MANIFESTING (as described by Neville Goddard) part 3

MANIFESTING
(as described by Neville Goddard)
Revision 12/09/2003
By Shawn Regan

The 10 aspects of correct manifesting


2. Meditation

"In fact, the greater energies of the mind seldom break forth save when the body is stilled and the door of the senses closed to the objective world." -Neville

Neville talks about achieving a type of "controlled waking dream" where one is maintaining the feeling of the wish fulfilled while shutting down the bodily senses.
With the senses quiet one can connect deeper with the powers of imaginal manifestation.

"It is a state in which you are conscious and quite able to move or open your eyes but have no desire to do so." - Neville

"Drowsiness facilitates change because it favors attention without effort.
But it must not be pushed to the state of sleep,
for then you are no longer able to control your movements.

The most effective way to embody a desire is to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and then, in a relaxed and drowsy state, repeat a short phrase over and over again like a lullaby. Say, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you,’ as though you were addressing a higher power, thanking him for giving you your desire." - Neville

"Your future is best changed when you control your thoughts while in a state akin to sleep, for then effort is reduced to its minimum.
In that state your attention is relaxed, yet controlled within the feeling without being forced or using effort.
Imagination, not will power will create reality." - Neville

"With the body immobilized, feel the greater you come out of your physical body and perform the proposed motion.
If you are going to walk, do not see yourself do it, but feel you are walking.
If you are going to climb stairs, feel yourself climbing." - Neville

“My third way of praying is simply to feel thankful.
If I want something either for myself or another, I immobilize the physical body, produce the state akin to sleep and just feel happy and thankful. Having assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled,
with my mind dominated by this single sensation, I go to sleep.” – Neville

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MANIFESTING (as described by Neville Goddard), part 2

MANIFESTING
(as described by Neville Goddard)
Revision 12/09/2003
By Shawn Regan

The 10 aspects of correct manifesting

1. Sleep
"...carrying the action into sleep thickens fancy into fact." - Neville

Neville mentions frequently how powerful it is to fall asleep steeped in the imagination of the wish desired. When you are laying in bed at the end of the day and becoming drowsy create, with as little effort as possible, the scene in your mind that will indicate your desire has been obtained. If you use too much effort your ego will remain active and you won't be able to fall asleep.

Why this is so effective ? Esther Hick's Abraham mentions that if you take an idea to sleep you have 8 hours of being unconscious where you cannot undo or negate this manifestation. Neville says something very similar in “Resurrection”.

"Once asleep man has no freedom of choice.
His entire slumber is dominated by his last waking concept of self.
It follows, therefore, that he should always assume the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction before he retires in sleep." - Neville

I believe it might be that our scene of fulfillment being carried into sleep has a good chance of making it into a dream. A dream is a full sensory reality like our waking one.
What better way to experience our wish fulfilled than to "live it" in a dream.

"Use this interval preceding sleep wisely
Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and go to sleep in this mood.
Then, deep asleep in a dimensionally larger world,
you will see and play the parts you will later repeat on earth." - Neville

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MANIFESTING (as described by Neville Goddard)

I got this from someone ( I know, bad record keeping) about 4 years ago. In this series Shawn Regan breaks down Neville's techniques for manifesting into basic principles. I tried to find Shawn Regan online but couldn't, so I'm just gonna present this here and maybe he'll show up.

MANIFESTING
(as described by Neville Goddard)
Revision 12/09/2003
By Shawn Regan

INTRODUCTION

Neville, in all his books and lectures is giving us the formula for effective manifesting.
This formula is as simple as assuming the feeling of the thing desired but can be more involved. This paper tries to bring all the different aspects of Neville’s correct prayer together.

"Prayer is the most wonderful experience man can have.
Unlike the daily murmurings of the vast majority of mankind in all lands who by their vain repetitions hope to gain the ear of God,
prayer is the ecstasy of a spiritual wedding taking place in the deep,
silent stillness of consciousness." - Neville

"Praying, then, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be rather than begging God for that which you desire." - Neville

"If your prayer brings no response, there is something wrong with it.
The fault generally lies in too much effort.
Serious confusion arises when man identifies the state of prayer with an act of will.
The sovereign rule is to make no effort.
If this is observed, you will intuitively fall into the right attitude." – Neville

"It is not what you want that you attract;
you attract what you believe to be true." - Neville


The core of the process is to create a state of mind
where you feel you already have obtained the thing desired.

Whether this thing be a physical possession or a character trait or union with the divine you, by using your imagination and ignoring all your physical senses tell you to the contrary, assume it is already so in your imagination and mind.

You live in the state as if it were already so.

