Once you Enter into the 4th Dimension, Simulation Shifts (Neville Goddard)

welcome deliberate Creator to yet another fascinating and mystical work by Neville Goddard which usually goes unnoticed as a lot of people are more interested in learning about the law of assumption to get what they want in this book however Neville alludes to some deeper matters that delve into the nature of this reality although he explains the law in great depth again in this book he touches on something unusual he talks about astral travel without directly mentioning the terminology Neville lived in a time when these Concepts although were known but not as widespread he touches on

the idea of parallel realities but from a different angle he explores it in terms of reality being serial that is your fate is fixed till you make a new assumption you have at every moment several different potential Futures available to you and all it takes is an assumption to decide which future awaits you and reality branches out to a new series where what you have assumed will be experienced by you and so you have shifted realities or in scientific terms Quantum leaped this is possible due to the fact that there exists the fourth-dimensional world from

which this three-dimensional world is being translated and this fourth-dimensional world in which we all travel in dreams all that you can possibly be exists already all possible outcomes of of your life are present and we can enter this fourth-dimensional realm by imagining what we want in a sleepy drowsy State this book is called out of this world thinking fourth dimensionally and it goes into areas that are very interesting for the individuals who want to unravel why the law works not just how it works Neville teaches you how to think forth dimensionally which is unheard of

even in the modern world I personally have been reaching researching astral travel and dream realities for the past few months and this book really opened a new perspective for me even though I have read this book many times before Neville clearly traveled parallel realities in deep meditations where he saw dead people living just as though they never died to the uninitiated this book might sound science fiction but I assure you that reality is Stranger Than Fiction stick around to the very end and I will give you summary of my thoughts on this truly fantastic work

by our beloved Mystic Neville Godard as he can be very poetic sometimes now without further Ado let's begin chapter 1 thinking fourth dimensionally and now I have told you before it come to pass that when it is come to pass you might believe John 14:29 many persons myself including Ed have observed events before they occurred that is before they occurred in this world of three dimensions since man can observe an event before it occurs in the three dimensions of space life on Earth must proceed according to plan and this plan must Exist Elsewhere in another

dimension and be slowly moving through our space if the occurring events were not in this world when they were observed then to be perfectly logical they must have been out of this world and whatever is there to be seen before it occurs here must be predetermined from the point of view of man awake in a three-dimensional World thus the question arises are we able to alter our future my object in writing these pages is to indicate possibilities inherent in man to show that man can alter his future but thus altered it forms again a deterministic

sequence starting from the point of interference a future that will be consistent with the alteration the most remarkable feature of man's future is its flexibility it is determined by his attitudes rather than by his acts the Cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself he acts as he does and has the experiences that he does because his concept of himself is what it is and for no other reason had he a different concept of self he would act differently a change of concept of self automatically Alters his future and a change

in any term of his future series of experiences reciprocally Alters his concept of self man's assumptions which he regards as insignificant produce effects that are considerable therefore man should revise his estimate of an assumption and recognize its creative power all changes take place in Consciousness the future although prepared in every detail in advance has several outcomes at every moment of Our Lives we have before us the choice of which of several Futures we will choose there are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by everyone a natural focus and a spiritual Focus the ancient teachers

called the one the carnal mind the other the mind of Christ we may differentiate them as ordinary waking consciousness governed by our senses and a controlled imagination governed by desire we recognize these two distinct centers of thought in the statement the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned the natural view confines reality to the moment called now to the Natural view the past and future are purely imaginary the spiritual view on the other hand sees the

contents of time it sees events as distinct and separated as objects in Space the past and future are a present whole to the spiritual view what is mental and subjective to the Natural man is concrete and objective to the spiritual man the habit of seeing only that which our senses permit renders us totally blind to what we otherwise could see to cultivate The Faculty of seeing the invisible we should often deliberately disentangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible State mentally feeling it and sensing it until it

has all the distinctness of reality Earnest concentrated thought focused in a particular direction shuts out other Sensations and causes them to disappear we have but to concentrate on the state desired in order to see it the habit of withdrawing attention from the region of sensation and concentrating it on the invisible develops our spiritual Outlook and enables us to penetrate beyond the world of sense and to see that which is invisible for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen Romans 1:20 this vision is completely independent of the natural faculties

