Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 359: Mitch Horowitz
Episode Date: November 5, 2019Mitch Horowitz, author, speaker, and expert in Neville Goddard, joins the DTFH! Check out Mitch's new book, Magician of the Beautiful: An Introduction to Neville Goddard. This episode is brought to ...you by: BLUECHEW - Use offer code: DUNCAN at checkout and get your first shipment FREE with just $5 shipping. Cryofreeze CBD (by Omax Health) - Use offer code: DUNCAN to save 20% on Cryofreeze CBD and all site-wide items.
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On my scooter I am free
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On a bird scooter
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New transportation device
During our nation's cities
Have a storied past and an infamous creator
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I took a Saturday drive up the Malibu
And that was the little guy
The sunny Arabian immigrant
Is the creator of bird scooters
The paint-to-plane transportation lines
All over American cities
Black flanks with the bird scooter logo
A big lettering fluttered
Around his massive dry line
And Deville Good's house was painted
The same midnight black
As his infamous inventions
The bird scooters
He greeted me at the door
And I went inside
He sat down in the parlor
And I asked him the question
That was one of her unsanitary
Mr. Good
You feel her sensibilities
Are all the people
Getting hurt on your scooter
Ah, Jihad against the West continues
Did you say Jihad?
Yes, that is correct
Jihad
Like terrorism?
We were planning a variety of
Secret terrorist attacks
Oh my God
Destroying the Washington Monument
Beheading the Statue of Liberty
Driving speedboats into whales
Speedboat into whales?
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Have you ever seen speedboat drive into whales?
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And I'm a terrorist
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But by the creator's grace
We realized that in fact
All we had to do was distribute
Scooters throughout the cities of America
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Yes, simple, brilliant
Americans will get on anything
That has a credit card machine on it
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Like moths to a flame
But isn't this illegal?
No
The terms of service clearly state
That these bird scooters were created by us
To destroy American lives
We had several teams of attendees
Look over, so
We are completely not liable
For any harm caused
By these wonderful machines
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We have got a fantastic podcast for you today, pals
Mitch Horowitz is here
To talk about his new book
The Magician of the Beautiful
An introduction to Neville Goddard
I have been in a deep
Neville Goddard rabbit hole
For the last month or so
And it is completely transforming my life
He has a wild
And I guess you could say
Controversial philosophy
That involves the idea that
The imagination is
The paintbrush of God
And that you are God
And it's some of the most psychedelic
Incredible, beautiful
Sometimes very complex
Sometimes laughably ridiculous
Philosophy that I've ever heard
But since I've been
Working with some of his ideas
I've got to admit
I have experienced some pretty wild
Synchronicities
Some of which you're going to hear
During this interview
So stay tuned
We'll be back with Mitch Horowitz
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Wow
Wow
This is the second DTFH
That I've done with him
And every single time
I communicate with him
My life changes for the better
He is an author
And a speaker
And he is an expert
On someone who
I am deeply absorbed in right now
Neville Goddard
He has written
A billion books
But Mitch just wrote
A fantastic introduction to him
Called Magician of the Beautiful
You should definitely check it out
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So now everyone please
Welcome back to the DTFH
Mitch Horowitz
Welcome, welcome on you
That you are with us
Shaken, going to be blue
Welcome to you
Wow, wow, wow
Mitch, welcome back
Thank you, man
Wonderful to be here
Great to see you
So, I, like, I'm going to dive right into it
Because whenever I get to spend time
With someone like you
I'm going to take advantage of that time
Now, you introduced me
To the subject of your latest book
Magician of the Beautiful
An intro to Neville Goddard
In a second hand way
Because you introduced it to a friend of mine
Noah Lampert
Yes
Who then started telling me about it
And then I started listening to
An audio book by him
And my mind started melting
Because it was so brilliant
It was such an interesting interpretation
Of Christianity
And also, when we discuss this
Before we started recording
There is so much strangeness
In what he's saying
That I'm confused by bits and pieces
But before we get into that confusion
I thought maybe you could give us
A little synopsis of who Neville Goddard is
And what his philosophy is about
In a nutshell
Yeah, Neville was a British Barbadian mystic
Who lived and worked here in the U.S.
Until his death in 1972
And he had one essential teaching
Which is that your imagination is God
And he meant this in the most literal sense
That everything that you experience
Everything that occurs in your life
Is your own emotionalized thoughts
And mental pictures pushed out into the world
And Neville taught that
Whenever you read a reference to Jesus
Or Yahweh in Scripture
Old Testament, New Testament
That is a symbolical reference
To your own imagination
And that Scripture itself is nothing other
Than a blueprint to your own
Psychical development
Which will culminate in your realization
Of yourself as the creator
Clothed in human flesh
And the important thing to note is
That he didn't mean this as metaphor
He meant this quite literally
His imagination is what we in the western world
Call God
Wow!
Yeah
And where...
What are his roots in?
Where did he get this from?
You know, he was born into this rural society
In 1905 in Barbados
To an Anglican family
He came to New York City
To study theater at the age of 17
By himself
And he had some success in the theater world
He was in silent films
He performed on the Broadway stage
He traveled as part of a dance troupe
In the United States and Europe
And he was experimenting
With various mystical and occult ideas
Late 1920s
Wasn't getting anywhere
And he said that in the early 1930s
He met this mysterious teacher
This turban black Jewish man
Named Abdullah
A Jewish man of Ethiopian descent
And that Abdullah
Tutored him in this
Mind metaphysics
Abdullah's in Scripture, Kabbalah
Number symbolism
And that it was from Abdullah
That he got his philosophy of mental creativity
And soon thereafter
He started publishing and writing
And the amazing thing about Neville is
He delivered thousands of lectures
Across his lifetime
Wrote more than ten books
He was incredibly prolific
And he would restate this thesis
Over and over again that your imagination is God
And every time he spoke of it
He wrote of it, it seemed fresh
And entirely new
And that's why people just fall into Neville
Because when you start reading him
When you start listening to him
You're imbibing this radical idea
And every time you encounter it
It feels like the first time
He had that incredible capacity
Which I think is seen very very rarely
Sometimes you find this in Emerson
Sometimes you find this in Krishna Murthy
That every time the man said something
It sounded like you were hearing it
In that radical new way
As if for the first time
Wow, it is like that
Every time I
Listen to this audio book
Every time I sit down with it
It's an entire new
Illumination seems to happen
Yes
Do you believe in Abdullah?
