so this lecture is from 1968 and it's called there is no fiction I think this lecture is uh I would I would claim it's pretty famous I think a lot of people know this lecture I would recommend you study it as well it's in the description if you want to read it but he starts off this lecture by actually defining fiction he says fiction is defined and I think he's quoting probably this the dictionary it says in imaginary construction fabrication as opposed to the truth or reality so it's a fabrication it opposes uh truth in
reality which is what you should not do as as we're told constantly you should not do this but then he goes on to say but the distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is one that cannot fully be maintained for all existing things are in a sensible sense imaginary that's his claim and then he goes on and gives a a scripture from chapter 11 from Mark and he he speaks about how they passed this fig tree and then Christ curses the Fig Tree and and then he goes on to say how that that
imaginary act had no support in any fact and yet it was cursed the following day so the imaginary proved itself in performance the following day um so it does it sort of gives this idea there might be a time interval in between but but he's basically saying that he's really big on this lecture about imagining without any supports and any facts that's what he's really big on and he goes to S to say prayer is adjusting oneself to the feeling of the wish fulfilled bu that's our task and I find that the word adjusting to
be the most important and I hope you caught that as well the word adjusting oneself to the feeling we're adjusting ourselves that's that's a beautiful way of saying it so you're not forcing yourself adjust yourself to feel that wish fulfilled feel that you already have that which you desire adjust yourself to that you might not be used to it but adjust it your imagination or inside of yourself you might you may have always rearranged your imagination in such a way that always convinced you that you couldn't have be um see feel whatever it is you
desire you always held some restriction some you always put yourself in some bondage but adjust yourself to the feeling of that's what he say prayer is prayer is adjusting oneself to the feeling of the wish fulfilled so before you sleep tonight try to adjust yourself and he says so I Orient myself towards the feeling of the wish fulfilled and then I accept that invisible State as reality I go on my way paying no attention to it and no occasion to repeat it I did it and therefore I'm not surprised when it come to pass so
he actually States in this case that Neville a lot of the time I had had a question come up they said you know Neville sometimes says to repeat it over and over and over again and other times he says he doesn't repeat it at all and someone asked him this question this is a question asked actually they asked him that exact question just almost word for word and he said well if I've ever said to repeat it it's because other people have sent me their success stories and they repeated it he says but I don't
repeat it I don't do that personally so for him he was okay with it being sort of as he said I adjust myself to the wish fulfilled and then I accept that invisible State as reality and I go on my way of paying no paying no attention to it no occasion to repeat it I did it and therefore I'm not surprised when it comes to past that's how he prayed and for for a lot of the people in his book the law on the promise they were repeating it over and over and over again every
night so I think you can do either or I actually prefer to do it the way Neville does it personally my own way I I I have no real interest in repeating it over and over again I I do what he says I accept the invisible state or I say unseen I don't say invisible but it it means the same thing the Unseen state is reality I accept what is within me otherwise unseen by my mortal eyes I accept that as reality and that that is true I go on my way believing that I accept
it I accept that I've changed I accept that I am that trust it I another way of saying accept is I trust it I trust that state as reality that invisible State as reality and then he says you know we're learning we're trying to learn how to pray so some people pray differently um but really the the cause comes down to your acceptance within yourself the imaginal ACT is what he's saying the reason why he says that is because he's trying to get you to see that you don't need any outside adjustments or outside facts
to conform to your imaginal act the imaginal acts enough it's enough to produce a change in your world and so then he kind of sums it up here I'm going to quote it he says so the whole vast world is an imaginal world for if my assumption not based upon any external evidence to support it can produce evidence in the world to support it well then I must conclude if the imaginal ACT produces external evidence to support it then this world in which I live must be essentially imaginal how else could you conclude he goes
so if I dare to assume at what the moment my reason denies when my senses deny and walk faithful in my assumption believing in the reality of my unseen State and it produces a corresponding effect of my world well then the outer world that seems so Solly real is it anything other than imaginal and so that's his claim that's his conclusion and he goes on to quote Blake says man is all imagination and God is Man exists in us and we in him again he's he's going back to the idea that your imaginal self is
your real self so what you are in imagination is what you will become in this world it's what you are another way of saying is that you know what I think I become right that's another way of saying it but in this case we're using instead of think what I am inside no that a lot of the time um people ask what should I do what should I do and Neville actually um gives you an answer he says a lot of people come to me and they ask me what should they do how should they
