# Neville Goddard Teach Us To Pray (with discussion)

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[00:02] Welcome to the Reality Revolution, I'm your host Brian Scott.
[00:08] Today we're gonna read a beautiful lecture by Neville Goddard called Teach Us to Pray, delivered on November 26th, 1965.
[00:20] I've had three lectures so far with Neville Goddard talking about praying, and they've all been wonderful.
[00:28] His book Prayer: The Art of Believing is wonderful, and The Secret of Praying is one of the most popular lectures on my channel, and then The Answered Prayer.
[00:43] And I really would recommend listening to all of them.
[00:47] I think that Neville Goddard is the foremost expert in how to pray and has proven it in so many examples where he is saying, don't take my word for it, I'm going to tell you how to do it, and if you pray like this, it will work.
[01:06] I think that's part of the reason that book and that episode are so popular.
[01:11] Because we are praying wrong.
[01:14] And right now it feels to me personally, in my own experience, I've been doing a lot of praying for people, people that are sick or struggling.
[01:23] I've been doing a lot of praying, people in my family, and I have a question: am I doing this right?
[01:31] We all do that.
[01:32] The more I read Neville Goddard, the less I question myself on how to properly pray.
[01:39] So I was very excited to see another lecture on how to pray called "Teach Us to Pray."
[01:50] Tonight it is "Teach Us to Pray."
[01:54] You'll find this the most practical evening.
[01:59] We're told he was praying in a certain place, but when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord."
[02:06] Teach us to pray, then he tells a story.
[02:10] He told them a parable to the effect that we ought always to pray and not lose heart.
[02:17] Then he tells the parable: in a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man.
[02:24] And in that city there was a widow who came to him constantly and said to him, "Vindicate me against my adversaries."
[02:33] And although he did not fear God nor regard man, he said to himself, "I will vindicate her because she comes constantly and she bothers me, and by her continual coming she'll wear me out."
[02:47] Luke 18:3.
[02:51] So we see in this parable the central jet of truth is persistency.
[02:54] Anyone can learn a prayer, but it won't be effective.
[02:59] You can learn all the prayers in the world, and they will not in any way produce the result you seek.
[03:07] Effective prayer in the real sense is an art.
[03:11] And to learn an art always requires a careful method and persistent practice.
[03:18] So tonight we will show you what one lady — she isn't here tonight — but she gave me a series of stories based upon her technique.
[03:26] Let me tell you something about the lady.
[03:29] She works for the telephone company.
[03:32] In fact, all of her life she's been there.
[03:35] So she went in as a long distance operator and worked her way up to the chief operator.
[03:41] Now she's superintendent, but she trained herself to hear a voice.
[03:46] Even if the voice wasn't there, she could actually hear it.
[03:50] Just as though the voice is speaking it.
[03:53] It became so much a part of her that she can really hear what she wants to hear.
[03:58] So here in her office an operator — she has a son Kenneth, and Kenneth wanted to be a flyer, a jet flyer.
[04:06] Well, he was turned down by United, by TWA.
[04:09] By American, by all of them.
[04:12] As too small, his arms weren't long enough.
[04:16] So she said to Kenneth, "Go on the telephone, and you phone me, and you tell me over the phone that you're flying jets and it's wonderful.
[04:28] I will not answer you, just tell me that so I can hear your voice, and I will hang up."
[04:31] So he got on the phone and called her, and told her that "I'm flying jets and it's perfectly marvelous, wonderful."
[04:39] She did exactly what she told him she would do: she hung up.
[04:44] Well, someone gave him a pass to Miami.
[04:47] So when he got to Miami, he was employed by Eastern Airlines.
[04:51] They trained him; he's now flying jets.
[04:54] Before that, the mother thought, "I should send him to school, to some engineering school, prepare him in some way."
[05:01] Well, no preparation: just someone gave him this pass.
[05:04] He goes to Miami, he's flying for Eastern.
[05:08] He called her on the wire; he said, "I want...
[05:11] A lovely home in a nice neighborhood.
[05:12] Then she hung up.
[05:16] Not I want she had to reverse that and say, "I have a lovely home in a perfectly marvelous neighborhood, and I have a sports car."
[05:30] She simply after she found out she tuned him in heard the same voice declaring that he has a lovely home and a sports car.
[05:41] Well, he has a right on the golf course, she said on the telephone owns on the golf course all within four months.
[05:49] The mother one day in the office said to her, "I want to sell Kenneth's jeep.
[05:54] He's gone now, so I want to sell the jeep."
[05:58] She said, "Now that's not the way we do it.
[06:01] Isn't it wonderful I've sold the jeep at a wonderful price?"
[06:06] Two weeks later in the office as I walked by, she said to me at the desk.
[06:11] Isn't it wonderful?
[06:14] I've sold the jeep at a wonderful price.
[06:16] I said to myself, does she want me to hear it again?
[06:20] I've heard it, but during the coffee break as she came out, I said, did you really sell the jeep?
[06:25] She said, yes, I sold the jeep.
[06:27] I sold it at the same price I paid for it years ago.
[06:31] He's used it for years, and we got the same price for it that I paid for it years ago.
[06:36] So I call that a good price.
[06:39] This one now, you can pass judgment if you want to.
[06:43] Where I, this lady, I would say to this one, do not tempt God, for there are people in this world who would try to make you feel you are responsible for them and forever.
[06:55] This lady said to her, I have no money and just an old car.
[07:00] I would like a new car, so I said, I'll just change the whole picture and you will tell me that you have a new car.
[07:12] Five days later she has a new Impala.
