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The Art of Movement / Stop Answering When The Old Man Comes Knocking

One of the recurring themes I see with those who struggle with conscious manifestation is awareness and imaginal activity being pushed around by the old man, unwanted states, doubts, and worry. For those who recognize themselves in that statement (or anyone who'd care to join), let's take a stroll. Or rather a scroll, I suppose. 

"You cannot serve two masters, therefore to take your attention from one state of consciousness and place it upon another is to die to one and live to the other."

“Don't remain in it and wallow. Get out of it. Don't condemn anyone for it. Don't judge anyone, just get out of that state. You get out of the state by asking a very simple, simple question: "What would it be like if," and then you imagine as if it were true, and that is the secret of prayer. "What would the world be like if it were true that I am now the man, the woman that I'd like to be?" And then I dare to assume that I am it.

I tell you, "Forget it. Know exactly what you want in this world, dare to assume that you are it, and then yield completely. Surrender to the depth of your own being.”

“Man, not knowing this law of consciousness, constantly gives thought to his previous habitual conditions and, through being attentive to them, places upon these dead bodies the eternal head of creation; thereby he reanimates and re-resurrects them. You must leave these dead bodies alone and let the dead bury the dead.”

I get the struggle, that very much used to be me. I’m no stranger to a mind that feels like it's just waiting and prepping you for your downfall, and I’m no stranger to the feeling of validity it carries. I manifested my way out of depression, bpd, cptsd, and am currently overwriting pmdd the same way I did with the aforementioned. It wasn't easy when I was first learning, but the process itself remains simple. 

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For me, it was a matter of deciding to remain loyal to the fulfilled state and committing to the embodiment of the state. It was about recognizing and identifying myself as the sovereign ruler of my realm in imagination. In order to do that, I had to stop gifting the old man the power to relinquish me of my throne. 

I put my foot down and stopped allowing things that I did not consciously choose to dictate where I was permitted to stand. I noticed and observed when the old patterns of thinking would come up, and would then choose to respond (opposed to react) by simply going back to the embodiment of my ideal. Again. And again. And again. And again. It’s akin to the minor adjustments of a steering wheel to keep within the lines of the road.

“it takes persistence, it takes patience, it takes diligence. These are the things we pay, the price we pay for the fruits we are seeking to reap in this world. Here, we always bear in mind the distinction between states and the occupant of the state. You are an immortal being occupying a state.“

“your assumption, though false to the outer world, will harden into fact by your persistence…Character is largely the result of the direction and persistence of voluntary action; therefore, think truly and your thoughts shall the world’s famine feed. Speak truly and each word shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly and your life shall be a great and noble creed.”

“Persistence in assuming that you are the person you wish to be, despite your present circumstances, is the only condition imposed upon you to embody that ideal.“

I stayed mindful of myself, and I stayed loyal to the embodiment of my desires, rather than what I was being shown. I allowed myself to be the curator of my experience. 

“Discipline is simply becoming discriminating. It does not matter what your desire may be; it is only a state. When you learn how to move you can enter any state and say, “Let it be” and the state will become luminous; it will become real in your world”

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It's a matter of rewiring the neural pathways through repetition. Neurons that fire together, wire together. So when you notice the old man and then choose to turn your awareness towards imagining and embodying the wish fulfilled, you essentially create a habit where negative thoughts prompt positive change. You create and enact the pattern consciously, and then eventually your brain catches on and internalizes it, thus it begins to happen automatically 

“The dream of my friend revealed an important fact, that he had learned how to move. If, during conflict, man could only move, the conflict would cease to be. God’s first creative act was to move upon the face of the water and let it be. Knowing that he illuminates and reveals the state in which he has placed himself, God moves upon the face of the water. 

…He learned how to move and I ask you here, tonight, to do the same. Motion is not difficult, but don’t go from place to place. “Whatever house (state of consciousness) into which you go, there remain until I come.” If you know how to move, and remain faithful to that motion, your world will reflect it and no power in the world can stop it.

You are set free by learning how to move, and you will learn discipline at the same time.”

In order to reach that place, you have to decide that firing and wiring “see old man -> react impulsively” together isn’t worth your time. I would argue that it's most beneficial to quit filing the old man under “this matters”

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again, but meditation (and the book The Power of Now, taken with a grain of salt) was fundamental to my ability to move my attention off of what I didn’t want and onto what I did. It’s weightlifting for the awareness-movement-muscle. It allowed me to remain neutral when I would notice what was happening and halt the spiral in its tracks, as opposed to getting wrapped up in fights and resistance. 

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

"See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.” -Eckhart Tolle

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What you resist persists. For staying in an embodied state, you’re working the exact same muscle of “get tugged in one direction, return to where you want to be imaginally, as if it were here and you were experiencing it now,” and it's done with attention minus effort, thus the lack of battle or strain

“It is not bestowed on any individual but won by persistence and practice of meditation. If he persists, the dark caverns of his brain will grow luminous and he will set out day after day … as if to keep an appointment with a lover."

