Born 1905 in Saint Michael, Barbados, the fourth of ten children in a tight-knit Anglican family. At seventeen he sailed to New York to become a stage and film dancer, performing on Broadway and in London through the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1931 a black man named Abdullah, said to be of Ethiopian rabbinical descent, accepted Neville as a student in New York. For five years Abdullah taught him Hebrew, scripture, and Kabbalah, and what Neville came to call the Law — the use of imagination to bring states into being. Neville left dancing in the late 1930s to teach what he had learned.
From 1938 until his death in 1972 he gave thousands of free lectures across the United States, mostly in New York and Los Angeles, and wrote thirteen books. In the late 1950s he reported a series of mystical experiences that shifted his teaching from the Law to what he called the Promise — the inner awakening of God in the believer. He died in West Hollywood at sixty-seven, on the day after his birthday.
At Your Command
Neville's first published work. A 28-page distillation of his core teaching: that 'I AM' is the only creative power, and what you assume yourself to be, you become.
Awakened Imagination
On imagination as the actual creative power — not metaphor but mechanism. Includes Neville's readings of Blake and Coleridge as fellow witnesses.
Feeling Is the Secret
Sixty pages, no fluff. Neville's clearest single statement of the method: it is the felt sense of the wish fulfilled, not the thought, that does the work.
Freedom for All
Subtitled A Practical Application of the Bible. Neville reads the Old and New Testaments as instructions for inner work — not history, but technique.
Immortal Man
Posthumous compilation of Neville's late lectures, edited by Margaret Ruth Broome. The teaching in his own spoken voice, less filtered than the books.
Neville Goddard: The Complete Reader
The most direct and radical manifestation teacher of the 20th century — imagination as the only reality, desire as prayer.
Out of This World
Subtitled Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally. The book where Neville lays out his model of time, parallel states, and the mechanics of revising the past.
Prayer: The Art of Believing
Reframes prayer not as petition but as the disciplined occupation of a state — to enter the feeling of having received and remain there until conviction takes hold.
Resurrection
Neville's final book. Combines four texts including The Promise — the account of the four mystical experiences he claimed every person eventually undergoes when the inner Christ awakens.
Seedtime and Harvest
Twelve essays on the parables and the law of cause and effect read as inner work. The seed is the assumption; the harvest is what it becomes.
The Law and the Promise
Sixty-three first-person accounts from his students of imagination tested in daily life. The Law is the technique; the Promise is what comes after — the awakening of God within.
The Power of Awareness
The most widely read of Neville's books. Awareness of being — 'I AM' — as the one substance from which everything is made. The clearest entry point into his work.
The Search
A short, mystical text on the inward turn — what the seeker is actually looking for, and where the search ends.
Your Faith Is Your Fortune
A scriptural reading of the Bible as a psychological text — every story is the story of consciousness becoming what it imagines itself to be.