Technique
The single sensory act
28 passages across the corpus
- Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
1. Question: What is the meaning of the insignia on your book covers? Answer: It is an eye imposed upon a heart which, in turn is imposed upon a tree laden with fruit, meaning that what you are conscious of, and accept as true, you are going to realize. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. * * * * * * * * * * 2. Question: I would like to be married, but have not found the right man. How do
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
But suppose on looking at the page, with all the printed words thereon equally present, you decided to rearrange them. You could, by rearranging them, tell an entirely different story, in fact you could tell many different stories. A dream is nothing more than uncontrolled four-dimensional thinking, or the rearrangement of both past and future sensory impressions. Man seldom dreams of events in t
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
3. Immobilize the physical body and induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep. Then, mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action, until the single sensation of fulfillment dominates the mind; imagining all the while that you are actually performing the action HERE AND NOW so that you experience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh were you now to realize your goal. E
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Answer: Personally I like to confine my imaginal act to a single thought, but that does not mean I will stop there. During the course of a day I may imagine many things, but instead of imagining lots of small things, I would suggest that you imagine something so big it includes all the little things. Instead of imagining wealth, health and friends, imagine being ecstatic. You could not be ecstatic
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Prove or disprove this law. I know that if you attempt to disprove it, you will prove it, and I will be the richer for your proving it, not in dollars, not in things, but because you become the living fruit of what I believe I am teaching in this world. It is far better to have you a successful, satisfied person after five days of instruction than to have you go out dissatisfied. I hope you will b
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My third way of praying is simply to feel thankful. If I want something, either for myself or another, I immobilize the physical body, then I produce the state akin to sleep and in that state just feel happy, feel thankful, which thankfulness implies realization of what I want. I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and with my mind dominated by this single sensation I go to sleep. I need do n
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
If we decide to climb a particular flight of stairs, because that is the likely event to follow the realization of our desire, then we must restrict the action to climbing that particular flight of stairs. Should the attention wander off, bring it back to its task of climbing that flight of stairs, and keep on doing so until the imaginary action has all the solidity and distinctness of reality. Th
Read passage → - Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948) · 1948
Man can prove the existence of a dimensionally larger world by simply focusing his attention on an invisible state and imagining that he sees and feels it. If he remains concentrated in this state, his present environment will pass away, and he will awaken in a dimensionally larger world where the object of his contemplation will be seen as a concrete objective reality. I feel intuitively that, w
Read passage → - Questions And Answers · 1948
* * * * * * * * * * 5. Question: Is it possible to imagine several things at the same time, or should I confine my imagining to one desire? Answer: Personally I like to confine my imaginal act to a single thought, but that does not mean I will stop there. During the course of a day I may imagine many things, but instead of imagining lots of small things, I would suggest that you imagine something
Read passage → - Questions And Answers · 1948
1. Question: What is the meaning of the insignia on your book covers? Answer: It is an eye imposed upon a heart which, in turn is imposed upon a tree laden with fruit, meaning that what you are conscious of, and accept as true, you are going to realize. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. * * * * * * * * * * 2. Question: I would like to be married, but have not found the right man. How do I
Read passage → - Out of This World (1949) · 1949
Imagine that every word on this page represents a single sensory impression. To get the context, to understand my meaning, you focus your vision of the first word in the upper left-hand corner and then move your focus across the page from left to right, letting it fall on the words singly and successively. By the time your eyes reach the last word on this page you have extracted my meaning. Suppos
Read passage → - His Name · 1963
Now if what I have said this night offends, should it be in conflict with what you believed when you came here, again I go back to Scripture: “And he offended them and then they sold him for thirty pieces of silver.” Let me go back into the Book of Leviticus. Here we are told: “If an ox gored a slave, male or female, then the owner of the ox must pay to the owner of the slave thirty pieces of silv
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Memory” · 1965
Q: Well, thank you for the information. A: Right, thank you. Any other questions, please? Yes, ma’am? Q: You said ___(??) that all these things are predetermined, that we are living in Caesar’s world. Now is the horror and the bombing and the shooting and killing, is this all Caesar’s world? A: That is not determined, but it is allowed. And God’s will for man is advanced even by the cruel surgery
Read passage → - Nevile Goddard Lectures Eschatological Visions · 1968
Now let us go into the Silence. * * * Q: (inaudible) A: ___(??)keep them coming, they’re perfectly marvelous. My dear, as far as I am concerned, there’s no assurance that you will find yourself a member of the same family. You may find yourself in a different section of time, a time best suited for the work yet to be done. But you will find yourself restored, young, beautiful, not a thing missing.