open it and Quicken it without it these instructions are useless for the things of the spirit are spiritually discerned a little practice will convince us that we can by controlling our imagination reshape our future in harmony with our desire desire is the main spring of action we could not move a single finger unless we had a desire to move it no matter what we do we follow the desire which at the moment dominates our minds when we break a habit our desire to break it is greater than our desire to continue in the habit the

desires which impel us to action are those that hold our attention a desire is but an awareness of something we lack or need to make our life more enjoyable desires always have some personal gain in view the greater the anticipated gain the more intense is the desire there is no absolutely unselfish desire where there is nothing to gain there is no desire and consequently no action the spiritual man speaks to the Natural man through the language of Desire the key to progress in life and to the Fulfillment of Dreams lies in ready obedience to its

voice unhesitating obedience to its voice is an immediate Assumption of the wish fulfilled to desirous state is to have it as Pascal has said you would not have sought me had you not already found me man by assuming the feeling of his wish fulfilled and then living and acting on this conviction Alters the future in harmony with his assumption assumptions awaken what they affirm as soon as man assumes the feeling of his wish fulfilled his four-dimensional self finds ways for the attainment of this end discovers methods for its realization I know of no clearer definition

of the means by which we realize our desires than to experience in imagination what we would experience in the flesh were we to achieve our goal this experience of the end Wills the means with its larger Outlook the four-dimensional self then constructs the means necessary to realize the accepted end the undisciplined Mind finds it difficult to assume a state which is denied by the senses here is a technique that makes it easy to encounter events before they occur to call things which are not seen as though they were people have a habit of sliding the

importance of simple things but this simple formula for changing the future was discovered after years of searching and experimenting the first step in changing the future is desire that is Define your objective know definitely what you want secondly construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the Fulfillment of your desire an event which implies fulfillment of your desire something that will have the action of self- predominant thirdly immobilize the physical body and induce a condition akin to sleep lie on a bed or relax in a chair and imagine that you are sleepy then

with eyelids closed and your attention focused on the action you intend to experience in imagination mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action imagining all the while that you are actually performing the action here and now you must always participate in the imaginary action not merely stand back and look on but you must feel that you are actually performing the action so that the imaginary sensation is real to you it is important always to remember that the proposed action must be one which follows the Fulfillment of your desire and also you must feel yourself into

the action until it has all the vividness and distinctness of reality for example you desired promotion in office being congratulated would be an event you would encounter following the Fulfillment of your desire having selected this action as the one you will experience in imagination immobilize the physical body and induce a state of kin to sleep a drowsy state but one in which you are still able to control the direction of your thoughts a state in which you are attentive without effort now imagine that a friend is standing before you put your imaginary hand into his

first feel it to be solid and real then carry on an imaginary conversation with him in harmony with the action do not visualize yourself at a distance in point of space and at a distance in point of time being congratulated on your good fortune instead make elsewhere here and the future now the future event is a reality now in a dimensionally larger world and oddly enough now in a dimensionally larger world is equivalent to here in the ordinary three-dimensional space of everyday life the difference between feeling yourself in action here and now and visualizing yourself

in action as though you were on a motion picture screen as the difference between success and failure the difference will be appreciated if you will now visualize yourself climbing a ladder then with eyelids closed imagine that a ladder is right in front of you and feel you are actually climbing it does desire physical immobility bordering on sleep and imaginary action in which self- feelingly predominates here and now are not only important factors in altering the future but they are essential conditions in consciously projecting the spiritual self if when the physical body is immobilized we become

possessed of the idea to do something and imagine that we are doing it here and now and keep the imaginary action feelingly going right up until sleep ensues we are likely to awaken out of the physical body to find ourselves in a dimensionally larger world with a dimensionally larger focus and actually doing what we desired and imagined we were doing in the flesh but whether we awaken there or not we are actually performing the action in the fourth dimensional world and we will reenact it in the future here in the third dimensional World experience has

taught me to restrict the imaginary action to condense the idea which is to be the object of our meditation into a single act and to reenact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality otherwise the attention will wander off along an associational track and hosts of associated images will be presented to our attention in a few seconds they will lead us hundreds of miles away from our objective in point of space and years away in point of time 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 our attention wander off we must 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 the idea must be maintained in the field of presentation without any sensible effort on our part we must with a minimum of effort permeate the mind with the feeling of the wish fulfilled drowsiness facilitates change because it favors attention without

