This World Is A Dream - Neville Goddard (05-07-1965) | Full Reading + Commentary

Neville Goddard, 1965 lectures this World is a Dream, May 7, 1965, and I will testify to that. I don't know what, how it's going to make much more difference, but I'm telling you, I completely agree with this title. Oh, he's going to unpack some good stuff here. Oh, it's going to be good. I can just tell now, tonight, I think you'll find it very practical. The purpose of a teacher is to encourage and to stimulate, sometimes even to belabor one, to become curious, to detect the principle in operation. Our principle is that imagining creates reality. We make the claim that the eternal body of man is the imagination and that is God himself, the divine body, Jesus. We are his members. That's Blake Laocoon. Buried in everyone is Christ Jesus and Christ Jesus is God himself. If you're keeping good score at home, nice and tight, you've been through the Law series now. You've been through the Law and the Promise and you've gone all the way through. That's highly understandable at this point. If you're new here, go to the beginning and start, please. It'll make a lot of difference by the time you get back to this point here. We must awaken from this state. And awakening from this state is called in scripture the resurrection. The signs of the resurrection in the life of the believer are the indispensable internal testimony without which Jesus might have been raised, but could never have been preached as risen. Everyone will have this experience and they can preach from experience that he is risen because he is in them. When you see me, you see him who sent me. That makes sense. When he is in you and he rises in you, you feel from the base of your feet to the top of your head, literally. It feels like that. Literally. When he rises in them, they become a witness. And they can preach from experience that Jesus Christ is risen if they don't have the experience. He may have been raised, but they will never know with that authority that they can preach that he is risen. As I stand before you tonight, I can speak with the authority of one who is witness to the risen Christ. For he has risen in me. I know beyond all doubt I am He. I know we are one. Limited yes, in this world of the flesh. For I can't prove it to anyone's satisfaction. When they say turn that into gold or turn that into bread or turn that into something else or jump off the cliff, would he not give you some support? And if so, you would not dash your foot against the stone? No I will not attempt in any way to prove anything to another. I am sent to tell you only of one presence, the risen Christ. So the eternal body of man is the imagination, and that is God himself, the divine body, Jesus. We are his members. Blake. So buried in all, every child born of woman. Buried in us is Jesus. Jesus Christ. Now, let me tell you of a story. As I said as I opened the meeting tonight, my purpose is to stimulate, to encourage everyone to prove this. What to others who have not yet proved. It is a theory that imagining creates reality, that man's dreamer is all imagination. The whole vast world is a dream, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Let's see, who said that in what movie? Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder, the. The actor of the character, Willy Wonka, said that exact same thing. Snozberry. Who ever heard of Snozberry? The little girl, Veruca Salt said. And he said, we are the dreamers of the dreams. And there's a bunch of. There's a little bit more there. And it's really good YouTube video. I'll try and attach it to this. And it. It's such a fantastic movie. Yeah, whoever. I don't even know who wrote it, but it was a good. It's right in this vein. Remember, this is 1965. That movie was 1971. I'm five when it came out. I think I probably saw it when I was 10 or something like that. Great movie, all about imagination. The day will come we will awaken. When we awaken from the dream we are the dreamer who is God. This morning's mail brought a letter from a friend of mine who came here over a period of two or three years. Tom C. A young lad, maybe in his late 20s. He's now living in New York City. And so he's been informing me every two or three weeks with his visions and his dreams. He knows I'm interested in his visions, what he does in the world of Caesar, that interests me too, but not really. If he has a job, he makes money perfectly all right. But his visions, they do interest me. And so on the morning of the 30th day of April of this year, this is what happened to him. He said, about 5:30 in the morning, I woke and I was completely cataleptic. I couldn't move any part of my body, not one little part would move. It wouldn't respond to my will. After a little while, with an enormous effort, my right hand moved. But it seemed to have been such an effort. I was completely exhausted and I fell back into the state of catalepsy. I got to remind you of my dreams this morning. Oh, boy. Oh boy. Let me just write that down. Oh, boy. A quick interjection. I am Jesus Christ. I did all falling asleep. And I was in a long period of SATs, very long. I did that. Then I was awake and asleep all through the night. And I kept that one thought. And as I woke up, I also did it a lot in the morning. Sats. I did just that. I didn't ask for anything. I just did that. And I'm going to tell you at the end of the video, I was completely exhausted and I fell back into the state of catalepsy. Then suddenly I found myself an enormous bar. And I seemed to be the bar owner. In front of me stood my brother Jerry. And Jerry said to me, someone just died. I stopped him and I said, stop. Say that over again for me. Which he did. And he said it over again. I realized that. That I am in a dream. I was the one who couldn't move my body. It was a dead body. Someone had just died. And suddenly I said to myself, neville teaches that if I know I am dreaming, all I need do is to hold some solid object. A pillow, a chair, anything that is solid that will not move when you hold it and don't let it go. Hold it and then compel yourself to awake while you are holding it. So I held what seemed to me like a box like object. And I held it and said to myself, tom, wake up. As I did this, I began to awake. And I was fully awake in this place. A lady out of nowhere came into my presence. And I said to her, this is a dream. This whole thing is a dream. And she was startled, but I couldn't, I couldn't more than say to her, I know it's a dream. And God is a dreamer. And God is the dreamer of it all. There is only God. He's the only reality. Everything else is a dream. As I said that, my cousin, a girl, came out of nowhere. And she said to me, this is all stupid. This is silly. Then she went quickly away