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Neville Goddard told his VIP students to do this exercise before anything else. This is the most powerful way to manifest in your life, and it will change your self-identity. It will change your self-concept, shift your states of consciousness, and you will arrive at your destination with your wish fulfilled, manifesting the life of your dreams if you focus on this one thing.
I give 100% credit to this exercise for everything that I've manifested: my brand, my business, everything that I've created in the last three years since I was released from prison. I spent eight and a half years there studying this stuff. This is what I give credit to, and I want you to apply this in your life. Remember, creation is finished, so you're not really creating anything; you're just manifesting different portions of what's already created, connecting to it—not forcing it—but falling asleep, creating these feeling states.
Throughout the day, it can be really, really simple, and I'm going to get into the magic right now.
All right, so this is really cool. This is where the story begins, where my grandfather met Neville. My grandfather had this friend, and this friend came to my grandfather and said, "Hey, you got to check out this guy Neville. You got to go see what this guy's teaching; it's something really, really magical and amazing."
At this point, my grandfather was basically homeless and sick. He got sick with dengue fever three times, to where he almost died from it. It literally almost killed him. He was depressed, hopeless, and had no purpose in his life. He was nearly homeless, so he agreed to go see Neville because he was just so down in the dumps that he wanted to try to find something. He didn't want to go to a church because he said they were always trying to get your money; they wanted 10%, and he didn't have 10%.
Ten percent was a lot of money to him at that point because he didn't have any money. At that time, Neville was doing his lectures at the Wilshire Ebel Theater for free, so my grandfather could go see him, and Neville wouldn't charge a thing.
Neville even said that when he first took the podium, when my grandfather went to the Wilshire Ebel Theater to see him, the first thing Neville Goddard said was, "There will not be a tray passed around today. You are not to give me any money."
After my grandfather heard Neville Goddard say that, he thought, "Okay, I want to hear what this guy has to say." I mean, he's obviously got something important to say; he's got to try to get my money somewhere along the line.
Then Neville G starts speaking about how imagination creates reality. My grandfather thinks that Neville Goddard is crazy at this point and is about to walk out. But then Neville Goddard says, "Listen, try to disprove me. I want you to try to disprove me. If you think that I'm crazy, if you think that I don't know what I'm talking about, I want you to try this. If you can disprove me, I will give everything up. I'll never teach again; I'll walk away from the podium forever, and you will disprove me. But you can't disprove me."
Neville Goddard says, "If you do this, it will happen, and you will never disprove me if you actually do this."
Then Neville Goddard begins to instruct everyone in the audience to start with their imagination, to start climbing up and down a ladder in their imagination as if they're doing it in the present moment—climbing up and down this ladder, left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot—all the way up the ladder, climb back down the ladder, up the ladder, down the ladder. You do this for about 20 minutes as you're falling asleep at night.
Then he instructed everyone in the audience to write down on 10 pieces of paper that they are not going to climb a ladder. "I will not climb a ladder." You were to write it on 10 pieces of paper and put those papers everywhere you would see them: on the mirror in the bathroom, by your dresser, by your bed, on the refrigerator, in your car, at your office, in your wallet, in your pocket. You're supposed to keep these everywhere and remind yourself that you are to refuse to climb a ladder throughout the day.
So you're going to fall asleep climbing a ladder for three nights, and throughout the day, you are telling yourself that you are not going to climb a ladder. You have reminders everywhere, and if somebody asks you to climb a ladder, you are to refuse to climb this ladder. But you continue to climb that ladder as you go to sleep at night.
Neville Goddard instructed everyone that if you actually do this, if you spend the time and you vividly perform and see yourself in your imagination climbing up and down a ladder, and you fall asleep doing it, there's nothing that can stop it from happening in your reality. There will be something crazy and magical that happens in your world where all of a sudden you're forced into a situation where you have to climb a ladder.
Or it'll just slip your mind; somebody will ask you to climb a ladder. You haven't seen a ladder in a couple of years, but all of a sudden, there are ladders everywhere, and now you got to climb a ladder. Why is that? Because you fell asleep climbing the ladder.
So my grandfather accepts Neville Goddard's challenge of climbing the ladder, and he does this for the sole reason of disproving Neville Goddard and to show that he was a fraud, that he was crazy, and that imagination doesn't create reality.
My grandfather does it for that sole reason. He does everything Neville G says; he writes down, "I will not climb a ladder," and then he starts imagining himself climbing a ladder. He does this for two nights.
On the third day, after he visualizes it for two nights, he gets called over to my great-grandparents' house, which is Elmer Senior. They call him over, and his mother, my great-grandmother, says, "Hey son, I want to talk to you about something."
So my grandfather catches a bus because at this time, he was very poor; he didn't have any money at all. He heads over to his mother's house, which is my great-grandmother's house. Then he walks towards the house, gets off the bus, and as he approaches, my great-grandfather Elmer Senior is on the roof.
My grandfather is walking by, and he says, "Hey son, can you hand me that bucket of paint?" My grandfather says, "Yeah, okay." So he grabs a bucket of paint and goes halfway up the ladder. Then he says, "Oh my God, I climbed a goddamn ladder like this guy said I would."
My grandfather was very upset about this because he had written it everywhere. He had put it on the mirror, on the wall, in the refrigerator, in his pocket—everywhere—that he was going to disprove Neville. He was trying his hardest not to climb a ladder so he could disprove Neville Goddard, but he couldn't.
