It Is Within - Neville Goddard (03-09-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard 1965 lectures March Excuse me. It is within. March 9, 1965. Tonight's subject is. It is within. As we are told, the kingdom of God is within you. And the kingdom of God contains all. There is nothing outside of the kingdom. These words were addressed to us individually. You mean that you seated here, a small little person within a room much bigger than yourself and the room, but a little aspect of a bigger building and this tiny little spot on the earth. And then you go out in the fabulous world, and I'm addressing you, and you. You. You contain the whole. I mean that seriously. All that you behold, all that you behold, though it appears without it, is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Blake, Jerusalem plate 71. Let me share with you an experience which I am convinced everyone must have. For I can't see how I can persuade anyone that what I have just told you is true. It can only come to the individual by an experience. I can't for one moment believe I could take this platform forever and persuade others that all that they behold, which seems so real and so objective, is really within them. But an experience could do it. So let me share with you an experience. I found myself on a crowded subway. Crowded more so than the little eggs in a. In a shad row, if you've ever had a shad row, or the row of a sturgeon or a dolphin. And these numberless little dots each a potential fish, whether it be the dolphin or the shad or whatever it would be. And the subway, many, many cars. And the train is as long as the station would allow, and every car as crowded as the little eggs of the shad row. But when I say crowded, I mean crowded with people. And here are these perfectly lovely ladies, beautifully gowned. I could hardly believe they were on their way to work. They seemed that they must be on their way to some fashion display. Beautifully gowned. I turned to my friend David, David Morgan, who's here tonight, David Morton. And I said, can you believe that all this is within us? How could I persuade anyone in this world that all this. Not only these lovely ladies, beautifully gowned, but here is now the conductor trying to get through, and he can't. He's too crowded. It's too crowded. He's screaming to the people pushed against the doors to be careful because there could be an accident. The doors would simply fly open by the mere pressure. But they couldn't help it. It was simply crowded. David agreed with me that it's almost impossible, if not Completely impossible to persuade oneself that this could be the out picturing of one's inner activity. But how to persuade another that all that you behold out there, out there appears as though it appears without. It is within in one's own wonderful human imagination. And so we agreed that in spite of Blake's wonderful vision, that nothing could really reveal it to man but an experience. That's all that could do it. Then came that moment when David and I got off the car. He had a big letter envelope and in it he had many letters and he asked me to post them for him. So he gave me the letters. Then that meant that we would simply separate and go our separate ways. He to some other place and I either to the post office or to some mailbox and post these letters for him. Excuse me. I took the letters and I didn't read the letters, but I simply looked at them to see if they were properly, I would say, stamped. Well, I was satisfied that they were stamped. As I turned to him, I promised him I would mail them. I awoke and here I am on my bed. Excuse me. And that experience was just as real as this experience right here. Now. Oh man, I got to tell you my dreams this morning. It was my dream. This morning was a recurring dream. Only this massive empty space was now adorned. Before I've had this recurring dream where this big empty, kind of a hidden space, warehouse building, concrete structure. But then today in the dream, the same exact structure with also hidden inner rooms was all completely adorned. And each room, I want to say each room had their own kitchen. That's what it was. Each and every single room had its own kitchen. And I was so surprised. And there was even a break room, a tiny little break room that had its own kitchen. And every room I would go into had its own kitchen. And they were all open to each other. Remember I used to do that work where I would set up the kitchen display areas in brand new Home Depots and I'd remodel old Home depots in the 90s. We started that business in the late 90s and did that for about five years, commercial work. And here I was looking at all these kitchens and I think that was brought on by as I was falling asleep. I do remember I was in sats, of course, but I was trying not to think of what I was thinking. I was thinking of some of that old work. Like the first time I was doing that work, it just came into my mind. I don't know why, but it was there and I recognized it and I kept Trying to pull myself out of the drifting business and trying to get onto a focus. And it was difficult as I fell asleep because I was really tired. And that dream, I had that recurring dream which was an empty warehouse I think with all these separate rooms kind of of a hidden place. But then each room was adorned like it was the living room or it was a. It was just a big room like a living room type of thing. And then there's always be a kitchen, always be a kitchen right there kind of like you see on Archie Bunker or Mary with Children. That's that classic Hollywood studio look. They would have a living room right adjacent to a