Neville Goddard Lectures: “All Things Are Possible” Transcript of Televised Talk KTTV (1955)

21 May Neville Goddard Lectures: “All Things Are Possible” Transcript of Televised Talk KTTV (1955)

Listen carefully to this story. It is taken from the first chapter, the third verse of the book of Joshua. Here it is: “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.” Do you believe it? Well, I know it’s true. I have proven it. And this story is meant not for the outer you, it’s meant for the inner you. Most men aren’t even aware that there is an inner you—a real you.

In the New Testament it’s put in this manner: “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned.” We are told the first man, that is the outer man, is of the earth; the inner man, the second man, is the Lord from heaven. Now this book from which I’ve read the quote is the book of Joshua. The word Jesus is the Greek form of the word Joshua; they are identical in meaning. They mean literally the same. And all the promises of the Bible are addressed to that inner man, that second man, that is the Lord from heaven. Not the outer man. The outer man is limited to the essence of his senses. He is limited to what they will allow, to what they dictate. But the inner man has no limitations: “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, the same give I unto thee.”

Now let me show you how it’s done. For I was confronted with what seemed at the time to be an enormous problem, an impassable barrier between myself and my objective. I hadn’t seen my family in Barbados for the entire war years. So, the first ship out of New York City to sail for the Indies after the war was over, I sailed with my little family to Barbados. We took a boat that took us to Trinidad, and from there we flew to Barbados. On arrival my brother asked me when I intended to return to America. For this was 30 January, and after returning home after so many years I would like to remain until maybe the end of April and return around the first of May.

Then he said to me, “Of course, you arranged for your return while you were in America.” I said, “No, I didn’t.” He said, “Neville, how could you have left America—that is the capital of the world, everything goes on there, especially in New York City, and if any passage could be arranged, certainly it should have been done in New York City. Do you realize that there are literally thousands, tens of thousands of people, waiting all through the islands for passage to America? And little Barbados has nothing to offer. There are only two ships that fly the waters: one sails out of Boston carrying 120 passengers, and one sails out of New York carrying only 60. And I am told that all space, all available space, is already committed, right through the month of September. And here it is January. Not only the space is committed, but there are actually thousands of people on a waiting list. If you put your name down with your family of three, you are at the bottom of the list—it will take two years to get out of here.”

I didn’t tell him what I’m telling you now. I didn’t wish to disturb him. Because he didn’t know or was not familiar with this technique. I made no effort to book passage; I simply put my name on the bottom of the list. But I wasn’t concerned. It was January, and I am in Barbados for vacation, so I do not need to be concerned and spoil my vacation for lack of passage. I wanted to get back to New York City around the first of May. So this is what I did based upon this knowledge. At the very end of March, I saw the ship that sailed for New York leaving the bay. I had a good mental picture of what she looked like, a small one. So that day as I returned to my hotel after lunch I sat in a nice easy chair in my room, and this is what I did. I knew that if the inner man could perform an act then the outer man would be compelled to duplicate it. For whenever the action of the inner self corresponds to the action that the outer self must take to appease desire, that desire must be realized. So I made as lifelike and vivid a representation as possible of what I would see and what I would do and what I would hear were I physically present on that ship.