[07:16] But she tells my friend that it would have happened anyway.
[07:21] You didn't do it, although she asked my friend to hear it.
[07:24] But you didn't do it.
[07:27] Then she said to her, "Now I'm going to test you.
[07:31] See this ticket.
[07:32] This is an Irish sweepstake ticket.
[07:35] This is a winning ticket.
[07:35] This ticket won well.
[07:39] When the tickets were drawn, it won 280 dollars.
[07:43] This lady goes through the ceiling because she didn't win the 150 thousand dollars.
[07:48] And balls my friend out.
[07:51] My friend had made a little note and wrote the whole thing out, and she had underscored the word "this."
[07:58] This ticket won.
[07:59] Well, it did.
[08:02] That ticket won.
[08:02] It won 280.
[08:06] She paid practically nothing for it.
[08:07] But she was annoyed at my friend because she didn't push it up to 150,000.
[08:10] So she gave me 11 of these stories.
[08:15] All perfectly marvelous.
[08:15] One lady said to her, and I know this lady well and I know her husband well, and she said, "Tell me, what do you want, Mildred? Tell me as though you had it.
[08:26] Don't tell me what you want, but tell me really what you want, but you clothe it so that you're telling me that you have it, the wish fulfilled.
[08:40] She calls my friend Holly.
[08:43] She said, "Holly, I went to Las Vegas and I married the most wonderful man.
[08:47] This is October the 10th.
[08:49] On November the 15th she went to Las Vegas and she married, in her own eyes, the most wonderful man.
[08:57] So that's one.
[09:01] All through her hearing, another one: I gave his lady away last June.
[09:04] She called me up and asked me to play the part of her father.
[09:09] So I said, "All right, when?
[09:12] On the 9th of June.
[09:14] So I went to the church and brought my daughter down and...
[09:16] Gave her away.
[09:18] So the day before a friend called who was coming to the wedding service.
[09:22] And I said, what do you want?
[09:23] She said, well, I would like to get married for security to a very, very wealthy man.
[09:31] Now this is on June 8th.
[09:34] Holly said, go into my church and do today what you're going to do tomorrow.
[09:40] What you're going to walk down on the arm of Neville, and he's going to give me away.
[09:47] But now Neville isn't here.
[09:50] You take your imaginary hand and feel the texture of the dress you're going to wear, whether it be lace or satin or anything of your choice.
[09:58] Just simply walk down the aisle.
[10:02] Didn't hear from her until the 15th of this month, and she writes, Holly, I'm engaged to a millionaire, and I want to get married in your church.
[10:12] The same church that in my imagination I walked down, feeling the dress I would wear.
[10:17] What I'm getting at today is Holly's ability to hear.
[10:21] Blake made the statement man has no body distinct from his soul.
[10:27] That called body is a portion of the soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of the soul in this age.
[10:35] Well, there are five.
[10:39] She is simply cultivating hearing.
[10:42] You can speak to her now, and then you can just leave the room.
[10:46] She has recorded the sound of your voice.
[10:47] She can put on that sound the sentence she wants to hear, and hearing it, she drops it.
[10:56] So Blake made the statement.
[10:57] Oh, what have I said? What have I done?
[11:01] Oh, all powerful human words!
[11:05] So she simply takes a person's request, but she turns it around, and it's not a request anymore.
[11:12] You're simply making a confession that what you wanted, you have.
[11:15] She.
[11:17] Doesn't do anything to make it come to pass.
[11:21] She simply lets it come to pass.
[11:22] Here's one with her husband.
[11:25] She's a minister, and he said to her, "Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if I had the church painted a new, new chandeliers?"
[11:35] Now he hasn't her training.
[11:36] He's a lovely fellow, a wonderful fellow, but a bit emotional.
[11:40] He can't quite control that imagination of his.
[11:43] He goes completely off the rails, but Holly can control it.
[11:46] So she said to him, "Now you tell me in your own way what you would tell me if you were painted and new chandeliers and all paid for."
[11:59] That's really what he wanted: all paid for.
[12:03] So he said, "Honey, isn't it wonderful? The church is completely painted, and we have new chandeliers, and everything is paid for."
[12:13] She said within a matter of two months, Neville, we had the church painted new.
[12:19] Chandeliers and all was paid for all on him.
[12:24] So here this is an art you can sit down and listen as though you heard.
[12:31] If you are very still, it will become audible.
[12:36] When it becomes audible, do you know what it is in scripture?
[12:39] It's the third chapter of Exodus and the sixth of Isaiah.
[12:43] That when the vision breaks out into speech, the presence of God is confirmed.
[12:52] Verses two and eight out of the burning bush that burned but consumed itself not came the voice.
[13:00] Moses, Moses, and then the voice began to speak to Moses.
[13:07] Then it was confirmed the presence of God is confirmed.
[13:11] You can actually sit and listen as though you heard.
[13:14] And what you are hearing is going to come to pass.
[13:18] Now you don't see anything you could.
[13:21] If you're still enough, you'll see it.
[13:24] But you will listen to something that's implying a vision.
[13:28] If I heard a sentence, my mind may not be concentrated on what it implies as much as the actual sound, or I might not move from the sound to what it implies.
[13:41] The potency is its implication, so what it's implying you're actually seeing, although it may not be objective to your vision.
[13:52] But if all of a sudden when you're thinking about it, you're seeing it as you think about it, if you hear the voice so that the sentence becomes audible, then the presence of God is confirmed.
[14:05] Now it doesn't matter what the world thinks about it.