Once a state of mind is assumed in imagination Neville tells us it is only a short matter of time before the outer physical world will reflect the inner mental one.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 9

“NOT by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” Get into the spirit of the state desired by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you want to be. As you capture the feeling of the state sought, you are relieved of all effort to make it so, for it is already so. There is a definite feeling associated with every idea in the mind of man. Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.
Faith is feeling. “According to your faith (feeling) be it unto you.”
You never attract that which you want but always that which you are. As a man is, so does he see. “To him that hath it shall be given and to him that hath not it shall be taken away....”
That which you feel yourself to be you are, and you are given that which you are. So assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your wish, and your wish must be realized. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.” “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”
You are that which you believe yourself to be.
Instead of believing in God or in Jesus believe you are God or you are Jesus. “He that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also” should be “He that believes as I believe the works that I do shall he do also.”
Jesus found it not strange to do the works of God because he believed himself to be God. “I and my Father are one.” It is natural to do the works of the one you believe yourself to be. So live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that you shall be.
When a man believes in the value of the advice given him and applies it, he establishes within himself the reality of success.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 8

You never attract that which you want but always attract that which you are conscious of being.
Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want.
When the senses confirm the absence of your wish, all conscious effort to counteract this suggestion is futile and tends to intensify the suggestion.
Prayer is the art of yielding to the wish and not the forcing of the wish. Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor – the dominant feeling invariably expresses itself.
Prayer must be without effort. In attempting to fix an attitude of mind which is denied by the senses, effort is fatal.
To yield successfully to the wish as an accomplished fact, you must create a passive state, a kind of reverie or meditative reflection similar to the feeling which precedes sleep. In such a relaxed state the mind is turned from the objective world and easily senses the reality of a subjective state. It is a state in which you are conscious and quite able to move or open your eyes but have no desire to do so.
An easy way to create this passive state is to relax in a comfortable chair or on a bed. If on a bed, lie flat on your back with your head on a level with your body, close the eyes and imagine that you are sleepy. Feel I am sleepy, so sleepy, so very sleepy. In a little while a faraway feeling accompanied by a general lassitude and loss of all desire to move envelopes you. You feel a pleasant, comfortable rest and not inclined to alter your position, although under other circumstances you would not be at all comfortable. When this passive state is reached, imagine that you have realized your wish - not how it was realized - but simply the wish fulfilled. Imagine in picture form what you desire to achieve in life; then feel yourself as having already achieved it. Thoughts produce tiny little speech movements which may be heard in the passive state of prayer as pronouncements from without. However, this degree of passivity is not essential to the realization of your prayers. All that is necessary is to create a passive state and feel the wish fulfilled.
All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. You need no helper to give it to you - it is yours now. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled. As the end is accepted you become totally indifferent as to possible failure, for acceptance of the end wills the means to that end. When you emerge from the moment of prayer it is as though you were shown the happy and successful end of a play although you were not shown how that end was achieved.
However, having witnessed the end, regardless of any anticlimactic sequence you remain calm and secure in the knowledge that the end has been perfectly defined.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 7

III. Prayer and Meditation

PRAYER and meditation are, like sleep, an entrance into the subconscious.
“When you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret and your Father which is in secret shall reward you openly.”
Prayer is an illusion of sleep which diminishes the I'm ression of the outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within. The mind in prayer is in a state of relaxation and receptivity akin to the feeling attained just before dropping off to sleep.
Prayer is not so much what you ask for, as how you prepare for its reception.
“Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them.” The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized.
Your prayer must be answered if you assume the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your objective. The moment you accept the wish as an accomplished fact the subconscious finds means for its realization. To pray successfully then, you must yield to the wish, that is, feel the wish fulfilled.
The perfectly disciplined man is always in tune with the wish as an accomplished fact. He knows that consciousness is the one and only reality, that ideas and feelings are facts of consciousness and are as real as objects in space; therefore he never entertains a feeling which does not contribute to his happiness for feelings are the causes of the actions and circumstances of his life.
On the other hand, the undisciplined man finds it difficult to believe that which is denied by the senses and usually accepts or rejects solely on appearances of the senses. Because of this tendency to rely on the evidence of the senses, it is necessary to shut them out before starting to pray, before attempting to feel that which they deny. Whenever you are in the state of mind, “I should like to but I cannot,” the harder you try the less you are able to yield to the wish.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 6

No matter what the problem is, no matter where it is, no matter whom it concerns, you have no one to change but yourself, and you have neither opponent nor helper in bringing about the change within yourself.
You have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth of that which you desire to see manifested.
As soon as you succeed in convincing yourself of the reality of the state sought, results follow to confirm your fixed belief. You never suggest to another the state which you desire to see him express; instead you convince yourself that he is already that which you desire him to be.
Realization of your wish is accomplished by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
You cannot fail unless you fail to convince yourself of the reality of your wish. A change of belief is confirmed by a change of expression. Every night as you drop off to sleep feel satisfied and spotless, for your subjective lover always forms the objective world in the image and likeness of your conception of it, the conception defined by your feeling.
The waking two-thirds of your life on earth ever corroborates or bears witness to your subconscious impressions. The actions and events of the day are effects; they are not causes. Free will is only freedom of choice. “Choose ye this day whom ye shall serve” is your freedom to choose the kind of mood you assume; but the expression of the mood is the secret of the subconscious. The subconscious receives impressions only through the feelings of man and in a way known only to itself gives these impressions form and expression. The actions of man are determined by his subconscious impressions. His illusion of free will, his belief in freedom of action, is but ignorance of the causes which make him act. He thinks himself free because he has forgotten the link between himself and the event.
Man awake is under compulsion to express his subconscious impressions. If in the past he unwisely impressed himself, then let him begin to change his thought and feeling, for only as he does so will he change his world. Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. “Let the dead bury the dead.”

Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be.

Feeling a state produces that state. The part you play on the world’s stage is determined by your conception of yourself. By feeling your wish fulfilled and quietly relaxing into sleep, you cast yourself in a star role to be played on earth tomorrow, and while asleep you are rehearsed and instructed in your part.

The acceptance of the end automatically wills the means of realization. Make no mistake about this. If, as you prepare for sleep, you do not consciously feel yourself into the state of the answered wish, then you will take with you into the chamber of her who conceived you the sum total of the reactions and feelings of the waking day; and while asleep you will be instructed in the manner in which they will be expressed tomorrow. You will rise believing that you are a free agent, not realizing that every action and event of the day is predetermined by your concept of self as you fell asleep.
Your only freedom then is your freedom of reaction. You are free to choose how you feel and react to the day’s drama, but the drama the actions, events and circumstances of the day have already been determined.
Unless you consciously and purposely define the attitude of mind with which you go to sleep, you unconsciously go to sleep in the composite attitude of mind made up of all feelings and reactions of the day. Every reaction makes a subconscious impression and, unless counteracted by an opposite and more dominant feeling, is the cause of future action. Ideas enveloped in feeling are creative actions. Use your divine right wisely. Through your ability to think and feel you have dominion over all creation.
While you are awake you are a gardener selecting seed for your garden, but
“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
Your conception of yourself as you fall asleep is the seed you drop into the ground of the subconscious. Dropping off to sleep feeling satisfied and happy compels conditions and events to appear in your world which confirm these attitudes of mind.
Sleep is the door into heaven. What you take in as a feeling you bring out as a condition, action, or object in space. So sleep in the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
“As in consciousness, so on earth.”

All things gravitate to that consciousness with which they are in tune.
Likewise, all things disentangle themselves from that consciousness with which
they are out of tune. Divide the wealth of the world equally among all men and
in a short time this equal division will be as originally dis portioned. Wealth
will find it's way back into the pockets of those from whom it was taken.
Instead of joining the chorus of the have-nots who insist on destroying those
who have, recognize this changeless law of expression. Consciously define
yourself as that which you desire.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 5

If, as you prepare for sleep, you assume and maintain the consciousness of success by feeling “I am successful,” you must be successful. Lie flat on your back with your head on a level with your body. Feel as you would were you in possession of your wish and quietly relax into unconsciousness.
“He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” Nevertheless “He giveth his beloved sleep.”
The subconscious never sleeps. Sleep is the door through which the conscious, waking mind passes to be creatively joined to the subconscious. Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
What more beautiful description of this romance of the conscious and subconscious is there than that told in the “Song of Solomon”! “By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth.... I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him and I would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.”


Preparing to sleep, you feel yourself into the state of the answered wish, and then relax into unconsciousness. Your realized wish is he whom you seek. By night on your bed you seek the feeling of the wish fulfilled that you may take it with you into the chamber of her that conceived you, into sleep or the subconscious which gave you form, that this wish also may be given expression.
This is the way to discover and conduct your wishes into the subconscious. Feel your self in the state of the realized wish and quietly drop off to sleep.
Night after night you should assume the feeling of being, having and witnessing that which you seek to be, possess and see manifested. Never go to sleep feeling discouraged or dissatisfied. Never sleep in the consciousness of failure. Your subconscious, whose natural state is sleep, sees you as you believe yourself to be, and whether it be good, bad, or indifferent, the subconscious will faithfully embody your belief. As you feel so do you impress her; and she, the perfect lover, gives form to these Impressions and out-pictures them as the children of her beloved.
“Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee,” is the attitude of mind to adopt before dropping off to sleep. Disregard appearances and feel that things are as you wish them to be, for “He calleth things that are not seen as though they were, and the unseen becomes seen.” To assume the feeling of satisfaction is to call conditions into being which will mirror satisfaction. “Signs follow, they do not precede.” Proof that you are will follow the consciousness that you are; it will not precede it.
You are an eternal dreamer dreaming non-eternal dreams. Your dreams take form as you assume the feeling of their reality. Do not limit yourself to the past. Knowing that nothing is impossible to consciousness begin to imagine states beyond the experiences of the past. Whatever the mind of man can imagine man can realize. All objective (visible) states were first subjective (invisible) states ,and you called them into visible states by assuming the feeling of their reality. The creative process is first imagining and then believing the state imagined. Always imagine and expect the best.
The world cannot change until you change your conception of it. “As within so without.” Nations as well as people are only what you believe them to be.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 4