and quickly returned with a book. And she said to me, I have read this book over and over and over again. You mean to tell me it is a dream and it doesn't have anything in it which speaks of a dream? Which this world is a dream, that this world is a dream. She gave me the book. So I took the book and I fingered it a while. And here I came to page 36. And on page 36 it said, the world is a dream and God is the only reality. So I said to her, turn to page 36 at the bottom of the page and read what I've told you. That the world is a dream and God is the only reality. Then said he I. I couldn't see her reaction because at that moment I awoke in that body that I left that was cataleptic. Now it was not. That's all he said. He now, many years ago, I had an experience. And since then, many similar experiences were lying on my bed where. Excuse me. Many similar experiences where lying on my bed here on El Camino in Beverly Hills, I suddenly saw the interior of what appeared to me a most wonderful, luscious hotel or something similar. And my consciousness followed vision and I stepped into what I. I stepped into what I beheld. My consciousness followed vision, and I stepped into what I beheld. Remember that from a lecture or two ago, you behold, you become what you behold. It's exactly what he's saying right there. I returned to my body on the bed. And then, still seeing this interior, I stepped into it again and repeated this action time and time again, maybe a dozen or 18 times. Then at the very last time, I decided to explore. Come what may, I would explore. When I made that decision to explore stepping into this interior, the whole thing closed upon me. And I am in a world as real as this world, just as real as this world. It's spatial. Time is present because space is a facility for experience and time is facility for changes in experience. So here I step into a world that's my experience. Now I'm going to experience changes. And I move from this room to the other room to the other room. And then I came into a huge hallway. It was all lit and really plush. I walked down to the end of the hallway and I saw two ladies coming down the hallway. And I said to them, knowing what has happened, for I knew the origin of this entire thing. I was on my bed in El Camino in Beverly Hills. I recalled the entire thing vividly. So I said to myself, this is a dream. So I said to these two ladies, ladies, this is a dream. They did what you would do if you met a stranger in a wonderful hotel where you never saw him before. And he said to you, this is a dream. It would startle you so that you would think he's insane. And naturally you would try to escape from whatever he intended to do. So they looked at me and they got as near to a wall as they could, couldn't go through it. Because the world was just as real as this world, just as solid. So as they got near to the wall and very close to the wall, they started walking rapidly from me. I said to them, look, I'll prove to you it is a dream. And I saw something hanging over my head. It reminded me of an object I had seen in a friend's home here in the hills of Hollywood. I'd seen it only six or eight months before. So I said to myself, this is only a memory image of what I saw. Surely this is a dream. And I thought if I held it, the thing would collapse like gossamer. It would be nothing. So I said to the ladies, watch, I'll prove to you it is a dream. And I raised my left hand and I held this object. Instead of dissolving into nothing, it was solid as this. As I held it. And they walked by rapidly. Then I said to myself, come on, Neville, wake up. You know it's a dream. And so I held this thing and shook myself to wake up. And I did. I woke standing in that hallway, holding this object in space. And here I am, completely awake as I am now in an entirely different world with no avenue back to the world that I remembered so vividly that I left behind me a world where I had a body as real. We're having an earthquake. Yeah, we just had an earthquake over here, live. I don't know if the camera shook. We'll find out. What? I can't tell how many minutes we've been into this, but we'll find out. So it seems to be over. I remembered so vividly that I left behind me a world where I had. That's how often we have earthquakes in California. Back in the 80s, we had them every few months in the 80s. We had so many. It was so funny, man. They were always in the fives. That one felt like it'd probably be in the fours. I'll report later. I remembered so vividly that I left behind me a world where I had a body as real as the body that I then occupied. That body that I left was in Beverly Hills on a bed in El Camino. The thoughts that ran through my mind were these. I had left a wife and a daughter unprotected. My daughter is in high school. She has the ambition to go to college. She is qualified to go through college. And I've left her uneducated and without adequate funds to see her through. I have left a wife unprotected, without adequate funds. To go through life with my daughter. I knew I had in this world unfinished business. But how to get back? There was nowhere that I knew that I could walk through a door and come back here. Then I remembered a scene that happened to me years before this. And that scene was this. I found myself in a dream. And I did exactly what my friend Tom, who heard me tell the story, did. I found myself waiting in water. And I knew this was a dream. I came close to a pillar that was sunk in the ocean. The bridge was long gone, but the pillars remained. I felt innately that if I could hold that pillar, which was stationary and compel myself to awake, I should awaken in the dream. Well, I did it. Writing down the time of that dream was 9:30. I mean, that earthquake was 9:33. I know. I'll be talking to my wife after this. I should awaken. The bridge was long gone, but the pillars remained. I felt innately that if I could hold that pillar, which was stationary and compel myself to awake, I should awaken in the dream. In the dream. Well, I did it. And I did. I awoke in the dream. I was as awake as I am now in a dream that wasn't this world. So this time I felt, what must I do now? Feeling did it, so I will try it. Feeling did it, so I will try it. What can I feel to bring me back to this world and to be in Beverly Hills, in California? So I imagined a pillow under my neck. I imagined it. I opened my eyes. I'm still standing in the hallway. I closed my eyes. I kept on feeling the pillow, just kept feeling the pillow. And suddenly I could feel behind my neck a pillow. When I felt it, I finally began to awake. And I awoke on my bed. But I was cataleptic. I couldn't move a finger on my body. I could move no part of my body. I couldn't open my eyes. And after much struggle in this dead