[14:09] If there is evidence for a thing, does it really matter what anyone thinks?
[14:16] If I can stand here now and listen as though I heard and what I'm hearing...
[14:21] Has no external fact to support it.
[14:25] None whatsoever.
[14:28] Well then tomorrow on the day after or the immediate future, it becomes an objective fact.
[14:33] Does it really matter to me what the whole vast world will tell me about it?
[14:39] If they say, well, you're insane, all right, give praise for insanity of that nature.
[14:46] So here is a lady, she wanted this, she wanted that, and she got it.
[14:52] But if anyone does to you what this one tried to do to my friend Holly after she gets the ticket, from then on ignore them.
[15:03] They'll stand on your feet forever, and they'll use you as a flea uses a dog and live off you beyond that point, all the time begging you to hear things for them.
[15:14] And they will never themselves exercise the talent that God gave them.
[15:21] Now to whom did she turn when she prayed?
[15:26] People say I'll pray to Jesus.
[15:29] Well, where is he?
[15:32] We're told call on the name of the Lord Jesus.
[15:35] How could you call on the name of the Lord Jesus?
[15:37] You do it by confessing his lordship.
[15:41] But you don't pray to him.
[15:44] Well, who is it that I confess?
[15:46] Well, in this lady's case it was not her imagination.
[15:51] Isn't that Jesus if we are told by him all things were made?
[15:55] And without him there is nothing that is made.
[15:59] John 1:3.
[16:01] While she brought forth a church painting and nude chandeliers and the money to pay for it.
[16:06] Then who did it?
[16:09] She didn't pray to Jesus.
[16:12] She listened as though she heard her husband say, holy, isn't it wonderful the church is painted and we have new chandeliers and everything is paid for?
[16:18] Well.
[16:22] Then if this thing became a fact as it did in two months,
[16:27] and the little boy too small for United to employ or American or TWA,
[16:32] so he's working for Eastern at their expense.
[16:35] They trained him.
[16:38] Then she sells the jeep for the price she paid for it, not having used it for years.
[16:43] Then he has his own little car now and a home.
[16:47] All this day by listening.
[16:50] Therefore, hasn't she found Jesus?
[16:53] She found him because if all things are made, she knows how she made this.
[17:01] So she didn't really pray to Jesus; she confessed his lordship.
[17:06] She confessed the lordship of her own wonderful human imagination.
[17:12] That's Christ Jesus; that's a god in man.
[17:15] Now when I think of Jesus in scripture, he's defined as power.
[17:23] Paul tells us in his letter to the Corinthians, Christ Jesus the power of God and the wisdom of God, 1 Corinthians 1:24.
[17:34] Well, what is power but effectiveness in realizing our purposes in life?
[17:41] If that power is the creative power that is called Christ Jesus, and I know what I did, I simply sat down and listened, and I listened until I heard.
[17:49] And when I heard what I wanted to hear, well, then wasn't that God in me being active?
[17:58] You can actually feel Him, actually see Him in action.
[18:03] Now don't go astray and worship any other god in the world.
[18:08] In the Bible, immorality is not sex; it's idolatry to turn to any other god in this world other than the only God, which is your own wonderful human imagination.
[18:23] Is idolatry so?
[18:26] In this art of learning how to pray, Lord teach us to pray.
[18:34] He gave them no formula other than the Lord's prayer.
[18:37] That's not something which you repeat idly with words.
[18:40] That's something you contemplate.
[18:44] That's the Lord's prayer, our father.
[18:47] It's an established fact that we have one father.
[18:51] Our father, if I said that the fatherhood of God is universal, then I'm also establishing the fact that the brotherhood of man is — you can't have one father of all and not have all brothers.
[19:08] So that's not something you utter in words.
[19:11] That prayer is simply to sit down and simply extract its meaning.
[19:18] That is to contemplate, but in this frame you can use the sense of touch, the sense.
[19:25] Of taste, the sense of well smell, the sense of sight.
[19:30] In her case, because she's trained as an operator, she uses the sense of hearing.
[19:37] And so, were she here tonight, I would ask anyone to turn to her.
[19:41] She'll do it quickly and easily.
[19:44] It doesn't cost her anything.
[19:46] She doesn't charge for it.
[19:49] And she's a simply perfect, wonderful lady who knows how to tune in.
[19:54] And she can hear what she wants to hear.
[19:58] She said to me in the letter, "Why, Neville, it's the easiest thing in the world if one would only listen until they hear it."
[20:06] And if you really believe you're going to hear it, you'll hear it.
[20:11] It will come as an audible sound and be exactly as you have predetermined it.
[20:17] And not just a sound; it will be the sound of the one who asked it of you.
