You have this great
power within you. It is a power that is virtually unlimited, and it has been
given to you as your birthright. Before putting this gift to work,  it is crucial for you to know that virtually
all spiritual teachings have spoken of the power that Blake comments on in
that insightful sentence, “What is now proved was once only imagin’d.” In
the year that I spent researchin g and living the Tao for my book Change
Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, this truth jumped out at me in the lines
of the 40th verse of the Tao Te Ching. “Being is born of nonbeing” was
Lao-tzu’ s obser vation 2,500 years ago. The visible world of being
originates in nonbeing. Some 500 years later Jesus would tell his followers,
“It is the Spirit who gives life” (John 6:63). I could go on through all of the
great spiritual traditions and offer you quote upon quote that states that it is
in the invisible formless realm that the originating spark of life begins. Today , the world of quantum physics confirms that the univers e is made
of formless (spirit) energy, and that particles (that is, things) do not
originate from particles (things). Everything springs from some thing that is
akin to your imagination. You can’t touch, taste, see, hear, or smell it. It hasno boundaries. You can’t prove it with mathematical formulas or scientific
verification. Yet we all know that it exists. These invisible thoughts that you
have—these ideas that continue to percolate within you, these fanciful
images that are always with you—are beyond the scope of science to prove
or disprove. I love this observation made by Max Planck, the father of quantum
theory: “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is
because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and, therefore,
part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” You simply know that you
have an imagination, and that this imagination is the Source of all being. It
is up to you to channel and use this magnificent endowment to work in the
creation of all that you choose to place in that imagination. Taking Charge of Y our Imagination
My favorite definition of success, which I’ve cited on numerous
occasions, was offered by Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century at
Walden Pond: “If one advances  confidently in the direction of his dreams ,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined , he will meet with a
success unexpe cted in common hours.” I’ve italicized two words in
Thoreau’ s definition of success— dreams  and imagined. What Thoreau is saying is so important to you today . Be willing to dream,
and imagine yourself becoming  all that you wish to be. If you live from
those imaginings, the universe will align with you in bringing all that you
wish for—and even more than you imagined when you were living at an
ordinary level of consciousness, or what Thoreau calls “common hours.”
Keep in mind this basic axiom—if all that now exists was once imagined,
then what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined. You’ll see as you read through these foundations for fulfilling your wishes
that using your imagination involves more intensity on your part than just
imagining an occasional wishfu l thought. You must first unlearn some of
the ways that you’ve been misusing or squandering the capacity your
imagination has for providing you with an unlimited ability to manifest all
that you desire. Thoreau called it advancing confidently in the direction of
your own dreams. Unfortunately , most of us have learned to do the opposite
with our imagination, and instead regularly use it to develop mental habitsof advancing in precisely the reverse direction of our highest dreams for
ourselves. In the next chapter I address in depth how to utilize the I ams and live
from your I am God awareness, beginning with your imagination. Recall
that I am God doesn’t refer to your body in any way. It refers to the
birthless, deathless, changeless spirit that remains in all the changing forms
your body takes every moment of your temporary life here on Earth. It is important that you recognize a few of the imagination  missteps that
will block you from fulfilling your unique desires. Remembe r that your
imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it
in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your
imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately
becomes your reality . Nikos Kazantzakis reinforces this idea by giving these words to his
fanciful characte r Zorba (in his book Zorba the Greek), who always lived
his life to the fullest: “By believing passionately in something that does not
yet exist we create it. The none xistent is whatever we have not sufficiently
desired.” This is the power of your imagination when what you desire is
imagined sufficiently to make it your reality . Don’ t diminish this great gift
by using it in a way that is antithetical to its I am God  original nature. Perhaps the most common misuse of imagination is stressing what you
don’t want  for yourself. This is the largest category of misusing
imagination. Start paying attenti on to general conversation, and you will be
astounded by how incredibly prevalent it is. Imagining that finds expression
in phrases like, I don’t deserve prosperity , I am always so unlucky , Things
never work out for me, and I am unhealthy and cannot be healed , are the
kind of ideas that may have been entertained since childhood. Highly
functioning self-actualized people simply never  imagine what it is that they
don’t wish to have as their reality . Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of
thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of
filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wish es that you
fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing
them as crazy or impossible . Recall the words of Kazan tzakis and
passionately believe in that which is in your imagination and which does
not yet exist on the physical plane.Some Rules for a Healthy Imagination
— Rule number one is: never  place into your imagination any thought
that you would not want to materialize. — Rule number two is of equal importance: never allow your
imagination to be contaminated  by ideas about how your life used to be. You need faith in your power to make the nonexistent your reality . Just
because you haven’ t experienced the magic of the nonexistent appearing in
your daily life is no reason to poison your imagination with the thoughts
that got you where you are now or have been for most of your life. I can’t
help it, I’ve always been that way are statements indicating how you’ve
used your imagination in the past. These lead back to the ordinary level of
awareness that I wrote about in the first chapter . Now you must be willing
to change your concept of yourself, and you cannot do that by hanging on to
those old ideas that once were your truths—those truths have kept you from
achieving the complete fulfillment of your dreams. Your imagination can under go a complete overhaul. Replace the old ideas
of I’ve always been this way, It’s my natur e, It’s the only thing I’ve ever
known , with I am God, I am capable, I am strong, I am wealthy , I am
healthy , I am happy— or to use the words of Saint Germain, “‘I AM the
Conquering Presence’! I comma nd this ‘I AM Presence’ to govern perfectly
my mind, home, affairs and world.”11 Use your imagination for the
fulfillment of all your God-real ized and God-aligned wishes. Expand your
imagination beyond the concep t of yourself that limits you to ordinary
consciousness. — Rule number three is a strong reminder to you that your imagination
is yours and yours alone. It is a vast, boundaryless realm within you that no
one else has access to. No one can peer into your imagination and place
things in there that they prefer for you, nor can they extract any ideas that
are percolating in that grand imagination of yours. Your imagina tion is your
own fertile field for growing any seedlings that you choose to plant for a
future harvest. This rule advises you to never allow someone else’s ideas
about what is possible or impossible for you, how you should be thinking,
or who you should be—or anything else—to occupy your imagination.Regularly inventory the thoughts in your imagination. Notice how many of
those ideas were  originally suggested by well-meaning others , dating all the
way back to your early childhood, up to and including today . You may have been told that you have always been a dreamer , as if this
were a fault. I can speak here from experience. Family , friends, teachers,
and even advisors frequently disparaged ideas that burned brightly in my
imagination. I often heard comments such as, “Wayne, you’re such a
dreamer . Get real. You are never  going to make it as a writer , or a television
performer , or a movie personality . Be realistic—we know what’ s best for
you.”
