The Lesson of Neville Goddard

Use the power of your wonderful human imagination.

James Leroy Wilson
8 min readOct 3, 2022

For five months I have been teaching a once-a-week class called “The Mad Mysticism of Neville Goddard” at Unity Lincoln in Nebraska.

Neville Goddard (public domain)
Neville Goddard (public domain)

On October 2, 2022 I also gave a brief talk during Sunday morning services where I shared some of what I have learned from Neville. Here is a modified version.

The Power of Imagination

Neville Goddard was born in Barbados in 1905. When he was 17 he moved to New York City and became a dancer in theater and vaudeville. Some years later he became interested in metaphysics and studied Biblical languages and the Kabbalah under an Ethiopian rabbi named Abdullah. By the late 1930s he was an author and speaker. He was drawing an audience of over a thousand twice a week in New York City in the 1940s. He once passed by two women talking in front of a bookshop where his books were displayed in the window. The one woman said to the other: “You should go listen to him sometime. He’s as mad as a hatter.”

Neville later moved to California and had a tv show, did radio commentaries, and kept speaking and writing books. He passed away on October 1, 1972. In recent years, we’ve seen a revival of his ideas in Facebook groups, Reddit boards, Youtube channels, and websites where you…

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James Leroy Wilson
James Leroy Wilson

Written by James Leroy Wilson

Former activist. Writer with a range of interests from spirituality to sports.

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