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1. Assumptions may be held relatively consciously or subconsciously, in the background of the mind.

2. Try to observe, bring to light, and dissipate detrimental background assumptions.

3. Cultivate a positive “feeling tone” as the result of an affirmation exercise: focus on one specific goal.

4. How to deal with several aims that are concurrent, in different scales, different targets?

5. Advice of Robert A. Russell. (see Biblical ref.)

6. Advice of Neville is parallel. (see ref.)
7. How is it that multiple affirmations could be contained in a background assumption?
8. Beneficial to maintain a positive assumption: no downside; catch the odd moments; switch it on.
9. Incorporate the disciplines of mind [E05]; e.g., thankfulness; and throw off the “old man”.
10. The whole idea of the assumption... you can’t approach a mysterious thing directly.
11. Perhaps in some mythical Golden Age, self consciousness was the norm.
12. Your experimentation with assumptions and other techniques will be individual.

RESOURCESBiblical quote. Phill. 2:5-6
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

Prayer - The Art of Believing, Ch. 7 ~Neville
“Our subconscious assumptions continually externalize themselves that others may consciously see us as we subconsciously see ourselves, and tell us by their actions what we have subconsciously assumed of ourselves to be. Therefore let us assume the feeling ‘I AM Christ’ ” .

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IntroductionHere is the premise: to stop wasting energy and go directly to what we want. Neville’s brilliantly confident formulation is this: I must “lay aside all other processes” and “act by clear imagination and intention.”

In the last episode we considered political/social issues. I’m asking now: do you desire a deep blue, natural sky? To follow up, go to the show notes.

PART I Problem: the maddening play of contradictions1. conceptual contradiction: internal vs eternal
2. emotional contradictions: the vicissitudes discussed in E03; Fourth Way: stop being at the mercy of the pendulum

1. identity contradiction: abject humility vs God within us

2. faith (certainty) vs. doubt (uncertainty); Faith, on its own, doesn’t have an active quality without understanding

PART II Solution: “Lay aside all other processes” and go to the imagination
5. the mid-point: find a point of stillness
6. ruthless [E18]: drop all of the usual associations, identifications

7. the drive belt of impressions: self-remembering [E01]
8. law of least action [E20]

9. Searl Effect Generator: [E16] illustration (by analogy) of consciousness

10. escape from the “release” phenomenon (Nicoll) [E14]
11. disciplined denial [E05]
12. courage [E05]

RESOURCESBlue sky problem. Use your own careful observation to verify or deny.

Aerosol Crimes - Clifford Carnicom

Probably the first and most dispassionate treatment of the subject by a rigorous scientific researcher.

Interview with Rosalind Peterson, Agriculture Defense Coalition, CaliforniaSkyWatch 19 Aug 2021
Starts at 7:36.

Aluminum poisoning of humanity - J Marvin Herndon, Current Science 2015 Vol 108 #12
'I describe evidence of clandestine geoengineering activity...'

Depopulation tools

1:10-6:32

“After years of denial and ridicule, finally admitted to exist by our governments.”

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1. NEVILLE: POSITIVE VIEW
2. NEVILLE: TRANSCENDENTAL VIEW
3. NEVILLE: ASSERTING THE POWER OF THE IMAGINATION
4. PRINCIPLED POSITION TO INFORM OUR AFFIRMATIONS
5. IMPERATIVE OF LIBERTY AND ITS ECONOMIC/POLITICAL ARRANGEMENT
6. OUR SYSTEM
7. WHY SOCIALISM ALWAYS FAILS ITS PEOPLE BUT BENEFITS ITS LEADERS
8. SOCIALISM CANNOT BE PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED
9. AN OBJECTIVELY CORRECT POSITION
10. LONG FORM AFFIRMATION

RESOURCES

Austrian economics
Mises, L. von
(audiobooks - Mises Institute)
The Mises Reader
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

False historical narratives exposed
Antony Sutton: National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union
lecture, based on his book of the same title.
“Approximately 95% of Soviet technology was actually built by Western firms. The socialist regime could not innovate because of their central planning system.”

Television broadcast #1

Interviewer: “Tell us all over again: why?”
Sutton: “Why... is to bring about, I suspect, a planned, controlled world society in which you and I will not find the freedom to believe and think...”

Television broadcast #2
Sutton: Scholarly treatment (investigation and exposure) of secret society, its activity and level of power.