II. Sleep

SLEEP, the life that occupies one-third of our stay on earth, is the natural door into the subconscious.
So it is with sleep that we are now concerned. The conscious two-thirds of our life on earth is measured by the degree of attention we give sleep. Our understanding of and delight in what sleep has to bestow will cause us, night after night, to set out for it as though we were keeping an appointment with a lover.
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumbering upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction.” Job 33. It is in sleep and in prayer (or meditation), a state akin to sleep, that man enters the subconscious to make his I'm ressions and receive his instructions. In these states the conscious and subconscious are creatively joined. The male and female become one flesh.
Sleep is the time when the male or conscious mind turns from the world of sense to seek its lover or subconscious self. The subconscious unlike the woman of the world who marries her husband to change him has no desire to change the conscious, waking state, but loves it as it is and faithfully reproduces its likeness in the outer world of form. The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious I'm ressions in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your innermost feeling that they may reveal you to yourself.
“As in heaven so on earth.” As in the subconscious so on earth. Whatever you have in consciousness as you go to sleep is the measure of your expression in the waking two-thirds of your life on earth. Nothing stops you from realizing your objective save your failure to feel that you are already that which you wish to be, or that you are already in possession of the thing sought.
Your subconscious gives form to your desires only when you feel your wish fulfilled.
The unconsciousness of sleep is the normal state of the subconscious.
Because all things come from within yourself, and your conception of yourself determines that which comes, you should always feel the wish fulfilled before you drop off to sleep. You never draw out of the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which you are, and you are that which you feel yourself to be as well as that which you feel as true of others.
To be realized, then, the wish must be resolved into the feeling of being or having or witnessing the state sought. This is accomplished by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. The feeling which comes in response to the question “How would I feel were my wish realized ?” is the feeling which should monopolize and immobilize your attention as you relax into sleep. You must be in the consciousness of being or having that which you want to be or to have before you drop off to sleep.
Once asleep man has no freedom of choice. His entire slumber is dominated by his last waking concept of self. It follows, therefore, that he should always assume the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction before he retires in sleep.
“Come before me with singing and thanksgiving.”
“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.”
Your mood prior to sleep defines your state of consciousness as you enter into the presence of your everlasting lover, the subconscious. She sees you exactly as you feel yourself to be.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 3

Your desires are not subconsciously accepted until you assume the feeling of their reality, for only through feeling is an idea subconsciously accepted and only through this subconscious acceptance is it ever expressed.
It is easier to ascribe your feeling to events in the world than to admit that the conditions of the world reflect your feeling. However, it is eternally true that the outside mirrors the inside.
“As within so without.”
“A man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven,” and
“The kingdom of heaven is within you.”

Nothing comes from without; all things come from within from the subconscious.
It is I'm ossible for you to see other than the contents of your consciousness. Your world in its every detail is your consciousness objectified.
Objective states bear witness of subconscious I'm ressions.

A change of I'm ression results in a change of expression.

The subconscious accepts as true that which you feel as true, and because creation is the result of subconscious I'm ressions, you, by your feeling, determine creation.
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it. To seek on the outside for that which you do not feel you are is to seek in vain, for we never find that which we want; we find only that which we are. In short, you express and have only that which you are conscious of being or possessing.
“To him that hath it is given.” Denying the evidence of the senses and appropriating the feeling of the wish fulfilled is the way to the realization of your desire.
Doubt is the stumbling block to Heaven on Earth.
Mastery of self-control on your thoughts and feelings is your highest achievement.
However, until perfect self-control is attained so that in spite of appearances you feel all that you want to feel, use sleep and prayer or meditation to aid you in realizing your desired states. These are the two gateways into the subconscious.

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" Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard, part 2