When I was being dischar ged from the Navy at the age of 22, my
superiors warned me that starting college at my “advanced age” was loaded
with uncertainty , particularly since I had no higher education experience,
and I would be competing with younger recent high school graduates. Since
I already had a skill as a cryptographer in the Navy , they advised me to
pursue what they felt was best for me. But I had a dream—an imagination
filled with the idea of teaching, writing, and speaking to large audiences. I
saw myself onstage. I saw myself as a prominent author . And this vision
could not and would not be sabotaged by someone else’s visio n of what I
should or could become. As a young boy in a foster home, I almost always ignored other people’ s
ideas about what I should be thinking or doing—I simply was indifferent to
their opinions regarding what I could imagine for myself. I have  carried this
kind of inner discipline regarding my own imagination with clarity , refusing
to allow external opinions to cancel or diminish what for me was hallowed
ground. Recently , others  advised me that acting in a movie was not sensible for
me as a 68-year -old man with no acting experience. I once again
remembered to hang the Do Not Disturb sign at the entrance to my
imagination, and proceeded to take acting lessons and adopt the self-
enfor ced regimen that allowed me to create a movie. It is a product that fills
me with pride today—all because I have diligently practiced rule three. Never , and I mean never , allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or
can’t become to sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your
territory , and a KEEP OUT sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to
your imagination.Generally speaking, the viewpo ints of other people regarding how you
should occupy your imagination  involve their own self-interest. My naval
superiors were really not so concerned with my own ideas about becoming
a teacher , writer , and public speaker; they saw a promising naval officer in
the making and wanted me to reenlist to help fulfill their own objectives
and quotas. And so it is with most well-meaning, self-app ointed life
coaches who tell you how you should be thinking about your future. Often
they’re trying to fulfill their wishes of needing to feel superior by advising
others what to do. Frequently the inclination to meddle in your imagination
is a way to get something for themselves by persuading you of the folly of
your dreams. Enlist only those (including yourself) who are primarily
interested in what you see or hear in your imagination about your life. — Rule number four may surprise you. It concerns what you don’t want
to let monopol ize your imagination. Do not let your imagination be
restricted to the current condi tions of your life, or what I call “being
obsessed with what is.” Your imagination is unlimited, and if you’ve opted
for an ordinary level of living, it is tempting to stay in “what is” rather than
what you unabashedly intend to manifest for yourself. Keep reminding
yourself that everything that you’ve believed has gotten you to precisely the
point where you are now. This is a rather persistent theme in this book, so it
bears repeating here: If you want to elevate your life and become a
manifester , then you have to change what you’ve believed to be true about
yourself that has landed you where you are. The sentiments of This is
reality , This is just the way things are, There is nothing that I can do to
change what is, and the like are pernicious thoughts that will taint and
defile your great gift of I am that I am, which is your Divine inheritance
from your creator . Just as growth isn’t possible if one continues doing things exactly the
same today as yesterday and tomorrow , so is your imagination charged with
the same  challen ge. In your imagination, you can replace the thought of I
will one day be in a better place, with I am already in my mind wher e I
intend to be. This may soun d irrational because you are accustomed to
evaluating your life on the basis  of what your senses tell you is your reality . After reading Chapter Five and familiarizing yourself with this imaginativeway of approaching your life, you will be able to integrate this idea in your
own special way . As a brief teaser here, I ask you to remember that God didn’ t say to
Moses, “My name is I will be,” becau se to do so would be to admit that
God is lacking something now that he will ultimately become. He said, “I
am that I am.”  You too have been bestowed with the I am legacy . You can
make the choice to reprogram your imagination to take you where you
intend to be: in the now. Creation originates in the world of Spirit—or , to
say it differently , your imagination is the Source of all that has yet to
manifest for you. By staying only with what your senses tell you is your
reality , you place a barrier to letting your imagination create all that you
wish, all that you desire. Your imagination is unlimited. What is today , is
restricted by just that: what is today . Albert Einstein made this astute observation: “Logic will get you from A
to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Your logic—that is, the facts
that you’ve accepted as true—have gotten you to point B. Now you’re
going to reprogram  your imagination to take you everywhere— everywher e
that you are brave enough to envision for yourself. In the quotation on success that I shared with you earlier , Henry David
Thoreau’ s last sentence is fitting for this first foundation for a wishes
fulfilled life: “[You] will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours.” Thoreau suggests that the universe will begin to conspi re with you
to fulfill your wishes. It isn’t just your imagination that will bring you what
you desire—it’ s the fact that you’re realigned with the I am that I am. When
you become it in your mind, you gain the same powers as that which you
are now casting your lot with: God or the T ao. Your Highest Self and Y our Imagination
The essence of you—the you who is a spiritual being having a temporary
human experience—is cultivated in your imagination. The I am that I am—
that is, the you that is God— is impervious to the senses. There’ s an
invisible realm within and around you that is you, and your imagination is
your key to realigning with this I am presenc e, which Einstein said “will
take you everywhere.” Within this realm, guidance is alway s available
when (1) You are open to it, and most important, (2) You are aligned inbody , mind, and spirit . This means living in harmony with your own
personal dharma, feeling on purpose living the life you were intended to
live, and feeling the presence of your highest self at work. This guidance comes in ways that you don’t experience when your life is
off purpose, or when you prefer negative emotions such as fear, anxiety ,
worry , hatred, sadness, and the like. Each of these dubious emotional states
takes you away from your God-realized self. Remember , God’ s name is I
am, so how could God say, “I am afraid, I am worried, I am angry , I am
sad,” and still be God?! Impossible, because God is love and God is
oneness. In order for God to be afraid, worried, angry , or sad, She’d have to
divide Herself and have something other than self to fear, worry about, hate,
or be sad toward . This would make God two: that is, Herself as well as an
other to feel gloomy or angry toward, and God cannot do this and still be
God. So it is with you as well. Every time you put a non-God descrip tor after I
am, you negate your Divine nature. The words I am are your sacred
identification as God—your highest self. Take care how you use this term
because saying anything after I am that’s incongru ent with God is really
taking the Lord’ s name in vain! Practice using imagination to define
yourself only in ways that are compatible with your highest self, and the
universe will supply the happiness, love, and success that you previously
imagined eluding you. This is the meaning of Thoreau’ s statement “meet
with a success unexpected in common hours.” Common hours  are the times
you spend in ordinary awar eness , unawa re of the nature of your God-
realized being. I emphasize this based on my own experience. As I proceed through my seventies, I’m beginning to recognize more
readily the relationship between  my conscious invitation to the God within
me, and what the universe has in store for me. It is simply a sacred
imperative for me to live from the knowing that I am God  in the truest sense
of the word. The result is being fully aligned with my own dharma in ways
that often appear not to be connected. Carl Jung called this phenomenon
synchr onicity—  a collaboration with fate that seems to take place with
strange and wonderful “coincidences” happening. There’ s a feeling of invisible beings taking the reins of my life in a
profound way. I can feel them, and they make themselves know n to me in a
variety of ways that I once would have labeled far-fetched and impossible.The presence of beings, including those who have passed on, has become
my reality . These angelic beings  steer me in ways that keep me aligned with
my dharma and with my highest  self. I feel I’m in a new state of awareness,
rather than being directed by unseen beings. Then I see how I’m being
influenced while still acting from my own treasured free will. A recent
example of this comes to mind. I was aware on my evening walk that I was taking a slightly different
route as I turned in a different  direction than was normal for me. After
purchasing some food to take home, I chose to return home along a route
I’d never taken before. On the way I noticed a fountain and decided to stop
for a few moments. Then as I walked along a path in total darkness, a man
called out my name. Because I had done all of these new things, I was
aligned with someone who recognized me even in total darkness. We chatted, and I invited this man and his wife and their two small
children into my home. Michael and Angela were on Maui to commemorate
the death nine years earlier of their two-and-a-half-year -old daughter . We
talked about their loss, and Angela said that she felt her first child’ s
presence every day. She describ ed it as a feeling of almost giddy joyfulness
that permeated her daily life. Angela knew  that her daughte r’s passing was a
Divine experience, and that her angelic daughter was with her family at all
times and also attempting to teach Angela something that remained elusive
but exciting to her . How many unplanned moves did I take in order for us to meet and share
an eveni ng discu ssing just what I am writing about today? Was I in charge
or was I being guided? Were Michael and Angela also being guided to that
spot for this encounter to take place? I did not feel as if I was being steered
—what happened was that I was awar e just for a fleeting moment. I
proceeded to let myself be guided without any sense of listening to
extraterrestrial voices, anticipating something grand was going to show up. It was only later that I looked back and saw how all my nonrou tine moves
were guidance of some kind that allowed that evening meeting to occur . What transpired  in that meetin g is what prompted me to tell this story ,
because it illustrates living from the place of allowing imaginati on to freely
function. Somet hing seems to kick in and generate circumstances to fulfill
our wishes.During our evening together I told Michael and Angela about my
experience of an orb (an opaque  circular feature that appears unexpectedly
in photo graphs) appearing on my left shoulder in a photo while I was giving
a lecture. The woman who took the photograph, Linda Millek, had this tiny
mark expanded, revealing a collection of what looked like human faces
right there with me as I was delivering a speech on The “I AM” Discourses . It turns out that Linda’ s only son had passed away some 18 years earlier ,
and he was communicating with her using I Am as his channeled calling. Linda has thousa nds of photos of orbs that she picks up on her camera. She
feels her son’s presence in orbs that appear majestically in a variety of
forms. She is in the process of having her son help to reveal to her what
these appearances mean. Linda took several photos of me on the island of St. Maarten, and these
