The Principle of Truth Ch 3 Your Faith Is Your Fortune by Neville Goddard

All right, here we go. Chapter three. Your faith is your fortune. The principle of truth. Out of the power imagination, Wonderful compilation of all of Neville's books in one place. The principle of truth. Chapter three. Your faith is your fortune. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. The truth that that sets man free is the knowledge of his consciousness. Excuse me. The truth that sets man free is the knowledge that his consciousness is the resurrection and the life that his consciousness both resurrects and makes alive. All that he is conscious of being. Apart from consciousness there is neither resurrection nor life. Again, let's go ahead and exhaust the usage of this example because it helps keep you on the imagining what this might look like. All that is God, consciousness of being is here. And you, since all creation is finished, you are but one manifestation of all that is of God. So God's consciousness of being is here and you are one expression of that. I am one expression of that. Or look at it another way. In my father's house are many mansions. My father's house are many mansions. All of these are different concepts of you. Now when I learned this example, I learned it through the Seth material and it showed me that we have multidimensional realities. And in, in the example that I learned this example from my teacher, it was showing me that this is me, this is you, this is a part of me that lives in Japan, part of me that lives in Africa, Europe, England, etc. So I was able to slowly get my mind around the idea that we all are from the same source. But when I got into the Neville material after studying the Seth material For at least 25 years, this helped open me up to understand. This previous study helped me see what Neville was saying clearly. And I want to keep this example going because it gives you a two dimensional view of what we're talking about. So let's keep using it as a prop. So to say the truth that sets man free is the knowledge that his consciousness is the Rekshores is the resurrection and the life that his consciousness both resurrects and makes alive. All that he is conscious of being resurrects and makes alive all that he is conscious of being. It doesn't matter which life or what conscious life beingness you are focused on. You have a selection of any kind of life you want to live based on what your consciousness conscious of being. Apart from consciousness, there is neither resurrection nor life. So if you don't have consciousness, you don't have resurrection, meaning going to different versions of yourself, nor life at all without consciousness. So consciousness, consciousness is all there is. This is going to be a long chapter, by the way. So we're going to. We're going to. I'm going to dig down whenever I can because it's this example that really kind of opens it up. I hope. I hope you're getting some value from it. When man gives up his belief in a God apart from himself and begins to recognize his awareness of being to be God, your awareness of being is God. So when you give up that, it's out here and you know it's in here in you. This is your whole life, let's say beginning to end. Although it's happening at one moment. We're going to get into this later, but time exists at once. So this is. This is a moment. This is one moment which is your entire life. So when you're conscious of being this, then you realize that you are from the source, you are from God. But when you think God is out here, not in here, then you've lost it. You basically are missing the mark. So we want to continue to make the mark and hit the mark. When man gives up his belief in a God apart from himself and begins to recognize his awareness of being to be God, as did Jesus and the prophets, he will transform his world with the realization, I and my Father are one, but my Father is greater than I. I and my Father are one, but my Father is greater than I. It's funny, this looks like an I spelled different though eye right. He will know that his consciousness is God, and that. And that which he is conscious of being is the Son bearing witness of God the Father. The conceiver and the conception are one, but the conceiver is greater than the conception. Again, let's say this is you. Just the you you know yourself to be or you think you know yourself to be. You're aware of your consciousness. This is you all. This is you. This is your I am, and the conceiver and the conception are one, but the conceiver is greater than his conception. Again, back to the same example. The conceiver and the conception are one, but the conceiver is greater than his conception. Before Abraham was I am. Yes, I was aware of being before I became aware of being man. And in that day, when I shall cease to be conscious of being man, I shall still be conscious of being. This is. Again, I'm going to. It's such a wonderful way to Use this. This drawing. I was aware of being before I became aware of being man. And in that day, when I shall cease to be conscious of being man, I shall still be conscious of being. So this, let's say this moment point of your life, this life is done and you become your other self. This self is gone. You're still. You're still aware of you. The consciousness that you are. You're always going to be aware of this. Even though this might be done, this awareness doesn't go away. This awareness is. It continuously is. I was aware of being. Yes, I was aware of being before I became aware of being