To feel intensely about a wrong without voicing or expressing that feeling, is the beginning of disease in both body and environment. Do not entertain the feeling of regret or failure for frustration or detachment from your objective results in disease.
Think feelingly only of the state you desire to realize.
Feeling the reality of the state sought and living and acting on that conviction is the way of all seeming miracles. All changes of expression are brought about through a change of feeling. A change of feeling is a change of destiny. All creation occurs in the domain of the subconscious. What you must acquire, then, is a reflective control of the operation of the subconscious, that is, control of your ideas and feelings.
Chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune or misfortune. Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world.
The subconscious is not selective; it is Impersonal and no respecter of persons. The subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feeling. It always accepts as true that which you feel to be true. Feeling is the assent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to the truth. Because of this quality of the subconscious there is nothing I'm ossible to man.
Whatever the mind can conceive and feel as true, the subconscious can and must objectify.
Your feelings created the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern. The subconscious never fails to express that which has been impressed upon it. The moment it receives an impression it begins to work out the ways of its expression. It accepts the feeling impressed upon it, your feeling, as a fact existing within itself and immediately sets about to produce in the outer or objective world the exact likeness of that feeling. The subconscious never alters the accepted beliefs of man – it out-pictures them to the last detail whether or not they are beneficial.
To impress the subconscious with the desirable state you must assume the feeling that would be yours had you already realized your wish. In defining your objective you must be concerned only with the objective itself. The manner of expression or the difficulties involved are not to be considered by you. To think feelingly on any state impresses it on the subconscious.
Therefore, if you dwell on difficulties, barriers or delay, the subconscious, by its very non-selective nature, accepts the feeling of difficulties and obstacles as your request and proceeds to produce them in your outer world.
The subconscious is the womb of creation.
It receives the idea unto itself through the feelings of man. It never changes the idea received, but always gives it form. Hence the subconscious out-pictures the idea in the image and likeness of the feeling received. To feel a state as hopeless or I'm ossible is to impress the subconscious with the idea of failure.
Although the subconscious faithfully serves man it must not be inferred that the relation is that of a servant to a master as was anciently conceived. The ancient prophets called it the slave and servant of man. St. Paul personified it as a “woman” and said:
“The woman should be subject to man in everything.” The subconscious does serve man and faithfully gives form to his feelings. However, the subconscious has a distinct distaste for compulsion and responds to persuasion rather than to command; consequently, it resembles the beloved wife more than the servant.
“The husband is head of the wife,” Eph. 5, may not be true of man and woman in their earthly relationship but it is true of the conscious and the subconscious, or the male and female aspects of consciousness. The mystery to which Paul referred when he wrote, “This is a great mystery.... He that loveth his wife loveth himself.... And they two shall be one flesh,” is simply the mystery of consciousness. Consciousness is really one and undivided but for creation’s sake it appears to be divided into two.
The conscious (objective) or male aspect truly is the head and dominates the subconscious (subjective) or female aspect. However, this leadership is not that of the tyrant but of the lover.
So by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of your objective, the subconscious is moved to build the exact likeness of your assumption.

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"Feeling is the Secret" by Neville Goddard

Law and Its Operation (part 1)

Foreword

This book is concerned with the art of realizing your desire.
It gives you an account of the mechanism used in the production of the visible world. It is a small book but not slight. There is a treasure in it, a clearly defined road to the realization of your dreams.
Were it possible to carry conviction to another by means of reasoned arguments and detailed instances this book would be many times its size. It is seldom possible, however, to do so by means of written statements or arguments since to the suspended judgment it always seems plausible to say that the author was dishonest or deluded, and, therefore, his evidence was tainted.
Consequently, I have purposely omitted all arguments and testimonials, and simply challenge the open-minded reader to practice the law of consciousness as revealed in this book. Personal success will prove far more convincing than all the books that could be written on the subject.

I. Law and Its Operation

The world, and all within it, is man’s conditioned consciousness objectified.
Consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world. So it is to consciousness that we must turn if we would discover the secret of creation.
Knowledge of the law of consciousness and the method of operating this law will enable you to accomplish all you desire in life. Armed with a working knowledge of this law, you can build and maintain an ideal world.
Consciousness is the one and only reality, not figuratively but actually.
This reality may for the sake of clarity be likened unto a stream which is divided into two parts, the conscious and the sub-conscious. In order to intelligently operate the law of consciousness it is necessary to understand the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious.
The conscious is personal and selective, the subconscious is I'm ersonal and nonselective.
The conscious is the realm of effect; the subconscious is the realm of cause. These two aspects are the male and female divisions of consciousness. The conscious is male; the subconscious is female. The conscious generates ideas and I'm resses these ideas on the subconscious; the subconscious receives ideas and gives form and expression to them.
By this law, first conceiving an idea and then I'm ressing the idea conceived on the subconscious will make all things evolve out of consciousness and manifest in our 3D reality; and without this sequence there is not anything made that is made.
The conscious I'm resses the subconscious while the subconscious expresses all that is I'm ressed upon it.
The subconscious does not originate ideas but accepts as true those which the conscious mind feels to be true and in a way known only to itself objectifies the accepted ideas. Therefore, through his power to imagine and feel and his freedom to choose the idea he will entertain, man has control over creation. Control of the subconscious is accomplished through control of your ideas and feelings.
The mechanism of creation is hidden in the very depth of the subconscious, the female aspect or womb of creation. The subconscious transcends reason and is independent of induction. It contemplates a feeling as a fact existing within itself and on this assumption proceeds to give expression to it. The creative process begins with an idea and its cycle runs its course as a feeling and ends in a volition to act.
Ideas are I'm ressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling.
No idea can be I'm ressed on the subconscious until it is felt, but once felt - be it good, bad or indifferent - it must be expressed.
Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious. Therefore, the man who does not control his feeling may easily I'm ress the subconscious with undesirable states. By control of feeling is not meant restraint or suppression of your feeling, but rather the disciplining of self to imagine and entertain only such feeling as contributes to your happiness. Control of your feeling is all I'm ortant to a full and happy life.
Never entertain an undesirable feeling nor think sympathetically about wrong in any shape or form. Do not dwell on the I'm erfection of yourself or others, to do so is to I'm ress the subconscious with these limitations. What you do not want done unto you, do not feel that it is done unto you or another. This is the whole law of a full and happy life. Everything else is commentary.
Every feeling makes a subconscious Impression and unless it is counteracted by a more powerful feeling of an opposite nature must be expressed. The dominant of two feelings is the one expressed. I am healthy is a stronger feeling than I will be healthy. To feel I will be is to confess I am not; I am is stronger than I am not. What you feel you are always dominates what you feel you would like to be; therefore, to be realized the wish must be felt as a state that is rather than a state that is not.
Sensation precedes manifestation and is the foundation upon which all manifestation rests. Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world. Your body is an emotional filter and bears the unmistakable marks of your prevalent emotions. Emotional disturbances, especially suppressed emotions, are the causes of all disease.

