Lecture Talk: Imagining Creates Reality (Part 1) - Edward Art (Neville Goddard Inspired)

so this lecture comes from 1968 and it's called imagining creates reality it's pretty obvious in the in the title there what we're going to speak about but I actually think that this lecture is quite interesting as far as um a lecture that has this kind of title usually from Neville will be very practical and this one is but he also gets into things that I haven't heard him speak much about in the ending of the lecture so I'm going to go through a few of these stories that he gives and just just simply talk about

it things that I found interesting in it so he he basically he's starting off with the premise imagining creates reality he actually has two lectures from 68 that are a little bit different but roughly they they're roughly the same so in the beginning of this lecture he quotes Douglas or Edward Douglas faucet which Edward Douglas fet is an interesting read if you don't know about him he he's been basically went through a lot of philosophies and and dismantled them and really figured out that imagination may be the core of our reality and he he quotes

him he says God the Creator is like pure imagining in ourselves he works in the very depths of our soul underlying all of our faculties including perception and he streams into our surface mind least disguised in the form of a of creative fancy B basically daydreaming and Neville says that when you catch yourself daydreaming you catch yourself imagining something you have caught God in the act of creating it's really yourself but he would say that you've caught God creating something and so while you're going through through your daytime and you lose yourself in a certain

image or a certain idea you're creating something and and when you see it that way you you might become more selective on what you're doing on the inside and we get into that later in the lecture and so he speaks about finding this name of God which is I am and and he quotes Exodus and how God says that my name is I am forever and so that's God and you you would say that when you're imagining something if I said who's imagining that you would say I am I'm imagining it well that's God's name

so you you're catching God in the creative act but it's your very self and so he says to not ever forget his name when you discover it don't forget it you can imagine something forget his name and then when you reap your Harvest good bad or different you don't remember and so you you've forgotten who you found and then he goes on to say that you don't have to be rich to travel you just have to be imaginative and I remember that was something that always when I have a video called No conditions and I

speak on this because I was somebody who placed many conditions in my life I thought I had to be a certain way dress a certain way act a certain way be a certain way before I could imagine myself ever imagine myself having the Fulfillment of what I want I thought I had to have some condition met first before I could otherwise imagine the Fulfillment of it and in this case he's saying you don't have to be rich with travel you just have to be imaginative and the imaginative person who's traveling would assume that they're already

in the place regardless of wealth regardless of money they would assume that they're already there and he gives an example here he gives a story of this this woman he's told the story many times because I I understand why it's it's a great story it's it's about a woman who whose father apparently was wealthy but when she was 16 he passed away and then they discovered um her and her mother discovered that they didn't have anything left and that he wasn't in fact wealthy as as he came off to be and so instead of they

felt they were being ridiculed and laughed at in their environment so they moved to San Diego and while they were in San Diego was the Christmas time and she saw these kids buying gifts for their families and she felt tears swell upon her eyes and it was raining and so she ended up putting her face out into the rain and tasted the salt of her her tears and while she was on the street car she she said to herself within herself this is not a street car this is a ship and I'm not tasting my

tears I'm tasting the salt of the Sea and the wind and then she rode home in that mental state and she was on a ship to Samoa and then about 2 weeks later she received a letter that her aunt gave her $3,000 that was in her deposit if she were to die and she ended up using that money to take a trip to Samoa and she was on a ship sail into it and I love this story because it's in that time when you feel you're being ridiculed or you're being laughed at or you feel

as he said in the arch of dying the pressures are coming upon you and you feel like you need to have some type of change and this woman didn't wait at all she did it in the moment she really it's something to admire that somebody would take what is otherwise not discard themselves but change the vessel that they're imagining right she's has every probably every reason to to tear up and cry and she decided to change this image into something more beautiful for herself she did it for herself and and it worked it worked for

her when she allowed it to be different within herself and then he goes on to say that imagination is spiritual stion what he means by that is that this woman took her her senses with her into her imagination and she changed the what she changed where she was at she changed what the the salt what it meant she changed the feeling of the wind and she made it mean that she was on a ship and many people would just simply say well it's a coincidence that her her aunt in the interval of time happened to

passed away and just so happened to give her the money to go there it's just a coincidence but when you test this over and over and over again there's only so many times you can conclude coincidence or you just you know you think of someone and then all of a sudden they they appear in your life randomly somebody you haven't thought of in 10 years they just appear and that happens so many times where you start to question reality and you don't just keep going to coincidence and I used to say that too what a

coincidence and I didn't know what I was saying at the time but really what I was saying was I was just imagining this and now it's here and I'm calling that coincidence I'm not giving it any other explanatory power I'm not going to say or explain any further I'm just going to label it a coincidence and it doesn't need any further investigation and it happened way too many times to for it not to be a coincidence anymore he actually says that Neville says I could repeat this a thousand times and at a certain point it's