Is that real or do you think he was saying that
Because he was worried people wouldn't just
Accept the fact that sometimes
Anybody can have these transmissions
Or these epiphanies?
That's a really tough question
And I've wrestled with it
And in Magician of the Beautiful
And elsewhere I write about the possible identity of Abdullah
I also write about the possibility
That Abdullah was a composite
He may have been a collection of teachers
That Neville wrote about
Now the purists would say I'm all wrong
That Abdullah should be taken at face value
That this was a really existing man
And it is true that Neville gave
The address where Abdullah lived
I've been inside, I've visited it
I've been inside the building
I've tracked down all the historical reference points
That are available to us
And I can't conclude
One way or the other whether Abdullah was an
Absolutely real person
Or whether Abdullah was part of
A kind of American metaphysical tradition
Which you'll see in Carlos Castaneda
You'll see it in Madame H.P. Blabatsky
Where people will
Create a mythos
Not necessarily a falsehood
But it will sound a mysterious teacher
And talk about this person
As their
Path of learning personified
In the same way that we'll talk about God's personified
You know, we'll identify a certain energy
And say that's Athena, that's Zeus
That's Minerva, that's Set
So it could be that
Or it could be that the people
Who make a literal reading are absolutely correct
That Abdullah was a real flesh and blood man
Certainly they would argue that
Well, okay, this is a different podcast
Where I feel two possible directions
Forming. One of them is
I want to talk to you about
My feeling when I've been listening to it
Which is like, oh, this is one of those mystery school
Transmissions where they decided that it's like
Okay, illuminate the masses
They're ready for this information
And I keep thinking like
Oh, yeah, somebody's
Like letting him be the mouthpiece
Of a thing that is
Definitely
People have been sort of
Sealing it but
I don't know, I just get a sense of like
Abdullah makes sense to me just based on my hippie intuition
Yes
But that's a different conversation
The mystery schools and the people that come from them
I want to talk about
The philosophy itself
But before we get into that
I want to talk about your personal
Connection to Neville
Because it seems like he has been a huge influence
On you and clearly you're inspired by him
Because you wrote an entire book on him
About books that
Cover what would a new thought
Ancient wisdom
Neville is at the heart of many of them
And I have a tattoo of Neville
On my left arm, you know, he's kind of
Yeah, he's the primary figure
In my life
I first discovered him back in
2003
I was interviewing the
MLB pitcher Barry Zito
Who at the time was pitching for the
San Francisco Giants
Barry pitched for both the A's and the Giants
And Barry identified Neville among
Other sources as a core part
Of his training regimen, core part of his life
He had been exposed to Neville by his parents
And in the conversation
He said you must really be into this guy
And I had never heard the name
Because when Neville died in 72
And for many years after
He was a really underground figure
He didn't really fit within the new thought tradition
He wasn't categorizable in any
Specific way
He couldn't be grouped with any school or thought system
He was completely original
And as such, people
Just didn't hear of him
And he was a mystery man, they didn't know
Was he black? Was he white? Was he still living?
Who is this Abdullah?
And I immediately went out
And got one of Neville's books called Resurrection
Which he wrote in 66
1966
And I just fell into it
I went all the way down the rabbit hole
And part of the reason
Neville's thought system
Had something to do with him as a figure
I mentioned his writing
And how elegant and simple and beautiful it is
But there's also hundreds of his lectures
Preserved online
Because he would permit people grateful dead style
To freely tape record his lectures
Which later became digitized
And the man speaks
With such a beautiful
Resonant
Melifluous voice
It's like nothing you've ever heard
He speaks extemporaneously
Without notes, he could hold forth
For 90 minutes in a lecture
Citing scripture as if from out of the ether
And he just has this beautiful voice
That you could call it soothing
But it's at the same time arousing
And awakening
He looked like a movie star
The man just looked like a matinee idol
Like a Carrie Grant
And yet he very rarely permitted photos
To be taken of him
There's just one or two professional photographs
Bopping around the internet
Few other snapshots here and there
And it's so different from our time
Where everybody's documenting every third thing
They do today
And Neville, he looked like a movie star
He spoke with this beautiful clipped
Mid-Atlantic accent
And yet
There were very few instances
Where he sat for professional photos
He self-published his books
He allowed his lectures to be freely taped
He had no business apparatus behind him
What's different is that from us today
Every yoga teacher has this
Massive business apparatus
At his or her back
And Neville was just a troubadour
He had none of that
So there was something about the man himself
That bespoke sincerity to me
He seemed to be living out something
That was intrinsic in his teachings
I very often enter people's ideas
First through their persona
My informal rule is
Show me the person first
Then I want to know what's at the back
Of his or her life
And I fell into his life
And I concurrently fell into his teaching
And I came to feel
That there was in Neville
This radical sense
Of mystical possibility
Epic self-potential
A liberating sense
Of self-responsibility
Not a narrow self-responsibility
But a deeply liberating
And freeing sense of self-responsibility
And I think when people are facing
Stresses or difficulties in life
And they meet the teaching
Of this man who says
You truly have it in you
At this very moment
To revolutionize everything in your life
Through your own thoughts
Because you are God
It is so
Inviting
It's such a resplendent possibility
That unless a person is completely closed off
Or completely materialist
It's hard to resist not experimenting
And the experiments
Work
And they work fast
And they work so fast
That makes your head spin sometimes
It's amazing
And there can also be a gestation period
Where you
As you get into Neville
You begin to identify things
About your surroundings
About your relationships
About your career life
And antecedents
From earlier parts of your life
So vividly that it can be jarring
I mean, I'm living out experiences today
At the age of 53
That so closely
Comport to things that I was thinking about
From my earliest childhood
Literally going back to age 3
Age 4
That it's uncanny
So there can also be this gestation period
And suddenly your life seems to have symmetry
For the first time
This brings me to just where I wanted to land
Because I knew
I would go to Agape church
And listen to Beckwith
He's inspired by many of these teachers
But I never
Heard
In this particular
Pool of wisdom
This idea of revising
Your past
Now, this is
What made my brain pop
Because he does in this book
He starts talking about the 5th dimension
He starts talking about
This concept that we're in a frame of time
But the past is continuing
At this very moment
It's a living past
And the formation of the past
As it is living now
Is shaping your present
And nobody
That I know
Is thinks that they can change the past
The closest analog
That you find to that way of thought
