okay so this lecture comes from 1968 and it's called imagination the real man and he speaks about how scripture is addressing the imagination which is the real man not this outwardly man it's the Eternal Body is what he he's saying it's addressing and I think this title alone it's something I've been trying to get across in a lot of my videos especially in the earlier ones like the first maybe 100 videos I've been trying to get across this idea that when we go to change something we're changing ourselves from within so I'm not changing the
outside person I'm changing this person that is within me which is myself but the way I change myself inside is I give myself new experiences new experiences of being is what I'm saying and so when nille says to imagine something he's saying to partake and experience the being of it instead of doubting it or wondering when or how you just partake you simply be that thing that you want and you experience it within your imagination and so he in this in this lecture this lecture is really good because he really he really motivates you to
go all out and really believe in your imagination because that is what your imagination is there for your imagination it's yours and it's yours to believe in so when you imagine something it's yours to believe in that that imaginal act and he quotes um this man named uh George Bernard Shaw and he says some men see things as they are and say why I dream of things that never were and say why not and I actually love that quote but Neville Neville says that everything is plagiarized by the mind of God so the wisest thing
said here was already said at one point so we're all sort of in a sense plagiarizing each other but really we're PL plagiarizing um this wisdom that is really within all of us and and then he goes on to say how really the the only sin the main sin against the he calls it the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit but this main sin is thinking that something is impossible so if you if you have the attitude towards something within you that is impossible that is sinning that is really he saying that's the ultimate sin is
to think something is impossible and then he gives these three really so scripture really is human symbolism to describe the relationship between God and man and it uses symbolism to convey this story this message and there's three symbols that he gives here he says it's water stone and wine well really it's Stone water and wine and how he wants to teach us how to walk on water which is really to believe that life is psychological first that the cause of life is mental first you know and he he speaks a lot about how we can
give lip service to this idea but we may not actually believe that and so how the when The Facts of Life come to us and it tells us what we are it tells us really the senses are showing us something that's the stone and that stone must be rolled away and rolling away that stone is uncovering the eye of the imagination he says that when that stone when when you hear The Facts of Life it completely blinds the eye of imagination and how you have to roll away this Stone and when you walk on water
it means to believe that life is mental you see it from a mental plane first and it is a physical plane and really can you can I don't think I can argue with that many times I see people who act in violence it was already done within their mind before they did it before it expressed itself or externalized itself it was already done within someone's mind you know it's um it's taking life and trying to see it from a psychological plane seeing that it's first done in the psyche before it's done in the physical before
it's expressed in the flesh and I can't disagree with that I've seen that in my own life I've seen that in the lives of others that they've committed to it already it's already done inside oneself whether it's good or bad it's already done and then it externalizes in this world and so seeing life from that perspective you are really walking on water and so he says that if you really live by this principle then you are walking in water he says he says how can you believe there is fiction if you believe imagining creates reality
How can there be fiction he says so you hear something and you don't like what you've heard well you know some somewhere back in time it was imagined or it couldn't have happened well now revise it just stop it right there and revise it change it completely and go back and rewrite the script and you might say inside yourself after you revise it well that's impossible he says do not sin he says remember sin is missing the mark he says nothing is impossible to God nothing can you tell me something that I can't imagine he
says you can't tell someone something they can't imagine if you can imagine it he's like believe in what you're doing he's like you might doubt you might deny or doubt that it's possible but if you can just resist that urge and believe in it it will come to pass and so we can give lip service to the idea that all things are possible to God but we might not actually believe that and that that's that changes how we look at reality and how we change it changes how we live upon reality it's easy to believe
that things are impossible as we often do it's very simple to take the approach that why act upon why anything if it's impossible why even believe in anything if it's impossible but if I just entertain the idea that maybe it could happen entertain and believe in what you know see things that never were and say why not it's easier uh it's harder to take that approach but it's very rewarding when you do take that approach and I've noticed that when you let go of that as I said when you yield and you let go of
