The Power of Awareness

By Neville Goddard

Originally published in 1952, “The Power of Awareness” is one of the most important and influential books ever written on the power of human thought. Born in 1905 in Barbados in the British West Indies, Neville Goddard travelled to America in 1922 to study theater and found work as a dancer with a touring company. When touring England with his dance troupe, he met a Scotsman who introduced him to metaphysics and theories on the power of the mind. These ideas would become immensely influential to Goddard and form the basis of his life’s work. In “The Power of Awareness”, Goddard set forth his idea that reality is what one makes of it. The world is really only a picture that exists in one’s mind and it can be shaped and manipulated by thoughts and feelings. This revolutionary idea that the power of the mind can change the world was profoundly influential to philosophers and self-help gurus of the 20th Century. Goddard’s brilliant ability to make these complicated and esoteric ideas easy to understand and relatable makes “The Power of Awareness” a fascinating and empowering read that still resonates today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
• Release date: Sep 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781420959222

Neville Goddard

Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was a profoundly influential teacher, and author, writing more than ten books under the pen name Neville. He was a popular speaker on metaphysical themes and is associated with the New Thought philosophy.

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THE POWER OF AWARENESS

By NEVILLE GODDARD

The Power of Awareness

By Neville Goddard

Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5921-5

eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-5922-2

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CONTENTS

Chapter One. I Am.

Chapter Two. Consciousness.

Chapter Three. Power of Assumption

Chapter Four. Desire.

Chapter Five. The Truth That Sets You Free.

Chapter Six. Attention.

Chapter Seven. Attitude.

Chapter Eight. Renunciation.

Chapter Nine. Preparing Your Place.

Chapter Ten. Creation.

Chapter Eleven. Interference.

Chapter Twelve. Subjective Control.

Chapter Thirteen. Acceptance.

Chapter Fourteen. The Effortless Way.

Chapter Fifteen. The Crown of the Mysteries.

Chapter Sixteen. Personal Impotence.

Chapter Seventeen. All Things Are Possible.

Chapter Eighteen. Be Ye Doers.

Chapter Nineteen. Essentials.

Chapter Twenty. Righteousness.

Chapter Twenty-One. Free Will.

Chapter Twenty-Two. Persistence.

Chapter Twenty-Three. Case Histories.

Chapter Twenty-Four. Failure.

Chapter Twenty-Five. Faith.

Chapter Twenty-Six. Destiny.

Chapter Twenty-Seven. Reverence.

Chapter One. I Am.

All things when they are admitted are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.

Eph. 5:13

The light is consciousness. Consciousness is one, manifesting in legions of forms or levels of consciousness. There is no one that is not all that is, for consciousness, though expressed in an infinite series of levels is not divisional. There is no real separation or gap in consciousness. ‘I AM’ cannot be divided. I may conceive myself to be a rich man, a poor man, a beggar man or a thief, but the center of my being remains the same regardless of the concept I hold of myself. At the center of manifestation there is only one ‘I AM’ manifesting in legions of forms or concepts of itself and ‘I am that I am.’

‘I AM’ is the self definition of the absolute, the foundation on which everything rests. ‘I AM’ is the first cause-substance. ‘I AM’ is the self definition of God.

I AM hath sent me unto you

I AM THAT I AM

Be still and know that I AM God.

‘I AM’ is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of ‘I AM.’ I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I AM. The awareness of being remains regardless of the degree of forgetfulness of who, where and what I am.

‘I AM’ is that which, amid unnumbered forms, is ever the same. This great discovery of cause reveals that, good or bad, man is actually the arbiter of his own fate, and that it is his concept of himself that determines the world in which he lives. In other words, if you are experiencing ill health, knowing the truth about cause, you cannot attribute the illness to anything other than to the particular arrangement of the basic cause-substance, an arrangement which is defined by your concept ‘I am unwell.’ This is why you are told Let the weak man say, ‘I am strong’. Joel 3.10, for by his assumption, the cause-substance—‘I AM’—is rearranged and must, therefore, manifest that which its rearrangement affirms. This principle governs every aspect of your life, be it social, financial, intellectual or spiritual.

‘I AM’ is that reality to which, whatever happens, we must turn for an explanation of the phenomena of life. It is ‘I AM’s’ concept of itself that determines the form and scenery of its existence. Everything depends upon its attitude towards itself; that which it will not affirm as true of itself cannot awaken in its world. That is, your concept of yourself, such as I am strong, I am secure, I am loved, determines the world in which you live. In other words, when you say ‘I am a man, I am a father, I am an American,’ you are not defining different ‘I AMs’; you are defining different concepts or arrangements of the one cause-substance—the one ‘I AM.’ Even in the phenomena of nature, if the tree were articulate it would say ‘I am a tree, an apple tree, a fruitful tree.’

When you know that consciousness is the one and only reality—conceiving itself to be something good, bad or indifferent, and becoming that which it conceived itself to be—you are free from the tyranny of second causes, free from the belief that there are causes outside of your own mind that can affect your life.

In the state of consciousness of the individual is found the explanation of the phenomena of life. If man’s concept of himself were different, everything in his world would be different. His concept of himself being what it is, everything in his world must be as it is.

Thus it is abundantly clear that there is only one I AM and you are that I AM. And while I AM is infinite, you, by your concept of yourself, are displaying only a limited aspect of the infinite ‘I AM.’

"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,

As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast

Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!"

Chapter Two. Consciousness.

It is only by a change of consciousness, by actually changing your concept of yourself that you can build more stately mansions—the manifestations of higher and higher

Reviews for The Power of Awareness

[ionas_7 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Neville expalins how you can consciously create your future by visualization and the power of assumption - by assuming that your wish is fulfilled and feeling as you would, were it fulfilled. Great book. He has a high level of consciousness. The book may be thought old-fashioned, having many references to the Bible. It appears that the content of the Bible expresses spiritual truths about abundance, creating your own reality, etc. in the form of metaphors.