Eternity Awaits
Where could you go that you are not aware of being? Therefore, where can you go and not find God? If you lived in hell would you not be aware of being there? So God is in hell. If you lived in ecstasy you would be aware of your ecstatic mood, and that awareness is God, for I AM is the only name of Jesus.
Neville Goddard
A Divine Event
December 8, 1969
What does I AM mean for you?
When you say I AM, maybe you say:
- I AM Mary, a young woman working for low pay and barely making ends meet.
- I AM John, a family man with a secret desire to travel the world.
- I AM Mark, a successful entrepreneur with the world at my fingertips?
What blank do you fill in after I AM?
That blank represents your defined awareness of being in human form. Yet, there’s nowhere in the universe you can go where the first part of the statement, “I AM”, isn’t aware of itself. By itself, I AM needs no definition, and couldn’t be defined anyway. I AM exists not to be defined, but for the purpose of infinitely expanding itself.
It expands itself by living within you, and it is you who defines I AM through your experiences on earth for as long as it takes, until the inevitable moment when you awaken to its presence within you. In this way, you and I AM are never separate from each other.
Everything you say I AM presents itself to you in the forms of your manifestations. So if you find yourself in “hell” — a broken relationship, poverty, illness — despite these being negative events, that is still I AM expanding itself through you defined as: “I am unlovable, I am poor, I am sick.” But if you find yourself in ecstasy: “I am blissfully in love, I am wealthy, I am strong,” that awareness will show itself to you in your life as being those things instead. And I AM will expand through positive experiences and events.
So each of us is destined to awaken to our true identity, which is simply I AM, without definition. That is the Divine Event Neville refers to in the lecture that inspired this drawing. We all go through a series of awakenings, through many lifetimes, until we reach the Divine Event. Most of us almost get there… but then we hit the snooze button and roll back over, back to our former state of sleep (unawareness). The key is to stop hitting that button!
Your Turn: Eternity Awaits
To stop hitting “snooze” on your life and start manifesting what you want intentionally, you have to practice affirming different defined states of I AM. You can do this in three steps.
Step One:
Use the examples below to create new I AM statements for yourself. Identify which ones you’ve been using, and choose their opposites instead.
I AM Poor — I AM Wealthy
I AM Sick — I AM Healthy
I AM Unloved — I AM Loved
I AM Angry — I AM Peaceful
I AM Unknown — I AM Famous
Feel free to use the statements that make sense for you.
Step Two:
Take your chosen statement and expand on it. If you chose I AM Wealthy, for example, what specific event could only happen in your life if your statement were true? Would you have an expensive new car, a dream home, money to send your children to college? Or perhaps wealth to you is a simple life, like a cottage in the woods. Define what your chosen I AM statement would look like in your world.
Step Three:
In a journal, or in your imagination, create a very short scene of your positive I AM statement. Make the scene happening now, not at some point in the future. Even better, make it something that has already happened. Tell the story from your own perspective, not as an observer. Be specific — not in details, but honing in on a singular, specific moment in time.
For example: You are welcoming guests to your beautiful home for a dinner party. One such guest says to you, “I just love your new house. It’s so extravagantly beautiful! Congratulations!” You hug them, and tell them thank you for the compliments. In this example, the scene takes place after you’ve already moved into your home, not at any point before. This is what Neville calls “going to the end”, which we’ll discuss more in another post.
If you’ve made your scene short and specific enough, it will be easy to memorize and repeat, over and over again, until it feels as real to you as any other memory. Once you’ve accomplished that sense of realness, you will be amazed at how easily things fall into place in your life to make it actually happen.
Final Thoughts
Manifestation is a process of discovery and expansion. We are always manifesting our realities, every moment of every day. As Neville says, "the only purpose of life is to discover who you are." And who you are is an infinitely creative being, with powers way beyond the limiting beliefs of a mundane world. Have fun with this exercise, and always remember that if you fall back into old I AM statements or beliefs, you can always put yourself back on the path of awakening again.