Scrying: Neville Goddard’s Technique

What This Technique Is

Scrying is look through surfaces with the inner eye. This guide consolidates 2 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

• Inner Eye
• Fiery Chariot
• Contemplative Thought
• Consciousness
• Out-of-Body
• Imagined World
• Separation from External Self
• Inner eye
• Perception
• Man as God

Neville’s Source-Grounded Explanation

A technique where one's 'inner eye' opens to perceive an imagined world, and then consciousness, propelled by 'fiery chariot of contemplative thought,' moves into that world, experiencing it as a fully real, three-dimensional environment with a corresponding body, while the physical body remains in a sleep-like state.

— Enter The Dream

This technique involves focusing one's attention 'through' physical objects, not merely at them, using the 'inner eye' to perceive the underlying reality of Man (God) in everything. It's a practice to transcend the outer sensory world.

— Follow The Pattern

Neville’s Words

Many times while sitting in my chair or lying on my bed, my inner eye has opened and I have seen what no mortal eye could see. Then I would enter into the image by allowing my consciousness to move on its fiery chariot of contemplative thought. Clothed as I am, the world calls me Neville; but I - a conscious being have moved out of this body and into a world which instantly clothed itself around me; and I explored that world, clothed in a body just as solidly real as the one I left on the bed or chair. If anyone had entered the room they would have thought Neville was sleeping; yet I was fully awake, consciously aware of being separated from my external self.

— Enter The Dream

Every day, with my old friend Abdullah I would practice this art. At dinner he would ask me to look at the lampshade. He didn’t mean for me to see the lampshade - anyone can do that - but to focus my attention through it. Looking beyond, I would see living, breathing human faces. Other times he would ask me to look at a car, a house, a wall - not with my outer eyes but with my inner eye; and when I did, I would always see Man.

— Follow The Pattern

Biblical Foundations

Neville’s methods are grounded throughout his psychological reading of scripture. Use the linked source lectures above to follow the complete argument.

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

1. Sit or lie down until the inner eye opens and you see an image or world.
2. Allow your consciousness to move into that image, using contemplative thought as the 'fiery chariot'.
3. Experience yourself clothed in a body within that new world, as real as your physical body.
4. Explore the new world while being fully awake and consciously aware, even if your physical body appears to be sleeping.
5. Choose a physical object (e.g., lampshade, car, house, wall).
6. Do not look at it with your outer eyes in the usual way.
7. Focus your attention 'through' the object, using your inner eye.
8. Perceive the living, breathing human faces or the essence of Man within and beyond the object.

Read the Complete Sources

• Enter The Dream
• Follow The Pattern