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Fact-Checking a Neville Goddard Manifestation Success Story: Danny Hart, Gloria Wood, and the White House
Some Neville Goddard manifestation stories seem impossible to confirm until you dig deep enough into the archives. In 1966, Neville shared the story of a minister named Danny, a deliberate imaginal exercise, and a famous Hollywood singer who miraculously helped him produce a record. We went looking for the historical proof. Not only did we find the minister and his cult-classic blue vinyl album, but we also uncovered a bizarre twist: the record eventually found its way into the White House.
How a 12th-Century Sufi Poem Found Its Way into Neville Goddard’s Lectures
Neville Goddard frequently shared literary works to illuminate our true nature and the illusion of physical death. One of his references is Sir Edwin Arnold’s, After Death in Arabia. In this post, we explore the deep spiritual meaning behind the verse Neville loved, the story of uncovering the authentic text, and the original poem in its entirety.
Abdullah Was One Man: G. Mahmud Ahmad Abdoullah (Modeste Guillaume), Neville Goddard’s Mentor | Cool Wisdom Books
Abdullah was one man. Cool Wisdom Books shows G. Mahmud Ahmad Abdoullah (Modeste Guillaume) was Neville Goddard’s mystical mentor. Federal copyrights, the Houdini certificate, and one shared secretary prove G. Mahmud Ahmad Abdoullah was Neville Goddard’s real mentor.
An Interview with Neville Marc Berle: The Boy in Neville Goddard’s Prophecy (Video)
Recently, we published a written interview with Neville Marc Berle, Neville Goddard’s namesake and godson. During our discussion, he shared some wonderful stories and personal history that didn’t make it into the final written text. Here are the video clips.
Neville Goddard’s Abdullah: The 1909 Turban Photo Portraits and Historical Timeline Recap
For decades, the historical identity of Neville Goddard’s mentor, Abdullah, has been debated. This timeline recap unites newly recovered 1909 turban photographs of Dr. Modeste Abda’llah Guillaume / G. Mahmud Ahmad Abdoullah with U.S. federal records, Broadway archives to present a definitive history of the Pan-African mystic.
Neville Goddard’s Teacher Abdullah: Original Copyright Cards for Abdullah’s Books
Take a gentle visual tour of the newly arrived copyright cards for Abdullah’s books, tracing Neville Goddard’s teacher in history.
An Interview with Neville Marc Berle: The Boy in Neville Goddard’s Prophecy
Decades ago, mystic Neville Goddard prophesied about a boy who would be born spiritually awake – his namesake and godson, Neville Marc Berle. Goddard often used the Berle family’s success to illustrate his teachings on manifestation. In this exclusive interview, Neville Marc shares his story.
The Day Neville Goddard Exposed Famous Psychic Arthur Ford: The Séance and the Phosphorus on the Rug
Did Neville Goddard expose celebrity psychic Arthur Ford? From the televised frenzy of Bishop Pike’s séances to chemical “spirit lights” on a Riverside Drive carpet, discover the incredible, newly proven historical intersection of Arthur Ford, Frank Decker, and Neville’s mentor, Abdullah
Neville Goddard Hotel Lobby Ambush: Winifred MacCardell Flood’s 80-Year-Old Sex Bragging & “Just Trash” “Revelation” Book
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Before the Mysticism: Neville Goddard & Amerique “Stopped the Show” in the Summer of 1927
Discover the untold story of Neville Goddard’s grueling 1927 summer operetta run in Atlanta. Newly unearthed newspaper clippings reveal his forgotten past as a show-stopping dancer with his partner, Jeannette “Amerique” Johnson.
The “Lost” First Publication of Neville Goddard – “Ask of Me”
Many believe Neville Goddard’s publishing career began in 1941 with the hefty, 171-page book called Your Faith Is Your Fortune, issued under his own imprint at the Hotel Hargrave. Others believe (Cool Wisdoms Books included)… 50 pages is a book and enough to say his first book was At Your Command in 1939 . But if we leave behind the semantics of what is considered a “book” Neville’s “publishing history” is overturned by a newly discovered paper trail of historical records. Neville’s publishing legacy didn’t start with his massive self-published triumph. It started with a 5-to-21-page paperbound pamphlet titled “Ask of Me,” priced at a 50 cents (approx. $11.50 in today’s dollars).