body, my left hand began to move. Then I pushed it out. And I could feel the warmth of my wife's body. Then, after a little while, a great struggle, I could open the lids of my eyes. And the familiar objects on the wall, the familiar objects on the bureau, the bureau itself. And everything came back into a normal focus. So I stepped into a world as real as this world. So Tom, today, 3,000 miles away, has not forgotten his lesson. He learned it well. So in this wonderful. In this wonderful experience of his, he knew this is a dream. And Neville teaches us if I hold an object that's stationary and do not let it go. And compel myself to awake. I should awaken in a dream. So he awakes in the dream and. And he said to the lady who would not believe him. The reason why you will not believe me is because you are awake in the dream. You don't know it. I am conscious of the fact I. That I am conscious of the fact I awoke in this dream. But you don't know it. You are in the same dream, but you are not aware that you are dreaming at the moment. I know I am dreaming. You do not know it. And the only difference between the two of us is that I know I'm dreaming and you do not know that you are dreaming. Oh, this is a dream. Absolutely, positively. Just go back to the rhyme. Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream. So I tell you the source of all dreams is your imagination. The source of all phenomena is your imagination. And the source of all phenomena is God. So God is your own wonderful human imagination. I'm pointing here, but it could very well be right there. That is God. The day will come, you will understand perfectly. And the story as told in scripture could concerning the resurrection of Christ, you will experience, you will actually experience everything concerning the resurrection. Prior to the resurrection, it's all a dream. After the resurrection he awakes from the dream and goes into the world and goes into world after world. Awake. All the worlds are and all things are. Eternity exists. And all things in eternity independent of creation, which was an act of mercy. Blake Visions of the Last judgment plate, page 91. Excuse me. So everything exists. There is nothing that is now that is. I'm sorry, There is nothing that is not now existing. All it needs is the individual's occupancy of it. And I was just flashing back to the drawings on the board. Every in his house are many mansions. So every single state that you could occupy, you already occupy. It's already, in Seth terms, a probable reality. It already exists. It's a mansion that you already occupy. But to get there, that's what our business is all about. Our business together is how do we consciously get there occupy a different state consciously, it's the same thing. We make a subjective impression. We make a conscious expression. We go to sleep with something on our mind and we wake up in a new reality. We're doing the same thing. Every as this dreaming is signifying that Neville's describing it as it's the same concept. That's why we're using SATs to perform this skill, this new skill we're mastering together, all it needs is the individual's occupancy of it. When he steps into it and occupies it, it becomes objective to him and it's real. Until he steps into it and occupies it, it's a shadow, a mere possibility. But everything is. There is nothing you can conceive of that is not already. Everything is exclamation point. You could be as poor as a church mouse. That is too. You could be R. You could be rich as Christian process C R O C R O E S U S. That is two. You could be known beyond the wildest dream of the world, that is two. Or you could be the most unknown being in the world that is two. Everything is exclamation point. And all it needs for you to prove it is, is to occupy it. And in the Seth terms it'd be all multi dimensional realities exist at once where you put yourself in consciousness as where you are. It's the same thing that Neville's teaching here. But how to step into these states. That's what we are on about here, isn't it? That's the great state secret. He Blake said if the spectator could enter into these images in his imagination, approaching these images on the fiery chariot of his contemplative thought, if he could make a friend and a companion of one of these images, then he would know what it is to rise from the grave. These bodies are the grave. This is the grave. Not everyone goes into the cataleptic state before or after the vision, but they're all the grave. And then he would meet the Lord in the air and he would be happy. VLJ page 82 to 84. My wife's just now texting me about the earthquake. What Was her delay? 10 minutes, 9 minutes. How to take this wonderful being that we really are, which is all imagination. For man is all imagination. And God is man and he exists in us and we in Him. The eternal body of man is the imagination. Berkeley, page 219. That is the divine body that scripture speaks of as Jesus Christ. We are his member. We are his members. I gotta throw this in. One time I was at band practice. This must be about eight years ago. Somewhere in there. It was a while ago, 2018 or 19. Somewhere in there. We were at Bandpackers. We were in Ontario in my brother in law's shop. Big, huge space and we're just rocking out. We were playing some Guns N Roses. I think in the exact moment I think we were playing. It's so easy. Or Rocket Queen. Maybe it was Rocket Queen. We were just rocking out to the, you know, playing the song. Rocking, rocking and rolling. It's about 10 o' clock at night, you know, late at night. All of a sudden, literally, we're all moving involuntarily right in the middle of this. It was a big earthquake. I do not remember the Richter scale, but it was big. It was a big one because we're moving. None of us missed the beat, none of us stopped rocking. We just rocked right through it. We just kept at the business, went all the way to the end of the song. It lasted maybe a couple seconds as these earthquakes last. Like that one you just witnessed. They last maybe 1 to 3 seconds. Maybe this one just moved us when we were playing. We were playing in band practice and then we were just rocking like this. What a fun time. Back to Neville. Now let me turn to a passage in Isaiah, the 43rd chapter. I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. And beside me there is no Savior before me, no God was made, nor shall there be any God after me. I know not any. It's capital. Excuse me. The 43rd of Isaiah, verses 10, 11. Now, the word translated one with a capital, it's capitalized the Holy One of Israel. The Hebrew word is ayesh. I Y, S H. