Lindell Warden

Kill your spirit, yes. Behind this mask, the part that you're playing. Or this shared shadow world of dreams, yes. Well, the Bible, Scripture, is information that you would be looking for if you knew what to look for. It's up to you to activate your attention, your focus, because whatever has your attention has your life.9008 ¶1

Just be imaginative. Imagine, imagine, imagine—Montaigne tells us. And imagining creates reality. Neville Goddard.9008 ¶2

Well, all through this drama, man, I mean, if you really read the stories, in the theater of mind, in the mind of imagination, religious or not, you're a thinking, feeling being, and that's where we're doing our work. And if you've reached the age of reason, let's reason together. Well, everyone wants to know the how of desired change, and here is the secret of it: as within, so without.9008 ¶3

No, I didn't say easy; I said it was simple. Yes, it's a challenge, but it is doable. Why tell you to do it if you can't? No, it's not about smarts or higher education or stations in life or doing good. Yes, good works. Yes, yes. Or even if you're in… Yes, that's right. That's right. Lyndall, that sounds wonderful, but I don't feel that I'm worthy. Well, you're not. That's the oldest club in the world that we all belong to— not being worthy. That's why we need help. And we're told that all the help we need is nearer than our hands and feet, with a promise: I am with you always. I will never leave you, omnipresent.9008 ¶4

Oh, I thought I knew the how of it, of what to do, years before I seriously decided to follow through, to actually test first‑person. Well, what I was saying that I knew, what I was saying that I believed—I had only heard about it. By the hearing of the ear from without, I had heard. But that's all hearsay. Information about what? Discern.9008 ¶5

We're told to feel after Him and you'll find Him, and that's you doing, being, having your desire. If that's what you're feeling after, you will find it. “Shall find” is the word. Attitude, awareness, imagination, control—again, it is just for that reiteration, and we'll find Him, or you yourself, your desire to be, and you shall find it if that's what you're focused on, if that's what you're paying attention to. What you're looking for is looking for you.9008 ¶6

Yes, it's scary to think about it at first. What have I said? What have I done?9008 ¶7

Choose this day and you can escape from the nonsense. Stop dragging nonsense from yesterday into today's choosing. Yes, be transformed by the renewing of your mind and the answer to your question. I never said these were new ideas—no, just rarely adhered to, rarely feeling after.9008 ¶8

Someone says, “Well, it's possible. And someone will say, “Well, okay. But you see, you actually receive desired change from God because God is no respecter of person. Stations in life are works. Remember, Scripture has it: none are worthy. Salvation is by grace. I remember Neville saying about the voice behind the voice—what you're saying but what you're really saying. The idea will come to you that it really can't be that simple. But actually it is.9008 ¶9

If you're really wholehearted and you're feeling after to do a thing, then you shall have the power. I mean, let go and let God. Yeah, but you were given choice. See, that's why you must do the choosing. God's not going to give yourself up to receive, accepting, believing; you shall have.9008 ¶10

That's been the story for thousands of years. Yes, I do know what you mean. Look, if you give me a phone number, generally a moment later you'll have to give it to me again. And still, if I don't have something to write it down with, I'll miss it again. You see, it is your message. Hearing it only a few times rarely gets your attention enough to follow through, to actually affect direct talking to yourself. And you're told to do so.9008 ¶11

Look, the question is, if as you say, who are you thinking of? I, the visible, and thanking the invisible, the life of all of us— you see, that's your life. We see the action and the reaction, but do we connect the dots? You see, because it's our everydayness. As within, so without. You're always thinking ahead of your evidence.9008 ¶12

Yes. Yeah, yeah. Right. It's exactly that.9008 ¶13

As within, so without. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, so does he, so has he. On and on throughout the stories. Are you still here? Look, you'll soon become aware. So does he, so has he. One by one. All things to all.9008 ¶14

If God didn't do it, it wasn't done. Someone asked, “Should I focus? What should I start to focus with? Well, you have started. You just ask what to focus on. That's starting.9008 ¶15

The hunger? Well, the hunger will come upon you to know first‑person. I'm here to verify, to witness to you what you may have awakened to. Yes. I mean, you're seeking to know first‑person. That means that the hunger has come upon you, to know first‑person. No more just hearsay. Yes.9008 ¶16

Well, at first it's an awesome feeling. Actually, it always is. But it becomes a friendly feeling, a comforter.9008 ¶17

One feels greatly relieved—not the need to be concerned anymore. Yes, well, everything follows increased awareness. Yes, well, increased awareness at first may seem like offloading the world, even for moments at a time, but you can do this. It will show an improvement in all of our affairs.9008 ¶18

You ask questions about the heart. All the issues of our life are of the heart, we're told. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Well, we're told that man's affairs are of his own heart. As within, so without.9008 ¶19

And what it is, you're beginning to awaken to, or have experienced, is the idea of now. No longer do you just stand by and let life happen haphazardly. You're now taking an active role in being a director in imagination.9008 ¶20

Well, on those things that you find lovely and of good report, as we're told, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he—think only on things that are lovely and of good reward. But that's the story for all of us. As within, so without. What are you thinking about? What are you talking to yourself about?9008 ¶21

There's a pattern for every event. Well, first we become aware of an idea. Then we mull it over, contemplate it, and meditate upon it.9008 ¶22

And then you just speak it out or you forget it. Yes, it is. Well, saying that you… No, no, you don't have to say it out loud. You're talking to yourself, generally, at every moment of time. And someone says, “Well, I don't talk to myself.9008 ¶23

Well, how about thinking feelingly that you're using the word, the feeling? And feeling is the secret. Feeling is you talking to you.9008 ¶24

Maybe not audible, but we're told that we're accountable for every word—yes, for every word of our self‑talk. We must now understand that our say is ongoing; rather we're paying attention or not, rather we're aware or not, as within, so without. Choose this day.9008 ¶25

Yes, it has circumstances, situations that make up the experiences of your life. Are you choosing? Are you directing what you're thinking and feeling? What is it that you're looking for? Do you know?9008 ¶26

To tell you what to choose would be redundant, because I couldn't know what you want. I mean, if there were no choice, that would be hell itself. But there is choice.9008 ¶27

Yes. Choose this day. I mean, how could you be guilty for doing something wrong unless you could have done it right? Well, and if you can, why not? You're using the power.9008 ¶28

You're speaking the word—what? Attitude. Attitude.9008 ¶29

Well, everybody wants to change something. Everybody's looking to change something.9008 ¶30

And everyone can imagine better than the best that they're experiencing right at this moment. I mean, I'm sure that you can sit quietly and speak a better scenario of life—no longer being concerned about how much something costs, or millions, or a shack, if it's your idea. Your world, yourself, pushed out into experiencing.9008 ¶31

As someone said, “Watch your mouth. That's good advice. Watch your mouth, because if you're looking for change, it starts with a change of mind.9008 ¶32

The old man—no, the new man. Being consistent. Being persistent.9008 ¶33

That you become in thinking from your ideal, not of it, because thinking of it is denying yourself. Well, you'll always be being delivered. You're always being delivered into… You're giving life to what you're paying attention to, and it's your life; it's not falling into the past. Every word is being projected into our future as future events, future situations. Well, the idea is to focus on “I am that,” your ideal, and keep upgrading, thinking feelingly. See, that's the ordering. Our conversations are right, and we're told that if we do that we would be shown salvation. Begin thinking from claiming “I am that,” your ideal, your mission, your goal. It's assumption. Assuming that it is so makes it so.9008 ¶34

Whatever has your attention… If you're not paying attention, then you're just denying yourself. If you're not focusing, the question, quite simply, is: do you know what you want? Well, if so, stop wanting it and start being it.9008 ¶35

Look, Scripture's message is “be it. Do a thing now. Now is the appointed hour. “Thou shalt do a thing and it shall be so. I mean, that's it. Attitude, awareness, imaginational control. Well, yes. That's what it is. Reiteration and reiteration that you remember, because if you don't remember, you don't do. Well, let's take a break, and then after the break we'll have question and answer. Okay? Thank you.9008 ¶36

Well, reality claims to be all things to all. Yes, one power, one mind, one body, one spirit, and everything that you're operating, you're in control of, even if you're seemingly out of control. Look, it's all possibilities, but it stays potential until you enter in and begin to think from. When you move in and begin to think from, and begin to think from, that this world is your world of experiencing. Your mind is never going to question you as to what your self‑talk is, because your self‑talk is the model that the subconscious builds your world upon. Yes. Yes, this is about addressing your world of experiencing. So, what you did, all in imagination, which no one can see but you, which is the only one who really needs to see, because your world is coming through you. It isn’t coming to you. Yes, it’s being expressed in your world, and then everyone will see it, and hopefully it’s a lovely and good report, because that’s what we’re told—to think only on things that are lovely and good report. And we’re also told that the drama man is good and very good, but if that’s not what you’re experiencing—see, no, I’m not here to make judgment about anything. This is not judgment; this is about information, this is about you discerning what you’re hearing by the hearing of the ear. This is about you contemplating and meditating.9007 ¶1

