"Neville Goddard's Final Lectures," Edited By Mitch Horowitz: A Review

PS: Yes, I am starting with a postscript. I started reading the transcriptions of the lectures, and began to notice typos, errors, and glosses in the text. So I brought up the audio of a lecture to follow along and compare. Three errors in one sentence, six errors in the paragraph. Is this a problem for me? Niet. I am glad and appreciative to have the lectures this close to complete transcription. I have done a lot of transcription myself (you have read some of them without knowing). It is not a problem for me to finish these. GRAB A PENCIL AND FOLLOW ALONG TRYING TO HEAR WHAT NEVILLE ACTUALLY SAID. YOU WILL SEE WHY THERE ARE VARIANCES. Just make your corrections and thank God so much has already been done for you. End PS.*

I had this book in my Amazon Cart weeks before it was released. Although I already have all these "final" lectures downloaded as audio files and have listened to them repeatedly over the years, here they are attractively bound on quality paper in crisp, clear print with footnotes to Neville's references. The book itself is a class act. I was anxious to get it as soon as I heard of it, because I was not sure I had all of Neville's later lectures, as many of them are undated in other collections. There are nineteen transcribed lectures included, and all save one I have listed in my collection as "audio." Is having them ready to read worth the price of the book? Heck, the Introduction alone is worth the price.

The final lectures included are:
Faith is Loyalty to Unseen Reality
What is Man?
Feel after Him
Repentance, a Gift From God
Divine Vision
God's Son
Know What You Want (Our Real Belief)
Feel Chosen
John the Crown of Scripture
You Must Experience God
Ends, Ultimate and Temporary
Rearrange the Mind
Fulfillment of God's Promise
Where and When Did It Happen?
Justified States
Consummation
Even the Wicked (The Duality of Man; It is Done)
Revelation
God and I are One

The whole thing is pleasant and the feeling from it satisfying. So glad I could get it. Next on my shopping list is Horowitz's Daydream Believer: Unlocking the Ultimate Power of Your Mind. Hardbound!

*PPS: Yikes! Holy sniky. I started to go through "Revelation" to make corrections. In it I find "For this is revelation" has become "Well, this is revelation." Neville's spoken "Jesus is the Lord, and Christ, his Son," reads "Jesus is the Lord and Christ, his Son." That might actually be okay, but "he is the youth, the eternal youth, in his themes" (should be "teens") is not. Nor is "As you are told in John...it does not get a prayer," which should be "it does not yet appear..." It does not get a prayer? "We are told" has become "you are told." On page 300, Neville messages his hospitalized wife, "My state passes out, endures forever. Guess who I am." On page 307, the AUDIO has Neville saying, "I know it would amuse her and she would know exactly who it was it was who said his love relative to her endures forever." The text has "who it was who has sent his love relative to her in yours forever." ?? The book itself, cover, binding, paper and font, is a class act. The transcription of the lectures themselves...not so much. Careless in the one issue that really matters. Go figure. I wonder how Daydream Believer reads.

By the way, although I bought the book, I am not qualified to post a review on Amazon simply because I used gift cards (Thank you Red Cross and Amazon.com).

FYI: I continued through the lecture "Revelation." I found at least forty things Neville did NOT say: words added or missing, wrong words, wrong number, wrong tense, wrong sense. Having listened to his lectures while driving to work for years, I have become familiar with how Neville spoke. It was pleasantly peculiar, and it made him very popular. Whoever proofread this book for spelling probably, I imagine, has never heard Neville speak in his or her life, for they show no appreciation or familiarity for his cadence or sentence composition.

Well, I had better stop. It is just going to take a lot longer to listen and correct this book than I thought. God help the person who thinks these texts are verbatim.