Feeling Twisty: Recent Episodes
Mike Brignac
Dive into what Nathan's doing here: the We Are Already Free Podcast and We Are Already Free
Hear how Mr. Twenty Twenty transformed his life after his Christmas Day Epiphany. And then our conversation flows in so many wonderful directions. We talk about manifesting, things spiritual and not obviously spiritual. We had fun!
This was so much fun! Check out my conversation with my dear friend, Alessandra Filippi, soprano. She's sharing her talents with students of all ages so they too can find their voice.
I felt helpless and hopeless when the woman I just knew was the one for me told me to get lost. I found love, the woman of my dreams, only after I gave up fighting myself, thinking that another person could make me happy. Once I stopped fighting and really enjoyed learning to love myself, she came into my life...
When it comes to manifesting, Jerry Emeka says the simplest advice is 'let it be true.' I am so thrilled to have my friend as a guest on today's episode.
When it comes to manifesting, it isn't that you're doing a technique wrong. It's our dogged insistence that we are not already who we want to be.
Mike shares a couple of stories on this episode. One from a friend who was certain he would be fired and a story from a woman who dreamed of the perfect home and now lives in it!
I was so thrilled when Grant Monk and Alessandra Filippi agreed to share a little bit about their love story. I'm sure we can all agree that love with a loving partner is a popular topic in manifesting circles. Grant and Alessandra show how simple it can be. I look forward to having them on again soon to share more of their story. I want to hear your story too. Send it to mystory@feelingtwisty.com
This is a new thing I'm doing. I have been wanting to bring guests on and this is the first of what will likely become a new, separate podcast.
My first guest is a name that anyone diving into manifesting over the last couple of decades will recognize,
Mr. Twenty Twenty.
You're immense, eternal, a limitless being imagining limited stories. That’s not just a cute little manifesting saying. It’s truth!
You’re the dreamer, dreaming your story. That’s not metaphor. This is a dream. An imaginal universe. Malleable. Nothing is fixed unless you want it to be.
What I do know is this:
It takes no effort. You decide what effort is.
You have the final say. The only say.
You only need to decide/ assume / imagine a thing and carry on from there.
This day, right here and now, fulfillment is already being established. It can’t not be. You’re always experiencing fulfillment. But we get so caught up in insisting it isn’t.
You are so big and beautiful. Every possible story to experience is already within you. Stop insisting you don’t have what you do already have.
I have found the hit and miss nature of manifesting has nothing to do with a technique or a particular teaching. It comes down to my own indecisiveness.
Decide a thing and it will be established for you. Look around you. Look at yourself in the mirror. See how powerful you are? You did all of this with no effort.
You are infinitely greater than any problem and every success story you can imagine.
"Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3
Incomprehensible from a certain point of view, but so clear, so breathtaking and obvious from another. Turn to yourself. You’re not calling on a power outside of yourself.
One of the most difficult things for me was truly letting go of secondary causes. I said there was no other power but my own imagination, but I held a little idea deep down that the thing I call my imagination was still some other power, something ever so slightly separate from me. Let go of a little you and a big you. It’s you, momentarily captivated with the notion of being little and big. You’re so much more. Turn to yourself. As you do, more and more layers will peel back. You’ll see so clearly how everything is responding to you.
Isn't it funny how we trust the word of a teacher we've never met and likely never will more than we trust the only one that matters. Ourselves!
One night I something dawned on me. I have no problem keeping my promises to my friends and family. I imagine them just as they want to be and I refuse to let doubt creep in. The question I asked myself in that moment was, "Then why the hell do I continue to cave and settle, breaking my promises to myself?" My string of broken promises ended that night.
What I really want to impress on you today is that you are beautiful. You are holy. You’re perfect. Your awareness of being is God. You are the operant power.
The filter you’re using to view yourself and your world is the only thing making you think you’re less than.
What we see through the filter or our state of consciousness is so convincing we believe what we see and experience in the physical world is the only reality. And as we remain convinced, it feels nearly impossible to detach from it and trust the reality called imagination or awareness.
I can never make you believe you're a limitless being experiencing yourself as a limited person. No amount of programs or books or podcasts can make you see just how wonderful you are. It is a first person present tense, singular experience. Everything really is already first person present tense, singular but it seems that there are powers and influences outside of your control. Because you believe them to be outside of you.
"I didn’t need to find an empty room to get into the silence. The stillness is always with me. It is me. The immovable rock of my salvation. My I Amness. The I Am never changes. My states do. But as long as I continued to believe I am the state I am presently entertaining, I could get lost in it.
Just breathe. Loosen my focus for a moment..."
I received so many wonderful topic suggestions last week. Thank you for all the great ideas!
This episode is the first of my responses.
"I must not wait for facts to believe that I am the man that I want to be. I produce the facts if I know who I am." Neville
My state was the cause and a new state is the solution.
"Consciousness is the one and only reality. There is no one to whom we can turn after we discover that our own awareness is God. For God is the cause of all and there is nothing but God." Neville Goddard
“Desiring is thinking of; living it is thinking from. Don’t desire it, live it! I go to bed tonight desiring? No, go to bed living it. Sleep as though you were now the man that you formerly desired to be, just as though it were true.” Neville Goddard
Drop every reasonable explanation of why you can’t be the person you want to be. Not by fighting it or avoiding it, but by embracing the new state. Fasten yourself to it in Imagination.
"Take this tonight and if you multiply what you paid when you came in by any figure in the world, it couldn’t pay for it…if you believe it. If you accept it and decide to live by it, you have bought yourself freedom, real freedom. And so what is the price of freedom? You tell me what it is worth. If you can stop short of the ultimate, well then, you don’t really want freedom. So you can’t put any price on freedom. What have you this night that you would not give in its entirety if you were enslaved, and by the giving of it you would be set free." Neville Goddard
When we realize our true nature we know that there is no secondary cause.
When the storms of life strike, I know I am the cause. The wonderful news is that I am also the cause of the calm.
