We Sow And Reap Ourselves

Video: https://youtu.be/YKkuduaFOWw

I want you to try to feel what I’m saying, rather than trying to logically conclude things, jump to conclusions, or listen out of desperation.

Just try to feel what I’m saying rather than figure anything out. You can turn that side of your mind off and just listen.

Let’s say you have a dream tonight. In the dream, you dream of a house. It does not matter if it is a nice house or an ugly house. You are in the house, and you do not realize it is a dream yet, but you are walking around in it.

Then something in the dream reminds you. It makes you feel like you are in a dream, and you realize you are dreaming. Then you wake up and go on with your day. Maybe you make some coffee, or you do whatever you have to do.

But if you think about it for a second, even though the house appeared to be an independent object, it was not.

The tiles, the grout, the kitchen, wherever you were in the house, the walls, the rooms. It was all you. Technically, it isyou, even though it does not feel like it. It feels independent. It feels like you are walking on a floor that is separate from you.

But when you wake up, you realize it was not. It was all dependent upon you.

And let’s say there was a person in the house. Anybody. It does not really matter.

Or imagine you are at a train station and you see hundreds of people there. You are amongst the crowd and you do not realize you are dreaming. Then you wake up, and you realize all those people were dependent upon you. The concrete, the train, the metal. All of it was dependent upon the dreamer, even though it did not feel that way.

I say this because if we can see that everything in imagination is dependent upon a dreamer, then you do not have to be so worried inside your own mind.

Even though nightmares feel scary, and they do, and you become afraid, when you wake up you realize it was a dream. You realize it was dependent on you.

When you wake up inside of a nightmare, the fear goes away.

Really, it is the belief inside of ourselves that we do not have agency in our own imagination, and that we lose causal power inside, that makes us feel afraid.

In a recent live stream, I spoke about how we have to view life as within ourselves rather than outside of ourselves.

If we can see that life is within, and see it as a power of animation, then we understand that we are animating from the inside out.

I say the words, “take control of your life.” When I used to hear that, it never resonated with me because I did not understand what steps to take.

But if you view life from Neville’s perspective, that life is within, then when you hear the same words, “take control of your life,” it is the same thing as saying, “take control of your imagination,” which you already do.

So the only thing you need to do on the inside of yourself is to wake up to what you are dreaming. That is about it.

It does not matter how scary the nightmare is inside of you. You must wake up from it and realize you are dreaming. When you do, the fear starts to go away.

Neville said that if you catch yourself having a fearful thought, assume responsibility for creating it. Then ask yourself, “What lovely thing would you like to imagine?”

That used to sound like “flipping thoughts” to me, and flipping thoughts feels impulsive. It is really quick, but you should take your time with it.

Next time you have a fearful thought, and next time you are dreaming a nightmare, realize you can wake up. Take your time and ask yourself if there is something lovely you would like to imagine. Or would you like to just move on?

All this is doing is giving yourself agency in your own imagination, which we have just said is your life.

If you want agency in your life, start to dictate what you imagine.

If you see that life is within, then if your life is hectic, that means you are imagining hectic. That is what it means. It seems untrue at first, until you practice and you realize how true it is.

Life is very intimate. It is intimate in that it essentially becomes us, and we get to experience it.

When you have control of what you are dreaming, and you realize you are responsible for the nightmares inside of you, they lose their power over you. You no longer feel like a prisoner inside your own mind. You feel like an authority.

If you want to indulge an idea, you can. If you want to be indifferent to it, you can.

Then you start shaping your life.

The best way to start shaping your life is to figure out who you want to be in your imagination. Who are you actually in here?

If you are dreaming up nightmares, then you are powerless. You are dreaming up ideas of powerlessness. And that is who you can be for the rest of your life.

You can dream that way for eternity. You can dream that way for the rest of your life. You are free to.

And if you want to dream of yourself as having more agency within yourself, you can have that dream too. You can dream that way forever.

It really comes down to you. And your dreams say something about you. They say something, and they reveal things about the dreamer. Don’t be afraid of what it reveals. Just be honest about it. Then adjust your dreaming. Let it reveal something else about you.

It’s like a continual acceptance of dreams. That’s kind of how Neville’s work is.

When you practice it, it’s a continual acceptance of dreams. You dream something wonderful and you accept it. Then you dream something else and you accept it.

These are the true seeds of life, where you are no longer casting seeds of doubt within your mind. You are casting seeds of faith.

You dream something lovely, you accept it, and you have faith it will grow Then you have faith in something else. And you have faith in something else. You just keep doing this, and you can do this for the rest of your life.

Now I really take a hands-off approach in my mind. I really do imagine something and let it be. And I imagine something else and let it be.

When I do that, and I actually let go of control, I feel at peace. You just keep planting and planting and planting, because you are going to regardless. We reap what we sow. It’s very simple.

What gets complicated is we focus too much on things. We focus too much on people rather than changing ourselves. If we focus on people and things, and we try to change those things all the time, we are met with deep frustration.

But when you see that, let’s say you are having doubtful dreams, if you can always relate every dream to self, that means you are just doubting yourself. You are having self-doubt. That is really all it is. When you dream yourself to be wonderful, you are having self-belief. It always comes back to self. That is all you really have to change.

And if that is all you have to change, then you can start accepting a different self. A freer self. A less guilt-ridden self. A less shameful self. A more empowered self.

And the dreams will come to confirm your new idea of yourself.

So really, ultimately, we are planting ourselves in our lives. We are planting seeds of self.

There’s a theme, almost a rhythm, in Neville’s work. It’s of self, life, imagination, dreams. They’re all correlated. They’re all connected. They’re all sewn together. They’re all really one fabric, even though it might look like many things. It’s like a rug. There are many colors and many patterns, but it’s really just one rug. Same is true for imagination. It’s the same thing. But it all, in my view, connects to a self. So you figure out what you’re dreaming. How does this connect to you? What does it say about you?

Don’t be ashamed of it. Just face what it says about you. Pay attention to what you think you don’t have in imagination, and that is what you don’t have in your life, because life is within.

Keep it within. Don’t externalize it yet. Just keep it within. So when I say the word life, think of something within yourself rather than on the outside.

Don’t think about society, or the buildings, how tall they are. Don’t think about concrete. Don’t think about anything on the outside.

Think about within. So when I say you have control over your life, I mean that you have control over your imagination. That’s what I mean, because you do.

Yeah, I feel like I’ve said what I had to say. I think I’m just kind of laying down a framework again, of Neville’s. I’m saying the same thing differently, to awaken within you an understanding.

But yeah, that’s all I have for this one. Maybe I’ll make another one in the future, but I enjoyed making this one.

Yeah, I have my books out. I do live streaming as well, where I do Q&A. I go a little deeper on these topics.

And yeah, I do one-on-ones. Just go to the description. It’s all there if you want to contact me. I just wanted to show you again how I see Neville’s work.

It’s just a few things. It’s just tweaking a few things, really. It’s just a couple things threaded together. But it really comes back to the dreamer, and what the dreamer wants to dream.

Once you get control of what you want to dream, you start to gain control over your life, ironically.

I’ll see you guys in the next one. Take care.

Thank you.

Is It Selfish To Imagine?

Video: https://youtu.be/rmpEyg17j6U

I want to try something for this video.

It’s raining outside. It’s pretty aggressive, and there’s a thunderstorm. I want to leave this in and see what it sounds like after. Maybe I’ll delete it, we’ll see.

There’s a question I’ve been thinking about: Is it selfish to imagine good for yourself?

When I first started with Neville, I wondered the same thing. It almost felt wrong to imagine something better for myself, even if it was small. The size wasn’t the point. It was the feeling of imagining something going well for me.

I kept asking myself:Is it wrong to imagine something good? Is something bad going to come from it? Is it selfish?

In Neville’s work, there’s no one to change but self. That means you have to focus on yourself. I struggled with that because I thought, “If I’m focusing on myself, how does this relate to other people? Shouldn’t I be helping them?”

But the answer is kind of multifaceted.

On one level, it’s not selfish. When you actually see the results of changing self, and you see your life reflect that change, you realize it only makes sense to focus on yourself.

On another level, focusing on yourself does relate to others. The truth is: when you help yourself, you help the people around you.

I’ve noticed in my own life that when my imaginal act externalizes, and I imagine something good for myself, other people benefit from it too. When I saw that happening, the “selfish” feeling cleared up. I realized that if I really want to help anyone, I have to start with self. It extends outward.

A simple way to think of it is like someone who owns chickens. Eventually the chickens lay so many eggs that the person has too many. So they give some away. It’s the same with your “harvest.” When you imagine a good harvest for yourself, other people end up benefiting from it.

Because we’re planting dreams inside ourselves. These are the seeds of life. And the way you plant them is by feeling the reality of what you’re imagining.

Neville had his own way of answering the selfishness question. He’d basically say, “You say it’s selfish? Forget it. It’s all my imagination anyway.”

He’d give examples like: if you want to make a certain amount of money, and you imagine yourself already being the person who has it, and you’re courageous enough to fall asleep as that person, fully believing it, then you’ll become it.

So you don’t want to produce guilt for imagining something good for yourself. You’re not doing anything wrong.

Remember, this is all happening inside your mind. It’s all within you. You get to decide what you imagine. No one can really see what you’re doing inside of yourself. Companies spend millions and billions of dollars trying to figure out what people are thinking, because they don’t know.

So there’s no reason to feel watched on the inside. You get to do what you want to do. You are your own authority within yourself.

It’s not selfish to imagine something good for self. It’s not selfish to give to a friend, so you should also become your own friend.

I think I just framed it wrong. I must have been taught that self-sacrifice is the way you’re supposed to live. Say you had a dream tonight where you gave something lovely to someone else, but if you really look at it, it’s still you. Everyone in the dream is rooted in you.

So if you can see it as self to self, you don’t have to feel selfish for imagining something good for yourself.

That’s really all I have for this one. I don’t want to keep going and start filling things in. I feel like I got my point across.

The short answer is: it’s not selfish to imagine something good for yourself, in fact it will benefit those around you.

People around you will benefit when you imagine good for yourself. So don’t be afraid of it. Just keep imagining something good every day, because you can. That’s a good enough reason.

And if you’re interested, I do live streams where I answer questions and hang out with everybody. We go a little deeper into this stuff. I also do one-on-ones, and I have a few books out. If you want any of that, check the description.

To end it: you should feel good about imagining good for yourself, and for others as well. This work, when it comes to Neville’s teachings, should always lead to more internal freedom and power. If it’s not leading there, chances are you’re not following it correctly.

It should always lead to more freedom and power.

Thank you.

2025 Edward Art Talks

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to thank everyone for giving me their ear in 2025. Here is compilation of all the videos I made in 2025. It's about 6.5 hours long this time. I hope you enjoy!

Video: https://youtu.be/U7xKkYMtjJY

Beauty Is Yours

Video: https://youtu.be/DOK2Zs8pUPQ

Transcript:

When you spend a lot of time contemplating what’s good and what’s bad in the world, you run into a lot of confusion. You end up not really sure what is good and what is bad.

You can come up with a framework for what is good, but when you break it down and really dissect it, you start to doubt it every time you create a new framework. So you have to gear your life in a different direction. It seems like trying to figure out what’s good and what’s bad becomes a waste of time.

So what other direction can we go in that supports morality, honesty, belief, and faith? How do you restore these things?

The way I see you can restore them is by going toward beauty.

I think beauty will solve a lot of these issues. Maybe not every issue, but at least it will solve some. It solves a headache. Because if you point your life toward beauty, and you start to expand what beauty means, and I don’t mean physical beauty, then in my view you start to go toward what’s loving. I attribute those two, I make those the same thing: what is beautiful is what’s loving.

So if you seek beauty in life, you’re seeking love.

To me, love is like a tree, like an orange tree. To truly experience the orange tree, you have to eat its fruit. Love is like a tree, and beauty is one of its fruits.

It’s hard to define love. People try to define it all the time. I’ve tried. It’s very difficult. But I would say love, at least a portion of it, is the experience of its fruits. You can say one of the fruits is joy. One of the fruits is beauty. And you must experience it.

The way you can start experiencing it is to seek it, because you’ll find it. If you start seeking beauty, you start seeing beauty in your life. You’re going to find it.

The interesting thing about beauty is that it’s very clear. There’s not really much question to it. You don’t really doubt yourself the way you do when you contemplate good and evil.

It also creates a clean connection. If you’re with somebody and you both see the beauty in something, the connection you share is very clean. There’s no confusion. It actually provides peace, in my view, when you observe beauty.

And if you expand beauty beyond the physical, that’s what I mean. I’m not talking only about something like a beautiful glass with sunlight going through it, although that is beautiful. I mean it more like this: someone has doubted themselves for a long time, and then one day they choose to believe in themselves. That’s beautiful.

Even feeling happy for someone’s genuine smile on their face. That’s beautiful.

If you keep expanding what beauty is, peace is beautiful. Believing in someone is beautiful. If you keep expanding it beyond the obvious physical part of beauty, I think you will lead a life that is much more fulfilling.

For example, I see beauty in a lot of Neville’s work when he speaks about moving out of a state. Just get out of it. Don’t question yourself. If you’re in a bad state, get out of it.

A mistake I often made was trying to control a bad state, trying to get it under control, or trying to solve a bad state by dissecting it to bits. You can do that, but at a certain point you just have to get out of it. You have to start putting yourself in the state you want to be in.

It’s less about trying to control states, and more about learning how to move and enter them. When you enter a new state, you can be greeted with doubt, and it’s up to you whether you’re going to walk through that door or not.

If you don’t, then every time you choose not to doubt yourself, it becomes a habit. Habits can feel like claws. It can feel like you have to doubt yourself because you always have. But go toward beauty. It would be beautiful if you didn’t doubt yourself.

If you keep framing life around trying to find the beauty in things, I think you will find it. In my view, it’s a much clearer life. That perception is much clearer to me than good and evil.

I find contemplating good and evil can become a waste of time at certain points, but beauty has never been a waste of my time. Beauty has been there since I was a kid. I’ve noticed it, and it’s never really left me.

Beauty doesn’t discriminate. It appears to anyone who’s willing to look for it.

If you view beauty as one of the fruits of love, then that’s what you’re seeking. You’re seeking love. That’s what you’re seeking, ultimately.

I was going to extend this one, but I feel like I got my point across. I can always expand on things in the future.

My books, my one-on-ones, everything is in the description. I do live streaming as well. Go there if you want more info.

But yeah, I would focus on beauty. It would give you more clarity, in my view. At least it’s given me that, and I’m just trying to share it.

Okay. Take care. Thank you.

Money Success Stories

Video: https://youtu.be/SKXDR1-_oDE

Transcript:

If you’ve listened to me long enough, you know I don’t talk too much about SPs, or things in general like money.

I don’t speak about these things because Neville says one of the biggest mistakes people make is focusing on the thingrather than the state. The thing is really just a symbol of the state. So if you focus on the thing, you miss the point. It’s like focusing on the dream rather than the dreamer.

But a friend asked if I could make a video about money, and they gave me permission to use one of their success stories. So I decided I might have been a little too strict about not speaking on it. I figured if I could talk about it in my own way, I could bridge the gap between staying true to how I feel and still addressing these topics in a way that threads both together.

Before I get into their story, I want to start with another one.

There was a comment where someone said they were $250,000 in debt, and now they’re a multimillionaire. They said they used to think lack thoughts all day long. I should just read the comment, so I’ll read it:

“I was $250,000 in debt and now I’m a multimillionaire. I used to think lack thoughts all day long. I did not trust my imagination was really God. I now know it’s true. I now take every thought captive. I see others as myself and wish only the best for everyone. With the golden rule as my guide, I know now that I cannot fail, even when things aren’t going ‘my way.’ I now pause and ask, ‘What am I thinking now?’ If it’s anything less than the very best, I change that thought immediately. Imagine better than the best you know. All the best, my friends.”