Changing Channels in the Underworld: Neville, Crowley & Abdullah’s Secret Grimoires
Explore the intersection of New Thought and occult history as we examine the 3D world as the “Underworld” of finished forms. Using recent historical research into Abdullah’s background with grimoire traditions and insights from the Rune Soup podcast, this article investigates the choice between believing appearances and listening to the Divine Voice.
Why Did Neville Goddard Mention Blake So Much?
If you listen to Neville Goddard’s lectures, you will inevitably hear him quote the 18th-century poet William Blake. But Blake wasn’t just an artist to Neville; he was a prophet who had accurately mapped the human psyche. Discover the historical pipeline from Emanuel Swedenborg to Blake to Neville, and how Blake’s cryptic, radical visions of the “Human Imagination” were translated into a practical instruction manual for the Law
Historical Photographs of Dr. Modeste Abda’llah Guillaume (Abdullah): Neville Goddard’s Teacher
For decades, the true face of Neville Goddard’s teacher, Abdullah, has been shrouded in mystery and myth. Explore this exclusive archive of authentic, minimally restored historical photographs of Dr. Modeste Abda’llah Guillaume. These rare clippings are the only reliable representations of the man behind the legend, carefully preserved to protect the historical record
The Real Tantric Physics of Neville Goddard: The British Judge and Bengali Scholars
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Ernest Holmes and the $25 Paranoia: What Drove Neville Goddard and Frederick Bailes Out of Religious Science
Who were the “Head” and “Fred” in Neville Goddard’s 1945 clash? Discover how federal indictments and the $25 paranoia drove Neville away from Ernest Holmes.
The Finances of Neville Goddard: What He Charged for Lectures and Why He Never Charged for Private Interviews
It’s easy to look at the Goddard family empire and assume Neville was just a spoiled heir who found a comfortable way to talk about manifestation. If you’re looking for a reason to dismiss the work, the inheritance is a perfect exit ramp. But when you look at the 1922–1972 audit, the Broadway earnings, the 7-year ‘basement’ apprenticeship, and the 1959 timeline…
The Music of “The Law”: How Abdullah Encoded Neville Goddard’s Teaching in Nine Lost Songs of 1935
In our ongoing investigation into Neville Goddard’s teacher, Abdullah, we’ve just uncovered one of the most important pieces of evidence yet: nine copyright registrations from 1935, all listing 30 West 72nd Street as his address.
The Abdullah Investigation: The Hidden Teacher of Neville Goddard – Part 4: Abdullah Identified – The Baritone Mystic of Atlantic City and 30 West 72nd Street
This chapter presents the first documented trail of Abdullah, the teacher Neville Goddard called his “old friend.” Through advertisements, census records, and church filings in Atlantic City, we can identify him as Dr. Modeste Abda’llah Guillaume, a North African baritone who directed a Bel Canto studio, founded a metaphysical church, and taught the “mystery books of Moses.” His disappearance from the Atlantic City press in October 1923 coincides with the purchase of 30 West 72nd Street in New York by another Lamperti-line baritone, W. Henri Zay. By the early 1930s, the same address appears in Neville’s recollections, where Abdullah was teaching Bible mysticism and taking his student to Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera.
Abdullah, Lurianic Kabbalah, and the Missing Half of Neville Goddard’s Teaching
The missing element for many Neville readers is tikkun, the repair and purification of imagination and emotion that explains why some manifestations succeed, others collapse, and why the Law and the Promise were never meant to be separated.
The Abdullah Investigation: The Hidden Teacher of Neville Goddard – Part 3: Mokomba, Mahalla & the Names That Vanish
Was Abdullah—Neville Goddard’s mysterious teacher—an Ethiopian Jew shaped by hidden migrations through Egypt? This chapter traces mythic names, vanishing colonies, and Afro-Judaic crossroads from Mahalla al-Kubra to New York, uncovering the diasporic trail of a man fluent in Hebrew and Kabbalah, yet absent from every archive.
Race & Gender: The SF Metaphysical Bookshop’s Role in Early 20th-Century New Thought History
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The Abdullah Investigation: The Hidden Teacher of Neville Goddard – Part 2: Obelisks, Lodges & Ethiopian Mystics
The wandering figures profiled here—scribes, sailors, fraudsters, Masons—occupy a twilight zone between history and myth. They were laughed at, imprisoned, honored, and recorded. Some passed Masonic tests and Torah exams. Others faltered under scrutiny. But together, they formed an overlooked substratum of the American metaphysical scene.
Before Abdullah taught Neville in 1930s New York, men who spoke Hebrew and claimed ancient lineage were already moving through ports, temples, and lodges. Their legacy is not proof—but it is prelude.