[20:26] it will be unique after you have heard
[20:28] it
[20:30] who could disturb you so here
[20:33] when he was asked teach me how to pray
[20:36] then he tells the parable that shows you
[20:39] persistency
[20:40] so you sit down you're interrupted all
[20:42] right go back to it
[20:44] you're interrupted again go back to it
[20:48] eventually in just a matter of moments
[20:50] you'll be able to become so still
[20:53] you will hear what you want to hear
[20:57] well if you are interrupted and
[20:59] interrupted don't give up
[21:01] you mustn't give up you simply listen
[21:03] until you actually hear
[21:05] what you want to hear if to you seeing
[21:09] is
[21:09] easier than hearing will then use the
[21:12] sense of sight
[21:14] because you have a body that's an inlet
[21:18] to the soul we have no body distinct
[21:20] from the soul
[21:21] that called body is a portion of the
[21:24] soul discerned
[21:25] by the five senses the chief inlets of
[21:28] the soul in this age
[21:30] william blake so it's almost like a
[21:33] something
[21:34] you exude this thing called body
[21:38] but we think we are it no
[21:41] it's simply a portion of the soul you
[21:45] are the soul so here after you leave
[21:48] this night
[21:49] and you go home sit down and try it
[21:53] doesn't cost you a thing and without
[21:56] consent of one
[21:57] if you know a person's voice just listen
[21:59] to it
[22:00] and try what she did if you can't quite
[22:04] recall it
[22:06] call them up and have them tell you what
[22:09] they would like to have
[22:11] in this world as though they had it
[22:14] make them phrase it so they are telling
[22:16] you that they have it
[22:18] and then you hang up you hear the voice
[22:22] and then you sit down and then you
[22:25] listen to
[22:26] the same thing and affirm it
[22:30] they said it and now you hear it on the
[22:33] inside
[22:35] when you hear it on the inside
[22:38] the thing is done and you don't have to
[22:41] make
[22:41] any effort to make it so this so-called
[22:45] daily praying for the same thing
[22:48] pray daily as he said in all things
[22:51] pray so he told them a parable
[22:55] that they should always pray and never
[22:57] grow weary of praying
[22:59] but praying is in this simple simple way
[23:02] it's not going up the stairs on your
[23:04] knees or getting down and crossing
[23:07] yourself before some cross
[23:09] or saying any prayer someone wrote for
[23:11] you
[23:13] what would you do you go to church and
[23:15] the minister will say
[23:17] i will lead you in prayer well every
[23:19] word is disturbance of what you want to
[23:21] hear
[23:22] you go into the silence you hear
[23:26] what you want to hear how can you hear
[23:29] some if a minister is leading you apart
[23:32] and a thousand people on the outside and
[23:34] a thousand different
[23:35] desires in this world they all have
[23:38] something different
[23:39] and he's leading a word prayer that he
[23:42] wrote
[23:44] that's not praying so when you pray
[23:46] you're told
[23:48] go within and shut the door
[23:51] and your father who sees in secret
[23:53] rewards you openly
[23:55] matthew 6 6 so you go within
[24:00] you close the door of the senses and
[24:03] then inwardly you tune
[24:04] in and listen i know what fantastic
[24:08] results one can get
[24:10] by this simple simple method
[24:14] so i can't tell you what is your best
[24:17] maybe sight is better than hearing
[24:19] but i find hearing very simple no two
[24:23] voices are alike
[24:25] they may seem to be alike but they're
[24:27] not really
[24:28] they are as distinct as your odor
[24:32] no two people in the world there are
[24:34] three and a half
[24:35] billion of us and we don't have the same
[24:38] odor
[24:38] or the bloodhound couldn't find us we
[24:41] don't have the same thumbprint
[24:44] we don't have the same sound to our
[24:47] voice
[24:48] even though it sounds to those not
[24:50] attuned
[24:52] to be alike i presume that sitting here
[24:55] if i said that a chinese is speaking to
[24:58] the average untrained ear
[24:59] in the chinese tongue all chinese would
[25:02] sound alike
[25:03] but the chinese trained in his tongue no
[25:06] two would be alike
[25:08] so i dare say to them all americans
[25:10] sound alike
[25:11] and yet no two really sound alike
[25:14] you may think well i don't tell you it's
[25:16] the easiest thing
[25:18] in the world but practice will make it
[25:20] easier
[25:22] it's an art and all arts require a good
[25:25] method
[25:26] it must be a careful method and then
[25:29] persistency in practice
[25:32] you're going to practice and practice
[25:34] daily
[25:35] you can help someone without their
[25:37] consent you know
[25:39] you don't have to wait for someone to
[25:41] ask you to help them
[25:43] if you are aware of their distress or
[25:45] their need
[25:46] you can do it if you know their voice or
[25:49] what they look like
[25:51] construct a scene implying the
[25:52] fulfillment of their dream
[25:54] and see it clearly but when speech
[25:56] breaks out in vision
[25:58] then it's done that's automatic
[26:02] has told us in that wonderful story
[26:04] where he comes and sees the lord
[26:06] on the throne and the seraphim behind
[26:09] him
[26:10] and then the lord speaks and said whom
[26:12] will i
[26:13] send isaiah says send me
[26:16] so he sends him but he heard the voice
[26:18] before he was sent
[26:20] well the same thing is this you will
[26:23] hear the voice
[26:24] as you hear it whose voice did you hear
[26:28] you heard the friend's voice you heard
[26:30] it
[26:31] all on the inside so all that you behold
[26:34] though it appears without it is within
[26:38] in your own imagination of which this
[26:42] world of morality is but a shadow
[26:46] it's the whole vast world of three and a
[26:48] half billion
[26:50] how could you crowd them into one man
[26:53] but they are that you're single out from
[26:56] your own