Medical cartel
Jon Rappoport (2003) Aids Inc

Government #1 cause of death
R.J. Rummel (1994) Death by Government

Federal reserve as private cartel
G Edward Griffin (2010) The Creature from Jekyll Island.
Eustace Mullins (1952) The Secrets of the Federal Reserve

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Neville quotes philosopher Douglas Fawcett, one of the philosophers of transcendental idealism.

The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which everyone should aspire, for supreme power, supreme wisdom, and supreme delight lie in the far-off solution of this mystery.In this podcast series, we are taking Fawcett at his word, and exploring this essential mystery. He says that this truth is “the most important, most utterly enthralling” we could hope to find.

negative motivation
1. The scope and degree of deception and control.2. The gravity of habit in thoughts, assumptions, and narratives accepted as true.

positive motivation
3. What is the significance of embracing and consciously developing the imagination? It is not just an “add-on.” It is transformative.
4. Therapeutic function. The cause of illness is accepting reality as it appears.

1. Method... the creative state.
   Progression: hypnosis; self-hypnosis (How to Meditate); Neville’s “controlled reverie”.
   Don’t be too bound by semantics -- in other words, strict definitions and instructions.

2. Moving meditation.Long form affirmation; akin to acting. Use it in movement, both as exercise and a new way to be in the world.

Summary
Quiet self realization forms a foundation for moving meditation. Consciousness and creation work together. The world should be place of wonder and marvel.

RESOURCESNote: This episode draws on ideas from two anonymous sources interviewewd by investigative reporter Jon Rappoport (see The Matrix Revealed) who I mentioned in E16. One (“Ellis Medavoy”) is an insider in the world of propaganda creation; the other (“Jack True”) an innovator in hypnotherapy (misnamed) where the client’s imagination is allowed expression, effecting healing where psychotherapy and analysis had failed. (This is paid content. A search on these interviews may bring up partial posts for free.)

Rappoport: The Secret Behind Secret Societies is a video of his lecture (1998); there is his book by the same title. 'Secret society' has a specific definition. Dated, you say. Well, see if this information is not actually exactly relevant for us today. It is a dual presentation: 1. an expose of the cartels dominating society; 2. the depth and power of the human imagination, and how this faculty is unrealized by the average person.

Neville Goddard
Prayer, the Art of Believing Chapter 2
The Power of Awareness Chapter 14

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IntroductionPart I I feel compelled to reiterate the purpose of this podcast series. The listener should know exactly what my intention is.
Part II Encountering the archetype: a further exploration of the world without as the world within.

Part I
1. Recapitulation: pupose, rationale, limitations.
2. An exploration; series of ideas as ordered as possible; listener’s responsibility.
3. Four main influences (see list of resources).
4. They are a preparation or foundation for considering Neville’s more radical views.

Part II

1. The world is you pushed out.

2. Experience of encountering the archetype.

3. One inspiring example: the John Searl story; parallels with Neville’s experience.

4. Man can create an intelligible life for himself.

SUMMARY

RESOURCESPD Ouspensky
(1949) In Search of the Miraculous

Maurice Nicoll
(1952) Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Vol I-V
(1952) Living Time and the Integration of the Life

CG Jung
(1964) Man and His Symbols

Dr. Rolf Alexander
(1954, Pageant Press) Creative Realism (reprint by Literary Licensing is a facsimile of the original)
(1960, Dutton, NY, ) The Mind In Healing (not the so-called "The Healing Power of the Mind")
(1943, Overton Press, Lake Tahoe) The Doctor Alone Can’t Cure You

Documentary: The John Searl Story, wriiten and directed by Bradley Lockerman

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Introduction

Both Napoleon Hill (Interview with the Devil) and Maurice Nicoll warn against drifting. There are many ways of drifting, on different scales. One effective action against drifting is to make a mental shift.

1. DRIFTING - INSTITUTIONAL MAN

2. DRIFTING ON AN HOUR TO HOUR BASIS

3. BEING RUTHLESS

4. DRIFTING COUNTERACTED BY LATERAL SHIFTING

5. DRIFTING ON A SOCIETAL SCALE

6. DRIFTING BY IGNORING THE REALITY OF THE PSYCHE

7. DRIFTING BY FAILING TO FIND WORTHWHILE MEANING

8. DRIFTING BY LYING TO ONESELF

SUMMARY

CONCLUSION

RESOURCES

Napoleon Hill, Interview with the Devil

Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries

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Introduction

1. The institutional retraints on freedom and imposed formation of self:

2. family

3. education
4. religion
5. work
6. popular commercial culture, mass media, social media
7. government
8. finance
9. healthcare system
10. military, war, sports, etc.

