Neville Goddard, Imagination, and God

“God detached and dropped you in love, for God is love. And when he did, he buried the gift of his creative power – your imagination – in you. So now, like him, you can create, and as you do, your creation comes to life. Then you know that you no longer have to argue with the world, but can instantly change it to conform to the ideal that is in your being.” ~ Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard spoke boldly of God, and his personal belief that the son of God, Jesus Christ, is in fact a mystical reference to the human imagination.

Do you agree with Neville?

Let’s break down the opening quote and delve deeper into the metaphysical interpretation.

As many of you will by now be aware, ‘God’ for me is a nonlocal, multidimensional ‘event’. ‘God’ is something that exists in a reality outside of our own (making it nonlocal) and there, ‘God’ is everywhere, all at once (multidimensional).

Omnipotent. Infinite. One. Whole.

Now, if ‘God’ is all, then how can it be purely love? Surely, being all, it is love, hate, joy, grief, bliss, anger, etc.

The thing to remember is that all of the emotions just mentioned are values assigned to measurements of purpose (more purpose, less purpose). What we human beings know as ‘love’ is in actual fact one of the highest and strongest measurements of a sense of purpose we can make.

For ‘God’, love doesn’t exist. The concept of love is simply a value assigned to a measurement of purpose for us human beings. What ‘God’ experiences to be ‘love’ is simply a strong measurement of a sense of purpose, a reason to exist – and therefore, without it, the nonlocal multidimensional event would not exist.

Human beings (and the reality we exist in) are here for one reason, and one reason only: to measure purpose. We do that by assigning values to our measurements. Our feelings and emotions are nothing more than feedback which allows us in a very simple way to measure whether we are measuring a sense of purpose (positive emotions and feelings) or a lack of purpose (negative emotions and feelings).

Again, the emotions and feelings that human beings (and animals etc, come to that) experience are aspects of the reality we exist in. A simple system of feedback designed to easily and quickly allow us to gather data from our measurements of purpose.

‘God’ has no need for emotions or feelings – at least as ‘God’ exists in its nonlocal, multidimensional reality as a ‘whole’ event.

However, just as Neville suggests, a part of ‘God’ is actually present in every living thing that possesses conscious awareness.

In order to measure its purpose (and I’m putting this is human terms as we would be unable to comprehend the actual process of ‘questioning existence’ from the point of view of the nonlocal multidimensional event) it was necessary for ‘God’ to in some way carry out the process.

‘God’ is becoming self-aware, and it is doing this through beings of conscious awareness because those individualised instances of conscious awareness are individualised aspects of ‘God’.

The nonlocal multidimensional event has become individualised within its own creation (our reality) in order to explore the concept of purpose – and ultimately, its own reason for being.

We, and the reality we exist in, are the concept, the beginning of an exploration into something that will ultimately lead to a question that will be answered.

To ask a question, you must first understand the question. If you ask yourself, “What is my purpose?”, you must first have an understanding of the concept of purpose – and this is the part of the process that we human beings find ourselves involved with.

In order to ask why it is, ‘God’ is exploring the foundations that give rise to the question. It does this not through us; it is us, and we it – individualised aspects of a greater whole existing separately and yet still connected.

‘Jesus Christ’ is the ‘son’ of ‘God’ – that is, individualised conscious awareness (Christ) are individualised aspects born from an original source (‘sons’ of ‘God’).

When you use your imagination, or have a thought of any kind, it is individual to you, and has no physical presence whatsoever. In short, your imagination and thoughts exist ‘non locally’. Your mind is locked into a physical body, and yet it cannot be pointed to or seen.

Yes, you can point to your brain, or your head, but can you actually point to your mind?

Your mind is an individualised aspect of ‘God’. It is the ‘son’ of God, what we human beings have labeled ‘Jesus Christ’ – and the power of Christ lies within you.

No, I’m not talking about walking on water or healing the sick. The stories of ‘Christ’ were allegories written to illustrate how the mind can overcome wrong thinking in order to harness the true power of measurement.

The Christ mind stands firm upon the fluid waters of thought, the seas of doubt that often drown us when we are unsure or afraid. When the Christ mind ‘heals the sick’, it choses to replace the negative measurements of a lack of purpose with positive measurements of a sense of purpose. The Christ mind has that power because it chooses the values to assign to the measurements it is making.

The entire fabric of our reality has been designed to give ‘physical’ form to our individualised measurements of purpose. Our reality has been naturally generated in this way so that we can measure purpose easily, quickly, and simply.

Everything around you is a three-dimensional value assigned to some natural or man-made measurement of purpose. You exist in a three-dimensional mirror that reflects your measurements of purpose so that you can experience those measurements ‘physically’, thus ensuring the best possible exploration of purpose.

This is why the manifestation process occurs. You choose whatever values you like in order to measure purpose, but the thing to remember is this; you can use something physical as a value to trigger a measurement of purpose in the mind, but you can also use the mind (via imagination) to measure purpose first, and this process will in turn trigger the outer value to appear in your experience of life.

Our entire physical reality was generated by one imaginal act of ‘God’ in order to explore the concept of purpose. You are the sons and daughters of that ‘God’, referred to in the Bible as ‘Jesus Christ’.

Being the sons and daughters of ‘God’, you have the same power as your Father. As individualised aspects of a nonlocal multidimensional event exploring the concept of purpose, you have the power to naturally manifest any inner value assigned to your personal measurements in your outer physical reality.

Neville was right. You truly do have the power to instantly change your world and see it conform to the ideal that is in your being.

As I’ve said before, the first step on the path to using that power is by recognising that you have it.

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