And somewhere between Mockombar and Harlem, obelisks and synagogues, deception and devotion, the shape of a teacher begins to form.
The Abdullah Investigation: The Hidden Teacher of Neville Goddard – Part 1: Harlem’s Secret Fire — Esoteric Currents of the 1920s–30s
Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was a ferment of religious innovation, esoteric experimentation, and Black intellectual renaissance. Within this climate, spiritual teachers, mystics, rabbis, Freemasons, Theosophists, and metaphysical lecturers shared halls, disciples, and occasionally doctrines. This section includes all major figures and movements active in Harlem’s spiritual/esoteric scene, their affiliations, beliefs, and potential relevance to Abdullah.
The Curious Case of the Book “The Message of a Master”: John McDonald, Anna Deo, and the Grapevine of New Thought
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“Revelations on The Book of Revelation” – Winifred Maccardell Flood (1952) – Neville Goddard and Abdullah Student
DR. FLOOD first became interested in divine metaphysics in 1937, through the efforts of Dr. Emmett Fox. She knew Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity School of Christianity, and took all…
Rosicrucian Societies in NYC (1921–1933)
During the 1920s and early 1930s, New York City was home to several active Rosicrucian societies. This era between World War I and World War II was a “bubbling cauldron…
Neville Goddard Student: “Lesson on Living in the End” By Jean-Claude
With permission by Jean-Claude I have received many questions from fellow students asking what Neville meant when he advised us to ‘live in the end’ or ‘think from the end’…
Joseph Murphy Tells His Story to Bernard Cantin: English Translation (Neville Goddard & Abdullah)
Read the ongoing English translation of Bernard Cantin’s 1987 interviews with Joseph Murphy. This deep-dive archival analysis separates historical fact from fiction regarding Ann Mussmann, the Cambridge myth, and Murphy’s supposed connection to Neville Goddard’s teacher, Abdullah.
Neville Goddard Student: Free Will, Boss Gods, And A Manifesting Technique By Chuck Stockdale
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Neville Goddard Student: Imagination Active – Handle With Care By Tom Murphy
Thomas Murphy is a writer with a deep interest in the power of imagination and the energy systems of the body. Pragmatic by nature he is disinclined to take anyone’s…
Neville Goddard Student: Getting Results! By Jean-Claude
Found in the archives Getting Results! By Jean-Claude I would like to share with you my experience with the Law as taught by Neville. First of all, I will boldly…
Physicist Samuel Bousky “The Creative Law” (Qabalah) – Neville Goddard Student
For those of you when reading Neville’s lectures find his references to the Hebrew Alphabet (Qabalah, Kabbalah, Cabala which he learned from Abdullah) somewhat frustrating and unintelligible, I came across…
Neville Goddard in Prologue to William Walker Atkinson’s The Arcane Teaching with Formulas By JT Thayer
Found this intro would be a good recap for readers new to Neville’s teachings it is a kind of chronology in a nutshell. It is the prologue to William Walker…
Neville Goddard Research: Neville & Amerique – Broadway Shows and Theaters
All the venues and broadway show Neville Goddard and Amerique performed in New York
Neville Goddard Research: Rev. Frederick Eikerenkoetter, Jr (Rev. Ike) and Neville Goddard
According to a Harvard Divinity School professor, it appears that Rev. Ike (Rev. Frederick Eikerenkoetter, Jr) acknowledged he was influenced by Neville Goddard.
Transcript Of “Freedom On The Beach” Lecture Presented By Freedom Barry Held At Cambria, Ca On Sept. 14-15, 1996
Recovered from the internet archives Freedom Barry was born on March 28, 1921 in East Parsonsfield, Maine. Freedom, as his given name, came to typify the Truth of his journey…
“Chinese Box” Articles on Neville Goddard
I came across James O’Meara’s writings on Academia.edu and his essay Magick for Housewives: The Not-So-New, and Rather Traditional, Thought of Neville Goddard – just the footnotes alone are a delightful feast for any Neville scholar.
Neville Goddard, Rod Serling and Lucille Ball: Is the Imagination of Popular Writers Creating Our Reality?
She interviews a man named John Reszetylo who attended a Neville Lecture with Lucille Ball and Rod Serling when he was 4 years old.
30 W 72nd Street: Henri Zay, The Anthroposophical Society, Neville Goddard and the Search for Abdullah
Henri Zay and Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard Research: “What is The Divine Society. Infinite Might and Down with the Bluebloods?”