man. And in that day when I shall cease to be conscious of being man, I shall still be conscious of being. And that's here. Okay. The consciousness of being is not dependent upon being anything. This doesn't rely on what it is being. It. Prepare it. Excuse me. It preceded all conceptions of itself and shall be when. And shall be when all conceptions of itself shall cease to be. Let me repeat that. The consciousness of being is not dependent upon being anything. So the consciousness of being is not dependent upon the consciousness of being things. It preceded all conceptions of itself and shall be when all conceptions of itself shall cease to be. This will always be. You will always be. This is you. This is what you're being. These examples in my father's house are many mansions. These are the mansions, a mansion being your. Your the. The mindset of your life. What you conceive or self conceive yourself to be is one mansion. I am the beginning and the end. That is, all things or conceptions of myself begin and end in me, but I, the formless awareness, remain forever. Boom. I am the beginning and the end. Let's just say that that's the birth of your life and that's the death of your life, whatever that is. You live 105 years, or speaking optimistically, and you this is your complete beginning and end. Let's say it's linear like that, which we know it isn't. It's all one moment. I am the beginning and the end. That is, all things or conceptions of myself begin and end in me, but I am the formless awareness remain forever. Jesus discovered this glorious truth and declared himself to be with God. Boom. This is Jesus. This is God. Not the God that man had fashioned, for he never recognized such a God. Jesus found God to be his awareness of being and so told man that the kingdom of God in heaven were within the kingdom of God and heaven were within this is where he dwells. When it is recorded that Jesus left the world and went to his Father, it is simply stating that he turned his attention from the world of the senses and rose in consciousness to that level which he desired to express. Great example. Left the world and went to his Father. It's simply stating that he turned his attention from the world of senses and rose in consciousness to that level which he desired to express. That simply stated is meditation. To leave the world is simply close your eyes. You just left the world. Now it is not there while your eyes are closed. You create it the instant you open your eyes. So when you leave the world. In this example, when it's recorded that Jesus left the world and went to his Father. And when you close your eyes and you leave the world, you are now with your Father. Your imagination is your Father. Thank you, Father. Thank you for imagining. Thank you that I have the power to imagine. He turned his attention from the world of senses out here and rose in consciousness to that level which he desired to express. Which means he imagined something he wanted to express, rose in consciousness. To stop looking at the outer world with your eyes and your senses and look at the consciousness which is here and see what you wanted to express means this is the you you're living today. Let's say you're. I love the example of the relationship because let's say you're not in a relationship, but you want to be in one. This is you not in a relationship. So you rise to the level of consciousness here and you see yourself in a relationship. And that's you in the relationship that exists as well as you. Not in a relationship exists. But which one do you want to be? All God's creations are done already. Which one do you want to express? Do you want to express the one that way you're not in a relationship, or do you want to express the one where you are? So all you are simply doing is rising in consciousness to that state. There he remained until he became one with the consciousness to which he he ascended. Whenever you hear heaven or ascension or ascended, it's always going to be up here to where the imagination is. Just as an example, when he returned to the world of man, he could. When he returned to the world of man, he could act with the positive assurance of that which he was conscious of Being a state of consciousness no one but himself felt or knew that he possessed. Man who is ignorant of this everlasting law of expression looks upon such happenings as miracles. I tell you, man who is ignorant of his Everlasting law of expression looks upon such happenings as miracles. To rise in consciousness to the level of the thing desired and to remain there until such level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles. Again, you're rising in consciousness. You're taking this self concept that you're aware of being and rising in consciousness by closing the senses off. So you're falling asleep or you're waking up or you're meditating and you're rising that level of consciousness to the place you want to be. To rise in consciousness to the level of the thing desired and to remain there until such level becomes your nature is the way of all seeming miracles. Again, simply states, this one is consistently rising and reminding itself that it is this one. This is the single you, this is the married you. You want to be married, so you're going to take this one. And constantly, 70 times 7, you're constantly repeating the affirmed vision in your mind. And I, if I be lifted up, I shall draw men unto me. If I be lifted up in consciousness to the naturalness of the thing desired, I shall draw the manifestation