Awakened Imagination/the Search [Paperback]

Neville (Author), Neville Goddard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1954

The Power that makes Achievement and Attainment Inevitable.

Using short quotations from the Bible and from Blake, Yeats, Emerson, Lawrence, Quintillian, Hermes, and the Hermetica, Neville reveals the Power that makes the achievement of aims, the attainment of desires, inevitable; showing that the Christ is the human imagination.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Neville Goddard was one of the quietly dramatic and supremely influential teachers in the New Thought field for many years...In a simple, yet somehow elegant one-hour lecture, Neville was able to clarify the nature of God and God's relationship to every person. He spoke of God in intimate terms as though he knew god very well, which he did. --Roy Eugene Davis

About the Author

Born in Barbados, West Indies, Neville came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen. In 1932 he gave up the theater to devote his attention to his studies in mysticism when he began his lecture career in New York City. After traveling throughout the country, he eventually made his home in Los Angeles where, in the late 1950 s, he gave a series of talks on television, and for many years, lectured regularly to capacity audiences at the Wilshire Ebell Theater. Although Neville s career peaked in the late 1950s and early 60s, his message continues to find a place in the hearts of spiritual readers throughout the world today. Neville Goddard was one of the more quietly dramatic and supremely influential teachers in the New Thought field for many years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 94 pages
• Publisher: DeVorss & Company (January 1, 1954)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875166563
• ISBN-13: 978-0875166568
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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82 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful - Amazing - Incredible Book!, July 29, 2001

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Judith E. Pavluvcik (Dreaming of the beach in Hawaii, but living in the reality of the desert in Arizona!!) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awakened Imagination/the Search (Paperback)

I first encountered Neville on the recommendation of a Religious Science practitioner. Since that time, I have read all of Nevilles books and all I can say is POWERFUL! I re-read this book for the second time and it seems that the principles explained and put forth in this book really shined in their clarity this time around.

Neville says, Imagination is the gateway of reality. As one reads this book, which one can be finish in one day, this idea of using ones imagination in the basis of reality is constantly honed into the reader. Some may find his repetitive honing in of this concept too repetitive, but for me, this repetition was exactly what I needed to really grasp and truly understand the important concepts that Neville was trying to impart to the reader. Neville clarifies his concepts with actual stories of people manifesting what they imagined. Nevilles concepts are steeped in quotes from the Bible, not over done at all, which further illustrate and help the reader to grasp the concepts. The abundant life that Christ promised us is ours to experience now, but not until we have the sense of Christ as our imagination can we experience it.

Neville teaches the reader to use ones imagination, with all of ones senses, to manifest that which they desire in reality. Neville wants us to see it as fulfilled NOW, to act as if it were happening NOW and to abolish all negative thinking to the contrary. One has to let go and know that it will happen and to not wonder how or why. The mind is incredibly powerful, as Ernest Holmes, the founder of Science of Mind teaches: Change your thoughts, change your life. Neville says, Man becomes what he imagines. On both accounts  so very, very true!

The reviewer, who said that this book is not for Christians, has completely missed the entire thought and basis for this book. This book is for everyone, as one must have the belief that, Spirit, Christ, God, or what ever name you want to use, is at the heart of all we want, imagine and manifest. Imagination is Christ in man. Neville points this out quite clearly and often, so that the reader can grasp this main and very important concept. Neville urges the reader to think from the end  in other words, to imagine that what you want has come to pass. To realize his ideal, man must first change the pattern which his imagination has followed. The way to change the outer world is to make the inner speech and action match the outer speech and action of fulfilled desire.

I absolutely love this book and have highlighted and underlined most of the book! This is a book that needs to be read more than once and referred to again and again. It works  it truly works  but one has to step out of fear, know and have faith that it will happen and know that it comes from God, from Christ, from Spirit, from The One. Inner speech mirrors imagination, and imagination is Christ.

This book is powerful, it is amazing and if followed, one *will* see miracles manifest in ones life. The other books by Neville are just as powerful  The Power of Awareness, The Law and The Promise and Your Faith is Your Fortune, are my favorites.

This is the kind of book that will become worn and torn, as one constantly refers to it time and time again  it is a classic to be savored.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Imagination creates our experience, June 12, 2003

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Shawn Regan (marietta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awakened Imagination/the Search (Paperback)

Said by many including the great Nisargadatta Maharaj is that our imagination creates our experience. Neville shows us how to use that imagination with sustained attention to create experiences and thigs that we want. His understanding of this principle agrees and possibly surpasses the other sources which are mostly channeled works. I've read a few Neville works and found audio lectures. His material is consistently enlightened. His books also seem to overlap quite a bit which is fine. You get the core ideas with any book but each has it's own flavor. His book "The Power of Awareness" is also terrific.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For REAL Christians indeed!, May 28, 2004

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Kardek "plabo" (Richmond, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Awakened Imagination/the Search (Paperback)

To the reviewer who says that this material is not for Christians, a view which is endemic, especially in the more fundamentalist groups, how about the following quote from the Man himself?
"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mark 11:23-24)
This is EXACTLY what Neville is recommending to do, no more, no less. Don't try to learn about Jesus from so-called "Christians"!