2. C.G. Jung and Individuation...

• locate yourself within, define yourself rather than letting the world tell you who you are
• don’t try to fix your weak points; focus on your strengths
• establish some connection with the higher (seemingly outside oneself)

3. Political information focusing on individual liberties

E12 - What characterizes programs of institutional mass hypnosis and mass psychosis?

YT channel: Academy of Ideas

• Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism
• The Psychology of Conformity
• The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis - Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?

Counter-attack:

• bring order to our own minds;
• humour and ridicule;
• parallel structures.
• call for courage -- just as this virtue is called for in Neville’s 12 Disciplines of Mind E5

4. Conclusion

By comparison to the above: the fundamental and radical quality of Neville’s idea:

• “tell him who he is” -- this is the one unique and powerful message that is missed by every institution, school of thought, political philosophy, system of virtues, etc...

RESOURCESRobert S. de Ropp (1989) The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness
Youtube channel: Academy of Ideas
Youtube channel: Philosophies for Life. Carl Jung - How to Realize Your True Potential in Life

Neville Goddard (1948) Out of this World

Please check my new blog at https://nevilleonfire.substack.com/
Thought pieces, related to podcast, in under 500 words each.

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Introduction

1. Recent reviews of first principles: self creation; meditation; appropriation of the wish fulfilled.

2. Possible results or refuges that we unwittingly fall into in failing to own our success.

3. All of these are unacceptable. Institutional training may prevent us from internalizing gains.

4. How to hold on to these gains when they seem to be destined to fade away?

5. An answer: the reversal from a passive to an active mind; to be consciously creative.

a. self creation on a personal level

b. affirmations in personal and broader spheres

1. Examples.

2. Conclusion: consolidate gains through the active mind and related creativity.

RESOURCES
Repeated:

Nicoll, Maurice (1952) Living Time and the Integration of the Life

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Introduction

Meditation has many connotations and practices. What is important here is an underlying concept of the mind and spirit, an understanding of your own identity, to inform your practice, which is grounded in the ideas we have been considering, especially those in E4 (How to Really Use Affirmations).

1. Concept of meditationa. Meditation, in the concept of it explained here, is equivalent to Neville’s explanation of prayer.
b. Meditation, as I will explain it, is also equivalent to Alexander’s explanation of auto-hypnosis or self-suggestion.
c. The essential element that ties together Neville and Alexander is the element of consciousness. Your highest faculty is asserting and repeating mindfully.

2. Understand your state; your consequent desire; your aim.

a. Heartfelt desire -- in the personal sphere; trivial matters
b. Heartfelt desire -- in the personal sphere; matters of importance: for oneself; for others
c. Heartfelt desire -- in the broader social sphere -- matters of great import.

3. How to approach multiple desires and goals

a. notes

b. graphic symbol

4. ProcedureQuiet, privacy and dedicated time.

5. Self-remembering; self-awareness; highest possible conscious focus

1. Relaxation

2. Quick induction

3. Remain awake, address the passive part of your being

a. - use words, affirmations

• visualization

• all sensory modes

• pure meaning

b. use the appropriation of the wish fulfilled - most important

9. Gratitude

Flows naturally from the previous point. Gratitude and thankfulness

10. Remainder of the day“Walk in that assumption.” “Remain faithful to that assumption.” Connect this with the state of mind discussed in E14 where, instead of abandoning ourselves, to a “release” phenomenon, characterized by fragmentation, worry and doubt, bring yourself to the higher single point of consciousness and faith.

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Let’s consider the idea of self-creation. We can see the intersection of the ideas and instructions of authors: Neville; Rolf Alexander; Maurice Nicoll; Eckart Tolle.

