The outer world is an effect; it is not the cause. You are the cause. Your consciousness is the cause. The feelings you sense and radiate, which are caused by your thoughts and your paradigm (your unconscious program in the subconscious), are the cause.
And when you remain in the state in which your wish is already fulfilled, your outer world will have to adapt to it. “It must move into form, it must” (Bob Proctor). That is the secret.
Neville Goddard wrote in his chapter “The World Is Yourself Pushed Out” that you never see the world as it is; rather, you always see it exactly as you are yourself. The world has no independent existence. It is your own wonderful human imagination projected out into objectivity. Every person you see is yourself.
Every situation you encounter, every situation you are drawn into, is yourself. If you encounter hostility or rejection, you are encountering your own inner hostility and rejection being mirrored back to you. When you experience love, you are always encountering your own love being mirrored back to you.
Goddard wrote, “the world does nothing to you”; you do it to yourself—through your consciousness, through your assumptions, and through the inner state you occupy.
This is the teaching of metaphysical projection that Neville conveyed. You are the projector, and your consciousness is the film.
The world is a kind of movie screen. The images shown upon it will always correspond to the film running through the projector.
If you do not like what you see on the screen, it is futile to try to change it there; you yourself must change the film by changing your consciousness, by feeling differently. The change can only take place in that location, because consciousness is the only reality. That is exactly what Goddard meant when he said: “You are pure imagination.”
He repeated this sentence very often. Yet it is frequently misunderstood. I, too, was unable to properly contextualize it for a long time.
When we hear the word “imagination,” we think of fantasies that we conjure up. Fantasy is fantasy and it is simply not real; it is not reality. But Neville Goddard defined human imagination as actual reality. It is what we call God—and not merely a capacity that God has bestowed upon us. It is God himself, acting in you and as you. He did not see God as a being separate from us who watches us humans, judges us, and grants or withholds things from us.
God is, rather, your own wonderful human imagination. That power you possess to imagine something, to assume something, or to visualize something that is not yet visible. That is the creative power of the universe itself.
In his book The Power of Awareness, Goddard wrote that “all creation occurs in consciousness and the imagination is the act of creation itself.”
When you imagine something, you are not pretending in that moment. Through it, you are manifesting, you are creating; you are then the creator himself.
As you choose from infinite possibilities, you let them take shape. With a time delay. You act like God. And since you are constantly imagining something, you are continuously creating. The question, therefore, is not whether you are creating. The question is only what you are creating. Are you imagining lack or abundance? Are you feeling lack or abundance? Are you making decisions from a place of lack or abundance? Are you imagining rejection or acceptance? Are you imagining yourself to be powerless or powerful?
Whatever you imagine, whatever you accept as true—it will manifest. Not because the universe rewards imagination, but because it is the very substance of the universe.
The outer world is always just a shadow. Your consciousness is the only light. And everything you see is pure consciousness casting shadows. In this way, it gives itself shape and form. In this form, you will recognize, experience, and create yourself. Let us take it a step further: Goddard taught that there are not two realities—a spiritual and a physical one.
In his teaching, only one reality exists: consciousness.
What we call the physical world is not separate from consciousness; it is consciousness that has condensed and slowed down. This is what we perceive with our sensory organs as material form, as matter, or as the material world. For example, a chair was first just a thought in the field of consciousness. Only in the second step did it manifest into form and matter.
“You are not a physical being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being—pure consciousness—having an apparently physical experience.” (Neville Goddard)
Everything your sensory organs perceive is part of your consciousness; it is within it, not outside. You create it through your being, your feeling. You dream it into reality.
Goddard distinguishes between primary and secondary reality.
Consciousness is primary. It is the source, the cause, and the origin of everything that is; the world of appearances, of images, of forms.
The world of the senses, on the other hand, is secondary. For the senses perceive with a time delay what consciousness has previously created.
Most people probably spend their entire lives in secondary reality. We react to it, we react to its effects.
Then we try to change these effects and look for the causes in this outer, secondary world.
But because we never recognize our consciousness as the true cause of the outer world, we remain trapped in a cycle of frustration and confusion. We remain stuck in heartbreak or other unpleasant states of lack and then ask ourselves: “Why is this happening to me? Why won’t things change?”
If, for example, you are in love with a person who is not there, you do not need to somehow visualize or attract or even manipulate that person.
You must already be happily married to this person in your consciousness and hold this state internally. You must remain in the feeling of the wish already fulfilled, regardless of everything currently happening in the outer world. The feeling you would have if the wish had already been fulfilled is the secret. It will subsequently resolve the state of lack.
The world must then submit to this feeling of abundance and happiness; it will have to rearrange itself. For it has no power whatsoever to resist your consciousness. It is only its servant, not its master.
We must therefore not give the outer world control over our inner sensations. Rather, we must adjust our inner emotional state so that the outer world adapts to it.
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