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Neville Goddard on Controlled attention / inner talking
Read these 8 lectures in order — they carry this idea most heavily, earliest first. After each one, take the suggested question to the mentor, who answers from Neville's own words.
Awakened Imagination (1954)
1954…Imagination, which is Christ in man, is not subject to the necessity to produce only that which is perfect and good. It exercises its absolute freedom from necessity by endowing the outer physical self with free will to choose to follow good or evil, order or disorder. Choose this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15 But after the choice is made and accepted so that it forms the individual’s habit…
Neville Goddard Inner Talking Rare Lecture
April 16, 1965…So I call upon everyone here this night to test it. And may I tell you, my friend who never spoke in public before, to do it and in one month he ___(??) challenge: go out and tell the whole vast world that you meet of the reality of your own wonderful human Imagination. When the man said to him, “What will you title your subject?” he said, “Inner Speech.” That was the title he gave to his talk whe…
Neville Goddard Lp 1955 How To Use Your Imagination Mental Diets
1955…“Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.” It is only what is done now that counts, even though its effects may not be visible until tomorrow. We call, not out loud, but by an inner effort of intense attention; to listen attentively, as though you heard, is to create. The events and relationships of life are your Word made visible. Most of us rob others of their willingness and their…
Control Your Inner Conversations
April 26, 1971…So here, out of the nowhere, we create by inner speech through the use of what? Call it “mind” if you will. I like the word “imagination.” To me, it inflames me. When I imagine a state — any state, if I can only persuade myself of the reality of the state imagined, that’s the important thing; to believe in the reality of the state imagined. But to know what to do is not the same as doing it. So, “…
Three Propositions
1954…It is nice to change a mood from some unlovely to a lovely, but I want a transformation and by transformation I mean that when one state into which I have moved and move so often that it becomes a habit and that state grows stable, so that it expels from my consciousness all of its rivals, then that central habitual state defines my character and really constitutes my new world. It spells out a tr…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Teach Us to Pray”
November 26, 1965…Now let us go into the Silence. Q: In the Bible ___(??). Does this mean inner talking? A: Inner talking, inner vision, inner touch. Q: The constant…all the time… A: You’re doing it anyway, but you’re doing it unknowingly. A man walks the street, he’s not alone; he’s always imagining something and dwelling on something. Most of the time he’s dwelling on things he doesn’t like, and tries to resolve …
Seedtime and Harvest (1956)
1956…This man’s inner conversations are based on the premise that he already has money, his constant inner question: the proper use of it. The inner conversations of the man struggling to ‘get’ money only prove his lack of money. In his ignorance of the power of the word, he is building barriers in the way of the attainment of his goal; he has his eye on the competition rather than on the goal itself. …
The Coin Of Heaven
undated…This being my last Sunday for a year, I wish to leave no doubt in your mind of what I tried to tell you in the last nineteen lectures. So I am going to ask a question which you can silently answer yourself. Have you lived this life of yours in such a way that you desire to live it again? Well, if you haven’t, you’d better listen very carefully to what I will say this morning, if you have not alrea…