Neville Goddard EIYPO: Everyone Is You Pushed Out

What is EIYPO?

EIYPO is short for everyone is you pushed out. The acronym comes from the online law of assumption community, but the idea is Neville's, and he repeated it in dozens of lectures. One of his plainest versions opens The Law:

"The whole vast world is no more than man's imagining pushed out."

In other words, your outer world is a projection of your inner world: your imagination, assumptions and beliefs. Everything you experience starts within your own consciousness.

People, events and situations show up the way they do because they're playing out what you assume. In Test Yourselves, Neville said the behavior of the world relative to you is "determined by the concept you hold of yourself."

Why EIYPO Matters

EIYPO hands you the steering wheel. If everyone and everything in your world starts in your consciousness, you can change your world by changing your inner assumptions.

Instead of feeling powerless against difficult people and situations, you get to work where the change actually happens. Neville said it directly in Jeremiah's Discovery: "if you don't like what you see, you change it within yourself by changing your attitude towards it. As your attitude changes, so does your world, for everything is within you."

You're Not a Victim

With EIYPO, you stop seeing yourself as a passive victim of circumstances and other people's moods.

You take responsibility as the operant power: the one who creates by imagining and believing.

Freedom to Transform Your World

EIYPO means freedom. You don't have to convince, chase or control anyone. You change your world by changing your inner world first.

There's no need to micromanage the outside. You shift inwardly, by imagining and assuming, and let the outer world catch up.

Create Consciously Instead of Unconsciously

You're always creating. The question is whether you're doing it on purpose.

EIYPO means noticing how your inner world shows up outside you, so you can start choosing what you imagine instead of replaying what you fear.

What You Need To Remember About EIYPO

There are three main ideas behind EIYPO:

1. Consciousness is the Only Reality

This was Neville's keystone. In The Power of Awareness he said his whole theory rests on this: "that your consciousness is the only reality and that the particular state of consciousness in which you abide is the sole cause of the phenomena of your life."

Your consciousness is the cause; the outer world is the effect. For more on this, see the topic on states of consciousness.

2. Your World Reflects Your Assumptions

Because consciousness is the only reality, your outer world mirrors what you assume in your inner world.

That works both ways, for better or worse. People say and do things that confirm the assumptions you hold about them and about yourself. It isn't about "sending out energy" the way the law of attraction frames it; it's about which state you're living in.

3. You Are the Operant Power

Since your world comes from your own consciousness, you're the operant power in it. Neville taught that no one has to give you permission: in Test Yourselves he said everyone "will play his part, and you don't have to ask his permission."

You don't control people by force. You change the assumption you hold of them, and their behavior follows.

EIYPO Examples

Here's how EIYPO tends to play out in everyday life:

• You assume someone dislikes you. Soon you notice they act coldly or ignore you, which seems to prove you right.

• You want a specific house but keep assuming someone else will get it. Then someone else buys it.

• You persist in an imagined scene of your specific person telling you they love you. Over time, their behavior starts to match.

• You revise an argument in your mind into a calm conversation. The next time you see the other person, they're noticeably softer.

In each case, the outer experience conforms to the dominant assumption. People play roles consistent with your inner state. If your situation involves a specific person, the guide on how to manifest a specific person goes deeper, and so does the one on an SP who's with someone else.

How to Apply EIYPO

Here are some tips for putting EIYPO into practice:

• Notice patterns. Pay attention to themes that keep repeating with different people. They reveal an assumption you're carrying.

• Examine assumptions. When you spot a pattern you don't like, ask what you'd have to believe for it to make sense.

• Imagine the change. Build a short scene that implies the new assumption is true, and feel it as real.

• Persist. Keep returning to the new assumption, for example with regular SATS sessions.

• Focus on states. Don't obsess over exact events. Live in the state of already having your desire.

1. Test With Small Desires First

I suggest testing EIYPO on small, believable things first: revise a conversation with Neville's revision technique so it goes more pleasantly, or imagine someone you know greeting you warmly.

When you see your assumptions reflected back through people and events, it builds faith in the law of assumption.

2. Watch Your Inner Conversations

Neville taught that your world is your inner conversations pushed out. Have imaginary conversations from your desired state. Hear the congratulations or the words you want to hear. Or tell yourself "I remember when…" as you fall asleep in your new reality.

3. Check Your State

Notice the state you're living in. Are you replaying a victim story, giving your power away? Or are you assuming the outcome you want?

