that he was in his own room and felt himself to be lying in his own bed. A very different feeling from that of lying on an army cot in imagination he rose from the bed, walked from room to room, touching various pieces of furniture. He then went to the window and with his hands resting on the sill on the window sill, looked out onto the street on which his apartment faced. So vivid was all this in his imagination that he saw in detail the pavement, the railings, the trees, and the familiar red brick of the building on the opposite side of the street. He then returned to his bed and felt himself drifting off to sleep in his New York apartment. He knew that it was most important in the successful use of this law that at the actual point of falling asleep, his consciousness began be filled with the assumption that he was already what he wanted to be. As he drifted to sleep, he wanted to make sure that his consciousness be filled. Let me repeat it. I like, I like to give him the, the, the. The respect for his words because they're very profound. He knew that it was most important in the successful use of this law that at the actual point of falling asleep, his consciousness be filled with the assumption that he was already what he wanted to be. Falling asleep. Making the impression. Making the impression. All that he did in imagination was based on the assumption that he was no longer in the army. All that he did in his imagination was based on the assumption that he was no longer in the army. Night after night, the soldier enacted this drama night after night in imagination. He felt himself honorably discharged back in his home, seeing all the familiar surroundings and falling asleep in his own bed. This continued for eight nights. For eight days, his objective experience continued to be directly opposite to his subjective experience in consciousness. Each night before going to sleep. His objective experience is the self concept in 3D reality. That's your objective experience. But each night he's giving himself a subjective impression into his subconscious. He changed his. He used the law of assumption to change his consciousness to be that of his objective. His objectification was what he impressed into his subconscious that he was out of the army, honorably discharged, and he was at home in bed. Wife was in the next bed, daughter in her crib. I believe he doesn't mention that here in this story, but that's what he does in the audio lecture. If you look it up. Eight days. That's it. I'm going to repeat. This continued for eight nights. For eight days, his objective experience continued to be directly opposite to his subjective experience. The objective experience was marching around and doing things you do in the army. But his subjective experience was being at home, honorably discharged, in the apartment, looking out the window, walking through the rooms, touching the windowsill, touching the furniture. On the ninth day, eight days, I mean, what are you willing to do for eight days to get your object, excuse me, to get the desire fulfilled, to be objectified, reality of what you want? What would you do? Would you do it for eight days? Would you continuously do this for eight times in a row? Just do it. Just. On the ninth day, orders came through from the battalion headquarters for the soldier to fill out a new application for his discharge. Shortly after this was done, he was ordered to report to the colonel's office. During the discussion, the colonel asked him if he was still desirous of getting out of the army. Upon receiving an affirmative reply, the colonel said that he personally disagreed. And while he had strong objections to approving of the discharge, he had decided to overlook these objections and to approve it. Within a few hours, the application was approved and the soldier, now a civilian, was on a train bound for home. If you listen to the audio lecture and there's like at least three or four versions of this story, he's unwrapped on audio and they're all great, but there's one where the colonel's asking him, are you sure you want to get out of the army because you're not going to be as a stand up guy like all these others. Yes, sir. Are you sure you want to get out of the army because you're not going to have the respect of your neighbors and friends? Yes, sir. Are you sure? Are you sure? He just kept rifling him with reasons, you know, kind of reverse psychology reasons why he should stay. But Neville just kept saying, yes, yes, yes, I want out. Yes. And there was a special loophole also to add to this, where it was an age. It was an age qualification where I think Neville was 38. And if you were 38 before or after, I think it was an April date, you could ask for your discharge because you were on the border of being of that age where we don't need you because we have enough people, enough soldiers, as it were. But what a wonderful story. Eight days, that's all it took to get out of the army in 1943. We all know history, at least a bit of it, and we know that you were definitely captive. If you were in the military, you were definitely there to serve and going home was not an option. But he pulled it off with a legal loophole and was that right age where they were letting go? So it was an honorable discharge. Wonderful, wonderful story. Okay, number two, case history. Number two, this is a striking story of an Extremely successful businessman. Demonstrating the power of imagination and the law of assumption. I know this family intimately. And all the details were told to me by the son described herein. The story begins when he was 20 years old. He was next. He was next to the oldest in a large family of nine brothers and one sister. This is somebody in Neville's family. The father was one of the partners in a small merchandising. I believe this is Victor's story. Sorry for spoiling, but you know. The father was one of the partners in a small merchandising business. In his eighteenth year, the brother referred to. In his eighteenth year, the brother referred to in this story. Left the country in which they lived. And traveled 2000 miles to enter college and complete his education. Shortly after his first year in college, he was called home because of a tragic event in connection with his father's business. Through the machinations of his associates. The father was not only