So then he went back to see Neville Goddard, and there was a much smaller group at this time. When Neville Goddard instructed everyone to do this, he said, "For everyone that does climb a ladder, I want you to come back to this meeting in the back of the Wilshire Ebel Theater. It's going to be a much smaller group because not that many people are actually going to do it. Most people say they're going to do it, but they don't actually do it. But if you actually do it, I want you to come back to this meeting."
My grandfather goes to this meeting and walks up to Neville Goddard. He says, "I climbed a damn ladder." Neville replies, "Of course you did; that's why you're here, and that's why everyone is here. Everyone climbed the ladder because you actually did the exercise and fell asleep doing it."
Now you know that imagination creates reality. But Neville Goddard also says, "How does it feel to know that you could have just as easily made a million bucks in cash as you did climbing that ladder as you were falling asleep at night?"
At this point, my grandfather's like, "All right, Neville, teach me everything. I want to know everything. I want to become successful; I want to make a million dollars."
That's when my grandfather joined the VIP group with Neville Goddard. Within six weeks, my grandfather had a quarter of a million dollars in cash in a safety deposit box.
This exercise that I talked about at the very beginning of this video is the most important exercise that Neville G taught everyone if you want to be successful using the law of assumption. This was based on a $3 million exercise, but with inflation the way it is today, it's more like $30 million today for what they were trying to create then, which was this exercise right here.
So Neville Goddard tells everyone this is basically the same thing as climbing a ladder. This same exercise—you’re not going to need the notes this time. I just wanted to prove to you that what you fall asleep with at night trumps anything that you try to do throughout the day.
Whatever you fall asleep doing is going to happen, and you're not going to be able to stop that because you lose free will in that state of consciousness. You cannot stop it from happening once you fall asleep with something unless you completely change it at that point.
Climbing a ladder is something that you really can't change, but if it's like changing concepts of self, you can constantly grow with those types of things. But with climbing a ladder, you can't.
What Neville G was instructing here was creating $3 million. He gave everyone the same exercise, except you do it for a little bit longer; that was the only reason. That way, you can make it real in your imagination because it's a little bit more difficult than just climbing a ladder to sleep at night.
Neville Goddard instructed everyone to create a visual scene of being on a cruise ship. I think he called it an ocean liner back then or something, but it's really a cruise ship. You can create this anywhere you want; that was just what Neville G used.
What he did was create a scene where you are in it, and you have two friends or two family members coming to you and congratulating you on your success. You don't know how that success is going to happen, just that you are ultra-successful in that moment, and they are congratulating you.
You can see the emotion on their faces, you can see the body language, you can hear it, you can see it, you can feel it—everything. You're bringing all of your senses into this imaginal scene, and then you loop this scene over and over and over again as you're going to sleep at night.
You do it for more than three nights. I think he instructed around 30 nights; I'm not quite certain exactly how long. But really, you should do this until you truly feel that you have created the scene very vividly real, and you are really falling asleep with that.
Essentially, what's going to happen is the same thing as the ladder exercise. There's nothing that you're going to be able to do to stop this. You're going to be under compulsion to start creating money and wealth in your life, and the motion of the universe is going to control everything you do within that state of consciousness.
You're just going to act automatically. Maybe there will be some things where you feel slightly uncomfortable, or you're shifting concepts of self to develop yourself into this new being, but it's going to happen.
Just to note, Neville Goddard never instructed people to write things down and not to do them ever again within the VIP group that my grandfather went to for many years after that. He continued to see Neville G and created a quarter of a million dollars within the first six weeks after doing this exercise.
This is the exercise he did where he made that money. It didn't all come in at one time, but he eventually made all of that money, which would be the equivalent to $30 million now, within a very short period of time.
I really don't think that Neville Goddard created that exercise with writing down "I will not climb a ladder" for any other reason but to disprove the fact that you can do anything within your world to change what you fall asleep with at night.
What you fall asleep with doing, who you are, and what you consent to believe is true of your world—whatever you fall asleep with is going to happen to you the next day, and there's nothing you can do to stop that.
But what we found is that using a "not" exercise can actually be really part of it because Neville Goddard probably knew some of this. I don't think that was the reasoning behind it; he wanted to create the "not" exercise as part of it to speed up the process.
But really, it does because if you say, "I will not climb a ladder," what are you picturing? You're picturing yourself climbing a ladder. So all day long, my grandfather was saying, "I will not climb a ladder," but his imagination was picturing him climbing a ladder.
The subconscious mind doesn't feel that, right? So he was speeding up the process, even imagining himself climbing a ladder, and then he was trying to force it, trying to say, "No, I will not climb a ladder."
As we all know, when you really don't want something to happen, it kind of pushes it your way even more quickly.
Based on Neville Goddard's exercise that he gave my grandfather, and something that I have used myself, I credit all of my success to this exercise. I have handcrafted a visualization sleep meditation to walk you through this exercise.
It has alpha waves, theta waves, and delta waves to also induce the sleep state as you're going into this guided visualization that I created. I'm going to put a card on the screen to that free sleep meditation that you can use, where I have handcrafted it personally to get you to the next level and have the full experience of what Neville Goddard was teaching.
I'm going to put that card right on the screen. Click on that card; it's absolutely free. I love you guys, and I will.