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correct. I'm just going to say ayesh. That is the word translated in the second chapter of Genesis. And it's also capitalized as man. She was called Wo Woe man, W O hyphen, M A N because she was taken out of man. Capital M A N, capital M. Genesis 2:23. In fact, the whole world is capitalized. And the world is aish. That's I, capital I Y, S H. So if I would translate this correctly, the holy man M a n is capitalized the holy man. People don't believe that God is man. They think God is a power. God is some peculiar omniscience, omnipotent, something that is impersonal and certainly not a person. I tell you from experience, God is man. If I would translate this for you from the Hebrew into English, the words are I speaking of I am your. I am but the mighty man of Israel, your Savior besides me. There is no savior. They don't believe you that God is man. I am telling you from my own personal experience, I stood in the presence of the risen Christ. The risen Christ incorporates within himself everyone who is risen. There's Only one in the end. And that one is Jesus. There is no other God. Buried in every man is the great Jesus. The word Jesus. The word Jehovah. The word Jesse is the same. It means any form of the verb to be. I am. Go tell them I am has sent you. Exodus 3:14. It's this being that is buried in every being in the world where every being, this being God, this being. It's this being that is buried in every being in the world. If you really would believe that I am your. I am. This is God speaking now, not through this being called Neville. I am quoting Isaiah that here is an inspired word coming through the prophet. I am your. I am the mighty man of Israel. This is. This is Israel. The whole vast world is Israel. And that there's nothing but. There's nothing but Jehovah and Jehovah in the state of waking from his self imposed restriction is Jesus. Now this breakdown of the word Israel is very, very mighty and profound. Because there are certain peoples in the world who believe that because their country is called that or because they're creating a country called that or something's happening, they think that the Great Book is referring to their small space. Nothing can be farther from the truth. It is the whole world said right here. This is Israel. I am. Let me go back. This is God speaking now, not through this being called Neville. I. I'm quoting Isaiah. And here is an inspired word coming through the prophet. I am your. I am the mighty man of Israel. This is Israel. The whole vast world is is Israel. There's nothing but. There's nothing but Jehovah and Jehovah in the state of waking from his self imposed restriction is Jesus. So I go back to what I told you earlier. The signs of the resurrection in the life of the individual believer are these internal testimonies without which Jesus might have been raised but could never have been preached as risen. So in the end of the story, 12 go forward, one deviates and so it must be completed. So they bring in. So they bring a 12th in to fill his place and they cast lots for him because he must be a witness, as we are told. You must be a witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. No one can go forward and teach it who has not truly been resurrected. He has to be resurrected. So the 12 must be completed. And they cast lots for two Barabbas. But they put an extra S into it. He's spelling it right here. B O B A R A B A S in parentheses. But they put an extra S into It. But it's the same meaning. And then Matthias, that's M a t T H a I s and the lot fell on Matthias. And Matthias became one of the 12 to go out. Acts 1:26. Well, he couldn't go out until this thing happened in him. So when it happened in him, he is qualified as a witness. So we are told. You should all be witnesses, beginning in Jerusalem, and you go through all the cities to the very ends of the earth. There must be a witness. What is a witness? Unless there are two who agree, you cannot bring a ver. You cannot bring in a verdict. If two witness. If two. If two witnesses who switched over to German for a second. If two different witnesses agree in testimony, it is conclusive. Well, who were the two? The Bible is the word of God. That's one witness. That's the external witness. And then your experience becomes the internal witness. Can you match the Bible? Have you had the experiences recorded in Scripture? If you can say I have actually gone through these experiences, these have taken place in me, then you are a witness because they parallel the external witness of Scripture. And. And when these two agree in testimony, it is conclusive. He's speaking of the four mystical experiences. The smothering of the dove, the. The. The birth from above, blowing out of the back of your head. Born babe in swaddling clothes, David calling you father, your back being torn right up the middle, molten liquid gold and rising up like a serpent into the kingdom of heaven. All these mystical experiences are an internal witness to the external, which is the Bible. Now, others may not believe, but you don't have to appeal to anyone in this world. God sees the heart. Man sees the outward appearance of a man, but God sees the heart. You can't lie. You can't fool the inner man. When you lie, you know you've lied. When you make a claim, you know it. And that's God who knows that you lie. So you can't lie. Tapping you on the shoulder. And yet there are unnumbered people who will lie for temporary gain because they don't believe the story of Jesus Christ. The wonder of it all. Please forgive them, for they know not what they do. They don't believe for one moment this thing ever happened. And that is the only thing that is real in this world. It's all a dream. The only thing that is real is he rises in you. For everything else will vanish. It will all pass away. But this will never pass away. It remains the permanent record. And everyone, one after one after one, will experience this within Himself as he experiences it. He then parallels the. The external witness of Scripture. And he removes himself from. From the world of the dreamer into the entire awakened state. While we are here still dreaming, let us be like Tom, who realized that. Who realized that world. Excuse me. Let us be like Tom, who realized that that world in which he found himself, in which he moved, it was real. It was no more. Less. It was no more or less real than the world he left behind. So if he knows now, when he returns to this world, that his dreams are just simply dreams. And they are no more solidly real than his cousin in that world and the lady in that world and the bar and he was a bartender and all these things, he could now begin to dream his noble dreams. Dream exactly what he wants in this world. I'm going to repeat this. It's like riding a motorcycle really fast over Whoop Dee Doos. Because it's a really good, solid piece here. So