How do prayers work? How can they? It hurts the logical mind to even consider such a possibility, that is, of a psychological state manifesting into reality. Yet, this is exactly what Neville Goddard tried to do in his book Prayer: The Art of Believing. Let’s understand his arguments.
For a long time human beings were unaware of the universal law of reversibility. For instance, mechanical motion caused by speech was known long before anyone dreamed of the possibility of an inverse transformation, that is, the reproduction of speech by mechanical motion (the monograph). Similarly, for a long time electricity was produced by friction without ever a thought that friction, in turn, could be produced by electricity.
The point is, whether or not one succeeds in reversing the transformation of a force, one knows, nevertheless, that all transformations of force are reversible. If heat can produce mechanical motion, the opposite can happen too. Cause and effect, energy and matter, action and reaction are the same and inter-convertible.
This law of reversibility is important, because it enables you to foresee the inverse transformation once the direct transformation is verified. If you knew how you would feel were you to realise your objective, then, inversely, you would know what state you could realise were you to awaken in yourself such feeling. The injunction, to pray believing that you already possess what you pray for, is based upon a knowledge of the law of inverse transformation.
Now think about this. If your realised prayer produces in you a definite feeling or state of consciousness, then, inversely, that particular feeling or state of consciousness must produce your realised prayer. Because all transformations of force are reversible, you should always assume the feeling of your fulfilled wish.
So how do prayers work? The answer is fairly simple and straightforward. If a physical fact can produce a psychological state, a psychological state can produce a physical fact too. If the effect (a) can be produced by the cause (b), then inversely, the effect (b) can be produced by the cause (a). To quote the Bible (Mark 11:24),
Therefore I say unto you, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them.”
What do you think? Let me know.
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