While it’s easy to become confused on how God’s control and our own free will interact, especially if you are told that “you are God”, there are some ways to fact-check. My number one point on this subject: “Do others have free will”, the most often asked question of all, is this: In no scripture does God dominate.

The only one who seeks to dominate, often by deception and manipulation, is the opposing force, whatever you want to call that. You can call it your own negative belief’s from within your subconscious imprint. Either way, God is POWER, LOVE and A SOUND MIND, all three, together. But never domination. God is CONSIOUSNESS, AWARENESS and BLISS….again, no hints of dominating others.

As an example of how the toxic jargon goes in LOA, the reason for this post comes from a paragraph from the Neville Goddard subreddit:

“They have no free will in your reality. They can only think what you think. They can only do what you say they can do. They are in constant conformity with what you think about them.”

Talk about delusional! I bet you we are all thinking independently of this idiots megalomania trip.

Imagine that you come across these great teachings on how to overcome some of your most self damaging behaviors and beliefs and the best you can do is this…

Evolution, the nervous system and DNA

From the perspective of the mind, free will belongs to our thinking mind, and the “no free will” part belongs to our DNA, to evolution, and to the autonomic nervous system, which is a network of nerves throughout your body that control unconscious processes. This includes triggers and imprinted responses. Imagine that an individual you interact with can actually SENSE your ulterior motives, and your efforts and dominating them through your mind-magic causes THEIR nervous system to react negatively to you! THAT is how connected we are to one another. You think that “they are in constant conformity” to quote the above absurd LOA comment, however, the whole time, they are actually very weary of you for reasons that they might not quite understand. Their nervous system picks up on manipulation subconsciously. They will eventually start to avoid you.

Quantum entanglement

From a quantum physics level, there are intriguing discussion about quantum entanglement, an elusive phenomenon which Albert Einstein once called ‘”spooky action“. What it refers to are two particles which interact with each other that sometimes remain connected, instantaneously sharing their physical states no matter how great the distance which separates them. This is also the basis for our more spiritual view on oneness consiousness, however neither theory suggests that the PHYSICAL free will of another can or should be violated. Why this idea has become so popular is just an extension of the same lack mentality that humanity has grappled with for eons.

EIPYO

No, my dears, Neville Goddard doesn’t say that “others don’t have free will in your reality”, if you can find him saying that, send me the quote. He does say that we, ourselves, do not understand how our OWN free will works. That I can get behind. So worry more about consciously using your own free will, and less about dominating others. It is just gross to even ask these questions, think about what kind of person you aspire to be, and less about how to control other people. It is sad that this topic has not reduced over time, instead it has snowballed. Take my words to heart, and stop this nonsense. What he actually meant by EIYPO is simply that your negativity or positivity rubs off on your environment and becomes your very own confirmation bias. No, he doesn’t say that others “conform” to your head trip. At best, they back away from you for being so repelling.

The Core Message

The core message is very simple. Neville dives into a teaching where he walks us through the concept of “shifting states”, and it is a beautiful method of getting out of a “state of misery”, but the whole IDEA of “making someone conform” is rooted in the “old man state”. It is a sure sign that you are STUCK in that lack mentality. When he said, “no one to change but self” THIS is what he was talking about. Do yourself a big favor, and get out of this state. Discover healthy ways to empower yourself, and discover what SELF CONCEPT is all about!

The Biblical Free Will:

Finally, where we first encounter the concept of free will, and Neville’s favorite quotaion source, The Bible:

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh ; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Galatians 5;13

Let’s read Chapter Twenty One Where it all goes down!

The Power Of Awareness | Neville Goddard

Free will

“The question is often asked, “What should be done between the assumption of the wish fulfilled and its realization?”

Nothing. It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realization of your desire.

You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually you can do nothing. The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of assumption upon which all action is based.

Everything happens automatically.

All that befalls you, all that is done by you – happens.

Your assumptions, conscious or unconscious, direct all thought and action to their fulfillment.

To understand the law of assumption, to be convinced of its truth, means getting rid of all the illusions about free will to act. Free will actually means freedom to select any idea you desire.

By assuming the idea already to be a fact, it is converted into reality. Beyond that, free will ends, and everything happens in harmony with the concept assumed.

I can of Mine Own Self do nothing…
because I seek not Mine Own Will,
but the Will of the Father which hath sent Me.
[John 5:30]

In this quotation, the Father obviously refers to God. In an earlier chapter, God is defined as I AM.

Since creation is finished, the Father is never in a position of saying “I will be”. In other words, everything exists, and the infinite I AM consciousness can speak only in the present tense.

Not My Will, but Thine be done. [Luke 22:42]

“I will be” is a confession that “I am not”. The Father’s Will is always “I AM”.

Until you realize that YOU are the Father (there is only one I AM, and your infinite self is that I AM), your will is always “I will be”.

In the law of assumption, your consciousness of being is the Father’s will. The mere wish without this consciousness is the “my will”. This great quotation, so little understood, is a perfect statement of the law of assumption.

It is impossible to do anything. You must be in order to do.

If you had a different concept of yourself, everything would be different.

You are what you are, so everything is as it is.

The events which you observe are determined by the concept you have of yourself.

If you change your concept of yourself, the events ahead of you in time are altered, but, thus altered, they form again a deterministic sequence starting from the moment of this changed concept. You are a being with powers of intervention, which enable you, by a change of consciousness, to alter the course of observed events – in fact, to change your future.

Deny the evidence of the senses, and assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

Inasmuch as your assumption is creative and forms an atmosphere, your assumption, if it be a noble one, increases your assurance and helps you to reach a higher level of being.

If, on the other hand, your assumption be an unlovely one, it hinders you and makes your downward way swifter. Just as the lovely assumptions create a harmonious atmosphere, so the hard and bitter feelings create a hard and bitter atmosphere.

Whatsoever things are pure, just, lovely, of good report, think on these things. [Approx., Philippians 4:8]

This means to make your assumptions the highest, noblest, happiest concepts. There is no better time to start than now. The present moment is always the most opportune in which to eliminate all unlovely assumptions and to concentrate only on the good.

As well as yourself, claim for others their Divine inheritance.

See only their good and the good in them. Stir the highest in others to confidence and self-assertion by your sincere assumption of their good, and you will be their prophet and their healer, for an inevitable fulfillment awaits all sustained assumptions.

You win by assumption what you can never win by force.

An assumption is a certain motion of consciousness. This motion, like all motion, exercises an influence on the surrounding substance causing it to take the shape of, echo, and reflect the assumption. A change of fortune is a new direction and outlook, merely a change in arrangement of the same mind substance – consciousness.

If you would change your life, you must begin at the very source with your own basic concept of self.

Outer change, becoming part of organizations, political bodies, religious bodies, is not enough. The cause goes deeper. The essential change must take place in yourself, in your own concept of self.

You must assume that you are what you want to be and continue therein, for the reality of your assumption has its being in complete independence of objective fact and will clothe itself in flesh if you persist in the feeling of the wish fulfilled.

When you know that assumptions, if persisted in, harden into facts, then events which seem to the uninitiated mere accidents will be understood by you to be the logical and inevitable effects of your assumption.

The important thing to bear in mind is that you have infinite free will in choosing your assumptions, but no power to determine conditions and events.

You can create nothing, but your assumption determines what portion of creation you will experience.”

“THE QUESTION is often asked, “What should be done between the assumption of the wish fulfilled and its realization?” Nothing. It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realization of your desire. You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually you can do nothing”.
Neville Goddard