to that desire of. Of that desire to me. Very important statement right here. This statement is saying that once you imagine yourself to be this other you, all the bridge of incidents that make this necessary are like a magnet to you. They just all of a sudden people give you opportunities. You meet that person, you're out with friends doing something and all of a sudden that person is there and you're like wow, I didn't know I was attracted to you all this time. I've known you two years, three years. How is it that all of a sudden I see you now? Well, because you changed your consciousness of being to the one you wanted to be. And now the bridge of incidents which is all of these situations that can possibly feed like a magnet iron to a magnet that feed the event. This event just happened. They seem like miracle. No man comes unto me save the Father within me draws him. And I and my father are one. No man comes unto me save the Father within me draws him. The Father within me draws him. So you're you, you're changing your self concept. The father within you is creating. It's already created. It's difficult to really flesh that out. But you today is not the same you as tomorrow. You're already doing this consistent already. I'm just describing through Neville's work another way that you can see it from a perspective and realize that it's easier than you think to change into anything you want to Be. My consciousness is the father who draws the manifestation of life. To me, this is already happening. The nature of the manifestation is determined by the state of consciousness in which I dwell in. I am always drawing into my world that which I am conscious of being. And that's what you're consistently doing. You're constantly being and drawing into your consciousness that which you're aware of being. If you are dissatisfied with your present expression of life, then you must be born again. Rebirth is the dropping of that level with which you are dissatisfied and rising to that level of consciousness which you desire to express and possess again. Over and over. You want to leave this one and go to this one. So it's a rebirth. And that's why the word detachment is so necessary. There's going to be a detachment here that happens that you all of a sudden wake up one day and everything looks different. The more you're focused on becoming the new you. Each day, you gradually the needle moves and you don't really see it. But you realize every at one moment, sooner or later, everything seems foreign to you. Everything seems like, what? How come I don't like those people there? I used to like those people. How come I like these people? I didn't like them before. There's a detachment from self that happens because when you're in a constant flux of change, you might not see the seam when you change, but you'll feel it when you look around and you feel completely foreign to things. It happened the first time I recognized it was watching YouTube and all the YouTube feed, all the videos. You know how YouTube shows you the videos that you might like, you might be attracted to off of what you've looked at before. I got home one night, I'm looking at YouTube, the home screen, and it showed all these videos, and I'm like, none of this looks. I don't like any of this. What is this? Why am I looking at all this recommendations? I didn't like any of them. And I was like, oh, this is detachment. It really knocked me off my chair because it was the first time I consciously was aware of it happening. It was fascinating. You cannot serve two masters or opposing states of consciousness at the same time. So you cannot serve this one and this one at the same time. Taking your attention from one state and placing it upon the other. You die to the one from which you have taken it. And you live and express the one which you are united. Love it again. You take from this one and you give to this one. You become this. And this applies to Anything. This could be I am in poverty, I am in wealth. I am in not health. I am healthy. It could be anything you want to. And I'll use the major departments, Health, wealth and love as, as examples because they're the most important focuses that we, that we look at. But you take your attention from one state, placing it upon the other, you die to the one from which you have taken it. And you live and express the one which you are united. Man cannot see how it would be possible to express that which he desires to be by so simple a law is acquiring the consciousness of the thing desired. Let me repeat that. Man cannot see how it would be possible to express that which he desires to be by so simple a law as acquiring the consciousness of the thing desired. Acquiring the consciousness of this thing. I am a happy, loving married. I'm a happy, loving husband. I'm a happy, loving wife. I am happily married. And every night I, I, I'm spooning with my partner. It could be any affirmation. But when you are seeing the event and you use touch in your imagination Western gate method, you then make it even more real. We'll get into that Western gate stuff later, which is very, very good. The reason for this lack of faith on the part of man is that he looks at the desired state through the consciousness of his present limitations. If you're here and you're looking here, you're looking with the limitation of this self. It doesn't have the seeming freedom of this self. This self has limitations. That's why it's not there. So this is where you're looking from. Therefore, he naturally sees it as impossible