Neville Goddard Lectures: Shared Experiences

So let everyone here try it. It costs us nothing. And if that is a revelation from God, what other voice should he listen to? For, it came to him in a vivid, vivid, what I would call, waking dream…but it was a dream. At the very end, the voice that came in for the first time in the entire dream said, “Tell this to Neville!” So I know what Paul meant when he asked those that he taught the word to to share with him all good things. Had he enclosed in a letter to me telling me of some personal success in his writing, where he made a fortune beyond what he dreamed of making and enclosed in a letter to me a large fat check, it could not be the joy that I got Friday night when I read that letter. I don’t consider any sum of money equal to such a letter. I take that with me. You could be out of money…I’m a spendthrift anyway, I’d spend it…but I can’t spend this. I can’t give this away so I’d lose possession of it. I can share it. So you’re told, “Buy the truth but sell it not,” for when you sell something you lose possession of it. Well, I can’t. If I talk about this, which I will from now ‘til the ends of time, I will share with others, but I can’t sell it. If you came to my meetings, as you must pay more in New York City because I lived in hotels there, so I charged three dollars in New York. So you paid three dollars when you came to my meetings in New York City or two here or two in San Francisco. You don’t buy what I tell you because I’m sharing it; I keep it. So you haven’t bought it no matter what I charge—I can’t sell it. So if I put any price on it, and you’re willing to pay for it, don’t say you bought the truth. I shared it with you, because if I sold it, well, then I would lose possession of it. Far from losing possession of it it increases in value and increases in understanding in me as I talk about it. So here, he shared with me knowing that I would share with you. So take this to heart and tonight experiment. If the mind isn’t that disciplined that you can actually divorce yourself from what you feel yourself to be, and put on the garment of another that you want to help, try it over and over until you can do it.

Now, there’s a story told by the late Alexis Carrel. Maybe he had this technique…not Carrel…for he said he did not know what the man did, but he was treating a cancer of the forearm. For six months he treated this cancer with radium and he could take it no more. A weird strange looking character came into his laboratory and announced that he knew how to pray. Well, Carrel was a very devout Catholic and Carrel said, “Alright, if you know how to pray here is a case and see what you can do with this case.” The man sat in the place not in close proximity—he sat in the corner and the patient was in the room where he had been treated. The man throws himself into what appeared to Carrel to be a trance, a self-imposed trance, and while he was in this trance, Carrel said in his verbal and written confession that this cancer of the forearm that he had treated medically for six months not only disappeared but it left no trace of ever having been present. “Had I not the written medical history of the case, I would doubt my own senses.” Did that man in putting himself into a state similar to sleep, but a controlled sleep, assume the body of this man and then felt the absence of a cancer? If he did, Carrel did not reveal it in his written statement, but he did reveal the statement. When the medical world heard of it, they said, well, after all Carrel was a great scientist but now he’s advanced in years and we must take into consideration his advanced years and still love him and respect him for what he has already contributed to science…but we all become in time senile. They couldn’t justify it so they had to say the poor man now is a little bit senile. He didn’t really see that which is proven to be cancer disappear while a man sits in a deep, deep trance. Well, maybe that’s what the man did, I don’t know.