Out of This World by Neville Goddard

What this book is about

Out of This World is a short book in four chapters. In “Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally” Neville starts from the observation that some people, himself included, have seen events before they occurred, and he reasons that such events must exist in a larger dimension before they reach this one. He then argues that the future is flexible and describes a method: condense the wish into a single imagined act that implies its fulfilment, and re-enact it until it has the feeling of reality. “Assumptions Become Facts” describes the controlled waking dream, a state of attention without effort in which one builds an event that would follow the fulfilment of a desire. “Power Of Imagination” reads the saying that the truth shall make you free as an instruction to assume that a neighbour already is what he wishes to be. The last chapter, “No One To Change But Self”, retells a mystical experience at sea from his earlier book The Search and draws the lesson of its title: in his view there is no outer change until there is first an inner one.