The Creative Use of Imagination by Neville Goddard

What this book is about

This book gathers seventeen talks from Neville’s 1952 lecture series in San Francisco. A preface by Margaret Ruth Broome explains that the text comes from shorthand notes a listener had kept, which she elaborated, so the words may not be exactly the ones he spoke. The talks return to one claim: in Neville’s telling, consciousness is the only reality, and a person’s state, all that he believes and consents to as true, shapes the world he meets. Early talks such as “Your Infinite Worth” and “Take Not The Name In Vain” ask for uncritical observation of one’s own reactions and inner conversations. “Desire” and “Righteousness” treat desire as a call to a higher level of being and righteousness as right thinking, the consciousness of already being what one wants to be. Later talks read scripture as inner drama: Esau and Jacob as outer fact and inner imagination in “The Human Spirit”, the moving tabernacle in “The Feeling Of ‘I’”, and the whole Bible as the reader’s own story in “Your Personal Autobiography”. The closing talks identify the human imagination with Christ.