megaphone-shaped orbs were visible on both my left hip and right side. (See photo insert.) The shapes  are identical to those that appear on her
photographs taken from her bedroom window in Michigan where her son
once lived. Lind a has absolutely no doubt about the presence of these orbs,
at the same time she is in the process of learning what their presence means,
and how to best use this information in the fulfillment of a higher calling. This subject of orbs and their purpose is fascinating. I’ve just completed
my first reading of a book by Dr. Klaus and Gundi Heinemann called Orbs:
Their Mission and Messages of Hope , comple te with 65 color photo s of
these rather mystical invisible critters, with convincing commentary and
visual evidence to convert the skeptic. I have the photos of these orbs and
their highly enlar ged images in my home, and I have been astonished to
discover how my feelings of not being alone in this new I am journey are
being verified not only with my increased awareness, but with photographic
evidence as well. As Linda said to me when we reviewed her videos of the orbs, as well as
a mountain of photographs containing orbs and her transmissio ns from her
son, “It’s like following these spiritual bread crumbs. Suddenly all of the
crazy things that are happening  to you begin to make sense.” I have never
met anyone who was more totally convinced that she was receiving
guidance from her loved one on the other side and that these orbs and their
fascinating shapes and human faces have powerful messages of hope for all
of us.During my “chance” encounter with Michael and Angela, I felt compelled
to tell them about my recent orb experience, particularly after Angela told
me how profoundly she felt her daughter ’s presence, even though she had
been dead for nine years. I showed them the photos and told them how
much of what was now showing  up in my life was (to quote Thoreau again)
“unexpected in common hours.”  I learned that they had hundreds of photos
with orbs that they interpreted as their daughter ’s mysterious appearance
showing up to teach us all something. Perhaps all of the things that aligned in order for me to meet this family
occurred so that someone reading this book would read these  words and
consider the possibility of guidance being available from another realm—
and commit to using their imagination in a new way. That some one may be
you. Let your imagination explore your invisible realm in a way that will
allow this new energy to permeate your life. Move to a place within
yourself where Wishes Fulfilled  is a new way of being rather than just the
title of a book. C. Norm an Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., is a distinguished professor and
university president who has this to say concerning orbs:
When Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek used the microscope to introduce us to bacteria and
microor ganisms, he opened another dimen sion. Now we are being introduced to yet another
mysterious dimension, that of the orb. I expect this new experience will yield an even more
exciting world than did the microscope. Here you will find unequaled beauty and mystery! “Unequaled beauty and mystery ,” indeed! And I’d add, “Surrea l evidence
that intelligent guidance is sitting right there on your shoulder!” Allow
yourself to follow your dreams and encourage your imagination by having a
mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. You will discover the bewildering world of synchronicity blossoming
before your eyes when your imagination encapsulates your intention to
manifest for yourself and others. This is because you align with the
powerful God force that created form from spirit. As you’ve heard many
times— with God, all things are possib le. This Divine force awaits your
imaginative energy. It can quite easily send the right people at the right
time. Your highest self says, Of course! though it appears mystifying at the
time. This happens naturally when you turn your attention and imagination
to God within. A sacred sense of rightness lets you know you’re  evolving toa new level rather than living through your ego’s limited ideas of who you
are and what you can become. The presence of angels to lift you up when you are down, to rearrange
things so that what seems like enigmatic unexplainable circumstances is
reality . Healing that seems blessedly baffling, the confounding showing up
of financial aid at precisely the moment it is needed, the perple xing arrival
of a book containing the inform ation you’ve been desiring but has been
eluding you, the unexpected phone call that gives you the answers you’ve
been seeking, the sudden healthy shift in behavior of a loved one who was
seemingly lost—the possibilities are endless. Congruency with the creative
Source of the universe in your own Divine imagination make s what you
wish for not only probable but dead-on inevitable. I want to again refer to my spiritual soul mate Neville, the inspiration for
me to write this book. He directs us to Saint Paul’ s letter to the people of
Ephesus: “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians
3:20). Neville suggests that the Him in this passage,  who is able to do more
than we can think or ask, is imagination—the power that works in us. He
states:
Understanding imagin ation to be HIM that is able to do all you ask, and attention to be the
power by which you create your world, you can now build your ideal world. Imagine yourself
to be the ideal you dream of and desire. Remain attentive to this imagined state, and as fast as
you completely feel that you are already this ideal it will manifest itself as reality  in your
world.12
In the chapters that follow , I present at length the significance of feeling
that you are already this ideal and the importance of the word attention  in
manifesting your new reality . As I close this chapter on the relevance and
utter momentou sness of your imagination keep in mind Saint Paul’s words. There is a power in the universe that is able to go way beyond all that you
could ever ask or even think, and it works in you. What else could this be
other than your own imagination? Stay in a state of grace and gratitude for
this resplendent gift that is always yours to do with as you choose. Three Suggestions— Beco me adamant about your imagination being your private sacred
inner space. Be clear that no one is ever allowed to besmirch it in any way. Speak to your imagination with reverence. Pay homage to it. Stay in a
constant state of gratitude for this beautiful inner sanctum that is your
highest I am that I am, which you share with the creative Source of the
entire universe. — Place no limits on what you allow yourself to imagine, and store those
exalted ideas in a private place within you that no one is capable of sullying
or discouraging. Place a K EEP OUT sign at the edge of your imagination to
remind yourself that this is a private venue. — Invite the mysterious unseen world of Spirit to guide you. Create an
atmosphere of allowing it in without pushing it. Recall Saint Paul’ s advice:
“That which is seen, hath not come from that which doth appear.” Funny
language perhaps for us in the 21st century , but nevertheless,  a powerful
message to keep in your heart . It all comes from Spirit, and your own
imagination is that very Spirit if you stay aligned with the unseen. OceanofPDF .comCHAPTER FIVE
THE SECOND  WISHES  FULFILLED  FOUNDA TION :
LIVE FROM THE  END
“In the pr esence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead
and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.”
— R OMANS  4:17
You might find that this second foundation for a wishes fulfilled  life is the
most troublesom e and unconventional idea that you tackle. If you find that
this is true for you, I encourage you to rustle up all the determination you
are capable of. You are going to begin retraining your imagination so that it
accepts the idea that anything placed there isn’t for a future experience, but
represents your reality , right here, right now. You are being asked to put
your five senses into a lockbox so that they can’t persuade you that you are
ignoring what they perceiv e as reality . You are stepping into a new
dimension, the unaccustomed reality that Saint Paul speaks of in his letters
to the people of Rome in Romans 4:17, cited above. Keep in mind a fundamental axiom of this book, the strong knowing  I
described in Chapter Three  and stress throu ghout this book: We are all God. “Is it not written  in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?” (John  10:34) was
the respo nse of Jesus when he was about to be stoned. “For a good work we
do not stone You, but for blasphemy , and because You, being a man, make
Yourself God” (John 10:33). I quote this to remind you that it is not me,
some crazy 21st-century writer , saying these words; they are directly out of
the scriptures. Now simply review the line Saint Paul speaks in Romans 4:17: “and calls
those things which do not exist as though they did.” This is how God
works. Your imagination, when aligned with the highest principles of your
highest self, is God at work. You can make your imagination a place where
you absolutely “call things” as you insist that they be, even though they
may not have appeared in the third dimension as reported by your fivesenses. This is where you must learn to trust, think, and live from rather
than in anticipation of. Hence the title of this chapter: “Live from the End.”
As I sit here writing, there’ s a book with a beautiful jacket taped around it. The jacket is exactly the same as the cover of the book you are now
reading, titled Wishes Fulfilled. I’m only one-third of the way through the
actual writing of this book, yet I see the completed book every  day when I
approach my sacred writing space. This is a practice I’ve maintained for
many years. As I’m in the process of writing, I see the finished  book every
day, both in my imagination and in its symbolic representation. My imag ination is where my thoughts are the thoughts of God, and thus I
am God creating what I know is already present. I am “calling  that which
does not exist as though it did.” Knowing and feeling this means nothing
can dissuade me from this creati ve force in my imagination. There’s no fear
about completing some awesome undertaking of writing a book—it’ s
already complet e in my mind. I simply allow the energy to flow into me,
through my heart, and onto the pages. I recently made the following
observation conc erning the topic “Are You a Writer?” on my website: “Stop
judging and get out of your own way. I always tell audiences when I talk
about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is somethin g that I am. I am writing—it’ s just an expression of me.”
Notice the words I am (the name of God for all generations to come),
which were told to Moses in the Torah. Begin to focus your attention on
words that follow the sacred name of God—your highest self—t hat is, I am. Begin to recognize the power of your creative imagination to fulfill wishes
with I am. The Power of Y our Imagination
Figuratively tattoo these words of Neville onto your forehead. In other
words, memorize them, and repeat them to yourself every time you look
into the mirror:
Disregard appearanc es, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the
fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be,
for in that determined  assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity ,
and with your Infinite Being (God) all things ar e possible. God never fails.13Your concept of yourself is being replaced by a new concept of yourself. A new self-concept begins with you placing it in your imagination and
living from this new perspective. You can count on your five senses to
attempt to convince you that you should pay homage only to them and treat
your imaginatio n as unimportant and illusory . But that doesn’ t mean that
you have to allow them to usurp your new concept of yourself. Right now , in this moment, you can practice this. Say aloud or to yourself,
By placi ng new I ams into my imagin ation, my futur e dream is a present
fact. Repeat the statement a few times. Can you feel your ego resisting? Which of your five senses is most adamantly annoyed? Notice and repeat. This new concept of yourself as God, or at least as a spark of God, asks you
to think like God, Who “calls those things which do not exist as though they
did.”
