Neville Goddard

The 10 Main Core Teachings of Neville Goddard

If you are new to the law of assumption, this blog article will help you to have a glance at the 10 main core teachings of Neville Goddard and how they can help you see the world differently while transforming your life on a personal level.

Who was Neville Goddard?

Neville Goddard was a mystic of the 20th century who was born in Barbados on February 19, 1905, and died in the United States (California) on October 1st, 1972. In 1931 he met Abdullah, an Ethiopian Rabbi, who introduced him to spiritual law. Neville’s natural interest in esoteric interpretations of the Bible deepened after he met Abdullah. Abdullah is known to have been the teacher of Joseph Murphy. Neville Goddard is the author of some 10 books and 221 lectures about the teaching of the law of assumption.

Neville’s teaching is usually the type of teaching that we are ready for after having struggled with the teaching of the law of attraction. While the law of attraction is supposed to lead to the same results, the teaching is actually riddled with limiting beliefs, that prevent people from fully transforming their lives based on that teaching alone. However, once we understand the teaching of Neville, which is the law of assumption, or spiritual law, everything start making much more sense.

Since I have never written such a post before, I thought that it would be helpful to newbies to know the main core beliefs of the teaching of Neville Goddard, so you could understand the law of assumption better and see how it differentiate with the law of attraction.

I have mentioned them in no particular order.

1- Assumptions Harden into Facts

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfillment. – Neville Goddard

Neville taught that an assumption, while false, would harden into fact if you keep assuming it. To prove this to yourself, all you have to do is look back at your life and compare it to what you have assumed to be true and how it manifested. If you do this, you will notice how your assumptions have always manifested in your physical world.

This is why Neville taught that by assuming the feeling of having or being what you desire to have or be, would eventually manifest in your physical world. When you persist in an assumption until it becomes your dominant thought and feeling, that assumption has no choice but to harden into fact.

So, observe your thoughts and feelings, and notice how what you assume to be true, is playing out in your world right now.

2- Consciousness is the Only Reality

Consciousness is the cause as well as the substance of the entire world. So it is to consciousness that we must turn if we would discover the secret of creation. – Neville Goddard

What you are conscious of is the only reality. In other words, your world, your life, is made of the content of what you are conscious of. For example, if you are broke right now, it’s because you are conscious of your lack of money. If you do have money but you’re still afraid of spending money, you are conscious of lack of money. If you don’t have your main desire right now, it’s because you are conscious of the absence of such a desire rather than its presence.

In order to experience a shift in your life, you have to shift in consciousness. You have to let go of what you are conscious of now, and become conscious of having your desire, even though it may not have appeared in your 3D world yet. You have to let go of “the old man,” your old personality, and embody the new personlity.

3- Imagination Creates Reality

Imagination is the only redemptive power in the universe. – Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard is known for having taught, “God is in your wonderful human imagination.” The core teaching of Neville is that there is no God outside of us because God is in us, and we are God. That divine Creator called God is having an experience through each human being, and it is our purpose, as humans, to use that power to learn how to use our imagination to create the life that we want. However, since God is impartial and doesn’t see right or wrong the same way our human-ego sees it, we can also imagine negative things for us, and thus having to live through it.

Being the God of our reality, also means taking responsibility for everything that happens to us, whether we’ve created it consciously or unconsicously.

4- Feeling is the Secret

Feeling is the one and only medium through which ideas are conveyed to the subconscious. Therefore, the man who does not control his feeling may easily impress the subconscious with undesirable states. – Neville Goddard

The difference between a thought that manfiests and one that doesn’t, it’s the feeling. Even if you have a passing thought that you feel true, that thought will manifest. When I did my own inner work, I have noticed that even fleeting thoughts had manifested in my life when I felt them. That’s how I manifested a car accident once. The thought was short lived, but I truly felt it, and within less than two minutes I was in a small car crash.

This is why when you want to manifest a specific desire you need to feel it real. You need to create an imaginal scene that will help you feel that you are there. When you repete such a process over and over, until it impresses your subconscious mind, your desire has to show up, because it’s law.

