ASSUMPTION
Subjective Appropriation of Objective Hope
This technique involves clearly defining a desired objective (what you want or want to be) and then internally (subjectively) experiencing and claiming that…
Step by step
- Clearly define your objective hope (what you want to have or be).
- Go within and imagine/feel yourself already possessing or being that desired state.
- Maintain this subjective experience, living from the assumption of its fulfillment.
- Do not seek external help or create fallback plans; rely solely on your inner conviction.
- Identify your subjective hope or desire (Jacob).
- Imagine what it would feel like if this hope were an objective reality (Esau).
- Bring this feeling so close that you can 'touch' it, 'smell' it, 'taste' it – engage all senses.
- Clothe yourself in this feeling of fulfillment, making it your present reality.
- Persevere in this feeling, 'feasting upon this feeling morning, noon, and night,' until it becomes an objective reality.
- Clearly define your 'objective hope' (what you want to manifest).
- In your imagination, enter the state of having already achieved this hope.
- Engage your senses to make this imaginative experience vivid and real.
- View the world from this subjectively appropriated state, feeling its reality.
- Persist in this feeling and perspective, especially before sleep, until it feels natural.
- Define a clear goal or desire.
- Create a vivid, imaginal scene that implies the fulfillment of this goal (e.g., a conversation, a touch, a sight).
- Re-enact this scene in your imagination repeatedly, making it as real as possible.
- Focus on capturing the 'mood' or feeling of the wish fulfilled until it feels alive and 'pulses' within you.
- Once the feeling is strong, release it and 'do nothing about it' in the external world.
- Always perform this technique with love, ensuring the desire is harmonious and beneficial.
- 1. Identify an objective hope or desire.
- 2. Go into imagination and conceive a scene that implies the hope is already true.
- 3. Engage with the scene as if it is real (e.g., hear friends tell you the good news about it).
- 4. Persist in this imaginal state until it feels real.
- Identify your objective hope or desire.
- Find a subjective action or scene that would imply the fulfillment of that hope (e.g., walking up a gangplank, feeling the rail, looking back at the departing island).
- Enter this imaginal scene and experience it vividly, engaging all senses and feelings, as if it were physically real.
- Persist in this imaginal act until it feels natural and real, even falling asleep in the assumption.
- If the mind wanders, return to the beginning of the imaginal act and repeat until completion.
- Define your 'objective hope' (your desire).
- Go within and subjectively appropriate this hope.
- Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled.
- Imagine how you would perceive the world and how others would perceive you if your wish were already a public, external fact.
Related ideas
All Things Exist
This technique involves clearly defining a desired objective (what you want or want to be) and then internally (subjectively) experiencing and claiming that desire as already fulfilled. It's about assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled without seeking external help or fallback plans.
Knowing what you want, imagine you have it. Knowing what you want to be, imagine you are it. Subjectively appropriate your objective hope and you have assumed a virtue you did not have. Ask no one to help, and do not feel below the water for something to fall back on if imagination doesn’t work. Instead, learn to count on your true Self, who is Jesus Christ!
Neville emphasizes that true manifestation comes from within, by fully embodying the desired state in imagination. This act of subjective appropriation is an act of faith in one's divine Self (Jesus Christ) and negates the need for external validation or contingency plans.
Feel Deeply
This technique involves taking a subjective desire (Jacob) and giving it the sensory reality of an objective fact (Esau) through intense feeling. It's about 'clothing' the desire in the feeling of its fulfillment, making it so real to the inner senses that consciousness (Isaac) accepts and blesses it as an accomplished fact.
After smothering yourself in feeling, you have sent it on its way and cannot take it back, for prayer is nothing more than the subjective appropriation of an objective hope. Imagine by giving objective reality to your hope. Hair is the most objective thing on a man. Bring your hope so close that you can feel what it would be like if it were objective to you. Clothe yourself in that feeling - and you have clothed yourself in the reality of an Esau. The world will not immediately reflect your feeling, but you have set your desire in motion and cannot take it back. You have given a subjective state your blessing by giving it objective reality. Now it must fulfill its destiny so that you will be blessed in all that you are doing. If you don’t give your subjective hope objective reality, you can’t be blessed in its fulfillment. You must clothe yourself in the feeling that your wish is fulfilled. Jacob is your desire, waiting to be clothed in the feeling of external reality. Catch the feeling, and you have clothed Jacob with the external reality of Esau. Now deceive yourself into believing that your desire is externally real, and give it your blessing by subjectively appropriating your objective hope. Who is the blind Isaac? You are, for you cannot see what you are asking for in your outer world. It’s a hope and you are blind to it. But when you clothe yourself in the feeling of its fulfillment, you are eating the feeling of satisfaction. Feast upon this feeling morning, noon, and night, and in a way you do not know your desire will become an objective reality in your world.