Actually comes from some of the classical quantum physicists
Including Erwin Schrodinger
And Hugh Everett
Who theorized the many worlds thesis
These men in the 1930s
1940s
1950s
Way before quantum physics became popularized
Way before its language had entered the zeitgeist
They were writing something
Concurrent to Neville
That was very close to his philosophy
Schrodinger theorized
That if you were
In his great Schrodinger's cat experiment
If you could extrapolate
What we're seeing in the particle world
Into our physical world
Into our everyday above ground macro world
You would be not only selecting
The localization of particles
But you would be selecting a past
For those same particles
The decision to look
Or the decision not to look
Actually creates a multi-dimensional effect
It's not as simple as saying
Well gee, this thing exists in a potential
And now it exists in fact
Because I looked
Yes, that much is true
So we're determining
From experiments in the particle lab
80 years of experiments
But it's also true that you'd be creating a past
For the particle
Based on when you choose to look
If you choose not to look
If you look after lunch or before lunch
So if you think about it
You are recreating existence
Every time you
Experience a shift in perspective
A
Pre-conception, an emotionalized thought
Every time you make a decision
Every perception in and of itself
Brings with itself a whole dimension
Of experience
The particle theorists
Were writing about this
From the perspective of quantum mechanics
Neville was writing about this
From the perspective of his own mystical experience
He and they
Were saying essentially the same thing
Without knowing one another
Without ever being in the same room with one another
Without reading one another
And Neville created the greatest mystical
Analog that we have
To quantum physics
And as you were saying
Neville would point out that every time
You are
Engaging
In an act of mental creation
You are not only selecting
Present and future circumstances
But by the very
Dint of what you are doing
You are selecting past circumstances as well
And you can not only revise your past
But we are doing it all the time
We are doing it all the time
We don't sense it because we walk around thinking
Well gee, I just walked from point A to point B
I get it, I have a memory of being at point A
It is perfectly symmetrical
It is perfectly rational
But Neville would say is it
Is it because your so-called memory
Of point A
Is based on where you are at point B
Right now
There are infinite possibilities
Reality is in a state of superposition
In the sense of
In the infinitude as it exists
There are endless pasts
Just as there are endless futures
Just as there are endless presents
So your memory of point A
In a sense is just a construct
And you are invited to revise it
If you wish
But the implication of this is so wild
In the sense that right now
Our experience
Theoretically could be us
In some future reality
Revising
Our past
Absolutely, absolutely
And I would even say this
I would say to your listeners
Mitch and Duncan are not even here
You the listener
You're here, you're here
You're listening to Mitch and Duncan
But we are just projections
Of your own thought system
It may just be that you were
Intellectually prepared to arrive
At this material, at this particular moment
In your existence, and so in effect
You've created Mitch and Duncan
Who seem vivid, who seem real
And we are just a
Construct emanating from your own thoughts
Bringing you
To this information, but it's yours
You're the creator
Mitch actually, if you could see him right now
Is an eagle and I'm a little snake
So dig that
Thank you for creating us
Thank you for selecting us
I often tell people
In new thought settings
People use the word manifest all the time
That's not quite my term
The term I use is select
Because I think that's more vivid
We are selecting, if everything is
In existence, if reality
Is an infinitude
Which William Blake told us
Which Erwin Schrodinger told us
So many other great mystics and scientists
Through history have told us
If reality is an infinitude
It's not so much that the individual
Is manifesting so much as selecting
And the tools for selection
The tools for selection
Are our own emotionalized thoughts
And mental pictures, what are those
But tools of measurement?
Holy shit
But it's, and again
For me, I wouldn't even be talking
About this if I hadn't been
Figurously applying it over the last
Month or so
And seeing results that are
Beyond astounding
And one of the things I like about Neville
Is that he gives examples
Like real quick, and I'm going to give
A real quick one, and I was wondering
If you could give one as well
So as I've been listening to this
Basically one of his, I don't remember
Which book it is, I'm listening to this audio
Book compilation, I can't wait to read
Your breakdown of it
So what I'm reading right now is
Talking about wishing
Harm or good
On someone else, and one of
The things he says is
If you give someone the gift
Of wishing a thing upon them
And they don't accept it
Then the gift will be returned to you
He has a reciprocity in his teaching
People always say, gee the problem
With all this new thought stuff
Is that it's an ethical free for all
To try to be wishing stuff
Into somebody else's life
Or what happens when a bad guy gets hold
Of this, and I honor that concern
Although I would also say the materialists
Need to have that concern too
We're making ethical decisions all the time
This just broadens the sense of playing field
But Neville has a teaching
Of cosmic reciprocity so to speak
In which if I wish
Something for you Duncan
And it's something that Duncan is
Incapable of wishing for another
In other words, if it's something generous
But Duncan doesn't wish things that are generous
Or if it's something negative
And Duncan doesn't want to wish things that are negative
For another, it comes back to me the sender
For good or ill, so we got
To deal with the whole of life
These teachings are not just an ethical free for all
And his invitation is
You need to become a
Really focused gardener
Of the ecosystem of your thoughts
Because if you're wishing ill
Even in the most subtle way
Up on a person who doesn't accept that
Who sees themselves as
Not someone who's an asshole
Like you think they are
That asshole projection goes bouncing
Right back into you
And then it can make you go around limping
Which is why a lot of times when you meet people who gossip
They're not doing very well
Boom! You know, dude
You just affirmed my belief in one universal mind
Because I thought to myself
Literally that instant
I gotta make a point about gossip
Anything is more deteriorative
Of the human condition
Than gossip. It's horrible
Anything that we say in the negative
About another individual
And it doesn't mean not calling out injustice
It doesn't mean abstaining from saying
Hey, there's something wrong here that needs to be fixed
But that kind of gossip that's nothing but trash talk
That kind of gossip that's nothing but a smear
For entertainment value
Or what have you
That deteriorates our lives immeasurably
Because we are engaging
In active reciprocity
Those effects become
In a sense, it's self-description
It's self-description
And I always tell people
That the number one thing you can do
To improve your life
This instant is to desist from gossip
And if you practice that for one hour
You will stand more erect
You will feel more noble
You will feel more at ease
Everybody's always out there in the world saying
What can I do? What can I do?