Oh, yeah, of course, I have opinions. Yes, I have many opinions. But this is not the place for my opinions. No, no, this is not about me, the man. I thought I made that very clear.9007 ¶2

These messages came through me. They didn’t come from me. Messages came through me. They didn’t come from me.9007 ¶3

No, no, this is not like you and I having dinner together, no, talking over whatever we would be talking about. But it’s that simple. You tell me about something you’re doing, I’ll tell you about something I’m doing. That’s not what this is. This is about a message that you left for yourself. It is the same message for every child born of woman. It’s your message, and, yeah, it’s there for everyone to find eventually, and everyone will in some time slot. You can’t lose. No one can take it away from you. But for a time you can go through without recognizing it.9007 ¶4

Well, it’s about awakening. And we’re all in the act of awakening in varying degrees of intensity and intent. But how much are you paying attention? Because what has your attention has your life.9007 ¶5

That’s the story. If you want a place to start, I mean, it’s really very simple. I can stand up here and make all sorts of statements about what has happened, things that I’ve told you. I could make it more entertaining, I suppose, but that’s not what I’m here for—I’m not here to entertain you. This is information. Information you left for yourself that you may not have yet recognized to live better. Oh, I know how long I went without recognizing what was actually right with me all along, but I didn’t have a clue as to what was going on. Yeah. Oh, my sense of world, yes. Yes. But I didn’t think of anything beyond that—natural man‑mind reasoning. Yes. What else is there? See, that’s what these talks are about. The talk is to acquaint you with you. You have a valid say, as valid a say as anyone in this world, and you needn’t be coerced in any way, in any state, to think anything, to feel anything you don’t want to feel. That is, unless you choose to do so. Choose this day. That is the message. This day.9007 ¶6

You can give yourself away. You can sell yourself cheaply. And we all do in varying degrees of intensity and intent at times, I assure you. All you have to do is ask yourself, “What do I intend to do from this moment forward, and how serious am I about doing it? Move in, think from better than the best, and reiterate, reiterate—our suggestion nightly, because that is the way you wind up changing your life, your lifestyle, changing your mind, changing your world. It is a given, already a given, and it’s suggested that you do so. Feel after Him, and you’ll find Him. And that Him you’re feeling after is you. See what it is that you’re feeling, thinking, feeling about, because that will be your world of experiencing, good or otherwise.9007 ¶7

So our suggestion nightly is just listen often. Thank you. And good evening. Yes. Oh, here. Thank you. I’ll take that. Yes. Yes. Good evening. Welcome to the Metaphysical Art Theater. My name is Lyndall, and tonight I thought that I could convince others of what I had experienced first‑person, but you just can’t do that because it is a first‑person present‑tense experiencing.9007 ¶8

You believe it or you don’t believe it. And if you believe it, then you’ll test it. And if you test it, then you’ll know that you know it first‑person.9007 ¶9

Then it will no longer be just hearsay. Attitude awareness and imaginational control is just for that better control—control of your imagination. Look, if you’re seeing the Bible as secular history, you see that’s man, the drama, the play, rather than divine history, which is the God‑man, the man who is God. That’s what Jesus told us all. When you see me, the man, you see the Father. And did He not tell you that He was a man just as you, flesh and blood? Don’t kid yourself. You could be in a very large crowd and have no communication going on at all because no one would really be relaxed enough to allow themselves to be vulnerable enough, even for moments at a time, to receive the better ideas, the better attitudes, attitude awareness, and imaginational control. That’s what it’s all about. In you, always right where you are, always available. You’re never being put on hold. Think about it.9007 ¶10

You turn to me, I’ll turn to you, God says. That’s already a done deal. You’re already given permission, authority, and on God’s side of the authority it’s already a done deal because He’s already agreed.9007 ¶11

Yes. Completed? Yes.9007 ¶12

But what you’re being told is, “Arouse thyself, O Lord, why sleepest thou? The Lord in you. You’re told to be awakening to the gifts that are already given—to dream the dream. All of this is a virtual reality of a dream. And you say, “Well, that sounds insane. Yes, I understand it does when you first hear this. To those who are unaware, to the natural man‑mind reasoning, yes, it would seem insane.9007 ¶13

But that’s what Scripture has been saying for thousands of years. That’s what the wise have been saying down through the centuries for thousands of years: as within, so without.9007 ¶14

It’s all attitude. Oh, you hear it. Some agree, some disagree. Disagree? Are we not told it’s like 30, 60, 90 awakening? Yes, it’s about you, you going within. It is about your willingness to do so. It is about your feeling after. If you’re not feeling after, you’re not going to find. It’s that simple. And you’re told that if you will feel after, you shall find. And what are you looking for? Some people get angry with me when I ask the question that way.9007 ¶15

I fooled myself for many, many years—wanted this, wanted that. It really wasn’t that at all. That was merely a disguise, something I thought I had to do, or maybe just a band‑aid on a serious wound.9007 ¶16

It really wasn’t doing anything beneficial in my personal attitudes about generally everything. If it doesn’t seem to be working too well, then we’re just not paying attention. We’re not being focused. We should be. We’re told that the drama man is good and very good. If you’re not experiencing that, then we’re just not paying attention, operating from wrong attitudes. I know about that first‑person; I can assure you. I fought against the whole idea of having to change, even though I agreed that the changes would be beneficial. It would be logical.9007 ¶17

Yes, it’s just ego—Man’s ego wanting to run the show. Any time ego thinks you’re going to start thinking about something more than natural man‑mind reasoning, the ongoing drama, it will jump up and down and cause all kinds of ruckus in your life to change your mind back. If you’re not getting the message, it’s an easy mark for him. If you are getting the message, then ego will fear losing control, and to him that’s unacceptable.9007 ¶18

His aim is to run the show. He’s been fed and nurtured so long by your giving, by your energy. It’s about sharing an attitude that you have a valid say. You’re about saying your valid say. You’re the ones given to choose, and whatsoever is what we were given to choose from as a potential.9007 ¶19

No, no, this is not about guilt trips or any nonsense like that. This is not thinking about punishment. Why would anyone consider that the God they worship, the God they believe created all things, the God represented as absolute love, who loves absolutely, would need to punish anyone for anything?9007 ¶20

At some point you’ll understand—I’m right here with you, here now. God is telling you, Jesus is telling you, “I and my Father are one,” even as you and I are one, right here, right now. This is so. If you don’t agree with this, then you’re just denying yourself.9007 ¶21

You want to take your chances? That’s allowed too. Your chances, that’s allowed too. Whatever also includes you being foolish if you desire to do so. You’re not being denied anything. What you’re being told is, “Go for the better, always for the better; feel after Him, and you’ll find Him, you doing, being the better.9007 ¶22

What about the prodigal son? He was out blowing his inheritance and wound up sleeping and eating with the pigs. Get up and go home. Go home to your father. Even a slave in your father’s house would be much better off than here eating with the pigs. You would be fed and cared for. As he was on his way home with the idea that if he could just get a place to eat and sleep, how wonderful that would be, his father ran out toward him with a robe and a ring and threw a great party for him.9007 ¶23

That’s really the story. “My son has come home. You have turned to me; I’ll turn to you. That’s God’s promise—right here, right now. No, we’re not talking about something that happened two thousand years ago. This is divine history, talking about our everydayness. Someone will say, “Well, you don’t understand. Actually, yes, I do, to a greater degree than I ever have before. Not because I figured anything out, but I know because of the simple act I ask. I was told to ask; believing is receiving.9007 ¶24

For years I didn’t know why I didn’t. I had no real justification not to. I was waiting and I don’t even know what I was waiting for. I was looking for— I didn’t even know what I was looking for. I really didn’t know what I wanted.9007 ¶25

Do you? I’m laying this on the line because I want you to understand that everybody goes through this in varying degrees of intensity and intent. Whatever excuse you claim not to come forward in your own behalf, to stand and see the victory, to know first‑person—if you have an excuse, you’ll use it. You have to lay it down. You have to let it go. Let go and let God. However justified you feel you can defend it, let it go. If it’s not serving you, let it go. That’s what we’re told—let go and let God.9007 ¶26

And you say, “Well, that sounds kind of strange. Why is that strange? Oh, you’re trying to explain to me you can’t change what you believe? What nonsense. I mean, really, think about it. You really believe that you can’t.9007 ¶27

Good evening. Welcome to the Metaphysical Art Theater, as in Theater of the Mind, our mind of imagination. My name is Lindo, and tonight I have discovered there is life beyond natural mind reasoning, first‑person revelations. Forty years and I have only begun the adventure, but enough to recognize the drama, man, is a virtual reality, the play of humanity.9006 ¶1

It’s in constant change. Reality is changeless. Same always. Same always.9006 ¶2

Well, that’s man’s salvation. Because absolute love loves absolutely. Nothing man could do could change that.9006 ¶3

