"The Power of Awareness" shows us how to use our minds to fulfill our wishes. It is like teaching someone how to make their dreams come true! In it Neville, uncovers the mystery in attaining your deepest desires. A step by step process, where by you receive the tools necessary to manifest your intentions. A book to refer to, always, as you must practice this wisdom daily and do your "internal" work. It's not a magic bullet, there are none. Yet the more you re-read, you have the keys to unfold your magnificent life.
Chapter
1
I
AM
THE
“LIGHT” is
consciousness. Consciousness is one, manifesting in legions of
forms or
levels of consciousness. There is no one that is not all that
is, for
consciousness, though expressed in an infinite series of levels, is not
divisional. There is no real separation or gap in consciousness. I AM
cannot
be divided. I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a
beggar man or
a thief, but the center of my being remains the same regardless of the
concept
I hold of myself. At the center of manifestation there is only one I AM
manifesting in legions of forms or concepts of itself and “I am that I
am.”
I AM is the self-definition of
the absolute, the foundation on
which everything rests. I AM is the first cause-substance. I AM is the
self-definition
of God.
I AM hath sent me unto you.
I AM THAT I AM.
Be still and know that I AM God.
I AM is a feeling of permanent
awareness. The very center of consciousness
is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I
am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I AM. The awareness of
being remains,
regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where, and what I am.
I AM is that which, amid
unnumbered forms, is ever the same. This
great discovery of cause reveals that, good or bad, man is actually the
arbiter
of his own fate, and that it is his concept of himself that determines
the
world in which he lives [and his concept of himself is his
reactions to
life]. In other words, if you are experiencing ill
health,
knowing the truth about cause, you cannot attribute the illness to
anything
other than to the particular arrangement of the basic cause-substance,
an arrangement
which [was produced by your reactions to life, and] is
defined by
your concept “I am unwell.” This is why you are told “Let the weak man
say, ‘I
am strong’” (Joel 3:10), for by his assumption, the cause-substance—I
AM—is
rearranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its
rearrangement affirms.
This principle governs every aspect of your life, be it social,
financial,
intellectual, or spiritual.
I AM is that reality to which,
whatever happens, we must turn for
an explanation of the phenomena of life. It is I AM’s concept of itself
that determines
the form and scenery of its existence. Everything depends upon its
attitude
towards itself; that which it will not affirm as true of itself cannot
awaken
in its world. That is, your concept of yourself, such as “I am strong,”
“I am
secure,” “I am loved,” determines the world in which you live. In
other words,
when you say, “I am a man, I am a father, I am an American,” you are
not
defining different I AM’s; you are defining different concepts or
arrangements
of the one cause-substance—the one I AM. Even in the phenomena of
nature, if
the tree were articulate it would say, “I am a tree, an apple tree, a
fruitful
tree.”
When you know that
consciousness is the one and only reality—conceiving
itself to be something good, bad, or indifferent, and becoming that
which it
conceived itself to be—you are free from the tyranny of second causes,
free
from the belief that there are causes outside of your own mind that can
affect
your life.
In the state of consciousness
of the individual is found the
explanation of the phenomena of life. If man’s concept of himself were
different, everything in his world would be different. His concept of
himself
being what it is, everything in his world must be as it is.
Thus it is abundantly clear
that there is only one I AM and you are that I AM.
And while I AM is
infinite, you, by
your concept of yourself, are displaying only a limited aspect of
the infinite
I AM.
Build
thee more stately mansions,
O my soul,
As
the swift seasons roll!
Leave
thy low-vaulted past!
Let
each new temple, nobler than
the last,
Shut
thee from heaven with a dome
more vast
Till
thou at length art free,
Leaving
thine outgrown shell by
life’s
unresting
sea!
CONSCIOUSNESS
IT is only by a
change of consciousness, by actually changing your concept of
yourself, that
you can “build more stately mansions”—the manifestations of higher
and higher
concepts. (By manifesting is meant experiencing the results of
these
concepts in your world.) It is of vital importance to understand
clearly just
what consciousness is.
The reason lies in the fact
that consciousness is the one and
only reality, it is the first and only cause-substance of the phenomena
of
life. Nothing has existence for man save through the
consciousness he has
of it. Therefore, it is to consciousness you must turn; for it is the
only
foundation on which the phenomena of life can be explained.
If we accept the idea of a
first cause, it would follow that the
evolution of that cause could never result in anything foreign to
itself. That
is, if the first cause-substance is light, all its evolutions, fruits, and
manifestations
would remain light. The first cause-substance being consciousness, all
its
evolutions, fruits, and phenomena must remain consciousness. All that
could be
observed would be a higher or lower form or variation of the same
thing. In
other words, if your consciousness is the only reality, it must also be
the only substance. Consequently, what appears to you as
circumstances, conditions,
and even material objects are really only the products of your own
consciousness.
Nature, then, as a thing or a complex of things external to your mind,
must be
rejected. You and your environment cannot be regarded as existing
separately.
You and your world are one.
Therefore, you must turn from
the objective appearance of things
to the subjective center of things, your consciousness, if you
truly
desire to know the cause of the phenomena of life, and how to use this
knowledge to realize your fondest dreams. In the midst of the apparent
contradictions, antagonisms, and contrasts of your life, there
is only one
principle at work, only your consciousness operating.
Difference does not
consist in variety of substance, but in variety of arrangement of
the same
cause-substance, your consciousness.
The world moves with motiveless
necessity. By this is meant that
it has no motive of its own, but is under the necessity of manifesting
your concept, the arrangement of your
mind, and your mind is always arranged in the image of all you
believe and
consent to as true. The rich man, poor man, beggar man or
thief are not different
minds, but different arrangements of the same mind, in the same
sense that a
piece of steel when magnetized differs not in substance from its
demagnetized
state but in the arrangement and order of its molecules. A single
electron
revolving in a specified orbit constitutes the unit of magnetism.
When a piece
of steel or anything else is demagnetized, the revolving electrons have
not
stopped. Therefore, the magnetism has not gone out of existence.
There is only
a rearrangement of the particles, so that they produce no outside
or
perceptible effect. When particles are arranged at random, mixed
up in all
directions, the substance is said to be demagnetized; but when
particles are
marshaled in ranks so that a number of them face in one direction, the
substance is a magnet. Magnetism is not generated; it is displayed. Health,
wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by
the
arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself [and
your
concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. What
you
consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of
your
reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live
psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you
live
here in the outer visible world].
The
importance of this in your daily life should be immediately
apparent.
The basic nature of the primal
cause is consciousness. Therefore,
the ultimate substance of all things is consciousness.
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