kitchen. That's what these rooms look like. And that experience was just as real the dream, remember Neville's dream? And that experience was just as real as this experience right here. Now was it not all within me, this entire train, as many cars as the station would hold each car crowded to the gunnels. And here is David agreeing with me as we, as we quoted, as we quoted Blake. We quoted Blake from the beginning to end. He and I agreed that not only we couldn't persuade ourselves of the reality of something inside for everything seemed so real on the outside. Here are these lovely ladies, beautifully gowned, everything beautifully done, everything perfect. I touched him, I got his letters. That was something objective to me. And then we agreed that not a thing in this world could truly convince us of the reality of this statement Blake of Blake. That all that you behold, though it appears without it is within in your imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. So there I stood taking his letters. I waved to him as he departed towards his place and I toward the mailing of his letters. And holding these letters seem seemingly I awoke, I woke on my bed. That happened yesterday morning. So here a perfectly wonderful experience of the reality of all within. It isn't without at all as Blake tells us I am in you, in your bosom I reside and you in me I in you and you and me mutual in love divine. But the weary traveler could not believe it and so he turned down the valleys dark. What man will believe it? So you tell a man I'll show you how to try to prove it. And you see what isn't there to be seen and you look at it and it isn't there but in your imagination you can see it. And you persuade yourself of the reality of what you're seeing in your imagination and to the degree that you are self persuaded of the reality of what you are imagining it will take on an objective form, if you remember. And we didn't get an update, but Neville, while at the lectern at one of his previous lectures, he was talking about seeing flowers right there. Now, we didn't get an update, but I'm sure something happened that brought those flowers there because Neville very, very good at the task that we're talking about. It's imagining. If I imagine I'll play with this if I imagine a baseball sitting right on my table. Okay, Right now, there isn't a baseball there, but I can easily imagine a baseball sitting there. There's no baseball in my house. I have no glove, no bat, no nothing. There's no batting cages around my house. Nothing of that sort. But I am going to start seeing a baseball right on this desk. Okay? This is how simple this works. Practice this. Practice with the small entry level ideas. We don't got to go straight to the top and get that 2025 Lamborghini in your driveway. That has way too much emotion attached to it at this point. So we want to start with the things that do not have emotion. How much emotion do I have into a baseball besides being hit by one? When I was a kid playing baseball happened a couple times, but. And at the batting cages, I got hit one time. Oh, boy, that wasn't fun. I remember that. 14, 13 years old, 12 years old. We're talking about these ages. But I have no baseball in my reality right now. But for you imagine, I'll give you an update when it happens because I'll show you. And those who watch this video, you will know. I see a baseball sitting right at my desk. That's sitting right there. There's a baseball right there. Now I reach, I grab the baseball. Now I can feel the baseball. I can feel the threads. I can hold it. I used to pitch when I was 12, 11. So I can hold it like as if I'm going to pitch it. Now I can throw it into my glove. That what I used to do when I was 10, 11, 12, mostly. 13, 14 also a little bit, maybe even 15 as well. Yeah, all the way to 15. We play baseball. Excuse me. So now I know the feeling of that baseball. I know the feeling of my glove, but the baseball itself, I know the feeling of it now. This is a daydream. I've just dreamt the baseball. Now I'm going to let it go completely. I'm going to breathe in. The baseball's in my hand. Okay, Now I got the baseball. Now I'm putting it down on the desk on the corner. That's done. I don't have to bother it anymore. I'm in the Sabbath now. And we just use the technique. I just use the technique showing you that we breathe in. Inhale, inhalation. Well, it may take it on in 24 hours or two years, if you really believe in the reality of what you are imagining. 24 hours or two years. Two years. He's referring to his brother Victor. Remember the Goddard Enterprises? Well, when it takes on that objective form and becomes an objective fact, between your imaginal act and the objective fact, so many things happen that seem to you outside of yourself and so natural and so real that it's outside. You can't relate it to your imaginal act. When you see your harvest, you're like, why did this happen today? Why did I get that letter? Why did I get this and that and the other? It's coming from you. The objective reality is coming from your subjective self. And so you deny your own harvest. Here I am stepping on his line, as usual. You can't believe that what you're doing there, what you now see on the inside, is in any way related to what you did on the outside. Yet all ends run true to origins. And you and I today are bearing the fruit of some forgotten blossom time. We don't remember it. What child in this word did not? As a little child, I know I did dream noble dreams of saving people, of doing all kinds of things, just running in. If you were born as I was, on a little farm, they wouldn't call it a farm in Barbados.