“When we have learned to control the movements of our attention in the four-dimensional world, we shall be able to consciously create circumstances in the three-dimensional world. We learn this control through the waking dream, where our attention can be maintained without effort, for attention minus effort is indispensable to changing the future. 

We can, in a controlled waking dream, consciously construct an event which we desire to experience in the three-dimensional world. The sensory impressions we use to construct our waking dream are present realities displaced in time or the four-dimensional world. All that we do in constructing the waking dream is to select from the vast array of sensory impressions those, which, when they are properly arranged, imply that we have realized our desire.”

“You cannot force an idea into embodiment, you simply appropriate it. It is attention minus effort. Only practice will bring you to that point where you can be attentive and still be relaxed. Attention is tension toward an end, and relaxation is just the opposite. Here are two completely opposite ideas that you must blend until you learn, through practice, how to be attentive, but not tense. The word "contention" means "attention minus effort." In the state of contention you are held by the idea without tension”

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Ultimately, it’s up to you to choose to respond differently by recognizing that you are not the person your thoughts are claiming that you are. Quit identifying with the name the old man is calling you. Treat it like ragebait. Your mind says "you can't do that, it’ll never work,” and you go "I already did, and it already has" and then return to your imagination and place your awareness back in the place where it's done. 

"There are infinite views of it. Our task is to get the right view and by determined direction of our attention make it pass in procession before the inner eye. If we assemble the right sequence and experience it in imagination until it has the tone of reality, then we consciously create circumstances.

This inner procession is the activity of imagination that must be consciously directed. We, by a series of mental transformations, become aware of increasing portions of that which already is, and by matching our own mental activity to that portion of creation which we desire to experience, we activate it, resurrect it, and give it life."

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I shared this story in a comment a while back, so I’ll drop it here as an example of what it looks like to practice this in real time

“autopilot thoughts are as much a part of the 3d as anything else, so you respond to them the same way- through indifference. it's about knowing that no matter what's going on in the 3d, your conscious acts of imaginal selection/creation are what pave the road in front of you

i lost my husband’s keycard last week, and the entire time i was driving around to retrace my steps, doubts came up left and right, the fear of getting him in trouble riding shotgun- but i was still the one driving. i refused to let worry put it's hands on my steering wheel. I didn't let it stop me from imagining it in my hand anyway. 

i felt the card in my hand, the smile i knew would be on my face, the hand on my chest in relief because i found it, the laugh we would share about “the one time i let you take it with you,” all the while, my brain was rehearsing the worst case scenario

lo and behold, the last store i went to was holding it because someone was kind enough to turn it in. i've done this plenty of different times now with items of mine and my friends, phones, keys, wallets, etc.- I can’t remember the last time I was unable to reclaim something lost. it proves to me every time that even in high-stakes moments, it's not what happens to you (mentally or externally), but what you choose to do in the 4d regardless of circumstances."

“Instead of being a three-dimensional sense man, using a fourth dimensional power, I am now identified with a fourth dimensional power using a three-dimensional sense man as an instrument.”

“Let us examine this thought. In his 2nd letter to the Corinthians Paul says: "We walk by faith and not by sight.”

“When we walk by sight, we know our way by objects that the eye sees. But Paul tells us to order our life by objects seen only in the imagination. In other words, when you know where you want to go and what you want to be, you are told not to rearrange your physical structure, but to walk by faith, viewing only the rearranged structure of your mind. And if you will remain faithful to that state of consciousness, what is seen only in your imagination will objectify itself in your world.”

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It's not your job to "get rid" of or eliminate the doubts, worry, or the old man- that happens naturally when you turn your back on them. Your job to quit reacting as if any of that has any say in the matter and remain faithful to the wish fulfilled. Let them starve. It's not your job to kill the old man by any means aside from a movement in awareness.

"The serpent's ability to form its skin by ossifying a portion of itself, and its skill in shedding each skin as it outgrew it, caused man to regard this reptile as a symbol of the power of endless growth and self-reproduction. Man is told, therefore, to be "wise as the serpent" and learn how to shed his skin - his environment - which is his solidified self; man must learn how to "loose him, and let him go" . . . how to "put off the old man" . . .how to die to the old and yet know, like the serpent, that he "shall not surely die"

Man has not learned as yet that all that is outside his physical body is also a part of himself, that his world and all the conditions of his life are but the outpicturing of his state of consciousness. When he knows this truth, he will stop the futile struggle of self-contention and, like the serpent, let the old go and grow a new environment."

…When I say everything is at your disposal, I mean everything is in your imagination, and you are its creative power."