1. Neville: awakened imagination -- expanded definition

2. Alexander: self awareness as the life’s purpose

3. Nicoll: if there is truth within us, there is a lot that is superficial to it

4. Recent example of dysfunction

5. Our own parallel experience

6. Nicoll’s explanation: the release phenomenon (i.e., subjection to lower level mental function)

7. Approaching the work as one of our usual projects -- a future goal in time

8. “The power of now” and “The creation of now”

9. The consciousness (the imagination) is not in time, it is timeless

10. Daily experiences -- negative release into chaos.

11. These are subject to conscious noticing and positive release (Sedona method -- see E013).

12. The only way to consciousness is to go consciously; and we are hoping for grace.

13. Is this all just a mind game, or are we attaining to something more real?

14. How far away from our conscious goals we stray.

15. Conclusion: stop continual reacting and start continual creating.

Summary

KEY QUOTE

“Change of being is not a patchwork process.” (Nicoll, M. Living Time p. 234)

RESOURCES
Repeated:

Neville, (1954) Awakened Imagination & The Search
Alexander, Dr. Rolf (1956) Creative RealismNicoll, Maurice (1952) Living Time and the Integration of the Life

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Introduction

I did not post in the last 2 weeks. Discussion of illness.

1. Planet in its orbit - proximity to and remoteness from conscious source, as a test.
2. Subtlety, refinement of state is desirable.
3. Put off the old mental conversations.
4. Helpful image of the serpent.
5. Blake: died many times since. Maurice Nicoll explains the seeming flatness and nothing to fall back on.
6. Sedona Method: releasing; letting go.

7. Where does the method lead?

8. From having to wanting to being.

9. Premature, artificial development is never a good thing (Alexander).

10. Neville’s natural progression: accepting desire and wishes as expressions of one’s state.

11. Summary: Need for a careful consideration of one’s worldview, one’s definite chief aim, and honesty with oneself about level of development.

KEY QUOTE“There seems to be nothing to fall back on. What we actually lose is the ordinary feeling of ourselves.” (Nicoll, M. Living Time p. 75)

RESOURCESNeville, Seedtime and Harvest, Chapter Seven.
Sedona Method Release Technique 1992, series of 8 videos

Repeated:
Maurice Nicoll (1952) Living Time and the Integration of the Life

mp3 download - Neville Mental Diets

Alexander, Dr. Rolf (1956) Creative Realism

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1. Dominant narratives as hypnotic programs, and our own mental sovereignty.
2. Mass hypnotic sleep -- society.
3. Hypnotic sleep -- on an individual basis.
4. Authors in field of hypnosis, self-hypnosis, autohypnosis: no idea of true consciousness.
5. By contrast: GI Gurdjieff, Dr. R. Alexander and Neville: all hold a distinct concept of consciousness and are acutely aware of mass hypnosis used in society.
6. What characterizes programs of institutional mass hypnosis and mass psychosis?
7. Self-hypnosis, autosuggestion, affirmations -- used constructively to realize abundant life.
8. Key difference in technique: use true conscious faculty, instead of surface-level readjustments.
9. Recap: mass hypnotic control programs vs the acquisition of consciousness to achieve aims and even affect society at large.
10. What is hypnosis really all about? How does it fit into Neville’s world view?
    Summary: Consider conscious use of self-persuasion. The extraordinary effects demonstrated by the phenomenon of hypnosis are dependent on belief systems. Knowing this, we release ourselves from dominant institutional narratives and realize more fully our freedom of choice.
    KEY QUOTE"At the present time most of us pass our lives in a state of hypnotic trance... To escape from the slavery imposed by our subconsciousness we must become conscious.” Alexander, Dr. Rolf (1956) Creative Realism

RESOURCESChomsky, N and Herman, E (1988) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Tripp, James (2021) Hypnosis Without TranceNote: not recommended for our purposes, as it is mostly a treatise on how to control others.

Two particularly good examples of standard literature on self-hypnosis (within the limitations discussed).Pulos, L. (1994) The Power of Visualization (audio series)
All else by Pulos also recommended.

Maltz, M. (1960) Psycho-Cybernetics

Mentioned:P. Yogananda (1946) Autobiography of a Yogi

Repeated:Ouspensky, P.D. (1949) In Search of the Miraculous
Alexander, Dr. Rolf (1956) Creative Realism

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1. Why do we bother to entertain in a serious way Neville’s claim?

1. Why I consider Neville’s presentation to be so compelling: a conscious influence, originating in the esoteric tradition.

2. Quotes indicating fantastic psychological instructions.
   i. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt in us” John.

ii. “ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them” 2Cor.