That’s a given. The frontal cortex, the decision centre of the mind, awaits your claim. You’re coming in. Believing is receiving. Attitude, awareness and imaginational control.9006 ¶4

Whatever you do, you’re talking to yourself. And you’re talking yourself into or out of what? This is your hour of everydayness.9006 ¶5

Linear thinking does not allow for leaps of faith. And when I speak of faith, I’m not speaking of blind faith. This is informed faith, that you know what it is that you’re doing, why you’re doing it. You’re agreeing to do it in self and the drama is risen, man. The without is a mirror. It reflects all your thoughts. Everyone’s brain accepts change.9006 ¶6

But we’re to be diligent, consistent, persistent to follow through. In other words, yeah, be it now. Now is the appointed hour of desired change.9006 ¶7

But what are you waiting for? I did that. I waited and waited, but I really couldn’t even say what it was I was waiting for. I waited nonetheless. But for what? I was spending my time rather than investing my time to expect a better life, better lifestyles and advancement in attitude awareness and imaginational control. That’s just for that. We’re all feeling after whatever it is you call it.9006 ¶8

It’s, well, just consider all the help you need, you’re told, is nearer than hands and feet. All the answers, all the solutions, all the help that you need, nearer than hands and feet. Well, where is it that you feel you need to go if it’s nearer than hands and feet? All the help that you need.9006 ¶9

You’re being told to go within. And when I say within, don’t get confused. Body, no—mind is not in body. Body is in mind. Turning to within is turning to spirit itself, in self, that who it is that you really are. Not this part that you’re playing, not the mask, not the role in this shadow world, this virtual reality that you have accepted as reality or agreed to, but even if you didn’t agree to it, you’re still accepting it to some degree because you’re living it. However subtly you received it, yes. Attitude, awareness and imaginational control.9006 ¶10

Remember that. You’re living. There’s always an option. There’s always an option to turn around, to change your mind, change your world. As within, so without. As Nathan Hale said, “Give me liberty or give me death. I mean, if you’re really that wholehearted in your feeling after, to be the more, to have the more, just start right now. Start being it. Yes. That’s what the message of Scripture is. Do it. Do a thing and you shall have the power. That’s the message to all of us. One power. The only power. Let the weak man say, “I am strong.9006 ¶11

Jesus’ message is one power. One mind, one body, one spirit, Father of all. That’s Jesus’ message.9006 ¶12

So wherever it is that you are, you’re on the path. If that’s what you want to call it, being on the path, you’re on the path. Maybe you’re just going the wrong way.9006 ¶13

So all you have to do is turn around. Yeah, that’s it. Turn around. If you turn to me, I’ll turn to you. If you don’t enjoy the direction you’re going, turn around in your thinking and feeling.9006 ¶14

And yes, I did say simple. I didn’t say easy, though. Please don’t call me and say, “Lyndall, you know that’s easier said than done. I agree with that. I do agree that it’s easier said than done. But that’s the beauty of the gift, because that’s what we were given to do, to say our say.9006 ¶15

And you’re about saying your say. You have a valid say. What are you saying with your valid say?9006 ¶16

Really, yes, worthy of considering, really. It is our world of everydayness experiencing. As within, so without, individually. Yes, that’s correct. Awareness of is the substance, right?9006 ¶17

Look, we’re not helpless. We weren’t left here helpless. I mean, lazy‑minded and double‑minded, yes, plenty of that. Something that I really know from first‑person experiencing. Consider the dictionary’s definition of all. It’s all.9006 ¶18

Absolute. God is love. And absolute love loves absolutely. Well, God is all things to all. And that’s true right here, right now.9006 ¶19

If you need a place to start your contemplation and meditation, that sounds like a really good place to me. Yes, but our story is as we’re impressed we express, and that’s for everyone. Keep in remembrance whatsoever is the potential of our asking, believing, receiving, yes, and you are receiving, impressed we express.9006 ¶20

Yes. Oh, yes. Many do deny this, but then look at the world. I mean, I discovered it to be as it’s purported to be. How it is you came to be impressed, that’s not taken into consideration. Well, why you haven’t chosen differently, that’s not taken into consideration either. As you think you are, in consideration of making up your world based upon your self‑talk. Think about this. And that’s good or otherwise. As within, so without. We all act our parts according to our conditioning. Unless we have done what is needed to change our conditioning, which you can do. It’s a given. If we found that it’s not to our benefit to continue in such an idea, such an attitude, such an assumption, consider what it is that we’ve been told. God is no respecter of persons, our stations in life, our works. It is as you seek, you find, you do. And whatsoever, again, is the potential.9006 ¶21

You asked a question about the conditioning. We were all conditioned. Look, we were all conditioned. We’re born, handed over to who?9006 ¶22

Hopefully, they were warm, well‑meaning, loving people, but I understand that’s not always the case. But if you have reached the age of reason, then let’s begin to reason. You’re told that all the help you need is nearer than hands and feet. That’s right. Nearer than hands and feet. That’s right.9006 ¶23

Meaning what you ask? You have a valid say. You’re about saying your valid say.9006 ¶24

And your world of experiencing is the result of that. Outwardly you are your self‑talk. And your world of everydayness experiencing is the result of what you’re saying with your valid say. That may sound a bit confusing when you first hear it, but we’re told that all things are possible to those who believe. Yes, all things. Self‑examination—that is to see where it is that you’re leading yourself because you’re doing so consistently, persistently. Yes, monitoring our own self‑talk will reveal this. It’s always—keep in remembrance—the emotional self‑talk isn’t falling into the past; it’s what we’re all experiencing on different levels of intensity and intent. Yes, well, it’s according to your emotion, your movement out from.9006 ¶25

Just ask yourself truly, what is your intent? What do you intend to do? Once you have determined that, it is as within, so without: stop intending to do and start doing.9006 ¶26

Do a thing and you shall have the power. Look, we’re told in many ways that if you’ll do it, you’ll have it.9006 ¶27

A thing. Yeah. Kind of leaves it wide open, doesn’t it? A thing.9006 ¶28

And you shall have the power. Understand, your every word is being taken into culmination to make up your life, experiencing your everydayness. I mean, if you want different experiences, change your mind, change your world, challenge yourself to do so, change the attitudes, change assumptions, change the moods—you can do this. It’s a given that you can do this. Oh yes, it does take place. Patience to can just keep in remembrance what it is that you have agreed with is a better lifestyle. And also keep in remembrance that what we don’t remember, we don’t do. So yeah, it’s wise to take steps for our remembering. That is the reason for these tapes and cassettes and CDs, DVDs. Whatever you consider worthy of your attention, listen often. What I am sharing is a better life. Your life, like you really mean it. Start today. Start now. Making better choices. Well, you’ll have better results if you do so. Yes, you will have—so if you do so I’m sure you will agree with that. As within, so without. Look, I understand busy, busy, busy, okay, but I also understand self‑denial and how unwillingly I— I use that as an excuse and justification, a reason to avoid doing the very thing that I claimed was better, that I desired. Starting is difficult, yes, because you’re acting in faith and have no memory to support the new man. We’re told to be in the world, but not to be of the world. Mass‑mind reasoning is based upon fear, generally. I mean, we’re being encouraged to change your mind, change your world, to set the world of everydayness aside for a time, for a time of contemplation, a time of meditation. Simply because looking for desired change requires an investment in self. We’re told very plainly to enter the closet, close the door, and when you’re alone speak to your Father who is in heaven.9006 ¶29

If you would do so consistently, persistently, as you can, convincing yourself. Someone said, “I have tried and tried and failed. Well, if you haven’t stopped, you haven’t failed. It’s only when you quit. Just keep reminding yourself, nothing changes until you change. There’s nothing transforming in depth. Yes, yes, I do understand. Yes, I do understand how difficult it is to even consider a change of mind. Being committed to this and being committed to that and responsible for this and responsible for that—I understand that. Busy, busy, busy. It can just seem so overwhelming to the point that you seem to have no time for yourself to relax, but you can. Once you pass through the portal, the open door in mind, in imagination, your confidence for a better life will soar because it is with you right here, right now.9006 ¶30

It is with you. Someone asked, “Is there a special code? The answer is, yes, there is a code. Yes, it is: be still and know that I am God. Yes, be still and know that I am God.9006 ¶31

That’s an invitation. You turn to me, I’ll turn to you. Without question, we’re given to know. The question that you should ask, that’s your to‑do to know, is just turn to the Word. The Word is with God, the Word is with you, and the Word is God. What are you doing with the Word?9006 ¶32

We’re told that worshiping God is using His gifts. Yes, worshiping God is using His gifts. Yes, we’re being told the wisdom of worshiping God is awakening.9006 ¶33

Awakening to what has already been given. You have the gifts already given.9006 ¶34

Talking about the force? Actually, it's not a force.9005 ¶1

It is an energy that needs to be directed into, choose this day. And that is what you're doing, willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unknowingly. You're directing energy into your world of experiencing, as within, so without. That's the drama, man, the play of humanity for all of us. As within, so without. Just start right there.9005 ¶2