Here, you are creating an ideal of what you want to be and assuming that
you already are that person. This is what Neville calls the Law of
Assumption, and he states emphatically , “If this assumption is persisted in
until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is
inevitable.”14
Remind yoursel f that your imag ination is yours to use as you decide, and
that everything you wish to manifest into your physical world must first be
placed firmly in your imagination in order to grow . Let Neville’ s words
guide you:
Therefore, to incarnate a new and greater value of yourself, you must assume that you
already are what you want to be and then live by faith in this assumption—which is not yet
incarnate in the body of your life—in confidence that this new value or state of consc iousness
will become incarnated through your absolute fidelity to the assumption that you are that
which you desire to be.15
This is a total transformation of your entire being. Within your imagination, you can conceive thoughts of what you want as
already here—p rior to their birth in form in the sensory world. This means
that your thoughts aren’ t along the lines of: I will be. I hope it works out. I’m praying for good results. Instead , you say to yourself: I am—
acknowledging the I am presence as God dwelling in me. Then your mind
as that I am presenc e will become the domin ant creative feature in your life. This generative force will gently assert its authentic creativity and power asyou conceive it, and in the process replace a dependency on your physical
and intellectual abilities. Your renewed reality does not rely exclusively on
those five senses that keep you attached to the false beliefs that you are
your body or its possessions, achievements, and reputation. You’ve already discovered that the different bodies you’ve occupied
throughout your life so far no longer exist for your senses to experience. Now you can choose to consciously participate in this nonsensory supreme
reality—your imagination—where you assume your future dream to be a
present fact and live from this new awareness. This isn’t pretending or
fooling yourself , it is inviting your spirit rather than your physical form to
generate the creative essence of your reality . It’s what it means to transform
your life. The word transformation  has the word form  right smack in the middle,
preceded by trans— meaning going beyond form. Live from the place that
will indeed take you way beyon d the limits of your seemingly limited life. Explore imagination, which is the Source of all being or physical reality . Throughout my life I’ve often been called excessively persistent  and even
obsessive in going after what I wish to fulfill. The truth is that I have within
me a very powerful knowing that when I place somethin g into my
imagination, it is already a fact for me. I just don’t seem to have the
capacity to erase from my mind what it is that is already my reality . For
instance, earlier  in my life when I applied to a doctoral program, I already
saw myself with a doctorate, although I hadn’ t taken even one course
toward that degree. When I was told that nine out of ten doctoral students
do not receive their degree because they cannot complete the vigorous
requirements of writing a disser tation, I knew that this did not apply to me,
because I was already a doctor in my imagination. I persistently  acted as if
my dream were a present fact. I’ve had this same kind of “thin king from the end” in every phase of my
professional career. As a young  boy I saw myself on television shows and
vehemently held this inner picture in my imagination, ignoring a lot of
naysayers! And these imaginin gs ultimately were taken from my mind,
where they were  real, to the material world, where my senses finally caught
up and confirmed them as truths. The facts are, for me, that a picture in my imagination is already my
reality . I live from this perspective, and nothing can dissuade me from thisstance because I am not hoping  to get someplace else. I am already there. I
just don’t know  how to erase what I am living in my imagination, even if
the whole world  attempts to persuade me of the folly of my dreams. This is
a mind-set you can choose to embrace. Let go of all doubt, forget about the when. It will develop into a material
fact on Divine time. Forget about the how. Live it inwardly . This is a great
power that you possess if you are willing to claim it as your own. I cannot  emphasize strongly enough how vital it is for you to claim this
inherent power of God and use it for manifesting the life you desire. Be
obstinate regard ing this idea. Hold your vision relentlessly , and more than
that—live each day as if that idea you have in your imagination is in fact
your reality . In The “I AM” Discourses , Saint Germain repeatedly reminds
us that we are the master and have dominion in our lives; once this is part of
your awareness, you can access the energy, power , and intellig ence of the
mighty I am presence, which is your very birthright. This I am presence is
always with you. Moving from I Am Not to I Am! Throughout life you’ve been through a conditioning process that’s created
a mind-set overflowing with I am nots. As a schoolchi ld with a less than
satisfactory grade on your report card, you thought to yourself, I am not
smart. You place anywhere other than number one and say, I am not
talented. You feel criticized and believe that I am not good. You look in the
mirror and compare yourself to a glamorous movie idol or homecoming
queen and tell yourself, I am not attractive. Your relationship fractures and
you think, I am unloved  or I am unworthy . These, and many more like them,
are repeated throughout your developmental years and into adulthood, and
become your core defining self-concept. You are reading this book becau se you wish to elevate your life to heights
way beyond ordinary . You are endea voring to adopt new truths that are
harmonious with your higher and highest self. Now is the perfect time for
you to begin discovering the God within you and yourself as God, and to
expand your self-concept. I applaud you! Your self-concept is everything
that you believe to be true about yourself.Overcoming this I am not mentality begins with trusting your inner world
of spirit. There are no boundar ies restricting your inner world. But your
worldview and your self-concept in the outer world are defined by your five
senses. The outer world is always changing, which, by our previous
definition, means it is not real. This awareness could lead to you
experiencing a majestic wake-up call right here, right now . How does it feel to realize that most of what you believe about yourself
and your limitations is based on an illusion—a well-intentioned illusion
handed to you by people in bodies that no longer exist, in a time that has
passed? Much of your self-con cept is a fiction based on beliefs that are
untrue and conta ined no veracity when you were first exposed to them. This
is exquisitely detailed by Anita Moorjani, who had a near-death experience
(NDE) that challenged all her previous self-concepts about who and what
she was. Her story illustrates that there’ s another dimension where you can
become one with God and create miracles in your everyday life. Anita had Hodgkin’ s lymphom a throughout her body . Her organs were
shutting down, and she was told that she had less than 36 hours  to live. On
the website for the Near Death Experience Research Foundation
(nderf.org ), she relates: “Then I actua lly ‘crossed over’ to another
dimension, where I was engu lfed in a total feeling of love. I also
experienced extreme clarity of why I had the cancer , why I had come into
this life in the first place, what role everyone in my family played in my life
in the grand scheme of things, and generally how life works.”
While in her NDE state, Anita was shown that everything going on in our
lives is depende nt on this energy around us, created by us. Nothing is solid
—we are the creators of our surroundings and life conditions depending on
how we use this energy. Our physical bodies become sick because of the
energetic level at which we live. As Anita reports, “I realized that if I went
back, it would be with a very healthy energy. Then the physical body would
catch up to the energetic conditions very quickly and perman ently . I was
given the understanding that this applies to anything, not only illnesses.”
Anita was given the opportunity to return to her cancer -ravaged body . Astoundingly , four days after her NDE, her body showed almost  no signs of
cancer . Essentia lly, this woman discovered the I am God lesson of this
book, as well as the great messa ge of Jesus that I’ve detailed in the previous
chapters.I made contact with Anita and encouraged her to write her own book and
share her remarkable story with the world. Her book, titled Dying to Be Me,
is an incredibly inspiring and compelling account of her experience. Anita’ s
physical body , with billions of cancer cells, went from being at death’ s door
to being cancer -free following her NDE. She has so much to share with us,
and I am proud to have written the Foreword to her book. Anita realized that the seemingly solid world that our senses offer us is an
illusion. She changed the outcome of test results and concluded that we can
change anythin g by changing our energy, which we create with our
thoughts. For her, this included  a reality  called cancer because a shift in
consciousness made it disappear . “From what I saw, it looked like we are
energy first, and physical is only a result of expressing our energy,” she
says. “And we can change our physical reality if we change our energy.”
This is what your declaration of I am God can be for you. God is not
physical, it is energy, and this Divine energy is not like the material-world
energy that your senses report to you. Anita reported that she experienced a profound awareness that everything
and everyone are interconnected—there is no separation. All she had to do
to heal her physical body was to merge into God-consciousn ess and be
perfect love: “I felt one with everything. I felt a connection with every
living thing. And it felt like the whole universe is within me.” She reports
that time and space felt very different in that dimension. “It doesn’ t feel
linear , like it does here. It felt like everything was happening
simultaneously .”
Anita came to find that even past lives are not past—the words that best
describe them are parallel lives , because there is no time and no separation. That idea is something that our senses find next to impossible to
comprehend because we think linear— cause and effect, before and after. For Anita there was only love, and it was an all-consuming love that she
described as constructing the entire world: “I was also flooded in all-
encompassing, unconditionally loving energy. … This universal energy is
there for us no matter who or what we are. I felt amazingly powerful and
magnificent.”
