Here is a typical situation: following Neville’s advice, we identify our heartfelt desire, visualize its attainment, and then strive to experience the mental state of the wish fulfilled.
Immediately we confess to ourselves: there is something lacking. We are not dramatically self-persuaded. What is missing is a sweeping emotion, to the depths, that would carry us to utter conviction that the thing is done. And yet this is precisely what is necessary, if we were to continue in a mood of confident expectation, and finally realise our goal in the three dimensional world of manifestation.
So at this point we must stop fighting ourselves, strategize and retrain ourselves.
1. Set a mental construct.
The “reality of appearances” is merely a relative reality – less real than the mental activity that engendered it in the first place. Anything you can conceive is possible. All of creation exists and is rooted in Man, in the psyche – but only in potential. The thing that is not seen must be called into the world, using deliberate imagination.
2. Set an instructive image.
What is the “seamless robe”? In yet another brilliant coup of interpretation, Neville offers this: it is the cause of manifestation; the “unbroken connection between the invisible reality and its visible manifestation.”
3. Use repetition.
New ideas require many repetitions, restatements and reformulations to gain currency in our belief system. Why is this so? Why does it make sense to persist “seventy times seven” in reading, for example, Chapter 23 of Your Faith is Your Fortune (recommended for our present topic)?
At each repetition, we are wearing down a certain resistance within ourselves. “Through sheer exhaustion”, as Neville says, this part will become bored, fade and finally yield.
At each repetition, we are building in the subconscious a critical mass of deep-seated belief. It accumulates and in one instant reaches a tipping point.
At each repetition, we are in a slightly different state. We are testing ourselves, trying to find an opening, trying to find that magic moment when the key enters the lock, turns with promising clicks of the tumblers, and suddenly snaps open the latch.
4. Invoke gratitude.
Do this in advance. (Ref: podcast, episode 5).
Conclusion
At first we were too “hypnotized by the reality of appearances” and did not entertain the imaginal idea with a feeling of naturalness. This residual background attitude of mind was left by years of conditioning. With a fresh orientation to reality, and using persistent repetition, we break through and see that causality is psychological.
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