How To Use Your Imagination LP Side A by Neville Goddard (1955)

Neville Goddard LP 1955. Also known as a record. LP means long play, if you don't remember. Side one. How to use your imagination. The purpose of this record is to show you how to use your imagination to achieve your every desire. Most men are totally unaware of the creative power of imagination. And invariably bow before the dictates of facts. And accepts life on the basis of the world without. But when you discover this creative power within yourself. You will boldly assert the supremacy of imagination. And put all things in subjection to it. When a man speaks of God in man, he is totally unaware that this power called God in man is man's imagination. This is the creative power in man. There's nothing under heaven that is not plastic as potter's clay. To the touch of the shaping spirit of imagination. Once a man said to me, you know, Neville, I love to listen to you talk about imagination. But as I do, I invariably touch the chair with my fingers and push my feet into the rug. Just to keep my sense of the reality and the profundity of things. Well, undoubtedly he is still touching the chair with his fingers and pushing his feet into the rug. Well, let me tell you of another one who didn't touch with her fingers and didn't push that foot of hers onto the board of the streetcar. It's the story of a young girl who turned 17. He just turned 17. It was Christmas Eve and she is sad of heart. For that year she had lost her father in an accident. And she is returning home to what seemed to be an empty house. She was untrained to do anything, so got herself a job as a waitress. This night is. It's quite late, Christmas Eve. It's raining. The car is full of laughing boys and girls home for their Christmas vacation. And she couldn't conceal the tears. Luckily for her, as I said, it was raining. So she stuck her face into the heavens to mingle her tears with the rain. And then holding the rail of the streetcar, this is what she did. She said, this is not rain. Why, this is spray from the ocean. And this is not the salt of tears that I taste. For this is the salt of the sea and the wind. This is not San Diego. This is a ship and I'm coming into the Bay of Samoa. And there she felt the reality of all that she had imagined. Then came the end of the journey and all are out. Ten days later, this girl received a letter from a firm in Chicago. Saying that her aunt, several years before, when she sailed for Europe, deposited with them $3,000 with instructions that if she did not return to America, this money should be paid to her niece. They had just received information of the aunt's death. And were now acting upon her instructions. One month later, this girl sailed for Samoa. As she came into the bay, it was late that night. And there was salt of the sea in the wind. It wasn't raining, but. But there was spray in the air. And she actually felt what she'd felt one month before. Only this time, she had realized her objective. Man, it happens just like that. When you start to see it come alive, it's when it's game on. Now, this whole record is technique. I want to show you today how to put your wonderful imagination right into the feeling of your wish fulfilled. And let it remain there and fall asleep in that state. And I promise you from my own experience, you will realize the state in which you sleep. If you could actually feel yourself right into the situation of your fulfilled desire. And continue therein until you fall asleep. That's the main point. Just do it as you drift into sleep, as you fill yourself right into it, remain in it until you give it all the tones of reality. Until you give it all the sensory vividness of reality as you do it in that state, quietly fall into sleep. And in a way you will never know, you could never consciously devise the means that would be employed. You will find yourself moving across a series of events. Leading you towards the objective realization of this state. Now, here's a practical technique. The first thing you do, you must know exactly what you want in this world. Number one, Just do it. Just know one thing. It doesn't matter. Just pick one. When you know exactly what you want, make as lifelike a representation as possible of what you would see and what you would touch and what you would do were you physically present and physically moving in such a state. For example, suppose I wanted a home. But I had no money. But I still know what I want. I know without. Without taking anything into consideration. I would make as lifelike a representation of the home that I would like. With all the things in it that I would want. And then this night, as I would go to bed, I would in a state. A drowsy, sleepy state. The state that borders upon sleep. I would imagine that. That I am actually in such a house. That were I to step off the bed, I would step upon the floor of the house. That house. Were I to leave this room, I would enter the room that is adjacent to my imagined room in that house. And while I'm touching the furniture and Feeling it to be solidly real. And while I am moving from one room to the other in my imaginary house, I would go to sound asleep in that state. And I know that in a way I could not consciously devise, I would realize my house. I have seen it work time and time again. If I wanted a promotion in my business, I would ask myself what additional responsibilities would be mine were I to be given this great promotion. What would I do? What would I say? What would I see? How would I act? And then in my imagination, I would begin to see and touch and do and act as I would outwardly see and touch and act were I in that position. So we were watching a movie last night, and we didn't watch the whole thing, but we got so far. And Michael J. Fox, 1980s, I think. 