back to Tom. I'm going to read this small paragraph. While we are here still dreaming, let us be like Tom, who realized that that world in which he found himself, in which he moved, it was real. It was no more or less real than the world he left behind. So if he knows now, when he returns to this world, that his dreams are simply. That his dreams are just simply dreams. So if he knows now, when he returns to this world, that his dreams are just simply dreams. And they are no more solidly real than this. Than his cousin in that world and. And the lady in that world and the bar and he was a bartender and all these things, he could now begin to dream his noble dreams. Dream exactly what he wants in this world. Now, tonight, just before I took the platform. Excuse me. A lady came to me. I know her well, know the family well. And in this world of Caesar. Because a man today, in this section of time hits the age of 55, if he's unemployed, no one wants him who wants him? No special talent. He's not a doctor, not a dentist, not a this, not a that. No special talent. An honest, wonderful man without special talents. So she told me a story tonight. I know what others told me too. They took a project they were determined to make this thing come true. If one individual dreamt it. For they all dream in concert. What does it matter? If we love each other, we can dream in concert. So she feels that when I said a couple of weeks ago that one should go to bed identified with Christ Jesus instead of saying, I am John Brown who can't pay my rent, I should go to bed as Jesus Christ who owns the world. That has to do with. I'm going to be talking about that when I bring up my dream at the end of this lecture. That's what I did last night, because that was the previous lecture to this. For Jesus Christ, having risen from the dead, owns the world. So everyone in whom he rises can make the claim he owns the world. Were I hungry, I would not tell you, said he. For the world is mine, and all within it the cattle on a thousand hills are mine. Psalms 50:10. So why should I tell anyone of any limitation where there is no limitation when all belongs to me? Exclamation point. She went to bed in the assumption. I am Christ. Now, this has been going on for a long while. This husband of hers who every door was shut against every door. You're 55, and what can you do? I know that another very dear friend of hers and my wife agreed in secret. And to this day I didn't know they had agreed. But I know she and my wife agreed to simply make this a project. To bring him into a wonderful state of affluence. Of real, real affluence. Well, he started yesterday on the payroll. He will not start officially until Monday, but he's on the payroll. And there is no limit to what he can do. With what he has, well, already done in the world. He's done it. He's equipped to do it. He's qualified to do it. And out of nowhere, this thing happened. He didn't advertise. No one stopped the job for him. Suddenly the call came through. He saw this man. And there was sort of an emergency in the atmosphere, a certain expectancy. And the whole thing rushed into this. And today he's on the job with unlimited possibilities. At least he's working. And he's on the payroll as of yesterday, beginning this coming Monday to prove his talents in this field. And he can do it. This is Neville's wife and a lady he knows. I forget if he said. He said her name. I don't think he did. Working on this little project, imagining lovingly for another, her husband. I am Christ. That's all she did. He already owns the world. Why can't I share that with another? My husband. I am Christ. Neville's wife was working on the same project. Two agreed. Now, whether his wife, who said to me, when you said, identify yourself with Christ Jesus and assume I am Christ and sleep in that assumption, and all things being possible to God and. And Christ is God, well, then feel that the Whole thing is done, whatever you want and sleep in that assumption. My wife and her friend, who are both friends of this lady, did it in their way. But what does it matter who did it? If I go to a concert and there are 100 pieces and they're all playing in concert, don't let one get out of beat, but don't let one get off of get off the tone. Let them all play in concert. Well, If I had 2, 3 or 100, if they all agree that he is working and gainfully employed and the whole household is excited about it, there they are playing in concert. So I will not say tonight to anyone because I don't know if it is her assumption that she was Jesus Christ and therefore he, her husband, is now working and gainfully employed, or if it is her friend and her other friend, who is my wife, did it in their way, I would say they all did it. V so let us know that imagining does create reality, that imagining is God. Can you conceive of anything in this world that wasn't first imagined? Try and think of it. You might think well a tree, because you don't know the depths of imagining. But the suit you wear, was it not first imagined? The chair on which you're seated, the home that you will return to tonight, everything in the world, the business that you're now performing in this world, was it not first imagined? I don't care what the nature of the business is. The instrument for playing the piano, Everything was once only imagined. So I tell you to repeat myself that the eternal body of man is the imagination and that is God himself, the divine body, Jesus Christ. We are his members. For I imagine, you imagine, we all imagine. And when Jesus Christ buried in us, comes to the end of the dream of this world, he begins to awake. The signs of awakening are recorded in scripture, beginning with the resurrection. So if I take, say the Gospels, the Gospels were written to set forth a post resurrection faith of the apostles. They were not written as documentaries, not for one moment as the world will believe it. To set up and record how Jesus himself saw the event beforehand. Forget it completely, exclamation point. They are written because men heard the story based upon the ancient claim of the Old Testament. And here comes one who is a student of the Old Testament and in him the whole thing begins to unfold. He goes back into the Old Testament which was the only testament, and he discovers parallels. He discovers everything back in the Old Testament that is happening in him that is now alive. He sees the entire promise of God differently It isn't as the world believed it to be. He sees the whole thing taking place in man and not on the outside of man, but some strange being coming and not on the outside of man, by some strange being coming out of space. Then he tells those who will listen. And they were. And there were those who believed it implicitly. And in this