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The Bridge of Incidents: Why Your Desire Finds You · Neville Goddard Mindset

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  There is a lie you have been told about how desires come to
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  pass, and it has caused more suffering, more frustration, and
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  more abandonment of perfectly valid assumptions than perhaps
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  any other falsehood in the history of human thought.
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  The lie is this, that you must figure out how, that once you
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  set an intention, once you feel the wish fulfilled, once you do
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  the work of impressing the subconscious mind, you must then
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  map out the steps, plan the route, engineer the sequence of
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  events that will carry you from where where you are to where you
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  want to be. I tell you from my own
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  experience, the how is none of your business.
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  And the reason it is none of your business is that there
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  exists A mechanism so elegant, so precise, and so utterly
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  beyond the capacity of the conscious mind to design that
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  any attempt to plan it would only delay it.
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  I called this mechanism the Bridge of Incidents, and once
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  you understand how it works, you will never again waste a single
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  hour trying to figure out the path to your desire.
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  My name is Neville. For more than 40 years I taught
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  the Law of Assumption to anyone willing to listen.
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  And of all the principles I discovered and tested and
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  proved, the Bridge of Incidents is perhaps the one that inspires
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  the most wonder, because it reveals the intelligence behind
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  consciousness itself. Here is the principle in its
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  simplest form. The moment you accept a new
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  assumption as fact, the moment you feel the wish fulfilled in
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  the state akin to sleep, the subconscious mind immediately
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  begins constructing a series of events, a bridge that will carry
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  you from your current position to the physical experience of
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  that assumption. You do not build the bridge, you
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  do not design it, you do not even see it being built.
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  You simply walk across it, one incident at a time, and arrive
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  at the destination that was determined the moment the
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  assumption was impressed. In this teaching, I will show
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  you exactly how the bridge of incidents works, why your
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  conscious interference is the single greatest threat to its
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  operation, and how to walk across it with the calm
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  persistence that the Lord demands.
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  Let me establish the foundation. Your subconscious mind is not a
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  filing cabinet. It is not a passive storage
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  system that holds your memories and waits for instructions.
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  Your subconscious mind is an architect.
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  It builds worlds. When you impress an assumption
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  upon it with feeling, particularly in the state akin
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  to sleep, it receives that impression as a blueprint, a
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  completed building, not a plan for a building, a finished fact.
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  And then, because the subconscious operates in
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  dimensions your conscious mind cannot access, it begins working
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  backward from that finished fact.
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  It assembles the chain of events, the bridge that connects
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  your present position to the assumed future.
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  You are imagination, and imagination creates reality.
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  But imagination does not create reality in a straight line.
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  It creates through incidents, through meat things that seem
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  accidental, through conversations you did not plan,
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  through delays that feel like setbacks but are actually course
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  corrections, through synchronicities that the
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  rational mind dismisses as coincidence.
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  None of it is coincidence. All of it is the bridge.
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  The state you occupy determines the world you see, and when you
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  occupy the state of the wish fulfilled, the world you see
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  begins to reorganize, not all at once, but through a sequence of
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  events that you could never have predicted and certainly could
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  never have orchestrated. This is the part where most
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  people fail not because the law fails, because they try to take
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  control of something that was never theirs to control.
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  So we have established that the subconscious mind builds the
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  bridge, the moment and assumption is impressed upon it.
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  We have established that this bridge operates through ordinary
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  events, meetings, conversations, delays, synchronicities that you
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  cannot predict or plan. But there is a deeper truth
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  here, one that changes everything about how you
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  approach the period between assumption and crystallization.
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  And most teachers either do not know it or do not have the
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  courage to say it. In a moment.
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  I'm going to tell you what happens when you try to build
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  the bridge yourself, and it will explain every single time.
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  You felt your desire was close and then watched it slip away.
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  The conscious mind has one fatal flaw.
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  It can only see from where it currently stands.
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  When you an intention and then try to figure out the how.
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  You are looking at the landscape from your present position and
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  trying to chart a course through territory you have never walked.
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  You do not know what lies beyond the next hill.
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  You do not know which doors will open and which will close.
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  You do not know which apparent disaster is actually the fastest
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  route to your destination. But the subconscious knows
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  because the subconscious is not standing where you are standing.
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  The subconscious is standing at the end, at the complete
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  assumption and building the bridge backward toward you.
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  This is why the how is none of your business.
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  Let me give you an example that I witnessed personally.
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  A man in one of my classes desired a particular position at
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  a company. He was not qualified on paper.
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  He did not know anyone at the company.
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  By every rational assessment, the position was beyond his
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  reach. He did the work.
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  He entered the state akin to sleep.
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  He constructed a scene, his wife embracing him, saying how proud
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  she was of his new role. He felt it.
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  He fell asleep in the feeling of it being done.
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  Within days, a series of incidents began.
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  He met a woman at a dinner party who happened to know the hiring
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  manager. That woman mentioned his name in
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  passing. The hiring manager, who was not
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  actively hiring, became curious. A meeting was arranged.
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  Not an interview, just a conversation.
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  That conversation led to another a position that did not exist
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  was created specifically, specifically for him.
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  He did not plan any of this. He did not know the woman at the
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  dinner party. He did not know the hiring
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  manager would be open to creating a new role.
