Neville Goddard’s teachings can feel simple… but also challenging. I’m curious — how do you personally experience them? Do they feel natural, confronting, empowering, or confusing? Drop your honest thoughts below — no “right” answers, just real experiences.

I’ve been sitting with this for a while, and the more I look at it, the more it makes sense to me. Neville’s idea of a “state” and what we now call the nervous system are describing the same thing — just from different angles. Neville spoke about states of consciousness. Modern psychology speaks about nervous system states. Different language. Same mechanism. A state, in Neville’s terms, isn’t something you think your way into. It’s the position you live from. It’s: – how safe or unsafe you feel – what feels possible or impossible – what reactions are automatic – what feels normal for you That’s not logic. That’s the body. You don’t choose a state intellectually. You inhabit it physiologically. This is where one of Neville’s lines finally clicked for me: “You cannot assume being something you are not aware of being.” If your nervous system is in: – fight or flight → danger feels real – freeze → collapse and hopelessness – fawn → people-pleasing and self-abandonment then the state you’re occupying is survival. Trying to assume “I am secure” from there isn’t a failure of faith or belief. It’s a biological mismatch. Neville said an assumption must feel natural to be accepted. Natural doesn’t mean positive. It means regulated. This is also why SATS works. The state akin to sleep: – slows the body – reduces vigilance – quiets the old identity – softens the sense of “me” Neville didn’t say “regulate your vagus nerve.” He said “enter stillness.” Same doorway. And yes — even if we accept the truth that we are God experiencing itself, consciousness still chose to experience through human bodies. Being God doesn’t cancel biology. It moves through it. We don’t bypass the nervous system by declaring truth. We embody truth through it. That’s why jumping from: “I am unsafe” straight into “I am abundant and relaxed” usually doesn’t work. The system doesn’t trust it. Neville actually implied bridge states when he spoke about persisting in assumptions that feel natural. Natural might be: “I’m allowed to relax.” “Nothing is required of me right now.” “Support exists.”