forced out of his business. But was the object of false accusations impugning his character and integrity. At the same time, he was deprived of his rightful share in the equity of the business. The result was he found himself largely discredited and almost penniless. It was under these circumstances that the son was called home from college. He returned his heart filled with one great resolution. He was determined, Determined. Determined? What does that look like? Determined. He was determined that he would become outstandingly successful in business. The first thing he and his father did was to use the little money they had to start their own business. They rented a small store on a side street. Not far from the large business. Of which the father had been one of the principal owners. There they started a business bent upon real service to the community. It was shortly after that the son was instinct. With instinctive awareness. That it was bound to work. Deliberately used imagination to attain an almost fantastic objective. Every day on the way to and from work. He passed the building of his father's former business. The big business of its kind in the country. I'm sorry. The biggest business of its kind in the country. It was one of the largest buildings. With the most prominent location in the heart of the city. On the outside of the building was a huge sign. On which the name of the firm was painted in large, bold letters. Day after day, as he passed by, a great. As he passed by, a great dream took shape in the son's mind. He thought of how wonderful it would be if that. If it was his family that had this great building. His family that owned and operated this great business. One day, as he stood Gazing at the building in his imagination, he saw a completely different name on the huge sign across the entrance. Now, the large letter spelled out his family's name. In these case histories, actual names are not used. For the sake of clarity in this story, we will not use hypothetical names and assume the son's family's name was Lordard. That's funny. Let's go back. I'll skip the parentheses. That's just too funny. Now the large letter spelled out his family's names. I'm going to say Goddard Enterprises, where the sign read FN Moth and Company. In imagination, he actually saw the name letter by letter. J. Goddard and Sons, I believe is what it. What? Because Joseph Goddard. It says J.N. lordard and Sons, which would be J.N. goddard and Sons. He remained looking at the sign with his eyes wide open, imagining with your eyes. His eyes wide open, imagining it said Goddard and Sons. Twice a day, week after week, month after month, for two years, he saw his family name over the front of that building. He was convinced that if he felt strongly enough that a thing was true, it was bound to be the case. And by seeing in imagination his family name on the sign which implied that they own the business. He remember now. He went to the end. But the name on the sign means the whole business is theirs. You don't have to worry about the how. You just go to the sign, which is the end. He became convinced that one day they would own it. During this period, he told only one person what he was doing. He confided in his mother, who with loving concern tried to. To discourage him in order to protect him from what? From what might be a great disappointment. Isn't that just like a mom, right? Despite this, he persisted day after day. Two years later, the large company failed and the coveted building was up for sale. Have you seen anybody asking about their sp or their ex or a relationship or a business or wealth or health Persist? Have you seen anybody that has complained about that? Include that they persisted for two years on one subject and continued in their imagining on that one subject for two. Neville took eight days, which I believe we all can do it in eight days. It depends on your desire. But two years. Who do you know persists for two years every day. Do you know anybody? Do you? Is it worth doesn't cost anything. This is the beauty. It didn't cost him one thing except a thought that he persisted in day after day, twice a day, for two years. Then at the end of that two years, I will repeat the sentence. Two years later, the Large company failed in the coveted building was up for sale. On the day of the sale, he seemed no nearer ownership than he had been two years before when he began to apply the law of assumption. During this period, they had worked hard and their customers had implicit confidence in them. However, they had not earned anything like the amount of money required for the purchase of the property. Nor did they have any resource from which they could borrow the necessary capital. Making even more remote their chance of getting it was the fact that it was regarded as the most desirable property in the city. And a number of wealthy business people were prepared to buy it. On the actual day of the sale, to their complete surprise, a man, almost a total stranger, came into their shop and offered to buy the property for them. Due to some unusual conditions in parentheses involved in this transaction, the son's family could not even make a bid for the property. They thought the man was joking. However, this was not the case. The man explained that he had watched them for some time, admired their ability, believed in their integrity, and that supplying the capital for them to go into business on a large scale was an extremely sound investment for him that very day, the property was theirs. What the son had persisted in seeing in his imagination was now a reality. The hunch of the stranger was more than justified. Today this family owns not only the particular business referred to, but owns many of the largest industries in the country in which they live. The son, seeing his family name over the entrance of this great building long before it was actually there, was using the. Exactly the technique that produces results. The law of assumption. That is, by assuming the feeling that he had already had what he desired, by making this a vivid reality in his imagination, by determined persistence, regardless of appearance or circumstance, he inevitably caused his dream to become a reality. It is one of the greatest stories of this and there's a lot of other details you'll catch in the lecture. The