How To Really Pray - Neville Goddard

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The whole of life will just be a piece of mundo kanga and the number of states of consciousness

from which the individual can think and view the world and the means of satisfying their

hunger.

I say this because your state of consciousness is always being externalized.

If you know how to move from your present state if you dislike it, if you're the state

that you would like to externalize, then you have the secret.

That is what I will tempt tonight to tell you.

For the only states of consciousness pushed out everything in this world and all are

contained within the individual.

Now in the Bible we speak of prayer and prayer to the world means begging but not in the

Bible.

It's Thanksgiving, it's pray, it's not petition.

We speak in the Bible of repentance.

The world thinks that it means to regret, to be remorseful.

That's not what the Bible teaches.

Prayer and repentance are almost synonymous terms.

We are told to bear fruit that befits repentance.

Then this state of the central character of the Scripture, you and your disciple eat

and drink with sinless and he replied, I have not come to call the righteous but sinless

to repentance.

Think the righteous alone, they are so self-satisfied, they are like themselves, so leave them

alone.

The word sin has nothing to do with breaking any moral code.

The word sin means to miss the mark, that's what it means.

You have a goal in life and you have an achievement, well then you are sitting.

You may have a billion dollars and still a hungry for another, well then if you don't

have the other, you are sitting.

You may keep all the so-called code to the world, imposed upon you by the priesthood to

the world.

That would mean nothing, far as the scriptures go, to repent is simply a radical change of

attitude.

That is what repentance means, or if I radically change my attitude towards life, I would

then view the world and see the world from that change of attitude and that change is

a change of consciousness and that change will be externalized in my world.

Now repenting is that once man's responsibility and a gift of God, that is to show you what

I mean by it, is it I and my father are one.

Yet I go to my father, for my father is greater than I, where one yet my father is greater

than I, so I go to my father.

How do we arrive at this strange peculiar state and how does it mean?

In the office of this sin, I am not inferior to my essential being the centre, but only

in the office of this sin, I am restricted and must live by faith, faith in what, faith

in the centre is myself, the father, for I and my father are one, but when I am sent into

this world to experience death and to experience the restriction of man, I am seemingly inferior

to myself the centre.

So when I repent, I go to this centre, I first do what I have to do, so I say repentance

is that once I responsibility of man and a gift from God, whether what is my responsibility,

I want to change my world.

So then I ask myself, what would I see if it would change?

How would I see the world?

If my world was exactly as I wanted to be, how do I, how would I see it?

Well then see it, if my mind's eye conjures seeing which would imply that it is true, live

as though it would true, in my mind's eye, I know I can't make it so, but in the depth

of my own being, the father, he has the power to make it so.

So now I go to my father, how do I go to my father?

My first of all do what I am called upon to do, I an actor seen in crying the fulfillment

of my dream, and then I turn it over completely in the thanksgiving to him.

It is myself, my essential being, but it transcends my reasoning mind.

I do not know on this level how it can be done, but I do know that if I have faith in him,

which is my own self, it will be done in my world.

So we are told in scripture, without faith it is impossible to preach it.

And those who were drawn near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those

who seek it.

I must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek it.

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, what is faith?

The same chapter in Hebrews defines faith for us.

Faith is the assurance of things not seen.

The evidence of things hoped for by faith we understand that the very worlds were created

by the Word of God.

So that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.

Well, in my world it hasn't yet appeared.

I say it all is contained within my imagination.

So I will enact the scene which would imply that it is real.

And then within myself I give thanks.

Now they are told, they are most wonderful prayer ever uttered.

You find in the book of John the 11th chapter, he stands at the gate of death and he raises

eyes and says, thank you Father, that thou hast heard me.

I knew that you always hearing, well I can't deny that the depth of my own being is hearing

what I am doing, what I am inwardly saying.

So I can truly say, Father, thank you, he certainly heard what I said, well is it now

supported by some statement of Scripture?

Yes, again in John but now in his letter, the first letter.

And in this he says, if we believe that he hears in whatever we ask of him, we know that

we have already obtained the request made of him.

If I can simply assume that I am the man that I would like to be, but certainly the depth

of my own being has seen that assumption.

He has heard that assumption, well now can I actually believe that that's all I need

you, well I have to confess that I can't do it on this level.