Echoed in Blake: “Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not on ourselves, in whom God dwells?”

iii. “do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?” 2Cor.

iv. “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:” Php.

v. ”...until Christ is formed in you” Gal.

4. Summary description of our own nature

5. Affirmation [to be completed by the listener]

KEY QUOTE

“I speak of ancient prayers; many of them are much older than Christianity. These prayers are, so to speak, recapitulations; by repeating them aloud or to himself a man endeavours to experience what is in them, their whole content, with his mind and his feeling.” (from talk by G.I. Gurdjieff in 1916, as reported in Ouspensky, P.D. In Search of the Miraculous)

RESOURCESRepeated:
In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky

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1. Mind modeli. Personality (Artificial) and Essence (Genuine; Higher Self)
ii. Subconscious

iii. Conscious

2. Relaxation

3. Receptivity and acceptance

4. Connection: "let this mind be in you..."

5. Seeing through evil

6. Extraordinary persistence plus understanding

7. Purity: realization that imagination is the sole cause

8. Revealing the good

9. Gratitude: “the highest form of acceptance is thanksgiving“

10. Rather than mere belief in God, invoke experience of God

11. We don’t work for results
12. Switch on the light; rise above shortcomings and make the connection

Summary: Review of episodes

RESOURCES

Robert A. Russell

You Can Get What You Want, If You Find it Within Yourself-audiobook, narrated by Barry Pederson (Youtube channel: Giving Voice to the Wisdom of the Ages)

Comments:
I drew on ideas from Russell in this episode. He was an Ecumenical minister. Of course, his concept of Jesus (evidently) as an historical personage does not accord with Neville's view; nor is it necessary to consider evil spirits as actual separate beings (as opposed to merely negative tendencies within the psyche). Those points aside, I think you will find what he says supports and complements Neville's message really well.

I don't think there's anything wrong with using Neville's concepts when listening to Russell: i.e., awareness of being, pure consciousness is God; while the faculty of human imagination is Christ Jesus.

So often in our discussions we are dealing with the ups and downs, the doubts, the negative inner talk, etc. We often despair that we cannot seem to appropriate fully the desired end state, because the evidence of the senses is too powerful; despondency ensues. Well, consider Russell's advice on how to clean house and maintain the right attitude. I hope you find it useful!

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Introduction

1. Awareness of being as God.
2. A seeming contrast in experience.
3. The promise - same for everyone?
4. Our nature: unitary yet fragmented.
5. “All that you behold, although it seems without, it is within, in your imagination.”
6. Detrimental effects of institutions.
7. The nature of evil as a necessary part of creation.
8. Two contradictory aspects.

Conclusions

RESOURCES
[see also show notes E8 for Alan Watts quotes]
Alan Watts

Out of Your Mind Part 2

“The thinker of the thoughts is an abstraction we create out of memory.”

0:30:00

Reality Escapes All Concepts
Yoga is “the state in which the individual self ... finds that it is ultimately Atman... the supreme self.”

1:18:00

Neville
Freedom For All Chapter 1
”...that which he is, is an illusion created by himself (the Father) in an attempt at self-definition.”

Silvie Ivanova NewEarth mirror site

G. Edward Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd, investigator of Tax Exempt Foundations

John Taylor Gatto (2002) Dumbing Us Down

James Perloff (1999) Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism

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EPISODE SUMMARYA sketch of Neville’s worldview presented in a series of seeming contradictions.

1. Neville the heretic
2. The truth, hidden in a false wrapping
3. The paradox of the problem of evil
4. The paradoxical human condition
5. Comments on the paradox

6. Conclusions

RESOURCESMichel de Molinos, The Spiritual GuideOne of the best known “quietists”

Nicoll, Maurice (1952) The New Man - An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ
British psychologist, exponent of C.G. Jung and Fourth Way; published interpretations of Scripture.

Jacobi, Jolande (1965) The Way of IndividuationStudent of C.G. Jung gives a precis of his psychology.

Cremo, Michael A. (2003) Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s TheoryDiscusses also his earlier work (co-authored) Forbidden Archeology

Ivananova, Silvie, newearth Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUIu90W_Xg

Alan Watts

The fundamental principle of Buddhism

1:18:15 “You are the total energy that constitutes the universe playing that it’s you. [...] The colossal reality, the energy that is everything -- that is a unitary energy, that is one, plays at being many.” Watts remarks that this is fundamental to Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. He could have added: Christianity!

