The Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard
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The 1952 book many readers start with. Twenty-seven short chapters move from I AM through assumption, attention and states to a plain account of how, in Neville’s telling, an assumed feeling becomes fact. The clearest single map of the teaching.
What this book is about
The Power of Awareness opens with the I AM: Neville argues that consciousness is the one reality and that a person’s concept of himself is what he meets as his world. The early chapters (Consciousness, Power of Assumption, Desire) set out his method of assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and the chapters that follow treat attention, attitude and renunciation, which he reads as taking attention away from what is unwanted instead of resisting it. In Creation he holds that creation is finished and that creativeness is only becoming aware of what already exists. Chapters on acceptance, the effortless way, free will and persistence present assumption as a kind of least action, with free will confined to the choice of an idea, and frequent return to the feeling valued above long sittings. A long chapter of case histories, which he says he either took part in or heard from the people involved, leads into Failure, where he names a lack of naturalness in the feeling as the cause. The book closes with Faith, Destiny and Reverence, returning to the opening claim that the reader’s own awareness is God.
Three passages
“I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a beggar man or a thief, but the center of my being remains the same, regardless of the concept I hold of myself.”
“When you resist evil, you give it your attention; you continue to make it real. When you renounce evil, you take your attention from it and give your attention to what you want.”
“It is the frequency, not the length of time, that makes it natural. That to which you constantly return constitutes your truest self.”
In the lectures
Lectures on the same themes
- All Things Exist on I AM
- The Messenger on I AM
- Who Is Jesus on I AM
- Hear, O Israel on I AM
About this book
What is The Power of Awareness about?
The 1952 book many readers start with. Twenty-seven short chapters move from I AM through assumption, attention and states to a plain account of how, in Neville’s telling, an assumed feeling becomes fact. The clearest single map of the teaching.
Who wrote The Power of Awareness, and when?
Neville Goddard, 1952.
How long is it?
27 chapters, about 1.5 hr read in total.
Can I read it for free?
Yes. The complete text of every chapter is here, free to read online or to download as a PDF or EPUB.
How many pages is The Power of Awareness?
The free PDF edition here runs to 88 pages, title page and contents included, in 27 chapters. Page counts differ between printed editions.
Is The Power of Awareness in the public domain?
Yes. The Power of Awareness was first published in 1952, and the text is in the public domain. This text follows the Global Grey edition, unchanged.
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