as an excuse me. Therefore he naturally sees it as impossible of accomplishment. Isn't that how it is? When you write a goal, it seems totally impossible. Yet you write it and it gives it a lot of power. The written goal gives way more power to a goal than just imagining it. But imagining why you fall asleep and waking up is also extremely valid. It's probably more powerful than simply writing a goal. But the written goal is very powerful. One of the first things man must realize is that it is impossible in dealing with this spiritual law of consciousness to put new wine into old bottles or new patches on old garments. That is, you cannot take any part of the present consciousness into the new state. You cannot take any part of the present consciousness into the new state. You cannot believe that the opposite sex is troublesome when you're happily married. You cannot have that belief. All men are. And what do you answer that with or all women are or all. Now, I use the male and female biblically here because this is the material. But it doesn't matter. I don't want to get stuck on the pronouns. I want to make the point of the material material, which is more important. All partners are. It doesn't matter what we say. It's the classic man as the active side of the relationship and the feminine. Masculine on one side, feminine on the other. I'm going to use the terms male and female. So all men are. Traditionally, you would answer that with. And then the masculine side would say all women are, and then have an answer for that. Loving, caring, nurturing. Obviously, either side should be saying that, because when you have that affirmation, you're not going to be here. You're going to be more into the line of this consciousness. When you say that your partner are all of the opposite sex or whatever your relationship scenario is. When you are here and you have a negative attitude towards your partner, whoever that might be, you realize that when you change that to this positive one and you start repeating that here you become here. You can't take that with you, because now it's positive. It can't harbor this anymore. It cannot harbor this when you're here. That doesn't fit. It won't work. Like you said, the patches on old garments, you cannot take any part of the present consciousness into the new state. For the state saw is complete in itself and needs no patching. Every level of consciousness automatically expresses itself. This is great. Every level of consciousness. So you're here, okay. It's great to be single and have whatever kind of experience you're having. But you also notice that you have sometimes a negative attitude towards the relationship. Then you repair that within yourself, and then you all sudden find you're here. Every level of consciousness automatically expresses itself. You don't have to worry about being here. You don't have to worry about this baggage. Every single level of consciousness, your wealthy self, your healthy self, your married self, all of your selves have their own consciousness. They have their own expression. To rise to the level of any state is to automatically become that state in expression. To rise to the level of any state is to automatically become that state in expression. But in order to rise to the level that you are not now express, you must completely drop the consciousness with which you are now identified. Again, this one is not necessary here, so you must drop this. When I studied the Seth material, the Jane Roberts Seth material, it became obvious at a certain point that whenever Seth used the word must it was a very important piece. He was really kind of knocking on the chalkboard, so to say. So in this case we see Neville using it here. In order to rise to the level that you are not now expressing, you must completely drop the consciousness with that which you are now identified. This consciousness must be dropped. All women are, all men are. This attitude must be changed. And then loving, caring, nurturing. I speak from experience here because I couldn't tell you this, but by experience. And when I was here, I've been here now for 25 years, married, and we've known each other 28 years. Ish, maybe 29. But when I was here and my teacher asked me what's my attitude towards women? And I says, I answered in my head, all women are. And it was not nice. It was not nice what I said. And I had to stop and realize I had an answer number one, which is that answer was very befitting of a single person and a very troubled relationship on top of it. Troubled relationships. But to be able to rise to this consciousness, I had to change it and literally start the programming. And it can be as basic as this is. You have to start somewhere. And depending on where you are in this state of single consciousness, where you want to be in a relationship, depending on where you are here, you must look at what baggage you have and what must be changed. And it can be as simple as that kind of programming that paradigm you're in has to be changed from the root level. And that is as simple as when I. For me, it was as all women are. Loving, caring, nurturing, loving, caring, nurturing, loving, caring, nurturing, over and over and over. Okay? Until your present consciousness is dropped, you will not be able to rise to another level. Do not be dismayed. This letting go of your present identity is not as difficult as it might appear to be. I'm saying that also as a testimonial. It's true, it's not as difficult. I found that way. For me, the invitation of the