1:48:30 “The world is not existing independently of those who witness it.”

You are everything

1:03:10 “You have difficulty in conceiving this as a Westerner because we have all been brainwashed by several centuries of put-down theories of Man.”

3:16:13 “You can see at one level that the evil side of things is part of the total harmony... The joy of life is to be in the process of getting rid of it.”

RepeatedOuspensky, P.D. (1949) In Search of the Miraculous
Account of study of the Fourth Way, brought to the West by G.I Gurdjiefff.

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SHOW NOTES
In this episode, I want to discuss views of Christianity, and how they affect the project of exploring Neville’s ideas.

1. Types of religion for types of persons
2. Comparing methods and religions is a matter of balance
3. Self-change involves challenging identity

4. Neville’s explanation of Christianity

5. Objections by conventional church-going Christians and even many non-religious persons

6. Further objections: Neville’s thought is misguided, a faulty interpretation against historical authority
7. What is the standard of personal truth?
8. Further objections: self deception via evil entities

Summary and Conclusion
Neville, it appears, was the recipient of an underground current of psychological thought, enhanced by his own mystical revelations, not to mention his diligence in reading, rereading and practically memorizing all 66 books of the Bible -- all the while checking translations and commentaries. The result was his intuitive discovery of the blueprint for self change. He showed people how to extricate themselves from self-imposed persecutions in order to achieve what they had thought was impossible, against reason, against the social order, against the economic order, and against the laws of probability.

KEY QUOTE“We fight for our opinions, not because we believe them, but because they involve the ordinary feeling of oneself.” (Maurice Nicoll Living Time)

RESOURCES
UPDATE: Credit goes to Jordan Maxwell (inadvertently edited out of the audio) for expose of thick pagan overlay in present day Christianity, and for investigating the etymology of the word “church”.

The Naked Truth - critical survey of conventional religion.
Keys to Understanding the Hidden Symbols in the Bible - discusses the origin of the familiar waving of hands in Christian churches.
Matrix of Power - expose of political and institutional power.

Nicoll, Maurice (1952) Living Time and the Integration of the LifeBritish psychologist, exponent of C.G. Jung and Fourth Way; published interpretations of Scripture.

G.R.S. Mead (1900) Fragments of a Faith Forgotten(1900)
On the Gnostics.

John Hus
(Movie, 1977) Dramatization of life of 15thC cleric who defied the church.

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Premise: to set out ordered series of ideas -- still a good idea, yet time and patience, and an individual approach are all needed for engagement of the person with the ideas.

Constant review, repetitions, re-statements and re-formulations are needed.
Constant changing of techniques and methods is needed, to avoid a dead and mechanical practice.

Exercises and techniques:

E1

Rolf Alexander.

Neville: Fundamentals.

E2

Link to Neville’s lectures - daily meditative session

E3

Comments on 8 specific solutions.

E4

Techniques related to affirmations to retrain the subconscious.

E5

Comments on 12 disciplines of mind.

Additional content:

• Assagioli, Psychosynthesis
• the nature of the mental state
• motivation and Hill, N. Interview with the Devil
• quote from Blake
• Einstein; Copernicus: primacy of the imagination

KEY QUOTE

“It takes many restatements and reformulations of new ideas before they start to gain currency of thought.”

RESOURCES

E6 - Summary of Techniques pdf

100kwatt Youtube channel -- Neville’s lectures (his own voice)
Assagioli, R. Psychosynthesis - A Manual of Principles and Techniques

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SHOW NOTES
IntroductionNeville’s explanation of the 12 Disciples as aspects of the mind occurs in Chapter 18 of Your Faith is Your Fortune. Our purpose is to offer an interpretation and commentary on this extraordinary self-training.

Neville’s introductionThe disciples received the power against “unclean spirits, sickness and disease.” Understanding this psychologically, it means a series of mental practices to revolutionize the mental economy; i.e., leaving behind unworthy content and gaining new standpoints.

“Discipleship” means to awaken and bring to consciousness, to distinct awareness, these qualities, and so to effect a reversal of mind, so that they are no longer harmful and chaotic, but harmonized and beneficial.

1. Simon, later surnamed Peter.The foundational practice and concept is that of self-consciousness. Notice that Simon is, precisely, this aspect of the mind that “discovers the I AM [awareness of being]...”.