amount of money that, that they purchased the property for on loan, then it multiplied when they sold that building, I think over 20 or maybe 40 years later. Unbelievable amount of increase in value. And when they, when they, when the agent who came in to buy the property and be part of this partnership of investment to buy the property for them, and he took a. He took a payment, you know, process back. Of course he had a contract with them, but he made his lawyers go make the bid because if they knew he wanted it, that competitors would jump in. So his lawyers made the bid and nobody was. Was the wiser that it was him because he was a guy that owned A lot of property. But in addition, the one guy that was out of town that would have bought the building in a second happened to be out of town. I think he was in Jamaica or England, but he was off site so he didn't even know about the purchase ability that day. So a lot of things came together in this law of assumption usage. You listen to the lecture, a lot of other things. I'll try and find it and put it in the description. In addition, today I responded to a comment with. In 2023 I saw an article that Goddard Enterprises, the small, very small company talked about in this story, had just passed a one billion dollar gross sales number in 2023. You know you're talking about a hundred year old company right there and you're talking about a very poor family. If you listen to all the lectures of Neville, you'll know sooner or later these were very poor people that lived on Barbados and they, you know, the big bounty was fish coming out of the ocean. 10 kids, they've still managed to lift themselves up by use of imagination. Again I mentioned before the father sitting in his easy chair using the law of assumption, thinking about his business transactions that day, all of them obviously coming true and fruitful for him, the son Victor, getting him the building, biggest building in town. I mean just wonderful example of a story. Somebody came to me, somebody said to me one time, yeah but these, I was describing the law of assumption. I was preaching and I was told, yeah, but these guys, you know, these guys who do this law, they already had money. And I'm like no, you haven't read far enough because they started out very behind the eight ball. And that's true for a lot of stories. But it's best when you can point to how they actually use the law of assumption. It's the main thing being communicated here is the law of assumption. It's the main thing, stick to it, persist. This is the story of a very unexpected result of an interview with a lady who came to consult me. Number three. One afternoon a young grandmother, a businesswoman in New York came to see me. She brought along her nine year old grandson who was visiting her from his home in Pennsylvania. In response to her questions, I explained the law of assumption, describing in detail the procedure to be followed in attaining an objective. The boy sat quietly. Oh, I love this story. I just love the story. I already caught on to what it's going to be. In response to her questions I explained the law of assumption, describing in detail the procedure to be followed in attaining an objective. The boy sat quietly, apparently absorbed in a small toy truck while I explained to the grandmother the method of assuming the state of consciousness that would be hers were her desire already fulfilled. I told her the story of the soldier in camp who each night fell asleep imagining himself to be in his own bed, in his own home. When the boy and his grandmother were leaving, he looked up at me with great excitement and said I know what I want and now I know how to get it. Surprised, I asked him what it was he wanted. He told me he had his heart set on a puppy. To this the grandmother vigorously protested, telling the boy that he had been made clear, that it had been made clear repeatedly that he could not have a dog under any circumstances, that his father and mother would not allow it, that the boy was too young to care for it properly. And furthermore, the father had a deep dislike for dogs. He actually hated to have one around. All these were arguments the boy passionately, desirously of having a dog refused to understand. He just again, you just don't hear what is not taking you to your objective. If your objective is here and you know making an impression on your subconscious is doing this one thing. Anything coming from without doesn't matter. All this noise coming in is just noise. The little boy was like, I don't care what you guys say, I now know how I'm going to get this puppy. All these were arguments. The boy, passionately desireless, desirous of having a dog, refused to understand. Now I know what to do, he said. Every night, just as I'm going off to sleep, I am going to pretend that I have a dog and and we are going for a walk. No, said the grandmother, that is not what Mr. Neville means. This was not meant for you. You cannot have a dog. Approximately six weeks later, the grandmother told me what was to her an astonishing story. The boy's desire to own a dog was so intense that he had absorbed all that I had told his grandmother of how to attain one's desire. And he believed implicitly that at least he knew how to get a dog. Putting this belief into practice for many nights the boy imagined a dog was lying in bed, in his bed beside him. In imagination he petted the dog, actually feeling its fur. Alright. Things like playing with the dog and taking it for a walk filled his mind. Imagination. Within a few weeks it happened. A newspaper in the city in which the boy lived organized a special program in connection with Kindness to Animals Week. All school children were requested to write an essay on why I would like to own A dog. After entries from all the schools were submitted and judged, the winner of the contest was announced. The very same boy who weeks before in my apartment in New York, had told me, now I know how to get a dog, was the winner. In an elaborate ceremony which was publicized with stories and pictures in the newspaper, the boy was awarded a beautiful collie puppy. In relating this story, the grandmother told me that if the boy had been given the puppy. I'm sorry. If the boy had been given the money with which to buy a dog, the parents would have refused to do so and would have