Here are the sites I mentioned: Twenty Twenty's Coffee Game
Koti Tea's Masterclasses
Dr. Anila Reddy's Unwind
Who am I feeding? Am I feeding the state of lack or am I resting in the experience of my awareness as God and CHOOSING to nourish something different?
Here's the link to Anila's program. Unwind
My friend, Frank, has discovered his true nature. He finally let me share a little bit about his life.
I get to share Ryan's story about he found what he wanted through what Neville Goddard calls The First Principle.
A friend recently asked me what I do when the storms rage. My answer is Neville Goddard's First Principle, or as those of us who grew up in church, Psalm 46:10. 'Be still and know that I am God.'
What do you want your new year to feel like knowing that God is your imagination and that what you imagine God imagines?
I died today. I died yesterday too. And I will die tomorrow. I want to die. I look forward to it.
I'm talking about death in the mystical sense. Dying to my old self - my former states. I don’t want to ever stop dying to the limits I’ve previously set for myself while discovering new limits to move beyond.
Choose this day what you love to feel. Choose every day what to imagine. It really is up to you.
Someone recently asked me, "What's the point of turning within if you don't get the desired results?" This episode is my answer. 💚
Here are a few stories from two women who refused to accept what the facts were telling them and trusted their inner self.
Know it. Become one with the new state. Fall so madly in love with this new you that you look forward to spending time in the state. I don’t mean repeating the same imaginal scene over and over. If you spend a few moments and really step into the new state in your imagination and feel the reality of it, the desire to redo the scene is no longer there. I’m talking about accepting that it’s done and enjoying living, moving, and breathing in this new state.
Here is Dr. Reddy's email: hello@anilareddy.com
And here is my friend Ricky's YouTube channel: Pay It Forward
“Now, in order to play the game of life, you must know what you want to replace what you have. When you know what it is, you must assume the feeling that you have it.” Neville Goddard
Here's the link to Anila Reddy's 'Unwind.' https://anilareddy.com/unwind/
“What would you like to be in this world? Begin to imagine as if it were true. Know what you want, then cease wanting it and appropriate it. Begin, now, to imagine it is true. That is subjectively appropriating the objective hope.”
Hear how Jerry shed 60 pounds in under eight weeks. This, after spending the last 25 years trying all sorts of ways to lose and keep off the unwanted weight.
He got the idea to use his imagination to lose weight after going through David Breslow's 'Wired to Win' program. Here's a link to David's site. http://davebreslow.com/
I have a fun story from someone who got their boss a promotion (and themselves peace of mind) through use of their imagination.
"Scripture tells us to love God because he first loved us, and that we should imitate him as a dear child. How is this done? By falling in love! Whether your desire be for wealth, fame, health, or marriage, you must fall in love with the state." Neville Goddard
You know how when you’re with the one you love and you just want to devour them?
Nothing else outside of them exists in that moment.
Fall in love with the new state - the feeling of actually being or having what you truly want. Not what you think you should want. Not what anyone else says you should want.
Become one with it. No separation in time and space. You are it now.
"When you have a desire, the deeper you, who men call God, is speaking. He urges you, through the language of desire, to accept that which is not that which is to be! Desire is simply his communion with you, telling you that your desire is yours, now! Your acceptance of this fact is proved by your complete adjustment to it as though it were true." Neville Goddard
“Listen within yourself and observe your internal mental conversations, for the state is singing its own song and it reveals itself in man's inner speech.”
You ever have those times when you've imagined your wish fulfilled, then some time passes and nothing seems to have changed?
I am always experiencing the reflection of my state. I am always producing from the state. My state has its own desires, beliefs, and reactions. It’s my identity. It's the mask God wears.
"Tonight, as you put your head on that pillow, snuggle into the mood of the wish fulfilled in absolute confidence, and trust that God has ways and means your surface mind knows not of." Neville Goddard
This is one of my favorites of Neville Goddard's lectures.
"Want to awaken? Do this..." - Neville
"You are standing forever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy, and from this energy all things proceed, but they proceed according to pattern. Energy is moving in a certain pattern and you determine the pattern that it takes, for you actually lay down these tracks within you that energy flows over by the use of your inner conversations." Neville Goddard
This episode is from January 29, 2021. A listener pointed out that it was missing. I didn't realize the language I used was considered explicit. After a couple of adjustments...here ya go!
Ever have one of those days when all is going so well and then it isn't? And then you start to freak out and wonder what the hell are you doing wrong?
"So today I'm practicing 'no memory' states. I remember and know nothing - about myself and the world. All erased. At first, it was a bit scary. A Blank page. But it feels like total freedom after a while." I got that message from a listener this morning. Our conversation led to today's topic. Let me know how you're exploring emptiness.
Call me and I will answer. And I will blow your mind. - Jeremiah 33:3 (Feeling Twisty Translation)
"Sleeping in the state, you move across a bridge of incident that leads you toward the fulfillment of your assumption. But when you forget the tense and you say I will be I was or in any other way, you delay the journey. And it seems so long because man in his journey finds it difficult to keep the tense of the God he promised to worship." Neville
"Decide to start noticing how seeming others are reflecting your state of consciousness. It’ll work. A simple decision to start paying attention. You’ll see. And even if you have the shock that I did, that shock will fade into the beauty and freedom of who you really are."
"So what are you saying at every moment of time? Watch it; be careful what you are saying, because your whole vast world is this inner conversation pushed out. And you can change it only by changing the conversation, because the conversation is equated with your nature. This whole vast world is but “frozen” inner speech." Neville Goddard
This episode comes from a message I got from someone this week. Some schools of thought teach it's better to shed all desires. Well, I don't agree with that.
"When you revise a memory that is fixed you have repealed it.
You have that power.
Test it by bringing a seemingly hopeless case before your mind’s eye and revise it. Persist in revising it until you can let go of it by feeling the breath of relief because it is done."
So how do we find this heaven within us? We change our way of thinking and become like we were as children - full of ideas, dreams and fully engaging our imagination for the sheer joy of it.