Well, you're equating the force with love, and love needs no force. Love can be a force, but it need not be. There's only God, and absolute love loves absolutely.9005 ¶3

That is the study of Scripture. If you don't come away with that, then you missed it. The story is, son, all I have is yours. He gave himself to you completely. Yes, to awaken to I am that I am, always better than the best. See, the grand I am, that's consciousness of being. That's God. Consciousness of being something. That's man, the drama, the play of humanity, what I'm doing, this play of humanity. But that isn't who you are. That's merely what you're doing in, through, and of the one power. Would you now take control to actually direct your thinking and feeling, which is how you are directing the power through your world of experiencing in your everydayness? And the subconscious mind is the producer. No, no, it's not here to debate anything or take issue with you. No, no, it's not here in any way to change what you're thinking feelingly about, but only to produce it.9005 ¶4

You're warned many times to be aware, to be aware of what it is you believe, because believing is receiving, and that's whether it's good or otherwise. And if you believe it's a rotten place to live, then that's exactly what it will be for you, a rotten place to live, even if it isn't for everyone else around you. Look, there are those who live in places that we here in the United States would consider utterly unacceptable. Yet there are happy people there.9005 ¶5

Some people said, “Well, that's because they don't know anything. Yes, in a sense you're right, because there is so much that they don't know, but then there's so much that we don't know either. We are totally unaware of it.9005 ¶6

The more we do know, the better our lives will be, I assure you. Because the story is, yes, that's the drive. That is the drive. Desire.9005 ¶7

I mean, why does it say theater and not church? Because you say it sounds like church. It is theater because it is in the theater of mind where we do our work.9005 ¶8

And I can talk to you from a first‑person experiencing. Theater. It does sound somewhat different, but actually it really isn't. It's a first‑person, present‑tense experiencing of what the message is to everyone. The message of Scripture to every child born of a woman, religious or not religious, you are a thinking, feeling, being. The message to all of us very simply is: do a thing.9005 ¶9

Do a thing. What thing are you doing? That's the thing you're doing. And if you want to do it differently, then you're thinking ahead of your evidence.9005 ¶10

So have a new state. Have a new mindset. You're thinking from a new state because it's coming through you.9005 ¶11

It isn't coming to you. What is he saying? Yeah, I know what he said. I know what was said. He said it as you think you are. That's what Jesus said. And that's what was said to me. What was said to me is that all things are possible to those who believe.9005 ¶12

What you're hearing about is looking for something better, and better is being offered. What you're looking for is looking for you. Well, do you know what seeking is? Seeking is feeling after in imagination, in the theater of mind, because what you're looking for, as I said, is looking for you. Yes, looking for you.9005 ¶13

The seeking is offered as whatsoever you're given to choose from, potential. And that really does leave it wide open. But remember, it is potential. If you seek, you shall find. It's not maybe; it's shall find.9005 ¶14

So, really. We need to allow self‑doubt to cloud our visions. See, we're just denying ourselves. You have a valid say.9005 ¶15

I'm here to impart to you your own message, whatever it is you do with it or don't do with it, but it's your business. Yes, well, what you want is your business. I don't need to know you; I don't need to know what you want, and you don't need to know me.9005 ¶16

You heard the information that your say is a valid say. You're about saying your valid say.9005 ¶17

Now, if you would just turn and discern the message, see the value in discerning what you're talking to yourself about morning, noon, and night, thinking feelingly, yes, where is it leading you? Every word we're told, every word is taken in the culmination to make up your life. Disapproval, that disapproval, every word is taken in the culmination to make up your world of experiencing. Maybe it's better now because your conversations are better; it's as you believe it is to you. You may think differently today than you did yesterday, and it may be a minuscule difference, but it may be monumentally small. If you'll take notice, it is still operating in, through, and of the one power. All denial is self‑denial. From your question, I think you misunderstood. I didn't say this is a message for you. I said this is a message from you, to you, for your awakening.9005 ¶18

“Arouse thyself, O Lord, why sleepeth thou? I mean, why tell us that? Why do we need to know that? Oh, the message is very clear.9005 ¶19

Your imaginal activity is saying to you, “I go and prepare a place for you. When I have prepared a place for you, I will return and take you with me. It is all imaginal. Yes, this whole drama, man, is the self being pushed out through assumption into the world of… A wonderful human imagination is God Himself, the all‑things to all. If He didn't do it, it wasn't done. That's the message to all of us. I am with you always. I will never leave you. I'm thy presence.9005 ¶20

Are we not told this is a shadow world? Yeah, just a shadow of a virtual reality.9005 ¶21

You are the reality, dreaming the dream, and you're given whatsoever as a potential to choose from, so you do have a choice. It can be a dream or it can be a nightmare. Choose this day, and if it has become a nightmare, then you're given—choose this day. I know you're all conditioned, hypnotized, mesmerized, born into this ongoing drama. We're all conditioned to what's ongoing at the time we enter in, in addition to what's ongoing at the time we enter in. Then it is up to the individual when we reach that age of reason, whatever age that is, when you really start thinking for yourself, first person.9005 ¶22

It's no more just hearsay. You want to know first person. I was resolute to know first person. If you're resolute to know first person, that's the beginning of awakening, to ever greater, greater degree. Yes, resolute to know first person, present tense, “seek and you shall find” is the word, and shall find what has been provided for you to choose this day.9005 ¶23

This day, do so consistently, persistently. Better than the best. No, there's no void. Infinity is always effective. It's always in operation.9005 ¶24

Just try not to stay in one place too long because then you get that nuisance factor in mind, in operation. Just try not to stay in one place too long because then you get that nuisance factor in mind, in imagination. Oh, don't just be wanderers. You hear the message, you say you agree with the message, and yet if you don't invest in yourself to actually operate what you say you believe, then you're missing out. I've achieved it many times. In a room like this, full of people, you want to know first person. I can give you the information from a first‑person, present‑tense experiencing, but I can't experience it for you. I can cheer you on. I can encourage you. Everybody is at least suspicious that they may be looking for someone else to do for them that which they know in their own heart they must do for themselves. You're suspicious of it, at least. I'm not claiming anything professional about this.9005 ¶25

This is a first‑person, present‑tense experiencing. I am sharing it with you as it was shared with me. It's what came through me, not to me. It was originally shared in Revelations. In retrospect, we have always been having Revelations.9005 ¶26

We just didn't recognize them. We weren't paying attention. We were too busy. We knew about it, but I had not followed through—just holding on but not really digesting, not really discerning, not really testing first‑person present‑tense experiencing.9005 ¶27

I went on year after year denying myself, saying, “Oh well, I know that,” but I didn't really know that; I only knew about it. I heard by the hearing of the ear, but that's the difference that makes the difference. Hearing by the hearing of the ear, you hear what's worthy of your attention, but are you paying attention? I didn't. I didn't follow through, not immediately. That lazy‑mindedness, that double‑mindedness, we all suffer in varying degrees of intensity and intent. What is your intent?9005 ¶28

Well, as far as us receiving, the better. It's there. It's ours. Other than what it really is, what we expect. Because what you expect, that's what you get, but that might not be what you wanted. That is unless they happen to be the same thing. If they are, that's wonderful. Expand, expand, expand. I mean, you follow the idea. You found the secret: how the mind works, desired change, and you're on your way. Life, better lifestyles—that's what's been promised to you from the beginning. If a man would order his conversations right, he would be shown salvation, the answers, the solutions, the yes—that's what the art is: ordering your conversations in accordance with your dreams. Discover, even for moments at a time, that your world is actually yourself pushed out. It is available for anyone, everyone. It's not about ability; it's about willingness. Are you willing?9005 ¶29

The inheritance you were given: son, all I have is yours. That's the inheritance. God gave himself completely.9005 ¶30

Through the imagination, man is pushed out into the world of experiencing. Understand, it's all one power, not lesser powers. Lesser powers only seem to be if it's less than one power, then it's all an illusion. This power—yes, one power—this, excuse me, what we're calling reality, this drama, man, this play of humanity, is only a virtual reality.9005 ¶31

You are the reality, right here, right now. This is about who you are, reality, your spirit. Everything out here, we're told, is second‑hand. This isn't reality; it's only what reality is doing.9005 ¶32

As with and so without. Look, I understand busy, busy, busy, okay? But I also understand self‑denial and how unwillingly, I mean, I use that as an excuse, a justification, a reason to avoid doing the very thing that I claimed was better, that I desired. Well, mass‑mind reasoning is based upon fear generally. I mean, we're being encouraged to change your mind, change your world, to set the world of everydayness aside for a time, for a time of contemplation, a time of meditation. I mean, simply because looking for desired change requires an investment in self.9004 ¶1