1987, I think. It's called the Secret of My Success. He is. It's his uncle's company. It's a company of suitors, people in suits. And he wants to infiltrate, but he can't just. I don't know why, but he can't get in through his uncle. So he goes in through the mailroom. I don't think his uncle wants to hire him, maybe or something, but he goes in through the mailroom. And then on his way into using his expertise, he is going into offices and imagining what he would do if he were there as an executive. And he's actually literally going into the records and research and doing these things to improve the business already in his imagination before he knows that, he's sitting at a desk and the phone rings and then he's got to make an executive decision. So at that point, he's pulled into what he's been imagining. And then he's going into the role. And the movie's a great movie. It's worth watching considering what we're talking about. Using your imagination and feel and touch and act as if you were there. And then be there and fall asleep in that. If I now desire this mate of my life. Were I now in search of some wonderful girl. Girl. Or some wonderful man, what would I actually find myself doing that would imply that I have found my state? For instance, suppose now I was a lady. One thing I would definitely do. I would wear a wedding ring. I would. I would take my imaginary hands and I would feel the ring that I would imagine to be there. Imaginary hands, the imaginary ring. And I would keep on feeling it and feeling it until it seemed to me to be solidly real. I would give it all the sensory vividness I am capable of giving anything. And while I am feeling my imaginary ring, which implies that I am married, I would sleep. This story is told us in the Song of Songs or A Song of Solomon. It is said, at night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. I found him whom my soul loveth. And I would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, right into the chamber of her that conceived me. If I would take that beautiful poem and put it into modern English, into practical language, it would be this. While sitting in my chair, I would feel myself right into the situation of my fulfilled desire. And having felt myself into that state, I would not let it go. I would keep that mood alive. And in that mood I would sleep. That is, taking it right into my mother's chamber, into the chamber of her that conceived me. You know, people are totally unaware of this fantastic power of the imagination. But when man begins to discover this power within him, he never plays the part that he formerly played. Why would you want to? You just don't. You don't play that part anymore. And even though you think you're going to miss something, you're going to long for something of the past. You're going to be so happy, you're going to want to burn the ships. You're going to want to burn the ships. He doesn't turn back and become just a reflector of life. From here on in, he is the effector of life. The secret of it is to center your imagination in the feeling of the wish fulfilled and remain therein. For in our capacity to live in. In the feeling of the wish fulfilled lies our capacity to live the more abundant life. True, true, true. Most of us are afraid to imagine ourselves as important and noble individuals, secure in our contribution to the world. Just because at the very moment that we start our assumption, reason and our senses deny the truth of our assumption. We seem to be in the grip of an unconscious urge which makes us cling desperately to the world of familiar things and resist all that threatens to tear us away from our familiar and seemingly safe moorings. Well, I appeal to you to try it. If you try it, you will discover this great wisdom of the ancients. Once you fold in, you're never going to fold out. You're just not going to go back. Once you start to see it work, you're not going back. Why would you? Great wisdom of the ancients is what awaits you, the application of it. The life of your desire is waiting for you. For they Told it to us in their own strange, wonderful symbolical form. But unfortunately, you and I misinterpreted their stories and took it for history when they intended it as instruction to simply achieve our every objective. You see, imagination puts us inwardly in touch with the world of states. These states are existent, yet they are present now. But they are mere possibilities while we think of them. But they became overpoweringly real when we think from them and dwell in them. You know, there's a wide difference between thinking of what you want in this world and thinking from what you want. Let me tell you when I first heard of this strange and wonderful power of the imagination. It was in 1933 in New York City. An old friend of mine taught it to me. That would be Abdullah. He. His old friend Abdullah. He turned to the 14th of John and this is what he read. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye may be also. He explained to me that this central character of the Gospels was human imagination. That mansion was not a place in some heavenly house, but simply my desire. If I would make a living representation of the state desired and then enter that state and. And abide in that state, I would realize it. At the time, I wanted to make a trip to the island of Barbados in the West Indies, but I had no money. He explained to me that if I would. If I would, that night as I slept in New York City, assume that I was sleeping in my earthly father's house in Barbados and go sound asleep in that state, that I would realize my trip. Well, I took him at his word and tried it for one month. Night after night, as I fell asleep, I assumed I was sleeping in my father's home in Barbados. At the end of my month, an invitation from my family came, inviting me to spend the winter in Barbados. I sailed for Barbados the early part of December of that year. One month. How long would you put in the effort? One month. Night after night as I fell asleep, I assumed this. This is his first time trying this. First ever. For Neville. He put in a month's effort. Obviously, he had desire to go home. One month. I assumed I was sleeping in my father's home in Barbados. He sailed for Barbados the early part of December of that year. From then on, the. From then on, I knew I had found this savior in myself. The old man