Neville Goddard
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This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far our grand total is $179,160.94. That puts us at 59% of our goal. Thanks so much to all our donors for their support. Complete information on how you can help appears below. But first, a few inspirational words from James J. O’Meara.
Greg Johnson
Many of you Constant Readers of my many essays on Neville and New Thought have no doubt wondered, “Well, if it’s all in your mind, why don’t you just think about what you want. For example, that $300,000 you need.”
Well, it doesn’t quite work that way. Allow me to retort.
Alexander Hamilton may have been the worst thing to arrive in the United States from Barbados, but the damage was more than made up for by the arrival of Neville Goddard in 1922. Intending to enter show business, his interests shifted to metaphysics, and lecturing under the single name Neville, he became the leading twentieth-century exponent of what I call America’s native Neoplatonism, homegrown Hermeticism, and two-fisted Traditionalism, better known as New Thought or Positive Thinking.
Jonathan Bowden probably put it best, or at least in a way that should resonate with the Dissident Right:
The decline is inside, and the decline is mental. Only when the mental processes change all the physical outside phenomena can naturally be reorganized. Not easily, it will be very difficult, but when the mentality is different everything else changes. What you see around you is the expression of the mentality, not the reverse . . . just by adopting a coherent form of thinking you can actually change reality quite a bit.
But that doesn’t mean it’s just a dream and you can sit back and relax. The maxim among the nineteenth-century New Thinkers was “Help arrives by established channels.” When a penniless Neville walked the streets of New York, imagining he was vacationing back in Barbados, he didn’t suddenly float up and levitate there; his brother was suddenly inspired to send him tickets and money for a new suit and tips. When he wanted tickets to a sold-out opera performance, he had to be standing in line so that he could apprehend a con man and receive VIP tickets from the Met as a reward. When Donald Trump wanted to become President, he had to at least get off his fat orange ass and ride the escalator.
As Mitch Horowitz, the leading contemporary scholar of New Thought, explains it, what Neville called The Law is real, but only one law among many, just as gravity is real, but contends with mass, velocity, and other factors. You need to get the tickets: “Not easily, it will be very difficult, but when the mentality is different everything else changes.”
It’s not “magic,” but what Alan Watts would call a “rockily practical” matter of seriously questioning yourself to find what you truly desire (rather than the yearbook answers like “world peace”), holding it firmly in mind, and — not waiting — but moving forward while expecting the world to respond helpfully, and so being able to grasp those opportunities when they arise.
Christians might say, “God finds a path”; Jungians might talk about “synchronicity.” If either notion gives you hives, consider Steve Jobs:
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Anyway, you know what we dream of, and if you’re reading Counter-Currents, you likely agree with it: Truth, Justice, and a Nice White Country. But that requires a lot of moving parts: books to be published, writers supported, conferences organized. We’ve set up the mechanism to facilitate you playing your part, channeling the response from the universe: Check out the payment options below.
We share the dream; now, prove to yourself that you are a believer: act. As another Dissident Right icon, T. E. Lawrence, wrote:
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. (The Seven Pillars of Wisdom)[1]
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[1] Compare the title of Kevin Coogan’s biography of Francis Parker Yockey, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and The Postwar Fascist International (Williamsburg, N.Y.: Autonomedia, 1999).
10 comments
Neville suggested that clearly imagining the fulfillment of a desire sets in motion a current that actualises the wish in reality. Failure to launch means you didn’t successfully accomplish your visualisation.
But couldn’t he have the causation back to front? If your personal abilities and current life situation already contain the potential to realise your goal, then you’ll have little difficulty picturing the happy event; whereas Quasimodo would have trouble convincingly seeing himself in Esmeralda’s arms.
Regardless, I hope you are setting aside some of your practice time to imagining Greg Johnson receiving a rapturous reception after becoming President of the US.
