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Read with reverence, pause, emphasis and effect by Josiah Brandt in 2020
RESOURCES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR: =============
Josiah's Youtube Channel:
Inspiration: Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Imagery: Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
Community: Neville Goddard School of Imagination Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
Education: Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
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Read with reverence, pause, emphasis and effect by Josiah Brandt in 2020
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Audio: Read by Josiah Brandt on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hMHbePWvBXGRDqTYxUf6P
Inspiration: Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Imagery: Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
Community: Neville Goddard School of Imagination Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
Education: Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved
Read with reverence, pause, emphasis and effect by Josiah Brandt in 2020
RESOURCES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR: =============
Audio: Read by Josiah Brandt on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hMHbePWvBXGRDqTYxUf6P
Inspiration: Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Imagery: Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
Community: Neville Goddard School of Imagination Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
Education: Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
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Originally presented by Neville Goddard on 10/7/1968
Read with reverence, pause, emphasis and effect by Josiah Brandt in 2020
"Those who are not awake to this principle do not die. Rather, they are restored to life to continue their journey, for nothing dies in God's world, not even a little rose.
Because of God's death, man is destined to move out of a world where things appear to die, to enter a heavenly world where its occupants are supernatural.
No more will there be men of flesh and blood, but immortal brothers who have life in themselves. No longer will man animate a body of death, but will know himself to be a life-giving spirit.
That is your destiny. Dwell upon it.
If you still have ambitions to shine in the world, apply this principle.
But I prophecy for you: the day will come when you will turn your back upon it, realizing that all that matters is what God has wrought in you."
May the Truth of these words bless you beyond measure. 💎
RESOURCES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR: =============
Audio: Read by Josiah Brandt on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hMHbePWvBXGRDqTYxUf6P
Inspiration: Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Imagery: Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
Community: Neville Goddard School of Imagination Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
Education: Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved
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One of the most powerful Neville Goddard lectures.
Originally presented by Neville Goddard on 7/25/1969
Read with reverence, pause, emphasis and effect by Josiah Brandt in 2018
"Well, now, test Him and see, because He creates everything. There isn’t a thing in this world that wasn’t first imagined. Name it! Everything in the world that is now proven as something that is factual was once only imagined.
You mean, my imagination is the Lord Jesus?
Yes, your imagination is the Lord Jesus; but He’s dreaming.
He is dreaming this world. He is dreaming that He is you; and, as you, He is dreaming whatever you experience in this world.
I don’t care what it is – good, bad, or indifferent, He is suffering with you, for He is dreaming the dream of your life. He laid Himself down within you to dream; and as He dreams, He dreams that He is you.
And whatever you think you are, that is what Jesus-in-you, who is the Lord forever, is dreaming!
And when He wakes, He is you!
And you are the Lord Jesus."
RESOURCES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR: =============
Audio: Read by Josiah Brandt on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hMHbePWvBXGRDqTYxUf6P
Inspiration: Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Imagery: Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
Community: Neville Goddard School of Imagination Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
Education: Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved
A 1954 lecture from the archives of the Neville Goddard School of Imagination.
"This is Easter, and Easter comes not once a year, Easter is a daily opportunity to simply die that you may live.
For here it is said, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Any man. Well, how would I take up my cross and follow after this idea?
First, I am told I must deny myself. Usually man thinks that means giving up something he loves, giving up the pleasures of the table, or giving up something of which he is especially fond. It hasn’t a thing to do with giving up external things. It is: a man must deny himself, and a man’s true self is made up of the sum total of all that he believes, all that he accepts as true, all that he consents to.
So, if I consent to a man dying, then I must deny that concept, that self, and put in its place the embodiment of a healthy being. When I do that, I can follow after this idea. You can take this principle and apply it to everything in this world. If it’s not some tangible thing on earth you want, take some noble concept of a man, take a man that you would love to see in this world.
Dream of that man actually walking this earth and identify yourself with that man. Associate yourself in your own imagination with that as if you were he. When you actually feel that I am he, and continue in that state, then things begin to unfold to bear witness to the truth of your assumption. You try it."
