Neville Goddard's teachings center on the Law of Assumption, which posits that your assumptions & deeply felt beliefs about yourself and the world, harden into facts and shape your reality. This is achieved primarily through the power of imagination, where assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled manifests desires.
Below is a comprehensive glossary of key terms, including famous phrases from the neville goddard books:
Affirming: (Can be viewed as a technique) A thought you think over and over until it feels natural like it's true for your identity.
Assumption: A persistent belief or feeling about a desired state as already true. According to the Law of Assumption, whatever you assume with conviction becomes your reality, as "assumptions harden into facts."
Brazen Imprudence - A phrase from The Law and the Promise, referring to the bold, unapologetic persistence in assuming the desired state despite external evidence to the contrary. It involves acting with audacious faith in the imaginal act, ignoring doubts or limitations.
Circumstances Don’t Matter: A key teaching from The Power of Awareness, emphasizing that external conditions are merely reflections of inner assumptions. By changing your inner state, you override circumstances, as they have no independent power. You are not changing circumstances, you are switching to new reality that those circumstances don't exist.
Consciousness is the Only Reality: A central phrase from The Power of Awareness, asserting that your consciousness (awareness and assumptions) is the sole creator of your reality. Nothing exists outside of what you imagine and assume to be true.
Creation is Finished: A famous phrase from The Law and the Promise and other works, emphasizing that all possible states and outcomes already exist in the eternal now. Your role is to select and assume the desired state through imagination, as "all things are already complete in the divine mind."
Effort (or Effortlessness): Manifestation occurs without strain when acting from the assumed state of fulfillment, not from lack or urgency. It involves natural actions aligned with the new identity, without forcing external circumstances.
Everyone is You Pushed Out (EIYPO): A key phrase from The Power of Awareness, meaning that everyone and everything in your reality reflects your inner assumptions. People are just mirroring back your concept of self. *please note that this says "concept of self" aka how you view yourself.
Feeling is the Secret: The title of Neville’s 1944 book and a core principle, emphasizing that the conviction of one desire’s fulfillment is the key to manifestation. Feeling the reality of the wish bridges imagination to physical reality.
God of you reality = When you close your eyes and see an image of an apple. Who's doing that it? Is anyone else jumping into YOUR imagination and taking control? NO. When we say YOU are the god of your reality. We mean you are God of YOUR own reality aka imagination. . The 3D reality is your imagination pushed out.
I AM: The core creative power of God within; your awareness of being. Saying "I AM" invokes divine authority. All assumptions stem from identifying with a specific "I AM" statement (e.g., "I AM wealthy").
Imagination: God's eternal body and creative power; the human faculty of awareness that creates reality. It is the "I AM" itself—divine, unlimited, and the source of all manifestation. Human imagination is simply God "keyed low."
Imagine as if your have it = IS NOT JUST VISUAL. it's everything internal. Close your eyes. Can you see, can you hear, can you smell, can you taste, can you feel things with your hands.. Hold a tennis ball.. feel how it feels as you run your hand over it. It's your mental talk, it's your thoughts, it's your inner conversations... When we say "imagine as if you have it" we don't mean visualise - we mean by any means you use internally.
Inner Conversations: A concept from Awakened Imagination, referring to the internal dialogue that reinforces your assumptions. Controlling these conversations to align with the desired state (e.g., speaking as if the wish is fulfilled) shapes your reality.
Living in the End: Embodying the desired state now, as if the wish is already fulfilled. Focus on being the person who has the desire (e.g., "I am already successful"), using natural scenes and self-talk to embed this identity.
Mental Diet: A practice from At Your Command, involving disciplined control of thoughts and feelings to focus only on those that align with the desired state.
Noone to change but self - A pivotal phrase from Your Faith is Your Fortune, underscoring that all change begins within your own consciousness. You cannot change others directly; instead, alter your assumptions about them to shift their behavior in your reality.
Operant Power of Your Reality: A phrase from The Power of Awareness, signifying that your imagination (consciousness) is the sole creative force shaping your world. It underscores that you, as the operant power, control reality through your assumptions.
Persistence: The key to the Law of Assumption; maintaining the assumed state despite contrary evidence. Return to the feeling of fulfillment until it dominates your consciousness.
Power of Assumption: A phrase often used in The Power of Awareness, highlighting the transformative ability of assuming a state with conviction. It is the mechanism by which imagination creates reality.
Revision: A technique to mentally alter past events in imagination, changing their emotional impact to align with desired assumptions. This reshapes the subconscious and prevents old patterns from recurring.
States: Distinct conditions or roles of consciousness (e.g., poverty, success) that you occupy through assumption. From The Power of Awareness, Neville teaches that you move into a state by imagining and feeling it as real, and all circumstances flow from that state.
States Akin to Sleep (SATS): A relaxed technique for impressing assumptions on the subconscious through vivid imagining. It creates new "memories" that form the basis of your self-concept, like a mental rehearsal for manifestation.
Time is an Illusion: A concept from The Law and the Promise, asserting that all states exist now in the eternal present. Delays in manifestation are due to lack of faith or persistence, not time, as "creation is finished" and the desired state is already complete.
The promise: The Promise is our individualized experience of realizing that God is buried within us as the Human Imagination and our true identity is God/Imagination.
Wish Fulfilled: The state of having your desire already realized. The core of manifestation: feel it as done, not as something to chase.
You Are in Barbados: A famous phrase from The Law and the Promise, drawn from Neville’s own story about imagining being in Barbados until it manifested. It encapsulates the technique of assuming the feeling of already being in the desired state or place.