Want to really awaken to your imaginative power? Start practicing the art of revision, imagining differently for yourself and others.
Three stories about refusing to accept the facts, remaining in the state of the wish fulfilled.
This was a lot of fun for me. I share three stories from two women who truly live the imaginative life.
"It doesn’t matter what it takes or how it comes about, just keep the sabbath relative to it. It will come to pass.”
Neville Goddard
Now go on about your life, from this new perspective, and keep on creating. Don’t sit on the couch eating Oreos and peanut butter, waiting for the fulfillment of the one big desire.
"Suppose the facts still deny what you did. It doesn’t matter. Let the facts remain. They’ll dissolve. They’ll all dissolve because you’re going to remain faithful and occupy the state.” Neville
I was a positive thinker for many years. I was positive things were going to get worse tomorrow. And they did.
If there's any importance in what other people think or say about me, it's how I react to it.
Here are a few cool stories from my friends and family and how they used the power of faith.
Instead of waiting hours for your next formal session, why not move as soon as you notice a desire and feel the feeling of it already true for you? Now.
We don't have to love ourselves to manifest the life we want, but why not give it a try.
Who says I can't be the person I want to be? I do. It's been me stopping myself all along.
When I am indecisive and hesitant within, my world reflects that. When I am clear and definite within, my world reflects that, too.
"Every belief in a power outside of Christ Jesus you give up, and you give it up and hold onto him and only to him."
Buying the pearl of great price isn't a one and done kind of thing. It's a daily renewing of the mind, turning to the one and only cause.
"Tonight fall in love as God. Imitate him as a dear child. Love any state so much you die to any other. Live there, as God, and you will live there as man also." Neville Goddard
Be still and know that I am love. I thought about calling this one, "When I Think of Me, I Touch Myself," but I thought otherwise.
I talk about falling in love with the state of my wish fulfilled often. Today, I tell you about the day I fell madly in love with my body, even with all the wrinkly, achy, and jiggly bits.
A listener, and now a friend, Ophir, wanted to come see me. Two hurricanes and a pandemic wouldn't shake him from the state of his wish fulfilled.
"If you look to reason rather than imagination, you are seeing the devil instead of God. The devil is the doubter in you."
Neville Goddard
The First Principle, "Be still and know that I am God," isn't a step in a process. It's a profound and equally simple experience of who I really am - and who you really are.
This one's got a few little stories to show how Kim and I live our lives. Plus, a really cool story from listener and what she did after being diagnosed with Covid-19.
Relax. Be still and hold everything you think is permanent and unchangeable to the light of consciousness.
"Man is a psychological being, a thinker. It is not what he feeds upon physically, but what he feeds upon mentally that he becomes." Neville Goddard
I'm often asked what action should someone take once they have assumed the feeling of their wish fulfilled. I usually reply, "You are always acting, so, are you acting from the old state or the state of your wish fulfilled?"
I love a grilled burger. I love every bit of it. The bun too! But for a long time I punished myself, doing violence to my desires.
"Then you will be free of the greatest tyranny in the world, and the greatest tyranny in the world is the belief in the secondary cause." Neville Goddard
One person's disaster is another's opportunity to grow, to expand, to shift into a lovelier state of consciousness.
Things are so much simpler by living in the end than focusing on the possible means to the end.
Everything changes from the instant I imagine myself into a different state of consciousness. My course has altered. I don’t have to wait or look for the series of events that will lead to it because I am already encountering them. Everything that happens from the point of my assumption on is my new state unfolding in my life. If I don’t live in that assumption, then I won’t express it.
I want to encourage you to live boldly. You can be anything you want in this world and you don’t have to manipulate or persuade anyone to get it.
Your feelings of lack or worry naturally drop away as you move into and dwell in the state of your wish fulfilled . It’s a product of your motion into another state, not a step you have to take.
"I take scene after scene and rewrite it, revise it, and having revised my day, then in my imagination I relive that day, the revised day, and I do it over and over in my imagination until this seeming imagined state begins to take on to me the tones of reality. It seems that it's real, that I actually did experience it and I have found from experience that these revised days, if really lived, will change my tomorrows." From Neville's lecture, "The Pruning Shears of Revision"p
You are so much bigger than any state you can come up with. Anything is possible for your imagination.
“The question is often asked, “What should be done between the assumption of the wish fulfilled and its realization? Nothing." Neville Goddard
"When I pray, I am moving toward the fulfillment of my wish. My father’s house is within me and that’s where I find the many houses, the infinite states of consciousness. I can pick any of them to inhabit."
Let's see, this episode has Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and limiting beliefs.
You are Imagination with a capital I, imagining your identity, your body, your world into existence. How can you have limits? I mean real limits.
What if two people desire the same thing? What if they both know the power of imagination?
A good friend of mine asked me the other day, “Do you really think a 48 year old guy with no money can go from zero to wealth creator if he only assumes it?"
I replied, “Do you think a 47 year old man who’s stuck in a wheelchair, diagnosed with permanent brain damage and an awful movement disorder can be healed by simply assuming it?”
He said, “Point well taken, thank you.”
Drop your reliance on seemingly outside forces and turn to the power and wisdom of God. Wanna know where it is? Look in the mirror.
“There is only one God, one cause of all life. He is not only above all and through all; he is in all. The universally diffused individuality is in each one of us in his fullness. Dwelling in each individual bodily, the father sleeps until the storm is over. Then he awakens and rebukes the storm that he created during his sleep, and there is a great calm. If you will accept this as your philosophy of life, and not turn to the left or the right, but claim you are solely responsible for the phenomena of your life, you will find it much easier to live."
From Neville Goddard's lecture, "Freedom."
“Do I really believe that imagining creates reality? If I do, I couldn’t worry, for worry is to only conjure what I fear in this world. For worry is an imaginal act. I couldn’t possibly be concerned about anything if I really believe that imagining creates reality." Neville Goddard
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.” 1 John 4:18
The topic for this episode came up during a lovely conversation I had with a friend. We chatted about what I do when I am experiencing pain, when symptoms are shouting for attention.
