The Best, Most PRACTICAL Neville Goddard Lectures

Added February 17, 2020:

I surprised myself by rediscovering the text lecture 1948 Lesson 5,  “REMAIN FAITHFUL TO YOUR IDEA.” It is a rich and thick review of his teaching. It has his technique outlined twice. A lot of other explanations, also. I finally caught on that by “dimensionally larger world” he is referring to a state akin to astral projection, to being IN the fourth dimension as though it were the here and now.

Added January 30, 2018:

It has been years since I posted this list. Since then there have been many videos posted on Youtube which highlight only the practical parts of many of Neville’s lectures. Check out the shorter videos, like these:

Probably the best bit of "God's Law and His Promise": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKavoKPiEGY
"He was telling me that if I want something, I must now at the moment I want it assume that I have it. I want to go to Barbados--I am IN Barbados. So this night, when I sleep, I sleep in Barbados"

Neville on how to manifest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTllvZdpFE

Neville Law of Liberty (hijacking the feeling of william de foe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42V78dnd2jE&t=2648s
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Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy taught a technique of prayer they learned from their teacher, Abdullah. From the theological perspective that man's imagination is God because God became man's imagination, they taught to imagine with faith, a faith based upon the Law, the Law which IS God.

Some of their lectures deal more with practical prayer techniques than theology (though they are quite worthless without the proper theology, especially the theology of Love). Still, I know a number of people who could profit from these simple prayer techniques.

The techniques require understanding and practice. Think of learning them as an investment. As Neville said, "If it works, then you have found Him!" Finding God is the worthy objective. The other things we might seek are just props.

The Best, Most PRACTICAL Neville Goddard Lectures I have found on youtube.com:

Far and away the best and most succinct summary of Neville's philosophy and technique is The Law of God and His Promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eyqadF9R9Y

Here is how Abdullah taught Neville: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6B1eGrFvw

Repentance, a Gift of God, is about 41 minutes long on youtube. It was originally titled How to Really Pray. I found a copy that is listed as being more than an hour long at: http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/audio/neville_goddard_repentance_a_gift_of_god.mp3 (http://www.mindserpent.com/?page_id=33)


Also in my opinion, "practical":

Rare Neville TV Talk 1955- "Creating With Imagination" (Remastered)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2cKadBBMg

I Am All Imagination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ3n9_R0Q8Y
The Pruning Shears of Revision:http://www.realneville.com/txt/the_pruning_shears_of_revision.htm http://realneville.com/pdf/the_pruning_shears_of_revision.pdf
Mental Diets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPAsGiQyiI
How to Use Your Imagination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKS_QIPet-k
Live in the End: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZ-kTIGRwY
Imagination Plus Faith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDGn6KWJh1s
Creating With Imagination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8imNJA0cg
Creation Faith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUIEUJTHN_o
Call Upon Self: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4zvGBoe7J0
Believe It In: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFzVtfKzahM
A Standing Order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjchKAwXYLs
Awakened Imagination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca0JJqywYiI
Magic of Faith (Joseph Murphy's book)

July 25, 2016: I thought Gifts Bestowed By God was on this list. I also thought it was available in audio, but I can only find it in PDF: http://certainworld.com/pdf/GIFTS_BESTOWED_BY_GOD.pdf;

A recent addition to audio is Audio Enlightenment's reading of Assumptions Harden Into Fact, Lesson 2 in Neville's 1948 series. I did not realize how incredibly practical the end of it is. Neville coaches and directs his students for about ten minutes. Thank you, Audio Enlightenment: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7C1jIUwou7E

Neville Goddard's Mistake in saying, "Only Two Things Displease God." There is only one.

I heard Neville Goddard say in a lecture that only two things mentioned in the Bible displease God. One, the failure to believe that I am He; and two, eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

He was wrong.

I believe that God wants us to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Because without our having conscience from the that tree he can't steer us back to the Tree of Life. Jesus Christ is the Shining One who draws us Adams with his love. He imbues us with conscience from within ("you have robbed God who gave you this life, and you have wasted it"), and then he goes with us AS us: "Upon your belly you shall go, eating dust,"--our lives are that dust. When we become convicted of our sin in light of his perfection and see that it is good to be like him, then the journey begins.

Begins. We go through the education of religion. We bruise God's head--the fullness of his deity--by thinking that we are separate from him--"wholly other" the doctrine says--as if that were even a possibility. That is an insult to him. And he bruises our "heel," that is, afflicts our lives with suffering (which afflicting actually we cause to ourselves by our own ignorant thoughts manifesting-- because we are not separate, we ARE him).