scriptures to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord is not given to a select few. It is a sweeping call to all mankind to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. To be absent from the body, close your eyes and to be present with the Lord is now you're in your imagination, okay? If you have this belief, you have to change or you want to change because you want to have the new experience. You must stop identifying with what the senses are telling you and be present with the Lord. And if I didn't say in the other video. I believe I did. When you have the word Lord Christ, God, Buddha, all it is divinity, the Source, all of these are on one side of the equation, the equal sign, and then the other side is imagination, as Neville would call it. Your own wonderful imagination. To be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord means. When you're absent from the body means your eyes are closed, you're not looking at the body or the world. And you're present with the Lord means you're now using your imagination. It is as simple as being like a child when you're just playing. You're using your imagination. You're present with the Lord. It is a sweeping call to all mankind. The body from which you are invited to escape is your present conception of yourself with all of its limitations, which while the Lord with whom you are to be present is your awareness of being. To accomplish this seemingly impossible feat, you take your attention away from your problem and place it upon just being. You take your attention from your problem and place it upon just being. You say silently but feelingly, I am. Do not condition this awareness, but continue declaring, I am. I am. Simply feel that you are faceless and formless and continue doing so until you feel yourself floating. And that's not too difficult. A couple deep breaths. Go ahead and take one in. Breathe out. Just a couple. Two or three. You slowing yourself down now. Your eyes are closed. I am. I am. Breathe in. I am. As you're breathing, you're stating, I am. And as you're exhaling, you're also thinking, I am. Okay, it's not that difficult. You start to feel like you're floating. Floating is a psychological state which completely denies the physical. Through practice in relaxation and willfully refusing to react to sensory impressions, it is possible to develop a state of consciousness, of pure receptivity. It is a surprisingly easy accomplishment. In this state of complete detachment, a definite singleness of purposeful thought can be indelibly engraved upon your unmodified consciousness. This state of consciousness is necessary for true meditation. I think he's given us, in the third chapter of his first book, exactly how to meditate, precisely how simply I am. He didn't talk about the breathing here, but it's pretty important. After you read any work on meditating or look at any kind of instruction on meditating, breathing is a very important part to slow yourself down. I am. Be still and know that I am right. But this concept of getting to a floating psychological state, that's where you're completely denying the physical. You know you're there. When you're floating, you feel like you're floating. This is going to bring about a state of pure. A state of consciousness, of pure receptivity. Surprisingly easy accomplishment. In this state of complete detachment, a definite singleness of purpose, full thought can be indelibly engraved upon your unmodified consciousness. Unmodified consciousness. He's talking about how to take this consciousness awareness and transfer to this one. Because this is unmodified here. This is consciousness modified by your beliefs and your assumptions. This is unmodified. When you're attacked into your unmodified consciousness, you can change it to anything. This state of consciousness is necessary for true meditation. This state of consciousness is necessary for true meditation. This wonderful experience of rising and floating is the signal that you are absent from the body or problem and are now present with the Lord. In this expanded state, you are not conscious of being anything. But I am. I am. You are only conscious of being. So again, if you're in this state, whatever the state is, it doesn't matter if it's the single relationship or if it's the state of impoverishment or if it's the state of ill health. When you're meditating, you're automatically not aware of that. You're now here. You're one with the source. You're one with God. You're one with the Lord. You're one in imagination. You're not aware of the problem. Okay. When this expression of consciousness is attained within this formless deep of yourself, give form to the new conception by claiming and feeling yourself to be that which you, before you entered into this state, desired to be. Your goal was single, not happy without a relationship. But you want to be in a relationship and feel the reciprocity of it and be happy in it. There's the. There's the new state. So before you entered into this state of meditation, you had the desire to be here. You will. That's the new conception. Give form to the new conception by claiming and feeling yourself to be that which you want to be. Okay, that's me paraphrasing, but here we go. We're going to continue. You will find that within this formless deep of yourself, all things appear to be divinely possible. Let me repeat. You will find that within this formless deep of yourself, all things appear to be divinely possible. Anything that you sincerely feel yourself to be while