5- Living in the End/In the Wish Fulfilled

Persist in the feeling of the wish fulfilled and it will materialize in your physical world. – Neville Goddard

Probably my favorite Neville Goddard’s teaching is the teaching of living in the end, or living in the wish fulfilled, which are the same thing. So, what does it means and why it is so important that you get this teaching if you want to manifest your desires quickly and easily?

When Neville said go to the end, or live in the end, he meant that if you desire to be married, for example, you need to imagine and feel that you are ALREADY married. Don’t bother imagining a first date, because once you’ve imagined that you are already married, that first date and everything in between will just be “bridges of incidents” that will happen automatically and will take you to your end goal. On the other hand, if you get caught up manifesting a date you might very well get stuck there and never manifest marriage. Many people in the manifesting community have actually fallen into that trap.

And this goes for every single thing that you want to manifest. If you want to manifest a car, for example, imagine that you are going to the repair shop for your first check up. This will imply that you are the owner of the car that you want to manifest.

No matter what you desire, you need to go to the end (what is your end goal) for everything that you want to manifest, because it’s the fastest way to get there.

6- You Are the Operant Power

You must dare to assume you are what you want to be, remain faithful to that assumption and it will come to pass. If you are not faithful, it will not come to pass. If you don’t assume it, it will never come to pass, for you are the operant power. – Neville Goddard

There is no power outside of your own consciousness. Therefore, you cannot turn to anyone outside of self, said Neville. He also said that God is in our wonderful imagination. Neville had understood and taught that what we call God, Source, or Universe is not outside of us, it is within us. This teaching differs from the teaching of the law of attraction which teaches that the Universe is outside of us.

“During that time I owned the world and didn’t know it. Everything was mine but no one told me about it. The world is yours for the taking but if you do not know it you can go hungry for want of a dollar.” – Neville Goddard

7- There is No One to Change but Self

There is no one to change but self; that self is simply your awareness, your consciousness and the world in which it lives is determined by the concept you hold of self. It is to consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality. – Neville Goddard

Since our consciousness is the only reality, we are the source of all things that we experience in our lives, even how other people are showing up. 

Neville said, “Rebirth depends on inner work of one’s self. No one can be reborn without changing this self. Any time an entirely new set of reactions enters in a person’s life, a change of consciousness has taken place; a spiritual rebirth has occurred.”

The way circumstances and people are in your world is a direct reflection of you. Thus, if you want to create different circumstances and people in your life you need to start with your CONCEPT OF SELF. By working on your self-concept you transform your world and everyone in it.

8- We Are All One

Now every man in the world is rooted in you who looks out and sees that world. Every man is rooted in me; he ends in me as I am rooted in and end in God. Because he is rooted in me he cannot bear other than the nature the root allows. So he is in me and any changes desired in the outer world can be brought about only if I change the source of the thing I see growing in my world. – Neville Goddard 

Every man is rooted in you, meaning every single human being that seems to be separated from you is yourself pushed out. The whole world is yourself pushed out, Neville said. So, when you feel that you have to change someone outside of you, the change needs to happen within you first.

Equally, as we are not separated from other human beings, we are not separated from God. We are God and God is us. WE ARE ALL ONE.

9- Time is an Illusion

The present moment is all important, for it is only in the present moment that our assumptions can be controlled. The future must become the present in your mind if you would wisely operate the law of assumption. - Neville Goddard

The illusion of time is one of the greatest illusion of this 3rd dimensional world along with the illusion of separation. But truly, the only moment that exist is the now. The past and the future only excist only in our minds. The reason why we can revise and change the past is due to the fact that linear* time doesn’t truly exist. [*Linear time means moving from the past to the future in a straight line, like dominoes.] The reason that we see time as linear and we grow and age is to a large extent because of our assumptions that things are the supposed to be that way. If you were to examine every single one of your beliefs and assumptions, you would see that the only poof that it is so it’s because you believe that it is so. Thus, it is called the law of assumption.

One of the best examples that you can prove to yourself that time is an illusion it’s that once you create a vivid scene in your imagination, that scene already exist somewhere in this space that we call universe, and it’s because it already exist that it will confront you in your 3D reality, by spiritual law. All possibilities exist here and now, so you don’t need to do anything or go anywhere. You just assume it and it is done.

10- You Can Revise the Past

By revising the past, you rid yourself of any effect it may have on your future. Revision is truly the key, which can be used to unlock the doors that have kept you trapped in a particular state. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – Neville Goddard [Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.]

