Embodiment · “Being Precedes Having”
Realizing the God-Self as Source
To withdraw the sense of supply from persons and external conditions and re-locate it in the indwelling divine Self—shifting felt identity from a dependent ‘lacking self’ to the all-sufficient God-Self that is the true source.
The shift in 5 lines: Catch where you’ve made something outside your source—then consciously withdraw that belief. Turn within and acknowledge the indwelling Presence as the only activity in your affairs. Rest as the Source (“my awareness of the Presence as my supply is my supply”), not as a beggar before it. Let supply flow through any channel; give thanks and act. Re-enter the state whenever fear of lack returns.
What it is
This is the consciousness shift at the heart of John Randolph Price’s prosperity teaching: ceasing to look to persons, paychecks, markets, or conditions as the source of your supply, and instead turning within to the indwelling divine Self—what Price variously calls the I AM, the Christ Presence, the Higher Self, the God-Self.
The core reversal is that money and circumstances are effects; the only true Source is the divine Presence you already are. Where the 40-Day Plan installs this through daily statements, this practice is the underlying state: a felt re-identification, returned to throughout the day, in which “my conscious awareness of the divine Presence as my supply is my supply.” It is less about getting and more about recognizing an all-sufficiency already within.
The Method
Faithfully synthesised from The Abundance Book and The Superbeings:
- Notice where you’ve placed your source. Catch the moment you say or feel “my supply depends on [this job / this person / this market / this client].” Price treats this as the root error—belief in a visible source.
- Consciously withdraw belief from the external. Inwardly release the conditions as your source: they are channels and effects, not the cause. This is the “release” that precedes receiving (The Inner Creates the Outer).
- Turn within and acknowledge the Inner Presence. Become quiet and address the indwelling Self—e.g. the attributed posture “I acknowledge the Inner Presence as the only activity in my financial affairs” and “I now let the Christ Presence think through me about supply.” You are not petitioning a distant God; you are recognizing a present one “in me, as me.”
- Identify as the Source, not a beggar before it. Rest in the felt sense behind Price’s statements such as “I AM the Spirit of infinite plenty; I am boundless abundance,” and “my conscious awareness of the divine Presence as my supply is my supply.” The shift is identity-level: from “I lack and must obtain” to “I AM the all-sufficiency.”
- Let supply flow as an effect. Hold that the Source expresses through any channel; stop dictating the route. Give thanks as already supplied, then return to ordinary action with that inner footing.
- Re-enter the state often. Whenever fear of lack returns, repeat the turning-within—withdraw from the external, re-acknowledge the Inner Presence, rest as the Source. (Sourcing note: quoted phrasings are attributed to Price; the numbered sequence is a faithful synthesis of his teaching, not a verbatim reproduction.)
Source & Lineage
John Randolph Price (1932-2014), co-founder of the Quartus Foundation, taught this most fully in The Abundance Book (1987) and The Superbeings (1981).
It restates, in prosperity terms, the New Thought / Unity “indwelling Christ” and the nondual “God dwells in me as me” current shared with A Course in Miracles, and it overlaps with Joel Goldsmith’s “the Source is within, not in conditions”.
Price’s distinct stamp is the explicit supply application: the God-Self specifically reframed as the source of abundance.
Common refinements
Spiritual bypass. Declaring “the Inner Presence is my supply” while ignoring a real bill, contract, or job problem. The state is meant to steady action, not replace it.
- Begging in disguise. Turning within as a covert way to demand money keeps you in lack-consciousness; the practice is recognition of sufficiency, not petition.
- One-and-done. A single sitting rarely shifts a lifelong habit of external-sourcing; the state must be re-entered repeatedly.
- Victim-blaming yourself. Continuing lack is not evidence you “failed to realize the God-Self.” Drop that loop.