The world that Anita experienced while in her NDE is also your world. It
requires making a shift to the true understanding of what the words I am
signify to you. Live from the perspective that all things are possible ,planted firmly in the depths of your imagination. The more you believe in
your own Divine nature, the more it starts to become real for you. Anita’ s almost instantaneous healing from an imminent death prognosis
taught her that our highest self is unconditional love—no separation, no
time, no judgme nt. As she puts it, “Whatever you believe, you will find that
you are correct.”  Just think of the importance of living from this perspective
now, rather than hoping it will become your reality sometime in the future,
or after your body dies. Living from the I am God awareness necessitates knowing that you are
one with transcendent uncondit ional love. This awareness attracts to your
life everything that confirms this belief about yourself. Here you are
ignoring what your senses preach to you, and after the words I am, you are
placing the word magnificent . To quote Anita, as she explains what she learned from this amaz ing NDE:
“When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract
magnificence into your life,” and “If you believe in things like ‘like attracts
like,’ then the absolute best way to attract what’ s best for you is to love
yourself to the point where you are filled with love, and will only attract to
your life everything that confirms this belief about yourself. It’s actually
very simple, really .”
Anita entered the realm of God-realization and lived from there while in
her NDE . Yet she also returned to a healthy body after her organs had shut
down, and the prognosis was imminent death. She is love  rather than loving. Being love requires no action; it is simply loving yourself and your
magnificence so totally that it overflows to all others. Remember these  words that Jesus spoke: “God is love, and he who abides
in love abides in God, and God in him.” Your I am for this is simply I am
Love. Live from this awareness, rather than the expectation that someday
you’ll arrive there. You will then capture the quintessence of this second
wishes fulfilled foundation. I bring Anita’ s experience to you here because I
was floored by the descriptions she offered concerning this great feeling of
being bathed in unconditional love, and this is why I sought her out to write
her own story for the world to hear . I want to bring to your attention one final observation she made about the
concept of being in the state of God-r ealization. There is no there—it’s alljust being—so there is no being her e, because here implies the existence of
there. As Anita writes: “When we ‘pursue’ externally , we seem to see the world
as being competitive and limited, and we use external measures to judge our
achievements. To me, herein lies the illusion. There is no limited supply of
‘beingness.’ We seem to measure our ‘beingness’ by the achievement of
goals. I don’t, and neither do most people who are happy . My point is to
shift your views . See the magni ficence in your being whether you are rich,
or poor , physically impaired or not, with the one you love, or not, and so on. I am now just focused on being, and am now the creator of my life—that is,
the artist of my life.”
Apropos of the message of this chapter , Anita concludes, “The only thing
you need to learn is that you already are what you are seeking to attain.”
I am inviting you to live this way, first in your imagination— be it. Then
live your life in the way Saint Paul suggests, treating those things which do
not exist as though they did, and surely they will become your reality . Your Reconstructed I Ams
Run through as large an inventory as you can of the things that you would
like to define your life. Then make the shift in your imagination from an I
am not  or I am hoping to become  to I am. You want what follows I am to be
congruent with your highest self, which is God. Beginning with your inner
dialogue, simply  change the words that define your concept of yourself. Don’ t discuss what you’re doing, because involving others in your I ams
invites their ego to assert its self-importance. Redefine your self-concept by
choosing the words that you opt to place into your imagination. Try this
rewording of your inner world as a beginning step to accessing the
assistance of your higher self and fulfilling your desires. In the book of Joel, the Lord’ s advice is in harmony with what I’m writing
in this chapter: “Let the weak say, ‘I am strong’” (Joel 3:10). It is truly as
simple as these seven words from  the Bible advise. If you say, “I am weak,”
you defile the name of God that is your highest self. How is it possible for
the creative Source of the universe, the Source energy responsible for
creating worlds, to say , “I am weak”?As I’ve quoted previously , Jesus said, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I
said, “You are gods”’?” So how can you, as you now operate in your life
from your highest self, ever even think such a thought as I am weak , let
alone define yourself in such a blasphemous manner? By thinking I am
strong, you place in your imagination  the tools you need to achieve your
pronouncements, and you align with the Source of all, with strength instead
of weak ness. Align yourself so as to synchronistically invite the guidance
that is unavailable when you declare, “I am weak.”
Instead of I am incapable of getting a job , shift to I am capable . Similarly ,
replace proclam ations of I am not able to live in peace  with I am peace. I
am unlucky in love is replaced by I am love. I am unworthy of happiness
becomes I am happiness. The words I am, which you consistently use to
define who you are and what you are capable of, are holy expressions for
the name of God—the highest aspect of yourself. Break lifelo ng habits of
unwittingly besmirching this holy name. Discontinue using pejorative labels
to cast aspersions on your holy self. One of the many great lessons of The “I AM” Discourses  is to always
make your very first considerati on to your Divine self. In fact, adoration to
it will allow you to rise to previously unimagined heights. You must make
your outer self accept the unlimited power of your inner presence. Expanding Y our Inner Presence
It is impossible  for me to overstate the significance of using these two
words I am. They have transformative energy to guide and direct the
highest power in the universe, revealing you as a God-realized being. The
next four chapters explore in detail how to manifest a wishes fulfilled life. This chapter emphasizes training yourself to become comfortable with
recognizing your tendency to think and say I am not or I hope to be, and
replacing it with I am. Neville spoke of it this way: “By creating an ideal in
your mind, you can identify yourself with it until you become one and the
same with the ideal, thereby transforming yourself into it.”16
It matte rs not how long you’ve  been stuck in a pattern that’s kept you
from fulfilling your highest ideal of yourself. By shifting so that you restate
who you are in your imagination and choosing to live from this perspective,
you will, as Neville suggests, achieve that transformation. This is truewhether you’ve  been a drug addict, a chronic stutterer , enmeshed in
poverty , riddled with illness, chronically lazy, unlucky in love, intellectually
inferior—or whatever you’ve wished you weren’ t! Apply the teachings of
the next four chapters first in your mind and then with actions that match
your inner I am. Here are a few examples:
•   Addictions: Af firm, I am sober; I am perfectly healthy . •   Stuttering: Af firm, I am in perfect command of my speech. •   Poverty: Af firm, I am pr osper ous. •   Illness: Af firm, I am well; I am perfect health. •   Laziness: Af firm, I am in possession of unlimited ener gy. •   Seeking love: Af firm, I am love, and I am in a loving r elationship. •   Intellectually weak: Af firm, I am a genius. You might be thinking that this is all self-delusion, and just saying I am
doesn’ t make it so. It’s probably  natural to feel skeptical if you believe that
what your sense s tell you is your only reality . The scriptures  offer some
words that may help you overc ome your cynical viewpoint. The opening
words in the book of John in the New Testament are: “In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Thirteen verses later, there is this phrase: “And the Word became flesh and
dwelt among us” (John 1:14). What do you suppose the phrase “and the Word was God” means? You
are more than your sensory awareness. You are also your own spiritual
divinity , which is impervious to those five senses. God procl aims in the
same scriptures, as I noted in the previous chapter , “My name is I Am.”