told Me that it would never fail, even after it happened. I could hardly believe that it would not have happened anyway. That's how strange this whole thing is. Very true. It just seems like a big coincidence. On reflection, it happens so naturally you begin to feel or to tell yourself, well, it would have happened anyway. And you quickly recover from this wonderful experience of yours. It never failed me if I would give the mood, the imagined mood, sensory vividness. It never failed me. I would tell you. Excuse me, I could tell you unnumbered case histories to show you how it works. But in essence, it is simple. You simply know what you want. When you know what you want, you are thinking of it. This is not enough. You must now begin to think from it. Well, how could I think from it? I am sitting here and I desire to be elsewhere. How could I, while sitting here, physically put myself in imagination at a point in space removed from this room, and make that real to me quite easily. My imagination puts me in touch inwardly with that state. I imagine that I'm actually where I desire to be. How can I tell that I am there? There's one way to prove that I am there. For what a man sees when he describes his world is as he describes it, relative to himself. So what the world looks like depends entirely upon where I stand when I make my observation. So if, as I describe my world, it is related to that point in space I imagine that I am occupying, then I must be there. I am not physically, I am not there physically, no, but. But I am there in my imagination. And my imagination is my real self. And where I go in imagination and make it real, there I shall go in the flesh. Also, when in that state I fall asleep, it is done. I have never sleep seen it fail. So this is a simple technique upon how to use your imagination to realize your every objective. It doesn't matter what it is. You want to get married, you want a new house, you want wealth, you want fame, you want wisdom, it doesn't matter. Here is a very healthy and productive exercise for the imagination. Something that you should do daily. Daily relive the day as you wish you had lived it. Revising the scenes to make them conform to your ideals. We're using revision here. For instance, suppose today's mail brought disappointing news. Revise the letter, mentally rewrite it and make it conform to the news you wish you had received. Remember, you're going to give yourself a little bit extra time when you go to bed to go through your day mentally. Go through it in reverse order. Find something Find one thing each night, then find two things, then three things. Then just start revising them and watch your world change. Revise the letter. Mentally rewrite it and make it conform to the news you wish you had received. Or suppose you didn't get the letter you wish you had received? Write yourself the letter and imagine that you receive such a letter. Let me tell you a story that took place in New York not very long ago. In my audience sat this lady who had heard me on numerous times. And I was telling the story of revision. That man, not knowing the power of imagination, he goes to sleep at the end of his day, tired and exhausted, accepting as final all the events of the day. I do it all the time. When I go to sleep, I just fall right in there, man. I mean, it's like falling into the swimming pool. I just. I'm gone. I have to make an effort. And I'm starting to do that now. I'm starting to make an actual effort to go in there, not to fall asleep so fast. Because I am an immediate sleeper, I can go to sleep. When I make a decision to go to bed, I'm going there to sleep. So why would I do anything else? But now I'm trying to go there a little earlier to do this more as end. I was trying to show that man should, at that moment before he sleeps, he should rewrite the entire day and make it conform to the day he wished, he wished he had experienced. Here is the way a lady wisely used this law of revision. It appears that two years ago she was ordered out of her daughter in law's home for two years. There was no correspondence. She had sent her grandson at least two dozen presents in that interval. But not one was ever acknowledged. Having heard the story of revision, this is what she did. As she retired at night, she mentally constructed two letters. One she imagined coming from her grandson and the other from her daughter in law. In these two letters. In these letters they expressed deep affection for her and wondered why she had not called to see them back in the day. A calling card. This is not a calling card, but a calling card, a business card, excuse me. A business card was what you would show up with at someone's house. And you would present your business card to the person who answered the door. And then they would take it to the person you were there to visit. And that would be your calling card. And it's in the movie the Count of Monte Cristo. When the Count of Monte Cristo calls on the lady, his love, his love interest, and he presents his card and the butler takes it to her and shows who's calling upon her. That was the terminology back then. At a time, a different time. So that's what your card was for. It was your calling card. So when you called on someone, you literally were in person and then presenting your information to the person who answered the door to present it to that who you were visiting. In these letters they expressed deep affection for her and wondered why she had not called to see them. You don't call to see somebody. You call upon them by showing up. She did this exercise for seven consecutive nights, holding in her imaginary hand the letter she imagined she had received and reading these letters over and over until it aroused within her the satisfaction of having heard. Then she slept. On the eighth day, she received a letter from her daughter in law. Seven days on the inside there were two letters, one from her grandson and one from the daughter in law. They practically duplicated the imaginary letters that this grandmother had written to herself. And eight days before. What