Neville Goddard (1905-1972) offered a compelling explanation of the human condition and an intriguing and empowering path of self-discovery. Join your host Ed to explore from the ground up this most essential mystery: the human imagination.
Book draft chapter 1. S1E01 revised, inviting your comments.
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Resources
1. PD Ouspensky (1947) In Search of the Miraculous (seminal Fourth W…
Conscious intervention is required for psychological growth.
First, review of first 15 episodes Season 2. Then explore incremental psychological “deaths” - a healthy practice to move forward. Sedona Method is discussed in more detail than we had covered in S1.…
Science tries to define consciousness where it does not exist, and hypnosis while being immersed in it. From new standpoints , we explain the evidence.
Related episodes:
Second in a mini-series entitled Conscious Self-Persuasion: Beyond Hypnosis and the Waking Sleep.
References
Flammer, E. and Bongartz.W. (2003) “On the efficacy of hypnosis: a meta-analytic study” Cont…
Mini-series title: Conscious Self-Persuasion: Beyond Hypnosis and the Waking Sleep
References:
Dr. R. Alexander, Creative Realism
P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous
Chomsky, N., Herman, E., Manu…
The real world is the unification of both the inner and outer worlds. They must come together in a single, undivided experience.
Neville Goddard is vastly underrated. His contribution, were it understood and realized, would be as momentous as the Protestant Reformation, but with no violence; rather, a quiet renewal from within…
I believe that Neville Goddard has construed Christianity brilliantly, on the basis of psychological and spiritual truth, all the while rejecting institutional nonsense. Can his view of Christianity …
Lewis Mumford in 1922 published an analysis of the literature of imagined ideal societies, from Plato to the modern era. Did any of them really give a clear solution to the human condition? We will c…
While modern thinkers define consciousness through intellect and attention, Neville aligns with esoteric tradition: consciousness is a direct, living experience that transcends thought itself.
Best re…
To understand the nature of consciousness and how to evoke it is vital to understand Neville. Science, psychology and philosophy will not get you there. Let's get beyond inadequate and outdated conce…
“And all you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination..." (~Blake). Neville's worldview is elegant metaphysics.
Neville on Fire blog post with diagram of the mind.
Substack…
Philosopher/ physicist Dr. Bernardo Kastrup (Analytic Idealism) supports Neville's thought in two main aspects: 1. The universe is all mentation. 2. Individuals are identities dissociated from source…
In the previous post, part 1, we saw that Neville Goddard and Bernardo Kastrup each arrived at the same foundational idea: what we take to be the physical world must actually be mental in nature. In …
[update: re-edited] I see a certain affinity between the thought of Bernardo Kastrup and that of Neville Goddard. While their two systems have discrepancies, I believe that Bernardo's philosophy of A…
Hypnotic rhythm means the repetitive patterns in life which tend to engender fossilized habits of thought and feeling. This can ruin our mental landscape - or we can use it to power our own regenerat…
1. Create a record of quality.
2. Overcome self-doubt.
3. Overcome fear of non-expertise.
4. Self-teach through critical questioning.
5. Self-teaching is continual refinement and culling.
6. A record of q…
Our understanding of a key idea is limited by our habitual associations to it...
1. I began this exploration in E02.
2. CS Lewis: life in time and space is a gift -- and therefore it is in some sense a…
A series of points regarding daily practice...
1. “I don’t criticize; I don’t judge; I don’t complain.” Follow this, and save energy to be usefully redirected.
2. Single point of awareness, non-identi…