Hang on to this
Desist from gossip and rumor for 60 minutes
See what happens to you
And if you do find yourself gossiping
Look at the way you feel
It's the grossest feeling
I used to go to lunch with somebody
And I would always have these mixed feelings about it
Because she was a friend
But I would always get lured
Into this long
Gossipy meal that would go on
For two and a half hours
And I'd feel physically sick at the end of it
I'd feel sick. That was not imaginary
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Now, this
So, within this sort of
Wishing Well for other people
Wishing Well for your
People who you might have some
Disconnect from or some weirdness with
Because he would say
I think, and correct me if I'm wrong
That weirdness you're experiencing
You're creating the weirdness
So, I started
Working with
Somebody that I've felt
I've considered
I don't know, that person, I don't think they really like me
Or there's some weird shit there
And then I just
I think, that person
Really liking me
And us being friends and things being cool
And sure as shit
I saw him the next day
We never talked
He came walking up to me
Gave me some really nice compliments
Was really kind to me
And I tried not to like
Stammer
In amazement because it was like the day before
I'd been doing this exercise
I mean, we're talking
Years maybe go by
That I don't talk to this person
Do you know what I mean?
I do, and Neville would always say
That if you have friction in the world
Leave the world alone
Leave the other person alone and just look in the mirror
Just keep coming back to the mirror
Don't try to change the other
The world is nothing but myself pushed out
Look in the mirror
And again, there's something so liberating
About it because instead of changing
Mike or trying to persuade
Mike of my point of view
I can
Withdraw into the recesses of my own psyche
And work out whatever needs
Working out
That's the teaching
It's so crazy, and just the
Strange relief that
I've been going back and spending time
With
People who I've hurt
In those moments
Living out those moments as though I wasn't selfish
Wasn't angry
Looking at my mom before she passed
In a way that I wasn't lost
In the fear of her dying
And it does produce
Almost instantaneous
I'm not saying external change
But a sense of
That's how you forgive yourself
You don't forgive yourself by being like
Okay, I forgive me now
You go back and revise
You go back and revise
And Neville would also say to people
That there are sometimes these gestation periods
Sometimes there's a time interval
And he had an expression
In assumption, though false
If persisted in
Will concretize into fact
In assumption, though false
If persisted in will concretize into fact
And he would say, look
We see in the natural world
A chick takes 30 days to hatch
A baby, a human baby
9 months, a horse
11 months, a goat, 6 months
So sometimes there will be a time interval
And he would say, you know
Just let that be, let that be
If you wish to be in Paris
And you wake up and you find you're still
In your old circumstances
That may feel disappointing and that is understandable
But just stay with it
Because this gestation period
Sometimes just has to be abided
Oh, wow, man
Only just because another of the things
I've been visualizing is taking my wife to Paris
No way! How wonderful!
Wow!
We're getting it all done!
Can you tell me an example
Of working with this philosophy here?
Oh, sure. I find that
For me personally, sometimes
The results seem fairly
Instant and sometimes, as I was referencing
There are these gestation periods
I had an instance recently
Where
I sat for
A shoot with a certain photographer
A really, really great photographer
Who a friend had hooked me up with
And the photographer showed me
One of the contact sheets
From what he was working on
And the pictures were
Exactly something
Exactly something, the very scene
That I had imagined
Myself being in when I was
20 years old
I remember it as vividly as
The fingers on my hand
And I have a lot of instances
Like that in life where
Sometimes time will pass
And I determine this unbelievable
Symmetry. I want to share
Something intimate with you and your listeners
And this is heavy
Because it's disclosing of something personal
But at the same time, it's important to be blunt
When I was a little kid
I mentioned memories going back to
My earliest years
Of forming cognizant
Long-term memories. So say
When I was very, very young, even 4 years old
5 years old
I might be playing a game with the kids in my neighborhood
Like boys play war games
And things like that. War is fun, right?
So we all like to play that game
And while my friends and I
Were engaged in this war game
Silently
Without telling them, without disclosing them
I was playing along
Doing all the stuff everybody else was doing
But I was imagining myself actually
As an actor in a movie
In a war movie with the camera on me
And I would even imagine that
The sandbox and things like that
That we were playing in was like a movie set
And that was
My earliest wish at that age
For whatever reason
That's what I did. That was my fantasy life
And it took
Years and years and years
But I am at mid-life today
So-called living out
On camera, in front of
Microphones, in front of audiences
All the things that I was imagining
When I was a little kid
I was never playing the game
I was playing an actor in the game
Neville was an actor himself and he said
We're all Thespians, we're all actors
And I'm living
That out in my life today
After many, many twists and turns
And I find myself living
Exactly the life that occupied
My earliest memories and fantasies
And I get chills sometimes over it
It's like, well it is like that
Because you know we're sort of
Where this goes to
To me is
I get
The other day as I'm listening to this
I had this thought, like oh my god
It's not that
They're going to invent a time machine
It's that we are
The time machine. Absolutely
Absolutely
Time travel
Understood from this perspective as a mental act
And we're engaging in it all the time
In fact, when we have
Those little fantasies, we like to play these
Therapeutic games with ourselves
What would I say to my younger self
If I could travel back and give counsel
To myself at age 12, age 13
Seen from this perspective
We're doing that constantly
So be careful, be careful
Because we're doing that constantly
If linear time is an illusion
And I think we can say that at this point
In the 21st century
Linearity is a very necessary illusion
For five sensory beings
We know that time bends
So to speak at light speed
Bends in circumstances of extreme gravity
Everyone accepts that
The implications of that are a different story
We accept the data
We don't accept the implications
If time is
An illusion, if linearity is a
Necessary illusion
Then everything is going on at once
And our sensory
Organs are nothing other
Than tools of measurement
Just like the tools used in the quantum lab
So to say I'm going to go back
To my younger self, that's literally real
It would have to be
It follows that it would have to be
Wow, it's so wild
Because what we're looking at here
Is the time machine
Learning how to operate itself
And so we're seeing a kind of
If you were building a time machine
If
Then somewhere along the course
Of the things forming
And maybe the time machine would be like
The improbability drive in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So improbable that it would come into existence
That it came into existence
That's what it does, but in this case
It would almost be working its way
Even though we're saying time is one thing
From our perspective, it's growing
From the future back into the past
Exactly, exactly
And that means that we're at the point where
It's just gaining enough sentience
To begin to dial in
To not just measure, but to dial in coordinates
So to speak
Exactly, beautifully put
To your listeners
Everybody out there who's listening right now
I want you to please think of the time
When you first learned to ride a bicycle
Just hold a mental picture of when you first learned
To ride a bicycle
When you first felt that you were riding without the training wheels
You felt the handlebars, boom
Everybody has a mental picture of that
And everybody is certain, yep
That's precisely what happened, is it?
