You can sit quietly and enter a glorious dream. If itβs shadowy, you are not in it. Persist until you enter it, and it will become the only reality. Live in the state of your fulfilled desire now, knowing that in a way unknown and unnoticed by you it will erupt to become an objective fact.
Clothe yourself with the reality of the state you have just created in your imagination. You need not ask anyoneβs permission or help, but moving into the new state in your imagination, simply remain there until you feel its reality. Then let the feeling go its way toward fulfillment.
In the story the friend knew what he wanted. He assumed he had it and continued to assume he had it until his assumption took on the feeling of reality and he got it. This is how you find God in yourself, by being persistent in your assumption.
So I say: every being in the world will serve your purpose, so in the end you will say: βFather forgive them, for they know not what they do.β They will move under compulsion to do your will.
Mark 4:26-27
"So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how."
He casts the seed and then sleeps and rises, night and day, while the seed grows by itself, he knoweth not how. After the imaginal act you do not manage the growth. You sleep and rise and live, and it grows on its own.
YOUR PRAYER IS LONGER
THAN YOU THINK
You imagine your wish
fulfilled: 5 minutes.
Then:
worry at breakfast
checking at noon
complaining at dinner
doubt at midnight
Your deeper mind does
not know the 5 minutes
was "the prayer" and
the rest was just life.
It counts everything
you FEEL as instruction.
23 hours of lack
vs 5 minutes of having.
The majority wins.
You are always praying.
The only question is
what for.
This first principle is: βBe still and know that I am God.β
No matter what happens, turn within and be still. Know that your awareness is God and that all things are possible to you.
The Name of God Decoded β JOD HE VAU HE
Work through the four letters deliberately tonight.
JOD. Sit quietly and feel pure awareness. Not awareness of anything in particular. Just the sense of being aware. The I AM before any content. Hold this for thirty seconds.
HE. Now let your desired state arise in imagination. See it as something real and particular. Let it have shape and detail. Perceive it clearly.
VAU. This is the work. Shift from perceiving it as other than you to feeling that you are it. Not imagining it from outside. Feeling yourself to be it from inside. Let the boundary between the perceiver and the perceived dissolve. Even briefly. Even imperfectly.
When VAU is genuinely reached for even a moment let it go. The final HE, the outer world, requires nothing from you. It moulds itself. Your only work was the first three letters. The fourth writes itself.
You sign a contract. The other party signs it. The document is witnessed and dated. It is now legally binding in a jurisdiction that has no interest in your feelings about it the following morning.
You do not need to believe in the contract each day for it to remain valid. You do not need to feel good about it for the terms to hold. The signature is the moment of creation. Everything after that is simply the movement of time toward the contracted outcome.
Neville described the imaginal act in precisely these terms. The moment of genuine felt assumption is the signature. Both parties, your imagination and the subconscious, have agreed to the terms. The contract is binding in the only jurisdiction that matters. Consciousness.
What this means for the inner posture post prayer is that the question of whether it will happen is no longer the relevant question. A party to a signed contract does not spend their days wondering if the other party will honour it. They proceed on the basis that the contracted outcome is coming. Their planning, their decisions, their daily actions reflect the terms of the agreement.
This is what Neville means when he says act as if. Not performance. Not pretending. Proceeding on the basis of a contract already signed. The lawyer who has won a case does not go home and wonder if they won. They move on to the next case. The matter is concluded.
YOU CAN MANIFEST YOUR SP EVEN IF
- you are blocked from everywhere
- you have blocked them from everywhere
- there's a 3P
- you have a doubt sp's friends won't let them come to you.
- long distance
- a very bad breakup
- in no contact since long (doesn't matter how much)
... XYZ
Most people look at their bank balance and feel poor.
Then they try to imagine feeling wealthy.
Neville said stop. The bank balance is not the cause. It is the effect of a previous inner state. You are trying to fix the reflection by touching the mirror. Turn away from the mirror. Change the inner image. The reflection updates itself. It has no choice.
You are in London. You want to get to Edinburgh. You don't know the route.
You don't stand at the front door saying "Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh" while staring at your London street. You get in the car, type Edinburgh into the sat-nav, and DRIVE THE FIRST INSTRUCTION.
Neville's believing works identically. You type your destination into the sat-nav of your subconscious, the imaginal act in SATS, with the feeling of already being there. You don't need to see the whole route. You follow the first instruction the universe gives you. Then the next. Then the next.
The sat-nav only recalculates when you take a wrong turn, when you revert to an old assumption. As long as you hold Edinburgh as your destination, every instruction moves you there.
People ask how long manifestation takes.
Neville never gave a fixed answer because the timing is not determined by the desire. It is determined by the depth of the assumption.
A shallow assumption with doubt running underneath it takes longer. A clean assumption with no competing belief behind it can move fast. The variable is never the desire. It is always the state.