"Remember, regardless of what happened today or what the future looks like, there is no fiction. Imagination creates its own reality. You have the power to change your present and your future by writing a glorious tale about yourself and those you love. Make it a first-person, present tense experience or as something you have already accomplished, and then live in that state, for imaging does create reality.

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Quotes sourced from “The Primal Wish,” “At Your Command,” and “Neville Goddard Almost Everything Complete Collection”

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Honorable Mention Additions: 

“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.” -Scott Hawkins

On that note, I made a playlist that is a clusterf*ck conglomeration of songs that lyrically all encapsulate a state of limitlessness and/or love in one way or another, so you can check that out if you feel so inclined.

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Just Replace The Ladder

If there was one thing that I would go back and tell the version of myself that discovered the law of assumption 6 years ago, it would be to drop all the fluff of the process and stick to the one source of the whole thing- simple imaginal activity. 

“I am not there physically, no, but I AM there in my imagination, and my imagination is my real self! And where I go in imagination and make it real, there I shall go in the flesh, also. When in that state I fall asleep, it is done. I have never seen it fail. So this is the simple technique upon how to use your imagination to realize your every objective.”

When you feel hungry for something, and desire arises as perceived lack, replace the ladder and experience exactly what you want until you are full and satiety is achieved. It never had to be more complicated than that. 

“If I can feel that I am that which but a few seconds ago I knew I was not, but desired to be, then I am no longer hungry to be it. At the moment of satisfaction, physical and psychological, something goes out which in time bears witness to man's creative power.”

"You do not visualize yourself at a distance in a point of space and at a distance in a point of time... Instead, you make elsewhere here and the future now. The difference between feeling yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure

The difference will be appreciated if you will now visualize yourself (your body) climbing a ladder. Then, with eyelids closed, imagine that a ladder is right in front of you and feel yourself actually climbing it. … You must always participate in the imaginary action, not merely stand back and look on, but you must feel that you are actually performing the action so that the imaginary sensation is real to you.”

If you are a part of the group that can’t visualize, you can utilize alternative sensory modalities (touch, taste, smell, auditory), or even memory recollection (“I remember when”), which can serve as an equally valid access point- the same way you’d recall what you ate for breakfast yesterday. 

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The majority of my “big” manifestations have come from precisely this practice (most while fully awake- little 5-second scenes whenever I feel desire pop up and then moving on with my day, repeating whenever the thought occurred). I allowed the dead the space necessary to bury the dead.

Persistence, in this framework,  is just a definitive decision in that I have what I want and allegiance to the preferred experience. 

A true decision means committing to a single path by cutting off all other alternatives. You either have it, or you want it and are trying to get it. Decision, in terms of manifestation, is just being loyal to the completion, thus naturally cutting yourself off from lack and foreclosing access to undesirable states. 

Whether it be through imagining with eyes wide open, or while lying down and having a SATS session, I collapse the distance between wanting and having, essentially holding myself across the finish line imaginally and letting the 3d run the race however it sees fit.

“You do nothing else to obtain your desire. If it is necessary to take some action, you will be led to do so in a normal, natural manner. You do not have to do anything to bring it about.”

“Ideas impressed on the subconscious through feeling must be expressed. Once the feeling is established, the outer world (including your actions and the actions of others) must conform.”

I don’t do this with any sort of rigorism or strictness, as what you resist persists. It’s done with a sense of playfulness because I know that nowadays, I don’t have to take the process seriously for it to work. I.e., I just utilize attention minus effort. I never concern or preoccupy myself with believing it’s real, as I place the importance on deciding it's mine and experiencing it as such instead. 

This keeps me from getting burnt out or frustrated. I treat imaginal activity as a form of self-care- it feels better having the thing I want as if it already were than to imagine it or constellate it as something I’ve yet to receive. 

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The critical variable is that it's not just about what you're imagining, but how you're imagining- configured perspective, if you will. It's about the location of the current self in relation to the desires- where and how you and they are being experienced in your 4d. 

Imagine not only your desire, but also specify through imaginal activity how your desire is being experienced- imagine it as if it were externally here and now and actually in front of you if you want to experience it externally here and now and actually in front of you. 

The distinction between fantasy and reality is in how you imagine it to be. It's the difference between thinking of and thinking from. With the former, you’re on the outside looking in as an excluded observer, while with the latter, you’re already in the state. 

“That’s one of the greatest fallacies of the world, ‘perpetual construction’. It’s a daydream, deferred occupancy. I don’t occupy it, I don’t go in and possess it and make it mine.”

“If I, in my Imagination, could go right in and possess it and clothe myself with the feeling of the wish fulfilled – actually clothe myself with it by assuming that it’s done now, until I feel natural in that assumption and that assumption, though at the moment denied by my senses, if persisted in will harden into fact.”