Those two words are now in your imagination in such a way that they align
perfectly with God. This is your beginning. Steadfastly retain and repeat I am, and you will discover the reality of
“and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” Yes, the words I am. Calling upon this name and placing it in your imagination and living from
this place literally joins you with the Source of power that allows you to
become all that you’ve affirme d, as well as to create miracles. Begin by
being willing to use these Divin e words as the name of your highest self:
God. That is the inauguration of the you that will live a wishes fulfilled life,as long as those  wishes are in alignment with the Source of being, which is
love—love for yourself and your magnificence, love for all of God’ s
creations. You will observe with joyous bewilderment as the words I am
become flesh and dwell in your life as a hardened fact. Three Suggestions
— Com mit yourself to your own magnificence. Every time you look into
a mirror , remind yourself that what stares back at you is not an ever-
changing body , but an invisibleness that is truly your highest self. Affirm: I
am love, I am God, I am worthy , I am infinite , silently and out loud. Do this
frequently so that it eventually becomes your inner mantra. This is not an
ego exercise, it is an awakening  to the incredible miracle that you are. This
will help you abandon old patterns you’ve carried that have sullied your
personal relationship to this universe and all of the inherent beauty and
perfection it beholds. — Fearlessly place I ams into your imagination. Recognize that
previously , your false self, your ego, would never have allowed this
expansion of your awareness. Ignore three-dimensional evidence that has
defined your existence up until now. Enter into a higher fourth dimension
that allows for the primary teaching of Jesus the Christ: “With God all
things are possible.” Your imagination is yours. You are free to place
anything in there at your discretion. I am talented, I am heroic, I am
ecstatically happy , I am wealthy beyond words, I am content, I am God. Be
fearless, and let those ideals be your reality . — Take this advice from The “I AM” Discourses. Decide what you want
to do or become, and then, ignoring any and all interference, repeatedly say,
“‘I AM the Presence’ doing it.”17 Treat this as your calling to love and
adore your own mighty I am presence so that it always anchors and fortifies
you. Every time you use the words I am with anything, you are also calling
in the Divine power to do whatever you are proclaiming. Implement these three suggestions and enter a dimension where there
isn’t a shred of doubt about your divinity and power .OceanofPDF .comCHAPTER SIX
THE THIRD  WISHES  FULFILLED  FOUNDA TION :
FEELING  IT
“That which you feel yourself to be you ar e, and you ar e given that which
you ar e. So assume the feeling that would be yours wer e you alr eady in
possession of your wish, and your wish must be r ealized. … So live in the
feeling of being the one you want to be and that you shall be.”18
— N EVILLE
I have a quotation on the wall near my bed that’s from a recording Neville
made in 1944, which reads: “Make your future dream a present fact, by
assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.” This is what I read and practice
each night befor e I sleep. These  are the words that eventually prompted me
to write this book. They capture the essential message, not only of this
chapter , but this entire book. There is so much wisdom in this idea of
assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Until this point I’ve been explaining the importance of thoughts, thinking,
self-concepts, and imagination. These are all invisible formulations that you
enact. Your imagination and your concept of yourself are formless thoughts
that you can change. Recreate your thoughts—making your imagination
your own privat e inner territory—and ultimately you will act based on how
you’ve used this amazing power that you possess. Furthermore, allowing
your highest self to rule—thinking like God thinks—means all things are
possible. Neville’ s books and lectures reveal something that makes his
statement at the beginning of this chapter applicable to anyone seriously
intent on mastering the art of manifestation. That something  that Neville
stresses throughout all his work is the importance of feeling. “So live,” he says, “in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that
you shall be.” This chapter invites you to realize the enormous  implications
this statement has for you. Beco me aware of the importance of feelings and
their crucial role in advancing you from someone who merely has wishes toexperiencing  your wishes in your present life. So many people remain
unaware of the importance of feeling that it’s almost as if it were a secret
ingredient to creating a wishes fulfilled life. The creative process begins with
an idea, which the earlier chapters explored, including how to change your
ideas about yourself and all that you are capable of achieving. To summarize: the cycle of the creative process is first a thought, then a
feeling, then a hardening into a physical object, or ultim ately a new
volitional act. The Role of Feelings in Y our Manifesting
To put it as plain and simple as I know how to make it: no assumption of
the feeling of the wish fulfilled, no fulfillment of your wishes. In other
words, it is absolutely imperative to learn how to assume, in your
imagination, the feeling of alrea dy having and being what you desire. Your
thoughts are without form. If we could find a location in space for these
thoughts, they would be in your head—but your head has boundaries, and
your thoughts do not have boundaries, so they could reside anywhere or
nowhere. You choose the thought that you prefer , from the trillions of thoughts that
continuously flow through your mind on that never -ending conveyer belt. You can pick one that suits you, put it back, and take another at any time. Your imagination is the repository of thoughts that you opt to keep. Your
feelings , on the other hand, are experienced in your body—the place where
you do all of your living in this corporeal material world. Your feelings play
more of a role in your life than you realize. In order to learn something intellectually , you engage in the practice of
mental discipline: studying, researching, memorizing facts, cogitating,
participating in discussions, and seeking expert opinions. Ultimately you
draw conclusions about what you’ve been analyzing. Y ou know the facts and
are confident you’ve mastered the subject through the thinking process. Knowing something spiritually  is a very different matter altogether . Here
you can cogitate, ruminate, and analyze endlessly without accessing any
more enlightened awareness of what you are studying. In order to know
something spiritually , you must experience  it, there is no other way—you
cannot simply think  your way to a new awareness. You must experience it,and the only vehicles you have for directly experiencing a new and higher
vision for yourself are your feelings. What does it feel like in your body? You may have placed a picture in your imagination of who you’d like to
be, but if you can’t assume the feeling of that wish fulfilled, you’ll find it
impossible to make your future dream a present fact. Yet you do have this
wondrous power  to take a thought that is in your imagination, live from that
place in your daily life, and then experience in your body exactly how that
feels and stay with this feeling. These words I am now channeling for you
are among the most important you will read in this book, and perhaps in
your entire lifetime. Your feelings are where you live. If you have been able
to assume the feeling within your heart and genuinely feel the love that this
activity brings to you, you will, as Neville states, be in a place where your
wish must be r ealized— such is the power of your feelings. Years ago, while teaching at several major universities, I’d ask graduate
students this question: “What do you respond to first—what you know , or
how you feel?” I wanted them to determine which domain captured their
primary attention. For instance, on the cognitive level—their analyzing
ability , mathematical prowess, mastery of the rhyming scheme of an
Elizabethan sonnet, or ability to memorize scientific formulas. On the
feeling level—loneliness, sadness, fear, heartbreak, anxiety , love, ecstasy ,
joy, and so on. All reported that the feeling level was primary . You most likely will agree that how you feel takes precedence over what
you know—ef fect rules over cognition. Formal educational experiences,
however , are almost exclusively devoted to the “what you know” aspect of
your being. I’m suggesting that you assume an entirely new approach. I want
you to get the full brunt of the message that the assumption of feeling of the
wish fulfilled will bring home to you. Here is Neville Goddard, speaking on this subject in 1944:
Every feeling makes a subconscious impression and, unless it is counteracted by a more
powerful feeling of an opposite nature, must be expressed. The dominant of two feelings is the
one expressed. I am healthy  is a stronger feeling than I will be healthy . To feel I will be is to
confess I am not; I am  is stronger than I am not. What you feel you are always dominates what
you feel you would like to be; therefore, to be realized, the wish must be felt as a state that is
rather than a state that is not.19
The words I am strong are simply cerebral abstractions. The feeling  of I
am strong is a sensation—and as Nevil le sums up: “Sensation precedesmanifestation and is the foundation upon which all manifestation rests.”20
Here you are being encouraged to feel only the state you desire to realize. By
literally feeling the reality of the state that you seek, which is firmly in your
imagination, you have the means of creating miracles. “A chan ge of feeling
is a change of destiny .”21 Keep this beautiful tidbit from Neville
omnipresent in your consciousness. I have placed a thought in my imagination concerning the completion of
this book and having it published and available to large numbers of people,
including you. I have a picture of the completed book sitting in front of me,
even though I am only halfway into the first draft. Yet these ideas and
pictures are not the driving force that will allow my future dream to be the
obvious present fact that it is. I have assumed  the feeling of the wish fulfilled, feeling the love in my
body as I imagine millions of people learning these lessons that have so
impacted my life. I look at the book jacket, I see the book as completed, and
most important, I feel love in action. My subconscious mind has been
programmed to act automatic ally on the desire I have placed in my
imagination. But the actual fulfillment of that desire comes about because,
and only because, I have assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled within me
right now, even though it appears that it has not yet materialized. To impress
my subconsciou s mind with this desirable loving state I am currently
experiencing, I assumed the feeling that would have been mine had I already
realized my wish. This is really an exercise in discovering just how powerful
a role our feeling state sensations play in the process of mastering the art of
manifestation. You are not engaging in an intellectual exercise, you are learning about
your Divine spiritual nature and how God works as you. You can look at
anything that you have declared  in your imagination as I am and access the
feeling of love in every cell of your body .