[26:57] being the one you're going to help and
[27:00] you help him
[27:01] they here he's projected on the screen
[27:04] of space
[27:05] and he seems so completely independent
[27:08] of your perception of him
[27:11] here he's out there actually becoming
[27:15] all the things you heard for him
[27:19] i am convinced in my own case
[27:22] that my mother had in some strange way
[27:24] some knowledge of this
[27:26] because she always would go and she
[27:28] would
[27:29] sit alone when she darned our socks
[27:33] the sock reminded her of the one who
[27:35] wore it
[27:36] and she would talk to herself but she
[27:39] was talking to her son
[27:41] actually as she darned that sock she was
[27:44] building in her own mind's eye
[27:46] the future she wanted for that son
[27:49] they all became successful i'm quite
[27:52] sure if one could trace their success to
[27:54] the source
[27:55] it would go all the way back to their
[27:57] mother or she instead of criticizing
[28:00] them
[28:01] and comparing them in some strange way
[28:03] to neighbors
[28:04] she never compared us to any neighbor
[28:07] not for one moment
[28:09] if she did she never found us wanting
[28:12] that was mother but to ourselves she
[28:14] would always build it up
[28:16] and built it up in her own mind's eye
[28:19] confident that time would take care of
[28:22] it
[28:23] and each one would mold itself right
[28:26] into her
[28:26] image of that child and eventually they
[28:29] all did
[28:32] so in learning to pray don't commit to
[28:34] memory
[28:35] any prayer it doesn't work but take your
[28:38] own wonderful soul
[28:40] which this is only a portion of it the
[28:43] five senses
[28:45] and these are the chief inlets of this
[28:47] age well think
[28:49] sense you may be given to color given to
[28:52] pictures
[28:53] and the sense of sight may be easier for
[28:56] you
[28:57] some can think of someone and see them
[28:59] vividly in their mind's eye
[29:02] this lady she thinks of them she hears
[29:04] them
[29:05] another one can touch no two handshakes
[29:09] are like you take a hand some give you
[29:12] just the fingertips
[29:14] a big strapping man and you put the hand
[29:16] out and he gives you this
[29:18] well forever you think of him in terms
[29:20] of that
[29:21] there's something about that handshake
[29:24] others go right in and grip you
[29:26] a good firm shake others almost take
[29:29] your hand away
[29:30] they want to show you how strong they
[29:32] are or how they feel
[29:34] well that's another kind of shake
[29:37] but if you know and associate with any
[29:40] one person
[29:41] you can do that and touch them
[29:44] that's again in genesis the 27th and so
[29:47] he came close and he received the
[29:49] blessing through
[29:50] touch he put these things on his hands a
[29:54] hair he was a smooth-skinned lad
[29:57] and he took the hair of a goat and
[29:58] wrapped it upon his hand
[30:01] and his neck so that when he came to his
[30:03] father he would deceive the father into
[30:05] believing he was esau
[30:07] for the blessing belonged to esau as he
[30:10] came close the father said come
[30:12] closer still my son that i may touch you
[30:15] i can't see the father was blind so here
[30:19] isaac is blind so jacob comes very very
[30:23] close
[30:24] and he's now clothed as his brother
[30:26] would be clothed
[30:28] and he receives the blessing that
[30:29] belonged to his brother
[30:31] through the sense of touch so you can
[30:34] take someone if you know
[30:36] that sense of touch and bring them very
[30:39] very close and touch them
[30:41] feel the joy of their good fortune you
[30:44] aren't robbing
[30:45] yourself by feeling the joy of another
[30:49] as you're told in the story of job when
[30:51] job prayed for his friends
[30:53] his own captivity was lifted
[30:57] so you don't have to be concerned about
[30:59] giving yourself a little time for your
[31:01] own prayers for self
[31:03] your prayer for another is your prayer
[31:06] for self
[31:07] because in the final analysis there is
[31:11] no other
[31:13] this whole vast world is one being
[31:16] fragmented and that one being is
[31:19] yourself
[31:20] the whole vast world it doesn't make
[31:23] sense
[31:23] how can this whole vast world be
[31:25] contained within one being
[31:28] and yet someday you'll have the vision
[31:31] and you'll see it
[31:33] i have seen it so vividly so clearly
[31:36] at a distance it seemed like one man
[31:39] and as you approached multiple nations
[31:42] but unnumbered nations in one man
[31:47] i saw it so vividly one night when i was
[31:49] with blake and he told me to lean back
[31:52] and fall i felt like some meteor through
[31:57] space
[31:59] and when i settled and came to a stop
[32:03] there in the distance was his wonderful
[32:07] being
[32:08] the heart was like living ruby
[32:12] the whole being was alive
[32:16] but it seemed like one being as i
[32:18] approached it
[32:19] and i got near and near here
[32:22] multitudes of people all contained
[32:25] in one man my friend
[32:29] who is here tonight that vision of his
[32:32] looking down on a prone man
[32:34] and the prone man contained every
[32:36] conceivable thing that man could do
[32:39] you couldn't conceive of a situation
[32:42] that was not already worked out
[32:43] in detail in that prone
[32:47] man and his desire to come down
[32:50] and identify with a man in that vast
[32:53] world of men they're all contained in
[32:56] one man he came down identified and
[33:00] played his part
[33:01] here in this world that's fragmented
[33:06] so here tonight if you treat it
[33:08] seriously your fortune
[33:10] is in your hands if you treat it
[33:13] seriously
[33:14] you could go out and say this is stupid
[33:17] it doesn't make sense that isn't
[33:20] religion
[33:21] it isn't spiritual well then that's your
[33:24] choice
[33:25] i can't force it on you i can just offer
[33:28] it