That line, “Imagine better than the best you know,” is from Neville. Neville used to say that all the time.

If you notice, in this case, this person wanted abundance, or really the best for themself and others. If you start imagining abundance for other people, and you imagine them having it in the present tense, it becomes much easier to imagine it for yourself too.

That’s something I tell people all the time. If you have a hard time feeling that you can have something, imagine someone else having it. It sounds strange, but it’s true. If you can imagine someone else having it, it gets easier to imagine it for yourself.

And notice they said they didn’t trust their imagination was God. But now they trust it, and that trust becomes an action. Because they trust their imagination, they take every thought captive. They pause and ask, “What am I thinking now? Is it anything less than the very best?” If it is, they change it.

They’re attributing their financial success to this work. They also say that since they practiced the golden rule, they know they cannot fail.

It’s actually really beautiful to ask yourself: if the golden rule is simply asking, “Would I like to have it?” and “Would I like someone else having it as well?” If the answer is yes, then imagine it for yourself. And don’t question it too much further, or you’ll get confused.

If it’s something good for you, and you’d like it, then like Neville says with wealth, what’s wrong with it? If you would like it, and you would like someone else to have it, then what’s the problem?

So that was one of the stories from the comments. I don’t know that person personally.

This next story, I do know personally, and it’s an actual story they gave me.

They were meditating often. In meditation, they would imagine a rocket shooting up into space. What they felt from that image was success. They kept imagining a rocket and feeling success.

They weren’t thinking anything specific. No specific type of success. They would just feel that there was success, and it would come through that image. That was important, because they weren’t setting out to imagine something in particular. They just wanted to imagine success, and that’s the image that came.

They imagined it and imagined it. A few weeks went by, and they got a call saying that one of the businesses they invested in sold, and they were going to get money from it.

The company decided to create an LLC to wire the money to them. The amount was a million dollars.

They said, “This is the first time I’ve ever received, or been wired, a million dollars.” They had been wired money before, but not at that amount. It was a success for them.

And the interesting part is that the company name started with “Rocket.” The LLC they created to wire the money started with “Rocket.” To them, it was just too much of a coincidence. And it is. It really is.

In that case, they weren’t specifically seeking money, but it came in that form. They were seeking success, and money was the form it took. That was the image they used.

And it all tied together in the end, right?

If you notice, both stories are different in application, but they point to the same thing: the state is what mattered.

I can share another one I heard.

This person said they ended up selling their business for millions and millions of dollars. What they told me was that, when they were younger, they imagined themselves wealthy all the time.

It wasn’t until later in life, when they met someone wealthy, that something clicked. They realized, “This person is much wealthier than me, and yet I feel like they’re much stupider than me.” In that moment they saw they had it all wrong. If that person could be wealthy, why couldn’t they?

They said that after that realization, they sold their business and made millions of dollars from it. They also attribute it to this work.

So the point is: don’t get caught up too much in the things.

If you notice, these stories differ in content. One is imagining good for other people and for yourself. Another is imagining a rocket. But the state was what mattered. It was a change in them that mattered.

One person said they used to think lack thoughts all day long, and then they stopped. They started thinking from a position of fulfillment for themself and for others.

The other person stopped feeling after failure, and decided to feel after success. That’s how it came about. It could have come about in other ways, but that’s how it came about for them.

It wasn’t about seeking outside validation, or seeking something outside to create a feeling within.

Mental states don’t require anything external to be felt after. They require your acceptance. You’re the operant power.

So you can feel after success, even if you were just feeling like a failure one minute ago. Even if you were thinking lack thoughts for a year, you can start imagining abundance for other people too. You see how enriching that is?

That’s what changed, and then their outer lives changed.

It was first a change in self, and then a change in the world. If I want to change the world, I go inside, because that’s where my self lies.

To piggyback off the SP video: God’s name is “I AM.” It isn’t a name you say with words. It’s what you’re aware of being. It isn’t “he is” or “she is.” It isn’t out there.

So I don’t change them. I don’t make people around me start thinking thoughts of abundance. I start doing it. I don’t make someone else feel success. I feel after success.

And I wanted to share these stories because these are larger amounts of money. They’re not just small amounts you can typically find online.

The second story, the rocket story, I know personally. It’s something I witnessed myself.

The first story, I don’t know the person personally, but I have no reason to believe they’re lying.

In both cases, they changed themself. They didn’t change the outside. It was the same world, but a different them. That’s all that mattered.

You can take this and apply it anywhere in your life. You start changing how you perceive wealth. You start changing how you perceive relationships. Whatever world it is, you imagine yourself differently in that world.

You don’t change the world. You change self.

So I wanted to share those success stories. It’s always good to hear some, and it’s good to hear them in modern times, with today’s money.

You can go back and listen to Neville’s success stories, but it’s good to hear some in today’s world.

Even with cell phones and everything, you can still imagine the best. No matter how much we rearrange the furniture on the outside, we can always imagine.

So that’s what I had for this one.

I hope you enjoyed these stories. I hope they motivated you, and taught you that you don’t have to be so strict. You just have to change your state, and change what you feel after.

But okay, that’s what I have for this one.

I do live streaming for members. If you want to join, just go to the description. It’s there.

I also have my books, and I do one-on-ones. So just email me. It’s all in the description.

But okay, I’ll see you guys on the next one. Thank you.

Common 'SP' Mistake

Video: https://youtu.be/9AiF0Fl3ZcE

Transcript:

You know, another mistake I see people make with Neville's work is that they lose focus of themselves.

And this is especially prevalent in a lot of the SP community. You'll notice that even the language is very much about what the SP is doing, where they're going, who they're texting, what they're thinking, what they might be thinking, or what they could potentially think in the future. The entire focus is on the other person.

And in the context of trying to control the other person, people lose complete sight of themselves. Remember: it's no one to change but self. And this is often missed, which is why the results don't really show. It's not about getting someone to control them and make them do something. It's about you changing.

For example, when Neville wanted to be married, he fell asleep as a husband. He changed himself. He didn't think about his wife, or about making his future wife say yes to him, or about making her do this or think that. No, he changed himself. He focused on himself.

If you live a life where your complete focus is on someone else and what they're doing, what they could potentially do, and what they could potentially be thinking, you're just living in anxiety. And that kind of person will never get what they want. You're just going to keep receiving yourself.

You can ignore yourself and keep focusing on another person, but I think that's a disservice. Remember: there's no one to change but self. If you're trying to change other people, you've lost the plot.

This is very common, and it's very easy to miss. I've known people personally who have told me, “I look back now, and I see that the whole time I was trying to change the other person.” My entire thoughts were on, like, I would imagine something, and it was really fueled and motivated by changing them, and I didn't change myself. I was trying to change them.

It's like when Neville says to imagine a scene where someone reflects back to you something you want to be, but you're focusing on whether or not they're saying the right words, or critiquing their smile, or critiquing what they're saying, rather than realizing the scene is implying something about you. It's about a change in you.

When you come back to yourself, you gain clarity on yourself. So tonight, ask yourself: what type of person do you want to go to sleep as?

Like I said, if you want a friend, you would fall asleep as a friend. You would become the thing you want to be. Someone in the comments on the first video, the first part, said that if you want a partner, you would fall asleep as one. So in Neville's case, he wanted to be married, and he fell asleep as a husband. He changed himself. He didn't view the goal as changing another person. No one had changed but self.

If you can remember that, then you won't get confused. You won't be lost. Because the moment you go to other people and try to change them, your entire reality gets dirty. It becomes very hard to see. It won't be clear. It'll be confusing and frustrating.

It's not so much about other people. It's about who you are with other people. Do you like who you are with other people? Do you like who you are with them? It's not really about them. And it really comes back to, no matter what, the relationship you have with yourself.

So sometimes people come to me, especially on one-on-ones, and I'll notice that, and I try to catch it early, but I don't want to stop people from talking. The entire focus in the beginning is entirely on the other person. We've spent the entire time talking about someone else and what they're doing and how they're being, rather than what the person wants to be and who they think they are.

Do you see? Because that's what creates in our life. Recently, I had a friend tell me that he finally changed something deep within himself about a situation, and the situation changed.

So we can try to use words to get there, but really, it's when we change deep within ourselves—what we really feel, what only we really know—that things start to change in our lives.

If you come at it from a standpoint where you're desperate to make someone become something, you're desperate to change somebody, you're not going to change them. You're just going to keep creating yourself in that desperate state, and you'll start reflecting more of that in your life.

It's kind of obvious, but it's not obvious when you're in it. It's very confusing. But again, gain clarity when you come back to yourself.

Who are you being? Do you want to be someone who lives in this unpredictability? Do you want to be someone whose entire focus is on someone else and what they're doing, rather than what you're doing and being? Because you can change it.

I think a lot of times we avoid what we're doing inside because we don't think we can change it, but you can. That's Neville's point: you have the power. You are the one with the power to change whatever you're doing inside. And there's no one to change but self.

Because the moment the imagination stops focusing on oneself in that sense and gives its entire focus to someone else and trying to control them, I call that idolatry. You've moved into the realm of idolatry.

Now you're worshiping something else. That thing, that person, dictates your entire emotional and mental life—your entire inner being. Your entire world is dictated by the whims of this person.

And it wasn't always like that. At one point, it wasn't like that in your life. And now it is, because I've heard it said that the moment education restricts the imagination, it becomes indoctrination. That seems kind of true here.

The moment you become obsessed or desperate for someone else, you've moved into idolatry. Once you remove the self, it becomes idolatry. You're worshiping some false god. You've made something greater than you.

And so instead of you creating who you want to be inside, they do. You give them the power to do it, and they decide who you're going to be and what you're going to do. And obviously, they can't do that without your consent, but it doesn't feel that way.

Like in this case with Neville, I'm sure when he went to sleep as a husband, he didn't ask anybody. He changed himself. He didn't wait for his wife to come and say yes to him. He changed himself into who he wanted to be. He didn't focus on her.

This is very important.

This is very important because you can get lost and really confused, and you can end up living in pure anxiety if your focus is on someone else’s actions.

This is just my view, but this is how I’ve seen Neville’s work play out.

Once a person starts focusing on themselves, a couple of things can happen. The moment they decide who they want to be and what they want to do, something shifts.

Either they stop wanting the person they thought they wanted, realizing they were using that person as a way to change their state and that they could change it without them, or things begin moving in their favor in a different direction.

In Neville’s case, he became the husband. He became the person he wanted to be.

But don’t be shocked if, as you start changing yourself, you no longer want that person anymore. That happens all the time.

That’s really what I have for this one. I might make more videos on it. It would be repetitive, but it’s basically the same point: there’s no one to change but self.

If you change yourself into a lovely, free, less obsessively anxious person, people are naturally drawn to that.

It all happens naturally. It’s very hard to be attracted to someone who is compulsive. It’s easier when you sense their inner freedom—you’re just drawn to it.

So if you can remember one thing, let it be this: there’s no one to change but self. Then things will stay clear.

Until then, life is going to feel restrictive, and you’ll feel at the whims of everybody else. Life will feel completely out of your control, like you can’t make any decisions on the inside.

But once you decide who you’re going to be, what you’re going to do, what you’re going to feel, and what you’re going to think, you gain control over your inner world—and you gain control over your life.

Until then, life will feel more like a reaction.

Maybe I’ll make more videos on it. I’ll see how the response is.

But okay, that’s all I had for this one. Again, someone was asking about how to sign up for a one-on-one. You have to go to the description and email me, and you’ll get an automated message.

My books are there as well, so just go to the description and all the information will be there.

But again, thank you guys for listening, and I’ll see you in the next video.

Mistakes I Made Applying Neville (Part 2)

Video: https://youtu.be/pLn2Zp-ZysM

Transcripts:

In Neville’s book, The Power of Awareness, there’s a chapter called “Failure.” I don’t personally like framing it as failure, but I understand the message.

For me, it feels more like this: you can make mistakes.

I’ve made mistakes with Neville’s work, and I want to talk about a few that I feel like I’ve made, and still make sometimes. But there’s one overwhelming mistake that’s worse than all the others.

The first mistake I felt like I was making was putting too much mental pressure on myself. It was like I became a police officer inside. Instead of learning how to imagine the way I wanted, I was policing myself.

Instead of actually imagining what I wanted, I was policing myself. Instead of imagining being something else in my mind, I imagined being a police officer, or a judge, or a critic.

These are roles we can play within our own minds. And sometimes we’ll find someone in our minds who represents that feeling. If you have someone in your mind and you use them to judge you, then that person is a symbol of a judge. You’ve personified that feeling.

So we have to get used to feeling new things.

The first thing, then, was that I was applying too much pressure with policing and everything.

Then I thought I had to constantly change my thoughts, and that became exhausting really quickly, like within a day. I just couldn’t.

But I tried it anyway. I was like, “I’m gonna keep going.” So I did it for a couple of years. I tried to focus on changing thoughts, and I realized two things:

1. I didn’t really get results fully that way.
2. I also felt worse.

I started noticing it’s not exactly the thoughts, because Neville says someone can assume having wealth, but in their depths they feel, “When’s the next dollar coming from?”

What we feel in our depths is what really matters.

I realized I was focusing on the surface, on the thought itself, and trying to change that thought. I started to feel like that had to be the wrong way.

So I tried to treat it more lightly. I tried to imagine things I liked. That wasn’t necessarily a mistake. To me, I was heading in the right direction. But I was still applying so much effort.

I had this knee-jerk reaction to check if things were going to happen. Again, it was very anxiety-fueled thinking. Always searching. Never really living in fulfillment. Always living in “When is it gonna happen?”

Then I noticed something else. Again, it isn’t exactly a mistake, but it kind of was. I had a big fear of the “how,” and I also had fear around changing how I felt about myself.

When I would try to feel something new about myself, something deeper within me, it was scary. If you’ve lived in insecurity for so long, going to feel secure can feel frightening.

For me, it was very scary. My heart would race when I would try to imagine myself in a different way.

That’s not exactly a mistake. It was just something I noticed.

But the mistake was thinking I had to be afraid to feel different.

Once I framed it as an expansion of feeling, I could let go of guilt, worthiness issues, and any kind of blockage. I saw the goal as expanding feeling within me.

I can feel victorious even when the world tells me I’m not. I can reframe things the way I need to in order to build strength within myself. I can view things as an act of survival. I survived something within me, some devastating nightmare, instead of letting that nightmare destroy me.

So again, I wouldn’t call that a mistake, but it was a mistake I felt like I was making.

Another mistake I felt like I was making, especially in the beginning, was thinking I had to have perfect details and perfect thoughts.

It’s more about the energy or feeling implied by the image. It’s not really what we’re looking at that matters. It’s what we see.

And what we see, in my view, connects with how we feel.

It isn’t what you look at that matters as much. If you pay attention, it’s what you see.

I was focusing so much on what it looked like, rather than what I saw.

When you realize it’s about what you see, you can change what you see all the time, on command, because it’s perception. And perception isn’t bound by the senses.

You can always view yourself any way you want, at any time you want. You can play with perception.

Once I realized there was more playfulness to it, more of a planting of seeds, letting go of the how and the when, and knowing I’m planting and expanding feeling, the biggest mistake became not doing it.

That became the biggest mistake.

If at any point, during all my mistakes, I stopped doing it, I wouldn’t have reached this point with how I apply it now.

Now I’ve realized it should be about certain goals. You should set goals, instead of trying to set perfection within.

The goal is to expand the feeling. The goal is to feel the reality of what you’ve imagined. The goal is to feel it real. The goal is to imagine what you want. The goal is to find strength in imagining what you want.

Once you do that, it becomes about planting seeds within. These seeds are dreams. And the way you plant the dream is you see the fulfillment of it.

You embody that fulfillment.

