Neville Goddard’s approach to faith was unconventional, yet rooted in the Bible...
Views of Christianity, and how they affect the project of assimilating Neville’s ideas.
1. Types of religion for types of persons
2. Comparing methods and religions is a matter of balance
3. Self-change involves challenging identity
4. Neville’s explanation of Christianity
5. Objections by conventional church-going Christians and even many non-religious persons
6. Further objections: Neville’s thought is misguided, a faulty interpretation against historical authority
7. What is the standard of personal truth?
8. Further objections: self deception via evil entities
Summary and Conclusion
Neville, it appears, was the recipient of an underground current of psychological thought, enhanced by his own mystical revelations, not to mention his diligence in reading, rereading and practically memorizing all 66 books of the Bible -- all the while checking translations and commentaries. The result was his intuitive discovery of the blueprint for self change. He showed people how to extricate themselves from self-imposed persecutions in order to achieve what they had thought was impossible, against reason, against the social order, against the economic order, and against the laws of probability.
KEY QUOTE
“We fight for our opinions, not because we believe them, but because they involve the ordinary feeling of oneself.” (Maurice Nicoll Living Time)
RESOURCES
UPDATE: Credit goes to Jordan Maxwell (inadvertently edited out of the audio) for expose of thick pagan overlay in present day Christianity, and for investigating the etymology of the word “church”.
The Naked Truth - critical survey of conventional religion.
Keys to Understanding the Hidden Symbols in the Bible - discusses the origin of the familiar waving of hands in Christian churches.
Matrix of Power - expose of political and institutional power.
Nicoll, Maurice (1952) Living Time and the Integration of the Life
British psychologist, exponent of C.G. Jung and Fourth Way; published interpretations of Scripture.
G.R.S. Mead (1900) Fragments of a Faith Forgotten(1900)
On the Gnostics.
John Hus
(Movie, 1977) Dramatization of life of 15thC cleric who defied the church.