in this expanded state becomes in time your natural expression. Anything you sincerely feel yourself to be. Anything. Now this applies to a lot of examples. I've used it going to find a parking space and I we're going to get into this later on the manifesting part but and it's going to be in the material throughout so it doesn't really matter. We're always covering it. When I left home I was with my father in law and my and my wife and we were going to Seal beach and I, I, in my state I was able to ignore what was happening in the car. They were conversing and I and I imagined being on the curb looking at the car and celebrating that oh, look how close we were able to park. We were going to a restaurant and I saw us on the curb basically high fiving and wow, look at that boom. High five touching western gate. Celebrating our great parking spot. And this small example of what I'm talking about with the parking spot. This is me going and having an assumption that I'm going to find parking down there anyway. But this is me knowing that I parked in the front of the restaurant. So when I was imagining myself in front of the restaurant I simply went into a no state thought I just didn't have anything but the visualization of being there and celebrating it. High fiving, wow, look at that. In celebration, happy. And that was, that's what gave me the, the expand. You will find that within this formless deep of yourself all things appear to be divinely possible. I saw the possibility while we were driving. Anything that you sincerely feel yourself to be while in this expanded state becomes in time your natural expression. Well what the expression in time was the parking spot. But what I did was I went into the Sabbath after I believed it was it was it happened. It was already done. When I stopped imagining that parking spot, it was actually done. I was in reality already parking there here. So the only thing that could happen on the 3D was the actual happenstance, which 3D is the shadow. Anyway, so I moved here. So these small examples of let's say parking is going to be how you build up the practice. Okay, let's go on. And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. Yes, there be a firmness or conviction in the midst of this expanded consciousness by knowing and feeling I am that the thing desired. I love this breakdown. This is very, very cool. Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. Let there be a firmness or conviction in the midst of this expanded consciousness. By knowing and feeling I am that the thing desired. The firmament I am that the thing desired. I am that. I. I am. Okay, so you're here. I am that. You are consciousness. That's why this is possible. This would not be possible if you were. I like Neville's words, if you were descended from a worm, this would not be possible. But you are not. You're part of this all that is. This God, this Lord, this imagination, this infinite sea of knowing. I love the. The water usage of the firmament. It's a very, very fascinating quote. As you claim and feel yourself to be the thing desired, you are crystallizing this formless liquid light that you are into the image and likeness of that which you are conscious of being. Now the law. Now that the law of your being has been revealed to you, begin this day to change your world by revaluing yourself. Too long has man held to the belief that he is born of sorrow and must work out his salvation by the sweat of his brow. Too long. God is impersonal and no respecter of persons. So long as man continues to walk in this belief of sorrow, so long will he walk in a world of sorrow and confusion. For the world is the world. In its every detail is man's consciousness crystallized. Everything you're experiencing is coming from you. And being no respecter of persons means that no one's. No one's going to say, oh, I'm with so and so. And then that's going to be the respect that they get just because they know somebody. It's not like that at all. All of us are doing this and all of us are doing it so well, we do not see the seams. And you might be also distracted by a lot of things around the world. And usually I'll have my keys somewhere to jingle jangle. But it's like a little kid looking at a set of keys being all happy and distracted by the sparkly nature of the lights flickering upon the keys. But the point is, there can be distractions. But this is still happening even while you're distracted. No respecter of persons, anybody and everybody is already doing it. So long as man continues to walk in this belief of sorrow, so long will he walk in a world of sorrow and confusion. For the world is in its every detail is man's consciousness crystallized. In the Book of Numbers, it is recorded. Quote, There, there were giants in the land, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers. And we were in their sight as grasshoppers. Today is the day, the eternal now, when conditions in the world have attained the appearance of giants, meaning something seems bigger than you. All right. The unemployed, the armies of the enemy, business, competition, etc. Are the giants which make you feel yourself to be a helpless grasshopper. We are told we were first in our own sight, helpless grasshoppers. And because of this conception of ourselves, we were to the enemy helpless grasshoppers. We can be to others only that which we are to ourselves. Therefore, as we revalue ourselves and begin to feel ourselves to be the giant, a center of power, which we already are, we're just coming into the awareness