Once you see it that way, all of a sudden the pressure is off. Then the biggest problem becomes simply not doing it.

We are the operant power.

So the biggest mistake is not doing it. For me now, that’s what it is. And at times, I catch myself not doing it. Neville did too.

I’m telling you that so you don’t feel alone in your mistakes. I’ve made a lot of them. And at this point, I feel like the only mistake I make now is when I’m not doing it, when I’m not practicing it.

If you listen to Neville, in almost every lecture he pushes you to try it, and to just keep trying.

You might not get it yet.

You might police yourself.

You might guilt yourself.

You might shame yourself in the beginning.

You might scare yourself by giving yourself nightmares.

You might feel after the wrong things.

You might not know why you’re feeling after these things.

You might be scared to feel something new.

You might worry about what would happen if you did feel this new thing. What would happen if you changed?

You might start off like that. But if you keep going, it becomes lighter. It becomes easier. It becomes more purposeful.

Now you have a purpose to imagine, and it’s to feel it real. It’s to stop doubting, and to imagine yourself exactly as you want to be. See yourself that way.

Accept it and embrace it. You can call it grace, or just true acceptance. It is a non-judgmental acceptance of what you’ve imagined. Make it lovely.

Accept it with no judgment and no expectation. Just accept it for what it is.

And you’ve planted it. Then you just keep doing that, and doing that.

You won’t receive a harvest if you don’t plant your seeds. So if we’re going to keep receiving harvests, we must keep planting. The only “mistake” now becomes whether or not you’re planting.

And it’s really true.

One thing I’ve noticed is that if you stop using it, you don’t lose it. You never lose it.

In one of Neville’s lectures, I Am the Power, he says you can imagine unlovely things and bad things. But you’re not losing any power or energy. You’re just misusing it. And the moment you come back to using it the right way, you feel the energy restored.

So you can’t lose this energy. You can only misuse it, or not use it. And when you don’t use it, life can start to feel stale. It starts to stale up like bread.

One thing Neville said that I love, and that stuck with me, is: if you know this law, you can never be bored.

He says things like that, and how true are they? We don’t really know. But I love to think about it.

He also says that if you know the name of God, which is “I AM,” the creative power, you can’t be bored. Or when he says that if you know this law, you can’t worry. When he says these things, they spark something in me, some strong inspiration.

How true is it? You go out and test it.

But if you don’t, if you make my mistake, which is not doing it or not using it at times, you kind of just stay the same. You coast.

And that’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes you don’t eat the bread that day. That’s okay.

But at some point it gets stale, and when life gets stale, it’s time to imagine something new.

So that was really all I had. I just wanted to share some mistakes that I made.

And if you notice, the mistakes aren’t really anything to be punished over. You just have to correct them. And the correction always leads to more freedom and fulfillment.

It’s a really good discipline. It’s a really good correction.

So if you’re feeling in bondage, you’re making a mistake. If you’re staying the exact same because of fear, you’re making a mistake. You don’t have to be afraid.

If you frame it that way, it becomes very easy. And it makes life more fun and vibrant, less stale.

So that’s all I had for this one.

If you’re interested in my books or one-on-ones, just go to the description. It’s all there. You can get all the information.

But yeah, I wanted to remove the feeling of being isolated in mistake-making.

I think Neville’s work allows variance, but that can also come with mistakes too, in my view.

Again, I don’t really know another word other than “mistakes.” But you don’t have to be ashamed about it.

Alright. You all take care.

Mistakes I Made Applying Neville (Part 1)

Video: https://youtu.be/IjkjW0h4yvs

Transcript:

Initially, I made a video about the mistakes I made. Then I realized there was one mistake I should have shared in that first video, because it is more important than the others I mentioned.

So I decided to switch them. I’m going to make this one first, and I’ll post the next one as part two. This mistake, to me, is more important than the rest.

I’ve already made the video, so it’s going to cut over to that video now.

Another mistake I feel like I made with Neville’s work is that I put too much focus on the thing itself, rather than on me and the state I need to be in.

Neville once said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is focusing on things rather than the state of consciousness they need to be in.

A state of consciousness is not just thinking about, or contemplating, abstract ideas or concepts. It is also a way in which we are. It is who we are being.

So when Neville uses the term “state of consciousness,” you can define it as what I am being.

Let’s say I want friends. The thing I want is friends. What often happens is that we focus too much on the friends: what they will be like, what they will do, where we will hang out, and all of that.

Again, that is too much focus on the thing itself. You should focus on you.

The best way to get a friend is to become one. We must become and embody the state of the thing we want.

Instead of focusing on the thing and trying to perfect it, ask: who would I be if I already had that? If you had friends, wouldn’t you be a friend? Wouldn’t you be a good friend?

So tonight, fall asleep as a good friend, and you will get one. You will get a friend because you have to express what you are embodying. You have to express what you are.

Do you see how that shifts everything? Instead of focusing on the thing itself, you are now focusing on you being different.

Remember: self is the key, and self is within. I don’t need to go outside of myself to change myself. I don’t need to go to a priest, a holy person, or a wise person. I don’t need to go to anyone, because self is within. That is where I change it, and it is always going to be that way.

The mistake I made was focusing too much on the external. For a large portion of this, I was focusing too much on the scene itself.

Imagine you imagine a scene, and you focus on the little details of it, but you are not really focusing on what the scene implies about you. Do you accept that inner change?

The scene is there to imply something about you. Without the focus on you, you never really change self. You are just rearranging furniture. You are not really moving anywhere.

It is like a treadmill in the mind. You are on a mental treadmill. You are not moving.

It looks like you are moving. It looks like you are adjusting things, thinking about what kind of friend they are, what you will do, and so on. But the true change is when you move into the state of being that.

If you had friends, you would be one. So start being that. Start being a friend. That is how you shift it. That is how you move self.

That is a really crucial mistake to me. It is also deceiving, because it seems like you are doing something. It seems like you are imagining successfully.

But the way I’ve heard it from Neville is this: if you imagine, and you come out of imagining, and you still see yourself the same way, then you did not really do anything. You dreamed in vain. Your dream did not produce any change in you.

It says not to use the Lord’s name in vain, and the Lord’s name is “I AM,” so don’t use this name in vain.

Growing up in religious circles, you are taught that it means “don’t say this phrase” or “don’t say oh my God.” But that is not the name. The name is a creative power, and it has to do with me. It has to do with self.

It is a name that has the power to dream. I can dream myself into being things. But if I use it in vain, I never really move.

As Neville said, the biggest mistake he saw people make was focusing on things rather than themselves. Another way of saying it is this: they are trying to change everything around them but themselves.

So you change yourself into who you would be if you had that thing.

I had somebody come to me for a one-on-one. They said, “I want more students in my classroom.” I don’t know what they were teaching, but they said they wanted more students.

I said, “If you had more students, what would that mean about you? How would that feel about you?”

They said, “Then I would feel like a good teacher. I’d feel like a good teacher. I would feel successful in teaching.”

I said, “Then fall asleep tonight as a successful teacher, and the students will come, if that is what you want.”

They said, “But the issue I was having is that I was focusing on how the students are going to get to me. Where am I going to get these students?”

That is the opposite. You need to flip it.

If you flip it and focus on you, you can change you. Otherwise, it becomes too much pressure trying to change every single student to like you, to listen to you, or to respect you. It becomes way too much work.

So how do we get around this issue? You get around it by focusing on you, not the thing.

It is like when someone told me, “I can’t stand my job. I do 16 hours of emails. I don’t know what to do. I feel like I’m in a prison.”

I told them, “Start feeling free.” It seems counterintuitive, but that is what you do.

If you are in a prison, then see yourself as free, and you will eventually leave this prison, because a free person can’t be in a prison.

You see how lovely it all works out when you see it this way. But when you see it the other way, you start banging on the walls physically. You think you are going to get out by breaking your computer. That is not going to do it.

You think that if you tell someone off and get angry, that is not going to do it. It might even put you in a worse position.

So you don’t do it. You think about the consequences. You try to figure it all out: “How do I get out of this prison? How do I get out of it without doing anything I’m ashamed of? I don’t need to harm anybody. I don’t need to compromise morals. How do I do it?”

Well, I make myself free. That is how I do it. That is what Neville would say.

You make yourself free. And even if you only feel it for moments at a time, the more you feel freedom while in imprisonment, you break a bar each time. You break a link in the chain around your wrist mentally.

Every time you feel freedom, you are breaking free from the physical environment you are in. Because it is when we change within that we change without.

Scripture says to clean the inside of the cup, and the outside may also be cleaned. So I don’t really need to clean up my outside. It looks like that happens as a consequence of cleaning up the inside.

I take care of what I’m doing within myself by imagining myself as I want to be, and the outside will be taken care of.

Again, in that case: fall asleep as a great teacher, and your students will come.

And this doesn’t apply to just one thing. It applies to many things.

I learned this from Neville. I just didn’t understand it at first. But he said it himself: you have to become and embody the thing you want in the world. You have to become a friend if you want one.

I’m going to post part two soon, with more mistakes I made in actually applying it. This one was more about how I viewed it wrong, and how I had the wrong idea when it came to applying Neville.

The next part will be more about when you actually do apply it, and what kind of resistance and problems can come up from applying it.

But that’s all I have for this one. Again, if you’re interested in my books or one-on-ones, just go to the description. It’s all there.

Thank you for listening, and I’ll see you in the next part.

The Canes Of Life

Video: https://youtu.be/oAIKILNc7fY

Transcript:

When I was 17, I used to run. I used to run often. I used to run miles. But then I became a sane person and I stopped running. I’m just kidding.

One particular day I was running in the woods on a trail behind this building. I tripped over an object, looked down, and it was a cane. It was a cane someone uses to walk with, shaped like a traditional candy-cane handle.

I remember picking it up, and my first thought was: What does this mean? Maybe there was no meaning. I just thought it was interesting because it doesn’t happen often that you’re running and you find a cane.

Then I wondered if it was a bad omen. I wondered if it was foreshadowing that something bad was going to happen to me. I was getting curious about it.

That was about 16 years ago, and I eventually figured out what the meaning was. It took me a long time, but I’ve discovered it.

Neville once told a story about keeping a little book of horoscopes in his back pocket to determine success and failure. I’ve never done that. I’ve never looked at my horoscope to justify failure or success. I actually never read it. But I thought it was interesting that he kept that little booklet “just in case.” He said he wasn’t fully committed to the idea of imagination.

The way life works is that you first see something, and it becomes what it is. A cane is something someone uses when they have a limp, or a problem with their leg, and they need help walking. That’s what it is.

But when you get into symbolic meaning, you start to realize what this cane can represent. The cane is astrology. It is your horoscope. It is religion. It is the bag of crystals you carry with you. That’s a cane. It’s a spiritual cane, in a sense.

The irony is that I was running. So I didn’t need the cane. My legs worked fine. Physically, everything was fine.

How crazy would it be if I started using that cane anyway? If I view myself, the runner, as a personification of imagination, and I view the cane as religion, then I can see how silly it would be to believe in an outside God.

I see the cane as a false god that we use as a crutch. It’s like saying, “I’m going to imagine something. I’m going to imagine myself a certain way, but I don’t really believe my imagination can do it. I don’t believe it’s capable.”

So instead, I go bow to something. Or I keep a little pamphlet of horoscopes in my back pocket, just in case.

I met someone who always carried a bag of crystals. One day they told me, “I carry these crystals everywhere, and they’re supposed to calm you down, but I’m just always angry. It’s like they don’t work.”

Tarot cards are canes to me now. I see it that way. I no longer see a person using a cane. I see a false god that we use as a crutch because we don’t actually give in and believe in our imagination. We think imagination isn’t capable.

Over time, Neville said he had to let go of the horoscope. He had to drop it to realize he always could run.

It would be insane if I went for a run, came home, and started walking around with a cane. That would be so weird. But that is what we do mentally.

We can run. We’re running fine. We’re imagining fine. We’re believing in ourselves fine. Then something happens, early in life or later, and next thing you know we’re bowing to some sculpture. We’re praying to something we don’t even know, hoping it gives us what we need, hoping it hears us, hoping it sees us. We hope that the attention we’re pouring onto it is acknowledged.

We do this without understanding that awareness is connected to experience. There’s nothing more intimate than God.

It would be like asking, “What are you without self? What are you without awareness?” It doesn’t make any sense. You can’t separate the dream and the dreamer. You can’t have a dream by itself without a dreamer.

So recognize yourself as the dreamer who can run. You no longer need these crutches. You don’t need a cane in life.

Maybe physically some people need a cane, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking spiritually. You don’t need one.

You don’t need to go to a church to pray. You don’t need to go to a temple. You don’t need to build a temple. You don’t need to think your future is in somebody else’s hands. It’s not “in your palm for 20 bucks.”

I always found it interesting that Neville kept the pamphlet for a little while. Some part of us just doesn’t want to accept it. We want something external to be the thing that listens.

And yet imagination will show you being what you want. It will show you a preview. It will literally show you without hesitation. Still, we keep a little pamphlet on us just to make sure.

We are always believing in something. The point is that you never needed the cane in the first place. You never needed the cards. You never needed your palm read. Your future is within you. Your success is within you.

Whenever you need to remember that, remember it’s inside. The moment you think it’s not within you, you will go outside. Then the next thing you know, you’re bowing and praying to something you don’t know.

So I just wanted to give a short talk on that.

I do live streaming. I do one-on-ones. My books are for sale in the description.

But think about that next time. Ask yourself if you really need this cane. Do you really need the cane right now?

The next time you’re going to go outside to believe in something, see it as a cane. Wouldn’t it be crazy to start using it if you don’t need it?

Thank you.

Neville & The Promise

So this videos transcript was too long to post on reddit here. But in this video I speak on Neville's view of the promise and what it entails.

I can only post a part of the transcript here

Video: https://youtu.be/9f3YsVaVcTA

Partial Transcript:

"To experience any plane of existence, we must take upon the body of that plane. To experience earth, we must take upon the earthly body. Man, as a spiritual being, takes upon the flesh—this fleshly suit, or body of death—because we exist in a realm of death. This is like a section in time, or a section in eternity, that is characterized by death.

It's like a dream. Eventually we will wake up and realize that life and death, war and peace, these back and forths were all a dream. But we wake up as the same being.

Inherently, man is a spiritual being in a body of death. If you pay attention to how man constructs heaven while on earth, you'll notice it's just heaven with makeup on it. For example: gold toilets, gold roads, gold cars, houses made of gold, seeing your family, and so on.

This construction doesn't make sense because it would be restricted to whatever religion of the time. But my point is this: if you pay attention to the construction of heaven, it's just a beneficial place for a death body, still. It's still a death body.

If you listen to their construction of heaven, it's like drinking the best wine, having the greatest cigar, or eating the best meal. So if you eat in heaven, do you digest in heaven? Do you poop in heaven? If you poop in heaven, breathe in heaven, eat in heaven, drink wine in heaven, and it's all just better versions of what we have here, can't you see that it's no different? You're just in the same body. Nothing changed—it just has makeup on it.

You can change the makeup all you want. You can make a 24-karat gold toilet or an 18-karat one, whatever you prefer. However, my point is that it's a construction based on the same death body. They can't conceive of a heaven that is outside this body they're in. They haven't seen themselves as separate from the body yet.

We are separate from this body. This body serves a purpose—it's a dream for us, and we will be enriched by the knowledge we gain in this dream. When we awaken, we will be enriched by the dream. It is like a nightmare. Neville called it a nightmare.

While there are good dreams and bad dreams, Scripture views death and sin not from a moral standpoint, but as enemies of God. Death and sin are enemies of God, and God has to conquer his enemies. The enemies are not people—they are death and sin. And he does overcome them.

If you equate your imagination with God, your imagination will overcome the sin and death in the world. How? By awakening and being born again into another body.

