Neville Goddard Lectures: “Imaging Creates Reality”

12 Feb Neville Goddard Lectures: “Imaging Creates Reality”

10/30/67

Synopsis: Emphasizes the importance of clarifying form when imagining and not worrying about influencing others. The imaginal act is the cause, and that individuals should focus on what they want in their own world and forget about influencing others. He also mentions that even wealthy people and those with great fortunes have no real impact on someone’s world and that they too could disappear.

I think most of you know that I firmly believe that imagining creates reality. I personally have proved it and I think the majority of you have. If someone now complains, having confessed that they believe it, that what they originally imagined is not as good and as wonderful as they are now experiencing, then ask them, “Why are you now remembering and not imagining?” If I can say I remember when, then I am not now imagining that. So am I really putting this into practice? I can say, well alright, I believe it, but I once imagined something and it’s not as I am now experiencing in my life. Just simply say, “You really believe that imagining creates reality and your original imagining state was?” They’ll say yes. “Then what on earth are you doing when you say ‘I once imagined it?’” Then they are not now imagining. God’s name is I AM. Man finds it so difficult to keep this in the present tense. It’s always outside of self.

Now, when you imagine, may I tell you, you may, and chances are you will, influence others. But do not think in terms of influence think only in terms of clarity of form. For instance, someone will say to you, I want a better position, I want more money, I want greater responsibility. Alright, now you conceive a scene and give all your effort to clarifying form, just form, like drawing a picture. So you’ve conceived a scene. It could be that you’re giving the party or they are giving the party, and then you will raise your glass or they will raise it, and toast the occasion…a better job, more money. Don’t think in terms of influencing some superior on the job like the one you will call, say, a boss. Forget him. He could drop dead tonight; he could be discharged tonight. Don’t think in terms of anyone outside of the clarity of form. What would imply that you have it? Well, if I gave a party tonight for you who got it, or you gave the party and invited me and I am your guest, and then we sat around the table and came that occasion to raise a glass in toast…so you will toast the event…and I will raise mine and drink with you.

Well now, that is not influencing or thinking of influencing anyone in this world; we’re going to the end. So if you’re going to apply this law, it’s only dealing with form—you go to the end. Then what form, what structure would imply that you have it? And forget anyone in this world that you may influence. So I’m not going to deny that every imaginal act influences, but you don’t have to put any interest on influencing anyone in this world. Leave them alone…leave everyone alone. They are not really cause; you are cause, your imaginal at is the cause. So what do you want in this world? Forget everyone else. You may have someone employing you that may have one billion dollars, a private fund, like Hughes, like the Rockefellers, like that crowd. They have it, but they are not causing anything in your world. They could all drop dead tonight, did you know, and vanish from this world and leave not a trace behind. The present generation of the Rockefellers know nothing of their great-grandfather who made it. They must be told by the present, who are simply grandsons of that fortune, and they will tell them, and they wisely modify it and others will modify it. But who knows of the original one who really went out and checked everything, the figures? And so he is gone.