of that we automatically change our relationship to the giants, reducing these former monsters to their true place, making them appear to be the helpless grasshoppers. Paul said of this principle, it is to the Greeks or the so called wise men of the world, foolishness, and to the Jews, or those who look for signs, a stumbling block, with the result that man continues to walk in darkness rather than awake to the realization, I am the light of the world. This is funny with the result that man continues to walk in darkness rather than awake to the realization I am the light of the world. Man, who so long worshipped the image of his own making, that at first he finds this revelation blasphemous. But the day man discovers and accepts this principle as the basis of his life, that day slays his belief in a God apart from himself. It really is when you become aware of what's happening inside of consciousness, not outside of consciousness. It's all within. The story of Jesus's betrayal in the Garden of Gethsemane is the perfect illustration of man's discovery of this principle. We are told the crowds armed with staves and lanterns sought Jesus in the dark of night. As they inquired after the whereabouts of Jesus salvation in parentheses, the voice answered, I am. Whereupon the entire crowd fell to the ground. On regaining their composure, they again asked to be shown the hiding place of the Savior. And again the Savior said, I have told you that I am. Therefore, if you seek me, let all else go. Back to the concept let all else go. If you seek me, let all else go. You already are plugged in. You're continuously plugged in continuously. But you must let all else go. You must close the eyes and let all else go to be able to find him. As long as your eyes are focused on these problems, whatever they may be, you're in the dark. When you let those problems go and you imagine using your imagination and your meditation and visualizing what you want to be and express, then you're finding him. Man, in the darkness of Human ignorance sets out on his search for God, aided by the flickering light of human wisdom as it is revealed to man that his I am, or awareness of being is his savior. The shock is so great, he mentally falls to the ground. I tell you, I've. There's been some times I have fallen. I've dang near fell out of the chair. That moment of detachment on YouTube knocked me. It knocked me, like, wild. It knocked me to, like, really good. I was dumbfounded by what I was experiencing because I knew. I was aware that it was actually detachment. That's what. Boom. Knocking me to the ground. Off the chair. Fell off the chair, right? For every belief that he has ever entertained tumbles as he realizes that his consciousness is the one and only savior. The knowledge that his I am is God compels man to let all others go, for he finds it impossible to serve two gods. You can't serve two gods anything outside of self. This is self. This circle is representative self. Representative of self. Anything outside which is what's in the world is not I am. Everything inside is I am. Your experience of a life is I am. And that comes from I am. Your consciousness of being. The knowledge that his I am is. God compels man to let all others go, for he finds it impossible to serve two gods. You cannot serve a God out here and serve a God in here at the same time. It's not possible. You cannot ride two horses if you're busy riding one. That's okay. When you discover this, and that's why you're here, you realize you can only ride one horse. You can't serve two gods. Man cannot accept his awareness of being as God and at the same time believe in another deity. With this discovery, man's human ear or hearing, understanding in parentheses, is cut off by the sword of faith. Peter in parentheses as his perfect discipline. Hearing, which is understanding in parentheses, is restored by the knowledge that I am, is Lord and Savior, restored by Jesus. Okay, let me read it without the parentheses. With this discovery, man's human ear or hearing is cut off by the sword of faith as his perfect, disciplined hearing is restored by the knowledge that I am is the Lord and Savior I am. Before man can transform his world, he must first lay this foundation or understanding. Before man can transform his world, he must first lay this foundation or understanding, I am the Lord. Man must know that his awareness of being is God. Until this is firmly established, so that no suggestion or argument of others can shake him, he will find himself returning to the slavery of his former Belief. Oh boy. If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. Your sins. Meaning missing the mark. Vocabulary Neville. Sins is a word that means missing the mark. This self that you're not happy with is missing the mark. It's sinning by not realizing it is I am. Once it realizes yourself, you. Once you realize you are I am and you're tied into all consciousness, then you can change into any state that you. Unless man discovers that his consciousness is the cause of every expression of his life, he will continue seeking the cause of his confusion in the world of effects and so shall die in his fruitless search. And if anybody hasn't had a rough time of it, just think about that one example. It could be any example. It could be poverty, it could be the lack of a relationship, it could be the lack of health. And that can be every extreme you're a mad. You can think of. Every extreme is a sample of this one right here. Until you discover that your consciousness