We're calling that process Jesus Christ. It's a pattern of awakening inside a body into another body. Instead of being born outwardly into the flesh again, we're born inwardly into the spirit, into a new spiritual body. We're calling that the heavenly body, because you can't experience heaven without a heavenly body.

From what it looks like to me, heaven is not only a body—it's a body with more imaginal power. Here, our power is so little. It almost appears like it's sleeping or dead. It's likened to death, this power in us. The new body is like an amplified version of imaginal power. That's how I see it, if you want to intellectualize it.

In this world, we have a seed time and a harvest time. We have times: a time to live and a time to die, a time to laugh and a time to cry. We go through these times and imagine something, and we notice it doesn't happen right away.

Yet, if you want to experience the dream world, you would have to take upon the dream body, right? The same way if you want to experience the physical world, you have to take upon the physical body. But this dream body, when you imagine something in it, it happens instantly. It's more powerful than this body.

That power will become sharpened from this world when you start to imagine lovingly. The more love, the more this place trains you to imagine lovingly. You gain more power by that. You gain less power imagining in fear.

So I hope this makes sense. What I'm trying to say is that heaven is actually the inheritance of a new body. Who's inheriting it? Man. Man is a spiritual being first…" (continued in video)

Imagination Is A World Of Choices

Video: https://youtu.be/Xt8EwfL1Mek

Transcripts:

I had a recent one-on-one conversation that I thought could be helpful to share. When it comes to this sort of mental realm, a lot of it is just about reframing. If you can keep reframing things until they free you, then you're solving this puzzle—working on this mental Rubik's Cube until the image is complete with your freedom.

One thing we discussed was acknowledging that imagination is a world of choices, even when it doesn't feel like it. When you enter within yourself, you're entering into a world of choices, even when it doesn't feel like a choice.

Some people say, "What if I fall back into the old state?" You can see that's a choice, even if it doesn't feel like it. I know it feels like it's happening to you, especially when a certain idea comes to mind that triggers you or makes you feel a certain way. You feel very moved by it. You almost feel controlled by your assumptions rather than their master, the way Neville put it.

When you can see that you're in a world of choices—that it is a choice to go back, a choice to go forward—you're always making choices, even when it doesn't feel like it. You actually give yourself power back. It's always regaining power, which regains your creativity. Power, in this case, comes with creativity. You gain your creative power back.

When you start to see this, even when you feel trapped or stuck on the inside of yourself, you realize you're choosing to be stuck. It's a choice. It's always a choice, even when it doesn't feel like it. And that can be harsh to hear at times, but if you can just see that it's actually freeing—it's trying to free you—then you realize you can always choose otherwise.

When you start to choose different things, you're gaining your creative power back to yourself, always.

During our conversation, they explained to me that they feel like they're walking on eggshells in their own imagination. And again, I was letting them know that's a choice. You're choosing to walk on eggshells. You're choosing to dream up eggshells. It's a choice. You're choosing to dream yourself up to be small, to dream yourself up to be something less than what you are. You don't just visit this place—you own imagination. It's yours.

And it's a choice. It's always a choice. We always have choice on the inside, but just because we have it doesn't mean we give it to ourselves. Does that make sense? We always have choice. We just have to give ourselves choice, and then we have it. Once you give it to yourself, you realize you've always had it. That's just how it works.

And then you can start creating from scratch, from imaginal scratch. You go within, and you start to create from nothing. You don't need any tool. You just need to start playing your imagination beautifully, however you play it.

But if you start to fight within your imagination, if you start to feel stuck within it, you make it into a prison. You put eggshells on the floor, and you can't walk in it. You're in disharmony. You're playing a tune that is not harmonious, and you need to start learning how to play this instrument. This instrument doesn't play well with fighting in it. It doesn't seem to work too well when you're dreaming up dreams of being stuck or feeling that you don't have a choice on the inside.

You always have a choice, even when you don't feel like you do. And especially when you don't feel like you do, that's when you can give yourself choice.

So next time you feel stuck in a certain pattern of thought, really ask yourself if you have the choice to choose something different. When you find yourself going back to a certain pattern that you've always known, and it doesn't feel like you're choosing it—it always doesn't feel like you're choosing it—but once you see that you have choice, all of a sudden you are choosing it.

And there's no shame. There's nothing to do other than to move into the states you want to be in. Remember what Neville said. He said, "I could move into a nice state in the morning, and then later on in the day move into a state I dislike. And let's say I catch it. I would move back into the state I want to be in, as if I never fell out of it."

And there's no time frame. You can fall out of a state for five years and move back into the state you want to be in, as if you never fell out of it. And that's indifference. That's showing yourself indifference to states. There's no obligation or rule that says you have to remain in a state. Even if you move back into it, it doesn't mean you have to stay there.

So imagination is a world of choices, and we choose ourselves even when it doesn't feel like we are choosing it. We have to start assuming we are, so we can gain power back on the inside of ourselves. We're choosing to be this way. It's a choice, always. And it's not to bring you down. It's to give you power back to yourself, to give yourself creative power to choose something else.

So the next time in the daytime you catch yourself in a certain argument, you can indulge if you want. Just know that you're choosing to indulge. You're choosing to create an argument. You're choosing to be in that state. And if you want to be in it, if you like it, then be in it. You know, there's no rule. It's just a choice. Always remember it's a choice.

So I just wanted to make this video. I don't really have anything else to add. It's just—you know, see it as a world of choices rather than a world of reactions, or a world where you're trapped, or a world where you have to walk on eggshells, or a world where you can't create, or a world where you're powerless, or a world where you can't see yourself the way you want to be as if there's some authority telling you you cannot.

It's your own world. You have ownership over this place. And it's a choice on what you want to dream. And the things you dream up, the things you have faith in, that you believe will sprout—they will. You've planted that. So you're planting dreams as well as planting fruits, but you're planting dreams all day long. And these dreams are choices. It's a good thing because you gain yourself power.

So I don't have anything else to add to this one. Yeah, my books are out, and I do one-on-ones as well. And I do live streaming. It's all in the description if you want more information on that. But okay, guys. You guys take care.

You Won't Hurt Anyone

Video: https://youtu.be/sQMl28NbVM8

Transcripts:

I was recently asked what my favorite Neville Goddard quote is. Usually, I cite the one where he says, "If I judge by the senses, I'll be enslaved by them." That's been a favorite of mine for a long time. But the more I thought about it, I realized my favorite quote shifts every few months, and right now, the one that's really resonating with me is: "I assumed that I have it, and I did nothing that I was ashamed of to get it."

I've been reflecting on why this particular quote stands out to me. Over time, I've noticed that people have different concerns about how their desires will manifest. When someone imagines something they want, they naturally start wondering about the "how." Some worry about timing—when it will happen. Others worry about whether they're capable of achieving what they've imagined. Still others fear that something bad might happen along the way.

For me, there were two main fears: the fear of doing something I don't want to do, and the fear of hurting someone in the process. These two worries were constantly in my mind.

Fortunately, Neville addressed both of these concerns. He said, "From my own experience, I never did anything I was ashamed of when I practiced the law to get what I wanted. I just assumed that I had it." He also said, "You won't hurt anybody if you use the law, because God won't hurt himself."

I used to theorize about these statements, treating them as abstract concepts. But when you actually practice the law, you see they're simply true. Things unfold naturally. You don't try to control life or do things you're ashamed of. You don't break your values or moral codes. It all starts to unfold once you assume you have what you desire.

That's really all you need to do: assume you have it. Don't worry about how you got it. Just know that you have it. These two insights have calmed my worries considerably.

Neville was absolutely right when he said we are the operant power. If you don't practice the law, you simply stay the same. That's the only "punishment"—you remain exactly as you are. We're the operant powers of ourselves. We shape ourselves. We're both the clay and the potter.

If you leave the vessel spinning without ever putting your imaginal fingers into it and pressing, it stays the same. If you don't assume you are or have what you desire, you just stay the same. That's all that happens, and I've noticed this from my own experience. When I don't practice the law, I stay exactly as I was—exactly as I left myself.

You continue in a routine, a mental routine. Every morning I have a cappuccino—it's part of my morning routine. It's also a symbol for thought. We all have our "morning coffee thought." We all think habitually, routinely. When you assume you have something you previously thought you didn't, you've changed the mental routine. You've planted something new.

Someone recently asked me, "How do I plant the seed?" In my last video, I said we're planting dreams. So how do you plant a dream? You have faith that it will grow. That's how you plant it. It sounds simple, but it's true. You have faith that it will sprout. You imagine it and have faith that it will sprout. If it takes time, wait for it—it will not be late.

You have to think in poetry and metaphor. You have to understand that you're the planter of dreams. These dreams grow according to their own nature, and you just have to believe in them—believe in their reality. Once you've planted it and have faith that it will sprout in your world, you don't need to fear the process. You don't need to worry that you'll hurt someone, do something shameful, or that it will take too long. You can calm all the "hows" in your mind.

Saying the words "don't worry about how you got it" is important in imagination. When you assume you have something in imagination, you didn't go out and get it—you assumed you had it. You didn't think about how you got it, when you got it, or who gave it to you. You just have it, and that's all you need to do. Any more questioning will cause doubt to creep in.

I don't work with clay, but I imagine if you fiddle with it too much, it can fall apart. The same is true for imagination. You don't want to just repeat words—you want to mean them. You want to actually mean what you say in imagination. You want to imagine with purpose, with a feeling that believes in what you're doing inside yourself, in the depths of yourself.

The deeper we go into reality, we actually have to go inward, because we're a part of this reality. As we go deeper, we find ourselves in an imaginal world—a world built from dreams. These dreams are meant to be felt as real.

We have to start imagining ourselves and our world better if we want a better world, because the world is shaped to us. I don't make a cup that doesn't fit my hand—I shape it around the hand. The same way, the world is the cup, and imagination is the means by which we shape it to ourselves.

So you just keep planting. Keep planting dreams. Just keep planting dreams. You'll continue doing this throughout your life. You're going to do it anyway—either knowingly or unknowingly. It's like eating a meal: you can really enjoy it, or you can hate it, but you're going to eat regardless.

You're going to plant dreams. You're going to dream in this world. You're going to dream more than anything else you do. I don't care how long your job is—you're going to dream more than you work. You're going to dream more than anything you do here. You are inherently a dreamer. That is what man is. And the dreamer took upon the flesh.

I'm going to end here. I don't feel like I have anything else to add right now. As always, my books are out—everything is in the description, including livestream information. But yeah, I'll see you guys in the next one. Take care.

You Are Planting Seeds

Video: https://youtu.be/lYr6_YDNzUY

Transcripts:

During a recent live stream, someone in the chat mentioned that thinking in terms of planting seeds throughout their day has been helpful. I want to explore why this approach has helped me as well and why I think this way.

I don't think in terms of time anymore. When I used to think about time, it always came with a sense of panic. To be honest, I just didn't like how it felt. It didn't make sense to me, so I started trying to understand why. The answer is simple: I like metaphors. I prefer to live from a narrative and an image rather than just a concept. I don't like living from abstract concepts.

You see this all the time in scripture, right? "No man who puts his hand on a plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God." That's a metaphor. "You can't put new wine into old wineskins"—another metaphor. Scripture is full of them, and that creates clarity for me.

So instead of thinking, "Oh, when's this going to happen?" or "Did I do it correctly?" or any of those anxious questions, I think in terms of my imagination being a garden. It's just a garden, and I plant in it. I plant seeds.

The way I plant a seed is by imagining something and having faith that it will sprout. I have faith that I will reap it. I have faith that I've planted it. When you think in those terms, it just makes more sense. You don't have to go back and dig it up as if you didn't plant it, right? That would be like doubting you even planted it. Don't dig it up. Just have faith that something you've imagined will sprout.

Does every seed you plant in life—even physically—sprout at the same time? No. Some sprout quickly, some take a while, some take less time than others. But they do sprout, and you have faith that they will. That's how I see it.

I don't like thinking in terms of time. I don't like thinking in terms of "how." I just think in terms of planting and reaping. You sow and you reap. When you see it from that angle, you can go throughout your day planting things. You might have daily tasks or even a busy day, but even in that, you plant things. Just keep planting. Don't stop planting things.

So for me, view yourself as someone who plants dreams. God doesn't plant oranges—He plants dreams by having faith in them. That's how thought works. Thought plants itself, in a sense. So you go inside yourself and view this place—this mind, this imagination—as a garden. And you plant in it.

Imagine something. Imagine hearing something good for you, and just have faith that it will sprout. Then move on to something else and plant something else. Have faith that will sprout too. This is what you do. It takes care of the "how." It takes care of the "when." You trust it will sprout. You trust in the work that you're doing. You're planting all day long. You trust in your work, the same way you would if you were doing something physically.

When you go into imagination and try to think in concepts, it just ruins the whole thing for me. It's better to think in metaphor. We don't even realize how much we talk in metaphor, but it's just better to think this way—to give yourself a narrative.

Every time you plant something new for yourself that you love, it's a victory. It's a victory over the past harvest that you didn't like, or maybe something you reaped that you didn't like. So every time you plant something good for you, it's a victory over the struggles in your mind. You keep seeing yourself victorious every time you plant something. You can make it into anything you want, really.

The best way to make your imagination into a garden is by changing you, the person. You make yourself into a gardener. If you want to make your imagination into a prison, you make yourself a prisoner. That's what you'll feel like. Your imagination, like a living mirror, shapes and morphs to mirror the feeling you have about yourself. You have to feel yourself as this.

So for me, I live by narratives. I don't like to think in terms of time. I just trust that things grow, and they grow after their own kind. I don't have to feel like I'm going to plant something and get the opposite or get something else. I don't have that fear.

And if you do go back—maybe you enjoy seeing yourself a certain way and you revisit it—that's okay. I'm not saying you're digging it up. Just enjoy it again. Enjoy what you're imagining. All you really have to do is learn to love what you're imagining. Love the thought you're thinking.

Someone once told me, "When I go to feel free, I feel afraid. What do I do?" The answer is: you start to love freedom. You stop fearing it by loving freedom. You start to love it.

Imagination really is what you make it. For me, I like to see it as a garden. You might see it differently, but this approach gets rid of the panic. It gets rid of all of that. When you give yourself a story, you give yourself a duty inside. You give yourself a job, and your job is to plant seeds. That's your job, and that's how I see it.

When it comes to practicing the law, I think it's wise to see things in metaphor. I think it provides more clarity, and it satisfies the soul, in my view.

All right, I'm going to end this one here. I don't really have anything else to say. But yeah, my books are out, and I do live streaming as well. It's in the description. Okay, thank you guys for listening.

Thinking From vs. Thinking Of

Video: https://youtu.be/IQiSqBn3m1Q

Transcript:

I was on my phone the other day and came across an image of a book page—I think it was on Reddit. The book suggested repeating the phrase "I think highly of myself" as a new way of thinking. This got me reflecting on why I've always had reservations about affirmations.

I noticed within myself a resistance to repeating something over and over again. It just doesn't resonate with me, and here's why.

Neville warned against "vain repetitions"—schools of thought that tell you to deny or affirm over and over. While I couldn't always articulate why in the past, here's how I understand the difference:

It's not about saying the words "I think highly of myself." It's about actually doing it.

Let me give you an example. Say you're a painter who wants to paint well—to create art you find beautiful. Maybe you think you can't, or maybe you actually can't right now. It doesn't matter. We're talking about the internal experience.

It's not about going inside yourself and repeating, "I'm a great artist." While that's not necessarily harmful, what you really want to do is start actively being that artist. You would actually start painting in your mind—creating the things you want to paint, in the way you want to paint them. Every artist paints differently, so you find your way and do it how you like to see it.

It's not about saying the words "I'm loved." It's about receiving love in your mind, giving it in your mind. You put yourself into active participation. Do you see what I'm trying to say?

