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The Neville Reader: A Collection of Spiritual Writings and Thoughts on Your Inner Power to Create an Abundant Life
This single volume treasure includes full length versons of 7 of Neville's most influential
"The Law and the Promise"
" The Art of Believing"
"Feeling is the Secret"
"Resurrection"
"Freedom for All"
"Out of This World"
"Seedtime and Harvest"
Includes an Introduction by Mitch Horowitz "The Substance of Things Hoped Searching for Neville Goddard."
"The Law and the Promise"
" The Art of Believing"
"Feeling is the Secret"
"Resurrection"
"Freedom for All"
"Out of This World"
"Seedtime and Harvest"
Includes an Introduction by Mitch Horowitz "The Substance of Things Hoped Searching for Neville Goddard."
339 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2005
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About the author
Neville Goddard
1,408 books1,674 followersNeville Goddard was a writer, speaker and mystic. He taught various self-help methods for testing his own claim that the human imagination is omnificent, therefore God. He achieved popularity by reinterpreting the Bible and the poetry of William Blake.
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November 5, 2011
amazing. although i've read some of this before (as it's a compilation), every time feels like the first. the message is so pure and strong, it moves me every time. truth is, I'm always "currently-reading" some kind of Neville, rereading, studying, refining.
February 24, 2018
This collection is made up of seven books.
The author, who died in 1972, was a revered spiritual teacher and lecturer; he was immensely gifted and articulate.
In these books Neville explains to us the power of the imagination and how it is our imagining that creates reality. All objective reality is produced through imagination – everything was first a thought.
“Man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination that is, God, himself.”
We are given innumerable real-life examples of people who through their visualizations created exactly what they wanted.
The books are filled with quotes from the works of illustrious writers and from the Bible.
Neville recounts an experience in which he wakes from a dream by an intense vibration centred at the base of his skull. He describes to us the entirety of this mystical experience, which ends in the birth of “Neville’s baby”. This baby was David “of Biblical fame”.
These mystical experiences of Neville are not easily comprehensible. It is not easy to comprehend geniuses like Neville; we can but do our best.
Neville tells us that prayer is “the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want”. “Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor”.
In order to create what we want, all we need to do is “create a passive state and feel the wish fulfilled”.
“All you can possibly need or desire is already yours --- it is yours now. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.”
Moreover, Neville expatiates on the Bible and how its meaning is symbolic. (The Gatekeeper has also written a book/books on this subject though I am not sure that the Gatekeeper and Neville’s interpretations agree.)
I recommended this collection of Neville’s works to an online friend, and he did in fact read it, and admitted he got something out of it, though he thought Neville’s interpretation of the Bible to be “rubbish”. Personally, I would not have the temerity to criticize the beliefs and understandings of such a capacity as Neville, given that I do not myself fully comprehend all that he writes.
My friend, who is a competent reviewer, declined to review the book on the grounds that what he wrote might offend or hurt someone who, for example, had lost a child, since he claimed that Neville taught that we can heal people by our visualizations, and such a bereaved parent would be grieved by the thought that he/she could have healed his/her child. Now, I don’t remember Neville discussing this subject (it is a comprehensive book), but if my friend says so, I assume it is so.
My answer to this is as follows:
Firstly, nothing in this world is coincidental, and no-one acquiring such knowledge would have done so by chance – perhaps he would use the knowledge to heal a child or grownup on another occasion.
Secondly, I don’t believe that all persons can be healed by visualization, should there be good reasons for them not to be healed but to “die”; I put the word in inverted commas because there is no death – we live on in the spiritual world.
Thirdly, a reviewer is privileged in that he can freely choose what to include in his review and does not need to impart all the information conveyed by the author, not at all.
I shall conclude by stating that in this collection Neville provides valuable information about how to create what one wants, though I admit his style of writing is somewhat convoluted and not easily comprehensible. A reader unfamiliar with Neville’s work should perhaps begin with just one of his books (I won’t recommend a particular one) before tackling this collection. But, otherwise, I would recommend it highly.