[33:29] i acquaint you with god's law and leave
[33:31] you
[33:32] to your choice and its risks
[33:35] only as you succeed don't let someone
[33:37] stand upon your back
[33:40] and simply make you the goat
[33:43] that if they don't get what they want
[33:45] you have failed
[33:47] you can tell them the principles and
[33:48] leave them entirely to themselves
[33:52] that they in turn may begin to exercise
[33:54] the talent
[33:55] within themselves you know the story of
[33:58] the talents
[34:00] he came back called for the one who had
[34:02] five
[34:03] the one who had five had multiplied it
[34:07] because of use
[34:08] and he commended him and he said keep
[34:11] all ten
[34:12] the one who had two all right he had
[34:14] doubled his
[34:15] two by use and he was highly commended
[34:18] and allowed to keep it
[34:20] but the one who was given one and was
[34:22] afraid to test it and he buried it
[34:26] well when he heard it he buried his
[34:28] talent
[34:29] he was condemned and cast out and the
[34:32] talent he received was
[34:34] taken from him and given to the one who
[34:36] had
[34:37] the most so it's entirely up to us
[34:39] whether we use
[34:41] the talent or we don't use it
[34:44] so i'm not teaching some moral law here
[34:48] i think everyone who comes here should
[34:51] have acquired
[34:52] some kind of ethical code long before
[34:55] they come here
[34:58] you shouldn't have acquired it at your
[35:00] mother's knee
[35:02] so i'm not to acquaint you with any
[35:04] moral code
[35:05] whatsoever i leave you to your choice
[35:09] so you can simply know
[35:13] what you want in this world for your
[35:15] friend
[35:17] and then attack it in this manner
[35:21] she told me some perfectly marvelous
[35:23] ones
[35:24] but that last one 280 dollars and to
[35:27] ball her out
[35:28] for only 280 dollars
[35:31] she wanted the 150 000. here's one
[35:35] she said my brother had a small taxi
[35:36] business and about three weeks before
[35:39] this thing happened he said to me
[35:41] you know i have a feeling a strange
[35:43] feeling that if i don't sell it
[35:45] or give it away something's going to
[35:48] happen to me
[35:49] well he didn't he's in bakersfield so
[35:52] two weeks later some litigation
[35:54] the man and a woman in his cab so the
[35:56] day of the trial she's
[35:58] working in her office here with the
[36:00] telephone company and all day long she
[36:02] was thinking of him
[36:04] seeing that he's free released she
[36:06] called it for
[36:08] and they said he's in court that seemed
[36:10] kind of late to her she called a little
[36:12] while later still in court
[36:14] she got into her car and drove to
[36:16] bakersfield when she got here at this
[36:19] very late hour he's still in court
[36:22] here it is 10 10 30 so she went in and
[36:25] saw the brother and she said
[36:27] you can't go into the jury room but you
[36:29] can send your mind in there
[36:31] you can't go in but you can send your
[36:33] mind and tell them to release me
[36:36] i am released i am free sit down here
[36:40] and go into that jury room and tell them
[36:42] that i am free i'm released
[36:44] then she said in my purse i had a huge
[36:47] big wide envelope
[36:49] so i took it out with a pencil and i
[36:50] said you sit right down here now
[36:53] and write as many times as you can i am
[36:56] free
[36:57] i am released keep on writing it
[37:00] keep on writing it at 5 minutes after 12
[37:04] they brought in the verdict
[37:05] he was released he was freed now she did
[37:08] not give me the nature of the trial
[37:10] why he was on trial why they brought the
[37:13] action against him
[37:15] she just gave me the facts that there he
[37:17] was he had this
[37:18] premonition that something would happen
[37:21] if he didn't sell his small taxi
[37:22] business
[37:24] he didn't sell and two weeks later he's
[37:25] litigating with this man and woman
[37:27] while the jury was locked up she drove
[37:29] all the way to bakersfield
[37:31] and told the story you can't go in there
[37:33] physically but you
[37:35] can go there in your mind go right in
[37:38] and proclaim i am free
[37:40] i am released and then you sit here and
[37:42] you write it over and over and over and
[37:44] fill this envelope with
[37:46] the statement i am free
[37:50] i am released at 5 minutes
[37:53] after 12 at night 1205 am
[37:57] the jury came out and he was free
[38:00] released these stories are all true
[38:04] i know this lady well and this is an
[38:06] amusing part of it
[38:08] i gave her away and this little time a
[38:10] reception after the wedding
[38:12] and this lady came forward and she came
[38:14] to me she said
[38:16] who are you i said well did you see the
[38:18] service
[38:19] she said yes i said i am the bride's
[38:21] father she looked at me as though i were
[38:23] completely insane
[38:24] i learned afterwards the lady who asked
[38:26] me was the bride's sister
[38:28] the sister had not seen the bridegroom
[38:31] had seen
[38:32] none of the crowd that came well
[38:36] i'm not the weddings are always so fun
[38:40] so she came forward i said you saw the
[38:43] wedding didn't you
[38:44] yes well i'm the bride's father and what
[38:47] a strange look on her face
[38:48] she's in an insane asylum now this lady
[38:52] knows
[38:52] this thing well enough to know how to do
[38:55] it
[38:56] although the man's perfectly marvelous
[38:58] fellow he hasn't a chance not a chance
[39:01] because he doesn't know how to work the
[39:03] law
[39:04] she does she made up her mind that's it
[39:09] and he was hooked but he's divinely
[39:11] happy now
[39:12] he's very happy and at the end of these
[39:16] lectures
[39:17] neville always gave two minutes of
[39:18] silence
[39:20] at the end of this there will be
[39:21] questions and answers
[39:23] and i will give two minutes now
[39:27] let us go into the silence
[39:46] [Music]
[40:30] question in the bible what does it mean
