What if God is your imagination?

And what if you’ll be blessed if only you believe in yourself?

Welcome to the Daily Bible Chapter. My name is James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I attempt to read the Bible with fresh eyes, as if I don’t know anything about it, and without consulting experts on what it “really” means.. Let’s see where this takes us!

Deuteronomy 28

I’m reading Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) and the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

Concurrent with this Bible project, I’m writing commentaries on A Course in Miracles and (at this stage, anyway) teaching a class on Neville Goddard. The ideas of all three are closely linked.

This week I’ve been re-reading Neville’s Awakened Imagination. I’ve repeatedly said that I believe the “LORD” in the Bible stories we’ve read is your higher self, your highest consciousness. I think it’s useful to use Neville’s word for it: imagination. Your imagination is that higher self. Your imagination is God.

Wherever you read “God,” the LORD, “the Lord your God,” the Lord God,” think of the words “your imagination” instead. Neville’s idea is that if you remain faithful to what you desire in your imagination, the external world will move in the direction of your desires and they will “harden…