The Power of Awareness

Neville Goddard

Mar 2013 · Ascent Audio · Narrated by Grover Gardner

About this audiobook

Neville Lancelot Goddard was born in Barbados in 1905. He came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen and whilst touring with his dance company in England he developed an interest in metaphysics after a Scotsman he met lent him a series of books on the powers of the mind. On his return he gave up the entertainment industry to devote his full attention to the study of spiritual and mystical matters. After traveling 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. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he confined most of his lectures to Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. In his early lectures and books, Neville dealt solely with what he called The Law, the technique of creating one's physical reality through imagining. He wrote this book in 1952. This unabridged edition includes: I Am - Consciousness - Power of Assumption - Desire - The Truth That Sets You Free - Attention - Attitude - Renunciation - Preparing Your Place - Creation - Interference - Subjective Control - Acceptance - The Effortless Way - The Crown of the Mysteries - Personal Impotence - All Things Are Possible - Be Ye Doers - Essentials - Righteousness - Free Will - Persistence - Failure - Faith - Destiny - Reverence

Ratings and reviews

There are some useful ideas about manifesting your ideal self in this book, but the writing feels maze-like especially in the beginning. The author is conveying the ideas through what feel like equations much of the time, and not normal human speech. It also goes a bit too far into the supernatural when using examples. Stories of things miraculously falling into place merely because people just imagined being in a state where they already had fallen into place. There are certainly better books about awareness and improving yourself. Using the book's logic; I believe that is the case therefore it is.

About the author

Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was born to an English family in Barbados and moved to New York City at the age of seventeen to study theater. In 1932, he abandoned his work as a dancer and actor to fully devote himself to his career as a metaphysical writer and lecturer.