Prayer is the subjective appropriation of an objective hope. To manifest, one must immerse themselves in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, making the subjective desire feel as tangible and real as an objective fact. This 'deception' of the senses leads to the desire's inevitable externalization.
Gifts Bestowed By God
This technique involves taking an external desire ('objective hope') and making it an internal, felt reality ('subjective appropriation'). It means mentally experiencing the desired state as if it is already true, to the point where one perceives the world from that fulfilled state.
Faith is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. I hoped to go to Barbados. I subjectively appropriated it. Physically, I was in New York City on 75ht Street. Subjectively I was in Barbados. And then to prove that I was in Barbados, I simply looked at the world. If I could see the world as I would have to see it were I in Barbados, then I subjectively appropriated that state.
This is Neville's definition and application of faith. It's not merely wishing, but an active, imaginative dwelling in the desired reality, which then compels the outer world to conform.
Gods Plan Of Redemption 1970
This technique involves setting a clear goal, then creating and repeatedly re-enacting an imaginal scene that implies the fulfillment of that goal. The goal is 'subjectively appropriated' by feeling its reality until it 'pulses' with life, after which no further external action is required, as the imaginal act compels the world to aid its manifestation.
Well, set a goal for yourself. I want this, that or the other. “All things are possible to God.” “And you tell me my imagination is God? All right, well then, how do I prove that? I bring before my mind’s eye a scene, which implies that I am the man that I would like to be, and I re-enact that scene in my imagination. That is subjectively appropriating the objective hope. I re-enact the whole thing in my imagination, and then I reap the reality of that subjective appropriation, and do nothing about it. Capture that mood until life begins to really pulse, and then, while they are pulsing, you have sent it into the world. It impinges on everyone in the world, and they – whether they want to or not – are under compulsion to aid the purpose of that subjective hope, and you will become the one that you’ve assumed that you are. Do it with love. Always do it in love, and you’re doing it the right way.
Since one's imagination is God, 'all things are possible.' By subjectively experiencing the desired reality, one impresses the subconscious and the universal consciousness, compelling its objective manifestation.
If You Can Really Believe
To manifest a desired objective hope, one must subjectively appropriate it by creating an imaginal scene that implies the wish is fulfilled. This involves engaging with the scene as if it were real and persisting in that feeling.
Faith is the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. So, I have a hope. I would like to be this, that or the other in this world. Or, I would like someone – a friend of mine – to be this, that or the other. Now I must appropriate it subjectively. I go down in my imagination and I simply conceive a scene, which would imply that it’s true, and I appropriate it. How do I appropriate it? I create a scene, which would imply that it is true, bringing the individual or friends before me. I could have friends tell me, “Have you heard the good news?” and I will act as though I didn’t. “No, what is the good news?” “Have you heard the news about …” – and they mention my friend, and I listen eagerly to what they are telling me about my friend. I am appropriating subjectively my objective hope. All I have to do then is to persist in that state.
This is the practical application of faith, where one makes the external desire an internal reality through imaginative engagement.
Imagination Plus Faith
This technique involves taking an objective desire or hope and subjectively experiencing it as if it were already fulfilled. It's about making the absent present through the power of imagination and faith.
Now, how do I go about doing it? That’s the important thing. ... Well, how do I make what is not present real? That is where we come to imagining plus faith. I have tried it unnumbered times, and may I tell you, it works. ... I simply subjectively appropriated my objective hope. I hoped to be sailing on that ship, and so I subjectively appropriated the objective hope, for if I were sailing I would get into that little boat, get off onto the gangplank and walk up to the deck of the ship.
The act of faith is to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, making the unseen real by experiencing it internally.
The Pattern Man2
Prayer is the 'subjective appropriation of the objective hope.' This involves going within, assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and then imagining how the world and people would appear if that wish were an external fact, allowing them to 'see' you in that new light.
But if you know that the God to Whom you pray is your own wonderful human imagination, then instead of begging, you appropriate. You appropriate the state; so I call it the subjective appropriation of the objective hope. What is my objective hope? Well, I appropriate it subjectively. I “go within” and I simply appropriate it. I simply assume the feeling of my wish fulfilled. I appropriate it; and if my wish fulfilled were true, how would I see the world in which I live? and then do everything to make me see it as I would see it if it were: see the people in my world as I would have to see them, and let them see me as they would be compelled to see me if what I am doing is an actual external fact. If they know me and I know them, and something happens in my life that becomes public knowledge, -well, then, they would know it. Then let them see me as they would have to see me if it were true. So, the subjective appropriation of the objective hope is prayer. You don’t beg any one. Don’t ask anyone. You simply appropriate it.
Knowing that God is one's own imagination, prayer becomes an act of internal appropriation rather than external begging. By subjectively embodying the desired state, one compels the objective world to reflect that inner reality.