is the cause of every expression of your life, you will continue seeking the cause of of your confusion in the world of effects and so shall die in that fruitless search. I am the vine and ye are the branches. I am the vine and yeah, ye are the branches. Consciousness is to the consciousness is the vine. And that which you are conscious of being is as branches that you feed and keep alive. Just as a branch has no life except it be rooted in the in the vine. Likewise, things have no life except you be conscious of them. Just as a branch where there's. Now hold on. Think about that sentence. It's a very, very powerful sentence. Just as a branch has no life except it be rooted in the vine, likewise things have no life except that you be conscious of them. When you're conscious of anything, that's when you give it life. Just as a branch withers and dies if the SAP of the vine ceases to flow towards it, so do things and qualities pass away if you take your attention from them. So do things and qualities pass away when you take your attention from them. Because your attention is the SAP of life which sustains the expression of your life. Very powerful sentence, excellent closing sentence to this chapter. And I'll tell you how this is also talked about very, very much today with the Internet world. Let me repeat the sentence. Just as a branch withers and dies, if the SAP of the vine ceases to Flow towards it. So do things and qualities pass away if you take your attention from them. Because your attention is the SAP of life which sustains the expression of your life. Wow. It is such a powerful. If you take your attention from them, taking your attention from this life and feeding it towards this life sustains the expression of your new life. Now, attention is a very fascinating word here. That's the end of the chapter, by the way. The attention being a very key word in how you close this chapter is very fascinating because the biggest, most valuable thing there is is attention. And if you look at anything, when it comes to the world of business, and it doesn't matter what century, when it comes to the world of business, what everybody is competing for, let's say there is a competition for your business. Let's say to buy an object, I mean, you could look in the past and look at cigarettes or the alcohol ads or things like that. Whatever, it doesn't matter. It could be snowboards, it could be boogie boards, it could be anything. When businesses have competing commodities and they want you to buy theirs and not the others, they want to do the best they can to get your attention. And your attention is the most valuable thing you have. It literally is the SAP of your life. It's funny how that can be a double E used word. In this case, we're using the word SAP. And a very positive. But the word SAP could also be a negative connotation like that SAP fell for it. But the point is back to the attention concept. When you're giving anything your attention, you're giving it your SAP, your life force. You're making it real when you give it your attention. Attention. People do everything in their power, business, businesses, to get and keep your attention. Look at the concept of YouTube and it's in general, as I've discussed that many times already today, YouTube does everything in its power to keep you on the platform by keeping your attention looking at whatever it is they offer. Facebook, another company, Meta, which has a couple companies, I think it's Instagram and Facebook. They are doing everything in their power to keep you on the platform. That is because they're doing everything they can to keep your attention focused at whatever it is they have their. It could be any subject. So understand that where you're putting your attention, you're putting your life. Where you're putting your attention, you're putting your life. Where you're putting your new attention, you're putting your new life. It is your attention that's the most valuable thing in the marketplace. You have to understand that people are doing everything in their power to get it from you, to keep your attention focused on them, on them and their offering. So understand that you close, close off the world. You take your deep breaths, you go back to I am. You get to your floating. You bring your attention home. And then you feed your attention to that new you, that new married self, that new wealthy self, that new healthy self. And you also do this for your family. You do this for your partner. You do it for your wife, your husband, your children, your parents. You do it for your community. You do for everyone on your block. The Neville material is so valuable, but you are using it to build this new self. But you're also. This new self, which is going to be a happy self, is also here to help tend the garden. We're going to get into this later. I don't even want to bring it up right now. I shouldn't bring it up. But you're also doing this for others. As you improve you, everything around you is going to improve. The garden around you is going to flourish. Just because you are doing this new focus of attention on the new self you want to be, everything will improve around you. The rising tide floats all boats. That's it. Chapter three. Hope you got something out of that. I really do hope that you appreciate the way we're going with this. The breakdowns, the example and how we're doing it in a basically a 2D prop here to give us a look at how this works. Leave some comments about it if you want. Otherwise we'll see you in the next video.