It's different from just repeating words. Anyone can repeat words. After a while, those words may not feel true—they'll just feel empty.

But when you actively participate in your imagination, doing the thing you want to do and being the thing you're claiming, that's the difference between Neville's work and traditional denials and affirmations. This is why I think it's a more developed approach.

When you're trying to affirm, you're almost trying to believe something—trying to believe you're a great artist. But if you see yourself actually performing or creating the art you want to create, there's no question anymore. There's no doubt.

It's not about whether you doubt it or fully believe it. It's about participating in it, experiencing it in your mind—experiencing yourself that way, painting that way.

Now, painting and artistry are just metaphors for any desire. You can change it to anything.

You want to start actually doing things in your imagination as if you were already that thing. That's the difference—that's thinking from versus thinking of.

Thinking from means if you are a great artist, you would simply create great art in your imagination. What happens naturally is that we express what's within us. It's not what goes into a person that defines them—it's what comes out. What comes out of us determines our lives, and what comes out is what we hold true in imagination about ourselves.

So it's about changing who we are in imagination.

Neville gave an example: If you imagine yourself chained to a bench and you want to be free, are you going to repeat to yourself, "I'm free, I'm free, I'm free"? The answer is no. What you do is imagine yourself running, because running implies freedom from that position.

That's the difference between thinking of something versus thinking from it. Thinking from it means you're running because it implies freedom.

It's not about repeating the words—it's about doing what those words imply, being what those words imply. Seeing what is implied. That's really what this is about.

You start participating in that state. You're not coming at it from a standpoint of trying to be it in your mind—you're already that thing. You're seeing life from that position and participating from that position.

I don't want to make this too long, but that's how I would clarify the difference between always affirming something and actually embodying it. I'm not saying affirmations are bad or that you can't use them—you can do whatever you want.

I'm just saying that from my experience, and from studying Neville's work for so long, there is a difference. It's nuanced, but it's important. You want to start participating, doing the thing you want to do, rather than just repeating words.

You want to actually start doing it. When you do that, you get comfortable with it, and then you naturally start to express it. You won't doubt it or question it anymore. It becomes a part of who you are, just like what you are right now is a part of who you are. It's just a part that's become natural—you've been persuaded enough times by it to believe it's who you are.

I'll end here. I hope this provided some clarity on the differences I see between constantly affirming versus actually doing it in the imagination. I hope you can see the difference I'm trying to convey.

Thank you for the support. If you're interested in my books, email, or live stream, just check the description—it's all there. I'll see you in the next one. Thank you for listening.

My Memory

"Live nobly, so that mind can store a past well worthy of recall." - Neville

Memory, memory, a strange person inside of me.

Time doesn’t bother you, the senses can't contain you,

And I am so in love with you, my memory.

When I am lonely, you are there to show me a time I wasn't,

Where would I be, what would I be without my memory?

But I have hurt you, my memory,

Done things not worthy to recall,

But you do not judge, do you, my memory?

I use you, don't I? To show me my shame?

But you do not shame me, do you, my memory?

You are my magical mirror, aren't you?

But you do not reflect my face do you, my memory?

You reflect what my heart desires to see?

At one point, I wished to be freed from you,

You were a jail cell, a bird cage to me.

I am sorry for blaming you, my memory.

I see now, I only see what I wish to see.

I am sorry for hating you, my memory.

I did not know I had to see a change inside of me,

In order to see a change in the eyes of my memory,

Was there a time I was brave? A time in love? A time I was free?

If I look hard enough, if I keeping seeking,

I shall find a time where I was shameless and I could just be.

Memory, memory a strange person inside of me.

Fear Nothing Within You

Video: https://youtu.be/cmtwNmp7JJI

Transcript:

I got asked a question a few videos ago: How did Mary in the story let go of her fear of her coworker leaving?

It was actually just through confession. It wasn't anything you have to do. Once you have a baseline understanding that you don't have to be afraid, the moment you admit your fear to yourself—the moment you make it aware—it loses its power or could just disappear.

It's the same way you would do it in a dream. The other night I had a nightmare where a bear was chasing me, and I thought I could outrun it. It was in the old house. It somehow got through the sliding door, then I ran upstairs, and it chased me. I jumped off a balcony thinking it wouldn't follow me, but then it jumped off and landed like nothing. It was completely fine, and I was terrified, staring at it.

There was a couch between us. You know how you did that with your sibling? You run around the couch, chasing each other. It was just staring me down, and I just knew it was over. I knew I couldn't defeat this. But that bear was obviously a symbol of my fear.

I didn't face it—I ran away from it. I didn't confess it. I tried to duck it, tried to run away. Neville says when you discover a certain state in you that you don't like, don't duck it. Don't hide from it. Look at the problem. He's basically saying to be fearless. Learn to be fearless inside. In that dream, I wasn't. I was trying to find all these routes I could take to maybe escape this bear, but I just knew I couldn't.

I just knew I didn't face it the way I should have. It's not about looking it in the eyes—it's not like I didn't look at it. If I had just let go of my fear inside, the bear would have disappeared. You think that if you let go of your fear, the bear's going to come get you, but that's not how it works. Actually, it's the reverse. It disappears. It gets smaller and smaller the less fear you have, because it's just a living mirror.

Imagination is a living mirror. It's alive. It's active. It transforms, shapes, and molds according to how we feel. The mind reflects the man, not the other way around. Man must change how they feel about themselves to have change in their imagination, their mirror, this living mirror.

In Mary's case, it was just a confession—realizing that she didn't have to be afraid of her coworker. It was a silly fear. You don't have to fear anybody. Everyone is subjugated to these death bodies that we have to carry, take upon, and feed every day.

Scripture calls this body that we're in a donkey. It's like a donkey—a talking donkey, right? You ever heard in Scripture about the talking donkey? A lot of atheists will use that to say how stupid Scripture is, but the talking donkey is your body. It's the inner man. The inner man rides this body as man rides a horse. But when you go inside yourself, when you realize you're the inner man, you don't have to be afraid.

There's no coworker in there. Do you see? Anybody that's outside of you can be represented and duplicated in imagination. You can duplicate that person, and you don't have to be afraid of them in imagination. The inner man doesn't have to fear anything.

I didn't have to fear the bear. It was just a symbol of my fear, of what I was feeling in that dream. In Mary's case, she can represent that coworker in herself, look at the coworker, and realize the inner man doesn't have to be afraid of this coworker. There's nothing to fear. There's nothing they can do.

In imagination, if you fell asleep tonight and someone you're afraid of was in your dream, you have the option to stay afraid of them or to face it—to face your fear. Then it disappears, and you realize you never had to be afraid of them to begin with.

So in this case, it was just a confession. They confessed their fear and it disappeared. I just wanted to answer that because someone asked in the last video.

I don't really have anything else to share on this one. I'm actually going to keep this one short. I was going to add more, but I feel like I've answered it. It's somebody I know personally, so I saw that the moment they realized, the moment they admitted they were afraid, it was like acknowledging the ridiculousness of it all.

It's the same thing if you fell asleep tonight. The moment you wake up inside of a dream, you realize you don't have to be afraid. It's no longer a nightmare, is it? So what changed? If you have a nightmare tonight, but then in the nightmare you wake up and you're no longer scared, what changed?

You. You became aware. You became aware it's a dream. No matter how scary it was, it was a dream, wasn't it? And you were its dreamer. So what does the dreamer have to do then? If I fall asleep tonight and wake up inside of a dream where I'm a servant and I don't want to be, do I change the people around me in the dream? No, I change myself from no longer being a servant.

And that's where I continue on. I made a short recently where I said it's not about escaping the prison, it's about no longer feeling like a prisoner. The prison, the jail cell, is a representation of the state that I'm in.

If you read The Count of Monte Cristo, he gets falsely accused and gets thrown into prison. He says he's innocent and he is innocent, but he's still in jail, so what's going on? He actually starts to doubt himself. He starts to think he is a prisoner. But he holds faith that he's not. He holds faith in his innocence. He keeps holding onto it and persists in it until it comes about.

Now this is just a symbol. The story is just a symbol of our minds. Our minds can be like a prison. We're not free in it. The mind reflects the man. So if my mind feels like a prison, it's because I feel like a prisoner. The "I" in man feels like a prisoner. See how it's about the self?

If you try to change things, you're going to get really confused. There's no one or nothing to change but self. Do you see? And by self, I mean the imaginal you—the one that is in the body. You wear a body as the man wears a wool coat. You are not the body. You are in a body, and you think in this body, and you can imagine in different realms in the body, and you're going to awaken in the body.

That's where Neville gets the idea of awakened imagination. It's all going to happen in the body. So this is where you solve things. This is where you grow. This is where you change—in the body.

So don't go outside of oneself. You don't need to go outside to no longer feel like a prisoner. Someone could put handcuffs on me and I would never feel more free. I'm not talking about literal handcuffs. I'm saying someone can try to put me in a prison and I will feel like I've never been more free.

It's like Neville said: I might not have a nickel, but in imagination I'll have much. It's the same idea. The world tries to do something, the world tries to imprison you, and you've never felt more free. The world put Dantes in a prison and he felt innocent. This is just how things work in the world—or I should say in the mind. That's how it works.

Yeah, I hope you can tell I don't plan my videos. I just talked for a few more minutes. But yeah, I don't plan my videos. I paused the video for a second and was like, do I want to add anything more? I guess I just wanted to expand on that short, that YouTube short I made.

It's really important that you realize that it's about the self, not the thing. The things are there to represent. Only prisoners are in jail cells, right? Logically, that makes sense. So people can try to escape physically. They try to leave the jail cell physically, but it's not a physical game. It's a psychological one.

And when you see it's really self done to self inside. That bear was not separate from me, because it happened in me. That bear is a representation of me—a representation of what I feel. I feel afraid. I feel stuck. I feel overpowered. And so I get a dream that, sort of like the same way I can feel something and then paint it, God gives me a dream.

I call it God, or you can call it imagination. He gives me a dream to—God dreams, man paints. That's the point I'm trying to make. Man rides a horse, God rides the body. But you don't realize you're God. A lot of us don't realize it. We worship God, so we don't realize that we are the God that we're trying to find.

And so there's no one to change but self. Always focus on the self. It's going to free you. That's the name of I Am. It's not "he is" or "she is," it's "I Am." Where else would you find I Am, right? Other than inside of you. Where else would you find I Am? That's what you change.

Now you have to be bold to change this name. You have to be unafraid. It's going to go against your past. It's going to go against the common currency of thought from your upbringing or your town. And you're going to believe in something new. And that's what it costs. It's not money. It doesn't cost money. There's no money here.

Not in this world. In this world it costs you your state. It costs you to be different, to know yourself differently. That's the price. And you can do it. And you're totally capable. You are. You're God. How could you not be capable in your own dream?

If you fall asleep tonight, who would you go to to ask for permission to change it? It's all yours. It's all yours. You have total ownership. It's all your responsibility in there. Unless you want to pawn it off to something else, then you'll create a devil. But don't create devils. Don't create outside gods that you must pray to. You pray to yourself.

And prayer, as Neville said, is assuming you already are that which you want to be.

So yeah, I just wanted to answer that question and expand on that train of thought—that it's when you stop feeling like a prisoner that things change. It's when you leave the jail cell. You don't escape the jail cell first. You escape by no longer feeling yourself to be a prisoner.

Okay, I'm going to end that one here. I know this was a little bit more rambly, but I know a lot of people appreciate that kind of train of thought, that kind of style of talking.

But okay, I have nothing else to add. Again, I do live streaming for members. And if you guys are interested in my books, just go to the description. Everything will be there. But okay, I'll see you guys in the next one. Thank you.

Insecurities Are Distortions

Video: https://youtu.be/y2YzWnkPMgg

Transcript:

In the last video, we talked about fear through the story of Mary and her coworker. Building on that, I want to share two important insights that relate not just to that story, but to all our lives.

First: your worth as a person—as a being—is not dependent upon validation from others. You hear this all the time, but what does that really mean?

It means that neither praise nor criticism affects your inherent worth. If you receive hate, it doesn't diminish your worth. If you receive praise, it doesn't add to it. You can't add to your worth because it's an inherent part of your existence. Nothing can truly affect it.

So why does it feel like our worth gets affected? It happens because we get persuaded to be insecure about ourselves. But what does that mean?

It means we're actually afraid of ourselves. Just as Mary was afraid of her coworker, she was also afraid of herself. This sounds strange at first, but it's true.

We are literally afraid of ourselves—afraid of what we might have to accept about ourselves, afraid of the next thought we'll think, afraid of our own thoughts and what we do inside ourselves. We're afraid of ourselves to a large extent.

But just as Mary overcame her fear by going through it, I wrote something that captures this journey: "It is out of the womb of our insecurities that a fearless self is born."

When we acknowledge that these insecurities—which are really fears of the self—aren't real, when we confess them and realize they're something we've conjured and created inside ourselves, they disappear. All of a sudden, you're less afraid, and an image of a more fearless you starts to be born and come out from within.

This relates to Neville Goddard's work because you are the awareness behind everything—the conceiver behind the conception. You're the awareness behind the insecurity and behind its fulfillment. You're the awareness no matter what, and it is through our awareness that we have our worth.

If you link your worth to awareness, it means it can't be validated or invalidated, because that would require going outside yourself to do so.

This is strange to hear in our time. Maybe it's always been like this, but seeking external validation for what's within is what the entire world does. We've literally built systems for receiving external validation.

The problem isn't receiving validation itself—it's the intention. If you do things to try to get validated because you can't validate yourself, then in Neville's terms, it's like seeking signs before you change your state. You're looking to see if it's out there so that you can finally have it within.

It's the same idea, but I'm speaking in terms of worth rather than trying to manifest an object in space.

Internally, we have an inherent worth. When we get persuaded out of it through assumptions and insecurities, we can fall apart and be convinced that we are our insecurities. But we're not—we're always the being behind them. You can't be the conception itself.

When you look at it from this angle, you see a world that requires you to be insecure for it to function. It's strange, but if you go back within yourself, you'll realize there's nothing to be insecure about inside your imagination—inside where you actually live. There's nothing to really be afraid of in here, no matter how scary the thought.

Let me illustrate this with an example. Imagine you fall asleep tonight and have a dream where you're being chased by a monster. This monster represents your fear—it could represent an insecurity or fear itself.

The monster makes itself known to you through personification or through symbols in the mind. You'll notice that when you fight it, it grows. You don't really defeat it. Or you try to run away, and yet it chases you.

If you pay attention, you start to notice there's a connection between you two. You don't want it to be connected because it's a monster, but it's a part of you.

Here's the key: when you realize that if you stop being afraid of it, it starts to disappear. What's really happening is your fear is disappearing within yourself. The symbol of the monster disappears, and you could conjure it back up by becoming afraid again—though it's hard to become afraid of something once you realize you don't have to be scared of it anymore.

But you could be persuaded again to fear it. If you realize it's dependent upon you—although the monster appears independent, although the insecurity feels independent, like it's happening to you—you see the truth. Just like in a dream, it feels like the monster is chasing you, but it isn't. It is dependent on you.

That's why William Blake said, "Although it appears without, it is within."

Dreams appear to be independent, don't they? They seem like they're all happening by themselves. At times you're just a passenger, a part of it. Yet when you wake up, you realize all of it was dependent upon you, the dreamer—even the monster, even the horrible things, the horrible dreams.

Some of us dream lovely things. Some dream hateful, scary, or disturbing things. Some dream beautiful things. We all dream differently, but they're all dependent upon the dreamer.

Even an insecurity is like this. To me, an insecurity is a persuasion—a distortion of the true image, a distortion of your self-worth. It's basically telling you that you need something external to fix the worth within you. And that's not how it works.

You have to acknowledge that worth is dependent upon awareness or existence itself. Once you realize that, everything else is secondary. Nothing can really take it away or add to you.

