Start where you are.

Tonight, in about an hour

The technique in his shortest words — read both, then use them as you fall asleep.

1. Feeling Is the Secret (1944) · 24 min read Five short chapters on assumption, sleep, and prayer — the practice in miniature. 24 min read
2. At Your Command (1939) · 39 min read His first book (1939): the claim stated plainly, without preamble. 39 min read

“It is a state akin to sleep, but one in which you are still in control of the direction of attention.”

— The Power of Awareness, ch. 19

The method, properly

The 1948 class is the clearest thing he ever taught; the two books that follow deepen it.

1. Five Lessons (1948) · 3 hr read Five evenings of class instruction plus the question period — start at Lesson 1. 3 hr read
2. The Power of Awareness (1952) · 1.5 hr read The fullest statement of the teaching, in 27 short chapters. 1.5 hr read
3. Awakened Imagination (1954) · 1.1 hr read Includes “The Pruning Shears of Revision” — the practice he called revision. 1.1 hr read

If you want accounts first

His 1961 book opens with letters from students describing what they imagined and what followed.

1. The Law and the Promise (1961) · 2.6 hr read Case letters, then his reading of them. Judge the claim by its own record. 2.6 hr read
2. Out of This World (1949) · 35 min read Four chapters on thinking fourth-dimensionally — the frame behind the stories. 35 min read

“The purpose of the first portion of this book is to show, through actual true stories, how imagining creates reality.”

— The Law and the Promise, ch. 1

Fifteen minutes on the radio

Nine talks he read over KECA Los Angeles in 1951 — each a few minutes, complete in itself.

1. The KECA Radio Talks (1951) · 1.1 hr read Start with Talk 1, “Be What You Wish; Be What You Believe,” then Talk 5, “The Law of Assumption.” 1.1 hr read

Where it went after 1959

His later years centered on what he called the Promise. Read the Law first; this is the deep end.

1. Resurrection (1966) · 2.9 hr read The 1966 title essay — his own account of the Promise — closes the book. 2.9 hr read
2. He Breaks the Shell (1964) · 13 min read Five short acts on the same theme, from 1964. 13 min read