One of the most misinformed modern takes I hear about Neville Goddard is that you don't have to do anything to get your manifestation. Let me tell you that this is 100% incorrect. There are two places this rumour comes from: 1. Fake coaches trying to manipulate people into thinking they can get easy cash from performing a Neville-sounding technique. 2. The Power of Awareness taken out of context. In The Power of Awareness (always the second place of Neville's I point newbies to) Neville states: "The question is often asked, "What should be done between the assumption of the wish fulfilled and its realization?" "Nothing."" People inexperienced in The Law jump down my throat like rabid dogs when I say that it's not enough to do nothing and they quote this at me. The next line in the book is: "It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realization of your desire. You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually, you can do nothing." What Neville is saying is that once you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, it is done. You can't double do it. You can't make it happen because it's already happened. You make your bed in the morning. There is nothing you can do to double make it, it is already made. Regardless of the fact that he's spent 20 chapters before this quote telling you of the other things you must do to create change in conformity with your desire. People want to do nothing. That's just not enough. Assumption is action. Call it The Law of Action. It's not called The Law of Ass-Sitting.

Neville Goddard termed the practical use of Divine Imagination, The Law of Assumption. Divine Imagination is, in very basic terms, the True Reality, of which this mortal world is but a shadow. Whatsoever is created in Imagination, will manifest in this world. Neville spent decades trying to explain this to people who had no conception of it, and did a jolly good job. What he didn't do is foresee 21st Century Man. He could not have known how people would distort and bastardise his explanations. For they were explanations. He didn't create The Law of Assumption, he merely named it that. You might call it magic or miracles, but The Law of Assumption does something greater than bring you free goodies without doing all the work. Over time and iteration, it opens your awareness to Divine Imagination, the world of Life. Why did he call it, The Law of Assumption and why is that secretly confusing for people? Assumption has multiple meanings (Cambridge Dictionary): "a willingness to accept something as true without question or proof" We might call that Faith, the loyalty to your unseen (by mortal senses) reality and also "the act of taking control or claiming authority" The vast majority, know only the first definition and think that's what The Law of Assumption is all about. If you want a million dollars, you assume (believe without proof) you have it already and go about your business. All well and good. And then when nothing happens after an hour and a half, head to social media to complain that "I manifested being rich and I'm still poor". Using the first definition = correct, but using it without the second = incorrect. The Law of Assumption is the Law of Being. The Law of Becoming. Not only must you have unshakeable Faith, but you must dwell in the state of you that is rich. Asking "when" or "how" means you're fulfilling neither definition. I know many rich people. I come from a wealthy family. Not one rich person I know sits around drinking pina coladas and playing video games all day on a 90 inch TV with a butler bringing them bonbons. They ALL work a lot because they like being rich. They automatically fulfil both of the definitions of Assumption.

Three of the most pressing questions I witness all over social media are: 1. How do I start a Spiritual journey? 2. How do I manifest XYZ with The Law of Assumption? 3. How do I change my (money) thoughts? Instead of endlessly answering them, I thought I'd just make some free courses available to everyone...

As a child this passage, Mark 16:5-6, always confused me. Why would there be a young chap in the tomb acting in such a nonchalant fashion. And his words, "he is not here, behold the place where they laid him," were also confusing. As I grew and had the epiphany of The First Principle, it became clear. That young man is Jesus. The place he motions for them to behold, is not the tomb, but his own body. Neville, fascinatingly, confirmed this to me in his lecture, The Divine Body, "So, I meet them time and time again, and they are totally unaware. You know why? Because the world is just like this; you depart this world, and you are instantly restored in a body that is new – unaccountably new – in a world that is terrestrial just like this, in an environment best suited for the work yet to be done in you by He who started it." This is why I say, from experience, that THERE IS NO DEATH for the individual, but only for the observer. When you die, you are alive again, in an instant, and you do not know that you have died. You might look a lot like you and have similar opinions, and by the grace of your Imagination, you may be rich or poor or filled with the Spirit.

I saw a post on Social Media today about Robotic Affirmations. Like any technique, they're almost a total waste of time. Then again, you've got time. My answer, which I love, was that: "The only thing that manifests is Imagination. However else you think you're doing it, is absolutely fine." Manifestation works because our world is comprised of a single "substance," that is Spirit. This is The First Principle. Imagination manipulates Spirit. While this is reductive, it can only really be understood by lived experience, but understanding it is key. Whatever you do to create in Imagination is fine, but let's not mistake "techniques" for Cause. You are the Cause. The One Cause.