used it to buy a bond for the boy or. Or put it in the savings bank for him. Furthermore, if someone had made the boy a gift of a dog, they would have refused it or given it away. But the dramatic manner in which the boy got the dog, the way he won the citywide contest, the stories and pictures in the newspaper, the pride of achievement and joy of the boy himself, all combined to bring about a change of heart in the parents. And they themselves. They found themselves doing that which they never conceived possible. They allowed him to keep the dog. All this the grandmother explained to me. And she concluded by saying that there was one particular kind of dog on which the boy had set his heart. It was a collie. How many times did you ask your parents for something and they said no. And you said, can I have? No. Can I. Can I have? No. Can I have? No. Can I have? No. Can I have? No. Can I have. Okay, shut up. Go ahead. You're driving me crazy. But this, I mean, really, it's such a fascinating story. It really shows you the power of imagination, especially in a youngster, a very youngster who doesn't. Doesn't know the difference of what it's supposed to be and not supposed to be. Because imagination is wonderful story. And there's a piece here. Oh. Going to the end. So the child, in his imagination went to the end seeing the puppy, seeing. Petting them in bed with him, walking it, feeding it, whatever. In his imagination that. That piece that says if. In relating the story to the grandmother, if the boy had been given the money with which to buy the dog, the parents would have refused it and. And used it for savings. If someone had made the boy a gift of the dog, they would have refused it and given it away. But the dramatic manner. So the child went to the end. Didn't go to. I see myself at an animal shelter or I see myself at somebody giving away puppies. None of that. The boy went to the experience at the End. What is it you're trying to experience? And you go to the end because doing so at the end. My father's ways are past finding out. So if you go to the end, you're never concerned with the how. He was never concerned with the how. It didn't. In case you're trying to manifest money because you want it as a thing to get you to another thing, that's not. That's not the way. The way is the end. When you're making that impression on your subjective consciousness, you're aimed at the end. If you want this to manifest, if you're going to aim on the how you're going out here in the world, then you're missing the mark. You're not intentionally sinning, but you're sinning because you're missing the mark. You're missing how righteousness works. You make the impression on the subconscious, which objectifies the reality. But the boy went to the end by seeing the dog in bed with him. He didn't do anything else. He didn't. He didn't bog it down with hows. Howls are going to destroy every or are going to get in the way and, you know, cause massive delays, disconcerting massive delays that make you want to give up. What a great story. Oh, my gosh. That was very moving. Okay, case study. Case history number four. This was told by the ant in the story to the entire audience at the conclusion of one of my lectures. During the question period following my lecture on the law of Assumption, a lady who had attended many lectures and had had personal consultation with me on a number of occasions rose and asked permission to tell a story illustrating how she had successfully used the law. She said that upon returning home from the lecture the week before, she had found her niece distressed and terribly upset. The husband of the niece, who was an officer in the Army Air Force stationed in Atlantic City, had just been ordered along with the rest of his unit, to active duty in Europe. She tearfully told her aunt that the reason she was upset was that she had been hoping her husband would be assigned to Florida as an instructor. They both love Florida and were anxious to be stationed there and not to be separated. Upon hearing this story, the aunt stated that there was only one thing to do and that was to apply immediately. The law of assumption. Let's actualize it, she said. If you were actually in Florida, what would you do? You would feel the warm breeze. You would smell the salt air. You would feel your toes sinking down into the sand. Well, let's do all that right now they took off their shoes and turning out the lights in imagination, they felt themselves actually in Florida, feeling the warm breeze, smelling the sea air and pushing their toes into the sand. 48 hours later, the husband received a change of orders. His new instructions were to report immediately to Florida as an Air force instructor. Remember, she didn't go and say, I want him to be in her imagination, see him as an instructor. She didn't do that. She went to another end result that pre assumes everything else. Five days later, his wife was on a train to join him. While the aunt, in order to help her niece to attain her desire, joined in with the niece in assuming the state of consciousness required she did not go to Florida. That was not her desire. On the other hand, that was the intense longing of the niece. When two or more are gathered in my name, the aunt imagined lovingly for her niece. She joined her in the imagining. But she didn't have to go. The nieces had the desire. The aunt joined the niece in the desire. When you know what someone else wants, it doesn't take and cost you anything to imagine lovingly for them, seeing them attaining it. And then when you hear back verbatim exactly what you imagined, it's going to knock your socks off. It's going to blow your mind. That was number four. That was amazing. Case study five. This case is especially interesting because of the short interval of time between the application of this law of assumption and its visible manifestation. All right, want a short one? We want a short one. That one was pretty short, actually. A very prominent woman came to me in deep concern. She maintained a lovely city apartment and a large country home. But because the many demands made upon her were greater than her modest income, it was absolutely essential that she rent her apartment if she and her family were to spend the summer at their country home. In previous years, the apartment had been rented without