Tape 181, Side 1
By Joel Goldsmith

The Word Made Flesh
So you will find this universal hypnotism binds us to body, to health, to supply. Freedom from it means that we no longer have concern for… we have no respect for… we have no concern for it. And then our concern isn’t now getting healthy, our concern isn’t getting supply, our concern now is abiding at the center of our being so that we do entertain within ourselves the Spirit of the Lord. For where that Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
So I say to you, we have paid lip service in the past to the fact that we’re not trying to change sickness into health. But I say now to you, accept this, do not let your concern be for health. Do not let your concern be for supply. Do not let your concern be for home or companionship. Let your concern be that at least three times a day you must find occasion to sit in quietness, in calmness, in peace, until you feel that surging of the Spirit within you. That’s what must be your concern; that’s what must be your demonstration. For where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. There’s freedom from hypnosis. There’s freedom from sin. There’s freedom from lonesomeness. Freedom from desire. Freedom from fear.
Because, you see, to those who have attained even a little bit of freedom from the hypnotism, life is very joyous and beautiful and a complete experience. Even though our friends will say, “But you never play bridge and you never play golf, and you don’t go to the theater very much. Why, I can’t see how you’re enjoying life.
Yes, didn’t we read in the paper the other day about a man, about eighty years of age, who was at a dinner in Hollywood. He was sitting next to one of our movie stars. And he told her he was having his eightieth birthday, or going to have his eightieth birthday in a few days. But before that, he’s been explaining to her that he doesn’t smoke and he doesn’t drink, and he doesn’t care for the theater, and he never dances. And so when he said to her that I am going to celebrate my eightieth birthday in a few days, she said, “How?”
And I know that many of our friends say that to us, too. “How do you enjoy life?” Well, you’d be surprised when that hypnotism is broken… some of you have already known it and experienced it… all of you probably in a measure. You’d be surprised how much joy and inspiration, and happiness, and peace there is in this world, and how much companionship there is, when we’re no longer slaves to its desire, to its need.

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