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Neville Goddard on Constructing the implying scene
Read these 8 lectures in order — they carry this idea most heavily, earliest first. After each one, take the suggested question to the mentor, who answers from Neville's own words.
Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948)
1948…Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action which implies fulfillment of the desire, to condense the idea into a single act, and to re-enact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality. Otherwise, your attention will wander off along an associational track, and hosts of associated images will be presented to your attention, and in a few seconds they will lead you hundr…
The Miracle of Imagination
undated…Experience has taught me to restrict the imaginary action to a single act and to reenact it over and over again until it has the feeling of reality. Otherwise my attention wanders off along an associated track and hosts of assorted images will present themselves and lead me hundreds of miles away from my objective in point of space and years in point of time. If you decide to climb a particular fl…
Out of This World (1949)
1949…A little practice will convince us that we can, by controlling our imagination, reshape our future in harmony with our desire. Desire is the mainspring of action. We could not move a single finger unless we had a desire to move it. No matter what we do, we follow the desire which at the moment dominates our minds. When we break a habit, our desire to break it is greater than our desire to continue…
Neville Goddard Lectures Our Real Beliefs 2
September 12, 1966…So what I’m getting at is this, she didn’t know that the structure…you see, God’s Word is literally true, but it’s conveyed to man in metaphor, in a figure of speech. And so, the words that will convey the Word, that’s a figure of speech, that’s ___(??). So when she constructed a scene in New York City and put me on the platform to tell her story, alright, I’m telling the story…that whole structur…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Live in the End” (1968)
July 19, 1968…I daresay that everyone here would say, “Yes,” to the statement of Scripture, “With God, all things are possible.” (Mark 10:27) I don’t think you’d be here if you did not believe in God, and the God to whom all things are possible. But maybe we stop right there, and we separate man from God, and my purpose is to show you that we are not two, that we are One . . that God actually became man, that m…
A Prophecy
December 16, 1968…To what degree are you lost in your dream of success? Your world is your dream pushed out. When you can persuade yourself 100% that you are successful, success is yours! You must become so intense that you completely forget it was only a desire. You must tame the wild, new state you have entered until its naturalness causes you to forget all else. That is how God became you. Jesus Christ, God’s pa…
Awakened Imagination (1954)
1954…The determinative animating principle was the imaginative ride. Her triumph could be a surprise only to those who did not know of her inner ride. She mentally viewed the world from this imaginative ride with such a clearness of vision that every aspect of the city attained identity. These inner movements not only produce corresponding outer movements: this is the law which operates beneath all phy…
The Law and the Promise (1961)
1961…“Late that afternoon, I went to that record shop to physically enact the scene. Not one detail supplied by the senses had encouraged me to believe I could walk out of that shop with those records. I had been told last September by the same salesman in the same shop the same story my friend had received there before Christmas. Approaching the salesman I had seen in imagination that morning, I said,…