You may have created that right now at this instant
Right now at this instant
As vivid and as real as the chairs were seated on
Again, man, I love being around
I don't want to
I like being around people who do this kind of work
Okay
I do too
Me too
It's always
Again, I don't mean to keep doing it
I think it was day before yesterday
I was just thinking about my dad
Teaching me
How to ride my bike
Yeah, it's crazy, right?
Yeah, it's funny, it's just really curious
May I share a very quick story
Just about how time gets
All mixed up and everything?
Very, very quick
I'm really interested in
The band, The Monkeys
I have all these crazy, crazy synchronicities with The Monkeys
Just the other day I was in Kansas City
I ran into Mickey Dolan's from The Monkeys
Who was totally chill and nice and lovely
And
About two years ago
Just out of the fucking blue
I start getting into the music of The Monkeys
And everybody around me is like
Fuck, what's wrong with you?
Like, why are you so into The Monkeys?
And I'm like going full throttle on The Monkeys
I'm reading biographies, doing this, doing that
And okay, this was in the summer
Come October
I get this call
From an editor at The Washington Post
And he said, we have been trying to find you
And I'm like, why am I so hard to find?
And he said, your email's not working, something's going wrong
Anyway, he said, do you know Michael Nesmith from The Monkeys?
And I said, well, I know of him, of course
And he said, do you know Mike Nesmith
Has been
Over the course of his life a Christian scientist
And I said, no, no, I didn't know that
And he said, do you know him personally? And I said, no
And he said, do you know he just wrote a memoir?
No, would you like to review it?
And I was like, well, you know, fuck yes
Nesmith writes this memoir called
Infinite Tuesday, which is really
Brilliant and wonderful about
Among other things, about time loops
About the non-existence of linearity
And all of this came to me
In this kind of seemingly backwards way
Where I had cultivated this crazy
Interest in The Monkeys
And then months later, the editor
Comes to me and invites me to review
Nesmith's memoir, Infinite Tuesday
Which is a great book
And I was already so prepped
So prepared, so ready to go
I was almost embarrassed to tell my editors
Over the post, I wrote the review
In 24 hours because
It was like a whole universe
Of
Prep had already come to me
Months prior, and I
Put all this in the review and to their
Credit, they kept it in the review
You don't find like a lot of psychedelic
Philosophy necessarily in the book review
Session of the post, but there it was
And, you know, so it was a case
In which there was such symmetry
And there was such
A sense of
Time just being in this state
Of what he calls Infinite Tuesday
Not a past, present, and future
But one great superposition
Whole, just one story I wanted to share
Whoa, it's
It's, you know
Well, again
There's a lot of places my mind wants to go
But I do want to sort of ground it
In some questions I did have for you
Please. Okay, so
One of, I'm
Simultaneously listening to
In Love with the World
By Ming-gyu Rinpoche
Which he's a, it's a great book
He's a
Tool-ku who
Snuck out of his
Monastery and went and lived the life of a
Beggar for, I think, three or five years
This is an extra treat or whatever
It's really good, but
Because my main
At least for last year, my main focus has been
Like
Some Vajrayana Buddhism, some Chogyam
Trumpa
I've been trying to
Bridge these two philosophies
Buddhism and whatever you would call this
Yeah. And I've run into
I don't want to say a problem with
Buddhism because that is so audacious
And obviously that's my problem
Not Buddhism's problem, but maybe you could
Help me with this particular
As I feel stuck
Goddard's philosophy
Which I love
Is liberating and also self-directed
Yes. Whereas
It feels like in Buddhism
And some other philosophies
Like Meister Eckhart Christian Mysticism
Yeah. We find a place
Of
Thy will be done. Yes.
A disconnect from the self
And kind of just let this be
As it is and learn to accept it
As it is. Don't worry
About forming your desires
Into time and space
Because that's just going to cause more suffering
Anyway. Don't get in the way
Of the
Pin of the divine
That fights your life on the page of time
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Don't fuck it up, man. It's doing, it's perfect as it is
But what I love about Goddard is
He isn't saying that. He's like, no you are writing the book
Yeah. Write what you want
So can you make these two things work
Or are they just, is my analysis
Correct? Is that what's going on?
I think your analysis is correct
And I've been in that particular place
Myself. There were times actually where
I felt torn in two by my dedication to
Neville and my dedication
To a philosophy that might be
Annunciated as, I will be done
Because Neville's philosophy
And this can push some people's buttons
Is really my will be done
Neville would say that your desires
Are sacred. Your desires are prophecy
Your desires should never
Be neglected because they are
The voice of God itself
That voice being your own
Human imagination
Neville would say there is no God
Other than your own wonderful
Imagination. And his system does have
An ethical reciprocity
A cosmic reciprocity
So it's not as if it just gives the individual
Cart Blanche to do unto others
Because whatever you're doing unto others
By definition in his philosophy
You're doing unto self
But he would say that
Your desires are the voice
Of God speaking to you
And that these things are not to be resisted
He would also say that
Desire satisfaction
Is only one element of his philosophy
The whole point of all this
Mental causation is to eventually
Become acquainted with yourself
Because as you discover
The creative capacities of your mind
That's a necessary doorway
Through which you begin to discover
Your own true identity
Your own sacred identity
And that as you pass through this world of Caesar
And you experience all kinds
Of things and maybe get all kinds
Of goodies or what have you
Eventually, eventually
Those things are just detritus
Those things are only necessary stepping stones
To realizing the nature
Of your own true self
Which is God or Christ
Closed in human flesh as he would put it
And that's to me is the scary part
I gotta admit it, this is where it gets scary
And in this type of Buddhism
There's dream yoga
You've heard of this, the concept of dream yoga?
I haven't, tell me about this
I'm gonna give you this book
The idea of
Sleep and dreaming and sleep
And so
This is a practice that
Is similar to
Some of the
Teachings of God
What's the western astral projection
You wrote journeys out of the body
You know what I'm talking about?
