Prayer: The Art of Believing; includes The Search
About this ebook
This slender, immensely powerful volume collects two of Neville Goddard’s (1905-1972) most direct statements on using the reality-shaping capacities of your mind: Prayer: The Art of Believing (1945) and The Search (1946).
Both works were written at the peak of the teacher’s career and each is simultaneously visionary and ardently practical.
In Prayer (1945), Neville teaches how to move from the practice of “vain repetitions” to the feeling state or controlled reverie that ensures the arrival of your wishes.
The master mystic describes not only how prayer works but why it works: whatever the psyche believes must correspond to what the seeker experiences in outer life. “Assume the mood of fulfilled desire,” Neville writes, “and by the universal law of reversibility you will realize your desire.”
The art of prayer is simple—yet explosive: “The seemingly harmless habit of ‘talking to yourself’ is the most fruitful form of prayer . . . Man creates himself out of his own imagination.”
In The Search, Neville describes how he came to realize the extraordinary creative powers of the mind—and how these abilities are the birthright of all people. In Neville’s discovery, you may find your own.
This volume also includes fully corrected and updated versions of occult scholar Mitch Horowitz’s biographical essay on Neville, “Chariot of Fire,” and his timeline of Neville’s life. “In my study of different occult and mystical systems,” Mitch writes, “. . . the most impactful, elegant, simplest, and dramatically powerful figure I have come across is Neville Goddard.” In the span of a single sitting, this volume can completely reorient and reinvigorate your life.
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About the author
Neville Lancelot Goddard, simply known as Neville, was born in Barbados, West Indies on Feb. 19, 1905. He came to the United States in 1922 and enjoyed a career in the theatre. His interest in mysticism grew as did his esoteric interpretations of the Bible. He studied with a man named Abdullah for many years, learning Hebrew and delving deeply into the hidden symbolic meaning of the Kabbalah and scripture. Neville began lecturing and travelled throughout the United Sates, making his home In Los Angeles. Just as Seth gave us the immortal words, “You create your own reality,” Neville has told us how with his spectacular phrase, “Imagining creates reality.” What a gift to humankind! He also translates the Bible in a new light, explaining how the stories and parables are psychological dramas representing our consciousness. That all of its characters and actors are personified qualities and attributes of our consciousness. Neville passed on Oct. 1, 1972
One of today’s most acclaimed voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult, Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian whose books include Occult America, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Modern Occultism, Happy Warriors, and Practical Magick. A former vice president at Penguin Random House, Mitch has written on alternative spirituality for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Time, and The Wall Street Journal. A frequent presence in national media, Mitch hosts Discovery/HBO Max’s Alien Encounters; plays himself in Shudder’s V/H/S/Beyond, a 2025 Critics Choice Award nominee for Best Movie Made for Television; and hosts SpectreVision’s podcast Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real. His work is censored in China.
