The Creative Use of Imagination () von Neville Goddard

The Creative Use of Imagination Neville Goddard - The purpose of these talks is to bring about a psychological change in you, the individual. Humanity, understood psychologically, is an infinite series of levels of awareness and you, individually, are what you are according to where you are in the series. Consciousness is the only reality, and where you are conscious of being psychologically, determines the circumstances of your life. The ancients knew this great truth, but our modern teachers have yet to discover it. There is only one substance in the world. Our scientists call it energy while scripture defines it as consciousness. We are told that the universe was caused by water, but if this is true, then it could not evolve into anything but water. But if the basic substance is energy (or consciousness), it can be made to manifest itself as iron, steel, and wood, to name but a few. Man, seeing a variety of forms, thinks of numberless substances, but what is seen is only a change in the arrangement of the same basic substance - consciousness.

Neville Lancelot Goddard (February 19, 1905 October 1, 1972), generally known as Neville, was an American author who wrote on the Bible, mysticism, and self-help.Goddard was born in Barbados on February 19, 1905, to Joseph Nathaniel and Wilhelmina Goddard. He immigrated to New York City c.1922, where he initially worked as a ballet and ballroom dancer.In 1931, he began to study under an Ethiopian rabbi who introduced him to Kabbalah. He was not naturalized until around the time of World War II, when he served in the United States Army.In early 1950s, Goddard lectured at The Town Hall on religious topics. In 1954, he was reportedly planning a "metaphysical telefilm show", though it is unclear if the project came to fruition.As of his death in 1972 in West Hollywood, Goddard had been resident in Los Angeles for roughly 20 years.He is buried in Westbury Cemetery, Saint Michael, Barbados.