Janet’s aging parents owned no apartment or home of their own. Their modest rent was too high for their small monthly income and they lacked various simple comforts. Janet reflected over their hard lives and wished she could provide them with some measure of ease to offset so many sacrifices they had made for her benefit. Seeing no way to buy them a home on her small salary, she sadly wondered if there were not some way, some miracle that would enable her to help her parents.
One day Janet saw an announcement of classes taught by this author in New York’s Steinway Concert Hall on the subject of fulfilling one’s desires. She decided to attend one meeting to see if she found it interesting.
I taught the creative process of the mind and explained its function in detail. Janet was glad she came as she recognized for the first time that if she used her creative faculties properly, she could have whatever she wanted. Following the teaching, she set aside a fixed time of thirty minutes every morning in which she brought the vision of a lovely white house with rose vines growing around a nice porch where her parents could sit outside and enjoy the flowers and green lawn. She saw it on a large corner lot and noticed the white garage in the back garden.
Janet, who now attended every meeting, learned from my instruction that she should not visualize the house as in a distant city, but rather, bring the city around her presence. Forgetting where she actually sat in her “silent time,” she imagined her surroundings to be the city of her parents, and that her own home was toward the south. In her mind, she was situated in the center of the action.
As Neville Goddard explained so marvelously in his book Resurrection, one should never project oneself elsewhere; rather, bring elsewhere here. And Janet did this in a spirited mood of joy and delight.
Bringing her parents’ faces before her, she heard them announce their great pleasure at her gift of the house. They loved the large corner lot and the spacious white porch with its climbing pink roses. She imagined again and again that she saw and heard the other family members stating their pleasure over their parents’ new home.
No one knew or could ever have guessed that Janet had such a project in mind. And she, not relying upon the natural laws of our mind, put all her faith and trust in me. She could not understand how her attitude and practice could possibly provide the money to purchase the house, but she committed to this mental project her very best and faithful efforts.
Janet had no religion, but she remembered her father, no church member himself, quote from the Bible something about believing in whatever you desire, so she practiced believing that she had already bought the house.
She found that after every practice the house became more and more real. It seemed to take on substance and move from an idea in the mind to a house in the city. She was fascinated by her growing confidence in the matter and now believed that just such a house actually existed.
So every morning she strengthened her mental blueprint by actually experiencing all the sensations that would naturally accompany her dream come true. After two weeks, she recognized that her vision grew more objective and she could see the white house in her mind’s eye. Details of the house began to take form and she could see and feel them becoming more and more a reality.
One day Janet’s office manager announced that she was retiring and asked if she would like to be recommended as her replacement—at a salary twice that of her present earnings. Janet was spellbound with joy and excitement. The office manager knew that with some advance training Janet would be the ideal person for this responsibility and explained this to their employer. Janet was replaced in her own work and became the assistant to the office manager until the latter’s retirement.
Now with her doubled salary, Janet knew she could buy the house for her parents. Yet there were other considerations; with her new responsibilities she could not take the time off to go house hunting in another city. Finally, she arranged for others to help her parents locate a suitable house and a few weeks later she drove to their city for the weekend to see and discuss the possibility of its purchase.
She had not specified to those who were to find it that she hoped it would be white or that it should have a front porch with climbing roses, a white garage in the back garden, or that it should be on a corner lot. But to her great astonishment when they went to look at the house, it had precisely those features. All agreed that it was well worth the price and the papers were prepared for her signature.
A few weeks later, she returned to the house, found her parents nicely settled, and celebrated the completion of her subjective mental blueprint having crystallized into objective fact.
Every idea carries its own solution. We can seldom see how something will work out, but if we begin by assuming that it is already complete and resolved, the means will present themselves.
Story from the book “The Magic of the Mind”.