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  None of it was within the range of what his conscious mind could
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  have designed. That is the bridge of incidents.
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  It is not magic. It is not luck.
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  It is the subconscious mind fulfilling the blueprint it
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  received in the state akin to sleep.
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  Dare to assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled.
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  And then, and this is the discipline, let the bridge build
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  itself. Now, what does it look like when
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  you interfere? It looks like anxiety.
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  It looks like checking for signs.
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  It looks like asking every morning whether anything has
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  changed yet. It looks like adjusting your
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  behavior to try to force the outcome.
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  It looks like telling the subconscious, I do not trust
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  you, let me do it. The moment you reach for the
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  wheel, you are telling the subconscious that the assumption
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  is not yet real. You are reimpressing the old
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  assumption, the assumption of LAX, of uncertainty, of not yet.
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  And the subconscious, faithful and literal receives that
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  impression and builds accordingly.
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  This is why so many people feel their desire is close and then
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  watch it evaporate. They had the assumption the
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  bridge was forming, the incidents were unfolding, and
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  then they grabbed the steering wheel and veered off course.
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  Persist in your assumption, and the world must rearrange itself
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  to conform. But persistence does not mean
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  pushing, it means trust. It means occupying the state of
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  the wish fulfilled with calm certainty.
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  Even when the bridge presents you with an incident that looks
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  like a detour, because the detour is often the fastest
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  route, the subconscious knows things your conscious mind does
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  not. Man's imagination is the only
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  redemptive power in the world, and the bridge that imagination
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  builds is more intelligent, more efficient, and more creative
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  than anything the planning mind could construct.
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  What does it mean practically, to walk across the bridge
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  without interfering? It means you go about your day,
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  you do your work, you meet your obligations, you respond to what
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  is in front of you. And you do all of this from the
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  state of the wish fulfilled. Not from the state of waiting.
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  Not from the state of hoping, from the state of knowing it is
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  done. When an incident arises that
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  feels related to your desire, a phone call, an invitation, a
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  delay, a door that opens or closes, you respond to it.
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  Naturally, you do. Do not analyze it for signs.
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  You do not ask whether this is part of the bridge.
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  You simply walk. The bridge does not require your
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  supervision. It requires your assumption.
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  And when doubt comes, and it will come, you do not fight it.
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  You redirect, you return to the feeling, you return to the
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  scene, You remind yourself in the quiet of your own mind.
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  It is done. The subconscious has received
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  the blueprint. The bridge is being built.
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  My only job is to stay in the state.
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  The most important. The conversation you will ever
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  have is the one you hold with yourself.
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  And during the bridge, that conversation must be one of calm
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  certainty, not affirmations shouted from a place of
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  desperation. Quiet knowing the way you know
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  the sun will rise. What you desire, you already are
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  in eternity. The bridge is not building your
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  desire. Your desire already exists as a
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  completed fact in the 4th dimension.
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  The bridge is simply the series of events by which that fact
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  translates into your thoughts. 3 dimensional experience. close
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  your eyes for a moment. Think of something you have
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  assumed, something you have felt in the state akin to sleep,
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  something you have impressed upon your subconscious mind.
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  Now, instead of reaching for it, release it.
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  Feel the deep piece of knowing it is already done, not
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  becoming, not approaching. Done.
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  Feel the bridge beneath your feet.
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  You do not need to see where it leads.
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  You do not need to understand each plank.
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  You only need to walk. Each step is an incident.
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  Each incident is part of a design that is far more
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  intelligent than anything your conscious mind could create.
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  Isn't it wonderful? Rest in that the bridge is
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  already built. You are already walking across
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  it. And every incident in your life,
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  even the ones that confuse you, even the ones that frighten you,
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  is carrying you toward the assumption you impressed upon
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  your subconscious mind. You may open your eyes now.
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  Remember the man I told you about, the one who wanted the
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  position he was not qualified for?
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  He told me something after he received the role that I have
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  never forgotten, he said. Neville.
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  The strangest part was that none of it felt strange.
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  Each step felt natural. Each meeting felt ordinary.
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  It was only when I looked back at the whole chain that I saw
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  how impossible it should have been.
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  That is the bridge of incidents. It feels natural because it is
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  natural. It is how consciousness has
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  always operated. You have been walking across
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  bridges your entire life. You simply you were not aware
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  that you were the one who built them through the assumptions you
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  held in the state akin to sleep. The only difference now is that
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  you know. You know that the assumption
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  comes first, the bridge comes second, and the how is never
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  ever your responsibility. Sleep as though the wish were
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  fulfilled, wake as though it is already so, and walk through
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  your day knowing that every incident, every single one is
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  part of the bridge that your subconscious is building on your
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  behalf. The crystallization of
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  assumption does not require your planning, it requires your
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  trust. If this teaching has settled
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  something in you, if you feel the relief of releasing the how,
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  then carry this with you tonight.
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  Assume, feel, sleep, and then walk across whatever bridge
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  appears without questioning its architecture.
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  If these teachings speak to something within you, you will
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  find more of them here. Return when you are ready.
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  I will be here and we will go deeper still.
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  Consciousness is the only reality, and the bridge it
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  builds is always, always enough.