small circle it began to happen. It happened in them. One turned away and his space was filled because it had to have another one in whom it would happen. The word Matthew means gift of God. So the grace of God will take place in him. And so all of a sudden it happened in him. They go out to tell only one story, the story of the risen Christ. They could not speak of the risen Christ unless Christ had been raised in them. Christ might have been raised in one who told the story, but they could not go out and preach it as the risen Christ were he not raised in them. So here, everyone here is Jesus Christ. There is only Jesus Christ in the world, but in everyone. Jesus Christ must rise. And he will rise. Not one can fail because everyone lives by reason of the fact that Christ, Christ lives in him. Christ lives in me. He lives in you and everyone in this world. Were he not in us, we couldn't even breathe. He's our breath. He's our life. So he rises and awakes in us. And then we leave this sphere of the dream and enter the entire dream, new world, the awakened state. So here, you try it tonight. Try it in a simple way. Imagining creates reality. You have an objective in this world. Do you know what you want? If you know exactly what you want, what would it be like were it true? A simple question is asked in the book of John. Where are you staying? And he said, come and see. 1:38 well, the soul's place of residence, like the citizen, is determined by the soul's return. That state to which I most constantly return constitutes my home. If in the course of a day, after I'm busy at my desk, I dwell upon my problems and then I turn away because someone asked me a question and after I've answered the question, I turn back to my problems and in the course of a day, that's where I go back constantly. That's where I dwell. And that's what I'm going to multiply, perpetuate in my world. So the soul's place of residence, like a citizens, is always determined by the soul's return. Now you can see exactly why that previous lecture in that four part series that was just on the channel by the time this comes out, very, very important lecture. Inner talking. Watch it a hundred times if necessary. You must change where you dwell by changing the inner talking. Just change it. Turn it upside down. Turn yourself around. Thin Lizzy. Shout Phil. Lynette. Oh, what a great artist. The day will come. You and I will remember where we laid our immortal. That song, by the way, is called Bad Reputation by Thin Lizzy. Turn yourself around, Turn it upside down. Great lyric. That's what we must do if we find our dwelling place to be. A place that we return to, to be not the one we want to be in. We must turn it around. We must change our inner talking. It's very, very simple, of course, on the surface. But if your inner talking has been this certain brand for years and years and years and years, time doesn't exist. I know. But if it's been firmly entrenched, you have to change it sometime. Even if it's five seconds of the day, you've made a penetration. Five seconds every hour. Five seconds every half hour. Every 15 minutes. Every five minutes. Set your timer on your 1983 Casio watch. Beep, beep, beep. All right. I am wealthy. Beep, beep, beep. I. I am healthy. 5 seconds worth. Close your eyes. The more you change the inner talking, your dwelling place is going to change. Facts are facts. That's as simple as it gets. You're the input mechanism to that inner talking. You are the input mechanism. You change it, it changes. The day will come. You and I will remember where we laid our immortal body down to dream and remember it and remembering it as I did a partial state in Beverly Hills, and return to it. I'll remember where I laid the immortal body down, which is Jesus Christ, and return. When I return to it, I will completely awaken from the dream of life. But everyone has these other areas where they sleep, where they dwell morning, noon and night. So you and I can, in the course of a day, know where we are dwelling by observing where we return most frequently. Am I dwelling in what I owe? Am I dwelling in what people think of me? Am I dwelling in what? Anyone? Blank space. If I dwell upon that and can argue the point and try to convince them, that's where I'm dwelling. I'm in a state of want. There isn't a day that I don't get letters. Blank space. Someone calls here on the phone and says some organization, or one of the biggest international organization of this so called new thought. May I tell you, this isn't new thought at all. It's old as the faith of Abraham. Remember that. That whole. This whole period of time in the early 1900s, the beginning of the 20th century, however you want to word that Neville was born in 1905. And a lot of authors and speakers and orators would speak it on a soapbox. And just, you know, in this same vein, Earl Nightingale, like I mentioned before, people like that, and they called them new thought. And Neville just said, it isn't new thought at all. At all. May I tell you, this isn't new thought at all. It's old as the faith of Abraham. I have nothing new to teach you. It's all scripture. So she called yesterday, she called today again to repeat that this organization, international, very powerful, tells her she must not come to my meetings. Blank space. She calls for help. The organization so far has been unable to grant anything she's asked of it, but she's afraid of that power. So she doesn't come here physically, but she calls on the telephone. She thinks by calling they won't know, which undoubtedly they wouldn't because they aren't really spiritual. If she came here physically, they could have someone watched. Then they would know. But they would never know if she called me on the telephone or wrote me a letter. So they are wearing the mask of being very spiritual and very important. And they are the blind leaders of the blind. I will not tell you the name, but they are international. In this world, one comes to mind. And I'm not even going to go there. It's 1965, so I'm sure this place is already well established. So, yeah, that would be the one I'm thinking of. It just comes to mind, whatever. Blind leaders of the blind. Down with the blue bloods. So they will frighten people away from here. But who cares? It doesn't really matter. My income does not depend upon your attendance. Not for mo. Not for one moment, does it. I welcome you because I can feed you that which Christ sent me to give you. But don't think for one moment my livelihood depends upon your physical attendance, because it doesn't. But I've been sent. I stood in the presence of the risen Christ. And Christ is the one man, only one man in this world. We are gathered one by one and incorporated into the one man who is God. That God is Jesus