By understanding the way in which one experiences an imagined thing, it becomes evident as to why one may only be experiencing a particular thing in a particular way.

When you imagine your desire as separate, you experience it as separate: to imagine and identify it as a fantasy is to confine it to irreality- you manifest and experience it as nothing more than a daydream. When you imagine it here and now, you experience it as here and now. 

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I categorize thoughts, doubts, and even old, obsolete mental states as 3d expressions, distinct from my 4d imaginal world. I will stand ten toes down on the fact that surfaced unintentional thoughts do not cause manifestation, but are manifestations in and of themselves- they reflect old assumptions and/or what states you are presently choosing to identify with as “I Am.” 

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”   The goal isn’t to make desires appear or manufacture external evidence, but to be in and maintain that wonderful state which renders the experience of desires inevitable. 

My focus is predominantly on the destination and road in front of me, rather than the rearview mirror. As such, if my thoughts are less than desirable, I don’t argue or engage; I simply redirect and reorient.

Consequently, if the undesirable thoughts refuse to cease (e.g., in times of great stress or panic), that’s where being able to still the mental chatter through calming the body can become useful- not as a manifestation technique, but as a means of returning to the silence that underpins the whole of all states “I Am” chooses to take upon itself. 

When dealing with disatisfactory states or expressions thereof, I remember that the only variable requiring modification is what I’m deciding to be aware of. I.e., if your hand touches a hot stove, (unwanted) you move first. You don't dawdle in self-recrimination or stew and linger before switching to a more desirable experience (your hand off of the stove). 

"Qualities die for want of attention, so the unlovely states might best be rubbed out by imagining ‘beauty for ashes and joy for mourning' rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free."

"As you assume that you are what you want to be, you do not need the assistance of another to make it so. Neither do you need the assistance of anyone to bury the old man for you. Let the dead bury the dead. Do not even look back, for no man having put his hand to the plow and then looking back is fit for the kingdom of heaven."

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Meditation and mindfulness practices aren’t necessary, but I regard them as mental hygiene and a form of attentional weight-training and muscle-building of sorts.

It grants you that silence Neville instructed his students to go into at the end of every lecture and cultivates the capacity and habit of taking your hand off the stove, thus reducing the lag between habitual, objectionable states and present-centered intentionality.

In this day and age of endless stimulation, when the mind is running and being fed at 100 mph, it can feel like trying to walk into a room that people won't stop walking out of- the space can feel rather difficult to perceive in that moment

The show Midnight Gospel describes it effectively: “If you're caught up in your story, it's like living in a tiny apartment with just enough room for you and your little mattress. The moment you get a little space between yourself and your thoughts, it's like moving into a much bigger house… Silence, giving you room to listen. Second one, stillness, giving you room to feel. Third one, spaciousness. Just giving you room." 

For application of the law, the phrasing would then become something like, silence affords room to discern who one is being versus who one wishes to be. Stillness grants one the room to collapse the distance to feel desires as already one’s own. Spaciousness simply permits room for the process as a whole to occur. 

The two processes are pretty analogous- you exchange presence here for presence and corresponding imaginal activity in line with your preferred outcomes. You recognize the hunger by being mindful of yourself, and remember why you are full by experiencing the thing that will fulfill you (thus remembering why you are already whole).

When meditating, the goal isn’t a silent mind, but the recognition of mental noise and a gentle return of your attention back to the present- out of the head and into the body. By working this muscle, the interval between being caught up in the unlovely state and being present in the way you wish to be contracts, making the altering of awareness easier each time.

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I like to remember that you can only ever be externally where/what you have been internally, so if there's something you want, your sole job is to give it to yourself in the here and now. 

It's about remaining willing and able to see beyond external circumstances in favor of imagining and allowing yourself to experience your desired outcomes in the one place that matters. It’s about refusing to default to the worldview of causality that you were once taught.

“There is no one to change but self; that self is simply your awareness … it is to consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality. For there is no clear conception of the origin of phenomena except that consciousness is all and all is consciousness."

Remember that you are the operant power- never stuck, never incapable. If you can imagine it as yours, it already is. 

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A final word of warning- If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them. 

“To attempt to change circumstances before I change my own imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of things.”

"Man is always looking for some prop on which to lean. He is always looking for some excuse to justify failure. This revelation gives man no excuse for failure. His concept of himself is the cause of all the circumstances of his life. All changes must first come from within himself; and if he does not change on the outside, it is because he has not changed within.”

The invitation, therefore, is to cease in the perpetual construction of “trying to get,” and reside across the finish line. It’s already yours; all you have to do is imagine and feel it as such. 

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Quotes sourced from “Neville Goddard Almost Everything Complete Collection”

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𝔐𝔦𝔡𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔐𝔞𝔰𝔰 𝔉𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔖𝔦𝔩𝔬𝔮𝔲𝔶

Riley: What happens?