Manifesting Your Heart's Desire, part 4

I talked to other people that seemed to find it easier than many others they knew to manifest things. They too had many of the same questions as me. Why is it that some people are able to manifest all really wonderful things while others struggle? Why is it that we are able to manifest to a certain extent and then find it difficult to go beyond that? And if we can harness what we ARE doing right, can we teach it to others? And in this teaching to others, can we go beyond what we already are able to manifest and pull everyone else along with us that is also willing to go beyond, making it that much easier for them?
Hence this experiment.

Heaven knows I don't have all the answers myself. I keep experimenting with different things the Grandfathers and my other Guides and Angels suggest and I throw those things out in my newsletters to see if others might find them helpful. I read every book, listen to every tape, visit websites, any source where I can find out about and learn more on this manifesting business and Universal Law. I meditate on it almost daily. I ask for validations and signs. How can we make it quicker and easier? And is it even okay to ask that it does become easier? The response to this last question was to my mind most profound. For what I heard was "The more that each of you feels you are totally capable of creating anything that you desire, the faster
you will have peace and the faster Humankind will evolve". Sounds like a good reason to me!

On the next page and hopefully other pages to come, I shall be listing different things that I have been working with that have helped me manifest all the good that is already in my life. Some of the tools I shall offer are books, essences, affirmations, audio tapes, websites, crystals, anything that I come across that has been helpful for me and others. Yet I also don't want this to just be about me throwing things out there. I also want to hear from those of you that desire to
participate in this experiment as I shall be outlining below. What works for you? If you use any of the techniques or resources that will be outlined in the weeks and months to come, what have your results been? I would really like to be able to upload everyone's comments, suggestions and tools that they have used to these pages so that they may benefit others. Perhaps there can even be a questions and answers page though I do ask that others please do feel free to answer
questions as well for surely I sI'm ly cannot do it all myself. You can submit questions and answers to me and I will be happy to upload them as quickly as I can. If you do not want your name to be use, I will designate you as Anonymous though please be sure to let me know!

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Manifesting Your Heart's Desire, part 3

It is said not only in Metaphysical teachings but in the Bible as well "that even before one has asked, it shall be given". So just maybe, it really is meant to be fun and easy and enjoyable and blissful. Just maybe it is possible to manifest things more and more quickly until we all reach a point of literally pulling things out of thin air. Everything we could possibly need is already here. We shift our consciousness from one of lack to abundance and then abundance appears in our lives. We shift our focus from ill health to great health and that too appears in our lives. I know from personal experience that shifting from expecting problems to expecting the best produces
amazing results. And quickly too!


We are already literally pulling things to us out of the "unseen" that is Spirit. We I'm ress upon the Divine energy that is within us and every single thing we can name (and those things we are currently unaware of) what it is we desire either consciously or by default, and
here it comes. It has to. It is Universal Law. Every spiritual master down through the ages has stated this as absolute fact. They have also stated that it is truth that if they can do it, so can you and I.

Several years ago I was guided to fly to New York City for a week. I had no idea where the money would come from. New York is not the least expensive destination in the world and my bank balance certainly wasn't brimming over to the point where I could pay my bills and still
be able to take this journey. Yet when talking to friends about it, all of them, to the last man/woman said they had no worries that the money would come. Each of them saw me in NYC and enjoying myself and doing what ever it was I needed to be doing there. It just didn't
occur to any of them that I would not be able to afford to go. They were right. Money started coming from surprising sources. One friend suddenly sold her home that had been on the market for ages without even a nibble and yet suddenly, there it was selling which left her
flushed with abundance. Bless her, she shared some of that abundance with me "because of all you have done for me and because I love you" and that was the final amount I needed. Just recently another friend said to me "you have always been good at attracting to you what you
need" and upon reflection, I realized she was right! Each time I truly desired something in my life, it has manifested. Not always in ways I would have expected, yet it has manifested. Why? What was I doing that was empowering me to manifest and how could I better harness it so I
could manifest the really BIG things I have desired for years and yet still seem just a bit out of reach?

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Manifesting Your Heart's Desire, part 2

Manifesting Your Heart's Desire

( The following is an excerpt from the introduction to the book
Manifesting Your Heart's Desire, Authors Fred Fengler and Todd Varnum:)

I believe, no, I KNOW that we are all capable of manifesting many wonderful things in our lives. That each of us has come into this lifetime with the ability to send forth our thoughts and emotions with such great focus and intensity that we automatically attract a wide
range of experiences and things to ourselves. Most of us do this by default; we focus on things we don't want as well as the things we do want and thus our lives are a mixed bag of experiences. Yet, what would happen if a group of people decided to commit to finding the
easiest and quickest ways possible of recreating life experience so that it more accurately reflects the beauty and abundance of our own Souls? Which by the way, do not experience lack, worry or fear. Ever.

