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Neville Goddard on Physical immobility / drowsy induction

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.


  1. Five Lessons (A Master Class) (1948)

    1948

    Appears in 21 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

    …“And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.” Num.9:15,16 The command given to Israel was to tarry until the cloud ascended by day and the fire by…

  2. The Miracle of Imagination

    undated

    Appears in 16 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

    …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…

  3. Out of This World (1949)

    1949

    Appears in 6 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

    …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…

  4. The Power of Awareness (1952)

    1952

    Appears in 4 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

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  5. Awakened Imagination (1954)

    1954

    Appears in 3 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

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  6. Feeling Is the Secret (1944)

    1944

    Appears in 2 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

    …The subconscious – unlike the woman of the world who marries her husband to change him – has no desire to change the conscious, waking state, but loves it as it is and faithfully reproduces its likeness in the outer world of form. The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your…

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

    1955

    Appears in 2 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

    …Well, I knew one thing that I would have to do if I sailed. In Barbados there is no deep-water harbor, that is, not as yet. So all passengers must take a small little ship from the harbor, and move off maybe a mile or three-quarters-of-a-mile to sea; then your little ship is latched alongside of the big ship and a gangplank is lowered and you walk up the gangplank. That’s one act I would have to p…

  8. Neville Goddard Lectures: “Out of This World” Chapter 1 – Thinking Fourth Dimensionally

    undated

    Appears in 2 passages on physical immobility / drowsy induction

    …“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.”[Romans 1:20] This vision is completely independent of the natural faculties. Open it and quicken it – Without it, these instructions are useless, for “the things of the spirit are spiritually discerned.” A little practice will convince us that we can, by controlling our imagination, reshape our future in harmony wit…