He, God, is that holy Spirit who "breathed" into us the consciousness of being who we are. Inside, it knows that it is God, but having forgotten (to become us), we deny it. Our denying that we are God is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, for what else does it testify but that he is Jesus Christ within us, and that he is God. Ironically, it is retail religion that teaches us to blaspheme the Holy Spirit (BUT--it was God who sent me to seminaries to learn the scriptures and the doctrines--He is not afraid of them).

We are King Pharaoh who set ourselves up as other, separate gods and say, "Who is YHWH that I should worship him?"

So there is only one thing on Neville's list which truly displeases God: our failure to believe that I am He.

"I am He, because He became Me." THAT is what the whole of the Bible is about. And worthy is the Lamb who became us.

Which brings up another thing--the failure to "get" this message when we read the Bible. I just did a post venting about the inadvertent subversion of the Lord's Prayer. How about the perversion of Jesus into Satan in Genesis, and his imbuing of man with conscience as man's "fall"? Please! How about Paul's believing that "Jesus Christ" was a literal, historical man other than himself who was going to come back in judgment real soon (Thessalonians) instead of God's work within man (Ephesians)?

Or the belief that the creation of God's plan in six days was the creating of universal physical manifestation in six days. Or that Adam and Eve were two people instead of one. (I like to joke, "Actually, I am a lot of people.") Or that any of the Bible has to do with literal, "secular" history instead of being psychological and spiritual development. Or that Hell is some eternal elsewhere instead of being restored back to this world of death, the "outer darkness" of our afflicted, ignorant and blind lives.

There is a point to these "errors" in the Bible, these failures to perceive the truth even by the authors of it: our ignoranced consciousnesses develop. We have to work to find the truth. There is striving involved, mental investment, effort to growth. It takes time, but "You will find me when you search for "Me" with your whole heart."

No, I don't suppose that got across either. Think about it.

Bible Correction: The Lord's Prayer-- God's "Standing Orders"

The traditional Lord's Prayer we commonly recite is notwhat Jesus Christ said. Not even close. In fact, what we think Matthew wrote is almost the exact opposite of what he actually did.  

Bummer. We read it like this passage from the King James:  

"Our Father Which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." 

What Jesus taught was: 

"Our Father in the Heavens;
Your name must be being hallowed;
Your kingdom must be being restored;
Your will must be being done, both in Heaven and upon the Earth.
Give us to-day our to-morrow's bread;
and forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending us,
for you would not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from its evil." 

This is the opposite of the traditional prayer in a number of ways. We could have read it correctly, but we choose not to bother parsing the Greek. Our loss for our lack of industriousness. 

God allows us to be fools. He doesn't whack the unjust. He is ready to deliver us the moment we are willing to hear his voice. He wants us to learn, says, "Pick up and read." Then he goes with us. (THIS is Adam and Eve at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It wasn't that Adam shouldn't eat the fruit, he just wouldn't eat. It was God, the Shining One, who drew him and thereafter went with him. The Shining One was always there, but now openly as conscience. We call him Jesus Christ.) 

I have to assume that those who translated Matthew from Aramaic into Greek knew exactly what he meant and what his intention was. The first part of Jesus' teaching in the Lord's Prayer is an affirmation, a positive statement of belief--a mind of faith. The translators used the aorist imperative passive tense, underlined below: 

Our Father in the heavens (the Source, which in the brain is the imagination),
your name (nature) must be being hallowed,
your kingdom (rule/power) must be being restored,
your will (desire) must be being done. 

"Must be being--I know this is true!" The aorist imperative passive of this affirmation did not exist in Latin. If they understood the concept that existed in the Greek, they chose not to translate it. I doubt very much they understood the importance of it. 

As far as I can tell, Ferrar Fenton was the first modern scholar to realize that the ancient and true meaning of the Lord's Prayer had been lost in translation. (All this, by the way, is from Neville Goddard's lecture "A Standing Order," which draws from Fenton's emphatic translation of the Greek Bible, The Complete Bible in Modern English.) 

An aorist is an action completed in one, continuous motion. Fenton noted: "The force of the imperative first Aorist seems to me to be that of what is called a standing order, a thing to be done absolutely, and continuously" (emphasis mine). And in this case, passively to boot! 

Standing order? What standing order? Where did that come from? Who issued it? What action was completed in one, continuous motion, and yet is "to be done absolutely and continuously?" When was this standing order given? By Jesus two thousand years ago? 

No. I think it goes back to "Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon earth" (Genesis 1: 26). God gave that order in one fell swoop. Once. He never rescinded it. We just never listened. 
Jesus said to believe it. Believe it. If you believe that "Your Father knows your necessities before you ask Him (Genesis 1: 1-25, and "All things have been given unto me"), consequently, you must pray in this way (beginning with this affirmation) . . ."  