Admittedly, I am not the most patient of people and I can be downright lazy when it comes to "working hard" to manifest something I desire in my life. I have done my share of burning both ends of the candle, beating my head against a wall trying to bang something into place,
struggled with issues that I thought would be with me forever. When I really desire something, I desire it NOW, not next week, next month or five years from now. Traits that I was taught were not so wonderful indeed! Yet, my own guidance started me thinking: what if my desire to
manifest something in the blink of an eye is really my own Soul, my Expanded Self, sharing with me that it IS supposed to be that way! What if my desire to have things come easily is once again my own beloved Expanded Self whispering "YES!" What if two of the traits that
my family has bemoaned over the years are some of the very things that could help me launch new creations that are far more enjoyable in an easy and rapid manner.

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Manifesting Your Heart's Desire

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to the book
Manifesting Your Heart's Desire, Authors Fred Fengler and Todd Varnum:

"It all began when two trained scientists were drawn together by a series of events too unlikely to be mere coincidence. Following their curiosity, they organized and participated in a group of diverse, unconnected people who shared the same fascination with the question
"What happens if we assume we can create the lives we want?"

This started a train of thought for me along similar lines but with a bit of a twist: What would happen if a group of people decided to assume that the Universe is willing to give them the life of their dreams with little effort on their own part, that all they needed to do was follow the thread of energy that appeared to be the most prominent in their life day after day? What if one assumes that beginning on the day that one decides to embark upon such an experiment, that the Universe will immediately begin bringing that person the resources, people, guidance and wisdom needed to manifest what ever is desired, simply by being open to receive it? And what if, one of the easier ways to go about this is by following the thread of synchronicity as it appears in ones life?

This whole concept really intrigued me and my first thought was to create a new e-group where people could connect and share their experiences with synchronicity and any thing else that enhanced this process, including doing what ever one can to feel good each day.
However, that really felt like more work than I am able to take on at the present time. What did begin to make sense was creating a page on my site that outlines this experiment and ask anyone who wants to be involved to share what they are experiencing as time goes on so that
others may also benefit. Perhaps there are tools or techniques that someone finds helpful that they would like to share and those could be uploaded to that section of my site. When I hear of someone else who has manifested something wonderful using a given technique or
affirmation, it helps to give me more faith that it could work for me too. Inspiration is one of the greatest tools we have for shifting old paradigms, for if one person can do it, we all can!

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Manifestation, part 9

The Journey is the Reward

Of course, it is a lot of fun to actually LIVE in that new house rather than just DREAM about it, but this universe is set up so that you cannot live your dream until you are at the exact feeling place you would be if you WERE living it.

In effect, you have to already BE living it before it can manifest. That's because we live in a universe where everything in existence has a unique pattern of vibration, and the universe is set up to always match vibration.

If you are doing this process correctly, it will feel good even though what you want hasn't yet come. In other words, it should feel good to want the thing you want! If what you want makes you feel uncomfortable, then find something else to feel good about. Since what
you want feels good, that means you can feel good about anything and still receive what you want. It's easier to manifest anything by feeling good than by feeling crummy!

If you are undertaking the creative process just for the manifestation, there will be a lot of frustration, for you will look at where you are now and where you want to be, and there will be a big chasm there. You will say something like "I don't like this apartment. It sucks. It would feel a whole lot better if I had a lot of money. Then I could get a house". That energetic chasm of unmatched vibration makes it Impossible for a vibrational match, and so you do not manifest.

When an artist paints a great painting, she is not bitching and complaining the whole time because the painting is not complete! She is throwing herself into the creative process with verve and gusto, and having a great time with the work. That is how the creative process should feel.

The creative process is all about making something different from the currently experienced reality, so do not focus so much on your current experience! You must deliberately create the vibration of where you want to be, even while living in the current experience, and you can
only do that by imagining, pretending, feeling and visualizing your desire as if you already had it. This is fun!

The journey is the reward, and the manifestation is just the reason for the journey! Because there will always be another journey, and another manifestation. The process is ongoing, eternal. It never gets done, that's what eternal means --- continuous creation.

So have fun creating, and receive everything you desire!

Manifestation,part 8

The Creative Process and Life Force

Receiving the manifestation is, paradoxically, not the purpose of this process, as we mentioned above. It is the alignment of your energy. The manifestation is a by-product of the alignment of your energy to it. It the alignment of energy within you that brings about a feeling of joy.