“I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.” Joshua 1:3
Wherever I go in imagination, even if it’s harmful to me, it will be mine. Whatever state of consciousness I inhabit, I’ll express.
Prayer is made up of two Greek words. One means 'vicinity of, movement toward,' and the other means, 'to wish.'
When we have a desire, we move toward the fulfillment of that wish. We exchange the state we are in for the state of the wish fulfilled. And we do what God did and does. We move across the living waters within us.
On the level most people prefer to talk about, the promised land is whatever those things are that you want in life. Health, wealth, security, love. And you find the fulfillment of those desires by turning to the only God - I AM.
"Know what forgiveness is? It’s a creative power. You take anyone in this world and the minute you see them less than they ought to be seen, you identify them with the idea that you’d like to see them express, and persuade yourself that they are expressing it. That is creative power: it tests your ability to enter the opposite and partake in the opposite. It’s all creation. And here you start to create in the biggest way by using your Imagination." From Neville's lecture, "The Man Within"
I have had plenty of "failures" since diving into Neville and I can some up the reason why with one word. Timidity.
"If I assume that I am the man that I want to be, let me observe my reactions. If they are as they were, I have not identified myself with my choice, for my reactions are automatic and so If I am changed I would automatically change my reactions to life."
From Neville's lecture, "Changing The Feeling of I"
I can easily tell if I am in my preferred state by noticing my reactions. How about you?
"Nothing in this world is untrue if you want it to be true.” Neville Goddard
I answer several questions from listeners including the genie in the bottle and aliens!
This one was fun.
When you really know that imagining creates reality, you will experience a whole new life.
You will be unstoppable!
You cannot escape God - your imagination. So, what are you doing about it today? You can choose to live a passive life, surrending to the facts of the world or stir the power within you and move into an active state, intentionally choosing your adventure.
"When Christ (Imagination) begins to stir in you, go all out and completely abandon yourself to a state. Determine to either sink or swim, dare to move from one state into another." Neville Goddard
Test your imagination and I bet you will notice how simply you have manifested your world. Now that you've tested it, play in imagination. Be a kid again. Let your imagination run wild and really get to know your true self.
That's when you realize you really can be the person you want to be.
Thanks for listening. Now go expand your borders - have fun!
“You are now in the garden of Eden and you think you are shut out or banished. You are in it, and the garden is your mind, but you need, like every gardener, pruning shears. For you have slept and weeds have appeared in the garden and the weeds are revealing themselves by the conditions and the circumstances of life. For your garden is always projecting itself on the screen of space, and you can see, by looking carefully at your world, what you allow to grow in the garden of God."
This quote is from Neville's lecture, "The Pruning Shears of Revision." It's one of my favorites!
So, how is your garden growing?
When I just believed what Neville taught, that imagining creates reality. My thoughts would go something like this: “Yeah yeah, imagining creates reality, but why is this so hard? Why am I not seeing any changes in my life?”
Because I was a hearer of the word and not a doer. I didn’t know from experience the truth of the statement: "Imagining creates reality."
I didn’t trust God - I didn’t trust imagination.
No one just trusts someone on blind faith. Trust comes with a relationship - with experience. And that’s how I began to learn to trust imagination - my true self.
In Neville's lecture, "Free or Slave," he shares a wonderful story of a man who first, imagined doubling his income and got it within two weeks, then, imagined having enough money to spend his days on the beach. He got that too!
"Imagining creates reality in the most determined, definite manner man could ever imagine. Whether or not he believes it, he can’t avoid this principle that imagining creates reality. And it is not only the intentional imaginal act but every imaginal act."
What do a sugar daddy, bubble baths, birds, and trees have in common? Well, they're all in this episode.
Neville has at least two different lectures titled, "Our Real Beliefs." This one is from 1966. In this lecture, he shares a story about a woman who through two simple imaginal acts, ends up going from 87 dollars a month to 1200. That's about 10 thousand in today's dollars!
"Your Imagination is the light of the world. It takes the light to illuminate the state, the object; and then the world outside is only a reflector, it’s an echo, bearing witness of the state into which I have moved. So I move into a state, I remain in that state, and cast my shadow on the screen of space."
Quit fighting the shadows that seem to be caused by a someone other than your Self. Change what you are imagining and you change your world.
"The same I Amness that occupies a state of poverty is the same I Amness that occupies a state of wealth.The state is the thing and God is the occupant." From Neville's lecture, "Facts Overflow the World"
You are not your name, body, ethnicity. You are God / Awareness, imagining this character you've created. You are infinitely greater than any of those things with which you identify yourself.
When I first heard Neville say, "May I tell you, I do not worry," I knew I wanted THAT. I wanted to be that kind of person. But I imagined breaking the habit of worry was a struggle and that's what I experienced. Once you really know that I Am the cause and no one else, then you do stop worrying or worrying less and less. Knowing who you are, you now know how you got into the unlovely state and exactly how to get out of it.
"Always looking for physical causation, man cannot believe he imagined anything that could have produced such a physical effect; yet I tell you: as you sit alone and imagine you are setting a cause in motion, and when you see its effects you may deny the imaginal state, but your 'NOW' is alive and real to you because of an imaginal act on your part and for no other reason." From the lecture, "Power Called The Law," by Neville Goddard
"I see what I want to see and then I let it be true. I do not lift a finger to make it true, for how can I discuss it when it is already so." From the lecture, "Esau and Jacob," by Neville Goddard
I'd love to hear from you. Share you stories with me. Ask me about a particular topic you'd like to hear on a future episode.
Email me at feelingtwisty@gmail.com or contact me through Facebook and Instagram at @feelingtwisty
"Thoughts call forth a thing that is not seen, as though it were happening. This is accomplished by an imaginal concept touched by feeling." Neville Goddard, "There is No Fiction"
I share a little story about how I brought about a new roof AND an awful hail storm.
Experiencing the life you want does not take years of study or following specific rules. Quit making your human experience so damned hard!
