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Neville Goddard and the science of realizing your desires

Neville Goddard, though he was one of the most influential authors of the American movement "New Thinking", is a forgotten genius of American metaphysics. After reading his work I find it difficult to believe that his name is unknown, not to the average person of any country, but even to the scholars of the sciences of success. This may be your case, but don't worry, after this reading, you'll be an expert on his teachings.

Neville wrote his work in the middle of the last century, but don't be confused, his truths are timeless and perfectly applicable today, in fact, it's something I think the world today desperately needs. Many times we go out in search of the last idea, the new guru, the new fashion... and forget the value of ancient and perennial wisdom. What the human being has already discovered but needs to rediscover over and over again in order not to fall back into the dream of ignorance.

In this sense, the secrets revealed in this book are lost secrets. Not because they are not accessible to anyone, but because they are forgotten by everyone. Who knows if it is because they are so accessible and available that they are so ignored. Or maybe it's its simplicity that seems to take away its value.

I discovered Neville Goddard through the author Dr. Wayne Dyer, who mentions him in some of his works as a mentor and source of inspiration. I spent two years reading Neville Goddard, and letting his revealing ideas about the science of manifestation accompany me; and the most important, applying these timeless principles in all aspects of my life. Step by step his influence started soaking up my personal life. And the changes came.

But don't get confused, I'm not just talking about tangible results and objective events, but about a clarity about the way life operates that he achieved, for example, the words such as: selfesteem, doubt, struggle, crisis, scarcity, effort, fear, uncertainty, loneliness... disappeared from my vocabulary. Now they're meaningless concepts to me. I believe Neville has turned what was growing prosperity into unlimited abundance, and my personal growth into spiritual completeness. I entered in a state of remarkable clarity. And that state of grace spread to the world creating a good influence for everyone.

I studied his books and lectures, and I discovered a set of laws that I’m going to condense and reveal to you in these pages.

As I wanted to know his teachings, I read over and over his ten books, his complete work. Sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English, the original language in which it was written. And every time I discovered a new revelation that had gone unnoticed in my previous readings. This is one of the hallmarks of the great authors: they always show you something new in every review of their material, and this is because their texts distill accurately the knowledge that you are willing to absorb in every reading, but no more.

And what I found changed my life forever. Keep reading and you will know why; the same will happen to you, you'll see. The "12 powers" of the "Manifestation Code" explain and illustrate the teachings of Neville Goddard (Neville from now on) in a simple and practical language. My goal is that in a few hours of reading you can share the vision of this forgotten genius of American metaphysics.

I investigated about him as a person. This is what I found:

Neville (1905-1972) was born in Barbados, British Antilles, in 1905, in one of the most prominent families of the islands. In 1922, he traveled to EE.UU to study theatre when he was seventeen years old. But he soon desisted, coincidentally when he met a Kabbalah master.

In 1932 he devoted himself to his studies of mysticism and he began his career as a lecturer in New York. He studied spiritual subjects throughout his entire life and was recognised as a mystic. As I said, he soon knew the Hebrew Kabbalah and mystical Christianity. He had a great ability to clarify the hidden meaning of the Bible in the metaphors it uses, to bring its content into the mystical field.

He was one of the most influential professors in the field of American "New Thought". This movement of 19th and 20th century mystics was distinguished for two basic signs of identity. The first premise: between the human being and the Divinity there are no intermediaries, because they are the same and an experience of direct connection with the source is required. And the second premise, the power of thought (imagination combined with emotion) manifests reality.

Neville, chronologically, is a hundred years before the modern New Age movement which adopts his principles and re-elaborates them. It was a precursor of what today is known as The Law of Attraction (explained in The Secret).

Although in my opinion it was a step further and his depth is much greater. He always stressed the importance of the power of imagination that he equaled to a divine quality. He also explained the metaphorical meaning of the Bible, which he considered a psychological drama. To him the ultimate goal of the human being is conscious union with the divine and awakening the consciousness of Christ in us.

He used the power of imagination to change the circumstances of his own life and recounted his personal experiences in his lectures. For example, in one of them, he explained how with the use of the power of imagination, he managed to be discharged, with honours, from military service and thus he was able to continue his lectures during World War II. Also, how on one occasion, using imaginative power, he was able to get tickets from a sea trip, during the era of The Great Depression, from New York to Barbados, and being able to visit his family.

After traveling all over the country, he established his home in Los Angeles, where, at the end of the fifties, he gave talks on TV and radio, in addition to lectures to large audiences in the Wilshire Ebell Theatre during the sixties. Neville gave his lectures without using notes and ended them with question-and-answer shifts with the audience.

When asked if he recorded his lectures, he replied: "I haven't recorded anything, some record in my lectures for their own use, that's perfectly fine, but I don't have any recordings." Thanks to his generosity, today we have those lectures his students recorded in Los Angeles and San Francisco. And his ten books were also printed in English, some published in Spanish. Neville died on October 1, 1972, in Los Angeles. Luckily, his message continues for people who want to get close to his work.

These are his ten books:

1. The power of awareness

2. Your faith is your fortune

3. Law and the promise

4. Awakened Imagination

5. Prayer: The art of believing

6. Out of this world

7. Seedtime and harvest

8. Feeling is the secret

9. Freedom for all

10. At your command

In my opinion his most accomplished book is The power of awareness. If you're just going to read a book by Neville, read this one though it is not edited in Spanish. He also left us a lot of transcribed lectures, some recorded by his listeners.

The only one I have found edited in Spanish is Your faith is your fortune by Ediciones Obelisco. Read his books, not once, but several times, as they deserve the effort of his study to achieve a more successful life. And, although his style is one of an author of the last century, a Bible scholar, his literary tone is from the fifties, it is close and simple.

The reordering (The Manifestation Code) of his teachings (the 12 powers) is attributable only to me and I apologise if I have not been completely rigorous in understanding and reelaborating his teachings, but being myself an author of personal development, it is impossible for me to dispense with other sources of influence that I have received throughout my life.

This is not a book about Neville's life and work, but based on the principles that govern his work, and explained in the best way I know so that you can use them and change your life. Let us see it.