All during the process, the desire you have is causing life force energy to surge through you. That's the real purpose of any manifestation process. This can be seen easily enough, for soon after you realize the manifestation in your experience, you have another desire. And another, and another, and another! If the manifestation were the end result, you would only need to create once. We would simply create something, and be happy with it for ever after. But that
doesn't happen, does it? We always get tired of it after a while, and there is always that next desire to shoot for. I enjoyed my first house for a couple of years before I wanted a new one, even though if felt so good to leave my old apartment building. The tendency for all living beings is to desire more and more. This is not greed, it is the desire for more and more life force energy, more and more of the energy that makes you feel great. We all want to feel great all of the time, right? People who are greedy are grabbing for more and more, but they don't understand that the prize is the state of beingness, which brings joy.

Desire is life force, so the more desire there is, the more alive you feel (unless you are resisting, for some reason, then it feels crummy. That's why some teachers promote the extinguishing of desire. But it's not desire that's the problem, it's the beliefs which contradict desire, blocking the flow of life force energy).

Life force energy, or prana, or chi, is the energy of thought, and feels wonderful. Tapping into this energy is sheer joy, and it is this energy which is the energy of creation itself, and which you are using in your creative process.

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Manifestation,part 7

Background Theory

Everything in existence has a unique pattern of vibration. Humans are vibrational interpreters. Matter is full of holes (the atom is 99% space) so why do we perceive it as solid? The ONLY reason we perceive all of that space (matter) as solid is because we are vibrationally tuned in to it. That vibrational tuning is also how we perceive and manifest into our physical experience. Buckminster Fuller made this clear in his masterwork called Synergetics
It's all about vibration, and energy alignment to the vibration of the thing that is wanted.

The Value of Action

Sometimes taking action before your energy is lined up can help jar you into better creating, but this is usually a sign that afterwards you still need to do some more work clarifying your visualization. Sometimes just getting off your butt and into a little action can be a good thing, even if it is ineffective action! It can help to break up old energy patterns. But remember that the universe will always answer your vibration, so if your energy is not lined up with your goal, it won't come to you precisely as intended. It will come with all of the other I'm urities mixed up with it in your thought stream. This is the most frustrating part about the creative process, because we THINK we have our energy all lined up, but what we get is not a match to our intention.

By examining what did manifest, we can identify old beliefs and feelings and further clarify our visualization.

Don't give up just because you have been at it for a while and still haven't received! Continue the process of aligning your energy and when it feels better, go into action again and observe the results. When your energy is fully a vibrational match to your desire, you will feel it. You will KNOW it. After that, you know it will come, and the game is over! You've won.

Usually, any action taken out of a sense that "it has to be done" is a sign that you have not aligned your energy clearly enough to your goal. Under these conditions, you will struggle to a slight or great degree. Here's an example: I decided to raise my prices in my contracting work last summer. But I didn't really believe that the market could support it. So every time I bid a job at the new price, I never got it. Funny how that works. Because my energy was not lined up, I continued to attract the clients that were only willing to pay me at the old rates. It was only after I went back and removed some of my old beliefs about my self worth and about money, over the holidays, that I was able to bid these jobs comfortably. Now, I am not quite so booked, but I am working at my new, higher rates. If my energy was completely aligned to my goal, I would be overflowing with customers at the new rates.

So I know I still have some work to do!

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Manifestation,part 6

The Law of Attraction


The Prize

The prize is always a state of beingness. It is never the thing manifested. Why is this? Because the only reason you want anything in the first place, is because you think it will make you feel good! A material object is fun to use and play around with, but an object does not have the inherent ability to make you feel good. That is why a rich person can still be miserable.

A state of beingness is an attitude, an emotion, a feeling, a point of perception. It is something within you. It is what you are at any moment of Now. It is the nature of consciousness. A doingness or a havingness is something outside of yourself, but a state of being is intrinsic to your very essence.

The manifestation, when it occurs, just helps to hold you in a state of beingness, an attitude of joy.

If you attempt to go into action before your energy is properly aligned to your goal, you will struggle. So if you are struggling, unfixate and take another look at the situation. Don't keep trying new actions in a desperate attempt to pull it off! Go back to the state of beingness. All creation is done from a state of beingness, not doingness. Doingness comes after a state of beingness is attained, if you are smart! A beingness of confusion about what you want will lead
to a doingness of struggle and hard work. A beingness of complete clarity about what you want will inevitably lead to a doingness of effortless and effective action towards your goal.

Some might be worried about this reliance on beingness as opposed to action, because the difficulties aren't apparent to you when you are just imagining it. Everything just goes hunk-dory when you dream it up, but that's not often how it goes down in the 'real world.'

However, if you work with this process for a while, you will discover that a beingness which is aligned energetically to your goal will, when action is taken, always lead you to handling of the precise roadblocks in your way, so that the actions you take will be minimized and always effective . 'Work smart, not hard", as one of my teachers used to say. If you are finding that you are not getting results, stop what you are doing, go back and find more clarity in your vision
of what you want. If you have complete clarity and alignment of energy to your goal, you will be led inexorably to the most efficient actions necessary for manifestation. It is inevitable! And need I say that when your energy is fully aligned to your desire or goal, that you feel great? If you are creating but not having fun, you're going to be waiting a long time to get what you want!

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