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        You have this great
power within you. It is a power that is virtually unlimited, and it has been
given to you as your birthright. Before putting this gift to work,  it is crucial for you to know that virtually
all spiritual teachings have spoken of the power that Blake comments on in
that insightful sentence, “What is now proved was once only imagin’d. ” In
the year that I spent researchin g and living the Tao for my book Change
Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, this truth jumped out at me in the lines
of the 40th verse of the Tao Te Ching. “Being is born of nonbeing” was
Lao-tzu’ s obser vation 2,500 years ago. The visible world of being
originates in nonbeing. Some 500 years later Jesus would tell his followers,
“It is the Spirit who gives life” (John 6:63). I could go on through all of the
great spiritual traditions and offer you quote upon quote that states that it is
in the invisible formless realm that the originating spark of life begins. Today, the world of quantum physics confirms that the univers e is made
of formless (spirit) energy, and that particles (that is, things) do not
originate from particles (things). Everything springs from some thing that is
akin to your imagination. You can’t touch, taste, see, hear, or smell it. It hasno boundaries. You can’t prove it with mathematical formulas or scientific
verification. Yet we all know that it exists. These invisible thoughts that you
have—these ideas that continue to percolate within you, these fanciful
images that are always with you—are beyond the scope of science to prove
or disprove. I love this observation made by Max Planck, the father of quantum
theory: “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is
because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and, therefore,
part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. ” You simply know that you
have an imagination, and that this imagination is the Source of all being. It
is up to you to channel and use this magnificent endowment to work in the
creation of all that you choose to place in that imagination. Taking Charge of Y our Imagination
My favorite definition of success, which I’ve cited on numerous
occasions, was offered by Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century at
Walden Pond: “If one advances  confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpe cted in common hours. ” I’ve italicized two words in
Thoreau’ s definition of success— dreams  and imagined. What Thoreau is saying is so important to you today. Be willing to dream,
and imagine yourself becoming  all that you wish to be. If you live from
those imaginings, the universe will align with you in bringing all that you
wish for—and even more than you imagined when you were living at an
ordinary level of consciousness, or what Thoreau calls “common hours. ”
Keep in mind this basic axiom—if all that now exists was once imagined,
then what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined. You’ll see as you read through these foundations for fulfilling your wishes
that using your imagination involves more intensity on your part than just
imagining an occasional wishfu l thought. You must first unlearn some of
the ways that you’ve been misusing or squandering the capacity your
imagination has for providing you with an unlimited ability to manifest all
that you desire. Thoreau called it advancing confidently in the direction of
your own dreams. Unfortunately, most of us have learned to do the opposite
with our imagination, and instead regularly use it to develop mental habitsof advancing in precisely the reverse direction of our highest dreams for
ourselves. In the next chapter I address in depth how to utilize the I ams and live
from your I am God awareness, beginning with your imagination. Recall
that I am God doesn’t refer to your body in any way. It refers to the
birthless, deathless, changeless spirit that remains in all the changing forms
your body takes every moment of your temporary life here on Earth. It is important that you recognize a few of the imagination  missteps that
will block you from fulfilling your unique desires. Remembe r that your
imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it
in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your
imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately
becomes your reality. Nikos Kazantzakis reinforces this idea by giving these words to his
fanciful characte r Zorba (in his book Zorba the Greek), who always lived
his life to the fullest: “By believing passionately in something that does not
yet exist we create it. The none xistent is whatever we have not sufficiently
desired. ” This is the power of your imagination when what you desire is
imagined sufficiently to make it your reality. Don’ t diminish this great gift
by using it in a way that is antithetical to its I am God  original nature. Perhaps the most common misuse of imagination is stressing what you
don’t want  for yourself. This is the largest category of misusing
imagination. Start paying attenti on to general conversation, and you will be
astounded by how incredibly prevalent it is. Imagining that finds expression
in phrases like, I don’t deserve prosperity, I am always so unlucky, Things
never work out for me, and I am unhealthy and cannot be healed, are the
kind of ideas that may have been entertained since childhood. Highly
functioning self-actualized people simply never  imagine what it is that they
don’t wish to have as their reality. Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of
thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of
filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wish es that you
fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing
them as crazy or impossible. Recall the words of Kazan tzakis and
passionately believe in that which is in your imagination and which does
not yet exist on the physical plane. Some Rules for a Healthy Imagination
— Rule number one is: never  place into your imagination any thought
that you would not want to materialize. — Rule number two is of equal importance: never allow your
imagination to be contaminated  by ideas about how your life used to be. You need faith in your power to make the nonexistent your reality. Just
because you haven’ t experienced the magic of the nonexistent appearing in
your daily life is no reason to poison your imagination with the thoughts
that got you where you are now or have been for most of your life. I can’t
help it, I’ve always been that way are statements indicating how you’ve
used your imagination in the past. These lead back to the ordinary level of
awareness that I wrote about in the first chapter. Now you must be willing
to change your concept of yourself, and you cannot do that by hanging on to
those old ideas that once were your truths—those truths have kept you from
achieving the complete fulfillment of your dreams. Your imagination can under go a complete overhaul. Replace the old ideas
of I’ve always been this way, It’s my natur e, It’s the only thing I’ve ever
known, with I am God, I am capable, I am strong, I am wealthy, I am
healthy, I am happy— or to use the words of Saint Germain, “‘I AM the
Conquering Presence’. I comma nd this ‘I AM Presence’ to govern perfectly
my mind, home, affairs and world. ”11 Use your imagination for the
fulfillment of all your God-real ized and God-aligned wishes. Expand your
imagination beyond the concep t of yourself that limits you to ordinary
consciousness. — Rule number three is a strong reminder to you that your imagination
is yours and yours alone. It is a vast, boundaryless realm within you that no
one else has access to. No one can peer into your imagination and place
things in there that they prefer for you, nor can they extract any ideas that
are percolating in that grand imagination of yours. Your imagina tion is your
own fertile field for growing any seedlings that you choose to plant for a
future harvest. This rule advises you to never allow someone else’s ideas
about what is possible or impossible for you, how you should be thinking,
or who you should be—or anything else—to occupy your imagination. Regularly inventory the thoughts in your imagination. Notice how many of
those ideas were  originally suggested by well-meaning others, dating all the
way back to your early childhood, up to and including today. You may have been told that you have always been a dreamer, as if this
were a fault. I can speak here from experience. Family, friends, teachers,
and even advisors frequently disparaged ideas that burned brightly in my
imagination. I often heard comments such as, “Wayne, you’re such a
dreamer. Get real. You are never  going to make it as a writer, or a television
performer, or a movie personality. Be realistic—we know what’ s best for
you. ”
When I was being dischar ged from the Navy at the age of 22, my
superiors warned me that starting college at my “advanced age” was loaded
with uncertainty, particularly since I had no higher education experience,
and I would be competing with younger recent high school graduates. Since
I already had a skill as a cryptographer in the Navy, they advised me to
pursue what they felt was best for me. But I had a dream—an imagination
filled with the idea of teaching, writing, and speaking to large audiences. I
saw myself onstage. I saw myself as a prominent author. And this vision
could not and would not be sabotaged by someone else’s visio n of what I
should or could become. As a young boy in a foster home, I almost always ignored other people’ s
ideas about what I should be thinking or doing—I simply was indifferent to
their opinions regarding what I could imagine for myself. I have  carried this
kind of inner discipline regarding my own imagination with clarity, refusing
to allow external opinions to cancel or diminish what for me was hallowed
ground. Recently, others  advised me that acting in a movie was not sensible for
me as a 68-year -old man with no acting experience. I once again
remembered to hang the Do Not Disturb sign at the entrance to my
imagination, and proceeded to take acting lessons and adopt the self-
enfor ced regimen that allowed me to create a movie. It is a product that fills
me with pride today—all because I have diligently practiced rule three. Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or
can’t become to sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your
territory, and a KEEP OUT sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to
your imagination. Generally speaking, the viewpo ints of other people regarding how you
should occupy your imagination  involve their own self-interest. My naval
superiors were really not so concerned with my own ideas about becoming
a teacher, writer, and public speaker; they saw a promising naval officer in
the making and wanted me to reenlist to help fulfill their own objectives
and quotas. And so it is with most well-meaning, self-app ointed life
coaches who tell you how you should be thinking about your future. Often
they’re trying to fulfill their wishes of needing to feel superior by advising
others what to do. Frequently the inclination to meddle in your imagination
is a way to get something for themselves by persuading you of the folly of
your dreams. Enlist only those (including yourself) who are primarily
interested in what you see or hear in your imagination about your life. — Rule number four may surprise you. It concerns what you don’t want
to let monopol ize your imagination. Do not let your imagination be
restricted to the current condi tions of your life, or what I call “being
obsessed with what is. ” Your imagination is unlimited, and if you’ve opted
for an ordinary level of living, it is tempting to stay in “what is” rather than
what you unabashedly intend to manifest for yourself. Keep reminding
yourself that everything that you’ve believed has gotten you to precisely the
point where you are now. This is a rather persistent theme in this book, so it
bears repeating here: If you want to elevate your life and become a
manifester, then you have to change what you’ve believed to be true about
yourself that has landed you where you are. The sentiments of This is
reality, This is just the way things are, There is nothing that I can do to
change what is, and the like are pernicious thoughts that will taint and
defile your great gift of I am that I am, which is your Divine inheritance