effort but it must not be pushed to the stage of sleep in which we shall no longer be able to control the movements of our attention but rather a moderate degree of drowsiness in which we are still able to direct our thoughts a most effective way to embody a desire is to assume the feeling of The Wishful filled and then in a relaxed and sleepy State repeat over and over again like a lullabi any short short phrase which implies fulfillment of our desire such as thank you as though we addressed a higher power for having

done it for us if however we seek a conscious projection into a dimensionally larger world then we must keep the action going right up until sleep ensues experience in imagination with all the distinctness of reality what would be experienced in the flesh were you to achieve your goal and you shall in time meet It In the Flesh as you met it in your imagination feed the mind with premises that is assertions presumed to be true because assumptions though unreal to the senses if persisted in until they have the feeling of reality will harden into facts

to an assumption all means which promote its realization are good it influences the behavior of all by inspiring in all the movements the actions and The Words which tend towards its fulfillment to understand how man molds his future in harmony with his assumption we must know what we mean by a dimensionally larger world for it is to a dimensionally larger world that we go to alter our future the observation of an event before it occurs implies that the event is predetermined from the point of view of man in the three-dimensional World therefore to change the

conditions here in the three dimensions of space we must first change them in the four dimensions of space man does not know exactly what is meant by a dimensionally larger world and would no doubt deny the existence of a dimensionally larger self he is quite familiar with the three dimensions of length width and height and he feels that if there were a fourth dimension it should be just as obvious to him as the dimensions of length width and height a dimension is not a line it is any way in which a thing can be measured

that is entirely different from all other ways that is to measure a solid fourth dimensionally we simply measure it in any direction except that of its length width and height is there another way of measuring an object other than those of its length width and height time measures my life without employing the three dimensions of length width and height there is no such thing as an instantaneous object its appearance and disappearance are measurable it endures for a definite length of time we can measure me its lifespan without using the dimensions of length width and height

time is definitely a fourth way of measuring an object the more Dimensions an object has the more substantial and real it becomes a straight line which lies entirely in one dimension acquires shape mass and substance by the addition of Dimensions what new quality would time the fourth dimension give which would make it just as vastly Superior to solids as solids are to surfaces and surfaces are to lines time is a medium for changes in experience because all changes take time the new quality is changeability observe that if we bisect a solid its cross-section will be

a Surface by bisecting a surface we obtain a line and by bisecting a line we get a point this means that a point is but a cross-section of a line which is in turn but a cross-section of a surface which is in turn but a cross-section of a solid which is in turn if carried to its logical conclusion but a cross-section of a four-dimensional object we cannot avoid the inference that all three-dimensional objects are but cross-sections of four-dimensional bodies which means when I meet you I meet a cross-section of the four-dimensional U the four dimension

self that is not seen to see the four-dimensional self I must see every cross-section or moment of your life from birth to death and see them all as coexisting my focus should take in the entire array of sensory Impressions which you have experienced on Earth plus those you might encounter I should see them not in the order in which they were experienced by you but as a present whole because change is the characteristic of the fourth dimension I should see them in a state of flux as a living animated hole if we have all this

clear clearly fixed in our minds what does it mean to us in this three-dimensional World it means that if we can move a Time's length we can see the future and alter it as we so desire this world which we think so solidly real is a shadow out of which and Beyond which we may at any time pass it is an abstraction from a more fundamental and dimensionally larger World a more fundamental World abstracted from a still more fundamental and dimensionally larger world and so on to Infinity the absolute is unattainable by any means or

analysis no matter how many dimensions we add to the world man can prove the existence of a dimensionally larger World simply by 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 intuitively I feel that were he to abstract his thoughts from this dimensionally larger world and Retreat still farther within his mind he would again bring

about an externalization of time he would discover that every time here treats into his inner mind and brings about an externalization of time space becomes dimensionally larger and he would therefore conclude that both time and space are serial and that the drama of life is is but the climbing of a multitudinous dimensional time block scientists will one day explain why there is a Serial universe but in practice how we use this serial Universe to change the future is more important to change the future we need only concern ourselves with two worlds in the infinite series