It is because linear time is just an illusion that revision is possible. By revising your past, not only you will change the future that is linked to such a past, because, as Neville taught, our past extend into our future, but according to some people’s experiences, you can even change the ‘past’ itself. In a previous post about revision ♧I wrote about one of such stories that I encourage you to check out.

I hope that this quick outlook of the 10 main core teachings of Neville Goddard was helpful to you.

♧ The Pruning Shears of Revision

Let's fully understand the true purpose of revision. 

Let's truly take revision more seriously and apply it.

Interestingly, since I started revising a few past events of my life, I have noticed that people around me, in the manifesting community, are talking about revision left and right.

■ The Power of Revision ●

Dwelling on past irritations or hurts perpetuates them and creates a vicious circle that serves to confirm these negative emotions.” “The circle can be broken by starting now to revise anything that you no longer wish to sustain in your world. – Neville Goddard

To tell you the truth, I am not a master of revision, but lately, I noticed that I had this subtle belief that I wasn’t very good at it, so no wonder that it was true for me. So I decided to change that. 

●I know that revision is powerful, so why not use it? So a few nights ago, I decided to do the exercise that Neville encouraged people to do, which is to revise your day as we are going to bed.

● Interestingly, the first night that I decided to REALLY do this, I had a very interesting dream. In that dream, I was saying “I am a master manifestor.” I had never dreamed that I was a conscious manifestor before. 

● So, needless to say, that I was encouraged right from the get-go to continue this exercise of revising my day before going to sleep.

So, if you too have convinced yourself that you are not good at revision, don’t persist in that assumption, and give it a try. I am convinced that it will change your life.

Your Past Advances Into Your Future

You simply revise, and as you revise the day you repeal the day, for the day is not slipping into the past, it does not recede as people think, it is always advancing into the future to confront you, either pruned or in some strange weed-like state. So it’s entirely up to us – I hope that every man and woman here today will take me seriously and start this day pruning your garden. pruning your mind. – Neville Goddard – The Pruning Shears of Revision

Because there is no such thing as past, present, and future, and because the mind lives just as well in what we call the past, the present, and future, our past is not just the past, but it actually advances into the present and the future, as Neville said. This is why revision is golden. Your past is affecting you right now no matter what it is, so if it does not serve you, why not change it?

Interestingly, ever since I have been coaching people I’ve always compared the mind to a garden and negative thoughts to weeds, and while re-reading The Pruning Shears of Revision the other day, I noticed that Neville is comparing the mind to a garden and negative thoughts to weeds. I had totally forgotten about that, but how pleased I was that Neville was using this easy to understand analogy that many coaches have used and are still using today.

It totally makes sense that if we let the past be without revising it, it won’t go away. It doesn’t matter “how long” something was, if we let it be, it will come back and back again to hunt us. How marvelous it is to know that with just a little effort we can train our minds on a daily basis to revise the day and make what was bad, good, and what was good, great. Neville says that “if you do it daily, it will awaken in you the spirit of Jesus, which is continual forgiveness of sin.” This means (in modern language) that it will awaken your God-Self/Higher-Self and you will become better conscious manifestors. Now, reading this sentence in The Pruning Shear of Revision helped me understand why after having spent some 20 minutes revising my day before I went to sleep that first night, I had that amazing dream where I was conscious of being a conscious manifestor. I know that this is no coincidence as there’s no such thing.

If you are bothered by anything in your past, revise it. “Do it over and over in your imagination until this seeming imagined state begins to take on the tones of reality.“ The best way to know when you have succeeded is when the memory of the original event is fading away, while the new version of the event is what you can remember and feel the most.

If you feel that you are not good at revising, then do the daily exercise of revising your day before going to sleep. You do not have to do it as a SATS exercise, just revise the day as you hit the pillow before falling asleep. If you do fall asleep while doing it, all the better, as you will take your revised version into your sleep right into your subconscious mind. If you are not good at doing this right away, that’s OK, you just need to persist. Neville actually said that it wasn’t going to be easy at first, but like anything else, practice makes perfect.

Why Revising Your Past?