"Called upon to look for the cause of creation, what are you doing losing yourself in the phenomena of life?When something happens, search your thoughts and you will discover your own wonderful human imagination to be the cause of your experience, because God is a person. You are the mask God is now wearing, for God became you that you may become God." Neville Goddard, "Yours For The Taking"
I want to thank Jack Klinedinst from Jack Avery Productions for the beautiful music he composed for me.
https://www.facebook.com/jackaveryproductions
"This disciplined quality (Thomas) doubts or denies every rumor and suggestion that are not in harmony with that which Simon Peter has been commanded to let enter." I love that quote from chapter 18 of Neville's book Your Faith is Your Fortune. This is part three of my look at that wonderful book.
Deny the "facts" that say you are not the person you want to be and experience the wonders of your imagination. Or not. It's your choice.
"Let all desires become impressions of qualities that are, not of qualities that will be. I'm (your awareness) is God and God is the fullness of all, the Eternal NOW, I AM." Your Faith Is Your Fortune, Neville Goddard
I am using Neville's wonderful book as a reference for the next few episodes. If you haven't read it I highly recommend it.
"There is only God in this world. So, when you say, 'I Am,' and I say, 'I Am,' it's the same God, but we have arranged the structure of our mind differently. We have different concepts of Self, that's all." Neville Goddard, "The Perfect Law of Liberty"
Dan asked me to talk about Neville's lecture, "The New Christology." It reminds me of "The Pearl of Great Price," because Neville is encouraging us to toss reliance on an outside power and rely on our own imagination.
Another listener asked me how to get a new bike, new wardrobe, and healthy skin. I answer those questions in today's episode, as well.
A listener told me he feels frustrated because he doesn't see any movement on the outside. He's doing what I did for a while - looking for signs.
I answer a couple of his questions in this episode and I share a cool story that happened to me today.
I had a wonderful conversation with a friend of mine today. We talked about the importance of being a doer and not just a hearer. Neville quoted that passage in the Bible frequently. He shared stories of how friends of his would attend his lectures for years, but never actually apply what he was teaching.
Our chat today reminded me of a very early podcast of mine, so I thought I'd revisit the topic again.
I take a look at Neville's lecture, "Occupant or Inmate." Which are you? Do you feel trapped by tradition and society or do you remember who you really are, an occupant, able to freely move from state to state?
Take a look around you and you will see the evidence of your imagination in action.
And I was wrong about the lecture title, but here it is: Neville Goddard, "The Dreamer"
Neville taught us to reach find that "inner conviction" that our wish is fulfilled, telling us, "believe in yourself and trust that inner feeling."
A listener asked me, "How do you get to that feeling of absolute knowing it is done?"
I decided to break up my answer into multiple bite-size episodes. Today is the first.
One of the things that worked for me is practice. Twenty Twenty calls it putting more fun buns in the oven. Neville encouraged those at his lectures to imagine the wish fulfilled and move on, imagining other wishes fulfilled.
Practicing, or working my imaginative muscle, gives me an opportunity to notice what and how I am imagining and what I am feeling when I do. And playing this way makes it fun!
"One day you will turn within and discover that you are the light of the world. Then you will know you are God, the light of infinite love, infinite power, and infinite wisdom." Neville Goddard
Why not fall asleep tonight in the assumption that you do remember who you really are?
"What is your answer to the eternal question, "Who am I?" Your answer determines the part YOU play in the world's drama." - Neville Goddard
I answer Ophir's questions about emotions, like sadness and anger, personality traits, like a hot temper, and about why there is so much tragedy in the world.
Regardless of what technique you use to move into the state of your wish fulfilled, it is an inner conviction that is key.
"...so the truth of any concept is known by that feeling of a peculiar certainty. It's just you know it and I can't explain it other than you know that it's true." Neville Goddard
What do vegetable juice, curry, and a green planter have in common? No compromise. This episode has three stories about seemingly small things, but the principle used, without compromise, works for every desire you might have.
If you know who you really are, you can do what Mark 11:22 says and have the faith OF God, and move mountains.
Stop assuming you can't imagine. You've been experiencing the results (and consequences) of your imagining this whole time. Make it easy. Surrender to the feeling of your wish fulfilled.
I answer a few questions from listeners in this one. I talk about imagining lovingly for seeming others, our divine purpose, mental conversations, and bridges of incidents.
Are you imagining ways to stop the financial hemorrhaging without moving into a new state of consciousness? That's cool. You'll manifest the money to get you through this week, or this year, but what would happen if you dropped your current state of lack and quick fixes and moved into a state of financial freedom?
Plus, a little on the promise...
You cannot ever escape God, your awareness of being, that is all things. You cannot separate yourself from your true Self, but you can control your assumptions, your states of consciousness. Or, you can keep on being tossed about by "outside" circumstances.
Consciousness is the only reality. It really doesn't matter what seems to be going on "out there." Regardless of restrictions placed on you by the government or the economy or any limitations at all, you can transcend your current state of consciousness.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls. When he found one very precious pearl, he went and sold all that he owned and bought it."
Here are a few stories from my day that demonstrate how easily you can experience your wishes fulfilled.
Feeling bombarded with scary facts? The good news is you don't have to continue buying into them. You can, right this moment, move into a new state of consciousness. You can drop the facts you have been letting shape you!
"Facts are the fruit bearing witness of the use or misuse of the imagination." Neville Goddard
I want to encourage you to be clear on what you want, assume the feeling of that new state, and DO NOT SETTLE for less.
I can sense the effect of wind, but never see air that stirs the trees. Just like the movements of the air, I can sense the effects of my imagination, but never actually see Imagination. I am the one imagining. My awareness of being (and yours!) is God.
"Be still and know that I Am God." I used to make THAT so difficult. I would make a big production out of it - shutting myself off from the world, listening to brown noise I found on YouTube, trying to coerce myself into the silence. But one day I realized I don't have to do any of that to "be still." The silence is with me wherever I go. It is within me. It IS me.