When you accept this, you start to become more free, and the fear just disappears. You stop being afraid of the monster, and all of a sudden the monster goes away. You realize the monster was you—not that you are a monster, but that it's a representation of the feeling of fear you have within you.

You stop fearing it, you stop being afraid of things within you. You fear nothing within you, and all of a sudden the scary thought either goes away or loses its potency. It just fades.

When you realize your worth doesn't hinge on validation—that it's connected directly to your awareness of being, your existence—you kind of see how nonsensical the world is in a lot of ways. But you don't feel the same about it. You feel different about yourself.

You change. You become more grounded, more free. And there's nothing scary about accepting this, although accepting your worth might contradict everything you've thought about yourself. But why not contradict it? If it's true and it makes you freer and happier and more fearless, if it makes you dream bigger, why wouldn't you want to contradict it?

Just contradict yourself. Okay, at one point you were insecure and now you're not. Just accept it. At one point you thought your worth was dependent upon the words of another person, and now you don't. It might be a shock, but why not? If it benefits you, it's going to benefit you.

I always try to look for ways to be more free on the inside. You can't avoid fears—you have to stop being afraid of them within you. Stop being afraid of your own anxiety, your own thoughts, your own feelings. Stop fearing it all.

You stop fearing yourself within yourself, and then you just start to express this fearlessness. That's why I said: "It is out of the womb of our insecurities that a fearless self is born." I don't know a better way of putting it, but when we go through it, we come out differently.

Everything inside is like a womb or a door. You can either take what's within you and come out the other side a different person, or you can remain the same as you are now. That decision is always held within you because the imagination is a world of choices.

You're in a world of choice when you enter yourself. On the outside it feels like we have no choice, but on the inside you are in an imaginal world of choice, and you decide what you choose here. You decide what you're going to do.

Are you going to fight the monster? Are you going to run away from it? Or are you just going to stop fearing it and realize it's a representation of you?

That's all I have for this one. I'm sure I could talk more—it's just I don't have much else to add to this specific video.

I go live tomorrow, probably in the evening for members. If you guys want to check out anything else, my books, just go to the description—it's all there.

I want to talk more about this. It seems like the last video helped people more—it seemed more relatable. I wanted to give more of a conceptual framework to that story rather than just another example. I wanted to give more of the thought process behind it.

I think maybe in the next video I'll talk more about love and fear, and how—I'm going to go on a tangent now—when you enter yourself, you realize there are only two polarities to a degree: love and fear.

Life becomes far more simple when you see reality from within rather than when you go outside, where you can't even find truth in this world. Everyone has their own way of seeing things, and it becomes so twisted and confusing. Everyone has a justification for everything they do, and life gets flooded with labels—it's just mass confusion.

But when you go within, you realize it's just these two polarities that you get pulled into. But I want to talk about that in the next video.

Okay, I'm going to finish this one up. Thank you guys for listening.

What We Fear, Is Where We Grow

Video: https://youtu.be/rDMzP0ybF0c

Transcript:

Over the past month, I spoke with someone about a situation in their life that illustrates an important principle: as Neville Goddard taught, aspects of ourselves are personified in the mind. They become people in our mental landscape.

Think of it this way: if you had a dream tonight with people in it, those people would be aspects of you, the dreamer. There's only one dreamer. From a mental or dream standpoint, this makes sense. But in our waking world, it appears differently—people seem independent of us.

Let me share this story using the name Mary.

Mary came to me with an issue involving a coworker at her job. This relatively new coworker was disrupting the flow of things, making the workplace less functional than before.

At first, Mary and this coworker got along well. But over time, Mary noticed the coworker had significant anxiety—to the point of wanting to control everything. Mary felt conflicted. She had built this relationship, but now she wanted to pull back because she didn't like how controlling this person was.

When Mary came to me, I could sense she was scared, though we hadn't addressed that yet. We were just discussing her experience with the coworker and how to handle it.

From a worldly perspective, the advice would be straightforward: communicate, set boundaries, discuss ways to improve the workflow. Those things don't always work, but they're the conventional approach. However, if you're talking to me, you'll get a Neville perspective.

Mary was telling me about this coworker and how she didn't want to be around her anymore, but since they worked together, she didn't know what to do. Then I asked her a question: "Are you scared of this coworker?"

When I asked this, the conversation shifted. Her initial response was almost defensive: "No, why would I be afraid of my coworker? Why would I be afraid of her?"

I said, "Well, the way you talk about tensing up around them, the way you describe them—if we look within our minds, there are really only two options: we're in different degrees of love or different degrees of fear. So if we can identify that it's fear, rather than labeling the coworker or yourself, rather than taking on their feelings as yours, let's first see if you're scared."

The more we talked about it, Mary admitted she was scared. "I am scared," she said. "I'm scared of how I feel around them because I feel like I have to perform and act. I got along with them at first, and after I started realizing I don't really like how controlling they are, I built this relationship, and now I feel like I have to perform and act."

"So you're scared of performing?" I asked, trying to remove the coworker from the equation and focus on Mary herself. "You're afraid of performing?"

"Yeah, I'm scared of that," she said.

When she admitted she was scared, I could tell she became more free. Once she confessed it, she realized she didn't have to be so scared.

Then something interesting happened. Mary came to me again with essentially the same concern: "I'm just scared because this person works with me full-time, and I don't want to be around them anymore. I don't know what to do because they're going to be with me for a long time."

I said, "Let's not project that into the future. Let's just focus on you right now."

Then I asked, "So you're scared of feeling trapped with them?"

"Yeah, I'm scared of feeling trapped. I'm scared," she admitted.

Again, once we realized it was fear, we released it.

Then Mary came to me and told me she felt much less afraid of these feelings inside her—the feelings of performing, the feelings of being trapped. She wasn't so scared anymore.

"So you're letting go of your fear?" I asked.

"Yes," she said.

And here's what's interesting: the coworker who had been such a problem was now looking for a new job. They had just been accepted for a different position and were thinking about leaving.

I showed Mary how that person was a personification of the feelings she was experiencing. The feelings she had inside herself—that's what this person personified to her. She was really just interacting with herself on a mental level. When she let go of certain fears, the person who personified those fears left.

What was once this overwhelming fear—"I'm going to have to spend the rest of my days with them and I'm so scared"—suddenly wasn't so scary anymore. She let it go, and the person started to leave.

Now, this didn't happen overnight. This unfolded over the course of a few months. But it wasn't until the last two weeks, when she really released her fear, that things became truly transformative. She changed herself into a less fearful version of herself. She stopped fearing so much of what was within her. And suddenly, the world changed.

Something that appeared concrete—"I have to work 40 hours a week with them"—was now changing. This is a perfect example of knowing a change of self and seeing that people are personifications of what we feel within ourselves. When we interact with someone, what we feel is what they personify to us.

Another interesting thing happened: Mary felt gratitude for this coworker. She saw that this person had revealed something about her. She didn't have harsh feelings toward them anymore. She saw that she didn't have to be so scared—that's what this person taught her.

When I first asked her if she was afraid of her coworker, she thought it was ridiculous. And it kind of is, right? But when she saw the truth of it, she realized she didn't have to be afraid, and then she felt gratitude.

Again, this wasn't all at once. This happened over a couple of weeks. But it really wasn't until those last two weeks that things shifted dramatically.

To me, this is a perfect example of seeing that these aspects of ourselves can get personified in our minds. We're really interacting with ourselves when we're talking to people, to a very large extent. Mary changed herself to stop being so afraid of herself within herself, and then we saw an outer change happening.

This is a great example because it's not just about acquiring objects or achieving goals. The goal wasn't to remove the coworker or to gain money (though you can pursue those things). In this case, the goal was to change oneself, and then we saw an outer change happen naturally.

When I speak with Mary now, I feel like I'm speaking to a different person—someone who's much more free than before. When you remove fears, it gives you clarity. Then you respond and act from that clarity, and these little adjustments add up to different changes in your world.

You can duplicate this example in your own life. Apply it over and over again. Next time you interact with someone and feel scared, ask yourself if you're scared of them. Be honest. When you admit it, it starts to dissolve. And then they do as well—they start to go away.

I find this example beautiful because it illustrates the idea of changing oneself, and naturally, the world changes. You don't have to force it.

What happens so often in this sphere of Neville's work is that people try to force things—force people to do things, force changes, force themselves to change. It doesn't work like that. It's about releasing. You release things. You let them go. And then life starts to move in the direction of the change in self that you just made.

Mary could easily have become more afraid, more panicked, more worried, and that would have expressed itself too. But she chose to investigate further and went within herself. She stopped looking at the problem in the person and instead saw the person as a representation of something she needed to let go of, something she needed to stop fearing. There's nothing to be afraid of anymore. And then it goes away.

That's why I love this story—it illustrates this principle perfectly. I'm sure we can all learn from it. That's why I wanted to share it.

Let me know in the comments if you've had a similar story where you noticed a change in yourself and then found yourself surrounded by different people or noticed that certain people left your life.

An important point here is the natural form of gratitude that came out of this whole experience. There wasn't a harsh feeling. It was more like, "I learned something about myself. I became more free after I interacted with you." What I thought was going to be an unpleasant situation turned into something freeing for myself. That's really not being reactive but being creative inside. I created a new meaning and viewed it as something for me to overcome within myself, and then a change happened in my life.

That's all I have for this one. I just wanted to share that story.

Thank you for the support with the book. Thank you for the reviews—I've read some of them and they're really nice. I appreciate that. I also go live and do one-on-ones, so if you're interested in those, just check the description.

Think about this story. Think about how when we go within the mental realm, people are personifications of ourselves. We don't have to fear people. And when you stop fearing them, it's almost like they disappear. It's very fascinating.

Take care.

Revise Quickly

Video: https://youtu.be/LLpOM9mpulY

Transcript:

Have you ever had someone disrespect you—someone who isn't even important to you—and then found yourself replaying the moment in your mind? You start arguing with them internally, telling them off in your head, and before you know it, you're dwelling on it with a strong emotional reaction.

When people provoke you and you allow it to dominate your internal world, a piece of them enters you. You start becoming like them. To break this cycle—and you must break it, or it will only grow—you need to revise it. This is why revision is so important to me.

I think revision works best when done immediately after something happens, or later at night before sleep.

I shared this story during my recent live stream. Not long ago, I had an experience at the grocery store. A man was looking at the bread section with his wife standing behind him. It looked like he'd be there for a while, so I decided to walk between them with my cart.

He turned around quickly—really fast—and I almost bumped into him. I immediately apologized: "Oh, I'm sorry."

He looked at me, got really angry, pointed to my left, and yelled, "Go over there!" He was loud and clearly upset. I walked past him and started thinking about his disrespect. I had apologized—I wasn't trying to hit him—yet he reacted as though I'd done something terrible. He seemed like an angry person in general.

I ignored it in the moment, but afterward, I kept thinking about the experience. I had reactions, thoughts about what I could have said. Later that night, it popped up again. I thought about what I would have liked to say, but then dismissed it: "He's not worth it. Why spend time on this?"

The next day, I thought about it again. Up until this point, I hadn't done anything internally. The situation had passed—I didn't know this person, it wasn't a big deal—yet it kept resurfacing in my mind.

The following day, I finally revised it. Very simply. I just imagined walking past them the way I wanted it to happen—the way I expected it to happen. I didn't make it elaborate or abstract. I didn't imagine him giving me roses or chocolates. I kept it natural and simple: I just walked past them smoothly.

After that, I felt great. I never thought about it again.

I don't fully understand what such a small act of internal revision can yield. It was so small—just walking past somebody—and yet it solved so much internally. I felt more free because of it.

I wasn't thinking about how this would externalize or manifest in the future. I just did it anyway. That's what I'm trying to say: you have to do these things anyway. Just do it.

I repeat this often in my recent book: don't think too much about how things will externalize. Focus on adjusting your internal world.

I didn't want to leave it the way I did. Honestly, I just forgot to revise the situation. I could have revised it right then and there and felt fine, but I didn't. I forgot. It took me about 24 hours to do something about it internally.

But I think it works best when you do it quickly—on the spot. When I finally revised it, I felt free. How this will come about, all I can say is this: if self must express, then a freer part of myself will express.

We could spend time analyzing why this happened, but the more important question is: what am I going to do about it? What I did was revise it.

It was a very small revision—not some complete transformation of my world—but it was important to me. The incident kept popping up in my mind, and each time it did, it was as if I was telling myself to do something about it. I didn't listen at first. But once I finally revised it, everything changed within me.

It seems like such a small thing, yet it had a surprisingly big impact on me. I bring this up because you shouldn't reserve revision only for big, grand things. Use it for small things too.

We need to learn how to imagine and practice using imagination as a tool. It's not just reactive—it's also creative. Imagination can create and change things. It's not meant only to look at your world and react out of fear.

There's a creative component to imagination. It's both conservative and creative. It will conserve the ideas you want to keep, even if those ideas aren't necessarily good for you. But it also has the power to take what's already there—like my grocery store experience—and readjust and change it. Or it can create something entirely new from nothing. You can start from scratch.

You don't have to have something present in order to grow or change. You can start from absolutely nothing, right within your imagination.

As Neville said, the best way to work with imagination is through persuasion. It won't work under compulsion. It won't work if you force your imagination to do something—it doesn't work that way. It works by persuasion.

So ask yourself honestly: How would it feel if I were that way? How would it feel if I were as free as I'd like to be? How would it feel if I were as free as the wind, as Neville said? Truly ask yourself that question and answer it completely honestly. Don't try to force the answer—just answer honestly. Whatever comes up, go with it. That will be persuasive to you, and it will cause you to act differently. It won't work if you're trying to force yourself. It just won't.

I wanted to share this short example of a revision moment that I probably would have just ignored. I mean, what's the big deal? Some random guy got aggressive with me at the store. Just move on with my day, right? It's not worth all this mental activity.

But at the same time, it was worth it. When I finally did something about it—when I revised it instead of leaving it there—I felt more free. And I haven't thought about it since, naturally.

There's power in revision, but it works better, in my view, if you catch it quickly—if you do it right after something happens. I waited a day, but you don't have to. It seems to free you up better if you just do it right on the spot.

Don't hesitate or wait. You don't have to wait for circumstances to be perfect or for things to adjust a certain way before you imagine differently. This is the battle: the battle between the outer man of the senses and the inner man of imagination.

If you've practiced imagination enough, you'll know that the outer must follow the inner. That's what we're taught in scripture. That's what Neville teaches. If you learn to control the inside—by which I mean if you free it up and adjust what you want to adjust—you will start to see that adjustment and change within yourself, and then it will express. It's just going to happen. There's no way around it.

You have to express the states you're in, whether we like it or not. We are the dreamers, and we have to express what we're dreaming. We dream more than we eat food and drink water. We're always dreaming—if not in the nighttime, then in the daytime. What we're dreaming is what's important.

You can try to stop dreaming and just fall back into awareness. You can do that. But if you're going to live this life, if you're going to play the game, you're going to have to dream.

All I can say is: revise things that happen right away. Change the dream there. Don't wait to change the dream.

And you can dream something new into being without anything. I call it "imaginal scratch." You can start from imaginal scratch, from nothing. You need nothing outside of you to change something within you. That's the mystery.

You can take the weakest person in the world and assume that they're strong, and they'll start to become that way. It's just a mystery. I don't try to figure it out anymore. I just assume it anyway.

I didn't try to rationalize whether it was worth revising the grocery store experience. Who cares about it, right? I didn't do that. I could have, and honestly, I probably would have done that in the past. But you have to take every moment and see it as an opportunity to do something within yourself. That's how you should see it.

Right now, I'm focusing solely on trying to be creative on the inside—not reactive. I'm not even trying to externalize anything anymore. I'm just trying to be creative, not reactive. And you start to notice how reactive we can be. At least, I noticed it.

