Ask and it is given (Translated) E-Book

Neville Goddard

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

The purpose of this book is to indicate man's possibilities, to show that man can change his future; but, although modified, it again forms a deterministic sequence beginning at the point of interference-a future consistent with modification. The most important feature of man's future is flexibility. The future, though predetermined in advance in every detail, has many developments. At every moment of our lives we have before us the choice as to which of the many futures we will have.

Leseprobe

ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF NEVILLE GODDARD

NEVILLE GODDARD

Edition 2021 by ©David De Angelis

All rights reserved

Table of Contents

questions and answers on the law of attraction and creative power

1. Question: What is the meaning of the symbol on the covers of your books?

2. Question: I would like to get married, but I haven't found the right man. How can I imagine myself a husband?

3. Question: What do I have to do to get the kind of creative inspiration it takes to write?

4. Question: How do I envision a larger audience at my conferences?

5. Question: Is it possible to imagine many things at one time, or should I limit my imagination to one desire?

6. Question: How many times should I perform the imaginative act, for a few days or for many weeks?

7. Question: I was taught not to ask for earthly things, only spiritual growth, yet what I need is money and things.

8. Question: Once we have assumed our desire, should we always keep in mind the presence of this greater self that protects and fulfills our desire?

9. Question: Isn't there a law that says you can't get anything for nothing? Must we not earn what we desire?

10. Question: But doesn't the thought that creation is finished rob us of our initiative?

11. Question: But doesn't this ability to change the future deny the fact that creation is finished?

12. Question: Why is it that those who apply themselves hard in metaphysics always seem to lack something?

13. Question: Can an uneducated person self-educate by assuming the feeling of being educated?

14. Question: My husband and I are taking his class together. Should we discuss our desires with each other?

15. Question: Should my husband and I work on the same project or on separate projects?

16. Question: It occurs to me that if you let yourself go too often into a state of drowsiness, then you will have a lack of feelings.

17. Question: Is love a product of our own consciousness?

18. Question: Suppose my will cannot come true before six months or a year: should I wait before imagining it?

19. Question: Why do some of us die young?

20. Question: How would you define a full life?

21. Question: What about an infant who dies at birth?

22. Question: What is your prayer technique?

23. Question: Two persons want the same office. One holds it. The other had it and now wants it back.

24. Question: What is the cause of illness and pain?

25. Question: No matter how hard I try to be happy, deep down I always have the melancholy feeling of being excluded. Why?

26. Question: If the death of a loved one brought me economic security, would it mean that I caused that death?

27. Question: I have more than one goal. Would it be ineffective to focus on several goals at different times of concentration?

28. Question: I find it difficult to change my concept of myself. Why?

29. Question: I am considering the idea of a business venture. It would mean a lot to me, but I can't imagine how it would come to fruition.

30. Question: As a student of metaphysics I was taught that racial prejudices and universal beliefs influence me. Do you mean that I am influenced by them only to the extent that I give these beliefs power over me?

31. Question: Who wrote the Bible?

32. Question: Do you use the Apocrypha Bible?

33. Question: If Jesus is a fictional character created by the authors of the Bible in order to explain certain psychological situations, how do you explain the fact that he and his philosophy are also mentioned in the secular and non-Christian historical texts of the time? Weren't Pontius Pilate and Herod Roman officials in the flesh at the time?

34. Question: Do you use affirmation and negation?

35. Question: Is it possible for a person to look dead and yet not be dead?

36. Question: How can a person who was disadvantaged in childhood be successful in life?

RESEARCH

The purpose of this book is to indicate man's possibilities, to show that man can change his future; but, although modified, it again forms a deterministic sequence beginning at the point of interference - a future consistent with modification.

The most important feature of man's future is flexibility. The future, although predetermined in every detail, has many developments. At every moment of our lives we have before us the choice as to which of the many futures we will have.

There are two views of the world possessed by every man - a natural view and a spiritual view. The ancients called one "the carnal mind" and the other "the Christ mind." We can differentiate them as ordinary consciousness, governed by our senses, and controlled imagination, governed by desire.

We can recognize these two distinct centers of thought in the statement, "The natural man comprehendeth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly unto him; neither is he able to understand them, because he can judge of them only by the Spirit." (1st Corinthians 2:14)

Natural vision confines reality to the moment called NOW. According to the natural vision, the past and the future are purely imaginary. On the other hand, spiritual vision sees the contents of time. The past and future are one with the present in spiritual vision. What for the natural man is mental and subjective, for the spiritual man is concrete and objective.

The habit of seeing only what our senses allow us to see makes us totally blind to what we would otherwise see. To cultivate the faculty of seeing the invisible, we should deliberately untangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally perceiving it until it acquires the clarity of reality.

Seriously, thinking focused and aimed in a particular direction shuts out the other sensations and makes them disappear. We just have to focus on the desired state in order to see it.

The habit of turning our attention away from the sensory region and focusing it on the invisible develops our spiritual vision and enables us to penetrate beyond the world of the senses and see that which is invisible. "For from the creation of the world on, his invisible works can be clearly contemplated." Romans 1:20. This vision is totally independent of the natural faculties. Open it up and quicken it!

A little practice will convince us that we can, by controlling our imagination, reshape our future in harmony with our desire. Desire is the spring of action. We could not move a single finger until we have the desire to move it. No matter what we do, we follow the desire that dominates our mind at that moment. When we change a habit, our desire to change it is stronger than the desire to keep it.

The desires that drive us to action are the ones that hold our attention. A desire is nothing but the awareness of something we lack and want to make our life better. Desires always have some visible gain, the greater the gain, the more intense the desire. There is absolutely no such thing as a non-selfish desire. When there is nothing to gain there is no desire, and consequently no action.