Erin: What?

Riley: When we die, what happens?

Erin: What the fuck happens? (playfully repeating Riley’s dejected comment from an earlier episode)

Riley: So what do you think happens when we die?

Erin: Speaking for myself?

Riley: Speaking for yourself.

Erin: Myself…

“My self.” That’s the problem, that’s the whole problem with the whole thing. That word. Self. That’s not the word. That’s not right, that isn’t. That isn’t…

How did I forget that?

When did I forget that?

The body stops a cell at a time, but the brain keeps firing those neurons. Little lightning bolts, like fireworks inside, and I thought I’d despair or feel afraid, but I don’t feel any of that. None of it. Because I’m too busy. I’m too busy in this moment remembering…

Of course.

I remember that every atom in my body was forged in a star. This matter, this body is mostly just empty space after all. And solid matter, it’s just energy vibrating very slowly, and there is no “me.”

There never was…

The electrons of my body mingle and dance with the electrons of the ground below me and the air I’m no longer breathing. And I remember: There is no point where any of that ends and I begin.

I remember I am energy, not memory — not self. My name, my personality, my choices — all came after me. I was before them, and I will be after, and everything else is pictures picked up along the way. Fleeting little dreamlets printed on the tissue of my dying brain.

And I am the lightning that jumps between. I am the energy firing the neurons, and I’m returning — just by remembering, I’m returning home.

It’s like a drop of water falling back into the ocean of which it’s always been a part. All things, a part. All of us, a part. You, me, and my little girl, and my mother, and my father, everyone who’s ever been, every plant, every animal, every atom, every star, every galaxy, all of it.

More galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on the beach. And that’s what we’re talking about when we say “god.” The One. The Cosmos and its infinite dreams.

We are the cosmos dreaming of itself. It’s simply a dream that I think is my life, every time. But I’ll forget this. I always do. I always forget my dreams.

But now, in a split second, in the moment I remember, the instant I remember, I comprehend everything at once. There is no time. There is no death.

Life is a dream. It’s a wish made again. And again. And again, and again, and again, and again, and on into eternity…

And I am all of it. I am everything. I am all.

I am that I am.

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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱 𝔈𝔫𝔡 𝔓𝔬𝔢𝔪

I see the player you mean.

[player name]?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts.

That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game.

I like this player. It played well. It did not give up.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons.

What did this player dream?

This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen?

It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the řzbŁOå, and created a WğȘçŞÇ for DÄńg%(, in the ĎĆ%ŚIð.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game.

Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.

But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality.

To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere.

Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear.

It reads our thoughts.

Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely nuõaŽg and [ïçĎśș, I wish to tell them that they are ¢nØÖ7ø in the ă¬Ö$ōČ. They see so little of reality, in their long dream.

And yet they play the game.

But it would be so easy to tell them...

Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.

I will not tell the player how to live.

The player is growing restless.

I will tell the player a story.

But not the truth.

No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance.

Give it a body, again.

Yes. Player…

Use its name.

[player name]. Player of games.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change.

We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.

Once upon a time, there was a player.

The player was you, [player name].

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away.

Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience.

Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story.

Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third.

Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen.

Let's go back.

The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body.

And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream.

And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love.

You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love.

Let's go further back.

The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player's body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by…

Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks “electrons” and “protons”.

Sometimes it called them “planets” and “stars”.

Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen.

You are the player, reading words…

Shush… Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive

You. You. You are alive.

and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees

and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player's eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again

and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream

and the universe said I love you

and the universe said you have played the game well

and the universe said everything you need is within you

and the universe said you are stronger than you know

and the universe said you are the daylight

and the universe said you are the night

and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you

and the universe said the light you seek is within you

and the universe said you are not alone

and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing

and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code

and the universe said I love you because you are love.

And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love.

You are the player.

Wake up.

[aeternusarchive]

𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔪

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Make the decision now to refuse to work within any and all imaginary confines. Free yourself from any and all illusionary shackles. nothing is impossible because that's the truth underpinning this whole thing. allow it to consume you wholly. Watch as your previous conceptions of the world crumble before your very eyes. 

“You must this night -- not tomorrow -- learn the technique of writing your own obituary and so completely die to what you are that no man in this world can tell you where you buried the old man. If you are now ill and you become well, and I know you by reason of the fact that you are ill, where can you point and tell me you buried the sick one? If you are impoverished and borrow from every friend you have, and then suddenly you roll in wealth, where did you bury the poor man? You so completely rub out poverty in your mind's eye that there is nothing in this world you can point to and claim, that is where I left it. A complete transformation of consciousness rubs out all evidence that anything other than this ever existed in the world…

“But knowing this law by which a man transforms himself, I assume that I am what I want to be and walk in the assumption that it is done. In becoming it, the old man dies and all that was related to that former concept of self dies with it. You cannot take any part of the old man into the new man. You cannot put new wine in old bottles or new patches on old garments. You must be a new being completely”

"Subjection to the will of God" is an old phrase for it and there is, I believe, no new one that is better. In that self-committal to the ideal we desire to express, all conflict is dispersed and we are transformed into the image of the ideal in whom we rest” 

So, when you realize it, you realize it through actual knowledge, you know it; no argument, you don't tell others, you know that you are he. And then you will read the words in the ninth of Hebrews, "He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself".