I know it, I can't summon it
I'll put in the link friends
It's a great book if you want to learn how to lucid dream
But within the techniques of lucid dreaming
A lot of us have heard
Set your timer every 10 minutes
And then look around and ask yourself
If you're in a dream
And then when you're dreaming you've conditioned yourself
And you're gonna look around in the dream
Like oh fuck I'm dreaming
And then within that space you can fly
You can walk through walls, you can do true miracles
In a dream state
The difference in the Tibetan yoga of dreaming and sleep
Is it says begin to recognize
That you're in a dream right now
And it's not an intellectual exercise
It's no, this
This is a dream
And you begin to
As part of this yoga and it's so
The author of this book is so emphatic
About this
That he has to leave a note at the end of the chapter
About that which is like don't jump off a building
Don't go nuts
It's that level of like you are in a dream
Right now
And then when you do that
You'll notice focus happens
You don't get
A dreamy, you get really
In the moment and things get very clear
So this
The reason that
There's to me something that's a little terrifying
About what Neville Goddard is talking about
Is that that gestation period
That you're talking about seems to be
More of a self-imposed
Gestation period
Because we aren't ready yet
For the big reveal
The big lifting of the veil
Boom, beautifully put
And I would add
An exercise of Neville's
That relates to lucid dreaming
I might call it cognizant dreaming
Neville's method prescribes
Entering in
To a state of mental creativity
Just in those few moments before you drift off
To sleep at night
This is what sleep researchers call the hypnagogic state
And it's a very special supple state
Of mind because when you're
Hovering between wakefulness
And sleep
You're in a kind of dream-like hallucinatory state
Reality seems to morph and bend
You can hear noises
But you're still cognizant
You still have some control over your attention
And as Neville put it, that is prime time
For mental creativity
And that if you can induce yourself
Into that drowsy state
In between sleep and wakefulness
We all enter it naturally twice a day
Just as we're falling asleep at night
And just as we're coming to in the morning
Neville would do it through a nap
He would take it 3pm each afternoon
When you're in that so-called hypnagogic state
That is the state
Of real mental fertility
And sleep researchers
As well as serious psychological researchers
Have identified that as prime time
For self-suggestion
For the occurrence of ESP-related activities
Neville just had this natural instinct
That that was a time
In which the mind was uniquely supple
The great French mind theorist
Emile Couet made this point as well
And I think Emile Couet was a great influence
On Neville in his written work
So you can just
Go into this naturally
Meditative drowsy state
You do twice a day anyway
And you can direct your attention
Within this dream-like world
But you still have cognizant control
It relates sort of to lucid dreaming
And Neville felt that is
The greatest platform
That we possess
Of being time of day that we possess
For engaging in mental creativity
He would say use that time
To picture yourself in a certain
Scene that you want to be in
Don't see the scene as if it's up on a movie screen
But see yourself in it
Like maybe someone shaking your hand and congratulating you
Or maybe if you want to be married
Feeling a wedding ring on your finger
Or saying I do with the altar
Feel yourself in the scene
Repeated as many times as it feels natural
And then drift off to sleep
The great tool, it's not the only tool
But the greatest tool that we possess
For mental creativity
And he really
Really means feel yourself
In that place
It's not an intellectual thing
You have to be like
Literally be there
You have to jump into that place
And to me what within his
Philosophy
And it does coincide with
My rudimentary explorations of quantum physics
Is the implication
That there is a
Way to evade death
As sentient as possible
That you could theoretically drop
Your entire
Dream life
And open your eyes and be in whatever
The alchemical laboratory
Of the divine that we're currently
Apparently inebriated on fumes
From a beaker with a blue in our face
Or whatever it is
You could theoretically
You could just wake up
And this is the most controversial
Area of Neville's teachings
And it's one that I've sat with for a long time
As a student, including as a critical student
Because
Look
If one accepts this mystical
Quantum model
That all of reality is in a state of superposition
Then you'd have to argue
That birth, death, everything
Every passage of life is in superposition
And that death is just an experience
Death is just a perception
And that sounds very high and mighty
Of me seated in front of a
Microphone
To say death is just a perception
But this is where I stop
And I say to my
Friends within the new age culture
My friends within the new thought culture
Go visit a children's cancer ward
Before you start expounding on this idea
Of death being just a perception
Be very, very careful with that
Because I would also contend
That we experience many laws and forces
And we experience them with such
Vividness and such
Absolute tactile reality
That I think we fail
Sometimes to underestimate
When we start to get very exuberant
About some of these things
The position of great disadvantage
That we as five sensory beings
Can find ourselves in
If I were to step my toe on a table
Right now, I would feel pain
My body undergoes changes
We all experience physical decline
We all experience death
Any sensitive person
Has witnessed death
In an atmosphere
Of great support and love and sensitivity
I don't believe
And I say this as someone who loves Neville
And I say this as a lifelong student of Neville
I don't believe
Neville gave
Sufficient weight to the
Disadvantage that we men and women
Have to always
Engaging in this world of
Mental creation
Mental causation
We experience tremendous barriers
And we experience laws and forces
That can be overwhelming
And
Proper gravity
Must be given to that fact
Proper gravity must be given to that fact
It's all well and good that I can talk about
Death
As just a perception
But how dare I talk about that
On a cancer ward
Or someplace where a life has been snuffed out
Even in an atmosphere
Of support and sensitivity and love
We live under many
Or I shall say we experience
Many laws and forces
And if a person doesn't bow
To that
I think they are leaving out an enormous part
Of life that has to be contended with
I want to play
Devils
I hate that term
I want to play somebody's advocate
Somebody's advocate
I don't know who it is
When I've been around dying people
And I'm lucky because I have been around
People who have had good deaths
Something really beautiful seems
To be happening
Now children's ward of a hospital
We both have kids
I can barely think about that
It's
Unbearable
But when you're in that moment
It does kind of seem like
To you
You're seeing a thing die
To this thing
It's just putting the body down
And this is again
By the way guys
I don't think I'm going to live forever
Anyone's going to live forever
But
To get into the quantum
Physics thing that I read
Which is you are going to know more about
They were talking about quantum computers
And they were saying that
Actually the implication in some of this stuff
Is you really don't die
Your consciousness leaps over into some parallel universe
The onion skin
And you just keep going
And whatever thing it pops over to
This does seem to
Live it well with the
Tibetan Buddhists
The bardo-thought-all
The concept of in the bardo-state
There is a potential to direct
Your
Liminal astral
Whatever the hell that momentum is
That's floating through there into your next birth
