Trust in imagination
There are many medicines to help a person enter the dream of wholeness. Although plants are well suited to the task, it is not necessary to use them. Two things are necessary, however. First, the medicine must be non-dualistic. Second, the medicine must have the power of dreams. A practitioner does not acquire this power by accident. Lofty, well-focused intention is required, and that intention must be married to knowledge and skill.
Eliot Cowan, Plant Spirit Medicine
I could tell you from now until the end of time that your
own Wonderful Human Imagination is God, and you could hear it but never apply
it. Quite often we cannot bring ourselves to apply it because it is in conflict
with our training, but it does not operate itself, we are the operant power.
When we see this world as a world of appearance behind which
the reality of imagining lies, we find the truth. All things exist in the human
imagination, and by that I mean the individual’s imagination. In your bosom you
bear your own heaven and your earth, and all that you behold, though it appears
without, it is within, in your imagination, of which this world of mortality is
the foundation stone. It is the tree. Christianity is its fulfillment. It is
the fruit, but the tree is Judaism, and all that it contains will come out,
eventually, in a plan, a wonderful plan that was there in the beginning of
time. That, we call Christianity.
As you are seated here, it’s all about you. Your own
Wonderful Human Imagination is the God of the universe.
The whole vast world is yourself pushed out. “All that you
behold, though it appears mortality is but a shadow.”
I know the truth of which I speak, for I have found him of
whom the prophets spoke, Jesus of Nazareth. The world is taught to believe he
was a man who lived and was crucified two thousand years ago. I am telling you
he is crucified on humanity, and that one is man’s own Wonderful Human Imagination.
That’s Jesus, and there is no other.
He is buried in man, the dreamer in man dreaming this dream
of life, and he is capable of anything of anything in this world…
There is only one creative power in the world. The one who
kills is the one who makes alive. The one who wounds is the one who heals, and
there is no power other than this one power which is your own Wonderful Human
Imagination. That is God. There is no other God.
He is buried in you and the day will come He will awaken. If
I could turn you from this world of seeming reality to a world of imagination
where you believed in the reality of your own imaginal acts, you would be on
the verge of rebirth. When you sit quietly, all alone, asking help of no one, and really believe that your imaginal act is a creative fact which will externalize
itself and become a reality in your world, you are on the verge.
You are told, “Unless you are born again, you cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven.” The kingdom
of God
What would the feeling be like if it were true that you are
what you wanted to be? That they are what they wanted to be? That they have
what they want? Don’t ask how it is going to happen, the depth of your own
being has ways and means your conscious surface being knows not of, but it will
happen
I can tell from the uprising of moods within me I am going
to meet certain people, and I do. Churchill once said, “The moods determine the
fortunes of people rather than the fortunes determine the mood.” Catch the mood
of your wish fulfilled. How would you feel if it were true? In spite of all
things round about you that deny it, walk as though it were true, and, in a way
you do not know of, it will externalize itself within your world and you will
receive it…
God is equalled with the believer in man. The believer in me
is my own Wonderful Human Imagination, the dreamer in man. I go to bed at night
and dream. The dreamer and the waking I are one and the same being…
Fall in love with something that really excites you and feel
you are already what you want to be. If you do this, I tell you from my own
experience, you will have it…
What are you feeding your imagination morning, noon and
night? You read the morning newspaper and react, yet you don’t know one
character there. Before you get to the end of the page, based on upon some
biased reporter, you react. That’s what you fed the lord, for the lord is your
own Wonder human Imagination. That’s God and there is no other God. That is the
Jesus of scripture. That’s the Jehovah of the Old Testament. He is housed in
you and that is why you are immortal. You could drop this garment right now,
chop off your head, burn the body and turn it into dust; it would make no
difference to your immortality. You cannot cease to be, because God became as
you are, that you may be as He is…
Start a new diet (what you think and feel about), it may
take a day, a week or it may take two weeks; but, if you persist, you will
out-picture that change of diet (attitude) and your whole vast world will
change.
We are the only beings to whom He gave inner speech, and it
is a marvellous gift, but you can’t stop it. You are doing it morning, noon and
night. You go to bed talking to yourself. We are always carrying on these
little mental conversations with ourselves. But what are we saying? Are we
arguing, or are we boldly affirming and asserting. “I Am…(naming what I want to
be).
Remember, everyone in your world is yourself pushed out.
They only reflect what you have been and maybe still are doing. Blame no one,
not even yourself, just change your (mental) diet. It’s all simply words, all within you.
Assume that you are now the man, the woman you want to be.
Walk in that assumption; live in it just as though it were true. Then, who
knows, that diet may not take more than twenty-four hours – I am quite sure it
will not take more than a few weeks, and it will project itself in your world.
You are the Lord and the Lord feasts upon words. He is the
Word. What have you said to yourself in the past 24 hours? “I AM in want; I AM
sick; I AM unhappy?” Change it! Completely change it and say within yourself,
“I AM wealthy; I AM healthy; I AM happy!”…Reason may deny it, your senses may
deny it; no matter, persist and sleep as though it were true and it will become
true.
I can tell you from my own personal experience it works.
But, as you are told in scripture, “I have ways and means you know not of. My
ways are past finding out.”…All you do is simply go on a new (mental) diet…
If man could only realize what he is doing when he is
thinking. After all, who cares, or who knows. Who knows? The only One that cares
knows, and He is your own Wonderful Human Imagination. That is God. That’s the
Jehovah of the Old Testament and the Jesus of the New Testament, and there is
no other God. He is buried in you and He is dreaming in you, and one day you
will awaken to the being you really are.
The day you move into the life of imagination, trusting your
imagination and living in it as though it were true, you are not far from the
threshold. But I can’t tell you the day or the hour, for no one knows but the
Father, and the Father is your own Wonderful Human Imagination.
I saw it so clearly. This is the stone that the builders
rejected. But what the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. “It
was the Lord’s doing and it is marvellous in our sight.”
I rejected the fact that I was the cause of the phenomena of
my life and thought everyone outside of myself caused it. Then I saw the
vision. Here is a stone, a quartz, fragmented, then come together in the shape of
a man seated in the lotus posture. As I looked at it I saw it was myself. Then
I realized I was the cause. He is the dreamer in me. One day he is going to
awake from this dream, and, when he awakes, I am He and He and are One.
Neville Goddard,
Lecture from the late sixties,
Edited by myself