difficulty early in the spring. But the day she came to me, the rental season for summer sublets was over. The apartment had been in the hands of the best real estate agents for months, but no one had been interested even in coming to see it. When she had described her predicament, I explained how the law of assumption could be brought to bear on solving her problem. I. I suggested that by imagining the apartment had been rented by a person desiring immediate occupancy, and by assuming that this was the case, her apartment actually would be rented. In order to create the necessary feeling of naturalness, the feeling that it was already a fact that her apartment was rented, I suggested that she drift off. That she drifted off into sleep that very night, imagining herself not in her apartment, but in whatever place she would sleep were the apartment suddenly rented. She quickly grasped the idea and said that in such a situation she would sleep in her country home, even though it were not yet opened for the summer. She would psychologically in sats, sleep in her country home. This interview took place on Thursday. At nine o' clock the following Saturday morning she phoned me from her home in the country. Two days, maybe even a day and a half because it was evening of Thursday, I don't doubt at 9 o' clock the following Saturday morning she phoned me from her home in the country. Excited and happy. She told me that on Thursday night she had fallen asleep actually imagining and feeling that she was sleeping in her other bed in her country home, many miles away from the city apartment she was occupying on Friday. The very next day, a highly desirable tenant, one who met all her requirements as a responsible person, not only rented the apartment, but rented it on the condition that he could move in that very day, a day and a half, two days. All she did was imagine herself in the other home. What are you imagining as you're falling to sleep? What are you watching on that little box? That is so successful, it's so very successful. If you don't know what this is, ask your parents or grandparents. Let me put a little knob on there. If you're going to sleep focused on this and drifting off into sleep. In fact, if you even have this in your bedroom, shame on you. One thing in my. In we, we celebrated our wedding anniversary 25 years this year. And one thing we always maintain to never ever have in our bedroom, from date, from the, from moment one, never have a TV in the bedroom where you're sleeping, whatever that is. And the reason is you're going in there to sleep, you're going in there to retire, to withdraw. And even before I created napping as a full time daily activity, which what I would say was maybe after the third or fourth year of marriage, it still kept that sanctuary of the bedroom being a place you could withdraw. And working with dreams and the Seth material that I mentioned before, and working with out of bodies and working with all that stuff, lucid dreaming, all that requires a space to do this in, a space to retire to a space of contemplation. Your bedroom is that. But if you pollute it with one of these, and don't get me wrong, you might even just be in a one room, we eventually, just as an example we have a TV in the living room, but we bought this big box furniture. It has doors on it that we can close that thing off. We have friends over and we're chit chatting and talking and we're not looking at the tv. We're, we close that thing off. We don't have it fully displayed all the time because that's not the subject of using this. And just as an idea, if you're considering changing what you focus on before you fall asleep, to make a law of assumption, work for yourself, put a blanket over this, throw a towel over it. If you're in a one room situation or if you're in a bedroom and it has one in there and you can't take it out because you're partner, spouse loves it, whatever, it doesn't matter as much as don't put it on as you're drifting to sleep. If you're drifting to sleep and, and you've got Dexter on or whatever or you got, you got the eighth season of Loft running you, you're definitely not drifting into the, into the SAT state with your desired objective in mind. You're letting out here, fill that gap. What are you imagining as you fall off to sleep? And whatever it is, it's worked perfect. It's worked wonderful. It's worked one, it's gotten you right where you are. So give yourself credit. It's gotten you in that perfect space you are now. If you have desire that you want to be somewhere else, then you have to look at what we're talking about here and change something. Case history number six. Only the most complete and intense use of the law of assumption could have produced such results in this extreme situation. Four years ago, a friend of our family asked that I talk with his 28 year old son who was not expected to live. He was suffering from a rare heart disease. This disease resulted in a disintegration of the, of the organ. Long and costly medical care had been of no avail. Doctors held out no hope for recovery. For a long time the son had been confined to his bed. His body had shrunk to almost a skeleton and he could talk and breathe only with great difficulty. His wife and two small children were home when I called and his wife was present throughout our discussion. I started by telling him that there was only one solution to any problem. And, and that solution was a change of attitude. You ever heard, you ever heard Earl Nightingale say attitude? It's got a very deep voice. If you haven't seen or heard Earl Nightingale the strangest secret, wonderful Wonderful. Yeah, Wonderful man. Wonderful audio recordings. Wonderful teacher, motivational speaker. By the way, he used to frequent acres of books here in Long Beach. And Neville Goddard actually talks about going into acres of books, the same bookstore. I really. I'm very admirers of that. Since talking, I started by telling him that there was only one solution to any problem. And that solution was a change of attitude. Since talking exhausted him, I asked him to nod in agreement if he understood clearly what I said. This he agreed to do. I described the facts underlying the law of consciousness. In fact, that consciousness was the only reality. I told him that the way to change any condition was to change his state