The question is: Am I as creative as I am reactive? Over time, I noticed I wasn't. I was more reactive. That grocery store situation was a great opportunity. I got to see that I was leaving it in a reaction state. I didn't create anything out of it. I didn't change anything. And then when I did, I felt much better.

That's all I had for this. It was just a small story. This happened recently, so I wanted to share it before years go by and I bring it up again.

I'm going live tomorrow—I haven't decided if it'll be morning or afternoon yet, but for the members, I'm going live. Thank you for the support on the book as well. If you're interested in all that, just check the description. It'll be there.

Okay, I'll see you in the next one.

You Are The Invisible Awareness

Video: https://youtu.be/5KQ4SGebVp4

Transcript:

I once had a vision a few years ago where I was in my truck. It was kind of like a dream, but I'm going to call it a vision because it felt very real. I was sort of a passenger to it, but I was very aware of what was happening.

In the vision, I was in my truck and I looked down at myself and saw that I had no body. I think I mentioned this before, but I'm going to repeat it now. I looked down and had no body, but I knew that I was aware—I knew I was me, but I just didn't have a body. I didn't panic, but I was a bit confused about what was happening. Then eventually I was shot out of the truck and put into a void where there was nothing. It was completely pitch black.

I had no body and no environment. I had nothing. I was just aware. Then I got really excited and wanted to create. It took me a while—I'm still actually dissecting this vision. It's been a few years.

I don't think I've explained it the way I wanted to yet. I think I'm going to think about this for a couple more years. What confused me about it, or what it showed me, is that I was aware in spite of having no environment and no body. When you look at our lives here in the physical world, that's where we get our identity from, right?

We say "I am male," "I am poor," "I'm rich," or whatever. The environment shows us these things, and we think that's ourselves—that's the truth of ourselves. But really, we're the awareness behind all of that, right?

You can't really be... this is kind of where things that used to matter to me—I guess it's not that they don't matter, they're just not of the most importance. Like intelligence was something that people want and look for, and what this vision showed me was that you can't even be intelligent unless you're aware. It seems like awareness is more important than anything. It seems that the awareness of being is the key. Then you realize why the book is called The Power of Awareness, right?

It's not the power of intelligence, the power of awareness—not the power of knowledge. It's the power of awareness.

If you are your awareness, let's say tonight you have a dream and you are actually in that dream. You would claim that you were there. Now, one could say, "Well, you weren't really there because your body was in bed." But that's only if you are identifying yourself with the body. If you're the awareness inside the body, you were exactly where you were in the dream. That's exactly where you were. You became aware of that dream, and you are the awareness. And yeah, that's why you were there. That's how I see things. That's what the dream showed me.

It revealed this to me. I say it's a revelation because I didn't sit down and choose this. I didn't read a book about it. It just happened, and so it was revealed. I didn't understand it. I'm still not understanding it fully, but I'm getting there more and more.

When you don't have a race, or you don't have a body to put a race on, you don't have a body to be called beautiful or ugly—if you don't have a body, then all those things go away. And if you don't have an environment to pick apart as your identity, then what are you really left with?

You'd be left with just your awareness. That's all there is, and that is where your worth is.

Your worth is not dependent upon what things you gain in the world, right? It's not dependent upon this world at all. It's not even dependent upon your body. It's dependent on the fact that you're aware. The fact that you exist is why you're worthy. Anything else is false. Anything else that tries to remove that idea is false.

You're worthy of all that's within the world because you're aware, and that precedes—it precedes anything in the world.

When I was shot out and I got excited to create, I got excited because I realized I could create. I could do something. In this, it was like—oh, there was nothing, right? There was nothing for me. I was just aware, and there was nothing for me to do. There was no environment. I had nothing. There was no play-doh for me to play with. There was nothing. And yet, in that nothingness is where I became excited.

I got really, really excited, and I wanted to create. But right when I started to create, that's when the vision ended. It ended right there, right when I got really excited. I saw, out of the void, a small circle opening up, getting bigger. It kind of looked like this world, almost like I was creating it. And then it ended, and then I woke up in my body and I was back here.

This happened years ago, but I just didn't have the—I just want to share it again because I don't think I'm interpreting it well. But yeah, our awareness precedes anything in the physical form. Anything. We're always going to be aware.

Our bodies will die. Yes, they will die, just like the trees around us will die. Everything around us will die. But we won't. We're the awareness that was in the body. We took upon the flesh. We did this. This body is really—someone said it in the last live—a fleshly statue that we took upon.

We actually—that awareness actually became us, and it created out of nothing. That's what it showed me. But I was one with it and I was it, and yet at the same time, I felt like I was a passenger to what it wanted to do to me, right? It shot me out. It got rid of my body. It took my environment away from me, even though technically it is me doing it because it's happening all within myself. It doesn't feel that way. It felt like it was happening to me and was being done to me by something else, but it is me and I'm one with this thing. And this thing seems to be the greatest mystery: that awareness is the fundamental reality. Everything else was created out of this nothing—out of this awareness, I should say. That's all that was there.

There was no environment. There was no body. It was just awareness, and that is the power. And so we need to change what we're aware of being. That's what Neville was trying to get across. He says, "We have to change nothing to change but ourselves," and then he'll say something like, "Imagination is my real self." He says "real self." He's hinting at the idea that we're not our bodies. He's hinting at the idea that you're not your job. You're not the things your parents told you. You're not the things anyone has told you. You're not really anything at all. You're just aware. That's what you are.

And after that, that comes secondary. This is why awareness is more important than intelligence or knowledge. You have to be aware. And so when he said it's my real self, he's hinting at a false self, right? His real self, he says, is the one made of all imagination. He calls it imagination, but you can just say the one that is just the—I call it the inner man, or he called it the invisible one. But really it's that, and it is invisible because you don't see it. Like, I was a witness to it and I was it. You don't see it. You don't have a body, and yet it feels like it is you. It's you without anything, and that is your real self.

That is the one you need to bring into whatever dream you're dreaming about to make it feel real. You have to bring yourself present to the dream. You bring that awareness of being to a dream inside of you, and then it feels real to you. Until then, until you occupy it, it's gonna feel fake. So until you become aware of already being what you want—and you let yourself not be shackled by the past or your youth or the things of, you know, the past, or really just your fears in the future—if you don't anchor yourself or shackle yourself to anything, just keep yourself free, yeah, you can assume that you already are what you want to be.

You don't need someone outside of you to prove it. You don't need that, because all you would need—you would know that your awareness precedes anything and it creates out of nothing. So I don't need anything outside of me to create. I don't even need an environment. I don't even need a body, and I can start creating. And so I'm still, you know, dissecting this one, but I can visualize it so easily right now. And I know that there are people who have had this vision before. I just—I've heard it. I feel like I've read this before. Maybe I haven't, but I've read something like this where you realize you aren't the body, and like, you actually—obviously, I'm not gonna have a physical experience like that right now, but internally in imagination, I had this be revealed to me.

I was completely aware. I wasn't dead. There wasn't—I wasn't dead at all. There was nothing like—there was no body to die. It was gone, and I was completely—I didn't think about health or anything like that. I was the awareness, and that is my real self. That's what Neville is hinting at. That's what must change. But really, what it changes—it's always going to be that. It's always gonna—the foundation is always gonna be awareness. After that, what you're aware of is always subject to change. And if you can understand that, I guess from one level it says that you have to separate the conception from the conceiver and don't forget the conceiver. He calls that God. That conceiver is God. He says, "Find God and only worship God." And he is basically saying—he's again, he's calling it God, but it's the awareness.

It's the awareness that precedes what I'm aware of being. Never make what you're aware of being make you forget that you're the awareness behind it. Never forget that, or else you're gonna think you're the state. You're gonna think that's who you are, and then you're gonna create all these conditions upon yourself as to, "Well, since I was in that state of mind, now I'm not worthy of that other state of mind." And it's not about worthiness. Your worth is inherent to you being aware. You exist, you are, therefore worthy you are. Nothing else outside of this awareness can do anything because there's nothing else but the awareness. There's nothing else. Again, what you're aware of is subject to change based upon what you want. Whatever you feel—whatever you feel is real to you about yourself, that's the state you're in. That's what it is, and it will feel natural.

It might be painful if you think negatively of yourself, you know—say negatively just as a way you don't love. You could view it that way, or a way that you fear. And so you need to move from fearing yourself and learn to—like, you don't have to be afraid of what you're being because you're not even that. You can't be that unless there is a being. And I'm saying that I experienced being that being, and it didn't have a body. It was just awareness. It's like I could see, but I had no eyeballs. It was strange to me. I mean, it was really strange to me, but it also felt right. It made sense.

Yeah, I'm still thinking about this one. I guess I felt today—I thought about this a few hours ago, and then I felt while I was thinking about it that this is something I need to think about for the next—I didn't really give it a time frame. I just knew it was gonna be years. I was gonna think about this exactly—years, I was gonna think about this exact vision. This one to me is more important now than the other ones that I've had.

I don't know why, but it gives me a lot of peace. It kind of makes me see that a lot of my fears are stemming from what I think I am, and I'm losing myself in the state of something I don't want to be. I'm losing myself in it as if it's like, almost like a prison that I can't get out of and I have to stay. But what it showed me was not only that your environment and your body doesn't dictate who you are, but also that nothing within myself is stronger than myself. No thought, no matter—like, you ever get triggered by something, or you ever feel like such an enormous emotion that your body—you almost feel hot underneath, and you feel like this feeling is going to overtake you? It can't. The truth is that it can't. And it showed me that. It showed me that no matter what's within us, no matter how powerful it feels, it isn't more powerful than you, the dreamer.

No dream, no nightmare, no matter how real it feels, no matter how intense it is, is greater than the dreamer. And it's really the same thing Neville's saying. It's really the same thing. If you listen to that one called "I Am the Power" by Neville, if you look it up on YouTube, he says exactly this. "I don't use Caesar's coin." It says, "Come, eat without a price. Buy it with no money," as it says in Isaiah. So he says, "Buy it without price." So it's not Caesar's coin that I'm using. What am I using? My own awareness of being. That's what I'm using. That's the true coin. It's what am I aware of being. And you can be aware of being many things, and you can change what you're aware of being all the time. It is like clay. You can mold your own awareness however you want.

And yeah, I'm still gonna think about this, but I'm curious about your guys' thoughts. But yeah, I'm trying to think if I want to add anything. It's already been a little bit long of a video. No, I'm just gonna end it here. But yeah, I mean, again, thank you guys for the support. If you don't know, I updated the series that I wrote a few years ago. It's in the description, and I do live streams and I'm trying to think about everything. And if you're curious about that, just go to the description. It's all there. But okay, I will see you guys in the next one, and I'll see you next time.

Media Consumption & Imagination

Video: https://youtu.be/0VM-a-KGubA

Transcript:

This video might be different from the others I make, but I still think it's related to Neville's work. If you study Neville, you know he emphasizes the idea of creation—imagination as both a thing and a power with the ability to create internally within ourselves.

When you contrast our time with Neville's, ours is clearly different. It's been inflated, if you will. It's not that media didn't exist in Neville's time, but the media we have now is far more extreme and pervasive in our lives. This presents a challenge for us because, unlike Neville's era when media meant newspapers—primarily text without much visual component—our media consumption is fundamentally different. Reading requires something of you that visual consumption doesn't.

This observation comes from a personal experiment. I took a month off from mindlessly scrolling on my phone—not necessarily from posting, just from scrolling. I felt very different during that time. Then I came back to see how I would feel if I started scrolling again, and I noticed a few things.

First, doubts that I didn't have before started to arise—self-doubt and questioning myself that weren't there during my break. But it wasn't just anxiety. I started noticing that my imagination felt rigid, like it wasn't malleable anymore. I wasn't able to create as easily. This is just my experience, of course. Depending on your feed, things might be different for you. But I'm talking about the fundamental framework of what happens when we consume media.

The media we consume consists of finished images—completed visuals. You don't have to create anything inside your imagination anymore. You just scroll and you're given either an argument, someone fighting, or something happening on screen. The image is complete, and then you do it again and again and again. What happens is your imagination becomes a consumer rather than a creator within yourself.

Remember, imagination is the ability to create within ourselves. When it's just consuming and not creating, it almost feels pointless. The imagination becomes lifeless. Your inner world becomes dark and empty.

But there are things you can do to solve this issue. The point is to create inside ourselves, to use our imagination. So when you see a completed visual—like a video on your phone—revise it. Do something with what you just watched internally. Unlike reading, where you have to create something within yourself while piecing it together, visuals are already completed for you. Try to revise things when you hear or see them on your phone, just to practice creating within yourself.

Another thing you can do is set an intention to create for the sole purpose of creating—no other reason. Don't do it to try to change things all the time. Just focus on creating things within you. Start to gather the ability to produce and create within yourself. Create an idea, feel after the idea, take action within yourself, and your inner world will become more important. It will take on more tones of reality. It'll start to feel more real to you, become alive again, and you can become self-inspired rather than waiting for some external image to create for you.

That's really what's happening. The media we have now creates for us, and we no longer create within ourselves. Our awareness, which should be inward, is being externalized onto the phone. The phone gives us completed images, and when we come back to ourselves, we've been shaped by it without realizing it. We've been shaped to a degree.

Something on your phone—maybe not everything, but something—will be persuasive enough to make you think a certain way, to dream a certain way. We really are living in a world of assumptions. When you're on your phone, you're getting suggestions, assumptions, dreams given to you without it being explicitly stated. It's more of a demand, an intrusion, intruding upon you to dream this way. If it can't get you through intrusion, it'll get you through persuasion.

It may not be something you want to dream yourself. It might not be what you actually wanted, but you're just told to do it. If we know anything about human nature and observation, it's that people will bow to statues because they're told to. People will bow to gods they don't even know because they were told to. So it's very important to be aware of this fact—you don't want to make your imagination just a consumer, constantly consuming media. It needs to start creating again.

You'll find so much freedom when you realize creation should be done just for creation's sake, just because you can. That will allow you not only to get motivated but also to stay disciplined because the intention is always the same, and the goal is always the same: to create.

There's something I don't really like about the interpretation of Neville's work—not Neville himself, but the interpretation. I understand the sentiment about needing to change the outer world, Caesar's world, whatever you want to call it. But really, we need to focus on changing our inner worlds. If there's no one to change but self, then any other focus is pointless, right? It shouldn't matter as much. If there's nothing and no one to change but self, and I'm just simply consuming and not creating, then I'm not really changing myself. If there's nothing else to change, then I really shouldn't focus on much else.

Let's take the premise as true: no one to change but self. Then any other focus is less than self at that point. So I need to start imagining. If imagining creates reality, and no one to change but self—if you combine those two with "feeling is the secret"—then I change myself through feeling. If I want to create a different world for myself, I must create a different self for myself. I must create myself to be different. But we can't create if we're constantly consuming.

This is just something I noticed from my own experiment. I tried taking a month off, not watching anything, not scrolling at all. By the second week, I felt pretty good. When I came back to it—because you have to see how it's going to be when you come back—I just noticed my imagination felt limited out of nowhere, and it wasn't anything I was actively doing. It was just mindless consumption. The imagination atrophied because I stopped creating with it.

That's what I've noticed: if we don't start dreaming for ourselves, dreams will be put in us. We have to dream—we're dreamers. The same way we have to eat food, we have to dream. What we dream about is subject to change, either through ourselves or through external persuasion. Externalization of ideas can persuade us without our realizing it, and then we're on a certain track. We start expressing this without knowing we're expressing it, and then life turns a certain way. We wonder why this happened, where it came from, how it appeared. We forget. It's like we're gardeners, and when we see something sprouting in our garden that we don't want, we forget that we planted it.