Into
Something that is
Special to that state
Versus human existence
To me I think
There isn't a chance here
Even in the children's ward of the hospital
What you're witnessing
If we're going to go full
Snorting full lines of pure goddards
In that children's hospital
You're looking at
The part of the multiverse
You're hanging out in right now
You're seeing that place
But you theoretically
Could upshift that
To being not a hospital anymore
To being some kind of futuristic
Healing place
And then you could upshift that one more time
To a convergence of souls
And upshift that one more time
Until finally you're back in that
Pure, unitive consciousness state
Where the entirety of all of this is like
Snow in a snow globe
Yes, absolutely
And I think that's well put
I would add a couple of things to that
People could be asking right now
Well gee, as Neville's saying
That there's no one else here
In consciousness
He did teach
That there are other people here
But we crisscross through one another's
Dreams of life
In this way that summons
Or enlists us
And vice versa in infinite directions
Whenever the individual's
Dream of life so requires
So he would say that
Mitch passes through Duncan's life
In this crisscrossing way
In this intimate
Infinite
Superposition universe that we live in
Mitch has his own existence
Mitch has his own dream of life
Mitch has his own feelings
But Mitch will crisscross into Duncan's existence
Into the experience of Duncan's listeners
At given moments in life
We're all God
We're all clothed in human flesh
We all possess this creative capacity
But
There's a multitudinous expression
To this intelligence
In a certain sense, yes
When I'm in this children's ward
This is where I am
This individual is just crisscrossing through my life
At this given moment
I have ultimate power
He has ultimate power
And then this teaching gets into
The most delicate territory
When questions of death and suffering are involved
Because sometimes Neville would make
Reference and other people loosely
In his tradition like Joseph Murphy
Who said he shared Neville's teacher Abdullah
Talked about this in an interview
With a French journalist
Towards the end of his life of all things
Neville would make reference on occasion
Murphy would make reference on occasion
To everybody leaving life at just the chosen time
Just the right time and I push back against that
I push back against that because
I haven't verified it
And when I speak of self verification
And one hears this sometimes in a hypocritical way
On the spiritual path, you know, people tell you
Verify it for yourself
And then in essence what they're really saying is
If you come to the same conclusion I have
Then come back, you know
But until you do I'll argue with you
And say you don't get it
If we're going to talk in terms of self verification
We have to be absolute with that
My experience has been
There are people who
Undergo death and suffering and illness
And that is not self selected
And that throws us back on the heels
Of some very heavy questions about the laws and forces
That we live under
Or that we experience
Not to be trifled with, you know
One could say for example
That the force of gravity is ever operative
It's a universal law
But you're going to experience gravity differently
Here on earth and you will on the moon or on Jupiter
And in space you'll experience its vacuum
Even though
It's still there and it's still operative
Gravity is affected by mass
In a certain sense gravity is really mass
Being attracted to itself
It could be that with this law of mental causation
We are affected
Circumstantially
It could be there different circumstances
That interrupt
Temper color condition
Our experience of mental causation
Because I have not been able
To verify
This ultimate self selected nature
Of life to the point where
The child him or herself who's
Diseased or who doesn't have clean drinking
Water is exiting life
Under chosen
Circumstances or under circumstances
You know, cosmically symmetrical
I don't believe that
Because I haven't experienced that
And I ask people
To
Respect this
Principle of self verification
To the extent that we not talk about experiences
We haven't had
I haven't been through war
I haven't been through 9-11
I haven't been through these human catastrophes
I want to hear from people who have
And I bow to them
I love your critique of it
And honestly, as I'm sitting here thinking
Why did I have to get into the implications
Of this being eternal life and ascension
For me, way more pragmatic
To talk about what's happening now
Which hopefully we are in a place
Where we need to worry about ascending
So
This brings me to
Well, something I wanted to say earlier
Which is like
You were saying you're in your 50s
You look great
You're vibrant
You're healthy
You clearly are taking really good care of yourself
You have some kind of exercise regimen
You know, it's crazy man
I mean, I thank you for saying all that
I don't take as good a care of myself
As you might think
I drink
I smoke
I do recreational drugs
I definitely do that
I don't sleep
And so I feel very blessed
And I feel very fortunate
And I feel very grateful, you know
To you for saying that
But it's not as if I am some sort of fitness vulture
I mean, I do take care of myself
In the sense that I do exercise
I do bicycle and all that jazz
But I, it's the craziest thing
Duncan, I have experienced
This sense of youthful exuberance in my 50s
I feel better
I look better
I enjoy life more than I did in my 20s
It's crazy
Say of it what you will
You're definitely not a vulture, you're an eagle
You're a fitness eagle
And I, right
So that's an interesting point
But for me, what I've been
As part of this experiment
I have been getting up at
4am every morning
And going to exercise
And I've been doing it consistently
Within reason, when there's like
You know, when I'm exhausted
You can really fuck yourself up by not getting enough sleep
But for me
This has been
Equivalent to levitation
In other words, the gravitational
Hold of my
Subjective
Limitations
Is keeping me trapped inside a specific type of body
And so
The practice, this Goddard stuff
Aside from like the weird coincidences
Has resulted in like
A consistent
Workout for the last month
More than I have ever been consistent
In my entire life
And so to me, that is the ascension
And that is the as above so below
So again, we cannot, in the same way that
Like we can't talk
About what it's like to be
On Saturn, for example
But we can use our understanding
Of physics here
And our, you know
Now our telescopic ability
Black holes colliding
Well, hopefully we're never going to experience that
If we do, we're gone
Right, right, right
But we can still use
Our understanding of physics here
Where we are in the galaxy
In the universe
To understand what that would look like
Even what it might feel like
Even what it might sound like and smell like
So similarly to me
It's like, fuck, if I can literally
Recode
My behavior patterns
By starting in my mind
Connecting to a version of me
That's healthier than I am right now
Becoming that person
I was doing this at the gym and the
When I first started it, looking at myself
And having that
First thing where I'm like, fuck man, dammit
You really let yourself go
And then replacing that with
Seeing through myself
In that form
Into my completely healthy form
And now I'm watching my body
Start changing into that
And it is astounding
Because nothing else has gotten
Has really worked like that before
So if that can happen
With the physical body
In the sense your thoughts can
Literally change your body vessel
Then the implication is just
Crazy
We're talking true levitation
We're talking walking through walls
I'm doing it again, I'm sorry Mitch
We're talking all the shit you hear