The World We Know by reason of our bodily organs and the world we perceive independently of our bodily organs chapter 2 assumptions become facts men believe in the reality of the external world because they do not know how to focus and condense their powers to penetrate its thin crust this book has only one purpose the removing of the veil of the senses the traveling into another world to remove the veil of the senses we do not employ great effort the objective World vanishes by turning our attention away from it we have only to concentrate on

the state desire in order to mentally see it but to give it reality so that it will become an objective fact we must Focus attention upon the invisible State until it has the feeling of reality when through concentrated Attention our desire appears to possess the distinctness and feeling of reality we have given it the right to become a visible concrete fact if it is difficult to control the direction of your attention while in a state akin to sleep you may find gazing fixedly into an object very helpful F do not look at its surface but

into and Beyond any plain object such as a wall a carpet or any other object which possesses depth arrange it to return as little reflection as possible imagine then that in this depth you are seeing and hearing what you want to see and hear until your attention is exclusively occupied by the imagined State at the end of your meditation when you awake from your controlled waking dream you feel as though you had returned from a great distance the visible World which you had shut out returns to Consciousness and by its very presence informs you that

you have been self deceived into believing that the object of your contemplation was real but if you know that Consciousness is the one and only reality you will remain faithful to your vision and by this sustained mental attitude confirm your gift of reality and prove that you have the power to give reality to your desires that they may become visible concrete facts Define your ideal and concentrate your attention upon the idea of identifying yourself with your ideal assume the feeling of being it the feeling that would be yours were you already the embodiment of your

ideal then live and act upon this conviction this assumption though denied by the senses if persisted in will become fact you will know when you have succeeded in fixing the desired state in Consciousness by simply looking mentally at the people you know in dialogues with with yourself you are less inhibited and more sincere than in actual conversations with others therefore the opportunity for self analysis arises when you are surprised by your mental conversations with others if you see them as you formerly saw them you have not changed your concept of self for all changes of

concepts of self result in a changed relationship to your world and your meditation allow others to see you as they would see you were this new concept of self a concrete fact you always seem to others an embodiment of the ideal you inspire therefore in meditation when you contemplate others you must be seen by them mentally as you would be seen by them physically where your concept of self an objective fact that is in meditation you imagine that they see you expressing that which you desire to be if you assume that you are what you

want to be your desire is fulfilled and in fulfillment all longing is neutralized you could not continue Desiring what you have already realized your desire is not something you labor to fulfill it is recognizing something you already possess it is assuming the feeling of being that which you desire to be believing and being are one the conceiver and his conception are one therefore that which you conceive yourself to be can never be so far off as even to be near for nearness implies separation if thou can believe all things are possible to him that believeth

being is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not yet seen if you assume that you are what you want to be then you will see others as they are related to your assumption if however it is the good of others that you desire then in meditation you must represent them to yourself as already being that which you desire them to be it is through desire that you rise above your present sphere and the road from Longing To fulfillment is shortened as you experience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh

were you already the embodiment of the ideal you desire to be I have stated that man has at every moment of time the choice before him which of several Futures he will encounter but the question arises how is this possible when the experiences of man awake in the three-dimensional world are predetermined as his observation of an event before it occurs implies this ability to change the future will be seen if we liken the experiences of life on Earth to this printed page man experiences events on Earth singly and successively in the same way that you

are now experiencing the words of this page imagine that every word on this page represents a single sensory impression to get the context to understand my meaning you focus your vision on the first word in the upper left hand corner and then move your focus across the page from left to right write letting it fall on the word singly and successively by the time your eyes reach the last word on this page you have extracted my meaning suppose however on looking at the page with all the printed words there on 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 the order in which he experiences them when awake he usually dreams of two or more events which are separated in time fused into a single sensory impression or in his dream he so completely rearranges his single waking sensory Impressions that he does not recognize them when he encounters them in his waking state

for example I dreamed that I delivered a package to the restaurant in my apartment building the hostess said to me you can't leave that there whereupon the elevator operator gave me a few letters and as I thanked him for them he in turn thanked me at this point the night elevator operator appeared and waved a greeting to me the following day as I left my apartment I picked up a few letters which had been placed at my door on my way down I gave the day elevator operator a tip and thanked him for taking care

of of my mail whereupon he thanked me for the tip on my return home that day I overheard a doorman say to a delivery man you can't leave that there as I was about to take the elevator up to my apartment I was attracted by a familiar face in the restaurant and as I looked in the hostess greeted me with a smile late that night I escorted my dinner guests to the elevator and as I said goodbye to them the night operator waved good night to me by simply rearranging a few of the single sensory