of consciousness concerning it. As a specific aid in helping him to assume the feeling of already being well. I suggested that in imagination he see the doctor's face expressing incredulous, amazing in finding him recovered contrary to all reason, from the last stages of an incurable disease. That he. That he see him double checking in his examination and hear him saying over and over, it's a miracle. It's a miracle. He not only understood all this clearly, but he believed it. Implicitly. He promised that he would faithfully follow this procedure. His wife, who had been listening intently, assured me that she too would diligently use the law of assumption and her imagination in the same way as her husband. The following day, I sailed for New York, all this taking place during a winter vacation in the tropics. Several months later, I received a letter saying the son had been made a miraculous recovery. The son had made a. The son had made a miraculous recovery. On my next visit, I met him in person. He was in perfect health, actively engaged in business and thoroughly enjoying the many social activities of his friends and family. He told me that from the day I left, he never had any doubt that it would work. It? Imagination. He never had any doubt. He was convinced. That's all he had to do. He knew it. He described how he had faithfully followed the suggestion I had made to him. And day after day had lived completely in the assumption of already being well and strong. Now, four years after his recovery, he is convinced that the only reason he is here today is due to his successful use of the law of assumption. Powerful. What a wonderful, wonderful case that is great. Number seven. I mean, hold on. Let me. Let me. How many of us. I mean, excuse me. I mean, who does? I don't know. Do you? Do I? How many people believe what the man in the white coat says? I mean, if you really, really believe. I believe. If you have acute pain, break a bone etc. They're there for a good reason, to help you out. But they are also out here. Neville reminded him that in here is where this law of Assumption works. But relying on the data and information coming from without out here, he was going to ignore that and work with the Law of Assumption. And how many of us look out here and think it's real? We think that that's the facts, that they must be all they must be. The sentence I've been given. Consciousness is all there is. I and my father are one. My father is greater than I. If that's the facts, that is. If you go into I am meditation for just a few minutes, you're at home. You're not out here when you go into meditation, you don't go here. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about traveling out of body or remote viewing or remote traveling or any of that. Because that's great stuff that's still in here. But I'm not talking about that. You're only ever in meditation. You're only ever. You're only ever at home with him. So all he did was practice the law of assumption within himself. Made the subjective impression. Depression, objectified health. Totally doable. Great story. 7 this story illustrates the successful use of the law by a New York business executive. In the fall of 1950. An executive of one of New York's prominent banks discussed with me a serious problem with which he was confronted. He told me that the outlook for his personal progress and advancement was very dim. Having reached middle age and feeling that a marked improvement in position and income was justified, he had talked it out with his superiors. They frankly told him that any major improvement was impossible and intimated that if he was dissatisfied he could seek another job. This, of course, only increased his uneasiness in our talk. He explained that he had no great desire for really big money, but that he had to have a substantial income in order to maintain his home comfortably and to provide for the education of his children in good preparatory schools and colleges. Sounds reasonable, right? This he found impossible on his present income. The refusal of the bank to assure him of any advancement in the near future resulted in a feeling of discontent and an intense desire to secure a better position with considerably more money. He confided in me that the kind of job he would like better than anything in the world was one in which he managed the investment funds of a large institution such as a foundation or great university. In explaining the law of Assumption, I stated that his present situation was only a manifestation of his concept of. Of himself. In explaining the law of assumption, I stated that his present situation was only a manifestation of his concept of himself. He has a self concept. I have a self concept. You have a self concept. And declared that he wanted to change the circumstances in which he found himself. He could do so by changing his concept of himself. In order to bring about this change of consciousness and thereby a change in his situation, I asked him to follow this procedure every night just before he fell asleep. In imagination, he was to feel that he was retiring at the end of one of the most important and successful days of his life. He was to imagine that he had actually closed a deal that very day to join the kind of organization he yearned to be with and in exactly the capacity he wanted. I suggested to him that if he succeeded in completely filling his mind with this feeling, he would experience a definite sense of relief. Remember now, that's. Neville talks about it in one of his lectures. The word relief is the biggest, most important word we're working with when we're talking about feeling. Feeling it real. When you're feeling it real, you're feeling the relief of having now had the experience. What does it feel like to be in love, happily married, and. And being in a new house with a new family, your family you've created feels like a nice relief because you're not there now, but you're going to be there. When you imagine it real, it feels like a relief. After the pizza arrives and you choke all the pizzas, the pieces down, put the dishes in the sink, you're like in a feeling of relief. Neville describes that to be the most, very, very most important thing you could talk about as far as one word is concerned. Regarding the law of assumption. I suggested to him that if he