Christ. So I say to everyone here, take it and use it. Use it in the world of Caesar, knowing it is a dream. Because it is a dream. Stop the bad dream. Why have a nightmare? The whole vast world has a nightmare. Well, you can stop the dreaming of a nightmare and turn it around. Seth had a statement, a quote. He said, it's as simple as each person cleaning up their little corner of the universe. As each person does that, the whole universe is cleaned. You imagine for your self that which you want to nobly experience in your world. As each one of us does that. Just the use of the law. As each one of us does that, the whole world is awakened from that nightmare and put into the dream of what the dream they want to experience is. Yes, we can have harmony. Yes, it's as easy as each one of us doing it for ourself. The whole vast world has a nightmare. Well, you can stop the dreaming of a nightmare and turn it around if you know you're dreaming and dream what you want to dream until that moment in time that Christ in you has reached the fullness of time and begins to awake. When he awakes, he goes through a series of events, prearranged, all recorded in Scripture. Then you will awake in the tomb of your skull, and you will come out of the tomb of your skull, born from above, with all the signs of the birth of Christ, the child wrapped in swaddling clothes and the witnesses to testify to the presence of the child. Then you will find that which is the only symbol in the world that will reveal to you that you are God the Father, because you will see his only begotten Son who calls you Father. Then you will go through sign after sign, all within you. And if the whole vast world rose in opposition, it would make no difference to you whatsoever. You will know. Let them have all the medals they want, all the honors they want in this world. It's still dreaming and lovely dreams. Let them have their wonderful dreams. But you will know after the signs that when this veil of pleasure is taken off, it's taken off for the last time after the signs. But you will not condemn anyone. You will be the one. Excuse me, you'll be one with the body of Christ Jesus. Still dieting, controlling, loving and warning everyone into the waking state. No condemnation. There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. He doesn't condemn anyone. He leaves them alone in their nightmares and warns them, warns them through his messengers that he sends. He sends messengers into the world. And everyone who stands in his presence is sent. And everyone who is sent is an apostle. It's the one prerequisite for apostleship. Apostleship is to have seen the risen Christ, as Paul said. Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? So having seen him, he is Sent. You can't be called and not be sent. And then you are sent. And you will tell it to the best of your ability, after having spent that one moment in time, maybe 30 years, 50 years, 60 years, then the veil is taken off and you are forever incorporated into the body of Christ, that glorious body still guiding all. And one will be called one after the other. Standing in your presence now because you're one with Christ, not another. There is only Christ. Now let us go into the silence. It don't forget your breathing rhythm. Bringing in three. Three breaths bring into an apex of an inhalation, then your relief. I've asked you in the past for case histories. I'm going to repeat the request, and the more current the better, for they make the principal become alive, like tonight's two. One told me just a matter of minutes before I took the platform, and the one in this morning's mail. They're current things that happened in the immediate presence, and so the Elim and so they illustrate the principle. So you who've actually proved to yourself that imagining does create reality, please share with us your experience that I may from the platform share it with all. Now, are there any questions? Please? Question INAUDIBLE Neville well, first of all, the desert through which we walk is right here in the year 1965. We are now the pilgrims moving across this horrible experience. It is horrible, no question about it. It's the story of Job all over, that we were made subject unto futility, not willingly, but by the will of him who subjected us. Romans 8, 20. God subjected Himself to this level and became man. That man may become God. He's become just as I am, and took upon himself the restrictions and the limitations of this. So we are now upon the desert. Now to be through the day a pillar of cloud, and at night a pillar of fire. This is literally true. I have gone down the street. This has been about 30 years ago. Suddenly it happened. Walking down the street, and instead of seeing individuals, I'm seeing only pillars of clouds. Everyone was surrounded by an enormous cloud, in fact, so big it would go through even the sides of a building. Walking down the street, 55th street, and I met someone on the street, and that which surrounded them was so vast, it went through the wall on this side and the walls on that side. Seeing people at night, it became fiery. So a cloud does envelop us by day and pillar of fire by night. Exodus 13:21. It's an actual fact. I can go back well, 30 odd years, and it has never left me I don't try to see it anymore, but I could easily see it if I wanted to. And when that cloud is lifted, all blank space and they know it, strike the tabernacle where it is and follow the cloud wherever it descends. Well, if I think elsewhere, I am where I am imagining, for I'm all imagination. Therefore I must be where I am in imagination. So if I imagine this very moment that I am in San Francisco, anyone who is sensitive could see me where I am imagining that I am. So the cloud is gone. So I go in that state. We're here till the end of June and then we'll be back late October or early November, but here every Tuesday, every Friday until the end of June. Good night. So, my dream. What a wonderful lecture. By the way, doggy, I did practice what we talked about in the last lecture, which was, as you're falling asleep, I am Jesus Christ. So I decided to practice that as I fell to sleep. Now, regardless of politics, I don't care which side you're on. I don't believe in red versus blue and all this other business. I don't believe any of that. I don't take any of that on board. I. I do have a friend or two whom I'm imagining lovingly. One specifically who I imagine lovingly for. And I do. He does send me a lot of political stuff. Left, right, middle, whatever. This has nothing to do with that. Because there are sides people like to magnetize to and whatever. This isn't anything to do with that. But let me just give you this whole thing. From the beginning of that concept. There's a person in the White House