4. Persist In Your Assumption

Don't give up after one attempt. Repetition makes the new assumption natural. Persist until it feels like a fact.

5. Do What Feels Natural

Neville didn't ask people to force things outwardly, but he didn't tell them to sit still either. Go about your life, and if an opportunity or impulse shows up, follow it. It's part of the bridge of incidents.

Common EIYPO Misconceptions

There are some common mistakes to avoid when applying EIYPO:

• Blaming others. With EIYPO, responsibility lies with you. Don't make others "wrong"; look for the assumption behind the issue.

• Blaming yourself. The flip side. EIYPO isn't a reason to beat yourself up for everything that happens. It's a reason to change your assumption from here.

• Trying to force change. Change comes from shifting your inner state, not from effort or pressure.

• Overcomplicating. It's a mental shift, not a complex technique. Assume the new state.

The key is not to resist or judge appearances. Steadily hold the new assumption, sow the seed in imagination, and let it grow.

If you're stuck on how EIYPO applies to one particular person, you can describe the situation to NevilleAI. It answers from Neville's lectures and shows you the passages it's drawing on.

Neville Goddard's EIYPO Explained

In short, EIYPO means your world springs from the imagination and assumptions in your own consciousness.

That gives you a lot of power. You take responsibility as the operant power, and you plant seeds in imagination that grow in the outer world.

Rather than struggling to control circumstances and people, you shift into the state of already having your desire.

Neville also took the idea further than manifesting. Because everyone is yourself pushed out, he taught you can't really hurt another without hurting yourself, and that helping others is helping yourself. That's also why you can manifest for someone else: the "other" is in you.

Here are some lectures where Neville talked about everyone being yourself pushed out. There are more on the everyone is you pushed out topic page.

From the Test Yourselves lecture:

See the world as nothing more than yourself pushed out and everything in it as aiding the birth of your imagination, for the behavior of the world relative to you determined by the concept you hold of yourself. It doesn't really matter what your individual personal life is, the whole vast world is yourself pushed out and everyone in it is there to aid the birth of all of your imaginal acts.

From the Come O Blessed lecture:

If I could only get you to realize that you dwell in everyone. That you are always looking at yourself pushed out! Unable to behold another, every being in the world is yourself made visible, so if you don't see the Christ in another and you are only feeding the Christ, then you do not know who "I am."

From the Live in the End lecture:

Well, if, this night, I really believe it, I would not allow the sun to go down in my sleep unless I feel myself right into the situation of the wish fulfilled. It need not be a wish for myself; it could be a wish for a friend, for everyone in the world, because Christ dwells in all, and Christ is the true identity of every man, then everyone must be myself "pushed out." There can't be another if God is one, therefore, I tell myself, as the seeming other, what I would do if I were you, and instead of giving him the thing that he needs physically, tell him how to get it for himself.

From the No Other Foundation lecture:

Accept awareness as your way of life, and you will find a freedom you have never known before. You will become aware of the fact that everyone and everything is yourself pushed out. You will awaken as God, the father of all life, to realize that although things appear to die, they do not, for nothing dies in Christ.

From the Incarnate Revelation lecture:

When you discover this truth, you cannot hurt another. Rather, you will help everyone, because you will know he is yourself pushed out.

From the Secret of Prayer lecture:

Everything and everyone in your world, is yourself pushed out. Any request from another – heard by you – should not be ignored; for it is coming from yourself.

Frequently asked questions

What does EIYPO mean?

EIYPO stands for everyone is you pushed out. It's community shorthand for Neville Goddard's teaching that the people and events in your world reflect your own inner state and assumptions.

Did Neville Goddard coin the term EIYPO?

No. Neville never used the acronym. He said things like "the world is yourself pushed out" and "everyone and everything is yourself pushed out" in his lectures, and the law of assumption community later shortened it to EIYPO.

Does EIYPO mean other people don't have free will?

Neville didn't teach that people are puppets. He taught that people play their part in your world according to the assumptions you hold, so the way someone behaves toward you changes when your concept of them and of yourself changes.

How do I use EIYPO on a specific person?

Decide how you want them to treat you, build a short imagined scene that implies it has already happened, and live in that scene until it feels real. Then stop arguing with their old behavior in your head and persist in the new assumption.

Is EIYPO the same as the law of attraction?

Not quite. The law of attraction usually talks about sending out vibrations, while Neville taught that your world reflects the state of consciousness you occupy, so you change it by assuming a new state rather than by attracting something outside you.