Just Be Passive?

When I logged onto my Blogger account the other day with the intention of putting up a new post to talk about some insights and recent progress, I discovered a comment from an anonymous reader. His comment, or rather his question referred to the post "Is This "Nevillizing"?" and touches on a subject that I've been getting a lot of deeper understanding of over the last few weeks.

Here is the question:

Doesn't Neville say that your imagination is God? So once you imagine an intention, if you have a spontaneous idea that shows up in your imagination to take action, are you saying that we should not act on it, and just be passive?

Yes, Neville did say that your imagination is God and he also said numerous times to do nothing to bring about the wish desired. He even gave examples of this and I have personally got the results I was after in situations where there was nothing I could do.

So was Neville promoting passivity?

No, not at all!

Neville repeatedly exhorted his audiences and his readers to “be doers of the word and not just hearers”. He taught persistence and insisted that while our imagination is God, we are the operant power in the equation, therefore our action is required.

Here is an explanation of action:

We have today in our modern world a little word which confuses most of us. I know it confused me until I dug deeper. The word is "action." Action is supposed to be the most fundamental thing in the world. It is not an atom, it is more fundamental. It is not a part of an atom like an electron, it is more fundamental than that. They call it the fourth dimensional unit. The most fundamental thing in the world is action.

You ask, "What is action?" Our physicists tell us that it is energy multiplied by time. We become more confused and say, "Energy multiplied by time, what does that mean?', They answer, "There is no response to a stimulus, no matter how intense the stimulus, unless it endures for a certain length of time." There must be a minimum endurance to the stimulus or there is no response. On the

other hand there is no response to time unless there is a minimum degree of intensity.

Today the most fundamental thing in the world is called action, or simply energy multiplied by time.

Energy multiplied by time.

Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching

Te

38

The Master doesn't try to be powerful;
thus he is truly powerful.
The ordinary man keeps reaching for power;
thus he never has enough.

The Master does nothing,
yet he leaves nothing undone.
The ordinary man is always doing things,
yet many more are left to be done.

The kind man does something,
yet something remains undone.
The just man does something,
and leaves many things to be done.
The moral man does something,
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.

When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.
When goodness is lost, there is morality.
When morality is lost, there is ritual.
Ritual is the husk of true faith,
the beginning of chaos.

Therefore the Master concerns himself
with the depths and not the surface,
with the fruit and not the flower.
He has no will of his own.
He dwells in reality,
and lets all illusions go.

How long can you think of something you desire or a happy memory before you find yourself thinking about something else? 17 seconds? 15 minutes?

Remember, Neville meditated, he studied with Abdullah for 8 years, he knew without a doubt that a well trained mind is key.

Do you watch your inner conversations?

Can you control your mind?

Do you practice being elsewhere in your imagination?

Can you create the tones of reality?

This really is where the action and the persistence are required.

“Creation was finished in the foundation of time. You, as man, are God made visible for the purpose of displaying what is, not what is to be. Do not think you must work out your salvation by the sweat of your brow. It is not four months until the harvest, the fields are already white, simply thrust in the sickle. “

Now in this post Action or Non Action? I said:

“Action does happen; intuitive, spontaneous action when we are following our bliss and responses to situations based on who we really feel we are. If persistence is to be used I think it should be in checking in regularly on the gps system and correcting when necessary, this is the key to clearing and controlling your mind and changing your inner conversations. “

The problem is that most of the time we mistake the spontaneous idea for an intuition. This is the mind grasping.

If we are already grateful and have given thanks for having received, would we still be following steps to get it?

I don't think so.

“Contemplate this thought. On this level you may achieve any objective, and prove to yourself that invisible states, when properly rearranged, will externalize what they imply, for the potency of every imaginal act is in its implication.

Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!" - Neville

But we do have the bridge of incident to cross and life is for living so what action should we be taking?

I found my answers to that question by answering the following question:

“"if money were no concern at all... and you had all the time in the world.. then what would you do?"

I found that I would be doing more of what I am doing now and reviving former projects that I was putting off to when I had the time and money, when in fact I could start spending more time on them now. My message is “I have more and more time for this”. The result was one of the projects looking like a potential revenue maker with products that meet my criteria coming to my awareness. Now I am spending more time on them because I enjoy that but I know that my real “work” is to be done in imagination.