not a coincidence to me anymore and he says but but man won't believe that they'll believe a coincidence before they believe imagining creates reality they will accept this before they'll ever accept that what they're doing within themselves actually affects their life and so that story was uh was I think I think it's something to dwell upon as well for yourself to think about that story because we've all been there we've all been in that spot where it can be difficult to ever assume something and yet and that's the moment when she did and it worked

and then he goes on to give another another story about he's like he gives an example suppose you're in business and your boss said to you you know you're not doing what you ought to do and basically saying to you like you need to pick it up or else I'm going to let you go and he says that you can take that outside information dwell upon it and then form that image upon yourself of what he said right so you can take what someone says about you and then in your imagination accept that to be

true and then make an image of yourself based upon that on what he said or you could not discard yourself and forgive yourself and forgive those words and change them that's what I mean by forgiveness you can change and reshape that image reshape the image of yourself and have him describe you in the manner that you wanted to be described as and accept that in place of what happened on the outside so you actually rearranged what the employer in this case said about you and he he you know he says this he goes this is

this describes it perfectly right here he says what do you want the world to see you as how do you want them to describe you he goes answer that and then start to describe yourself in that manner start to see yourself in that light and believe it and walk in that assumption that it's true and so if you want the world I do this all the time I mean I without even knowing it before I even knew about Neville I was doing this in my head I I really practice often I don't know why I

start to practice this I can't tell you why I just remember years ago I started to imagine in the ways of of ease dropping I would just simply hear people speak about me I would have them describe me the way I wanted to be described as I believed in it sometimes I didn't believe in it other times I did and the times I did believe in it shaped me and I I can't tell you exactly why I was doing that all the time or why that developed but it started to develop in me and that's

and then when I heard him speak about it it was like it was it was a coincidence um but it it really showed me that there's other people who are doing this as well they're actively using their imaginations not simply passively using it they're not just um sitting as a bystander in their mind just watching their their thoughts go by there are people who actually being proactive and and not just reactive but taking action inside themselves ease dropping changing the words that they're hearing um rearranging the mind in the ways that they want into the

images that they want they don't just take life on the basis of facts alone they see facts are created by the imagination and then he goes on to speak about a friend that he knows that imagined for his Barber this Barber of his love to cut hair and he ended up seeing him have a trophy in his barber shop and they ended up winning four out of the nine prizes and then eventually there're still a 7 foot tall trophy in this man's barber shop and Neville said that this this friend of his he didn't burst

a blood vessel to make it so he simply saw in his Mind's Eye a trophy implying that they won first prize and so he didn't you know he Neville speaks about how it's not something that you have to try really hard often times I hear people as say I try so hard and and yet it doesn't work and you don't have to burst the blood vessel you just have to imagine the implication of it what does it imply and then you accept that implication you accept what it implies about you it doesn't matter what it

is what does it imply what are you imagining what is the implication of what you're imagining about you and and this man who imagined for his Barber Neville says he imagined for what seems like another but really there is no other he imagined for himself in the end we're just really this one being here because you can't divide I am you can try to divide I am but you can't divide I am you can put us in different labels but the I am always remains one it always Remains the Same and so he says you

can take someone whatever you this to see them as a state whatever state they're and take somebody and lift them out of that state imagine them and represent them as you would want them to be and don't ask for help and at all just just see them implying that they're already healthy or wealthy or Kinder whatever it is that you would image that you see that's Lovelier just see it you don't have to burst a blood vessel to make this happen you you just need to have the the implication of it happening that is the

most important part what does it imply does he see a trophy then I'm looking at who's creating I am and I'm looking at a trophy which implies some prize must have been won that's what it implies and I just accept it I don't do anything beyond it I just accept it and you can do that with really anybody in this world and so I'm going to do I'm going to end this one right this is going to be part one I might this might be three parts I kind of have the set up for three

parts because they go into different there's different themes it feels like in this lecture that that seems that the First theme is just mainly about these people who are imagining and it seems to work and he gives two different examples one is for oneself and the other one is imagining for another and in this next one he kind of gives more of this idea of the drama that's being unfolded within us and then in the end he actually gets into more um of dreams and Visions so I want to kind of do a three-part on

this one but so I'm going to end this one here but again guys I do I do live talking as well for in q&as if that interests you just um it's for the members just go to the description it'll all be there and again thank you guys for listening um I appreciate you guys giving me your time and I actually forgot to mention I'm going live this Friday December 6th at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time so hope to see you guys there again thank you guys for listening