We're told very plainly to enter the closet, close the door, and when you're alone, speak to your Father who is in heaven. Well, if you would do so consistently, persistently as you can, convincing yourself—someone said, “I have tried and tried and failed. Well, if you haven’t stopped, you haven’t failed. It’s only when you quit. I mean, just keep reminding yourself, nothing changes until you change. There’s nothing that transforms in death. Yes, I do understand. Yes, I do understand how difficult it is to even consider a change of mind—being committed to this and being committed to that and responsible for this and responsible for that. I understand that. Busy, busy, busy. It can just seem so overwhelming to the point that you seem to have no time for yourself to relax, but you can—if you once pass through the portal, the open door in mind, in imagination, your confidence for a better life will soar because it is with you right here, right now. It is with you.9004 ¶2

Someone asked, “Is there a special code? The answer is yes, there is a code: “Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am God—that’s an invitation.9004 ¶3

You turn to, I’ll turn to you. Without question, we’re given to know. And the question that you should ask is yours to do, to know. Just turn to the Word. Well, the Word is with God, the Word is with you, and the Word is God. What are you doing with the Word?9004 ¶4

We’re told that worshiping God is using His gifts. Yes, worshiping God is using His gifts. Yes, we’re being told the wisdom of worshiping God is awakening, awakening to what has already been given. You have the gifts already given. Well, as I said, worshiping God is using His gifts, and you have them. Feel after to recognize; seek, and you shall find. You are doing, being, having your heart’s desire, hopefully. It’s claimed that we’re praying ceaselessly and that all prayer is answered.9004 ¶5

Every word must be accounted for. Every word. Every word is to be accounted for.9004 ¶6

Make up your life, your everydayness. Look, if you feel denied, you’re the one denying yourself because we’re told that all denial is self‑denial. The question is: do you know how it is that you’re praying? Well, are you truly aware of what it is you’re asking? As we are asking is feeling to be “I am that. What do you feel yourself to be? Someone said, “You hit it right on. I don’t feel worthy. The answer here is grace. It’s not about worthiness; it’s about willingness. None are worthy; you were told being willing makes you worthy in the eyes of God.9004 ¶7

Change your mind. Change your world. Consider God’s play of humanity as emotion, movement out from you, me, all of us. Yes, really feeling it when you’re listening.9004 ¶8

Feel it many times. Listen many times because you may just remember it. If you remember it, you’ll probably do it. Just remembering what’s being said, what you have found agreement with in your own heart. And once you start seeing the benefits of doing so, you’ll do so eagerly, moving right along—attitude awareness, imagination control. That’s what everyone is looking for. You may call it all sorts of different names. You may want many things. And it’s the asking, claiming. Well, but you’re saying, “I don’t have the condition I want, I don’t have the vacation.9004 ¶9

You are what you are because of what you think you are. And the story of Job, that which I have feared has come upon me, is really everyone’s story. We’re being told that fear is the opposite of faith. It is self‑denial. You use the same energy for desire change that you’re now using. Challenging yourself for information—that’s the portal to new life, to new lifestyle: health, wealth, happiness, relationships.9004 ¶10

What is it that you’re looking for? We’re told that we do not receive because we do not ask, or that we’re asking amiss. Yes, asking amiss, asking for what you do. Who does that?9004 ¶11

Most of the world. It’s just changing your self‑talk. A new attitude. Attitude, awareness, and imagination control—that is how it works. Yes. Just read what the wise man has said down through the ages. It is our attitudes, our own attitudes. Attitude, awareness, and imagination control, as I keep telling you, is the same.9004 ¶12

It’s not how you came to have the attitude you got. It’s not about fault. It’s not about blame. You have a valid say, and you’re saying your valid say.9004 ¶13

We were all conditioned to the ongoing drama upon entering, being born. But there does come a time when you start acting, choosing for yourself, first‑person. When you begin to examine the I‑dos, attitudes, assumptions, moods, suggestions, and you’re suggesting to yourself subtly all the time, see if they’re valid. See if it’s where you want to go. If it’s leading you where you want to go, fine, follow through. You’ve had enough experiences to see that it is “change your mind, change your world. And I know the difficulty in doing so. It’s just about being a better director, a better director of our self‑talk.9004 ¶14

Look, I know we’re not paying attention all the time. I’m really aware of that, but yet we’re always on. Yes, but we’re also being made aware that as you think, you are. Really consider this.9004 ¶15

More is better. More awareness is better. More control is better. To take charge.9004 ¶16

Really feel what it is that’s being said. You’re on all the time, and we’re told that every word is taken in culmination to make up your everydayness. Every word must be accounted for. Every word. I really can’t express this enough, that your say is a valid say, and you’re about saying your valid say, even if you’re inwardly or outwardly. It’s that self‑talk. It either lifts you up or crashes you.9004 ¶17

As I said, every word must be accounted for, even the nonsense—yes, good, bad, or indifferent. It is all creative. Every word is creative. She says, “That’s insane. Well, insane is not to just check it out for yourself.9004 ¶18

I’m not asking you to join anything. I don’t have anything to join. You have everything you need to do, to know, to have, to change, to discern the message, make up your own mind. This is good, worthy to follow through on or not. It’s what we’re all seeking. I call it attitude awareness and imagination control. And attitude awareness, because when I really started monitoring my own self‑talk, I discovered it right there—attitudes I didn’t realize I was operating from. Sometimes I had a tinge about what I was imagining to drop it. Yes, imagination creates the real in this drama, man. Don’t try to fool yourself. It’s as you think you are. It’s as simple as that. Keep it that simple; you’ll remember it.9004 ¶19

Someone asked a friend if I was depressed. He seemed never to have company and he spends so much of his time alone. After giving these talks for 40 years, I stopped having company except for just friends. No, I’m not depressed and no, I don’t spend time alone; I invest in time alone, yes, and so will you once you see the portal, once you find the portal, once you enter the door you’ll understand that your say is a valid say.9004 ¶20

It’s always open; it’s in your own mind, and when you enter in imagination, as you begin to feel after dreaming the dream better than the best, consider you can buy all the books promising you success, and you choose by desire. If you’re looking for desired change in what they’re telling you, it’s generally true, at least the essence of the message, but consider its information. They can encourage you; the one thing they cannot do is do it for you. That’s what you must do. It is you who must feel after to understand. Look at your show.9004 ¶21

Show up. You’re always on. Show up.9004 ¶22

You’re always choosing, aware or unaware—just catch yourself, monitor your own inner conversations for a time. This is not about judgment or guilt trips or any of that; it’s information that you’re bonding with so you can decide to follow through or break the bond. Mindsets—yes, your own mindsets, not where you got them, not how you came by them, but what they are. You can unset the mindsets with new ideas, new attitudes, new assumptions. It’s not about fighting anything. It’s about having new assumptions, new moods. You must choose to be the new man, no more the old man. I know he doesn’t go away easily, but forgive yourself time and time again because you keep slipping back into the old man. It’s called double‑mindedness, lazy‑mindedness. You go through this before you actually settle down.9004 ¶23

Yes, you’re the one deciding. It’s your decision. Where are you going? What are you doing? All in a mind, all in imagination.9004 ¶24

If you’re not deciding, then you’re vulnerable to being chosen for. I mean, really, it’s as simple as that. I didn’t say it was easy, but it is simple and powerful. The Bible has it, son: all I have is yours, all. The question about eternal life—well, not eternal—what would having all mean or matter? The Bible is a code; it’s written in symbology. You can read it as secular history and you’ll never really get the essence of the message. It’s divine history; it’s not what has happened. It’s what is happening right here, right now.9004 ¶25

No one can deliver out of God’s hands. Discover thinking focused, directed through choice. I am that—your ideal, your highest. You can turn thoughts into matter. What do I call mind‑over‑matter? I call it body. We all have one. Whatever shape is sin, you have a valid say. You’re given it. Choose this day. Why not? Whatsoever is the potential, so watch it well. Thoughts become things. It is our everydayness, our thoughts.9004 ¶26

I’m here to share information to deliver to you your message. I’m not here to impress you, I’m not here to prove anything to you. It’s up to you to convince yourself, to impress yourself so that you’ll express what you desire. Your say is valid beyond natural man‑mind reasoning because of your spirit.9004 ¶27

Feel after Him and you’ll find Him.9004 ¶28

Good evening and welcome to the Metaphysical Art Theatre. My name is Neville and tonight the Metaphysical Art Theatre is presenting this drama, man, this play of humanity, as I said, which we're all involved in in varying degrees of intensity and intent.9003 ¶1

