{"id":299,"date":"2008-05-11T06:03:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T06:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/05\/interview-with-nealepart-iii-1.html"},"modified":"2008-05-11T06:03:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T06:03:38","slug":"interview-with-nealepart-iii-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/05\/interview-with-nealepart-iii-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Neale-Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t ask for anything from God. Ever. Don’t ever do it. Asking God for anything is the surest way to make certain you never receive it.
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\nThis week\u2019s offering: The third in a series of excerpts from an interview with Neale Donald Walsch first appearing in Spiritual Growth Monthly<\/strong><\/em>
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\nMatt: One of the things you say in your book is that the process of actually asking for something implies that you don\u2019t already have it, and that this approach \u2013 the very act of requesting \u2013 in effect pushes the thing you want away\u2026
\nNeale: Well, of course, that\u2019s true. You don\u2019t ask for something you already have. You don\u2019t wish for something you already own.
\nYou don\u2019t ask for glasses to be on your face if you are already wearing glasses. People who wear glasses (there\u2019s not a person I know who wears glasses who has not done this) have laughed at themselves when they catch themselves looking for their glasses while they have their glasses on.
\nYou don\u2019t ask for things you already have. So the very act of asking for something actually moves us away from manifesting it, because you are announcing to the universe, which listens very carefully to your thought about something, that you do not now have it. This becomes your reality, because the universe doesn\u2019t know from \u201ctime.\u201d What you say Now is what is true for you Now, and it will continue to be true for you until you say something else.
\nDo you see now how powerful you are? God says, quite literally, \u201cYour word in My command.\u201d
\nBut there are many things we have that we don\u2019t know that we have; that is, it\u2019s not in our present experience. We\u2019ve lost our keys, we can\u2019t find our gloves, we have the love of another but we\u2019re not sure of it. So we don\u2019t know we have these things. We have them, but we don\u2019t know. We go to that person and say, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d and they say, \u201cOf course I love you. You know I love you, I\u2019ve told you that a thousand times. Why don\u2019t you know that?\u201d And we say, \u201cI don\u2019t know why I don\u2019t know it, I just keep wanting to ask you.\u201d What\u2019s true here is that we can\u2019t believe what someone else is telling us. We can\u2019t believe, inside of us, that we are lovable, so how could someone else love us?
\nSo there are many things we have that we don\u2019t know we have. That\u2019s called the Cloud of Unknowing. It\u2019s when our vision is clouded. We want the plane to take off, but visibility is limited. We want our lives to really take off, but visibility is limited.
\nMasters, on the other hand, are those who already know that they have everything they could ever hope for or wish to experience, right here, right now. They can see that, because they have infinite visibility. They know that it is merely a question of choosing what they desire and then calling it forth from the sea of infinite possibility. And that\u2019s the process by which Masters make manifest, in physical reality, whatever it is they wish to experience.
\nMatt: You say that God told you that the \u201csponsoring thought\u201d is more important than the secondary thought that\u2019s issuing the request.
\nNeale: That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying here. If we have a sponsoring thought — a deep-seated initial idea — that we already have what it is that we are not now experiencing, then we can experience it much more rapidly.
\nFor instance, in matters of love, if your sponsoring thought is: \u201cLove is mine.
\nNot only do I have love, I am love,\u201d you will have the experience of that very rapidly. You will have the experience as soon as you choose to notice that you already are that and have that.
\nSo it\u2019s a matter of creating a sponsoring thought that produces the outcomes we wish to experience in our relative reality, relatively soon. Sponsoring thoughts \u2013 that is, deep-seated ideas about something \u2013 are usually your first thoughts about anything\u2026but they do not have to be the last word on the subject. You can\u2019t change a sponsoring thought, but you can add a new one. That\u2019s where it becomes useful to say, \u201cOn second thought\u2026\u201d
\nWhen your first thought comes up for you and it is a sponsoring thought that you are not lovable, or that you are not abundant, or \u2013 and here\u2019s a typical one \u2013 you are \u201cnever that lucky\u201d, just say to your Self, \u201cOn second thought\u2026\u201d, and then have a new thought about it. You\u2019ll find that you can get out of that stagnant place and really move some energy around if you\u2019ll let yourself seriously entertain that new thought. That\u2019s why this is called the New Thought Movement.
\nSo if you think that you can\u2019t have something that you really want, or that the world will never change, or that life is just what it is and isn\u2019t going to get much better\u2026well, think again. Create a new sponsoring thought. Thoughts sponsor reality, so create a new sponsoring thought.
\nMatt: And you say that there are two kinds of sponsoring thoughts \u2013 fear and love \u2013 is that correct?
\nNeale: Yes. Basically all thought reduces itself to fear or love, and all reality arises from one of those two very basic and fundamental vibrations. There are only two basic vibrations, and those are the two. Everything else is a variation on the theme.
\nMatt: Well, if God is love, then there\u2019s the question of why did He create something bad, like fear?
\nNeale: God created a relative experience, a relative world. He created the realm of relativity, in which all things exist in relationship to themselves, across a grand scale.
\nIt\u2019s like saying if God created warm, then why did he create cold? He didn\u2019t create cold. In a sense, he didn\u2019t create warm either. He just created the thing called Temperature. That\u2019s what God created. God created a reality in which everything exists in varying degrees. It is we who have called those things \u2018good\u2019 or \u2018bad.\u2019
\nIf we can agree that God did not create warm, but rather, temperature, which is the first level of creation, then we simple look at: What temperature is it? Is it 90 degrees outside? Is it 30 degrees Celsius? What temperature is it? Or is it very cold? And is that \u2018good\u2019 or \u2018bad\u2019? And those are judgments that we will make.
\nI am using a simple example here, to make a point. \u2018Temperature\u2019 is the elementary essence, to use this simple example, of the things that are. And so, too, it is on the Scale of Good and Evil. God did not create \u2018good\u2019 and God did not create \u2018evil\u2019. Those are human inventions and human definitions. God simply created That Which Is, and it is we who have created \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018evil\u2019 by calling it that.
\nBy the way, we change that creation from time to time. That is, we call things evil that were not evil years ago. We call things good that we did not call good years ago. So even our scale changes and shifts from time to time. We are, in fact, the creators of our own reality, and we are calling things exactly what we choose for them to be.
\nShakespeare put it perfectly: \u201cNothing is evil lest thinking make it so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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