Revision: Neville Goddard’s Technique
What This Technique Is
Revision is rewrite a past moment. This guide consolidates 14 independently extracted appearances across Neville Goddard’s lectures and books into one authoritative practice page. Repeated variations remain attached to their original sources instead of becoming hundreds of competing pages.
Key Concepts
- Ignoring Facts
- Going to the End
- Imagination
- Revision
- Manifestation
- Inner Speech
- World as Mirror
- Causation within
- Freedom
- Possession
Neville’s Source-Grounded Explanation
To change an undesirable state, completely ignore the current facts of reality that contradict your desire. Instead, go directly to the 'end' in your imagination, experiencing the desired outcome as already fulfilled, and remain in that imaginative state.
— All Powerful Human Words
When faced with an undesirable situation involving another person, instead of giving advice or trying to change them externally, mentally imagine yourself as being free from that undesirable state or situation. Since the world reflects your inner thoughts, this will cause a change in the external reality.
— All That You Behold
To retain possessions or prevent loss, do not rely on external means or physical security. Instead, hold onto them firmly in your imagination, maintaining the inner conviction of their presence and ownership. Any loss is attributed to a prior, even fleeting, assumption of loss.
— All That You Behold
Revision is the practice of mentally replaying a past event or conversation, altering it in imagination to align with a desired outcome, and experiencing the emotional thrill of the revised event as if it truly happened. This act changes the past in one's consciousness, thereby changing its future effects.
— All Things Exist
When faced with an undesirable past event or problem, imagine that it never happened or that it was resolved. This involves mentally creating a scene that implies the desired outcome or the absence of the problem, and dwelling in it until the outer world adjusts to this revised inner state.
— An Inner Conviction
Revision is the practice of reviewing one's day in imagination, identifying any displeasing or imperfect incidents, and mentally rewriting and re-experiencing them as ideal. This process, done repeatedly until it feels real, prevents past undesirable events from perpetuating into the future and instead brings about corresponding positive changes in the outer world. It is based on the principle of not letting the "sun go down upon your wrath" by refusing to accept negative facts as final.
— Awakened Imagination
Neville’s Words
Now, learn to change it! Ignore it completely, and go to the end where it has been changed – like: so he took the piano, maybe he sold it. Maybe he burned it, but I am going to hear him [Freedom] play the most glorious instrument and so enjoy it. So, I ignore the facts of life – completely ignore the facts, and go in my imagination to the end as I want it to be and there I will see it. I tell you, this is profoundly spiritual and so directly practical!
— All Powerful Human Words
If your son wants to grow a beard, let him. If he doesn't want to grow up, don't try to give him all of your 'good' advice; simply leave him alone, and in your own wonderful way imagine you are free of that state, for the world belongs to you and it is always expressing your inner thoughts.
— All That You Behold
Don't hold onto anything on the outside; hold on only in your imagination. If something is taken from you, it is because at one time you assumed its loss and - for a moment - wondered what you would do if it were. You forgot the thought, but its message had already been released to fulfill itself. If you want to keep your possessions, you must hold onto them in your imagination and not build barns to house them.
— All That You Behold
Scripture urges us to revise, to forgive, and change our thoughts, thereby changing the conditions of our life. This is how it is done. A friend recently wrote saying: “Three weeks ago a friend called, saying he was afraid he was going to be fired. I instantly revised his call. Hearing his voice bubbling with excitement, he told me how he had been praised for his work and I felt the thrill of rejoicing with him. Today he came to my office and said the very words I heard in my imagination.
— All Things Exist
Another letter came, telling of how this lady spent the day working on her husband’s books. She was so very tired that as she fell asleep, she said: “Father, I cannot take every aspect of the day and change it, but I can imagine that it never happened.” So she began to create a scene which would imply that all the problems of the day were resolved, when out of the nowhere she saw an enormous scene of mountains clothed with magnificent trees. As she watched, she discovered that her mental activity caused the trees to move. And that the world pictured on the outside adjusted itself to be in harmony with her thoughts.
— An Inner Conviction
Biblical Foundations
Common Misunderstandings
This is not a collection of unrelated “hacks.” The extracted variations describe applications of the same underlying discipline: a change of consciousness precedes a change in experience. The source links preserve the context in which Neville taught each variation.
How to Practice
- Identify the current undesirable state or 'facts of life'.
- Consciously choose to ignore these contradictory facts.
- In imagination, move directly to the 'end' where your desire is already fulfilled.
- Experience this imagined end with all your senses and feelings.
- Persist in this imaginative state until it feels real and natural.
- Identify an undesirable situation or state involving another person.
- Refrain from giving external advice or attempting to control the other person.
- In your imagination, vividly experience yourself as being completely free from that undesirable state.
- Maintain this inner feeling of freedom, knowing the world will reflect your inner change.
- Identify possessions you wish to keep or prevent losing.
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