from your creator. Just as growth isn’t possible if one continues doing things exactly the
same today as yesterday and tomorrow, so is your imagination charged with
the same  challen ge. In your imagination, you can replace the thought of I
will one day be in a better place, with I am already in my mind wher e I
intend to be. This may soun d irrational because you are accustomed to
evaluating your life on the basis  of what your senses tell you is your reality. After reading Chapter Five and familiarizing yourself with this imaginativeway of approaching your life, you will be able to integrate this idea in your
own special way. As a brief teaser here, I ask you to remember that God didn’ t say to
Moses, “My name is I will be,” becau se to do so would be to admit that
God is lacking something now that he will ultimately become. He said, “I
am that I am. ”  You too have been bestowed with the I am legacy. You can
make the choice to reprogram your imagination to take you where you
intend to be: in the now. Creation originates in the world of Spirit—or, to
say it differently, your imagination is the Source of all that has yet to
manifest for you. By staying only with what your senses tell you is your
reality, you place a barrier to letting your imagination create all that you
wish, all that you desire. Your imagination is unlimited. What is today, is
restricted by just that: what is today. Albert Einstein made this astute observation: “Logic will get you from A
to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ” Your logic—that is, the facts
that you’ve accepted as true—have gotten you to point B. Now you’re
going to reprogram  your imagination to take you everywhere— everywher e
that you are brave enough to envision for yourself. In the quotation on success that I shared with you earlier, Henry David
Thoreau’ s last sentence is fitting for this first foundation for a wishes
fulfilled life: “[You] will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours. ” Thoreau suggests that the universe will begin to conspi re with you
to fulfill your wishes. It isn’t just your imagination that will bring you what
you desire—it’ s the fact that you’re realigned with the I am that I am. When
you become it in your mind, you gain the same powers as that which you
are now casting your lot with: God or the T ao. Your Highest Self and Y our Imagination
The essence of you—the you who is a spiritual being having a temporary
human experience—is cultivated in your imagination. The I am that I am—
that is, the you that is God— is impervious to the senses. There’ s an
invisible realm within and around you that is you, and your imagination is
your key to realigning with this I am presenc e, which Einstein said “will
take you everywhere. ” Within this realm, guidance is alway s available
when (1) You are open to it, and most important, (2) You are aligned inbody, mind, and spirit. This means living in harmony with your own
personal dharma, feeling on purpose living the life you were intended to
live, and feeling the presence of your highest self at work. This guidance comes in ways that you don’t experience when your life is
off purpose, or when you prefer negative emotions such as fear, anxiety,
worry, hatred, sadness, and the like. Each of these dubious emotional states
takes you away from your God-realized self. Remember, God’ s name is I
am, so how could God say, “I am afraid, I am worried, I am angry, I am
sad,” and still be God. Impossible, because God is love and God is
oneness. In order for God to be afraid, worried, angry, or sad, She’d have to
divide Herself and have something other than self to fear, worry about, hate,
or be sad toward. This would make God two: that is, Herself as well as an
other to feel gloomy or angry toward, and God cannot do this and still be
God. So it is with you as well. Every time you put a non-God descrip tor after I
am, you negate your Divine nature. The words I am are your sacred
identification as God—your highest self. Take care how you use this term
because saying anything after I am that’s incongru ent with God is really
taking the Lord’ s name in vain. Practice using imagination to define
yourself only in ways that are compatible with your highest self, and the
universe will supply the happiness, love, and success that you previously
imagined eluding you. This is the meaning of Thoreau’ s statement “meet
with a success unexpected in common hours. ” Common hours  are the times
you spend in ordinary awar eness, unawa re of the nature of your God-
realized being. I emphasize this based on my own experience. As I proceed through my seventies, I’m beginning to recognize more
readily the relationship between  my conscious invitation to the God within
me, and what the universe has in store for me. It is simply a sacred
imperative for me to live from the knowing that I am God  in the truest sense
of the word. The result is being fully aligned with my own dharma in ways
that often appear not to be connected. Carl Jung called this phenomenon
synchr onicity—  a collaboration with fate that seems to take place with
strange and wonderful “coincidences” happening. There’ s a feeling of invisible beings taking the reins of my life in a
profound way. I can feel them, and they make themselves know n to me in a
variety of ways that I once would have labeled far-fetched and impossible. The presence of beings, including those who have passed on, has become
my reality. These angelic beings  steer me in ways that keep me aligned with
my dharma and with my highest  self. I feel I’m in a new state of awareness,
rather than being directed by unseen beings. Then I see how I’m being
influenced while still acting from my own treasured free will. A recent
example of this comes to mind. I was aware on my evening walk that I was taking a slightly different
route as I turned in a different  direction than was normal for me. After
purchasing some food to take home, I chose to return home along a route
I’d never taken before. On the way I noticed a fountain and decided to stop
for a few moments. Then as I walked along a path in total darkness, a man
called out my name. Because I had done all of these new things, I was
aligned with someone who recognized me even in total darkness. We chatted, and I invited this man and his wife and their two small
children into my home. Michael and Angela were on Maui to commemorate
the death nine years earlier of their two-and-a-half-year -old daughter. We
talked about their loss, and Angela said that she felt her first child’ s
presence every day. She describ ed it as a feeling of almost giddy joyfulness
that permeated her daily life. Angela knew  that her daughte r’s passing was a
Divine experience, and that her angelic daughter was with her family at all
times and also attempting to teach Angela something that remained elusive
but exciting to her. How many unplanned moves did I take in order for us to meet and share
an eveni ng discu ssing just what I am writing about today. Was I in charge
or was I being guided. Were Michael and Angela also being guided to that
spot for this encounter to take place. I did not feel as if I was being steered
—what happened was that I was awar e just for a fleeting moment. I
proceeded to let myself be guided without any sense of listening to
extraterrestrial voices, anticipating something grand was going to show up. It was only later that I looked back and saw how all my nonrou tine moves
were guidance of some kind that allowed that evening meeting to occur. What transpired  in that meetin g is what prompted me to tell this story,
because it illustrates living from the place of allowing imaginati on to freely
function. Somet hing seems to kick in and generate circumstances to fulfill
our wishes. During our evening together I told Michael and Angela about my
experience of an orb (an opaque  circular feature that appears unexpectedly
in photo graphs) appearing on my left shoulder in a photo while I was giving
a lecture. The woman who took the photograph, Linda Millek, had this tiny
mark expanded, revealing a collection of what looked like human faces
right there with me as I was delivering a speech on The “I AM” Discourses. It turns out that Linda’ s only son had passed away some 18 years earlier,
and he was communicating with her using I Am as his channeled calling. Linda has thousa nds of photos of orbs that she picks up on her camera. She
feels her son’s presence in orbs that appear majestically in a variety of
forms. She is in the process of having her son help to reveal to her what
these appearances mean. Linda took several photos of me on the island of St. Maarten, and these
megaphone-shaped orbs were visible on both my left hip and right side. (See photo insert. ) The shapes  are identical to those that appear on her
photographs taken from her bedroom window in Michigan where her son
once lived. Lind a has absolutely no doubt about the presence of these orbs,
at the same time she is in the process of learning what their presence means,
and how to best use this information in the fulfillment of a higher calling. This subject of orbs and their purpose is fascinating. I’ve just completed
my first reading of a book by Dr. Klaus and Gundi Heinemann called Orbs:
Their Mission and Messages of Hope, comple te with 65 color photo s of
these rather mystical invisible critters, with convincing commentary and
visual evidence to convert the skeptic. I have the photos of these orbs and
their highly enlar ged images in my home, and I have been astonished to
discover how my feelings of not being alone in this new I am journey are
being verified not only with my increased awareness, but with photographic
evidence as well. As Linda said to me when we reviewed her videos of the orbs, as well as
a mountain of photographs containing orbs and her transmissio ns from her
son, “It’s like following these spiritual bread crumbs. Suddenly all of the
crazy things that are happening  to you begin to make sense. ” I have never
met anyone who was more totally convinced that she was receiving
guidance from her loved one on the other side and that these orbs and their
fascinating shapes and human faces have powerful messages of hope for all
of us. During my “chance” encounter with Michael and Angela, I felt compelled
to tell them about my recent orb experience, particularly after Angela told
me how profoundly she felt her daughter ’s presence, even though she had
been dead for nine years. I showed them the photos and told them how
much of what was now showing  up in my life was (to quote Thoreau again)
“unexpected in common hours. ”  I learned that they had hundreds of photos
with orbs that they interpreted as their daughter ’s mysterious appearance
showing up to teach us all something. Perhaps all of the things that aligned in order for me to meet this family
occurred so that someone reading this book would read these  words and
consider the possibility of guidance being available from another realm—
and commit to using their imagination in a new way. That some one may be
you. Let your imagination explore your invisible realm in a way that will
allow this new energy to permeate your life. Move to a place within
yourself where Wishes Fulfilled  is a new way of being rather than just the
title of a book. C. Norm an Shealy, M. D. , Ph.
The universe is made of formless (spirit) energy, and particles (things) do not originate from particles (things).
According to the text, what is the origin of the universe, according to quantum physics?
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
What is the author's definition of success, as quoted by Henry David Thoreau?
The author emphasizes the importance of using one's imagination to create one's reality, stating that "your imagination is your key to realigning with this I am presence."
What is the author's stance on the role of imagination in creating one's reality?
The text states that sensations and feelings play a crucial role in the manifestation process, as Neville Goddard explains, "A change of feeling is a change of destiny."
According to the text, what is the role of feelings in the manifestation process?
The author advises to ignore the opinions of others and instead focus on using one's imagination to create a new reality, stating that "you are free to place anything in there at your discretion."
What is the author's advice for overcoming the limitations of one's own imagination?