May the Truth of these words bless you beyond measure. 💎
RESOURCES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR: =============
Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination Student Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 The Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved
An undated lecture from the archives of the Neville Goddard School of Imagination.
May the Truth of these words bless you beyond measure. 💎
RESOURCES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR: =============
Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination Student Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 The Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved
One of Neville Goddard's Greatest Works thoughtfully narrated with in-depth discussion and commentary by Josiah Brandt.
After reading each chapter, I take a few minutes to discuss my thoughts and impressions about the chapter.
"Awareness is unconditioned. To be aware of being something or someone is conditioning the unconditioned. That which is defined is less than the definer. Awareness of being is the Almighty God, the Everlasting Father, upon whose shoulders is the government of the world. Awareness sustains and directs all things that it is aware of being. Consciousness of being is the eternal womb impregnating itself through the medium of desire. To be conscious of an urge or desire is to have conceived. To believe, by feeling yourself (The Formless) to be the thing desired, is to be crucified upon the form of the thing felt. To continue in the belief, feeling that you are now the thing desired until all doubts cease and a deep conviction is born that it is so is to be resurrected or visibly lifted into expressing the nature of the thing felt."
In this book, Neville lays out the metaphysical principles of creation, revealing the Secret of Consciousness as the fundamental creative power of the phenomena of life.
MORE RESOURCES: =============
The Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved.
Original presentation: May 8, 1970
Read with reverence, pause, effect and repeat in 2019 by Josiah Brandt.
"I can think of you forever and forever and you are but shadows within my mind, flat surfaces depicting that which I would like you to be. But you are not that which I would like you to be until I die and live in you and turn you into a reality."
"How different the cubic reality is from the “dimension,” that is, the flat surface that depicts it. So Alice is simply within the imagination of the divine Imagination: only a flat surface, moving because He observes her. He animates her by being aware of her. But He so loves her, he will not let her go. He leaves everything and cleaves to Alice until he enters Alice and dwells within her and thinks from Alice, instead of thinking of Alice." - N.G.
In this lecture, Neville uses the Lewis Carroll story "Alice Through The Looking Glass" to illustrate what is taking place in our individual reality: God is dreaming... and He is dreaming that He is I.
Link to lecture text: http://realneville.com/txt/he_is_dreaming_now.htm
May the Truth of these words bless you beyond measure. 💎
MORE RESOURCES: =============
Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 The Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved
One of Neville's Greatest Works thoughtfully narrated by Josiah Brandt.
"Awareness is unconditioned. To be aware of being something or someone is conditioning the unconditioned. That which is defined is less than the definer. Awareness of being is the Almighty God, the Everlasting Father, upon whose shoulders is the government of the world. Awareness sustains and directs all things that it is aware of being. Consciousness of being is the eternal womb impregnating itself through the medium of desire. To be conscious of an urge or desire is to have conceived. To believe, by feeling yourself (The Formless) to be the thing desired, is to be crucified upon the form of the thing felt. To continue in the belief, feeling that you are now the thing desired until all doubts cease and a deep conviction is born that it is so is to be resurrected or visibly lifted into expressing the nature of the thing felt."
In this book, Neville lays out the metaphysical principles of creation, revealing the Secret of Consciousness as the fundamental creative power of the phenomena of life.
MORE RESOURCES: =============
The Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved.
Read with pause, emphasis and effect by Josiah Brandt.
"But tonight believe me: your own wonderful human imagination is the one and only God, so put him to the test. Know what you want and let him create it for you. Search for and find the feeling that would be yours if things were as you desire them to be. Look at your world - would you see it differently? Would those in your world see a different you? Create that scene, catch the feeling of reality and don’t let go!
Don’t forget what you saw and how you felt, for he who creates in you must have a model to work with. Don’t be the double-minded man Jesus speaks of: “The double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. He looks into the mirror of life and sees what he looks like, then he turns and forgets what he was like.”