would you do for seven days if you wanted an outcome, Any outcome? This art of revision can be used in any department of your life. It just flashed upon my head and I do not regret this. But can you imagine knowing this? Like seventh grade? Can you imagine knowing this when you're 21? Can you imagine knowing this? Never mind any of that, but it is fascinating when these flashes of mine come through. You're supposed to know it when you're supposed to know it. And that's all there is to it. If you're realizing it now and you're putting it in practice right now, and it's working, and your mind and your world is blowing up and all the upgrades are coming, that's when it's supposed to happen. Don't sweat it. You're here, right here, for a very specific reason. Don't forget the movie Cowboys and Aliens. The wisdom in that movie. God doesn't care who you were. He only cares who you are. Focus right here. The art, this art of revision can be used in any department of your life. Take the matter of health. Suppose you were ill. Bring before your mind's eye the image of a friend. Put upon that face an expression which implies that he or she sees in you that which you want the whole world to see. Just imagine he is saying to you that he has never seen you look better. And you reply, I have never felt better. Suppose your foot was injured. Then do this. Construct mentally a drama which implies that you are walking, that you are doing all the things that you would do if the foot was normal, and do it over and over and over until it takes up. Until it takes on the tones of reality. Whenever you do. Excuse me. Excuse me. Whenever you do in your imagination that which you would like to do in the outer world, that you will do in your outer world, the one requisite is to arouse your attention in a way and to such intensity that you become wholly absorbed in the revised action. You will experience an expansion and refinement of the senses by this imaginative exercise and eventually achieve vision in the inner world. The abundant life promised us is ours to enjoy now, but not until we have the sense of the Creator as our imagination can we experience it. In every single one of these videos I've made so far, of which I think there's at least 200 plus about 50 shorts at this one exact point, there's never been a mention of having to do any. Any work, except if you call falling asleep in a in a mood work. If you call that work, and you're trying to avoid that, this might not be the channel for you, but if you're calling mental work and using your imagination, if you call it his work, which is a good way to put it, I don't care. Doesn't matter. But none of this is physical labor. None of it is physical labor. It's a little bit of mental effort. Not much. I mean, almost. Zero. Almost. We're talking about the complete abundance, the magic of life, total abundance. The inheritance of the kingdom, the entire kingdom. We're talking about turning your existing car into any car you want to drive your existing abode into, any home you want to live in, and it being paid off. No car payments, no payments of any kind. Just the typical Caesar payments that keeps static things statically moving. We're talking about mental effort here. No physical labor required. Not once in any video, as it mentioned, not anywhere in Neville's work, as it mentioned. And the testimonials are stacked up to the ceiling. All the livelong day in his work, I'm going to be throwing him in there. I'm going to be interviewing people. It's going to be a lot of fun things to come on the channel. But point being is that this is not difficult. This is a mindset, and only a mindset once you see it work and catch on one time and then another time and then another, and then the snowball builds and builds and builds. The abundant life promised us is ours to enjoy now, but not until we have the sense of the Creator as our imagination can we Experience it. There's no getting around the idea that I am he. If you think you're going to come into this and forget about the religious part of it. It's just words, man. What is it you're really after here? If you think you're going to forget about that whole side of it and try and avoid it, and not realize that you're the Creator, that the Creator is in you, and you are he and he is you. If you think you're going to leave that part out, this is not for you. This is not. You're probably not even here right now. That's okay. But it's typically not going to be for that type of a person. They're not ready for that. This kind of responsibility. I'm going to repeat the sentence again because it's so profound. The abundant life promised us is ours to enjoy now. But not until we have the sense of the Creator as our imagination can we experience it. Persistent imagination, centered in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, is the secret of all successful operations. This alone is the means of fulfilling the intention. Every stage of man's progress is made by the conscious, voluntary exercise of the imagination. Then you will understand why all poets have stressed the importance of controlled, vivid imagination. Listen to this one by the great William Blake. In your own bosom you. You bear your heaven and earth, and all you behold, though it appears without, it is within in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Try it, and you too will prove that your imagination is the Creator. Oh, my. Let me take the needle off of the record. Wow. That's a good. That's a good one. Mmm. So many wonderful pieces in there. I've seen a picture of that record, and I've seen that there's a. This is a. This is one of four sides we're going to be going into. This is this one record with. On one side. We just covered how to use your imagination. We're going to be covering side B in a separate video called Mental Diets. But there's also another record, and I think I saw there was also some they made that were red vinyl as well. But we don't have the albums. We have the transcript. We're going to be doing our best with what we have. Okay. We're going to see you in the next one.