Impressions I was destined to encounter and by fusing two or more of them into single sensory Impressions I constructed a dream which differed quite a bit from my waking experience when we have learned to control the movements of our attention in the four-dimensional world we shall be able to consciously create circumstances in the three-dimensional world we learn this control through the waking dream where our attention can be maintained without effort for attention minus effort is indispensable to changing the future we can in a controlled waking dream consciously construct an event which we desire to experience

in the three-dimensional world the sensory Impressions we use to construct our waking dream are present realities displaced in time or the four-dimensional world all that we do in constructing the waking dream is to select from the vast array of sensory Impressions those which when they are properly arranged imply that we have realized our desire with a dream clearly defined we relax in a chair and induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep a state which although bordering on sleep leaves us in conscious control of the movements of our attention when we have achieved that state

we experience in imagination what we would experience in reality were this waking dream and objective fact in applying this technique to change the future it is important always to remember that the only thing which occupies the Mind during the waking dream is the waking dream the predetermined action which implies the Fulfillment of our desire how the waking dream becomes physical fact is not our concern our acceptance of the waking dream as physical reality Wills the means for its fulfillment let me again lay the foundation of changing the future which is nothing more than a controlled

waking dream one Define your objective know definitely what you want want two construct an event which you believe you will encounter following the Fulfillment of your desire something which will have the action of self- predominant an event which implies the Fulfillment of your desire three immobilize the physical body and induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep then mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action 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 experience has convinced me that this is the perfect way to achieve my goal however my own many failures would convict me were I to imply that I have completely mastered the movements of my attention I can however with the ancient teacher say this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize chapter 3 power of imagination you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free John 8:32 men claim that a true judgment

must conform to the external reality to which it relates this means that if I well imprisoned suggest to myself that I am free and succeed in believing that I am free it is true that I believe in my freedom but it does not follow that I am free for I may be the victim of Illusion but because of my own experiences I have come to believe in so many strange things that I see little reason to doubt the truth of things that are beyond my experience the ancient teachers warned us not to judge from appearances

because said they the truth need not conform to the external reality to which it relates they claimed that we bore false witness if we imagined evil against another that no matter how real our belief appears to to be how truly it conforms to the external reality to which it relates if it does not make free the one of whom we hold the belief it is untrue and therefore a false judgment we are called upon to deny the evidence of our senses and to imagine as true of our neighbor that which makes him free you shall

know the truth and the truth shall make you free to know the truth of our neighbor we must assume that he is already that which he desires to be any concept we hold of another that is short of his fulfilled desire will not make him free and therefore cannot be the truth instead of learning my craft in schools where attending courses and seminars is considered a substitute for self-acquired knowledge my schooling was devoted almost exclusively to the power of imagination I sat for hours imagining myself to be other than that which my reason and my

senses dictated until the imagined states were Vivid as reality so vivid that passers by became but a part of my imagination and acted as I would have them by the power of imagination my fantasy LED theirs and dictated to them their behavior and the discourse they held together while I was identified with my imagined State man's imagination is the man himself and the world as imagination sees it is the real world but it is our duty to imagine all that is lovely and of good report the Lord seeth not as man seeth for man lookth

upon the outward appearance but the the Lord lookth upon the heart as a man thinketh in his heart so is he in meditation when the brain grows luminous I find my imagination endowed with a magnetic power to attract to me whatsoever I desire desire is the power imagination uses to Fashion life about me as I fashion it within myself I first desire to see a certain person or scene and then I look as though I were seeing that which I want to see and the imagined state becomes a objectively real I desire to hear and

then I listen as though I were hearing and the imagined voice speaks that which I dictate as though it it initiated the message I could give you many examples to prove my arguments to prove that these imagined states do become physical realities but I know that my examples will awaken in all who have not met the like or who are not inclined towards my arguments a most natural incredulity nevertheless experience has convinced me of the truth of the statement he calleth those things which be not as though they were Romans 4:17 for I have in

intense meditation called things that were not seen as though they were and the Unseen not only became seen but eventually became physical realities by this method first Desiring and then imagining that we are experiencing that which we desire to experience we can mold the future in harmony with our desire but let us follow the advice of the prophet and think only the lovely and the good for the imagination Waits on us as indifferently and as swiftly when our nature is evil as when it is good for us bring forth good and evil I have set

before thee this day life and good and death and evil Deuteronomy 30:15 desire and Imagination are the enchanters wand of fable and they draw to themselves their own affinities they break forth best when the mind is in a state akin to sleep I have written with some care and detail the method I use to enter the dimensionally larger world but I shall give one more formula for opening the door of the larger World in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep cth upon men and slumbering upon the bed then he openeth

the ears of men and Sealth their instruction job 3315 to16 in dream we are usually the servant of our vision rather than its Master but the internal fantasy of dream can be turned into an external reality in dream as in meditation we slip from this world into a dimensionally larger world and I know that the forms in dream are not flat two dimensional images which modern psychologists believe them to be they are substantial realities of the dimensionally larger world and I can lay hold of them I have discovered that if I surprise myself dreaming I