2. Andrew, or courage.When the “facts of the case”, the apparent conditions of life, do not accord with your concept of what is worthwhile and ideal, then you find yourself in direct opposition to what most people will say is “reality”.

3. James the righteous judgeThis is the quality of accurate assessment or evaluation of others.

4. John the belovedIt is the continuation and intensification of the same quality we started with, of “hearing” only the good.

5. PhilipThis aspect of the mind understands experientially, not theoretically, how Man (human beings) and God (the creative principle) are related.

6. Bartholomew, the imaginative facultyThe name etymologically means “abounding in furrows” -- obviously, being very fecund or fertile -- an appropriate symbol for the imagination.

7. Thomas, disciplined denial
"You're in denial!" Yes -- in a good way.

1. Matthew, gift of God
   Neville gives a fresh view on the nature of desires.

9. James, son of AlphaeusThis capacity of discernment strikes me as a function of higher consciousness.

10. Thaddeus, quality of praise and gratitude

Thankfulness can and must precede the receipt of the gifts prayed for.

11. Simon of CanaanThe human condition is in some respects dire. We can follow Neville’s instructions and put things right.

12. JudasEntirely reversed from the ordinary understanding. Here is the psychological death, making way for the new person.

KEY QUOTE“The twelve disciples represent the twelve qualities of mind which can be controlled and disciplined by man.”
(Neville, Your Faith is Your Fortune, Chapter 18)

RESOURCES
EssentialNeville Goddard
Your Faith is Your Fortune, Chapter 18
Freedom for All, Chapter 2
Feeling is the Secret

Repeated

Neville Goddard
At Your Command, Part 1

Mentioned
Robert A. Russell, You Can Get What You Want If You Find it Within YourselfP.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous

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Neville Goddard recommends affirmations (as a form of prayer), as do other schools of thought. Too often, the practice becomes frustrating when it remains on the surface, as “vain repetition”. Let’s look into Neville’s advice and explain nuances of technique. The goal is to inject fresh energy, conviction and effectiveness into our affirmations.

1. Premise: we are awakening. We are self-regulating, self-developing, self-teaching.

2. Neville’s discussion of the sub-conscious mind is most helpful.

3. engage in an exchange, create a rapport, with oneself

4. the subjective mind is the sub-conscious: it is 100% susceptible to or subject to suggestion
5. it is deductive in its thinking process, as opposed to inductive
6. it admits unconditionally the suggestion presented to it

The entire basis of affirmation is a reversal of mind, where we switch the polarity or the vector, so to speak, to stop being programmed by suggestion and instead provide the suggestion.

Another reference to validate the premise: Claude Bristol, The Magic of Believing.

1. Mind and speech. Two principles referred to by Neville from the Hermetica.

2. Speech. Its nature and origin; its creative function.

3. What is vain repetition? Speech without mind.

4. Goal: speech with conscious intention. Shall not return unto me void.

5. Goal: feeling of the wish fulfilled. (Word = logos = meaning). Go straight to the meaning -- the only thing worth having -- the state itself.

6. Exception: use vain repetition as a means to get started, to pull oneself out of difficulty.

7. Techniques:

8. short form

9. long form
10. elaborate description

11. channels or forms of speech: thought, physically spoken, read silently, read aloud, recorded, listened to.

12. Psychological instructions from Book of James: ship’s rudder; horse’s bit. Persistence. Do not fall into the trap of continually listening to new ideas without putting them into practice.

KEY QUOTE

“Stop all of the old mechanical negative inner talking and start a new positive and constructive inner speech from premises of fulfilled desire.” (Neville, Awakened Imagination and The Search, Chapter 5)

RESOURCES
Repeatedby Neville; text and audio by Barry Peterson:
Prayer, The Art of Believing

Essentialby Neville; text and audio by Barry Peterson:

Awakened Imagination and The Search

MentionedClaude Bristol, The Magic of Believing

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SHOW NOTESSummary of material covered so far in this podcast series.

Neville’s article Fundamentals (show notes Ep. 1) suggests defining an aim, and then observing yourself (reactions, thoughts and emotions) in relation to it.

Difficulty in many forms.
a. The first difficulty is being unable to focus.
b. The second problem is the incessant internal chatter or “monkey mind”.
c. The third difficulty is the experience of seemingly more and more extreme ups and downs.
d. The final form of difficulty that I want to discuss today is the detrimental effects of institutions.