Neville say each one of us is God, individualized, only limited by our concept of self. Throughout our lives we are told how we should behave, what to believe, how to worship, and who to love. So, we buy into what society tells us, never realizing (until we do!) that seeming others have no true power over us.
So, what's going on in your world right now? What's going on within you? Are you dwelling in a state of panic or are you abiding in the KNOWING of who you really are?
I have a few cool stories from today that, I think, show how easy it is to slip into the state of the wish fulfilled.
Where is your attention going? Are you continuing to stare at circumstances, the remnants of the old state, or are you seeing you world from the state of your wish fulfilled?
One of my first episodes highlighted this lecture. I wanted to go back and take another look at it. I like how Neville explains things so simply, likening states of consciousness to eggs that we fertilize by entering them in imagination.
Enjoy!
"A state is an attitude of mind, a state of experience with a body of beliefs which you live by. If you don't like the state into which you've fallen, move into another." Neville Goddard
A listener asked me about the difference between dwelling in the state of the wish fulfilled and dropping your desire. I answer her with a few simple and easy stories. I know this one will give to you. Thanks for listening.
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Neville says the world is infinite response to what you're imagining. In this episode, I share a story about how I nearly got throat punched in Walmart and how that relates to the state into which I fell.
You have always had all the power and wisdom you need to experience the life you want. In this episode, I encourage you to trust yourself, plus, take you through a technique I use to get into the first principle.
Wendy shared a wonderful story about how she found, lost, and found a one hundred dollar bill the other day. I'll give you a hint how she found it. Being still and moving in imagination.
Cynthia shared a wonderful story about how she used revision and the Western Gate - using the sense of touch - as she imagined for her mother.
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Dan shared a couple of great success stories with me this week. As soon as a desire comes upon him, accepts that it is fulfilled, right then and there.
Thanks, Dan!
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Why sit around waiting for that one big manifestation? Why not plant that seed and then go on about your life planting fun, silly, even absurdly irrational seeds!
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I use Neville's book, Prayer - The Art of Believing, as a reference in this episode. (I realized after I recorded that I didn't mention the name of the book)
"The feeling of the wish fulfilled, if assumed and sustained, must objectify the state that would have created it."
Die to the old concept of self and give life to the new you! I also give a few examples of how I play in imagination like finding new places to explore, listening to music, and sinking into some wonderful poetry.
Here is the link to Anilaja Reddy's book, Daughter of the Wind.
This episode came out of a comment on a Facebook post about whether being specific in imagining a desire fulfilled will lead to delays.
I have been specific and general and have seen results. In either case, the delays or "failures" came when I was not truly living in the end. I was not really being the new person.
I wanted to explain how I experience the life I want in the simplest way I could today.
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I reference Neville's 1953 lecture, "Changing the Feeling of I," in this episode. I like how he explains states of consciousness and how to intentionally move into a new one.
I haven't read Neville's The Power of Awareness in a while. I had the urge to pick it up yesterday. I love the good stuff I get every time I read it and his other works.
Today, I talk about how important frequency and naturalness are to experiencing the wish fulfilled.
"If one could only control these inner conversations morning, noon, and night, and carry with them right into the dream world, he would know what he is creating." Neville Goddard
Here is the YouTube channel I mentioned: Jill Noelle
Kim asked me to talk about how quickly one can shift into a new state of being, the state of the wish fulfilled. I use two stories from my life this week. Each one is different in the steps, but the peculiar certainty is the same.
In this episode i want to share with you one way I find that feeling of my wish fulfilled, how I move from thinking of what I want to being who I want to be.
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This episode was inspired by an old friend of mine. I wanted to explain what Neville calls "The Law" in a simple way.
What are you thinking and feeling throughout the day? Change the concept of self and you change your world. Do you have big dreams but have been told you don't have "IT?" That you're not good enough? The good news is, all of that is nonsense. No one can stop you from realizing your wildest dreams, except you.
You and only you give meaning to events in your life. You can decide to remove judgment and limitations, right now.
I noticed I used to overthink EVERYTHING! For me, a real shift occurred when I stopped doing that and noticed how much easier it is to trust myself.
I got an exciting message from a listener, Julie. I share her story of how simple this stuff really is. I also talk about what I've noticed in my life when I'm resisting or truly surrendering to my wish fulfilled.
So the numbers in your account are lower than you really want them to be even though you KNOW you successfully planted the seed. So what? It doesn't mean you failed. Unless you got stuck in a DOOM LOOP! (cue ominous music)
Seriously, it DOES NOT MEAN YOU FAILED. I used to give my power over to the bank account, giving meaning to the numbers. The cool thing is you can see it for what it is...nothing. It's just numbers on a screen (or paper).
Here's a link to the lecture I mentioned in this episode: https://freeneville.com/the-game-of-life-neville-goddard-pdf/
And here is the same lecture read by Josiah Brandt: The Game of Life
Julie asked "How does one get to that point of absolute knowing?" In other words, how do you live in the end once you have moved into the preferred state? I talk about what worked and didn't work for me over the past couple of years.
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I grew up saying 'Amen' at the end of prayers. As a kid I just assumed it was the way to signal everyone else that the pray was over. Amen isn't a thing to say at the end of prayer but rather the feeling reached while moving in imagination.
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This episode sprang up in response to listener mail. Thanks Doug! But his questions are the same questions I had and I'm sure many of you have to, at some point. I also talk about Algebra and Christmas, so, yay!
Thanks for listening!
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Stop judging circumstances. I've found that when circumstances seem to contradict what I've imagined to be true, they only affect me when I judge them and give them meaning.
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God is love. When it comes down to it, we can't escape that wonderful love because God is in us. He is us, we are him.
Did the old year end exactly as you imagined it would? What do you want to experience in the new year?
You have the power within you. In fact, that power is you. Everything in your life is a reflection of your conception of self, who you are conscious of being.
There are so many wonderful resources online for Neville Goddard. There are even more people out there with tips on enlightenment, empowerment, manifesting, etc. You could end up spending years hopping from one teacher to the next, but when you make the shift, knowing who you really are, it's time to be your own expert.