succeeded in completely filling his mind with this feeling, he would experience a definite sense of relief. In this mood, his uneasiness and discontent would be a thing of the past. He would feel the contentment that comes with the fulfillment of desire. I wound up by assuring him that if he did this faithfully, he would inevitably get the kind of position he wanted. This was the first week of December. Night after night, without exception, he followed this procedure. Early in February, a director of one of the wealthiest foundations in the world asked this executive if he would be interested in joining the foundation in an executive capacity handling investments. After some brief discussion, he accepted. First week of December, early February, two months. What would you persist in? If you really wanted and had a desire for? What would you persist in? I've Taken a heck of a long time. A lot longer. Learning how to play the guitar at age 14, for instance. Or the saxophone, sorry, the clarinet in third grade. Much, many more hours. A lot of hours on that guitar. And then bass guitar. A lot of time invested. A lot of time out here. Hindsight's 20 20. A lot of time out here. We're talking two months. He changed his entire reality just by taking some effort each night, early in February, director of one of the wealthiest foundations. Okay. Today, at a substantially higher income and with the assurance of steady progress, this man is in a position far exceeding all that he had hoped for. What would you. That's end of that case. What would you persist in? Night after night, eight days, two months, two years. What would you persist in? Understand? Understand. Remind yourself whatever you've been persisting in up to now has gotten you right where you are. You must reward yourself with that. As an idea or a fact. You've done a dang good job getting yourself to where you are. You're in a great place. You got yourself there by the law of assumption. You've been using it all along. How many wonderful movies are made when the. When the main character wakes up and realizes it was them? I mean, I can think of a few. You know, when they realize they're the object of that memory floods in of a fight Club. There are. Hollywood has a way of turning wonderful truths into awkward violent movies. But anyway, Fight Club. When you first saw fight club in 1999. Ish. That was a mind blowing realization for the character. He woke up and realized he was a split. And then there's another movie. Mickey Rourke with Lisa Bonet, 1987. Angel Heart. Angel Heart. Angel Heart. I believe it is Angel Heart. Where the main character also is going through his trials and tribulations and wakes up realizing that it's him. This is what we need to realize about ourselves is that where you are is where you put yourself. You put yourself there through the law of assumption and through everything you focus on each night. You did a wonderful job putting yourself exactly where you are. And if you have any complaints, what do they say? What do they used to say? If you have any complaints, fill it out in triplicate and put it on my desk. Fill it out in triplicate and put it on his desk. Because you can see how far that's going to get you. But that's the answer though too. I am is the answer. I am is your meditation. You don't like where you are. Don't worry just because you put yourself there. Doesn't mean it's not changeable. I mean, you wouldn't do the worst thing to yourself on purpose. You would do it by a matter of habit, by what you learned, by what you were taught. Etc. Etc. Doesn't matter. All that's water under the bridge. We're here now. Now you know the law of assumption. You take it upon yourself to make an impression upon what your desire tells you you want to be, have or do. Make that impression, objectify that reality. See, now you know you can't escape it now. But you did put yourself where you are wonderfully well. You did a really good job at that. You're really good at it. Give yourself credit. Okay? 8. The man and wife in this story attended many lectures. Excuse me, attended my lectures for a number of years. It is an interesting illustration of the conscious use of this law by two people concentrating on the same objective at one time. When two or more are gathered in my name. Right, here we go. The man and wife were an exceptionally devoted couple. Their life was completely happy and entirely free from any problems or frustrations. For some time they had planned to move into a larger apartment. The more they thought about it, the more they realized that what they had their heart set on was a beautiful penthouse. In discussing it together, the husband explained that he wanted one with a huge window looking out on a magnificent view. The wife said she would like to have one with. She would like to have one side of the walls mirrored from top to bottom. They both wanted to have a wood burning fireplace. It was a must that the apartment be in New York City. For months they had searched for such an apartment in vain. They'd gone out here, right? In fact, the situation in the city was such that the securing of any kind of apartment was almost an impossibility. They were so scarce that not only were there waiting lists for them, but all sorts of special deals, including premiums. The buying of furniture were involved. New apartments were being leased long before they were completed, many being rented from the blueprints of the building early in the spring. After months of fruitless seeking, they finally located one which they seriously considered. It was a penthouse apartment in a building just being completed on Upper Fifth Avenue facing Central Park. It had one serious drawback. Being a new building, it was not subject to rent control and the couple felt the yearly rental was exorbitant. In fact, it was several thousand dollars a year more than they had considered paying. Remember, we're Talking about approximately 1950 during the spring months of March and April. They continued looking at various penthouses throughout the city, but they always came back to this one. Finally, they decided to increase the amount they would pay substantially and made a proposition which the agent for the building agreed to forward to the owner for consideration. It was at this point, without discussing it with each other, they didn't talk to