Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard ( born February 19, 1905 in Barbados, † October 1, 1972 in Los Angeles ) was an author and teacher.

Curriculum vitae

Neville Goddard was the fourth son in a family of nine sons and one daughter. At seventeen, he went to the United States to take acting lessons. In the 1920s, he was a professional dancer and also worked in department stores. In the 1930s, he began lectures on metaphysical subjects ( New Thought movement ) hold and In 1932 the work in the theater in order to devote himself entirely to the study of mysticism. He met a black teacher named Abdullah at his lecture and studied with him for seven years, then things like Hebrew, the Kabbalah and Christianity.

After traveling across the country and had rooms filled with his lectures, he settled down in Los Angeles, where he worked in the late 1950s, some TV interviews and many years led a regular speaker in the popular Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles in front of a filled hall held. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he limited his lectures to Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.

He held his lectures without notes and finished it in each case with questions and answers. If you asked him if you could buy a cassette, he replied: "I have no tapes. Others here make cassettes for their own use, in perfect order. But I have no tapes. "

Teaching

His work is about the human imagination, and what can they do. He takes for the Bible as an example and explained from the Bible stories, what they mean figuratively. He always said that the stories of the Bible are not to be understood literally, but always mean a symbolic representation of a wisdom. He called in his lectures always this on to refute his work and to check for himself whether what he reported, could be true. He demanded of his followers not blind obedience and faith, but called on them to refute his claims. For it is only through our own Applying one would know the truth.

Neville once said, he would be allowed to be stranded on a desert island and only take a book, he would without hesitation choose the Bible. He is likely to take more, so it would be Charles Fillmore 's Metaphysical Dictionary of Bible names, William Blake and Nicoll 's Commentaries. These were also the works that he told his listeners.

In his work, one can distinguish two major eras. By 1959, he wrote and spoke about the law ( the law ) and thus filled large rooms with listeners. From the late 60s, he taught more about the promise ( the promise ), which he had experienced according to own data. As soon as he began to talk about the promise of presenting papers emptied the halls and he had almost no audience.

Joseph Murphy, who had studied in New York with him, once said of him: " Neville may maybe be recognized as one of the greatest mystics of the world. "

Works

His works were published under his name Neville - as he wanted to be called by his students.