And as I heard it so many times over the years, to be or not to be, that is the question. And I said, “Oh yes, oh yes,” every time I heard that. But did I actually discern the message, the ramifications, the modifications, the changes that I could make in my life, much more pleasurable, if I would just understand a simple statement as to be or not to be, to do it or don’t do it, a desired change in your thinking and feeling? It seems so difficult for people to do so, because most feel that they're not prepared, they're not worthy, and, well, being prepared is actually an effort to know before you’ll do, rather than just acting in faith. Well, before you actually step out, before you actually act, you feel that you need to know all the ramifications in advance, and you’re actually given so, but the idea is that you are to enact in imagination in the theater of mind. I am that, claiming better than the best you’ve yet known. Your dream, your mission, your goal. The Bible, the Holy Bible, is to know that you know where you’re going and to show you that there is, you can, whatsoever, has already been provided. And all you’re being really told to do is just that: to ask. Ask. You receive not because you ask not or you’re asking a mess. Yes, there is more to it than that. But it’s you showing up. You are receiving, and whatever you are experiencing is what you already have imagined, what you have thought of. You have the evidence. If you just step out in faith and believe beyond what the senses are telling you, imaginal activity, dreaming the dream, we’re told to do this. Imagining creates the real in this drama, man. Well, your action in the theater of mind, imagining created the drama, man, and it is, yes, made he, them—man, male, female—made he man, and it is our imaginal activity that we’re experiencing. He gave man the power to imagine in his imagination. That’s God Himself. Man’s wonderful human imagination is God Himself.9003 ¶2

Well, what is it that we’re doing? We’re dressing our world, and we’re told, “Dress your world. And you’re given the word to do so, and you have permission, you have authority to do so. But what are you doing? Dressing your world how?9003 ¶3

Well, games that have empty victories the next day. If that’s what has your attention, why not invest yourself in yourself, for yourself, for your winning?9003 ¶4

And if that sounds like me, me, me stuff, okay, but listen to this. You have a valid say, and you’re about to say your valid say. And your world of experiencing is exactly that, the result of what you’re saying with your valid say.9003 ¶5

Well, whether you’re aware or not, the idea is to be aware. It’s still creative. Yes, it’s still creative. If you’re suspicious or not suspicious as you think you are, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, so does he, so hath he.9003 ¶6

If you want a place to start, start right there. Well, if you want to see better of what’s happening in your world, in the physical, then you can do so in the mental, in the imagination, in the theater of mind. That’s where it is we do our work, in our world of experiencing. Well, just look at what it is that you have been thinking, feeling about, and you can see so just by looking at your everydayness, because it is the reflection of as within, so without.9003 ¶7

Is it lovely? Is it a good report? And if not, why not?9003 ¶8

Look, as you think you are, you do, you have, you be, that’s the story. The situations, the ramifications, the trade‑offs, they’re with you. All the help you need is nearer than hands and feet, you’re told. Yeah, all the help that you need.9003 ¶9

Look, if you’re arguing with someone in memory of bad feelings about anything that’s going on out there, set it all aside. I prefer you just drop it all together, but for the moment, set it aside. No one’s going to take it. It’ll be there when you return from your meditation. Go into the silence. In other words, be still and know that “I am God” is the message. And I know you’ve heard enough in any one of these half‑hour sessions. Well, of the eight that are on CDs, tapes, DVDs, any one of these talks will start you in remembering.9003 ¶10

Yes. Well, open and quicken. Yes, you can open a whole package if you’ll just allow yourself to move in and to think from. I mean, just go back and run through everything you said.9003 ¶11

What has your attention? And pay attention, because that’s what you do. You may even say, “Wow, I believe that,” but what you’re really saying is that you heard something worthy of your attention, so pay attention—really pay attention. Well, Neville tells us our attention is the coin of heaven. I mean, you may not have believed it at the moment, but if it sounded like something that’s worthy of your attention, then persevere. Do so for a time. Look, you can be set free almost immediately if you’re really wholehearted about your search. Seek and you shall find. I know about the lazy‑mindedness, the double‑mindedness.9003 ¶12

I’ve suffered that for many years. Well, my being involved in this, my being involved in that—so much, so many times—it was really not leading me where I wanted to go. And in private interviews, those who will say, so many times, and many of the times, they don’t even— they’re not really even hearing themselves, they’re denying themselves. And are we not told that all denial is self‑denial? Yes, the Bible. Look, if there’s anything denying you, it’s you denying you because you, a long time ago, in an old scenario, denied yourself. Yeah, but it’ll happen again down the line. See, being in the now, in imagination, to the best that you can imagine at the moment, and expand and expand and expand on that, and be persistent, be consistent to do so. Yeah, really revel in the idea, claiming, “Well, if you’ll keep doing so. Yeah. Your contemplation will lead to meditation, and meditation will lead to “I am that I am. And once you make the claim, see, well, into your new drama, the new man, no more the old man. You have to really feel it because feeling is the secret. Neville Goddard wrote a book, *Feeling Is the Secret*.9003 ¶13

And I can tell you that that opened my eyes and my heart and my mind, visions of the world that I had never even considered before. Visions of the gifts, the gifts that we were all given, already given, even before the world was. Yes, given, already given. Well, for those who are made in His image—and that’s all of us, male, female, matey, them, man—so man, every child born of woman has the gifts, but to recognize the gifts you have to be still and know that “I am God. The gifts of mind and speech given for you to choose this day better than the best, to be transformed by the renewing of mind. All things are possible to those who believe, we’re told.9003 ¶14

Feel after Him and you’ll find Him. You doing, being, having, your heart’s desire. If that’s what you’re really focused on, if that’s what you’re really feeling after, and if you’ll just do so consistently, persistently for a time, just set a time aside every day to do so. It’s a worthwhile investment, I assure you. Beneficial beyond anything you can imagine at the moment, I assure you.9003 ¶15

Well, some say teacher, some say preacher, but actually we’re all preachers. We’re all teachers, preaching, teaching something. Every time you speak to another human being, you either help them or you help drive them crazy.9003 ¶16

Yeah, that was a quote from S. I. Hayakawa. Every time you speak to another human being, you either help them or you help drive them crazy. Well, I found this to be really true. Yes. Well, yeah, even what you’re saying to yourself also, yes.9003 ¶17

Well, you hear and you’re speaking to yourself even if it’s nothing audible if you will just invest the time to go beyond natural man, mind reasoning and the senses, and you’re given to do so. Oh, it’s well documented that it’s within your ability. Actually, it isn’t even about ability.9003 ¶18

It’s your willingness. You’re given to do so every day. Choose this day. Focusing.9003 ¶19

Yes, focusing the force, the energy. Am I talking about the force? Actually, it’s not a force.9003 ¶20

It is an energy that needs to be directed into “choose this day. And that is what you’re doing, willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unknowingly. You’re directing energy into your world of experiencing, as within, so without. That’s the drama, man, the play of humanity for all of us. As within, so without. Just start right there. Well, you’re equating the force with love and love needs no force. Love can be a force, but it need not be. There’s only God. And absolute love loves absolutely. That is the study of Scripture. If you don’t come away with that, then you missed it. The story is, “Son, all I have is yours. He gave Himself to you completely.9003 ¶21

Yes, to awaken to “I am that I am. Always better than the best. See, the grand “I am,” that’s consciousness of being. That’s God. Consciousness of being something. That’s man, the drama, the play of humanity, what I’m doing, this play of humanity. But that isn’t who you are. That’s merely what you’re doing—in, through, and of the one power.9003 ¶22

Would you now take control to actually direct your thinking and feeling? Which is how you are directing the power through your world of experiencing in your everydayness. And the subconscious mind is the producer.9003 ¶23

No, no, it’s not here to debate anything or take issue with you. No. No, no, it’s not here in any way to change what you’re thinking, feeling about, but only to produce it.9003 ¶24

Well, you’re warned many times to be aware—be aware of what it is you believe—because believing is receiving, and that’s rather good or otherwise, and if you believe it’s a rotten place to live, well, then that’s exactly what it will be for you. I’m right—it’s to live even if it isn’t for everyone else around you. Look, there are those who live in places that we here in the United States would consider just utterly unacceptable. But yet there are happy people there.9003 ¶25

And I said that, and some people said, “Well, that’s because they don’t know anything. Yes, in a sense you’re right. Because there is so much that they don’t know, but then there’s so much that we don’t know either. Well, we’re totally unaware of it. Well, the more we do know, the better our lives will be, I assure you.9003 ¶26

Operating from wrong attitudes, and I do know about that first person, I can assure you. But I fought against the whole idea of having to change, even though I was agreeing that the changes would be beneficial, it would be logical. Yes, it's just ego. Man's ego wanting to run the show. And anytime ego thinks you're going to start thinking about something more than just natural man‑mind reasoning, you know, the ongoing drama, well, he'll jump up and down and cause all kinds of ruckus in your life to change your mind back. If you're not getting the message, it's an easy mark for him. But if you're getting the message, you see, then ego will fear losing control. And to him, that's unacceptable.9002 ¶1

And it's about sharing an attitude that you have a valid say. You're about saying your valid say. You're the one given to choose, and whatsoever is what we were given to choose from as a potential.9002 ¶2

No, no, this is not about guilt trips or any nonsense like that. This is not thinking about punishment. The God that they believe created all things, the God who is represented as absolute love, loves absolutely, would need to punish anyone for anything.9002 ¶3

At some point, you'll understand, I'm right here with you, with you, here, now. God is telling you. Jesus is telling you. I and my Father are one, even as you and I are one, right here, right now.9002 ¶4

