Magician of the Beautiful by Mitch Horowitz;

Author:Mitch Horowitz; [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2019-08-15T21:00:00+00:00

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THE METHOD

Everything that I’ve just described demonstrates that Neville was a remarkable personage—charismatic and deeply appealing. His philosophy has an obvious magnetism about it. The idea of being able to reshape your own life without depending upon anybody else is, in principle, exciting and powerful. But there’s only one question on which all of it stands: Does it work?

Neville would always tell audiences, “Test me, test me, prove me wrong. Try my ideas. Do it tonight, this very night. If I’m wrong, forget you ever heard my name.” I’ve always loved that quality about him.

He would evangelize for his ideas, but he wouldn’t proselytize. He wasn’t just interested in counting noses at events or selling books. When his talks grew more esoteric in nature, a speaking agent warned him to return to more conventional, law-of-attraction style themes or he’d lose his audience. “Then I’ll speak it to the bare walls,” Neville replied. If someone didn’t want his ideas, he wouldn’t try to rope them in. This is a mark of confidence in one’s methods.

You can use several different techniques in connection with Neville’s ideas, and, as he did, I challenge you to try them and see what happens. You’re entitled to results. I believe strongly in results. I believe that every therapeutic and ethical and spiritual philosophy should result in some concrete change and improvement in your life or your conduct; if it doesn’t, then such an idea should have no hold on you. I feel similarly strongly that the ability to describe a concrete outcome in your life is vitally important, and that too was always part of Neville’s teaching. Testimony is both an important source of ideas and an invitation to others.

One way of using Neville’s approach to mental creativity is to enter into an inner state of theatrical or childlike make-believe. Not childish but childlike: a state of internal wonder and pretending. Children are so good at this. We get embarrassed about this quality as we age, but Neville talked about walking the streets of Manhattan imagining that he was in the tree-lined lanes of Barbados, boarding a ship to some desired destination, or in a location where he wanted to be.

He would say: “Unfoldment will come. You will see.” He would always say that an assumption, although false, if persisted in, eventually hardens into fact. He would say, “Assume the state of the wish fulfilled. Live from the end. Live from the state of your wish fulfilled.” Remember, Neville would remind listeners, you’re not in a state of wanting; you’re in a state of having received. Your aim is simply to occupy the emotional and mental state that you would experience after having received.

Abdullah didn’t say, “Neville, you will be in Barbados.” He said, “Neville, you are in Barbados.” Abdullah didn’t say, “Neville, you will travel first-class.” He said, “Neville, you are in Barbados, and you traveled first-class.” Living from the end means adopting the feeling state of already having received the desired thing. I have the words “Live from the end” tattooed on my left upper arm.

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