In this episode, I talk about how my daughter-in-law imagined used the power of imagination in nursing school. I also share what methods I use on a daily basis.
You can stay where you are and still get this and that. But why not go all in, buy the pearl, and let this be your lifestyle.
In the New Testament, Paul says, "I know how to be humbled. I also know how to abound. In anything and in all things, I have learned the secret both to be filled to satisfaction and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need." Phil. 4:12
He tells us the secret in the following verse. The great news is the power of which he speaks is within you, too.
Neville Goddard said to persist in the assumption you are the person you want to be. I used to have a negative feeling of what it means to persist, until I decided it doesn't mean what I think it does. One definition of persist means staying the course in spite of difficulty or failure. It also means to continue to exist. I like that. So continue to exist in the your ideal state, morning, noon, and night.
Here's Jill Noelle's video I was talking about in today's episode: Jill Noelle
I've found that taking a look at how I'm reacting to circumstances and how I describe my world are great indicators of the state in which I'm dwelling.
"Any time an entirely new set of reactions enters into a person's life, a change of consciousness has taken place; a spiritual rebirth has occurred." Neville Goddard
Here's the link to the lecture I mentioned today. http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/lectures/changing_the_feeling_of_i.pdf
I first focused on using the Law of Assumption that Neville teaches as a means to an end, to get this or that. In today's episode I talk about how things naturally expanded from more understanding of the Law but also the Promise - the awakening of God within me.
Some times, when I have a desire pop up, I start reasoning with myself. I start thinking "Yeah, that would be nice, but..."
I challenge you to do what I did. Drop your buts!
I noticed I would spend any waking moment reading Neville or listening to his lectures. If I wasn't doing that, I was searching Facebook for that one extra little bit of info I needed to finally be successful at manifesting the life I wanted. The cool thing is I already have that power within me. And so do you.
You are the playwright of your life and YOU play all the parts. By the way, I didn't realize just how windy it was outside when I recorded this episode. I did a little editing to reduce the noise, though.
I had a few minutes of anxiety today. In this episode I talk about how I would have treated those moments in times past, and how I reacted today. As always, I go to the First Principle - "Be still and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10
"It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the desires of your heart." Luke 12:32 RSV
Neville Goddard says, "To desire it is to have it." If you have a desire, that's God in you telling you it's yours. So, instead of worrying about what technique to use or how many affirmations you need to recite, why not make it easy. Just assume it's a done deal. Take it for granted that your desire is fulfilled.
You don't need anyone outside of yourself to be the person you want to be. Rather than give away your power to circumstance, realize the "I Am," your own imagination, is where all the power rests.
Check out this site I came across recently. It's loaded with beautiful articles by beautiful people. https://www.iam-love.co/
I came across a few mementos from my childhood last night. And I spent the last 24 hours going back, in imagination, reliving some wonderful times as a kid. I was making then, now and there, here, which is the same thing Neville Goddard talks about in his lectures.
I talk about intentional imaginal acts and how we're actually imagining / assuming all day long. So, what are you imagining about yourself and your world?
I also mentioned my brother's farm in Boonville, MO. Here's a link if you're interested in delicious chicken, turkey, and pork: Hickory Hill Pastures
This one was fun. I managed to talk about President Donald Trump and orgasms in the same episode.
"The truth of any concept is known by that feeling of a peculiar certainty." Neville Goddard
Motion can be detected by a change in position relative to an object. When I move to the state of the wish fulfilled and continue thinking from that state, then I can detect a change because the way I see the world and the way the world sees me is different than the view from my old state.
I open with a little story about way under cooked chicken and my desire to have some yummy chicken salad. I also talk about how those in our little world see us as we first see ourselves.
I've noticed that a couple things that show up in my breathing and body when I am unsuccessful at imagining a specific outcome.
I paraphrase the story of Isaac, Esau, and Jacob. You can find the story in Genesis 25.
This episode came about after realizing my old blog is still active. I started it about six years ago when I was still sick. If you check out the blog, I think you'll notice the difference between the state I was in then and my current state.
Here's the link. https://feelingtwisty.wordpress.com/
Why do some things seem more difficult than others when it comes to manifesting in my life? I try to answer that question in today's episode.
Also, check out Find the Good News with Oran Parker. He's got some very good stuff on his show. I quote Amanda Y. in this episode. She was a guest on Oran's show, episode 39. And I'm on episode 48.
I grew up being so freaking scared of going to hell. I would hear preachers quoting the Bible, saying, "The Kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel." (Mark 1:15) I was taught that repentance meant groveling, begging God up in the sky for forgiveness. That's not what the word means. Repent means a change of mind.
So, knowing the kingdom of God is within us, we are called to have a radical change of thinking and believe the gospel, or good news. That good news is that the power and wisdom of God, Jesus Christ, "I Am," is within us. It is us.
Take a look at your reactions to events. I'm noticing my reactions tell me the state in which I'm dwelling.
I share a little of what I was thinking about what Neville calls the law and the promise.
"The day will come you will find yourself re-enacting the entire drama as told us in the gospel, and you will know who he is in a first person singular, present tense experience." Neville Goddard
So what do you do with those people in your life that just won't learn. They seem to always screw up a good thing.
Today was the opening of "For the Love Of" art show at a local gallery. I heard a wonderful story about a young boy who imagined up a cup of grapes. I love how quickly this really works.
I was nearly a college drop out. I went from near academic probation to graduating with honors after I began tapping into the power of imagination. Back then, though, I had not heard of Neville Goddard or Mr. Twenty Twenty.
I tell the story of a little girl's dream of a magical raincoat and how it became a reality.
"You can be anything in this world but you cannot know it or expect it to come to pass unless you act. If you react based on the past, you continue in the same pattern."
Neville Goddard said, "To try to change circumstances before you change your imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of things."
Through the years, I've searched for and tried just about everything to give myself value, to make myself happy. Back when I was a child, I went to war with food. But dropping 70 pounds didn't fix anything. My circumstances didn't change until I changed my concept of myself.