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I have stood firmly in this truth for the past 5 years and it has come with blessings beyond my wildest dreams, so let me say it once again: the present moment is all you ever have. Your imagination is the source– the tool that you can never lose because you are it. Hear me when I tell you that the kingdom of god is within you. Additionally, resistance is nothing more than a guide meant to repel you- 

Resistance comes knocking when something isn't lining up. It was only meant to be a messenger communicating the space between the old man and the new. Do not allow it to make you lose your footing.

“If I do miss the mark, He makes a greater effort to show me how not to miss marks.”

"If you miss the mark you don’t get the prize. You hit the mark and you get the prize. No suffering for sins. Suffering is simply a disciplinary action, which is nothing more than God’s love in you. There is not a God on the outside. We are told in Proverbs, “Just as a father would correct his son, so the Lord chastens him whom he loves.” Loving the part you play, he chastens and corrects it as he moves from state to state to state.”

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So i dare you today, 

I dare you to challenge yourself to dream further than you ever have before 

I dare you to step out of your way- if you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them

I dare you to step away from fear of inadequacy, the worry, the doubt, and all other previously perceived inhibitions, for they were only ever meant to be catalysts for change. You were never meant to stay there, but move through it with brazen impudence. The bars of the cage have always been big enough to step through; it was only a matter of when, never if you could. 

I dare you to stop shrinking your dreams to fit within your current identity, and instead, dream so immensely that it drowns out the old story

- Wildfires are essential for ecosystem health, acting as a renewal force that removes dead, decaying organic matter and thins overgrown underbrush. By returning nutrients to the soil, fire stimulates new plant growth, increases biodiversity, controls pathogens and invasive species, and creates diverse habitats for wildlife. The eternal fire that burns within you is no different. If you find yourself angry, let it consume you whole and burn away everything hiding the true source of your dissatisfaction, and then change it out for the best, most beautiful outcome you can imagine. Plant yourself there 

I dare you to be the change you wish to see in the world, for the world can only ever reflect you. 

I ⁠I dare you to love yourself so unconditionally- to the point that it overflows and fills your 3d world to the brim. Even as a child, it was evident to me that there is nothing that harshness can do that loving kindness cannot do better. 

I dare you to become your own source of inspiration, because in doing so, your cup will never empty. 

I dare to dream because you, dear “I am,” are the source of everything

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Fear not your limitations, for they are only catalysts for inevitable transformation 

Do you think that the “greats” and “top of the tops” of history were handed that without any imaginal effort? They looked the messengers of “you can’t” dead in the face and said “watch me” because they decided who they were long before the 3d world confirmed it. 

Use your imagination assiduously, use your imagination passionately, Use you imagination to completely disregard any and all imposed limitation. 

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“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” The object was never to get something in the 3d, but to be in that wonderful state which makes the fulfillment of your desires inevitable. There is nothing external that did not first spring from the bottomless well of “I am” first. 

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“for sin to the mystic means missing the mark; it doesn't mean the violation of certain codes, unless of course you have a mark and the violation fell short, but sin to the mystic is simply having an aim in life and failing to realize it.”

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Let me say it once more, the kingdom of god is within you. Do not allow yourself to be limited by the fear that your dreams will not come to fruition because that would be a denial of the true nature of reality. You know better than that. There is nothing that you cannot have, and you already have everything you could possibly need to see it through. Stand so firmly in your imagination that you become rooted to the ground across the finish line. 

“There are people who were born on the east side of New York who have never crossed the barrier; they are embarrassed to leave their little place and come as far as Fifth Avenue. Those born on the West Side never come to Fifth Avenue. They were born, and they die, there. People live in Brooklyn. They were born in Brooklyn and they die in Brooklyn seventy or eighty years later and never see Manhattan. They are embarrassed to go out of their own little shell. If they will not go out physically, just imagine trying to go out mentally! They are embarrassed. They wouldn’t go into a Tiffany; they wouldn’t go into a smart shop. And I’ve always said you can buy better things in the better stores, and not at these inflated prices that people tell you.

But, it takes some bold step in the mind to have you change your pattern of thinking, and therefore your pattern of living. Tonight, if you really would like to transcend the world in which you live, transcend it first in your imagination, and don’t ask how it’s going to happen, how will things move in your world to permit it to happen. They will move. But first, in your mind‘s eye, be the person that you want to be, and walk as though you were, and in a way that no one knows, you will become that person.”