[40:34] in her talking inner talking
[40:38] inner vision or inner touch question
[40:41] the constant all the time answer
[40:45] you're doing it anyway but you're doing
[40:47] it unknowingly a man
[40:48] walks the street he's not alone he's
[40:51] always imagining something and dwelling
[40:53] on something
[40:54] most of the time he's dwelling on things
[40:56] he doesn't like
[40:58] and tries to resolve them that way by
[41:00] argument
[41:01] mental arguments if everyone really
[41:04] expressed what he's imagining outwardly
[41:06] he would know the whole vast world's
[41:08] insane
[41:09] but we are a little bit curtailed by
[41:11] society
[41:13] we don't want to appear in the eyes of
[41:15] others as a fool
[41:16] and so we restrain what we normally
[41:18] would be outside
[41:20] the expression occasionally a man passes
[41:22] by and he doesn't care and he's
[41:24] sawing the atmosphere talking to himself
[41:28] but everyone is talking to himself only
[41:30] they are more restrained
[41:32] but talking to himself look in the
[41:34] morning's paper
[41:35] if there is any good news in it they
[41:38] bury it in the very last page
[41:40] i saw tv before i came out everyone
[41:42] repeated the same things
[41:44] all holdups and murders that seem to
[41:46] appeal to men
[41:48] who's dead that comes right out but you
[41:51] can't stop it
[41:52] you're a talking being you're talking to
[41:55] yourself all the time
[41:57] the thing is to control it if you can
[41:59] control it
[42:01] allow only those things to come in
[42:04] like holly when she does some work for
[42:06] someone else you voice it
[42:08] all right you voice it but now turn it
[42:11] around
[42:12] rearrange the furniture of the mind
[42:15] the furniture was set this way but i
[42:18] want so and so
[42:20] rearrange the furniture i
[42:23] have so and so same furniture
[42:27] same words regrouped she said i want
[42:30] to get married in las vegas all right
[42:33] turn that around
[42:34] i went to las vegas and i married the
[42:37] most wonderful man
[42:39] some words rearranged meaning something
[42:42] entirely different
[42:44] question can one listen to himself or
[42:47] her own
[42:48] self saying just what he or she wants
[42:51] for herself
[42:52] as effectively as you would were you
[42:55] listening for someone else
[42:58] answer you can certainly you can
[43:00] certainly you can
[43:02] and one should be extremely discreet in
[43:04] this world
[43:05] you don't go into a restaurant and say
[43:06] bring me a dinner
[43:08] bring me a menu and you go through the
[43:10] entire list and you may settle for a
[43:12] hamburger
[43:13] but you want everything they have to
[43:15] offer and then you go through the entire
[43:18] list and you pick out what you want
[43:20] you don't go in and say give me a tie
[43:25] let me see what you have and you pick
[43:27] out a tie for maybe a hundred ties
[43:30] but you have to be discriminating in
[43:31] this world and so you single out what
[43:33] you want
[43:34] in this world not what others think you
[43:37] should have
[43:39] let no one tell you god knows best
[43:43] well who is he didn't he become me
[43:46] when he became me he gave me the power
[43:50] to discriminate and he speaks to me
[43:53] through the language of desire and he
[43:56] made me not for frustration but for
[43:58] satisfaction so take my desire
[44:00] which is simply looking at it and
[44:03] looking towards what i want
[44:05] now rearrange it so i look from it
[44:09] remember also what the definition of the
[44:11] word prayer is
[44:13] in the concordance strong's it's defined
[44:15] as motion towards
[44:18] a session two nearness at
[44:21] at or in the vicinity of you'll find
[44:24] this
[44:24] very very practical and share with me
[44:26] the results don't give me anything just
[44:28] share with me
[44:30] the results as this lady did so paul
[44:33] tells us in galatians
[44:35] let him who teaches or rather let him
[44:37] who has taught
[44:39] the word share all good things with him
[44:41] who teaches
[44:43] paul wasn't asking for one penny nothing
[44:46] of this world's goods
[44:48] but do share with him the results of
[44:50] your use
[44:51] of the principle that he in turn can
[44:54] encourage the faith of
[44:55] others by telling their story it's
[44:58] working anyway
[45:01] question i was thinking wouldn't we all
[45:04] be physically beautiful if we were
[45:05] praying
[45:06] unceasingly of the beautiful thoughts
[45:08] the beautiful things
[45:10] that we'd be giving one another
[45:13] and would be expressing on our face my
[45:16] mother used to say
[45:18] what you are speaks so loud i can hear
[45:20] what you say the expression that comes
[45:22] on your face
[45:24] or i know must come on mine when i'm
[45:27] thinking of something really wonderful
[45:29] that has happened to me some friend of
[45:32] mine is simply beautiful
[45:33] the answer well here in this wonderful
[45:36] world of ours take the english tongue
[45:38] the most liquid tongue in the world the
[45:40] richest tongue in the world
[45:42] has borrowed from all the tongues with a
[45:45] far greater vocabulary than any other
[45:47] tongue
[45:47] and yet to express the emotion you've
[45:50] just expressed
[45:51] we only have one little word and it's
[45:54] not in use to express it
[45:56] empathy if i say i empathize
[46:00] with you the average person will say
[46:02] what's he talking about
[46:04] what is he talking about yet if i say i
[46:08] sympathize i have
[46:09] compassion for you i pity you well we
[46:12] have hundreds of words to express that
[46:14] emotion and only one little word
[46:17] to express rejoicing in the good fortune
[46:19] of another
[46:21] the word because it's not used because
[46:24] no one rejoices
[46:25] really rejoices in the good fortune of
[46:28] another
[46:29] they're envious but they sympathize oh