This is so. But if you don't agree with this, then you're just denying yourself. You want to take your chances? That's allowed too. Well, whatsoever also includes you being foolish if you desired to do so. You're not being denied anything. What you're being told is go for the better, always for the better, feel after Him and you'll find Him, you doing, being the better.9002 ¶5

Oh, what about the prodigal son? He was out squandering his inheritance and wound up sleeping and eating with the pigs. Get up and go home. Go home to your father; even a slave in your father's house would be much better off than here eating with the pigs. You would be fed and cared for, and as he was on his way home with the idea that if I could just get a place to eat and sleep, how wonderful that would be, then yes, and here's his father… I did, if I could just get a place to eat and sleep, how wonderful that would be. Then, yes, his father ran out toward him with a robe and a ring and threw a great party for him.9002 ¶6

And that's really the story. My son has come home. You have turned to me. I'll turn to you. That's God's promise.9002 ¶7

That's right here, right now. No, we're not talking about something that happened 2,000 years ago. This is divine history. This is talking about our everydayness.9002 ¶8

And someone will say, "Well, you don't understand. Actually, yes, I do, to a greater degree than I ever have before. Not because I figured anything out, but I do know, and I know because of the simple act I ask. I was told to ask, believing is receiving.9002 ¶9

And for years, I don't know why I didn't. I had no real justification not to. I was waiting, and I don't even know what I was waiting for. I was looking for— I didn't even know what I was looking for. I really didn't know what I was waiting for. I was looking for— I didn't even know what I was looking for. I really didn't know what I wanted.9002 ¶10

Do you? Look, I'm laying this on the line because I want you to understand that everybody goes through this in varying degrees of intensity and intent. And whatever it is you're claiming as an excuse not to come forward in your own behalf, to stand and see the victory, to know first person— well, if you have an excuse, you'll use it. You have to lay it down. You have to let it go. Let go and let God. And however justified you feel that you can defend it, let it go. Look, if it's not serving you, let it go. And that's what we're told: let go and let God.9002 ¶11

And you say, well, that sounds kind of strange. Why is that? Why is that strange?9002 ¶12

Oh, you're trying to explain to me you can't change what you believe? What nonsense. Really think about it. You really believe that you can't change what you believe?9002 ¶13

Well, then you're probably still acting like a two‑year‑old. Let's say you're a six‑year‑old and you're growing up as a little boy. Do you know and think the way you did then? No. You thought like a six‑year‑old.9002 ¶14

And that's what it is we're saying. When I was a child, I spoke as a child. And now that I am a man, an adult, I speak as an adult. Yes. Change your mind. Change your world. Well, you're changing what you believe. And that, well, you say, yeah, really, it's your life. Start living it like you really mean it. I mean, why would you stop believing better than the best? Look, you're not being denied anything. You're told, asking, believing is receiving.9002 ¶15

And you can test this for yourself. It doesn't cost you anything. You don't have to go anywhere. No one needs to know what you're thinking about.9002 ¶16

But they will eventually see the results. And by then, you'll probably be sharing the message. We're told, do a thing and you shall have the power. Do you believe God? Do you believe God's promise? Well, you're saying, yes, I believe in God. Well, you see, that really wasn't a question. The question was, do you believe God's promises?9002 ¶17

And what is it I'm trying to say? I thought it was very plain. There it is.9002 ¶18

Well, if you don't understand the question, I ask you, do you believe God? And you're saying yes. But then on the other hand, you're telling me that you're suffering this and suffering that. Something here then is amiss. You're saying, well, God's not hearing my prayers. Oh, He hears, yes, and you're being answered in what you're receiving. No, He knows exactly what you've asked for, because if there's a mistake made, I don't believe God made the mistake.9002 ¶19

Well, until you agree to turn within, and actually feel after the better you're looking for, you won't know it. You want to just explore. Well, tell everyone if you know.9002 ¶20

But how disappointed are you really going to be? Well, yeah, you're right. They're going to think you're nuts around the bend, even by some of those closest to me. And, yes, I have been warned many times not to say things the way I say things because they're going to think you're crazy.9002 ¶21

Well, think whatever you will. Believe whatever you'll want to believe. It's your choice. Choose this day. And the only crazy thing that I did was believing that I could convince somebody else. You don't convince somebody else. It's information. Yes, you give them the information. My work isn't to convince you of anything. It is to deliver the message, the information that your say is a valid say. I'm sharing with you your message, our message, and that's what it is that I'm doing, delivering to you your own message. As to whether you follow through or not, well, that's your business. That's your choice. You left yourself a remembrance, sir, and you're coded to know when you hear what's worthy of your attention. What it is you're to remember? Worthy of your attention. What it is you're to remember.9002 ¶22

Well, if you're hearing and understanding, then the hunger has come upon you, first person. Don't turn away. As my teacher had said so often, when you get the message, open and quicken. Quickly. If you hear something you feel is worthy of your attention, hop on. Follow through. Stay on it. Stay with it.9002 ¶23

See, when you start getting the benefits, you'll be encouraged to greater and greater degree. To feel after. Seek and you shall find. Look, we're explorers. Explore the metaphysical art theater. You said, well, that's kind of like acting. But that's what we are. We're all actors. Are we not told from Shakespeare, all actors, men, women, all actors, and each man plays many parts? That's not about gender.9002 ¶24

Attitude, awareness, and imaginational control. That's what it's all about.9002 ¶25

Well, that's what you're really looking for, and it is right with you. Well, it's what has your attention has your life. Your attention, as my teacher had said so often, is the coin of heaven. How are you investing your attention? What are you paying attention to? Because what you're paying attention to has your life.9002 ¶26

Don't spend it. Invest your intention. Invest your time. Invest your energy. Invest your feeling after. Invest in patience in yourself to sit in the silence and feel after your ideal, your dream, your mission. It's the place where you do your work is in the theater of mind, in the mind of imagination. What are you doing there? Check it out.9002 ¶27

Well, be a prospector of the mind. The gold, the diamonds, the precious gems, they're all there in abundance. All the help you need is nearer than hands and feet, you're told, for whatever success you're looking for. It is with you. And you're saying, well, what about right here and right now? Well, in the beginning, God; in the end, God. And in between is the drama man, the play of humanity for all of us. And from that, man, the play of humanity for all of us. And from that, we're called one by one to enter in.9002 ¶28

Well, you're given— choose this day. If yesterday was okay, fine, well, then improve on it. If yesterday wasn't fine, well, then choose anew today.9002 ¶29

Yeah, why tell you to do so if you can't do it? I mean, what would you be waiting to do? Waiting for what? How can you be blamed for doing something wrong unless you could have done it right? Well, that's why there's forgiveness, so that now you can do in accordance with your dream, of health, wealth, relationships. What are you looking for? Feel after Him, you, doing, being.9002 ¶30

Well, the nonsense, you just have to let it go. We're told, blessed is the man that does not condemn himself for that which he has allowed. See, has allowed. Yes.9002 ¶31

No, no, it's not about continuing. No, it's not about not enjoying life. You can enjoy life to the nth degree.9002 ¶32

Nothing's being withheld. Oh, I know what you're saying. You're saying you're not an actor. You've done since you were just a small child— has been you acting as though you could until you could. Remember? Well, then you did it till you can do it even better. Why stop? There's no limit.9002 ¶33

I mean, yeah, why neglect a working system? And it's working. And you are working the system.9002 ¶34

And the difference is that you're aware or you're unaware. You understand? Conscious or unconscious, you're using imagination. Is it leading you where you want to go? As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, so does he, so hath he. That's been the story for thousands of years. That that is your message. I mean, why wouldn't you at least consider better than the best and do so consistently, persistently?9002 ¶35

You want simple, I want it simple. And there it is. I didn't say it was easy. I said it was simple. Just show up.9002 ¶36

No, no, you don't have to go anywhere. You're told, go in a closet, close the door, and when you're alone, speak to your Father which is in heaven. If you can speak to your Father which is in heaven when you're alone, there it is.9002 ¶37

Just as Jesus had told us, he was telling you straight, I and my Father are one, even as you and I are one. One. One.9002 ¶38

Yes, feel after Him and you'll find Him. What are you feeling after in your imaginal activity? Well, what is it that you see yourself doing in the theater of mind? In imagination. Is what you're doing lovely and of good report? Well, expand and expand and expand on it. Look, if it's a negative, stop it. If you don't want to experience it in your world, then don't do that because it's just as creative. You're on it all the time. Yes, it is a potential of whatsoever. You can sit and whine and cry over negative scenarios, things that have happened to you in the past or what might happen to you in the past, or what might happen to you in the future that you're afraid of. But that's part of the program also, whatsoever.9002 ¶39

Yes, that's why it's called the drama man, the play of humanity, because we're told that it's good and very good. And if that's not what we're experiencing, you see, well, then that's we're denying ourselves. Yes, we're denying ourselves.9002 ¶40

Oh, I've been told quite frankly many times I shouldn't say things the way I say things.9002 ¶41

