Revision is another Neville Goddard technique, which means to reimagine the past the way you wish it had been. In other words, you recall something negative that happened to you in the past, a bad memory, but then you revisualise it the way you wish it had occurred. So say you had a business lunch and it went really badly and you were tongue-tied and didn’t know what to say and dropped food in your lap, you just recall it and imagine that it went well, and have the associated feeling that it went well, being happy and proud of yourself. That feeling will be easier the closer you get to sleep because the rational part of your mind will start shutting down.
This practice might sound a little crazy and/or pointless, but it’s well-rooted in science. There is a branch of psychology called ‘lifespan psychology’. At the time of Freud, it was generally accepted that personality was completely fixed during childhood, but since that time lifespan psychology proposed the theory that self and personality is actually a lifetime project and who we are changes over the course of our lives, not just our present but our past. Evidence for this involves interviewing people about their pasts over the course of a lifetime. These biographical stories about our past and our childhood give us a sense of identity, but the way the stories are recounted and told wildly changes over the course of a lifetime. The way a twenty year old talks about their childhood and memories is vastly different from how the same person will recount the same period in their forties, and again it will be as different in their sixties; we are constantly revising our past.
The mind, and the astral light/Dharmakaya don’t make a distinction between real and fantasy because IT IS ALL IMAGINATION, your thoughts now, the things you perceive and your memories. It’s all stored WILL held in the light. This practice isn’t based on kidding yourself and pretending things never happened. It’s based on the reality that, there is no time and everything has happened. It was all a dream of infinite possibility.
With revision, there are ‘near and far’ versions. The near version is to lie down ready for sleep and mentally trace your day back, hour by hour, to when you woke up. When you recollect some negative event, a bad memory, you reimagine it, live it again in your mind the way you WISH it had been. It shouldn’t take long, a couple of minutes for the whole practice. Remember, there is only imagination, including the things you earlier lived. By mentally recreating past events, it is your revision that is stored in the light. Your perceptions, and understanding and self concept are a filter between this dead world you perceive and the inner light that creates all.
The other part of the practice is to do the same thing but for long standing issues. Most of us have some repeating bad memories, usually from the formative years, and they need to be chipped away at over time, repeatedly. The traditional way to do this is simply as above. I have another technique of my own, which is to look at those past memories as a different version of me trapped in another reality, reliving a hellish groundhog day and I am the guardian angel, which is actually the truth as the memories are made of astral light, the substance of the imagination, and I have complete dominion over it.
In the present moment my mind can create anything it wants in imagination, including that other version of the past that is now existing as another reality in another realm, and so I change it as a God/Adibuddha. I keep it in the third person, seeing this other version of me trapped there, but I change their circumstances, perhaps send someone from the future back into the past to stay there and help them. Then, if I ever recall that ‘memory’ again living life going forward, I see that other reality as changed the way that I changed it. Now this means that, in reality, the past HAS actually been changed.