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It is said that Jesus was opposed by Satan. Do you know who is Satan is? The word means "opponent; opposite". The world, reflecting the opposite of what you want to see, is your opponent, your Satan or the devil. That's all the word means."

"The “devil” is not another. It is all within us – the doubter. He causes man to doubt. He is the liar in man. He cannot believe the truth when he hears it"

"If you look to reason rather than imagination, you are seeing the devil instead of God. The devil is the doubter in you. He questions your belief saying: "If you are the son of God then turn this stone into bread. Cast yourself down and his angels will lift you up." All of these challenges are made by self-doubt. I urge you to practice the art of imagination. If you do, I promise you will prove it in the testing, even though you may have started out to prove it wrong!"

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Some additional quotes in honor of King,

“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all.”

“The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.”

(I 100% attest that sometimes there really is nothing more effective than a good tune. Music is not only a source of inspiration, but a tried and true life saver. Currently listening to Mac Millers "best day ever")

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- Quotes sourced from “Neville Goddard Almost Everything Complete Collection”

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Making Sense of "I Am"

"The story you are about to see has been told before. A lot. And now we will tell it again. But different."

lets take a gander at the definitions of assumption real quick because there are two ways of looking at this.

the first one is “a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.” this is the one that most people are familiar with. you want a thing, you assume/decide you have it, and the 3d reflects that choice. cute. serviceable. the other ones, which round out the perspective a little more is, “to take on a particular character, quality, mode of life, etc.; adopt. and/or to appropriate or arrogate; seize; usurp.,” and/or to take upon oneself– from the latin root from assūmere.

to take up. to take to oneself. who’s the self? your “i am.” not your ego, not your identity, not your body. anyone who’s experienced the ontological shock of an ego death, the void state, or a reality shift has seen/felt this.

that’s why astral projection is possible. that’s why lucid dreaming is possible. that’s why people wake up in entirely different realities without fanfare. in every single case, there is an observer and a scene. the observer chooses to assume and thus experiences.

when we know and understand how the mechanics work, when we see exactly what’s going on under the hood, it's easy to recognize that the whole of your reality is an experience that you as “i am” have chosen to “take up” and observe. you picked it up and are free to put it back down at any point.

“reality” is just “i am” deciding what to look at. awareness cannot try, awareness can only experience what’s being placed in front of it, which includes the experience of “trying”.

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when i am takes up nothing and lets go of everything, we call the result the void. when i am takes something up in the 4d and 3d reflection occurs, we call the result manifestation. when i am takes something up consistently, we call the result a state. regardless of what the result is, the methodology remains the same- sustained awareness of an “i am” results in the sustained awareness of that thing until the moment that the awareness is pulled away and placed on a different experience, thus allowing the dead to bury the dead, and a new “i am” to take its place.

nothing is ever truly gone, unobtainable, or out of reach- just forgotten for a period of time. hidden because your back is turned, not because it disappeared.

if you're in a pitch black room with a single small spotlight in the middle, all you can see is what that light reveals. that doesn't mean the room is empty, it just means whatever is lining the walls is hidden from your eyes at that moment. even if you can't see it, you can still walk around the room and feel the objects in it.

imagination is no different- you see and experience things that coincide with where you are shining that light. if you want to look at the ceiling, stop shining the light on the floor. if you want to feel what's on the walls, stop sitting in the middle of the room.

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to assume is to pick something up and decide, yes, this. i’ll be here. i’ll stay here.

and that’s where people get lost, because they think assumption is about convincing reality or trying hard enough or using the right technique in the right way or anything else that implies they're not having, they're trying to get- as if their desires are locked away and if they just find the right key, if they just do this thing, they'll finally get what they want.

it doesn't work like that.

the only thing that will do is create more of that experience. “needing” or “wanting” don't block manifestations, they just manifest circumstances of “needing” and “wanting”  

all the “trying” they're watching themselves do and be unsuccessful at is just the bridge of incidents of deciding “i am trying". and maybe they eventually get that thing, but that only happens by being the one who can get it in the first place, consciously or subconsciously

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you don't need emotion and you don’t need to believe in it, those are just manifestatiuons in the 3d body. assume while pissed off, assume while happy, assume while breaking down, assume when your body feels filled to the brim with doubt-

emotion cannot stop you unless you assume it can, and it is not what carries you to the finish line- that would be the assumptions running underneath.

emotions eb and flow, beliefs can be shattered. they can make the bridge of incidents more entertaining, and can make things feel sturdier, but they aren't requirements.

you didn't have to believe in gravity to stick to the ground. a toddler doesn't need to believe they can walk before they do it- they assume the experience of learning to walk and then they experience learning to walk.