and who cares what the name is? You all know what the name is. Who, like Neville says, the politicians promise this and then they get in and then things change and it goes this way or that way or whatever. First six months of this term, whatever. Seems like a lot of stuff's happening on the up. Okay, whatever. The other day, maybe about five days ago, I was getting out of the shower, I think it was this week. This is Thursday, maybe it was Monday or Tuesday. But I went into a vision and it was so brilliantly because my friend was sending me videos to watch. I didn't watch all of them. I watched a few maybe, and you know, there's a lot of opinion. But I imagined I'm with that individual who occupies the White House. And I see we're talking and we're at the end of the term and we're talking and communicating and celebrating and high fiving and Shaking hands on the success of the term. And it's brilliantly colorful, more so than any other day dream I've ever had. Brilliantly colorful getting out of the shower. Normally they aren't this colorful. This one was. This one broke into a color in an eyes wide open kind of state. My eyes might have been closed. Maybe they were open a little bit too. But I was getting out of the shower. It was. I was in action. So I thought, great, I'm at the end celebrating all success. Who doesn't want that for any of this stuff happening in politics or whatever? We all want the benefit for all. Obviously we're human. Last night I think I watched the bit of a clip of that person on the YouTube and then I went and do this other wonderful. These guys have a channel called My First Million and they have a channel and they're talking about AI development. And it's an amazing developments happening in that whole realm. So I'm building a Coach Gilbert AI that's going to be all of the content of this channel put into it. And they were discussing this whole concept because there's a guy that's done it with all of his data and all of his things. He's ever tweeted everything he's ever done on YouTube or Facebook or what all of his information is going into this place. And then you can actually have all that content as a virtual person in the second form. So you ask a question that will give it to you almost better than the individual person could because it remembers all of that data. So I'm watching a video on that as I fall to sleep, but at the same time I'm falling asleep. I'm listening to the video because I wasn't sleepy yet. So I'm still doing my SATs. I am. I'm listening. I have two awareness levels. While I was going to sleep, I was listening to that lecture. Wonderful lecture, very instructive and everything. Just wonderful. That channel, they bring in a bunch of people and they good stuff happening, good stuff. A brew in technology. So I'm listening to that, enlightened about all these ideas. And then I am Jesus Christ. As I'm tapering and I'm going into sats and out of sats, but I'm tapering. I am Jesus Christ. I want to follow the previous lecture to this. I am Jesus Christ. I don't say anything else, just keep moving to that. The lecture ends. I put on my binaural beats. Wonderful little sleep. Binaural beats where the sound is a little bit different in frequency on both sides. And it puts me in deep, like theta, I think it is, or delta. I forget what it is. I am Jesus Christ. I am Jesus Christ. So I'm in that, listening to that binaural, not sleepy. So I'm coming in and out of stats constantly, just trying to stick to that one thing. Then as I said before, I do it when I wake in, in the morning. I'm just heavily heavy dose of that. I am Jesus Christ, just like this lady. So I went into a vision and I was with that, you know, the first house. Is that what they call it? The White House? I was with him and we were walking and talking, and not a lot of people were recognizing him. I was very thankful of that. But I had a lot of vision involved with this. But we were walking and talking and we went to one place and then we went back to another place. And I was really surprised that people weren't mobbing us because I was like, this guy could be mobbed at every moment, but I was really hanging out with them. It was very fascinating, and I'm telling you, so many details are slipping away so fast. But the main point was we were together and it was colorful. We were walking and talking. We got to a place and went back to another place. And there was just a feeling of comfort and ease throughout. That was all. It was that simple. It was magnificently brilliant. Very colorful, like you can hardly even fathom. I wanted to add a clip on a tag on the end of this. Before, when I had a vision, it was 2005 or 6. Somewhere in there, I was mentioning Magic Johnson. It was the time when he was dealing with the. With the HIV issue and health. And in my vision at that time, I was whispering into the ear of the person. It was an East Indian man. And I mentioned before and that that person was whispering into the ear of Magic Johnson. So Magic Johnson was sitting there against the wall, and Deepak Chopra was the one advising him in a vision state. It was 4D. It wasn't 3D. He wasn't literally there, or I think he was. Maybe he was. But then I was also whispering into Deepak's ear. So here I am advising Deepak, who's advising Magic Johnson, in ideas of spirituality. Don't know why. Those personalities have no idea, no clue. Just like this one last night or the one I was getting out of the shower. Who knows? I have no idea. I just want to put them on the record because later I'm sure it'll come to the surface. But very fascinating. My first experience with I am Jesus Christ. Take it to bed. Don't ask, just repeat. Just float. If you're like me, you like the auditory business, put those on. Put on these. I love these. You can't beat it. They go in each ear. Well, how do these work? Go in each ear? I can sleep on my side. I can put them on. It doesn't bother me because there's not too much, you know, pello pressure or whatever. They work wonderfully. So if you're into that auditory learning, it helps that. What is it, the binaural beats, where they change a frequency when there's a little difference and it instigates the learning. Or you can instigate all kinds of different things with binaural beats, but check it out. I am Jesus Christ. All right, the vision was of a political figure, but I'm not into that. I'm not into that business. I don't care about left, right, middle, up, down. It's just a matter of love. All from love. If I come up with more details, because they're fading fast. It was a heck of a experience. The world is a dream, May 7, 1965. And I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did because. Wow, that was powerful. Powerful lecture. All right, we're going to see you in the next one.