Difficulty: Focus.
Solution 1: Your well-considered and worthwhile aim; do not drift.
Solution 2: Notice what information sources and forms of entertainment you rely upon.
Solution 3: The practical approach to staying on track consists in creating beneficial habits.

Difficulty: Incessant internal chatter.
Solution 4. Neville converts what we thought was a mental nuisance into a great internal tool.

Difficulty: Ups and downs
Solution 5: Understand how the subconscious works. Neville’s treatment is ingenious.
Solution 6: Observing. That’s already a qualitative shift in your mental economy.
Solution 7. Remove from the negative thing your consent. Turn your attention to your aim.

Difficulty: Detrimental effects of institutions.
Solution 8: Identify the “institutions”; contemplate their effects. Compose counter-affirmations.

KEY QUOTE“But, you are told, you were first in your own sight a grasshopper and because of this you were to the giants a
grasshopper. In other words, you can only be to others what you are first to yourself.” (Neville, At Your Command, Chapter 3)

RESOURCES
Repeat

by Neville; text and audio by Barry Peterson:
Prayer, The Art of Believing

At Your CommandEssentialmp3 download - Neville Mental DietsMentionedNapoleon Hill, Interview with the Devil. Consummate warning against drifting.
Maurice Nicoll

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SHOW NOTES
1. First episode summaryIn Neville’s lecture Fundamentals, he sets out 3 practices:
a. self-observation
b. definition of aim
c. separation, also called detachment or non-identification.

2. There are many these days talking about manifesting our reality. We could easily mislead ourselves by taking this in a materialist sense.Neville follows on the principle in the Hermetic writings that the Universe is mental in nature. He also quotes Blake, saying: ”all you behold, though it appears without/ It is within, in your imagination”.

3. Neville’s view is good news to those who look for parallels between the mystic philosophies of the East and West.At the risk of oversimplifying the matter, here are some excerpts from Buddhist and Hinduist texts.

4. There is no qualitative difference between a dream image, a memory image and the sensory image before us.Why then does the (seeming) external world in the present moment have such a forceful aspect of hard reality? He answers: the imagination is immersed in and acting from the present sensory image.

5. This is difficult to intuitively grasp. For many it will seem nonsense, but consider it carefully.Already with the practised acquisition of wordless self-consciousness (see Ep 001) objections to new ideas are taking on a relative quality. It is liberating. The external world is not threatening us from the position of an independently existing and malevolent force, but is merely a reflection.

I am convinced that this is the very heart of the secret knowledge in ancient schools and traditions.

To those who might think this is all nonsense from the point of view of science. Material science itself and its seeming quality of absolute truth are nothing more than constructs of the mind.

6. Exercise - let’s put the whole thing into practice.
KEY QUOTE“The feeling of the wish fulfilled, if assumed and sustained, must objectify the state that would have created it.” (Neville, Prayer, The Art of Believing)

RESOURCES

Prayer, The Art of Believing by Neville; text and audio by Barry Peterson

Wikipedia entry: Solipsism
See sub-sections on Hinduism and Buddhism.

The intent is not to embrace solipsism as an intellectual position, but to contemplate the reality of the unity of mind/world.

The Life and Teaching of Naropa, by Herbert V. Guenther (1963)

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SHOW NOTES

SUMMARY
part 1

• motive in creating the podcast
• disclaimer
• core concepts of Neville Goddard's teaching
• elements in future episodes: core concepts; methods and techniques; special topics; resources

part 2

• core concept and practice: awareness of being

KEY QUOTE
"If you consistently practice this exercise in self-awareness on every possible occasion... a permanent integration of the consciousness will result, and you will be able to remain in a state of self-awareness for as long as you wish to do so." (~ R. Alexander)

RESOURCES
Essential
1. pdf download: identity and nature - Notes on “I am” and excerpt from Dr. Rolf Alexander: exercise in awareness of being.
2. Source for (1): Dr. Rolf Alexander: Creative Realism (Literary Licensing; originally published Pageant Press, 1954)

1. Audio Enlightenment: Barry Peterson. Among several titles available free, this one is a fine place to start: At Your Command.
2. Neville Goddard Radio podcast (Barry Peterson): Episode 95 Fundamentals

Mentioned
5. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
6. Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method by Henry H. Bauer
7. Science is a Sacred Cow by Anthony Standen 8. In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky
9. The New Man by Maurice Nicoll