A very interesting point. Mitch Horowitz’ recent book, Daydream Believer (whose title I have shamelessly cribbed and which I plan to review here) devotes some attention to his disagreement with Neville on this point: he suggests that all too often someone, like himself, finds it impossible or even ignoble to simply try to imagine success, especially during phases of depression or life failure, and suggests instead that it would be easier to concentrate your attention on the wish itself, using desperation rather than intensity of visualization. This might be related to the phenomenon of prayer, which Neville disdains but Horowitz finds valid and useful.
So-called “astral projection” seems to be much the same as lucid dreaming, but whose practitioners have learned to induce at will from a resting, waking state. The resultant dreamscape – at its lowest levels, anyway – can be manipulated (as can lucid dreams), so if you fancy flying like Superman to the top of the Empire State Building and enjoying the view . . .
Those I’ve met who have mastered the technique tell me the imagined scenes are not dreamy, weak fantasies, but as sharp and realistic as – well – reality. I did wonder if the skill could be profitably combined with New Thought principles.
I’m still working through Daydream Believer, but my initial impression was that Horowitz was radically simplifying the process to address the overall problem of ‘the will’ during times of difficulty. Anyone can ‘wish’ for things to be better. It may be harder to ‘align with your True Will’ in such times. And then there’s the part about multiple worlds and ‘selection not creation’.
multiple worlds and ‘selection not creation’
When I read some Neville it did occur to me that – rather than seeing his technique as “magical” – it could be better explained by the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. So an effective visualisation of an outcome meant your life had switched to the desired world path. (But another “you” is left behind, doomed to a wretched existence in your stead!)
Sounds like I’ll have to give Daydream Believer a read.
It could continue on, or it could just freeze where it is. Think of moving a needle on record player. Everything that can happen has already happened, but the placement of the needle determines what song is playing. So, when your consciousness switches ‘timelines’ or ‘worlds’, perhaps what happens is, literally, nothing. That timeline simply ceases to be or become ‘frozen’ in some sense. The Jews have this term klipoth – ‘shells’ – which they use to describe the various worlds the Deity created before the final creation (containing the wonderful Jews, of course). Perhaps this is just an esoteric echo of the worlds without an active consciousness engaged with them. https://glorian.org/learn/glossary/k/klipoth
I’m not done with Horowitz’s book, but what I have read is not very well-written in my opinion. He’s a dedicated researcher and I’ll give him points for having the courage to put the multiple worlds hypothesis in the context of New Thought. But the idea could have had a better messenger.
In some circles, the relationship between wishcraft and multiple worlds have been actively employed for more than a decade.
If you’ve ever lost something, looked everywhere for it and then, sometime later, found it again in exactly the places you were looking, you’ve experienced spontaneous ‘jumps’ between worlds. You were in one world where it, literally, never existed but you remembered it from another timeline, to a timeline where both your memory and the reality coincide.
“In an almost prophetic observation in 1948, he told listeners: “Scientists will one day explain why there is a serial universe. But in practice, how you use this serial universe to change the future is more important.” (*) More than any other spiritual teacher, Neville created a mystical correlate to quantum physics.” — Mitch Horowitz https://www.harvbishop.com/neville-goddard-a-cosmic-philospher/
Horowitz does indeed explore a “many worlds” interpretation of Neville, most recently in Daydream Believer. While interesting, I find it gets people’s hackles up, and brings out the “but actually” crowd to divert the discussion into endless wormholes. I’m currently exploring the new wave of Analytical Idealism as a better analog. Even analytic philosophers are talking like this now, including David Skrbina!
(*) From the Five Lectures of 1948, reviewed here: https://counter-currents.com/2018/03/i-can-see-for-miles/
Visualize White Ethnostates.
“Visualize White Ethnostates.”
We already had them. We must reclaim them. When our duty, the protection of our children, is completed we will not have ceded a single inch.
If it is possible it is done; if it is impossible it will b done.
“The Slow Cleanse aka Restoring White Homelands” by Greg Johnson.
America never was a de jure White Ethnostate. That’s how things got where they are now.
If you will it, it will come. (If you do a lot of practical work guided by that will.)
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