". . . Our Father in the Heavens (Source behind our minds); 
Your name (nature!) must be being hallowed. 
Your kingdom (Lordship!) must be being restored. 
Your will (desire!) must be being done. 
Both in Heaven and upon the Earth!
Give us to-day our to-morrow's bread; . . ."  

Okay, I have to stop for the Greek word translated "to-morrow's" bread. It means "coming, descending," that is, manna, God's Word or Manifestation. I think we are supposed to ask for inspiration, a mission--tomorrow's job assignment to plan by imagining it "today." My impression is that this is a constant openness, a volunteering: "Here am I, Lord, send me." (My model for this is Frank C. Laubach, who put himself at God's disposal in a Philippine backwater and wound up heading the world-wide literacy movement. Read "Letters by a Modern Mystic," available online as PDF [be sure to use a good anti-virus]. Fuller versions of some these letters are available in the first chapter of any of his autobiographies.)

". . . and forgive us our faults, as we forgive those offending us,
for you would not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from its evil." 

"Those offending us" is not anybody outside of ourselves. Our own faults offend us. Worse, our own faults proceed into the future to confront us--to "tempt" us--again. 

God will deliver us from the evil of our faults if they are "forgiven." To forgive means to correct, to make right. If what bad things we have thought or done each day proceed into the future to confront us afresh, we need to correct them. How can we correct our immature thoughts and actions? We can re-create them by revising our imagination, by rethinking them as right and mature UNTIL THEY ARE.  

As we lie on our beds before falling asleep, we can recount the day and, if something we thought or did was not good, we imagine what it would have been like if that thing had been lovely and mature. We replay the scene and feel exactly what it would have felt like if it were right over and over until THAT is what proceeds into our future. Then God has delivered us from the evil of those offending us. 

No, no Devil bothering us. How could the epitome of doubt bother us if we know and believe God's standing orders? 

In all this we are "passive." The outside is compelled to conform to God who is within us by the rest of YHWH, God who is without us. God in us, YHWH--our true inner nature of being--must be being hallowed, his kingdom must be being restored, and his will must be being done, because God became us so that we might become him. 

"Uh, Dan, if what you say is true, then we already are." 

Exactly. That, my friend, is the Lost Goddess of Christianity*--the Oneness of God. There just isn't anything else. 

*See books by Freke and Gandy.

The Lord's Prayer is a statement of faith in God's standing orders.

The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-12; Luke 11:1-3) isn't about getting; it is about sailing. 
 
The "prayer" is our recognition of God’s three standing orders: that his nature must be being hallowed; his kingdom must be being restored; and that his will must be being done.
 
Because God knows our necessities, and we know these standing orders, we have faith to be his ministers. The "prayer" is a request for that ministry.

FYI: the life we have is God’s life. We are animated by God, and, up until the time of our repentance, we had done whatever we pleased with his life. This was our rebellion of self-lordship, during which we robbed God of the purpose for which he had make us.

The Lord's Prayer is a request for purpose. We ask God for his desire: “This is your life. You animated me with your life for your purpose. For whatever reason you made me, that I shall do.” After which we shut up and wait for his leadings.

We daily surrender ourselves to the fulfillment of God's ministry: "As in heaven, so also on earth!” We exist for God's purpose, the reason for which he made us.

“To do your will is my bread, O LORD.” Our “bread” is what we are supposed to be doing. “Give me whatever desire you purpose for the eternal life you have given me." (Interestingly, Chuck Misler's suggested translation of Proverbs 30: 1 is, "The Mighty Man said, 'God is with me; God arrives with me to be consumed.'")

God calls us to the service of our fellow man AS HIM, for God loves every one with love beyond our comprehension. "I can hardly wait to do as much as I can for him, and I shall do it through you.”

The Lord's Prayer according to Fenton's translation of the original Greek text asks God to let us in on the project. The life God has given us is one with us now--we two have become one flesh, and his life is the power to create, for it is HIS spirit. (Of all oddness, his life is our consciousness with the power of Mind and Speech--Deity within us, yet inasmuch as it has become us, it is us, the recipient of itself [I hope you can follow all those flips.] The upshot is that all this is his dream and is subject to his manifestation.)

God's life in us creates by imagining--serious, vivid, prayerful 3-D imagining. “Delight thyself in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and He shall bring it to pass” (Psalm 37: 4-5). God gives us his desires, his rightness to dream on, then brings the rightness we dream into reality "naturally" (what we dream today, we pursue with expectation tomorrow, for we have God's standing orders!).