About gurus doing translocation
And all that stuff
You know I would say this
Never neglect
The means, the channels of arrival
For whatever it is that you're interested in
Some people could say, well gee Duncan
Of course you look great because you've been working out
That's simple right, we get it
Well it's not so simple because
There are always going to be different means
And different channels of arrival
I have wished for things including very intimate things
That I have received
But sometimes the means might come
Through different ways, look we live in this world
Of experiences as I've repeatedly said
We experience many laws and forces
If you wish for a house
It ain't going to be like jack and the bean stock
Where you throw the beans out the window
And the vine or the house grows
But it could be that your friend Mike says to you
Oh shit I've just been working a
Contracting job on this killer house
You have to come take a look at it
It wouldn't be natural
To sit in a room and say, no thanks Mike
I don't need to look at it because the house
Is just going to appear
Honor the channels of arrival
Honor the channels of arrival
It might come in a multitude of ways
Some of them very ordinary
But the ordinary can lead to extraordinary
There's all these myths through religious tradition
In every faith
That gods or angels or deities
Will come disguised as strangers
And the person who invites in the stranger
And is hospitable to him
Will be granted great rewards
How often do we neglect gods and angels
Who are disguised as strangers
Because that's too ordinary
That's too ordinary
It can't arrive that way
It can't arrive in a pill
It can't arrive through some ordinary procedure
Well of course it can
Fuck that's heavy man
I never, oh my god
I feel so dumb
The other thing Goddard's doing is
The invitation to
Goddard out says there wasn't a Jesus
This is a psychological process
There is no historic Christ
We're talking about outside of you
Yes
Neville makes the point
He argues that there's no
Historiography whatsoever in scripture
There's not a word in scripture that's historical
It's all a psychological blueprint
And I have to say this also
Is where I serve as a critical student of Neville's
Because there are some
Areas of scripture old and New Testament
That really lend themselves well
To a symbolical reading
But the book of Chronicles for example
Is just a recitation of generations
It's really very dry reading
And again
In the name of self verification
I have read scripture
I have spent a long, long time
I had an Orthodox Bar Mitzvah
I have read Old Testament
I have read New Testament
And I can assure you
There are passages that do not
Lend themselves to the same kind
Of symbolical
Analysis
That others do
And sometimes
May the purists forgive me
Sometimes I feel that Neville would cherry pick from scripture
I get that sits
Okay great
It's okay because I can like correct
For that but honor the channels
Of arrival
Does this diverge a little bit from
Neville's philosophy
Because he would say things like
Once you've done this thing where you become
That which you wish
To be
The person who lives in that house
Or the person who has that form
He doesn't say worry about it
He says that's it
You're done, you did it
He does say that, you're absolutely right
He says you're done, you did it
As soon as you're in the feeling state
The reality is accomplished
And that's the end of the variable
Because it will unfold in its own perfectly natural
Wonderful way
And I think you can find in Neville's work
If he doesn't say this explicitly
He certainly says it implicitly
We live in the world of Caesar
And we have to honor that
I have a friend who is the head
Of a midsize industrial firm in the Midwest
And this is where this Neville stuff is wonderful
Because you can become friends with everyone
Conservative dude with a crew cut
Who drinks beer, smokes cigars
Really intimate friends
And he says to me, listen
Nobody I work with knows I'm into this Neville stuff
And I have a board of directors
To whom I have to answer
And they want a business plan
I know the business plan because I understand
Mental creativity
But these dudes need from me
Pieces of paper, so what should I do
And I said honor them, man
You live in a world of Caesar
I live in a world of Caesar
Give those guys what they need
And behind what's going on
Honor Caesar, but you know the engine of creation
Okay, let me stop you there, this is actually
I'm so glad you're bringing this up
Because I've heard, and maybe I misunderstood
I think I read Crowley saying
If magic works for you
If you have a successful
If it works, then you have to
Say out loud
Did I misunderstand?
And also the denial of Christ
Is equivalent to this
Which is like if you're using
This incredible philosophy
And it's working for you
That you say that it's the paper
Isn't it a disservice?
Isn't it a...
Well, he says it to me
And I quote him in my books, albeit anonymously
So that other people can
Rock to this and learn from it
But I think Neville would probably say
Based on the parables of Scripture
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar
If there's somebody who's going to throw rocks at you
Because they don't dig it
Don't talk about it in front of the rock thrower
Just leave the rock thrower to himself
Do your thing and then tell your friend Mitch
But you don't have to tell your rock thrower
That's cool
And also it reminds me in the Bhagavad Gita
It says don't disturb the minds
Of people who aren't ready for this
Let him be
P. D. Uspensky, the great mathematician
And Mystic said life is like a train yard
In which there's all these trains
Going around and sometimes they're going crazy
And they're going to bump into people
They're going to bump into you
Your job is not to fix broken machines
But your job is to get out of their way
Wow
Get out of the way of the broken machine
While you're working on your machine
Yeah
This is my final question
It's going to seem like I'm being obnoxious
And trying to find some crazy similar question
To me
Another big takeaway from this is that
There is the potential
For a global utopia
World harmony
That Shambhala or the mythical
Cities are already existing
Coordinates
In this multiverse of the
Goddard is talking about
In a person's life even better
Than ascending
And not dying
You could theoretically somehow
Drive your
Awareness
It's not manifesting
It's selecting
You could select a planet
Where there is harmony
Where we have found a way to heal the planet
Where there is a way to
Drive your multiverse ship there
Do you think that's possible?
I would have to agree that it's possible
Based on the implications of this law
Neville said the lion
Lying down with the lamb
Is literal fact
And it will come to be fact in time
But we as individuals
Are far away from that
We have to learn who we really are
And as we learn who we really are
And as we come to a true sense
Of our cosmic identity
That world becomes fact
That world becomes fact
It may take the perception of many lifetimes
But that world eventually
Becomes fact because that's the nature
Of where we emanate from
Mitch
Thank you so much
It is always just a
And also, by the way, thank you
That thing that's happened to me with this
Regimented workout thing
It's directly because of you
You came through Noah Lamper
You echoed through time
Wonderful
And now you have a Peter Frampton t-shirt
To wear with your new physique
We love Peter Frampton
Thank you
Pleasure, man
Magician of the Beautiful
Now out on all the usual places
Is there a place you want to direct people to?
You know, people can find the book
Anyplace they buy books, they can find me
At my website, mitchhorowitz.com
Throw my name into Google, I'm easy to locate
Thank you, sir
Howdy, Krishna, thanks a lot
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