I can lay hold of any inanimate or stationary form of the dream a chair a table a Stairway a tree and command myself to awake at the command to awake while firmly holding on to the object of the dream I am pulled through myself with a distinct feeling of Awakening from dream I awaken in another sphere holding the object of my dream to find that I am no longer the servant of my vision but it's Master for I am fully conscious and in control of the movements of my attention it is in this fully conscious

State when we are in control of the direction of thought that we call things that are not seen as though they were in this state we call things by wishing and assuming the feeling of our wish fulfilled unlike the world of three dimensions where there is an interval between our assumption and its fulfillment in the dimensionally larger World there is an immediate realization of our assumption the external reality instantly mirrors our assumption here there is no need to wait four months till Harvest we look again as though we saw and lo and behold the fields

are already white to harvest in this dimensionally larger World ye shall not need to fight set yourselves stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord with you Chronicles 2017 and because that greater world is slowly passing through our three-dimensional world we can by the power of imagination mold our world in harmony with our desire look as though you saw listen as though you heard stretch forth your imaginary hand as though you touched and your assumptions will harden into facts to those who believe that a true judgment must conform to the external reality to

which it relates this will be foolishness and a stumbling block but I preach and practice the fixing in consciousness of that which man desires to realize experience convinces me that fixed attitudes of mind which do not conform to the external reality to which they relate and are therefore called imaginary things which are not will nevertheless bring to not things that are I do not wish to write a book of Wonders but rather to turn man's mind back to the one and only reality that the ancient teachers worshiped as God all that was said of God

was in reality said of man's Consciousness so we may say that according as it is written he that glorify let him glory in his own consciousness no man needs help to direct him in the application of this law of Consciousness I am is the self-de of the absolute the root out of which everything prows I am the vine what is your answer to the Eternal question who am I your answer determines the part you play in the world's drama your answer that is your concept of self need not conform to the external reality to which

it relates this great truth is revealed in the the statement let the weak say I am strong Joel 3:10 look back over the good resolutions with which many past New Years are encumbered they lived a little while and then they died why because they were severed from their root assume that you are that which you want to be experience in imagination what you would experience in the flesh were you already that which you want to be remain faithful to your assumption so that you define yourself as is that which you have assumed things have no

life if they are severed from their roots and our Consciousness our I amness is the root of all that Springs in our world if you believe not that I am he you shall die in your sins John 824 that is if I do not believe that I am already that which I desire to be then I remain as I am and die in my present concept of self there is no power outside of the consciousness of man to resurrect and make alive that which man desires to experience that man who is accustomed to call up

at will whatever images he pleases will be by virtue of the power of His imagination master of his fate I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live John 11:25 ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free chapter 4 no one to change but self and for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also might be Sanctified through the truth John 17:19 the ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in

our nature it is now my purpose to retell and to emphasize an experience of mine printed by me two years ago I believe these quotations from the search will help us to understand the operation of the law of Consciousness and show us that we have no one to change but self once in an idle interval at Sea I meditated on the perfect State and wondered what I would be were I of two pure eyes to behold iniquity if to me all things were pure and were I without condemnation as I became lost in this fiery

brooding I found myself lifted above the dark environment of the senses so intense was the feeling I felt myself a being a fire dwelling in a body of air voices as from a Heavenly chorus with the exultation of those who had been conquerors in a conflict with death were singing he is risen he is risen and intuitively I knew they meant me then I seemed to be walking in the night I soon Came Upon a scene that might have been the ancient pool of Bethesda for in this place lay a great multitude of impotent folk

