Feeling is the Secret
✍️ Goddard, NevilleAn unabridged hardcover edition of Neville Goddard's New Thought work on prayer, sleep, and spiritual law.
This Merchant Books edition offers the unaltered text of Neville Goddard's spiritual writing, including his original preface. Through four structured sections, Goddard focuses on biblical meditations and Old Testament principles to explain the relationship between internal feeling and practical spiritual growth. The work addresses foundational topics within New Thought, Christian living, and inspirational practice, keeping the author's precise chapter arrangement intact.
Sitting within the New Thought tradition, this work combines Christian living, inspirational thought, and Old Testament biblical meditations. It reflects Neville Goddard's specific approach to spiritual growth and practical metaphysics.
📝 Description: Feeling is the Secret
💎 Expert review
📖 Why choose it
Why this book is worth reading
This book is an essential guide for individuals who feel stuck in repetitive patterns or desire a tangible method to reshape their life circumstances. Readers will gain from Goddard’s clear instruction on how to leverage their subconscious mind as a creative engine, moving beyond passive wishing to active assumption. It offers profound empowerment to those seeking spiritual agency, showing that inner emotional states directly dictate outer reality. If you are ready to take responsibility for your manifestation process and understand the disciplined path of feeling your desires into existence, this foundational text provides the practical tools and philosophical grounding necessary for personal actualization and lasting change.
⭐ Reader reviews
Reader rating
Goddard delivers a concise yet potent treatise on the law of assumption, stripping away complexity to reveal the direct link between feeling and manifestation. While the prose is accessible and the concepts are revolutionary for many, this work does not suit readers seeking rigorous academic analysis or those skeptical of subjective spiritual experiences. It may also frustrate individuals who prefer complex metaphysical systems over direct, actionable advice. However, for the earnest seeker willing to engage with their own psychology, it remains an indispensable manual. The strength lies in its practicality; it is less about theory and more about doing. It demands a shift in perspective that some may find too simplistic, but for others, it is the missing key to unlocking their potential.
❓ Frequently asked questions
📖 Who should read this
If you're ready to move beyond superficial self-help and delve into the profound spiritual mechanics of creation, this book is for you. It's an indispensable guide for those seeking practical, transformative insights into the power of consciousness and emotion.
🎯 Key themes and symbolism
Feeling as Creative Force
Goddard argues convincingly that emotion, particularly the feeling of the wish fulfilled, is the ultimate creative power. This book teaches you to cultivate specific emotional states, not just thoughts, as the direct catalyst for manifesting your desires into physical experience, making your inner world the blueprint for your outer reality.
The Law of Assumption
This cornerstone concept reveals that by assuming the feeling of your desire already being true, you impress this reality upon the subconscious. Goddard provides clear methods for entering this state of assumption, emphasizing that it's not about making something happen, but about recognizing what already is in the unseen realm, then letting it unfold.
Prayer as Imaginal Act
Prayer, in Goddard's view, transcends mere supplication. It's an immersive, sensory experience where you consciously inhabit the state of your fulfilled desire. This book reframes prayer as a powerful imaginative act, a spiritual exercise in feeling and knowing, rather than begging an external deity, aligning with the very source of creation within.
📜 Historical context
📚 Glossary
- New Thought
- Law of Assumption
- Imaginal Act
📔 Questions to reflect on
- Reflect on a past experience where an intense feeling or assumption seemed to directly precede a significant event in your life, whether positive or negative.
- Choose one desire you hold. How would it truly feel if that desire were already a living, breathing reality? Describe that feeling in vivid detail.
- Consider your daily emotional patterns. Are they aligned with the reality you wish to create? What small shifts can you make to cultivate more harmonious feelings?