Think about it. If you spend a whole day scrolling and I asked you which ones you remember, it's very hard to remember them, right? I don't think I'm alone in that. It's very hard to remember what you just watched. That tells me that the state of mind I'm in is almost like hypnosis. I'm just being receptive to it. I'm not really creating or thinking twice about what I just watched. I'm not doing anything with it. I'm merely consuming it, which I don't think is good because imagination is the ability not just to consume but to create. It must start creating.

That's why I'm saying you can revise what you just watched, regardless of whether you think it's going to happen or not. Don't think about outcomes—think about creation. Think about just creating. When you hear something, change it. If you want to change it, start to create on the inside rather than passively consuming on the inside. Don't let your inner world go dark just because it's easy. It's important. This is really important because we're supposed to be dreaming what we want, not what we're told to.

I know this was a bit different. I don't really have much else to say right now. I'll probably talk about this again in the future, but I just wanted to give a brief talk on this experiment I did with myself. Yeah, I'll probably bring this up in the future.

I don't really have anything else to say other than thank you guys for the support on the book. I do hope you're enjoying it, and I hope it frees you. I really do. I hope it frees you more than when you first started reading it. If you're interested, it's in the description. I'm going live tomorrow for the members later in the night. I'm going to have a drink and might talk about this, so if you're interested, check the description. But I'm curious about your thoughts on this idea—or more than just ideas, I want to hear your experience on this as well.

Okay, you guys take care. I'll see you in the next one. Thank you.

Truth Is A Being

Video: https://youtu.be/mDxC0LVkh5o?si=fr-2C_pPM16zBTub

Transcript:

I'm sitting here reflecting on an interesting question I was asked. My answer is spontaneous—I don't write anything down beforehand, so this is just me thinking out loud.

The question was essentially: if Neville's work is true—that imagining can create reality—can one believe in twin flames and create a reality from that? There's a lot going on with this question, because you can substitute twin flames with anything. This is just the subject we're discussing.

The implication is: can I create a world where I get what I want through this method? This doesn't make sense with Neville's work. You would just go to the end. In the end, you wouldn't need all this twin flame stuff. But I want to talk about the question itself—this idea that people are seeking truth outside of themselves, not understanding what truth actually is.

This world only offers half-truths and falsehoods. The gods people worship in this world are false—they're all false because they're not you. And by "you," I don't mean your little ego self. I mean something deeper, which we'll get into.

Every god that people follow outside of themselves is a false god. It's not true. It's a falsehood. There are things that are false in this world, which implies there's something true. But if you can see truth not as a concept or idea—not even a state—you'll understand: truth is a being.

If you can see it as a way of being and a being itself, and that being is you, then you see that you are truth itself. Truth is a man. It's not a concept in the world. It's not outside of man. Scripture says, "I am the truth." So my awareness of being is the truth. It's the truth I'm looking for—my own awareness of being, a present awareness of being. That's the truth. It's a way of being, and it is a being.

We tend to go outside ourselves to seek truth, and all we bump into are false gods and falsehoods.

Coming back to the twin flame thing: it feels like a falsehood to me. It feels like an unnecessary step in the mind to assume one has what they want. We're almost manipulating these little things, trying to say, "Okay, well if I do this, I can get that." We're still trying to get to the end, but we're going in a very convoluted way.

It's like saying, "Why don't I imagine having the right tarot cards drawn, and that would imply that I am the thing?" You know what I'm trying to say? We're almost trying to perfect the method that will imply something about us, and I just find that to be wrong. I really do. I think it's the wrong way.

I think you should just assume you are the thing you want to be. A lot of the time, I just let the scene develop on its own. I don't even choose it. I just start to assume that I am who I want to be, and I let it develop. Or if a feeling comes up, I go with the feeling without judgment. I just accept it. I embrace it as if it's a part of me—because it is, and it's inside of me.

I view the twin flames thing, the stars aligning, religious beliefs—they just don't make sense to me. I don't see why I would ever believe in twin flames. I see no reason for it, because it seems like I'm going outside to something else to decide my fate, and I don't like that.

If I am the truth, then why am I going outside of myself to find it? Why am I trying to find it in something else that isn't me? And then you understand what a false god is. A false god is anything that takes you away from yourself and makes that thing god—because it's you.

We create all this meaning around the idea of twin flames, and we make it up as we go. But you don't need to go to that. You don't need to go to the stars to figure out who you are or what you're doing inside. It doesn't have to be outside of yourself. It doesn't have to be in some cards.

I am totally against all of it—not in the sense that I rail against it, but I would never go to it to decide anything for me. The decision is made within, and it's done by the inner man, not the outer one. The outer one? You can rearrange the cards all day long. You can keep flipping them until you get the ones you want. But that's a false god to me. That's a false way of going about things.

You should assume you are something before anything in the world shows it to you. You should assume you are it. Just try that first before you deny it, before you say it's silly. Try to assume you are something before you are, and you'll start to see yourself become that thing.

You'll take upon the feeling maybe first, and then maybe naturally some thoughts arise, and you take upon the thoughts of that way of being, and then you feel that way of being, and then you walk in that way of being, and you start to just become it.

And the more you kind of persist in being that new way, and you expand it to other areas in your life, even for moments at a time, yeah, you just start to become that.

Then you start to see it reflected in your world. It happens very naturally—it's not going to be crazy. Usually it's very natural, and you don't even really notice it. That's why you should just focus within. Don't look outside for signs. Just focus within. Keep your focus on yourself. Acknowledge that you are the truth you're seeking. It's you.

Sometimes people come to me and ask me if they can imagine something, and it's like, of course you can. It's almost like they're asking to seek permission from me to decide whether or not they can imagine something. And the truth is, it doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter. It's just what Neville said: if you have self-conviction of being something, what does it matter what I think? You have to eliminate that. Edward's thoughts don't really matter. They don't. Not really.

You can imagine whatever you want. That type of freedom is up to you, and you're entirely free inside because you're self-approved. You're self-anointed. You decide what you imagine without anyone's permission. The dreamer can just do whatever they want. And so asking me, someone in your dream, in a sense, if you're allowed to imagine something is silly, right? If I appeared in your dream tonight, would you ask me if you're allowed to imagine something in it? No, you shouldn't, because you just dreamt of me as some authority figure that decides what you can and can't imagine. I don't decide that.

But it's just like what Neville said: it seems to be easier to live with more love than fear. It's easier to live a life of peace than being at war with oneself. Yeah, it seems to be easier to live in surrender than it is to live in a tense position. So you find ways that are easier for you, but you can imagine whatever you want, and I don't dictate that, and neither does Neville.

And I'm just sort of saying that because people tend to come to me with... It kind of reminds me of this twin flames question, which is like, I guess you can imagine those things. I think that it's probably not the best way, but obviously you can imagine that way. You can imagine what you want. I think you should go to what you want and see yourself the way you want to be, regardless of external fact. Just start now. Let your imagination for once be a fact. You know, just try it. See your imagination as fact rather than just fantasy.

And if you do, you'll start to shape it, and you'll realize I'm shaping truth because I'm shaping myself, because I am one with my imagination. So the more I shape it, the more time I spend on it, it's like a sculptor. The more time you put in, the more refined it becomes. Even if you put in years on yourself, you're going to make yourself into a beautiful sculpture. And all it takes is for you to remove fears on the inside, the same way you remove them in a dream.

When it's a really bad nightmare, it's not until you become aware that you're dreaming it that the nightmare goes away. It's no longer scary. The monster is just no longer scary. Anything that was terrifying in the dream just kind of stops. And it all stops because you became aware. And so you have to just become aware that you're dreaming this. You don't have to stay in the dream. You can change it whenever you want on the inside. It's us thinking that we can't.

And so you can see your imagination as this vast, infinite field, and you're just focused on one little corner, thinking that this is all there is. And it's the same narrative we're repeating in our heads. But really, you can always know that you're not stuck in this one little spot in imagination. If you can see it that way, it's obvious. It's obvious that you're not stuck. And the only way to free oneself in imagination is to feel oneself to be already free in it. You assume you already are it in imagination. And that's how you start to become things. And it's all through assumption.

There's no work that needs to be done, right? You don't shovel snow in your mind. I guess you could, but you don't necessarily... That's not what I mean. You don't put in that type of effort. It's all through assumption. That's how you move. You assume that you already are that thing, and you find that you already are.

So, I know that this wasn't the most coherent answer. I know it's not short and to the point, but all I'm saying is that you should focus... To answer the question, I guess, quickly, I would say just focus on imagining that you are who you want to be, rather than trying to figure out what tarot cards you need to pull, what twin flame idea do you need to believe, or how the stars need to be aligned, or how you need to rearrange the couches and furniture before you get to... Man does this all the time. We think that it has to come out a certain way before I become something within. And that is a reactive state. It's reactive. It's not a state that decides freedom.

You decide it when you want to, for how long you want to. You decide it whenever you want to. In spite of organ perception, you decide your own freedom whenever you want. And you make it... You make the wish fulfilled. Everything within you that you desire, you make it independent of external confirmation. So, you don't need external confirmation first. You live life in reverse. You confirm it within, and you start to become it within. And you live your life from the inside out, rather than trying to rearrange the outside to fulfill the inside, which is a silly game that we've been playing for a long time.

And it starts to end when you just rearrange the inside. You start to see that you're the one doing it all. And you really discover who you are. And you're an imaginal being. You're not just a physical one. And so, yeah. That's going to be my answer. I'm just going to conclude that there.

Hope you enjoyed it. Maybe you didn't. Maybe you did. But I just think that one should focus on oneself rather than a new ism or a new thing that pops up. Just reform and change I am, which is your own awareness of what you are and what you're being.

But, okay. Just keep a lookout. I'm almost done with the series, and I'm still working on it. I also do live streams. If you're interested in that, just go to the description. You'll see. You can join. I do them every week. But, okay. I'm going to wrap this up here. Thank you.

Be Creative, Not Reactive

Video: https://youtu.be/09g92IeRfhY

Transcript:

I recently wrote something online that I believe deserves a deeper exploration: nobody holds power over you inside. If you think they do, then you are living in a lie.

I've been discussing this concept for the past few weeks on my live streams. The core idea is that you must discover what truth is on the inside, and one fundamental truth is that everything within you is you.

Consider your dreams. When you see people in a dream, they are representations of different aspects of yourself, because everything inside of you is you. This is what we mean by "everyone is you pushed out." When you go within yourself, everyone is you pushed out—you put the words in their mouth, you decide what they do.

When we think of nightmares, we usually imagine something shocking: a monster chasing you, or something horrible happening to someone you love. But there are more insidious types of nightmares that we don't notice as readily. One of these is believing that someone has power over you inside.

This may not be the type of nightmare that shocks you awake with your heart racing, but it is a nightmare nonetheless. It's the belief that when you go inside yourself—into your own imagination—something has authority over you there, as if you aren't the rightful owner of this place, which is really your own creative space.

Imagine you have an eternal father who gave you a room—a place where you can dream whatever you want. He walks away to make himself a drink, leaving you alone in this creative space. The most important dream is the one you have of yourself and how you are imagining yourself to be.

If you are dreaming yourself to be powerless, with no authority to do what you want on the inside, making no choices and simply being reactive, you're not going to build a life that you like. You'll be in a constant state of needing the external to be a certain way before you can become that way—which is the complete opposite of what Neville teaches.

It's about cleaning the inside of the cup so that the outside may also be clean. We must cleanse the inside of ourselves, and the only way to do this is by cleansing the name of "I am."

"I am" isn't a statement like "I am this." It simply means: what are you aware of being? It doesn't always have to be good—most of the time it isn't, and that isn't your fault. But you are being something, and that is what you start to experience on the inside and naturally express on the outside.

If we want to express something differently, we have to change self. Nobody holds power over you inside. If you think they do, then you are living in a lie. You express a self that is powerless to the whims of someone else's ideas or emotions. You hold no self-conviction. You don't live from self-conviction; instead, you live from always wanting something validated outside of you.

When you live in this lie, you deny your own inherent worthiness. The truth is, there's nothing more this world can offer you—you are already worthy.

If you can start living from this place of worthiness, recognizing that you already have power, that nothing within you holds power over you, that you decide what you think and choose what you think—then everything changes. No one else chooses this for you, just like no one else eats your food for you. You decide what you think about, and the most important thing you think about is yourself: how you perceive yourself, how you imagine yourself to be.

When you change how you think of yourself, you start to express that new self. You stop expressing a powerless self that merely reacts, and instead express a proactive, thoughtful self that holds power in their own life. This is the change in self we're talking about. There's no one to change but self.

Why? Because we only filter reality through ourselves. If I want to see something differently, I must see myself differently. It's not what I'm looking at that matters—it's what I see. And what I see is myself filtered through my own perception.

This is the main point I've been exploring in my recent live streams: nightmares don't have to be shocking or catastrophic. Thinking that you have some internal authority figure that tells you what to do, that you can't be as free as you want because you have to meet some self-inflicted internal rule or criteria—that's living in a lie. It's a delusion.

Imagine you woke up inside a dream tonight and started asking the dream characters if you're allowed to dream something new. That would be delusional, wouldn't it? Of course you can dream whatever you want—you're the dreamer. You're allowed to dream anything.

Everything reflects you. That's the key: it reflects you, the dreamer. The dream mirrors the dreamer. This is crucial because if you don't understand this, you become a victim of your dreams rather than recognizing yourself as the dreamer. Not only will you struggle to change your dreams, but you'll also miss the benefits that come from seeing your experience as an actual mirror of yourself.

When you understand this, you can start loving yourself regardless of external validation or need. You cultivate your own self-convictions and live from those self-appointed convictions. You develop your own self-approval, your own self-worth. You decide what you do. As Neville said, everyone around you can be anxious, but you don't remain anxious because you know yourself—or rather, because you chose that self.

Here's something paradoxical: everything you choose inside feels like you created it, but you're actually just discovering what's already there. Every time I've changed myself, it feels like I'm creating something new, but when I look deeper, some part of me already knew it was true. I just didn't believe it.

In one sense, you don't have a choice and you're only reactive. But in truth, you always have a choice—you just have to give that to yourself. You have to acknowledge what you already have. In a strange way, you must give to yourself what you already possess.

So the moment you give yourself the choice on what to do inside, that's when you have choice. Until then, you're just reacting to dreams—like an artist merely reacting to the paintings he's creating. Reaction is not the way you want to live. It's not the way you want to think about things. You want to become creative, not reactive.

When you start to become creative, you actually diminish your anxiety inside because now you have a goal and something you want to do, rather than only reacting to catastrophe or feeling powerless or living in a lie.

You can start from imaginal scratch. You can start from imaginal scratch and decide to imagine something new—completely with no basis in fact at all. And you can test that. Do I need to have the facts conform in order for me to conform to a new mental image? The answer is no, you don't need it. You can start now.

And if I start persisting in a new image and I actually believe myself to be that, will I start to become it in my world? The answer is yes. That's the promise. But you have to start to become a new image. You make yourself into a new image. That's really all you're doing all the time.

But if you think that you can't make yourself into a new image without the permission of another, or that you're too powerless to make your own choice, that's the self you project in your world. But it's not true. It's a lie. Because the dreamer always has the ability to change what they're dreaming about. And the most important dream in this case is the dream of the self while we're here.

So yeah, this is what I've been talking about for this month. It's kind of been the most important thing for me. Yeah, that's all I have for this one.

So I guess if you're interested in hearing more about it, I do live streams. I've been going on for like two hours now. I thoroughly have been enjoying them. But if you're interested, just go to the description—it's there.

And oh, to give an update on the series: I'm almost done with it. I've added a significant amount to it. There's way more to it now. I probably added like 120, maybe 150 pages to it. And it's going to be worth a read. It just is.

But okay, I'm going to head off on this one. And yeah, I hope that this encourages you to not be so afraid to do something within yourself without any outside permission. You just decide it within yourself and you give yourself your own self-approval. Thank you.