The author, who died in 1972, was a revered spiritual teacher and lecturer; he was immensely gifted and articulate.
In these books Neville explains to us the power of the imagination and how it is our imagining that creates reality. All objective reality is produced through imagination – everything was first a thought.
“Man is all imagination, and God is man, and exists in us and we in him. The eternal body of man is the imagination that is, God, himself.”
We are given innumerable real-life examples of people who through their visualizations created exactly what they wanted.
The books are filled with quotes from the works of illustrious writers and from the Bible.
Neville recounts an experience in which he wakes from a dream by an intense vibration centred at the base of his skull. He describes to us the entirety of this mystical experience, which ends in the birth of “Neville’s baby”. This baby was David “of Biblical fame”.
These mystical experiences of Neville are not easily comprehensible. It is not easy to comprehend geniuses like Neville; we can but do our best.
Neville tells us that prayer is “the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want”. “Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor”.
In order to create what we want, all we need to do is “create a passive state and feel the wish fulfilled”.
“All you can possibly need or desire is already yours --- it is yours now. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.”
Moreover, Neville expatiates on the Bible and how its meaning is symbolic. (The Gatekeeper has also written a book/books on this subject though I am not sure that the Gatekeeper and Neville’s interpretations agree.)
I recommended this collection of Neville’s works to an online friend, and he did in fact read it, and admitted he got something out of it, though he thought Neville’s interpretation of the Bible to be “rubbish”. Personally, I would not have the temerity to criticize the beliefs and understandings of such a capacity as Neville, given that I do not myself fully comprehend all that he writes.
My friend, who is a competent reviewer, declined to review the book on the grounds that what he wrote might offend or hurt someone who, for example, had lost a child, since he claimed that Neville taught that we can heal people by our visualizations, and such a bereaved parent would be grieved by the thought that he/she could have healed his/her child. Now, I don’t remember Neville discussing this subject (it is a comprehensive book), but if my friend says so, I assume it is so.
My answer to this is as follows:
Firstly, nothing in this world is coincidental, and no-one acquiring such knowledge would have done so by chance – perhaps he would use the knowledge to heal a child or grownup on another occasion.
Secondly, I don’t believe that all persons can be healed by visualization, should there be good reasons for them not to be healed but to “die”; I put the word in inverted commas because there is no death – we live on in the spiritual world.
Thirdly, a reviewer is privileged in that he can freely choose what to include in his review and does not need to impart all the information conveyed by the author, not at all.
I shall conclude by stating that in this collection Neville provides valuable information about how to create what one wants, though I admit his style of writing is somewhat convoluted and not easily comprehensible. A reader unfamiliar with Neville’s work should perhaps begin with just one of his books (I won’t recommend a particular one) before tackling this collection. But, otherwise, I would recommend it highly.
July 28, 2011
One of the best books I've read! Highly recommend!
May 23, 2012
Must read book if you want to understand the mechanisms of reality : )
June 29, 2019
This is a great book! There is A LOT of great information and lessons. It will be added to my permanent collection! However, it is not for the novice reader or novice spiritual journeyman. It is not an easy read and if you are just beginning your spiritual journey it will not resonate. This is definitely an advanced book, but it’s full of life changing insights.
March 5, 2019
Love how inspirational Neville is. He calms me.
July 29, 2007
Nice collection of Neville's writings which shows his development and change (which wasn't accepted as well by New Thought groups who didn't move past his early thought).
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December 27, 2010Yes!!
October 4, 2012
Good Reading..
Buena lectura..
Buena lectura..
October 21, 2012
Really liked it! and wondering why I had not seen this book before - but then I remembered it's always at the right times that messages appear.
December 29, 2012
I love Neville's insights. I've been reading this book over and over.
January 6, 2013
Incredible!! Can't put it down!
August 30, 2014
A man a head of his times.
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April 16, 2018I'm so excited for this book but it's not available for India! anyone can help me to get this book any other way?
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