Walking Outside: Neville Goddard’s Technique

What This Technique Is

Walking Outside is imagine a place from within, then verify it. 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

• Imaginal Act
• Sensory Vividness
• Feeling Natural
• Bridge of Incidents
• imaginal travel
• shifting awareness
• desired location
• sensory vividness
• falling asleep in the wish fulfilled

Neville’s Source-Grounded Explanation

To 'prepare a place' means to mentally occupy a desired location or state, assuming you are already there, feeling its reality, and perceiving the world from that new perspective. Persist in this assumption until it feels natural, even if physical senses deny it.

— Faith

To manifest travel or a change of location, imagine yourself physically present in the desired location. Engage your senses to make the experience vivid and real (e.g., feeling objects, seeing landmarks). Persist in falling asleep in this imagined location, experiencing the joy of 'being' there.

— The Law And The Promise

Neville’s Words

So, I can go and prepare a place. So, I tried it. I tried assuming that I am where reason would deny it, my senses deny it, but I remained in that state until it seemed natural to me, just seemed natural. Well, then, I went there. And, then, I opened my eyes upon the world that I had shut out, and it was a shock to find myself back in the chair. ... Barbados, where I was born, is a little tropical island in the West Indies, and I assumed that I was actually on my bed in my mother’s home that I knew and loved so well. And to prove that I was actually there, I just imagined the world relative to that position. I saw the world – not from my place in New York City, I saw it from Barbados. So, mentally I saw the world as I would see it if I were in Barbados. I thought of my place in New York City, and I saw it two thousand miles to the north of me. I thought of other places, and they were all related to where I am assuming that I am, and I fell asleep in that assumption.

— Faith

Soon after our marriage, my husband and I decided that our greatest joint desire was a year in Europe. This objective may seem reasonable to a lot of people, but to us—tied to a narrow sphere of limited finances—it seemed not only unreasonable but completely ridiculous. Europe might as well have been another planet. But I had heard your teaching, so I persisted in falling asleep in England! Why England necessarily, I cannot tell, except that I had seen a current motion picture featuring the area around Buckingham Palace and had promptly fallen in love with the scene. All I did in my imagination was to stand quietly outside the great iron gates and feel the cold metal bars gripped tightly in my hands as I viewed the Palace. For many, many nights I felt an intense joy at 'being' there and fell asleep in this happy state.

— The Law And The Promise

Biblical Foundations

• Study John 14:1 in its full Biblical context on YHWSA.com

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. Choose a desired location or state you wish to experience.
2. Close your physical eyes and imagine yourself physically present in that location.
3. Engage all your senses: feel the warmth, detect the odors, see the surroundings from that perspective.
4. Mentally orient yourself by perceiving other known locations relative to your assumed position.
5. Persist in this imaginal act until it feels completely natural and real.
6. Fall asleep in this assumption, if possible, to deepen its impression on the subconscious.
7. Identify the desired travel destination.
8. In your imagination, place yourself physically in that location.
9. Engage your senses: see the sights, feel the textures, hear the sounds.
10. Experience the emotions of being there, particularly joy.

Read the Complete Sources

• Faith
• The Law And The Promise