assume when really they should be asking is what am I what am I being that's that's really the the question cuz what I am is what I'm always going to bump into in my world cuz we always bump into our imaginal selves because man creates himself out of his own imagination and then he goes on to say how you know he says you cannot feed the mind of man knowing that all things are imaginable not produce it all day long as I turn it on a child sees it and then the child thinks that this
is the way of life and right there he's speaking actually about the news he's saying that you can't feed Millions upon millions of people violence in on these televisions and not expect people to have that be produced in their life I mean that cannot be more relevant than today and then there and and this was in 1968 so you can kind of contrast it with our time and our time has much more media in our day than his day but you cannot Fe you cannot expect to put things in the mind of people and it
not produce after its own kind it has to and it goes on to say he say you cannot you cannot entertain the thoughts of grander or the thoughts of being a martyr not become it so it's really our choice it's our choice whether or not we want to take upon these are just states you have to see it again you have to see this as States if you see this anything as more States then you're if you don't see it as the imagination in you has fallen into States and you take it as you are
that state and you can't get out of it then you will feel stuck inside but you have to see it as the imaginations enters the Flesh and Falls uh falls into into or finds itself into States and if you do catch yourself and you fell into a state you don't want to be in you can get yourself out of it even if it feels like quicksand even if it feels like you're sinking into and you can't get yourself out of it you can you can get out of a state if you find yourself in it
that you don't like remember I have a video called No be knows you have to learn to say no to things inside of you and actually let it be a no scripture teaches that to to when you say no to something inside let it be a no don't argue with yourself don't don't persuade yourself of the opposite don't think you have to imagine what you don't want to imagine if his premise is right what he's suggesting that if what I imagine produces evidence in my world then I have to conclude this world is ultimately imaginary
how what else could I conclude that this world might be an effect and not a cause a shadow not a light I'd have to conclude that and I have to and if that's the case how do I go about living upon a dream essentially how do I go about Living in a Dream what do I do if I need to change the dream if I need to change the shadow what do I do do I change the shadow no I change the the direction of the light I change what my attention's at if I want
to change my imagination I change what I'm being inside if I want to change what I am I don't need to I don't need anybody to support it I don't need other people to agree with me I don't even need them to like me I just need to adjust myself within myself and as he said it's a self-persuasion so how do I pers persuade myself that I am what I want to be I need to find a way if it comes on to belief how can I get myself to believe that I am what I
want to be he goes on to say he accepts the Unseen as real that's what he does and I found that that's the way to do it from my own experience that's the way to to change I mean actually change not I don't mean I mean actually changeed to where it starts to affect your reality where you start to see the effects of yourself in your reality that's what I mean you actually start to see the evidence appear in your world and then you know that that evidence Came From Within first it had no support
of your senses it had no support of the words of people around you the mouths of people no support of anyone around you no one believed in it no support of your of your past and yet you believed in this imaginal act and it came to pass what would you conclude so then he goes on to say he's talking about God he says so he creates out of nothing he calls a thing that is not seen as though it were seen so he's saying that this is that you don't again you don't need anything on
the outside it comes out of nothing it creates out of nothing he says so how does he call it he calls it by an imaginal construction he says what would it be like were it true and then he rearranges the structure of his mind then he looks now at that structure it implies the Fulfillment of as a desire and that structure projects itself on the screen of space we call the projection reality and we think it was born of an entirely different way but it wasn't so there's always this invisible Trace invisible string that attaches
itself that if you take it all the way back if you were to pull it it would lead you towards the cause which is your imagination so although the facts might appear as physical realities if you try to find their cause you'll find it in something imaginary so so I'm going to end it here on this one this is going to be part one I'm going to do a part two maybe a part three on this one it depends on how long it goes but I just want to thank everybody again for listening I appreciate
you guys you know chiming in and giving me your ear and your time because uh I do find this stuff fascinating and I've it I can't think of something more interesting to speak about and I just want to add that I am also doing um live live talking and and q&as as well I know there's a lot of questions as well but that'll be for the members Channel you can you can just look it up in the description it'll be there but uh yeah love to have you guys and U thank you guys for listening