I am not wise enough on this level to devise the means necessary to externalize what I

have assumed that I am.

Well have you proved it, Neville?

Unnumbered time.

Unnumbered time when I was completely shut out on certain areas, in prison as it were,

not in the federal prison but a state of imprisonment to find yourself on an island where you

enjoyed four months of it, almost five months.

But you have a commitment in America and you've got to get back and then to be told that

there is no possibility of return until the very earliest September and that would be

the very earliest and your commitment is in Milwaukee in the first week of May.

What are you going to do then?

No possibility, no ships are taking the passengers and that list runs into thousands waiting all

to be in these, from Trinidad all the way up, all waiting.

And you are in the island of Barbados without making any provision for your return to America

when you sail for Barbados five months before.

So what did I do?

I simply sat in a chair in my hotel room and I assumed I was on a little tender, moving

against the boat.

Well that was before the days of a deep water harbour, now we have a deep water harbour.

But then you took a small boat off to the ship waiting maybe a half mile to sea.

And then you walked up a gang plan.

So I simply stepped up on the gang plan and walked up that gang plan in my mind's eye.

With my mind wandered, which indeed I brought it right back to that first step and walked

up again.

It wandered before I got to the top, I brought it back again and I craved it as you would

a horse.

The mind is an unruly animal, so I crained it and I walked up step after step, but I got

to the top, I turned around and put my imaginary hands on the rail.

And I could smell the salt of the sea in the air.

I looked back with nostalgia at the little island of Barbados, a mixed emotion.

I am happy that I'm sailing for America and sad that I'm leaving behind a very large

wonderful family of mine.

And then in that mood I simply dropped off for a moment in sleep, just a little nap.

The next day I was called by the very company who said that we have no possibility of getting

you out of here before at the very earlier September and said there was a cancellation

this day in America and they offered me in spite of the list of over a thousand people

waiting.

It's not my concern why she or he or it can't do the passage.

My prayer was answered.

I did what I was called upon to do for repentance is a radical change of attitude.

He said you can't get out, well I am out.

I'm on a boat and the boat is headed towards New York City.

That's all I wanted to do.

So I did my responsibility and the second part of repentance is a gift from God.

God has the way of externalizing it.

What caused the woman or the man or something to cancel the thing I was told after she was

afraid.

She was afraid but found reason not explained to make the trip.

And so one passage was opened and I got that one room because there are only two beds

in it and my little girl was only three years old.

She could sleep with her mother and I could climb up one flight and sleep on the upper

bunk and then take my 11 days back to New York City.

I did what I was called upon to do as my responsibility to enact a scene which would imply the fulfillment

of my desire and then surrender completely to my father for he has the power to externalize

it.

I do not know how to do it on this level.

I haven't a wisdom.

I haven't anything on this level to do it.

So my faith is faith in my father, faith in his power to externalize what I have done

or in imagination.

So for me that is prayer.

That is repentance.

I didn't sit down and felt for one moment that I had done something that was wrong and

that's why I couldn't get out.

No sense of repentance, like remorse as the world teaches, that's not repentance.

Repentance is simply a radical change of attitude.

That's what the word means.

But radical, right down to the root and you change your attitude.

If I change my attitude, I've changed my state of consciousness and because all states

of consciousness are being externalized in the world, then that state will externalize

itself in my world in a way I do not know or we are told my ways are not your ways.

My ways are past finding out.

So without faith you cannot please God, we are told.

If I would come to him, I must first believe that he exists and that he rewards those

who seek him.

Well, I seek him in projecting Pauline, that which I desire in this world.

So that's what I mean by prayer.

Prayer is the attempted communion with God, that's what prayer is.

As we are told in the fourth term, the fourth verse, commune with your own heart on your

bed and then be silent.

Commune with whom I do not need the mediation of any priest, any rabbi or any heavenly

being.

I'm communing with myself.

The depth of my own being is God the Father.

That's my essential being and he is one with the surface mind called Neville and in the

capacity of the office of the saint called Neville, I am inferior to myself the sender.

But the sender and the saint are one, you and God the Father are one.

But in the office of the saint, you are like an ambassador.

You do not speak with the same authority of the one who sent you to represent him.

So I represent myself in the world of death.

But the sender is greater than I and yet I and you are one.

This is what I get from Scripture and this is what I put into practice.

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