blind halt withered when waiting not for the moving of the water as of tradition but waiting for me as I came near without thought or effort on my part they were one after the other molded as by the Magician of the beautiful eyes hands feet all missing members were drawn from some invisible Reservoir and molded in harmony with that Perfection which I felt springing within me when all were made perfect the chorus exalted it is finished then the scene dissolved and I awoke I know this Vision was the result of my intense meditation upon the

idea of perfection for my meditations invariably bring about Union with the state contemplated I had been so completely absorbed within the idea that for a while I had become what I contemplated and the high Purpose with which I had for that moment identified myself drew the companionship of high things and fashion the vision in harmony with my inner nature the ideal with which we are United works by association of ideas to awaken a thousand moods to create a drama in keeping with the central idea my mystical experiences have convinced me that there is no way

to bring about the outer Perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves as soon as we succeed in transforming ourselves the world will melt magically before our eyes and reshape itself in harmony with that which our transformation affirms and the divine economy nothing is lost we cannot lose anything save by descent from the sphere where the thing has its natural life there is no transforming power in death and whether we are here or there we fashion the world that surrounds Us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling and we illuminate or darken

our lives by the concepts we hold of ourselves nothing is more important to us than our conception of ourselves and especially is this true of our concept of the dimensionally greater one within us those who help or hinder us whether they know it or not are the Servants of that law Which shapes outward circumstances in harmony with our inner nature it is our conception of ourselves which frees or constrains us though it may use material agencies to achieve its purpose because life molds the outer world to reflect the inner arrangement of our minds there is

no way of bringing about the outer Perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves No Help Cometh From without the hills to which we lift our eyes are those of an inner range it is thus to our own Consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality the only foundation on which all phenomena can be explained we can rely absolutely on the justice of this law to give us only that which is of the nature of ourselves to attempt to change the world before we change our concept of of ourselves is to

struggle against the nature of things there can be no outer change until there is first an inner change as within so without I am not advocating philosophical indifference when I suggest that we should imagine ourselves as already that which we want to be living in a mental atmosphere of greatness rather than using physical means and arguments to bring about the desired change everything we do unaccompanied by a change of Consciousness and is but feudal Readjustment of surfaces however we toil or struggle we can receive no more than our assumptions affirm to protest against anything which

happens to us is to protest against the law of our being and our rulership over our own destiny the circumstances of my life are too closely related to my conception of myself not to have been formed by my own Spirit from some dimensionally larger Storehouse of my being if there is pain to me in the these happenings I should look Within Myself for the cause for I am moved here and there and made to live in a world in harmony with my concept of myself intense meditation brings about a union with the state contemplated and

during this Union we see Visions have experiences and behave in keeping with our change of Consciousness this shows us that a transformation of Consciousness will result in a change of environment and behavior all wars prove that violent emotions are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements every great conflict has been followed by an era of materialism and greed in which the ideals for which the conflict ostensibly was waged are submerged this is inevitable because War evokes Hate which impels a descent in Consciousness from the plane of the ideal to the level where the conflict is waged

if we would become as emotionally aroused over our ideals as we become over our dislikes we would descend to the plane of our ideal as easily as we now descend to the level of our hates love and hate have a magical transforming power and we grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate by intensity of hatred we create an ourselves the character we imagine in our enemies qualities die for want of attention so the unlovely states might best be rubbed out by imagining Beauty for Ashes and joy for mourning rather than by

directing attacks on the state from which we would be free whatsoever things are lovely and of good report think on these things for we become that with which we are in Rapport there is nothing to change but our concept of self as soon as we succeed in transforming self our world will dissolve and reshape itself in harmony with that which our change affirms summary by Stellar thoughts in this deeply mystical book Neville Goddard paints a picture for the readers of a more fundamental world than this three-dimensional world where events have already been predetermined and man's

future is fixed if he doesn't chooses deliberately a different future he talks about the fourth dimension which is time and demonstrates that all things States parallel realities are available in completion in the fourth-dimensional world but you need to awaken the spiritual man to access it and to be able to select from the infinite parallel realities which one you will choose Neville used the rather classical or old frame of reference of parallel realities called serial realities but in essence the moment you assume a different concept of self your predetermined future alters and your serial reality branches

out into another serial reality where what you have assumed to be true has its natural life and from there once again your future is now predetermined you will walk a series of events which will lead you to your fulfillment this three-dimensional world is the world of effects cause does not lie here that is all things appear here from the fourth-dimensional world where time is irrelevant and space is in a flux that is every single possible state or parallel reality that you can choose via the spiritual man to experience in this three-dimensional world is already played

out all you need to do is just choose via an assumption and to better understand this Neville makes a distinction between the natural man and the spiritual man the natural man is the Persona we wear the egoic self he is a linear creature to him time flows linearly and past and future are unattainable in the now moment as in linear flow of time the natural man can only experience or perceive the now moment therefore the natural man is a slave to what is and cannot experience more than what is while the spiritual man is the