Just because blood, sweat, and tears are what it took to reach our goals in the past doesn't mean it always has to be like that.
I recorded another version of what I discussed in Can You Smell That because it was cutting out. Since I love talking about this stuff, I just went ahead and did a whole new one.
It's funny how sneaky little doubts creep into our imagination. In this episode, I talk about the 'head games' I was playing with myself as I worked on a painting for an upcoming art show.
"How could you actually worry about anything in this world and still believe that whatever you imagine will come to pass?"
Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard told us to knowingly enter and occupy our desired states. We have spent a lot of time falling into states that are good, bad, and indifferent. Now it's time to do this with eyes wide open.
I use to specific imaginal acts and how they weave together in a beautiful way.
In this episode, I talk about Star Wars, Love and Marriage...and lullabies. Neville talks about falling in love with our desired state, so completely that we lose sight of the old state. I also give my take on his "Lullaby" method of manifesting.
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I open with a letter from a listener. Amanda talks about a situation similar to what I talked about in the episode, Traffic Jams and the Imagination. Way to go, Amanda!
Neville Goddard talked about practicing the art of making 'there,' here and 'then,' now. Which is exactly what Amanda did in her story.
A little Dungeons & Dragons in here, too!
Share your stories with me, too. I'd love to read them and share them on future podcasts if you don't mind. Send your emails to feelingtwisty@gmail.com.
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I notice that when I am thinking I'm small and separate, it shows up in my body. My shoulders roll forward; my chest tightens; my breathing is short and shallow. In this episode I talk about what I do to get back to knowing who I really am. I am infinitely bigger than any perceived problem. And so are you!
Neville Goddard's first principle: Be still and know that I am God, is where I start.
I spent a wonderful time co-hosting a Live version of Find the Good News, with Oran Parker today. I want to share with you two imaginal acts that might seem to be small, but there is no small or big in imagination.
Imagination is the solution to every problem, regardless of "size."
I quote Neville Goddard's lecture, "Consciousness is the Only Reality." It's listed as Core Teachings #1 at https://freeneville.com/free-neville-goddard-pdf-the-core-teachings-of-neville-goddard/
I refer to the story of Jacob wrestling with the angel, as well. You can find that story in Genesis 32:24-31.
And if you haven't already tuned in to Oran's podcast, check it out on Podbean or your favorite app, or go to findthegood.news.
We have to completely turn our backs on our old man (old state). So much so that we don't even know where the old man is buried.
I used to be proud of how well I could argue a point. I saw the way to anything I wanted in life was an argument. And that's exactly what I got. ALL THE TIME.
A Facebook friend of mine commented that she was enjoying the sites and sounds of nature as she listened to my podcast. That got me thinking about my favorite poem, "Lines Written in Kensington Gardens," by Matthew Arnold. I fell in love with this poem back in college. It has always fired up my imagination. I will often lie down and drift off to sleep, thinking about what Arnold saw, and then step into the beautiful picture he created. I hope you enjoy!
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I spent a little more time talking about when I was sick and the healing that followed a specific imaginal act. I also took a few moments talking about the 'state akin to sleep,' and how power in what Neville calls the First Principle, "Be Still and Know I am God." Psalm 46:10
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"Become aware of what you are thinking, and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances."
Neville Goddard talks about how your mood determines your fortune and I believe that. I experience that all day. In fact, so do you. Even if you don't realize it.
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When we imagine lovingly for others we are doing it for ourselves. There is one God and father of us all, over all, through all all, and in all.
Two big emotional events happened this week; a death and a breakup. I talk about how I dealt with these.
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I believe worry is the same as doubt. I am not a worrier. Well, generally speaking. Some times, even when I am not aware of any worrying, I'm worrying. The "How can I fix this" thoughts creep in, like an unsanctioned covert operation.
I do not believe thoughts are things or that my thoughts have power. I believe my thoughts (including those little stealth operatives) are indicators of the state in which I'm dwelling.
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I believe our experience in daily life is a reflection of our concept of ourselves. Our body of beliefs, what we assume to be true of ourselves, is what experience in what we call the real world.
As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man. Proverbs 29:19
The Bible says if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed nothing is impossible (Matthew 17:20). I was raised to believe it means that all I need is a tiny bit faith. But there's more to this little seed than I was taught.
We are one. When you lift someone else up in prayer, you are doing it for yourself. Jesus says to forgive a someone seventy times seven. This is isn't a set number of times to forgive, "Like, at 491, I'm going to kick some BUTT!"
Today, I talk about imagining lovingly for others, Hebraic letters, and the Wal-Mart.
I refer to one of Neville Goddard's lectures. So, here's the link. https://freeneville.com/free-neville-goddard-lecture-christ-is-your-life-oct-1968/
I spent the years I was sick knowing that God was punishing me for all the bad things I had done in my life. I was raised to believe God was always watching, weighing your deeds, and giving you what you deserved.
As I studied the Bible and listened to Neville Goddard lectures, I realized that God is Love and he is within me, and is me (and you).
The Bible says to commune with your own heart, and be silent. (Psalm 4:4) That is what we do when we pray. Prayer means "motion toward." We go within and move into the desired state and believe that it is done. Live as though your wish is fulfilled. Like Mark 11:24 says, "Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe you have received it, and it will be yours."
I was stuck in bed with a broken tailbone when I discovered the lectures of Neville Goddard. The Secret of the Sperm is the first of his lectures I heard. And it rocked my world. It challenged everything I thought was true about my life, about the universe.
Neville Goddard taught to identify your desire then go to the end. The end meaning your wish is fulfilled. And experience, in imagination, your wish fulfilled. I touch on that in this episode. Like Mr. 2020, my mentor and friend, says, "Live knowing it's already true."
Check out his site for all kinds of cool bits. https://freeneville.com/
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Mike
In my first podcast I take you back to September 9, 2018, when my wife and I got the call about our son's motorcycle accident. And rather than let hate and vengeance fester, we surrendered to love and forgiveness.