that impossibility within you that's when it seems to work work it's when you actually have faith in what you've imagined which is the Assurance of things unseen that's when imagination starts to take action in your life and Neville in this in this lecture he sees it as a as a challenge he says it's faith is an experiment which ends as an experience so it's an experiment we're experimenting with our faith and what's what's really the challenge he says that whatsoever you desire believe you have received them and you will that's a challenge he I challenge
you to experiment with that trust that you have received what you otherwise don't trust that you have what you otherwise don't that's your that's your challenge to yourself can I believe can I persuade myself that I have what I otherwise think I don't have and can I walk in that having can I sleep in that having can I be in that having and will will me who when I do that will it externalize and if it starts to externalize it becomes an experience well then I found him I found a cause within me a causal
power that is beyond um my own visible mortal eyes now this is the part where I think this is the part that hit me very well he said he said everyone can do it do it for a better job he's said do it for another I don't care what it is in this world he said don't try to analyze it don't try to analyze yourself and say what the devil have I done wrong because the minute you start to do that you start blaming yourself because who in this world can honestly look at himself in
the face and not find unnumbered things that are unlovely they may not have externalized yet but they were they were a thought within the individual so no one can tell me he's without sin we've all sinned and he says so no man without guilt but no no one's without guilt but no one so don't analyze yourself because you're going to find something to be guilty about and you cannot get your get off that that base so forget what you've done what you've done will come up and you'll reap it the whole thing will come all
things are coming the good and the bad are coming the tars and the wheat are coming together but start planning fresh I remember when I when when I read that that was a a huge turn in my understanding because I've analyzed myself to death and I you always find something either you don't if you don't find it you'll create it as to why you should blame yourself or why what wrong you're going to find and if you go into the feeling that you already are wrong you will you will what you seek in imagination you
will find if you seek money in imagination you're going to find it if you seek wrongness being wrong you will find reasons why you're wrong you'll find reasons why you're good so it's not really about analyzing that it's about imagining yourself already having it that's really what it is and you or being it whatever it is you want to be can you believe that versus analyzing yourself are you analyzing or are you believing in what you otherwise um in the Unseen are you simply analyzing yourself to see if you're worthy or not enough today you
know the the the are you are you deserving of something today and when when you when you go down that path you're always going to find reasons on why you're not deserving of something or why someone else isn't deserving of something you will always find reasons and this this this is the part in this lecture that really when I read this years ago it just really hit because he says the good and the bad are coming he's said it's all coming but start planting fresh start new now he's like start with something lovely something wonderful
not only for yourself but for your extended self the seeming other who really is not an other it's just yourself pushed out and so the everyone is has imagined something in the psychological realm everyone has done something otherwise wrong in in the psychological manner he says you can you can steal someone's good name by speaking ill of them right it could be a lie and yet you're stealing their good name that's psychological um theft we've all done this everyone's done this but start now start fresh now forget what you've done it doesn't really matter what
you've done just for get it and start planting fresh the the harvest is coming no matter what it's always going to arrive you're always going to have to reap that's really what the world we in we're in a we're in a world psychological world where we are constantly reaping what we sow regardless whether we want to not it's just like imagining regardless if you want to imagine or not you have to partake in this game you have to imagine might think the game is stupid we not want might not want to play the game but
you have to be a part of it and so start now to plant fresh don't don't wonder if you're a good or a bad person just forget that for a moment and start imagining something lovely for yourself and for another there's really no time to waste on analyzing yourself the bits and finding all the shame within you you'll find it but you'll also will find the good you'll also find the poverty and the wealth within you'll also find the fortunate and the unfortunate things within you but start planting fresh you don't have to search for
it to see if it's there to try to dismantle it and remove it it will remain there they're just States within you but start to plant new States now and so I'm going to end that one here this is going to be part one I'm not sure how many parts is this going to be but um yeah there will be a part two on this lecture I I I really like this lecture it's really it really pushes that that word when Neville says dare to assume it really focuses in on that word dare which it
really is a dare you have to really do it um cast your water cast your bread upon the waters just just do it don't question as to why you're doing a silly thing just do it just believe in it be the fool for God if some people call you a fool for believing in your imagination then be a fool for the imagination it doesn't matter just just believe in it don't doubt it but I'm going to end that one here and so just to keep everybody notified I do live q&as and live talking as well
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