Christ within the essence of God so the spiritual man is dimensionally larger as Jesus said I and my father are one but my father is greater than I Jesus was making the distinction here between the natural man and the spiritual man so the egoic man is one with or exists within the spiritual man but the spiritual man is infinitely greater and has access to all that is so Neville is describing to you the power of the spiritual man that he can slip into the fourth dimensional World whenever he pleases to him time doesn't exist he

has access to all your possible parallel realities right now in the fourth dimensional world as he explains the steps to getting what you want want from the fourth dimensional World via the fourth-dimensional thinking to put it simply it is just assuming what we want go to the end and live in the end as though it has already happened knowing that in the fourth-dimensional world it is already a concrete fact and since the three-dimensional world is being translated from the four-dimensional world it has no choice but to manifest here Neville never mentioned it directly but what

he was describing here as the fourth dimensional world is very close to the description of the astral realm as he describes that if you apply his methods you will awaken in the dimensionally larger world where you will perform the action that you have been performing in imagination dreams are perfect example of us accessing the astral world or the fourth-dimensional reality where time seems to not exist and space is dimensionally larger in a matter of seconds I can be in two different countries that are thousands of miles apart this is the realm of the spiritual man

where all you can think of instantly appears and if you have noticed you do things in dreams which have taken a hold of your waking mind in the day so if you had watched a scary movie during the day you will very likely have a dream related to it at night the spiritual man is bound by the assumptions of the natural man so whatever the natural man consumes the the spiritual man must enact in the dimensionally larger World therefore if you have successfully assumed what you want chances are very high that you will enact this

action in the dream world or the astral World which is a sign that this manifestation is coming soon into the 3D world but even if you do not remember your dreams if you apply the law of assumption as Neville taught it is done the spiritual man cannot fail to demonstrate the fact that the spiritual man is dimensionally larger Neville explains his method to wake up in a night dream he says that when in a dream he realizes that he is dreaming he grabs hold of an object of the dream and surprises himself forcing himself to

wake up in the dream and if you have dreamed lucidly before you would know that once you wake up in a dream you can pretty much do anything this is what Neville means by dimensionally larger world the astral World fourth dimension or the dream world doesn't know time linear time is not a concept there whatever the spiritual man imagines there instantly appears so you could by the virtue of imagination teleport yourself into any City you please and live any sort of life you want all realities that you can possibly think of exist in this dimensionally

larger world and the entire Point Neville was trying to make was it all exists all you need to do is is Master fourth-dimensional thinking to experience your desire in this 3D world as this 3D world is being translated from the 4D world and fourth-dimensional thinking is simple it is assuming what you want and imagining it in a sleepy drowsy State as though what you want is happening right now and you are performing the action that implies fulfillment right now and since time is irrelevant to the spiritual man to him this imaginal Act is a fact

right now so if you fall asleep performing this action repeatedly chances are high that you will perform this action in your dream that is a sign that you have successfully assumed but if you don't dream about it it doesn't matter the spiritual man has done it you might not have remembered it lastly Neville puts emphasis on the fact that there is no one to change but self that this world is a mirror forever reflect ing who you are being within remember the spiritual man is bound by the assumptions of the natural man so if you

pay attention to the world and feel like you are a victim to the conditions you are bounding the spiritual man to bring an experience of limitation and victimhood into this world so to wrestle against the world and conditions is to self- imprison Neville explains his mystical experience of seeing a vision in in an intense meditation where he was contemplating on the idea of a perfect State he found himself next to the pool of Bethesda where many disabled people were suffering as he appeared on the scene the suffering stopped and everyone started to become whole as

though their body parts started to form out of thin air just because Neville meditated on the idea of perfection this Vision revealed to him that the world around us is a reflection of our inner world and if we but change within the without changes effortlessly therefore pay no attention to what you do not want as lack of attention gets rid of things in this world as this world is a mirror forever reflecting who you are being within so awaken o Immortal and determine your destiny yourself