The Lord’s Prayer is the weighing of our anchors, the release of our burdens in reliance on God's orders. It says, “Okay, that is enough of me and my affairs, of my selfishness, anger, fear and rebellion. You are God. You animated me today for your purpose, and I failed you. I am sorry about that, but let's give it another go! What do you want for tomorrow? I am ready to sail, because I delight to do your will, O LORD*."

*The LORD=YHWH, Jesus, the ineffable Most High God who is within us, as us. He is not separate or another being; he's just a bit clearer on the connection.

Stop Misreading the Bible: The Lord's Prayer Isn't The Prayer, It Is How To Pray The Prayer; i.e, The Attitude In Which To Pray It

More on the Lord's Prayer Being a Statement of Faith in God's Three Standing Orders:

The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-12; Luke 11:1-3) is that because God knows our necessities, we must become his ministers. It isn't about getting; it is about giving.

The Lord's Prayer less a prayer than an attitude to pray in. It is recognition of God’s three standing orders: That his nature must be being hallowed; his kingdom must be being restored; and that his will must be being done. The “Prayer” is the attitude of faith and surrender we are to pray in because of these standing orders.

While I was praying for the gift of tongues at Grace Bible Church in Honolulu, Hawaii, which became my baptism in the Holy Spirit, I was shown that the life I have is God’s life. I saw that I was animated by God and had, up until that moment, done whatever I pleased with his life. This was the rebellion of self-lordship.

I had never so much as thanked God for giving me life, nor had I ever asked for what purpose he had made me. He must have had a reason, and I had not a clue. I might have wondered why at some point, but I had never pointedly asked him and then waited for his answer.

In the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, I asked. I distinctly remember saying, “This is your life. You animated me with your life by your grace. I belong to you. You had a purpose for making me to live. Whatever you made me for, that is what I shall do. You are Glorious God; I am mud.” I quit my rebellion and cast self-lordship out of myself. I went into free-fall, not willing even to hold myself up. With surrender as far as could find it, I submitted myself to God. Bless God, I didn't fall flat on my face, but still I shut up and waited for his orders.

In my mind's eye, I was kneeling head bowed at a felled tree. I sensed the glow of God’s glory spreading across the sky above me. I was utterly submitted, utterly dependent upon him. My inner ears were reaching, scanning consciousness for his voice. If God never said another thing to me, I suppose they would have had to carry me out of the way for the next service. After a minute or two in that ominous silence, though, I heard the softest of voices say regarding this relationship, “Remember this, and it is all right.”

I was forgiven and accepted by God. To say that I was elated would be the greatest of understatements. As his spirit’s quickening infused my bowels I entered an ecstasy. And here is a most important point often mentioned by Neville, “If it works, then you have found him.” Well, it “worked”: I had found God and the ecstasy of real life. 

That is the Lord’s Prayer. It is mental recognition that life is according to his standing orders: "As in heaven, so also on earth!” In the Lord's Prayer, we surrender to the purpose of God: “Whatever you want me to do, that I will do.” We find serenity in him, then we help provide it to others.

You thought the Lord’s Prayer was for daily bread? It is for daily purpose.

“To do your will is my bread, O Lord.” Our “bread” is what we are to be doing. That is what we are asking him to give us today--“Give me the desire to do whatever you purpose for me to do with the eternal life you have graced me with." (Interestingly, Chuck Misler's translation of Proverbs 30: 1 is, "The Mighty Man said, 'God is with me; God arrives with me to be consumed.'")

“That bum at the off ramp, tell him that I love him and give him a twenty for me. Call and tell your mother that you love her nearly as much as I do. Give an illiterate the power to read and write his own language. Give yourself to the service of your fellow man AS ME, for I love every one with love beyond your comprehension. I can hardly wait to do as much as I can for him, and I shall do it through you.”

The Lord's Prayer a la Fenton's translation is asking God to let us in on the project. The life he has given us is one with us now--we two have become one flesh, and it is the power to create, for it is HIS spirit. (Of all oddness, it is the consciousness with the power of Mind and Speech--Deity within us, yet inasmuch as it has become us, it is us, the recipient of itself [I hope you can follow all those flips.] The upshot is that all this is a dream subject to his manifestation.)

God's life creates by imagining. “Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and He shall bring it to pass” (Psalm 37: 4-5). He gives us his desires to dream on, then brings the dreams into reality.

The Lord’s Prayer is a weighing of our anchors, the release of our burdens. It is saying, “Okay, that is enough of me and my affairs, of my selfishness and fears and rebellion. You are Almighty God. You gave me life and animated me for your purpose. What is it? Let’s go!”