Then rewrite the script and just imagine the conversation to have taken place that now you are rewriting for the first time. And it will take place, for everything in your world that you behold, though it appears without (outside), it is within (inside), in your imagination. And this wonderful imagination of yours is Christ Jesus. 

Imagination is the actual habitation of every created thing. No matter what you see in the world, it springs from your imagination. So that’s where you go, that’s the workshop, the garden of God. – Neville Goddard – The Pruning Shears of Revision

Everything is imagination, as Neville is reminding us above, so, whether it’s a past, present, or future event, it’s all imagination. It was all imagined. However, the past, even though it had been created in our imagination, seems so very real to the point that it affects our present and future. So what better way, than revising it to change its outcome? I have heard and read so many success stories about revision. This is because revision really is powerful, and the reason why it is , it’s that everything is imagination, including the past.

So as long as we change the memory of that imaginal act that had hardened into fact, that imaginal act, even though it had hardened into fact (in the so-called past) will be transformed. Thus. like an echo, it will transform our present and future. So, why don’t you take on this challenge starting tonight? As you are lying down in your bed, close your eyes and revise your day starting at the moment you went to bed all the way to the moment you got out of bed that morning. Do this every day for a whole month, and see the miracles happening in your life.

will bring about amazing results just by observing some of the things that have shown up in my life lately simply because I started revising some events of my past. One amazing thing that is happening right now, as I speak, it’s that my God-self has brought up to my mind some past events to the surface, which I thought I had buried a long time ago. I have to say that I have been shocked by how those long-gone events have come back to mind lately, so I could get rid of them for good by using the amazing pruning shears of revision.

Revision Doesn’t Change Just the Future

Now every man in the world is rooted in you who looks out and see that world. Every man is rooted in me; he ends in me as I am rooted in and end in God. Because he is rooted in me he cannot bear other than the nature the root allows. So he is in me and any changes desired in the outer world can be brought about only if I change the source of the thing I see growing in my world. – Neville Goddard – The Pruning Sears of Revision

For the longest time, I thought that revision changed only the present and the future, or at least what we perceive as present and future in linear time. But the more I became conscious of revision, the more I was hearing stories about how revision also change the past. If this doesn’t make any sense to you, please, bear with me.

A couple of weeks ago I was listening to one of Feeling Twisty’s podcast episodes, and there he was telling about a recent revision story of his. Mike grew up in a pretty religious household believing in the Bible’s teaching as most Christian religions do. However, eventually, he discovered the teaching of Neville and finally got to understand what this Bible that he knew so well was really about. Eventually, he taught the law to his family members, including his parents.

About a year ago, Mike decided to revise his childhood by creating a revision scene that implied that his parents knew about the law when he was growing up, which they didn’t. But he did revise that and created the belief that they did. He chose to revise that so-called truth.

Two weeks later, while he was at his father’s workshop, he found an old book about the power of the mind that appeared to be from the 1960s with yellowish pages. In the book, there were some notes in the margins and Mike recognized his father’s handwriting. There was even a note about how to sit down and close your eyes and imagine your life as you want it to be.

So, Mike picked up the book and showed it to his father saying, you knew about this even before I was born? And his father answered, very matter of fact, as if Mike was supposed to know that, well, yeah, I did. When really, he didn’t. But Mike had revised that and in his revision, he had imagined that he grew up with parents who knew about the law. You can listen to this story from his own mouth.

The truth is that nothing that we call the past is permanent. As a matter of fact, there is only one place where your “past” lives right now, do you know where that is?

Your Past Only Lives In Your Imagination

If you take me seriously today, tonight do not let the sun descend upon any vexation of the day. Just look at it, don’t deny it, don’t duck it, look at it that you may prune it and then reshape it. Take the conversations with your friends today, were they pleasant, were they arguments, no matter what it is, were they negative? Then rewrite the script and just imagine the conversation to have taken place that now you are rewriting for the first time. And it will take place, for everything in your world that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination. And this wonderful imagination of yours is Christ Jesus. Imagination is the actual habitation of every created thing. No matter what you see in the world, it springs from your imagination. So that’s where you go, that’s the workshop, the garden of God.- Neville Goddard – The Pruning Shears of Revision

One exercise that I love to practice on a regular basis is to ask a question to my subconscious mind before I go to sleep, and I am pretty confident that I’ll l get the answer that I need within 24-48 hours. Most of the time I get the answer in my very last dream before I wake up or as I open my eyes.

