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Neville Goddard on Concentrated attention
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.
The Power of Awareness (1952)
1952…A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. James 1:8. Attention is forceful in proportion to the narrowness of its focus, that is, when it is obsessed with a single idea or sensation. It is steadied and powerfully focused only by such an adjustment of the mind as permits you to see one thing only, for you steady the attention and increase its power by confining it. The desire which realizes …
The Miracle of Imagination
undated…Always remember that, although the ancient storytellers introduced many characters into their drama, they all live in your mind. Knowing your consciousness is the only reality, as you read the stories there, as sume you are the central character and allow the story to reveal its truth to you. Let us now take the story of Isaac and his two sons, Esau and Jacob as recorded in the 27th chapter of the…
Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948)
1948…Man can prove the existence of a dimensionally larger world by simply focusing his attention on an invisible state and imagining that he sees and feels it. If he remains concentrated in this state, his present environment will pass away, and he will awaken in a dimensionally larger world where the object of his contemplation will be seen as a concrete objective reality. I feel intuitively that, we…
Out of This World (1949)
1949…Is there another way of measuring an object other than those of its length, width and height? Time measures my life without employing the three dimensions of length, width and height. There is no such thing as an instantaneous object. Its appearance and disappearance are measurable. It endures for a definite length of time. We can measure its life span without using the dimensions of length, width…
Correct Prayer
undated…6. Negativity “…prune your imagination by withdrawing your attention from all unlovely and destructive ideas and concentrating on the ideal you wish to attain.” – Neville “Begin now to discipline your mind by observing your thoughts. Watch them all through the day and refuse to listen to any thought that is unlovely.” – Neville Another incentive to eliminate negativity is the rebound effect or wha…
Neville Goddard Lectures: “Out of This World” Chapter 1 – Thinking Fourth Dimensionally
undated…To understand how man molds his future in harmony with his assumption we must know what we mean by a dimensionally larger world, for it is to a dimensionally larger world that we go to alter our future. The observation of an event before it occurs implies that the event is predetermined from the point of view of man in the three-dimensional world. Therefore, to change the conditions here in the th…
Neville Goddard Radio Lectures 6 The Law Of Assumption
undated…Radio Talk, Station KECA, Los Angeles, CA The great mystic, William Blake, wrote almost two hundred years ago, “What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be.” Now, at first, this mystical gem seems a bit involved, or at best to be a play on words; but it is nothing of the kind. Listen to it carefully. “Wha…
Prayer: The Art of Believing (1945)
1945…The only ideas they subconsciously reject are your ideas of them which they could not wish to be true of anyone. Whatever they could wish for others can be believed of them, and by the law of belief which governs subjective reasoning they are compelled to subjectively accept, and therefore objectively express, accordingly. The subjective mind is completely controlled by suggestion. Ideas are best …