The 1948 Lessons by Neville Goddard is a very practical course that will walk you through a step-by-step method of manifesting your desires into your current reality. To begin this course, Neville recommends that you have a very clear idea of what you want, since, in his own words, he is confident that the technique you will learn in these five sessions will enable you to achieve your goals. However, in order to profit from Neville's instructions to study the secret teachings buried in the Bible on manifesting your goals into reality and being the Creator of your own Life, you must have a fundamental understanding of the premise behind his teachings in this course.
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Neville Lancelot Goddard was born on 19 February 1905 in St. Michael, Barbados in the British West Indies, the fourth child in a family of nine boys and one girl. He came to the United States on board the S.S. Vasari to study drama at the age of seventeen (September 1922) and whilst touring with his dance company in England he developed an interest in metaphysics. On his return he gave up the entertainment industry to devote his full attention to the study of spiritual and mystical matters. Neville studied with a mentor, Abdullah, learning Hebrew, the Kabbalah, and the hidden symbolic meaning of Scripture. After travelling extensively throughout the United States, Neville eventually made his home in Los Angeles where, in the 1950s, he gave a series of talks on television and radio, and for many years lectured regularly to capacity audiences at the Wilshire Ebell Theater In the 1960s and early 1970s, he confined most of his lectures to Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. He discussed his doctrine, referred to as "The Law," on television in the Los Angeles area, saying, "Learn how to use your imaginal power, lovingly, on behalf of others, for Man is moving into a world where everything is subject to his imaginal power." Enjoy all 10 Neville Goddard Spiritual Classics plus the 1948 Class Lessons: 1. At Your Command 2. Your Faith Is Your Fortune 3. Freedom For All 4. Prayer, The Art of Believing 5. Out Of This World 6. Feeling is the Secret 7. The Power of Awareness 8. Awakened Imagination & The Search 9. Seedtime & Harvest 10. The Law and The Promise 11. 1948 Class Lessons
How to Move Mountains The extraordinary mystic Neville Goddard (1905-1972) is one of today's most influential metaphysical voices—and spiritual writer Mitch Horowitz is widely acknowledged as the leading interpreter of the teacher's ideas and life story. Now, in an unparalleled effort, Mitch combs through Neville's extensive body of work to distill the master's most practical and effective methods and techniques for operating the creative powers of your mind. The Ideal Realized helps you vault past difficulties in using Neville’s work, particularly in the all-important area of entering the “feeling state” of your wish fulfilled. Mitch selects and highlights key passages that supply hands-on methods from Neville himself. This collection also includes key passages on dream interpretation, analysis of numbers and symbols, the use of objects for meditation, and the uses and misuses of speech. Mitch’s introduction, “The Triumph of Imagination,” identifies and addresses some of the challenges you might experience on the creative-mind path; supplies fresh techniques; and suggests works to read hand-in-hand with Neville. Mitch’s afterword, “Chariot of Fire,” which is the first-ever transcript of his earliest talk on Neville, provides the full background of the ideas and history from which Neville emerged. This anthology also features the first print version of one of Neville’s final lectures, “Even the Wicked,” delivered shortly before the teacher’s death in 1972; the complete text of his classic Prayer: The Art of Believing from 1945; and many valuable and overlooked works, including radio, record, and television lectures. The collection is capped with a timeline of Neville’s life and a selection of his most powerful aphorisms. The Ideal Realized is a wholly original volume that spans Neville’s career and helps you to speed past bumps and deepen your practical understanding of the master’s ideas.
In 1948, mystic Neville Goddard delivered a series of five lessons in Los Angeles, which many of Neville's students and readers consider the teacher's clearest and most comprehensive presentation of his methods of mental creativity. These five lessons, plus a question and answer section is among Neville's finest work, known as The Original Master Class."Neville may eventually be recognized as one of the world's great mystics."-Joseph Murphy, author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind"The words of spiritual teacher Neville Goddard retain their power to electrify... Neville captured the sheer logic of creative mind principles as perhaps no other figure of his era."-Science of Mind magazineBorn to an English family in Barbados, Neville Goddard (1905-1972) moved to New York City at seventeen to study theater. In 1932, he abandoned his work as a dancer and actor to dedicate himself to a career as a metaphysical writer and lecturer. Neville influenced a wide range of spiritual thinkers, from Joseph Murphy to Carlos Castaneda.
Armies are invariably accused of preparing to fight the last war. Nagl examines how armies learn during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared in organization, training, and mindset. He compares the development of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice in the Malayan Emergency from 1948-1960 with that developed in the Vietnam Conflict from 1950-1975, through use of archival sources and interviews with participants in both conflicts. In examining these two events, he argues that organizational culture is the key variable in determining the success or failure of attempts to adapt to changing circumstances. Differences in organizational culture is the primary reason why the British Army learned to conduct counterinsurgency in Malaya while the American Army failed to learn in Vietnam. The American Army resisted any true attempt to learn how to fight an insurgency during the course of the Vietnam Conflict, preferring to treat the war as a conventional conflict in the tradition of the Korean War or World War II. The British Army, because of its traditional role as a colonial police force and the organizational characteristics that its history and the national culture created, was better able to quickly learn and apply the lessons of counterinsurgency during the course of the Malayan Emergency. This is the first study to apply organizational learning theory to cases in which armies were engaged in actual combat.
Whilst modern day thinkers believe the events of life to be a haphazard collection of causes and effects, Neville Goddard, from his own experience, demonstrates that our lives are the results of our deepest thoughts and feelings. Furthermore, in these two lessons, he instructs us on how to achieve our deepest desires.