A couple of weeks ago as I was asking my subconscious/my God-self to give me more understanding about revision, I woke up with my inner voice telling me the past, the present, and the future is all imagination, and this is why revision works. Interestingly, even though I kind of knew that before, never did it hit me so clearly, and just a few minutes after that as I had just got up my inner voice told me the only place where your past lives it’s in your imagination. Since that morning I keep hearing about revisions, including Mike’s amazing story on Spotify, mentioned above, which I know I totally manifested.

The reason why we can absolutely revise our past it’s that it only lives in our imagination, and the reason why it is NOT as matter of fact as we think it is, it’s because EVERYTHING is imagination as Neville said. Everything is imagination and everything is God, so it really doesn’t matter what we imagine, it has the power to harden into fact, even if it belongs to what we call the past. “Though it appears without (outside), it is within (inside).”

So, starting today, do not dwell in your so-called past, because it’s just imagination. Your painful past, really, truly ONLY exists in your imagination, and it’s by using this wonderful human imagination of yours that you will be able to undo that past, and as your past is going to change, the present and the future that sprung from it will change too.

"When you revise a memory that is fixed you have repealed it.

You have that power.

Test it by bringing a seemingly hopeless case before your mind’s eye and revise it.

 Persist in revising it until you can let go of it by feeling the breath of relief because it is done."

HAPPY REVISION WITH SAFE HEALTHY HAPPY Future 

HAPPINESS Now 

HAPPILY Past ...

Neville Goddard Lecture: 'CHRIST IN MAN' -Practice Revision - Revise the Past To Create A New Future

🔊 Christ in Man

✍️ by Neville Goddard

CHRIST IN MAN (lecture):-

Christ is the reality, the God that is in Man. It is he who breaks down the dividing wall between himself and Man and makes of the two, one new Man. Is this all done on the other side of the veil, or is there something that we can do on this side of that dividing wall?

“How long, O Lord, must I forgive the brother who sins against me? Seventy times seven.”

Do it and do it and do it until you succeed in letting go of the past and seeing what you wish in its place. Persist and persist and persist until you can actually let it go.

Jesus tells the parable of the woman who comes to a constable who, although he didn’t fear God, or respect man, rose and gave her what she wanted because of her persistence. Her constant comments forced him to give her what she desired.

The story is also told of a man who came at midnight wanting something to feed a stranger in his house. The man from above said, “It is late and my children are in bed and I cannot come down and open the door,” but, because the man persisted, he was given what he wanted.

You may think there is no way out of your present turmoil, but I don’t care how fixed that seeming turmoil is, if you persist and persist and persist, he who is from above has to come down and grant your request.

Practice repentance on this side of the veil while the work is going on in a hidden manner on the other side, and the wall will become thinner and thinner until the shell is broken and Christ is born. And who is he? I AM.

After you break the shell it’s not Jesus and you, there is Jesus only. And on that day the Lord shall be one and his name One.

Everything in this world will pass away, but God’s Word is forever and his Word is being fulfilled in everyone. God is not condemning any man, for they are only states, and we must learn to distinguish between the occupant of the state and the state he occupies. God does not reject man, but the state, and puts man into another state. I know that since this man heard my message years ago he has been daily practicing revision.

Revision is repentance and revision results in repeal. When you revise a memory that is fixed you have repealed it. 

So I ask everyone to practice revision. Revise the past. I don’t care what it is, revise it and the past will conform to your dream of what it ought to have been and appear before you. Then the new man will rise within you and it will no longer be you and Christ, but only Christ.

ABOUT NEVILLE GODDARD:- 

Neville Goddard was a spiritual teacher and self-help author in the mid-20th century. I consider him a great modern-day mystic, the best of his era. 

He taught that the human imagination is a powerful tool that can be used to shape one's reality. 

He believed that by imagining a desired outcome vividly, consistently, and with feeling, a person can bring that outcome into reality. 

Goddard also taught that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously and that an individual's thoughts and beliefs can affect their experience of time. 

He emphasized the importance of using the imagination to change one's inner state in order to change external circumstances.