Do not turn away from what you have just imagined and forget what you really look like, but persist in the new state. Remain faithful to it and let the one within you (who is Christ the Lord) externalize it, for you and He are one. I don’t mean you and the Lord, but you are the Lord. There is only God in this world and you will know one day that you are He."
MORE RESOURCES: =============
The Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
My Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 The Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved.
This is one of Neville's greatest lectures of all time.
1954 Lecture Series Read by Josiah Brandt with reverence, pause, emphasis and effect.
"I feel that this morning's subject that this could be it, that if I never said another word, and you heard it and believed it, and really used it, this would be the planting that would spread from us here that tomorrow could not undo. For it is magic, this pruning shears of revision. It really is not only the achievement of objectives, but if you do it daily, it will awaken in you the spirit of Jesus, which is continual forgiveness of sin."
In this lecture from 1954, Neville shares what he says is the most important information available for the liberation of mankind: The Pruning Shears of Revision.
MORE RESOURCES: =============
The Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination: https://www.schoolofi.org
This audio is ©2020 The Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved.
Original presentation: April 19, 1969
Read with reverence, pause, effect and repeat in 2019 by Josiah Brandt.
"You will always find people eager to question what you think of this one or that one. I am quite sure if we all traced our ancestry back far enough we would find hippies, murderers, and thieves recorded there. In the beginning no one was born a king; someone had to feel that position and take it by force. You don't have to go back and change anyone or anything, but envy no one.
If someone wants a thousand or a hundred thousand acres, let him have them. If you would like to live in a lovely apartment, claim you do. You may think you can't afford the one you want, but that thought is an imaginal act. I would suggest, instead of thinking you can't afford it, to simply sleep in that apartment tonight mentally, accepting the fact that you have all the funds necessary to pay for it. Persist and the world will respond. You will get the money needed to live there.
The world does not cause, it only responds to your imaginal acts, for only God acts and God is in you as your own wonderful human imagination. Now, before you judge it, try it. If you do, you cannot fail, and when you prove imagination in the testing, share the good news with your brothers. Tell everyone you meet how the world works. You do not have to have a proper educational or social background to apply this principle; and you cannot fail, for an assumption, though false, if persisted in will harden into fact." --N.G.
Link to lecture text: http://realneville.com/txt/all_that_you_behold.htm
May the Truth of these words bless you beyond measure. 💎
MORE RESOURCES: =============
Josiah's Art of Intentional Creation Podcast: https://anchor.fm/intentional-creation
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
The Neville Goddard School of Imagination on Facebook (live videos and commentary)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination
This audio is ©2020 The Neville Goddard School of Imagination. All Rights Reserved
Every Natural Effect: A Class Lecture by Neville
Read by Josiah Brandt in 2019.
In this lecture, Neville describes the imaginal cause behind every "real world" effect or "fact".
"It’s a special moment, a precious moment, a moment where you can actually use it to plant what you want planted in this world and, remembering that moment, well then, it has to come out. For every natural effect has a spiritual cause and not a natural. Well, that spiritual cause is that moment when you dare to assume that you are the man or the woman that you would like to be or that another man, in his case the barber, that he is the top as he desired to be. So, you can do it not only for yourself, do it for another or do it for many as he did. And these are these precious moments in this wonderful world of ours, but our memory fades and we do not remember.
So when the whole thing rises in our world, we do not relate it to our own harvest. We can’t remember when we ever did it. But not a thing could happen in my world that comes by accident. It couldn’t. All things come because I planted it, either wittingly or unwittingly. I either did it knowing what I’m doing or I did it not knowing because I was lost in some emotional state, and I felt intensely about a state. It might have been a lovely state or an unlovely state, but the seed was planted and I will reap it. And the whole thing will come into my world whether I recognize my harvest or not. So, if I know this to be the law of life, it is entirely up to me now to select and plant only what I want to reap in my world."
Visit the School of Imagination Facebook group to watch my commentary on this lecture.
Josiah's Resources: =============
Neville Goddard School of Imagination on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolofimagination/
Josiah's Personal Instagram (Travel and Lifestyle Inspiration): @indiana.josiah
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