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lectures: “Live in the End” (1968) · 1968
Well, then, now . . this very instant, you desire happiness in marriage. You say, “Well, there’s not one person in my world that is eligible. I know no one.” You don’t have to know anyone. All you have to do is to decide within yourself what you want. Now, what would you do if it were true? Would you wear a ring on the one finger that would imply that someone placed it there? one that you admire?
Read passage → - Neville Goddard Lecture: Where is Gogotha? (April 1971) · 1971
There is no transforming power in death, as we call death here – none. About 15 or 20 years ago in Barbados my wife and I – that is, the little family of three, my little girl – we were there for maybe four or five months. There was a couple from Trinidad. He was a Major in the British Army serving – not serving, but working in Trinidad on some commercial venture, and he came to Barbados with his
Read passage → - Correct Prayer
Prayer “Prayer is the most wonderful experience man can have. Unlike the daily murmurings of the vast majority of mankind in all lands who by their vain repetitions hope to gain the ear of God, prayer is the ecstasy of a spiritual wedding taking place in the deep, silent stillness of consciousness.” – Neville “Praying, then, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be rather than beg
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4. Continuous Prayer “Every moment of your life, consciously or unconsciously, you are assuming a feeling.” – Neville When you realize that every moment we are assuming a state you see the importance of being in control of one’s mind and thoughts. To let one’s mind indulge in negative or unproductive thoughts is counterproductive. Neville calls this “Investing our thoughts”. “The desire which real
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I AM Neville has something in common with the great Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta which is “I AM”. Our sense of identity is the one thing that transcends this physical self and links us to the higher self. When we hold onto this sense of “I Am” it will lead us to the divine. Attention must be turned from outward through the physical senses to back inward toward the divine self. “Now, you can
Read passage → - The Miracle of Imagination
1. Question: What is the meaning of the insignia on your book covers? Answer: It is an eye imposed upon a heart which, in turn is imposed upon a tree laden with fruit, meaning that what you are conscious of, and accept as true, you are going to realize. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. 2. Question: I would like to be married, but have not found the right man. How do I imagine a husband?
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Answer: Personally I like to confine my imaginal act to a single thought, but that does not mean I will stop there. During the course of a day I may imagine many things, but instead of imagining lots of small things, I would suggest that you imagine something so big it includes all the little things. Instead of imagining wealth, health and friends, imagine being ecstatic. You could not be ecstatic
Read passage → - The Miracle of Imagination
Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action to a single act and to reenact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality. Otherwise my attention wanders off along an associated track and hosts of assorted images will present themselves and lead me hundreds of miles away from my objective in point of space and years in point of time. If you decide to climb a particular fl
Read passage → - The Miracle of Imagination
Now, before I close I would like to briefly explain the two techniques used in applying this law. Knowing exactly what you want, construct a simple scene in your mind’s eye which would imply your desire is fulfilled. Make it an event where self predominates. Instead of sitting back and looking at yourself as though you were on a screen, enter the scene and become the actor in the drama. Restrict t
Read passage → - The Miracle of Imagination
This ability to change the future can be seen by likening your experiences of life on earth to a printed page. You experience events on earth singly and successively in the same way that you read the words on a page. Imagine that every word on a page represents a single sensory impression. And, to understand the context, you must focus your attention on the first word in the upper left-hand corner
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All of these techniques can be changed to fit your temperament. But I must emphasize the necessity of inducing the drowsy state where you can become attentive without effort. A single sensation must dominate the mind if you want to pray successfully. What would you feel like now were you what you want to be? When you know what the feeling is, close your eyes and lose yourself in that single sensat
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