To avoid doing the very thing that I claimed was better, that I desired. Oh, starting is difficult, yes. Well, because you're acting in faith and have no memory to support the new man. We're told to be in the world, but not to be of the world. Well, mass‑mind reasoning is based upon fear. Generally, I mean, we're being encouraged to change your mind, change your world, to set the world of everydayness aside for a time—for a time of contemplation, a time of meditation. I mean simply because looking for desired change requires an investment in self.9001 ¶1

We're told very plainly to enter the closet, close the door, and when you're alone, persistently as you can, convince yourself. Someone said, “I have tried and tried and failed. Well, if you haven't stopped, you haven't failed. It's only when you quit. I mean, just keep reminding yourself, nothing changes until you change. There's nothing transforming in death. Yes, yes, I do understand. Yes, I do understand how difficult it is to even consider a change of mind—being committed to this and being committed to that, and responsible for this and responsible for that. I understand that. Busy, busy, busy. It can just seem so overwhelming to the point that you seem to have no time for yourself to relax. But you can. If you once pass through the portal, the open door, in mind, in imagination, your confidence for a better life will soar, because it's with you. Right now it is with you. And someone asked, “Is there a special code? The answer to that is yes; there is a code: “Be still and know that I am God. Yes, be still and know that I am God.9001 ¶2

That's an invitation you turn to; I'll turn to you. Without question, we are given to know. And the question that you should ask, that's your duty to know. Just turn to the Word.9001 ¶3

Well, the Word is with God, the Word is with you, and the Word is God. What are you doing with the Word?9001 ¶4

We're told that worshiping God is using His gifts. Yes, worshiping God is using His gifts. Yes, we're being told the wisdom of worshiping God is awakening, awakening to what has already been a given. You have the gifts already given. Well, as I said, worshiping God is using His gifts. And you have them.9001 ¶5

Feeling after to recognize, seek, and you shall find. Shall find. Feel after Him and you shall find Him. Shall find.9001 ¶6

You doing, being, having your heart's desire, hopefully. Yeah, well, it's claimed that we're praying ceaselessly and that all prayer is answered. Every word must be accounted for. Every word. Every word is to be accounted for.9001 ¶7

Make up your life, your everydayness. Look, if you feel denied, you're the one denying yourself, because we're told that all denial is self‑denial. The question is, do you know how it is that you're praying? Well, are you truly aware of what it is you're asking? As our asking is feeling to be “I am,” that—what do you feel yourself to be? Someone there said, “Well, you hit it right on. I don't feel worthy. Well, the answer here is grace. It's not about worthiness; it's about willingness. None are worthy. You were told being willing makes you worthy in the eyes of God.9001 ¶8

Change your mind, change your world. Consider: God's play of humanity is emotion, movement out from you, me, all of us. Yes, really feeling it when you're listening. Feel it many times. Listen many times because you may just remember it. If you remember it, you'll probably do it—just remembering what's being said, what you have found agreement with in your own heart. And once you start seeing the benefits of doing so, you'll do so eagerly, moving right along, attitude awareness, imaginational control.9001 ¶9

That's what everyone is looking for. You may call it all sorts of different names. You may want many things. And it's the asking, claiming. Well, but you're saying, “I don't have the condition I want. I don't have the situation. You are what you are because of what you think you are, and the story of Job—that which I have feared has come upon me—is really everyone's story. We're being told that fear is the opposite of faith; it is self‑denial. You use the same energy for desire change that you're now using. Well, challenging yourself for information—that's the portal to new life, to a new lifestyle: health, wealth, happiness, relationships. What is it that you're looking for? You know, we're told that we receive not because we ask not, or that we're asking amiss. Yes, asking amiss, asking for what you do.9001 ¶10

Who does that? Most of the world. Well, it's just changing your self‑talk. A new attitude. Well, attitude, awareness, and imaginational control. That is how it works. Yes. Well, just read what the wise man has said down through the ages. That it is our attitudes, our own attitudes. Attitude, awareness, and imaginational control, as I keep telling you, is the same.9001 ¶11

It's not how you came to have the attitude you got. It's not about fault. It's not about blame. You have a valid say, and you're saying your valid say.9001 ¶12

We were all conditioned to the ongoing drama upon entering in, being born. But there does come a time when you start acting in choosing for yourself, first person. When you begin to examine the I do's, attitudes, assumptions, moods, suggestions, and you're suggesting to yourself subtly all the time, see if they're valid.9001 ¶13

See if it's where you want to go. I mean, if it's leading you where you want to go, fine. Follow through. I mean, you've had enough experiences to see that it is change your mind, change your world. And I know the difficulty in doing so. Well, it's just about being a better director—a better director of our self‑talk.9001 ¶14

Look, I know we're not paying attention all the time. I'm really aware of that, but yet we're always on. Yeah, but we're also being made aware that as you think, you are.9001 ¶15

Really consider this. More is better. More aware is better. More in control is better.9001 ¶16

To take charge. I mean, really feel what it is that's being said. You're on all the time, and we're told that every word is taken in a culmination to make up your everydayness. Every word must be accounted for. Every word.9001 ¶17

I really can't express this enough, that your say is a valid say, and you're about saying your valid say, even if you're inwardly or outwardly. It's that self‑talk. Well, it's either lifting you up or crash.9001 ¶18

I mean, as I said, every word must be accounted for—even the nonsense, yes, good, bad, or indifferent; it is all creative. Every word is creative. She says that's insane. Well, insane is not to just check it out for yourself. I'm not asking you to join anything. I don't have anything to join; you have everything you need to do, to know, to have, to change, to discern the message, make up your own mind. This is good, worthy to follow through on or not. Look, it's what we're all seeking. I call it attitude awareness and imaginational control. And attitude awareness because when I really started monitoring my own self‑talk, yeah, I discovered it right there—attitudes I didn't realize I was operating from. Well, that wasn't really quite true. Sometimes I had a tinge about what I was imagining to drop it. Yes, imagining creates the real in this drama, man. Don't try to fool yourself.9001 ¶19

Well, it's as you think you are. It's as simple as that. Keep it that simple; you'll remember it. Yes, I understand.9001 ¶20

Someone asked a friend if I was depressed. He seems never to have company, and he spends so much of his time alone. Well, look, after giving these talks for 40 years, I stopped having company except for just friends. Yes, well, no—I’m not depressed, and no, I don’t spend time alone; I invest in time alone.9001 ¶21

Yes, and so will you once you see the portal, once you find the portal, once you enter the door, you'll understand that your say is a valid say. It's always open; it's in your own mind. And when you enter in imagination, as you begin to feel after dreaming the dream—better than the best—consider you can buy all the books promising you success and you choosing by desire. But if you're looking for desired change in what they are telling you, it's generally true, at least the essence of the message, but consider its information. See, they can encourage you. The one thing that they cannot do is do it for you; that's what you must do. It is you who must feel after to understand. Look at your show—show up. I mean, you're always on; show up, you're always choosing, aware or unaware. Just catch yourself. Monitor your own inner conversations for a time. This is not about judgment or guilt trips or none of that. It's information that you're bonding with. What? So you can decide to follow through or break the bond.9001 ¶22

Mindsets—yes, your own mindset, not where you got them, not how you came by them, but what they are. Yes, well you can unset the mindsets with new ideas, new attitudes, new assumptions. No, it's not about fighting anything; it's about having new assumptions, new moods. You must choose to be the new man, no more the old man.9001 ¶23

And I know he doesn't go away easily, but forgive yourself time and time again because you keep slipping back into the old man. It's called double‑mindedness. Lazy‑mindedness. You go through this before you actually settle down. Yeah. Yes.9001 ¶24

Yes, but you're the one deciding. It's your decision. Where are you going? What are you doing? All in a mind. All in imagination.9001 ¶25

Well, if you're not deciding, then you're vulnerable to be chosen for. I mean, really, it's as simple as that. I didn't say it was easy, but it is simple and powerful.9001 ¶26

I mean, the Bible has it. Son, all I have is yours. All.9001 ¶27

And the question about eternal life—well, not eternal—what would having all mean or matter? The Bible is a code; it's written in symbology. You can read it as secular history and you'll never really get the essence of the message. It's divine history; it's not what has happened. It's what is happening right here, right now.9001 ¶28

No one can deliver out of God's hands. Discover thinking, focused, directed through choice. I am that—your ideal, your highest. Ideal, your highest. You can turn thoughts into matter. Yes. And what do I call mind‑over‑matter idea? I call it body. We all have one. Whatever shape is sin, you have a valid say. You're given. Choose this day. Why not?9001 ¶29

Well, whatsoever is the potential, so watch it. Well, thoughts become things. I mean, it is our everydayness, our thoughts. I mean, here I'm here to share information to deliver to you your message.9001 ¶30

I'm not here to impress you. I'm not here to impress you. I'm not here to prove anything to you.9001 ¶31

It's up to you to convince yourself, to impress yourself so that you'll express what you desire. Your say is valid beyond natural man‑mind reasoning because your spirit. Feel after Him and you'll find Him.9001 ¶32