each other about this. It was at this point, without discussing it with each other, each determined to apply the law of assumption. It was not until later that each learned what the other had done. Night after night, they both fell asleep in imagination. In the apartment they were considering. The husband, lying with his eyes closed, would imagine that his bedroom windows were overlooking the park. He would imagine going to the window the first thing in the morning and enjoying the view. He felt himself sitting on the terrace overlooking the park, having cocktails with his wife and friends, all thoroughly enjoying it. He filled his mind with actually feeling himself in the penthouse and on the terrace. He filled his mind. During all this time, unknown to him, his wife was doing the same thing. Several weeks went by without any decision on the part of the owners, but they continued to imagine, as they fell asleep each night, that they were actually sleeping in the penthouse. One day, to their complete surprise, one of the employees in the apartment building in which they lived told them that the penthouse there was vacant. They were astonished because theirs was one of the most desirable buildings in the city, with the perfect location right on Central Park. The building they were in, not the one that they were imagining, but they imagined the window, they imagined the mirrored wall, the fireplace. They knew there was a long waiting list of people trying to get an apartment in their building. The fact that a penthouse had unexpectedly become available was kept quiet by the management because they were not in a position to consider any applicants for it. Upon learning that it was vacant, this couple immediately made a request that it be rented to them, only to be told that it was impossible. The fact that. The fact was that not only were there several people on on a waiting list for for a penthouse in the building, but it was actually promised to one family. Despite this. But despite this, the couple had a series of meetings with the management, at the conclusion of which the apartment was theirs. The building being subject to rent control. Their rental was just about what they had planned to pay when they first started looking for a penthouse. The building being subject to rent control, which is what they wanted in the first place. Their rental was just about what they had planned to pay. Excuse me, let me repeat the whole sentence. But the idea that rent control was going to help them because that's what they imagined they would pay in the first place. The building being subject to rent control, their rental was just about what they had planned to pay when they first started looking for a penthouse. The location, the apartment itself and the large terrace surrounding it on the south, west and north was beyond all their expectations. And, and in the living room on one side is a giant window 15ft by 8ft with a magnificent view of Central Park. One wall is mirrored from floor to ceiling and there is a wood burning fireplace. The law of assumption. Eight wonderful examples, eight case histories written by Neville. What does it take? Just for one person, just one imagining is plenty. But if you get too focused on the same goal, the same desirous end result will typically open wide. Oh my goodness. And you know, I'm almost speechless. But you can imagine though that their apartment, which is, let's say this is their apartment, which is their objective. This is her, okay? And this is him. He's the male, she's the female. And they're both making that impression on their subconscious night after night. And together they're both here. This is, this is the son, this is the son of the wedding, of them together. The male and female, the female and the male. So they both do it each night, make that subjective impression. Objective reality. It cannot. Objective reality is. There's no option. This becomes a fact because it is a fact. When they were making this impression onto their subconscious, that's 4D reality. That's a fact. That is the motion. Once it move. Once they moved, motion happened. Once motion happens, the reality exists. Once the reality exists. All they did by continuing was bolster it. They bolstered it and they made it objective reality in their experience. Same building. Use some elevators. Don't move all the way out. Go to the top, get the penthouse, get three, three terraces. What did they have? The south, the west and the north. I mean, come on, you cannot beat that. That's a beautiful sunset and sunrise. If you walk around the north and the south side, you're going to see it coming around the building anyway. I mean, what is possible? What is possible if you focus night after night, eight nights, two months, two years. I forget what their amount of time was, but it didn't seem to be that several weeks. Okay, let's say it's 8, 10, 12, whatever. What are you going to do? Because what you're focusing on now, what you're imagining falling asleep now is what's got you where you are. So what are you going to imagine on now that you know all these case histories got to where they got. Even the little kid, the little child with the puppy. What are you going to focus on? That's the question for you. I suggest. I'm not going to pause the video for a minute, but I suggest you go write that down. Go get a piece of paper and write it down. What is your desire? What is your objective? What's the object of your desire? What's the object you're going to put here? The desire becomes objective. What is it you're going to ignore this outside world for? To get your objective? Because ignoring this, this is pretty fancy stuff. This, this can be entertaining once you, once you start ignoring that and you put your, put your desire into your focus and you're nothing but focusing on it. By simply falling asleep, imagining yourself experiencing it. I don't mean going out and doing research and loads of in the world chasing of the tail. I don't mean stuff here. I mean whatever you're going to impress into your subconscious, this is your focus. What you're going to put into your focus as you fall asleep is the main point. That's the law of assumption. That's what's going to equally there wonderful chapter, chapter 23, Power of Awareness. Wow, what a great chapter. All right, we'll see you in the next chapter.