“There are two actual outlooks on the world possessed by every-one – a natural focus and a spiritual focus. The ancient teachers called the one ‘the carnal mind,’ the other ‘the mind of Christ’. We may differentiate them as ordinary waking consciousness – governed by our senses, and a controlled imagination – governed by desire.”
“We recognize these two distinct centers of thought in the statement: “The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned”.”
“The natural view confines reality to the moment called now. To the natural view, the past and future are purely imaginary.”
“The spiritual view, on the other hand, sees the contents of time. It sees events as distinct and separated as objects in space. The past and future are a present whole to the spiritual view. What is mental and subjective to the natural man is concrete and objective to the spiritual man.”
“The habit of seeing only that which our senses permit, renders us totally blind to what we otherwise could see.”
“To cultivate the faculty of seeing the invisible, we should often deliberately disentangle our minds from the evidence of the senses and focus our attention on an invisible state, mentally feeling it and sensing it until it has all the distinctness of reality.”
Neville Goddard – Out Of This World