the word belief appears throughout the bible and nevilles lectures quite a bit, so let’s break that word down to its origins too. there’s the english version that most people know as “an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.” but the thing is, that doesn’t land as well as the original greek or hebrew in terms of “requirements for manifesting”

so while "belief" is a valid translation in the bible, it often fails to capture the full, active, and relational nature of the original language, which includes obedience and commitment. (aka persistence) the greek word is πιστεύω (pisteuō), means "to adhere to; to trust; to rely on." and in hebrew the root 'aman indicates stability, certainty, and trust, often carrying a sense of being firmly established rather than a passive, mental belief.

with that being said, do you have to trust your manifestation will happen for it to happen? no. do you have to be certain of it? no. do you have to rely on it? no. etc. etc. those things can all be produced by your brain as a manifestation after the assumption or “taking on” of a identity/perspective/reality. can you sarcastically say that you’re beautiful, not meaning a word of it, and still manifest? yes because you don't have to take it seriously for it to work, you just have to assume/adopt that given thing in your “i am,” whether you believe it or not.

“no amount of pleas or ritual will bring about the fulfillment of your desires other than the belief [persistence] that you are or have that which you want.” - neville

thoughts, emotions, belief (english ver.), and sensations are weather and awareness is “i am” looking through the window.

you don’t have to chase clouds away or hold the sun in place to change that weather, you just have to look through a different window. and if you can’t find a different view out the window, the weather still passes on its own while you watch. these things don’t do any of the heavy lifting on their own. these things all require an “i am” choosing to be aware of them, but “i am” can operate with or without them.

side note on faith: "faith is not a belief. faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell. faith is in the heart, while beliefs are in the head. experiences, even spiritual experiences, come and go. as long as you base your faith on experience, your faith is going to be constantly flickering, because your experiences keep changing." -ram dass

“faith is the actual substance of that which is hoped for. it is the evidence of the thing you want which you do not see in the outer world. that which you want to do or be has already been created. therefore, it actually does exist. it is possible to bring into your world anything in creation by your belief [persistence] that you already have it. faith that what you want is already a fact is the means by which you activate the invisible state. that state then is later reflected in your outer world. creation is finished. god can create nothing that is not already existent. faith or belief [persistence] that you already are or have that which you desire is the only means by which to experience your desires. no limitation is imposed on that which you can have except your failure to assume possession of the quality or thing desired

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you are never doing anything besides selecting/remembering your experience. “i am” is never “doing” or “trying” or “getting” because the only thing “i am” can do is be somewhere within the infinite options of imagination. “i am” can observe a body and ego trying, and doing, and getting, but awareness itself is not doing those things, just watching the show.

“trying” to pick up a water bottle is not what gets it into your hand- deciding to experience a water bottle in your hand and taking the inspired action is. assuming the experience of a bottle in your hand is.

everything has already happened, is already happening, and will already happen. time is an illusion, creation is finished. infinite imagination means infinite potentialities. what you are doing is selecting/remembering the experience, and with that choice comes a matching ego to experience a personality and a brain to send you sensory input and give the illusion of a chronological experience of memory. you could not have that specific chronological experience without the memories (and revisitation of) in the brain you’ve chosen to observe and experience life through. your brain is the translator. it holds memory so the experience feels chronological. memory creates time. time creates continuity. continuity creates the illusion that things are “happening.”

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persistence is just returning and remembering. again and again and again until the place feels familiar. and once it feels normal, the 3d has no choice but to mirror it.

mirrors reflect what stands in front of them. what they don't do is reflect something being shouted and repeated 10000 times from a different room. it's all about who you are being, where you're choosing be, what business you're choosing to stand on, and all else that makes up your “i am”

“remember, ‘every word that goeth forth from my mouth shall not return unto me void.’ do you believe it? “in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.” what’s his name? i am. so, begin to monitor every word (i am) that you say. do you see a pattern? don’t the circumstances of your life reflect what you have been saying?... knowing that god actually became you because he is i am, you must realize that you are using your power to create every time you use that name.” -neville

this is why “i am” matters so much- it’s a declaration of location.

every time you say “i am tired,” “i am unlucky," “i am waiting," “i am unsuccessful," you are placing awareness somewhere and reality furnishes the room with evidence of your assumption obediently. every time. you’re not cursed. you’re not blocked. you’re not being “tested.” please unclench your jaw. manifestation is never not happening, so stop trying to change the mirror and just decide to reside in “it’s mine" and move forward in reality with the conviction that you are what you say you are regardless of circumstances, regardless of if you "affirm" enough, regardless of if you're "doing it right"

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[starrover]

“If anything, I turn away; into greater and greater detachment.”

— Martha Gellhorn, in a letter to Campbell Beckett, from Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn