Neville - The Power of Awareness inc. Awakened Imagination

T HE T ARCHER C ORNERSTONE E DITIONS

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu, translated by Jonathan Star

The Essential Marcus Aurelius

Newly translated and introduced

by Jacob Needleman and John P. Piazza

Accept This Gift: Selections from A Course in Miracles

Edited by Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., and Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Foreword by Marianne Williamson

The Kybalion

by Three Initiates

The Spiritual Emerson

Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction by Jacob Needleman

The Four Gospels

The Contemporary English Version

Foreword by Phyllis Tickle

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

Translations by Jonathan Star

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ

by Levi H. Dowling

Seven Years in Tibet

by Heinrich Harrer

Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time

by Marilyn Ferguson

The New Religions

by Jacob Needleman

Loves Voice: 72 Kabbalistic Haiku

by Richard Zimler

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Contents

The Power of Awareness

To

Arthur and his beloved Verne whose awareness brought this book into being.

Chapters

This book is to reveal your infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance. It is to show you who you are, your purpose and your destiny.

Chapter One

I Am

All things when they are admitted are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.

E PH. 5:13

T he light is consciousness. Consciousness is one, manifesting in legions of forms or levels of consciousness. There is no one that is not all that is, for consciousness, though expressed in an infinite series of levels is not divisional. There is no real separation or gap in consciousness. I AM cannot be divided. I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a beggar man or a thief, but the center of my being remains the same regardless of the concept I hold of myself. At the center of manifestation there is only one I AM manifesting in legions of forms or concepts of itself and I am that I am.

I AM is the self definition of the absolute, the foundation on which everything rests. I AM is the first cause-substance. I AM is the self definition of God.

I AM hath sent me unto you

I AM THAT I AM

Be still and know that I AM God.

I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I AM. The awareness of being remains regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where and what I am.

I AM is that which, amid unnumbered forms, is ever the same. This great discovery of cause reveals that, good or bad, man is actually the arbiter of his own fate, and that it is his concept of himself that determines the world in which he lives. In other words, if you are experiencing ill health, knowing the truth about cause, you cannot attribute the illness to anything other than to the particular arrangement of the basic cause-substance, an arrangement which is defined by your concept I am unwell. This is why you are told Let the weak man say, I am strong. Joel 3.10, for by his assumption, the cause-substanceI AMis rearranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its rearrangement affirms. This principle governs every aspect of your life, be it social, financial, intellectual or spiritual.

I AM is that reality to which, whatever happens, we must turn for an explanation of the phenomena of life. It is I AMs concept of itself that determines the form and scenery of its existence. Everything depends upon its attitude towards itself; that which it will not affirm as true of itself cannot awaken in its world. That is, your concept of yourself, such as I am strong, I am secure, I am loved, determines the world in which you live. In other words, when you say I am a man, I am a father, I am an American, you are not defining different I AMs; you are defining different concepts or arrangements of the one cause-substancethe one I AM. Even in the phenomena of nature, if the tree were articulate it would say I am a tree, an apple tree, a fruitful tree.

When you know that consciousness is the one and only realityconceiving itself to be something good, bad or indifferent, and becoming that which it conceived itself to beyou are free from the tyranny of second causes, free from the belief that there are causes outside of your own mind that can affect your life.