“In understanding Neville’s life and work, it is important to realize that his thought significantly broadened after 1959, a year that opened him to a series of mystical awakenings.
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The Candle of Vision by AE (George William Russell) [1918] – Read for Free
The Candle of Vision describes Russells’ luminous excursions into the otherworld, including clairvoyant and prophetic visions, precognition of Gnostic concepts, past-life and astral journeys, and, always, heightened awareness of the beauty that pervades mundane reality
American Mystic A. Ramana’s Meeting with Neville Goddard
This is an excerpt from the book “American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man” the chapter where he meet Neville Goddard
Joe Pyne Show: Episodes with Neville Goddard?
Found on WayBack Machine Keeping on blog in case anyone is researching to find the episodes Neville Goddard was on. See post American Mystic A. Ramana’s Meeting with Neville Goddard…
Neville Goddard & Edward Douglas Fawcett in “Fawcett’s Letter”
That’s why the great old man Fawcett, whom I quoted in my latest book, he said, “The greatest of all secrets is this great secret of imagining.” If one could…
Neville Goddard’s “Smell the Money” $$$ Manifestation Techniques
Using your sense of smell and the odor of money and odor in general as an aid for the manifestation of money. The science behind scent and its spiritual connection.
Neville Goddard On Artists Max Beckmann & William Blake: “Man is Not A Worm”
“But man is so conditioned to believe he is a little worm that you approach it from that angle. You and I are the God transforming man into our image, into our likeness.”
A New Take on “Scripting the Life You Want” — Sierpiński Triangle, RAS & Randonauting
Leading-edge book on scripting the life you want, Sierpiński Triangle, Chaos Game, Donald Hoffman, Reticular Activating System (RAS) and Neville Goddard
The Mystic and the Physicist: Neville Goddard, Richard Feynman “Creation Is Finished”
You aren’t called upon to make the things. All things already are. The whole, vast creation is already finished; I am only becoming aware of it. Any state that I can imagine can be occupied.
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Transcript Of “Freedom On The Beach” Lecture By Freedom Barry [Neville Goddard]
Transcript Of “Freedom On The Beach” Lecture Presented By Freedom Barry Held At Cambria, Ca On Sept. 14-15, 1996 THIRD SECTION ABOUT NEVILLE Plato’s remarks that: “Time is the moving…
10 Neville Goddard “Manifesting” Techniques and Variations
10 Neville Goddard “Manifesting” Techniques and Variations. SATS, revision, “I remember when”, congratulations and eavesdropping, here are a few alternates and/or variations on those basic techniques.
Alys Bentley, Studio 61 Carnegie Hall – Ouspensky, Gurdjieff and Orage – Neville Goddard Research
In one of Neville Goddard Lectures: “His Eternal Play”, he mentions a success story of a friend of his Alice Bentley or for short Ali-Ben. Ali he says had a space in Carneige Hall in New York which she rented out to people like Ouspensky and Gurdjieff. This is Alys E. Bentley (c.1869-1951)
About Abdullah: “The Wall Street Priest David B” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #3
Neville’s friend the Catholic priest David( who lost two million on Wall Street), who introduced Neville to Abdullah in comparison to John McDonald’s “Message from a Master” Wall Street David B_ who also lost his money on Wall Street.
John McDonald: “The Message of a Master” (1929)
Read for Free: John McDonald The Message of a Master is the story of a seemingly miraculous change that takes place in a man after he meets a true master of life.
Margaret Ruth Broome: Neville Goddard “The Man Who Knew He Was God”
It’s been almost twenty years since I sat in the auditorium of the Women’s Club in Los Angeles, California and watched a man in a grey pinstriped suit walk out on the stage and take his place behind the podium where many tape recorders were placed across the stage.
“Abdullah’s Real Name” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #2
Research about the Ethiopian rabbi Abdullah who Neville Goddard studied with for seven years in the 1930s in New York City
“About Abdullah” Neville Goddard Research (New York) Part #1
Research about the Ethiopian rabbi Abduullah who Neville Goddard studied with for seven years in the 1930s in New York City
How She Used Neville Goddard’s Teachings to “Attract” Mystic Author Carlos Castaneda
Excerpt from Margaret Runyan Castaneda‘s memoir, A Magical Journey with Carlos Castaneda. She mentions how she used Neville Goddard’s teachings to “demonstrate” mystic author Carlos Castaneda as her future “husband” partner.
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