[46:33] do they sympathize let a next-door
[46:35] neighbor have some injury or some
[46:37] misfortune
[46:38] the whole neighborhood rushes in to
[46:39] sympathize
[46:41] let it be known that their next door
[46:43] neighbor just came into a fortune
[46:46] why should she get i know that
[46:49] what she's done in the past i know what
[46:51] she's done i know
[46:52] what she's capable of doing so she gets
[46:55] it
[46:57] where is the justice in this world
[46:58] they'll say and so we don't exercise
[47:01] that emotion of rejoicing
[47:03] in the good fortune of others but oh
[47:06] sympathy we just wallow in it
[47:09] and that's the end of that question and
[47:11] answer session
[47:12] some of the questions were not audible
[47:14] so there are portions of that i didn't
[47:16] quite understand
[47:19] but once again i enjoyed this beautiful
[47:21] lecture about prayer
[47:23] and there is an important aspect to this
[47:26] and that is that
[47:28] each of the senses can be used to
[47:31] manifest
[47:33] using the law of assumption perhaps the
[47:35] hardest would be smell
[47:37] if you can bring up a smell that implies
[47:39] that you of getting what you want that
[47:40] might work
[47:41] and i would love if people would comment
[47:43] on using smells
[47:46] back then at the time of this lecture
[47:49] hearing a person's voice was more common
[47:52] than it may be now
[47:53] people use their cell phones and they
[47:55] don't talk to each other
[47:57] on the phone as much maybe we need to
[48:00] visualize more often of facetime or
[48:03] zoom call or text or email
[48:08] so there is a modern element right now
[48:10] that changes
[48:12] how we imagine for others but i still
[48:15] if i know the voice of somebody i still
[48:18] try to use that and it is effective
[48:22] i do think that feeling and combination
[48:25] of
[48:26] hearing and feeling and seeing at the
[48:29] same time
[48:31] is involving three or four more senses
[48:34] that always is more powerful
[48:36] but this person would do all of it
[48:39] through just
[48:40] listening and creating the conversation
[48:43] in her mind now i really like this as an
[48:45] applicable thing
[48:47] and i want to apply it i'm definitely
[48:49] going to play it with my friends and
[48:51] maybe my kids and
[48:52] if they would just call me like and say
[48:56] the
[48:56] exact thing that i want them to say
[48:59] as if it's already happened and then
[49:02] hang up
[49:03] i'm definitely gonna try that i like
[49:05] that idea it's
[49:06] an action-oriented step to help somebody
[49:09] else
[49:10] but he also makes a pretty good point
[49:12] here a lot of times
[49:15] you will pray for others and they'll
[49:16] become dependent on your prayering
[49:19] ultimately you don't want me to be
[49:22] praying for you all the time
[49:24] because there's an implication that you
[49:26] can't pray
[49:27] i will always pray for you and some
[49:30] people as he says are better at it than
[49:32] others
[49:33] but you want to be praying for yourself
[49:35] as well
[49:36] don't be just reliant on the prayers of
[49:38] others
[49:40] go inside yourself and pray yourself and
[49:43] if you learn how to pray
[49:45] yourself it will be much easier and
[49:47] better
[49:49] but i found the story of the woman
[49:51] winning 280 and getting mad for not
[49:53] winning the whole thing
[49:55] very funny i
[49:59] could not understand how she could
[50:00] complain but there seems to be a
[50:02] metaphor that he's giving in this
[50:04] particular teaching
[50:07] so i'd love to know what your thoughts
[50:08] are on this and how do you pray
[50:12] when i was taught to pray as a child it
[50:14] would be to get on my knees
[50:16] and i was praying in some sort of
[50:19] communication
[50:20] with some being in another place that
[50:22] was separate from me
[50:25] that is not praying praying is imagining
[50:30] for someone that it's already happened
[50:35] now why this is i don't know but i think
[50:37] it has a quantum
[50:38] physics element to it because all of
[50:41] time is happening at the same time and
[50:42] by
[50:43] praying in a particular way you kind of
[50:46] move your lifeline towards a place where
[50:48] you see
[50:49] the culmination of what you're praying
[50:52] you're
[50:53] using your sensory apparatus to find a
[50:55] parallel reality where that thing is
[50:57] occurring and you're moving it towards
[50:59] happening
[51:01] so if you can pray for others then
[51:05] absolutely do it and try this technique
[51:07] and let me know if it works
[51:10] i always love how neville talks about
[51:14] praying for others is the same as
[51:15] praying for yourself
[51:17] because we are all one man
[51:21] it's a powerful thought and i believe it
[51:23] and the more that we come to understand
[51:24] it
[51:25] the more that we will be able to
[51:27] experience
[51:28] the love in this universe
[51:33] in any case all episodes of the reality
[51:36] revolution
[51:37] can be found at the
[51:40] realityrevolution.com
[51:41] and i am praying for you i am imagining
[51:45] people coming into chat
[51:48] and in the comments saying wonderful
[51:51] stories about prayers being answered
[51:54] and i'm imagine feeling excited about it
[51:57] with a big smile on my face i can feel
[52:00] the smile on my face
[52:01] i can feel the warmth i feel in my heart
[52:04] and that is my prayer for you
[52:05] i cannot wait to read the comments and
[52:08] feel these exciting feelings
[52:09] of all your prayers coming true and i
[52:13] mean
[52:13] all of them the big ones
[52:16] the ones that you deserve i am
[52:20] praying for you and i cannot wait
[52:23] for you to have all of your prayers
[52:26] answered
[52:27] very soon answer my prayers and
[52:31] purchased my book the reality revolution
[52:34] i wrote that book so that i could help
[52:36] you in answering your prayers
[52:41] and welcome to the reality
[52:44] revolution