GODDARD - THE POWER OF AWARENESS: Mastering Success Through Assumption - Neville Goddard (1952)

(00:00:00) 1. I AM (00:04:59) 2. Consciousness (00:09:10) 3. Power of Assumption (00:14:22) 4. Desire (00:17:06) 5. The Truth That Sets You Free (00:21:40) 6. Attention (00:25:51) 7. Attitude (00:32:25) 8. Renunciation (00:35:14) 9. Preparing Your Place (00:38:41) 10. Creation (00:41:38) 11. Interference (00:44:06) 12. Subjective Control (00:46:13) 13. Acceptance (00:49:53) 14. The Effortless Way (00:52:37) 15. The Crown of the Mysteries (00:54:27) 16. Personal Impotence (00:55:49) 17. All Things Are Possible (00:58:27) 18. Be Ye Doers (01:01:29) 19. Essentials (01:05:54) 20. Righteousness (01:09:33) 21. Free Will (01:15:08) 22. Persistence (01:19:37) 23. Case Histories (01:47:31) 24. Failure (01:52:16) 25. Faith (01:56:42) 26. Destiny (01:58:32) 27. Reverence THE POWER OF AWARENESS: Mastering Success Through Assumption - Neville Goddard (1952).The Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard, first published in 1952, is one of the most profound guides to the Law of Assumption in metaphysical literature. In this concise yet powerful book, Goddard reveals that consciousness is the only reality and the creative force behind all human experience. Your outer world — success, health, relationships, and circumstances — is simply a mirror of your inner state of awareness and your concept of self. Drawing on biblical passages interpreted psychologically, Goddard shows that “I AM” is the divine name of God within you — the unchanging awareness of being. By deliberately changing your self-concept through disciplined imagination and the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can transform your life. The book rejects external causes and empowers you to become the conscious creator of your reality. Creation is already finished; manifestation happens when you assume the desired state as already real and persist until it hardens into fact. This 27-chapter masterpiece offers a complete system for success through the power of awareness.1. I AM :The book opens with the foundational truth: “I AM” is the self-definition of God and the eternal center of consciousness. No matter what concepts you hold (rich/poor, healthy/ill), the awareness of simply being remains unchanged. Your concept of self determines your world because consciousness is the only substance, rearranged by your assumptions. Goddard urges readers to leave the mirror (external appearances) and change their face (inner concept). Key quote: “Let the weak man say, ‘I am strong’” (Joel 3:10). This chapter liberates the reader from victimhood by revealing that you are the operant power. 2. Consciousness:   Consciousness is the one and only reality—the first cause-substance from which all phenomena arise. Nothing exists for you except through your awareness of it. The world is not separate from you; it is a projection of your consciousness. Differences in experience come from arrangements of the same mind-substance, like a magnetized versus demagnetized piece of steel. Health, wealth, and circumstances are not created but manifested by your concept of self. Turn from objective appearances to the subjective center—your own awareness—to master life. 3. Power of Assumption:  Man’s chief delusion is believing in causes outside his own consciousness. All experience flows from your state of consciousness (what you think, desire, believe, and consent to as true). Transformation requires renewing the mind through assumption: assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled until it becomes your dominant state. Goddard distinguishes mental knowledge (thinking of a thing) from spiritual knowledge (becoming it). Like the moth plunging into the flame, you must die to your old self to embody the new. Imagination is the redemptive power; assumption is the method. 4. Desire: Changes in life appear as chance or coincidence to the unenlightened, but they stem from your assumptions. The ideal manifests only when you imagine yourself already as that ideal. There is no escape except through radical psychological transformation—assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled with sensory vividness. Desire, when cultivated faithfully, becomes the promise of its own fulfillment. Attitude toward yourself is everything; what you will not affirm as true of yourself cannot be realized. 5. The Truth That Sets You Free:  Life is a psychological drama where assumptions create all conditions. Mastery comes through controlled imagination and sustained attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Form a mental image of the desired state, then feel yourself in it as though it surrounds you. Think from the ideal, not merely of it. This controlled imagination is “resting in the Lord.” The great secret: experience in imagination what you desire in reality, and maintain it until it objectifies. Uncontrolled imagination and scattered attention prevent results, no matter how much prayer or piety is applied. 6. Attention:  Attention is powerful when narrowly focused and obsessed with a single idea. Concentrate exclusively on the feeling of the wish fulfilled until it crowds out all other thoughts. Progress depends on increasing attention; ideas that dominate consciousness impel action. Practice reversing the day’s events before sleep to strengthen the “muscle” of attention. When you master the internal direction of attention, imagination becomes sovereign, and you walk upon the assumption of the wish fulfilled as on solid ground. 7. Attitude: What you see depends on your assumptions, not merely on external facts (supported by psychological experiments). Assumptions govern your movements and shape reality. Emerson and Blake are quoted to affirm that the world molds itself to your divine attributes or to ignorance. Change your concept of others by assuming the best; their behavior will echo your inner whispers. A real case history illustrates how a costume designer transformed her rude producer by mentally rehearsing praise and kindness instead of criticism. Controlled imagination casts enchantment on circumstances. 8. Renunciation:  Resisting evil gives it reality; renouncing it means withdrawing attention and giving it to the desired good. Give “beauty for ashes, joy for mourning” by concentrating on things as you would like them to be. Prune your imagination like a vine—cut away unlovely thoughts and focus on the ideal. Your controlled imagination becomes the savior that transforms wild growth into fruitful clusters. Maintain a joyous, confident attitude regardless of outer conditions. 9. Preparing Your Place:  All things are yours—claim them by assuming you already are and have what you desire. Your assumptions build bridges of incidents leading to fulfillment. Imagination goes ahead to prepare a place in the “many mansions” (states of consciousness) and draws you toward it. Precognition and the forward motion of consciousness explain how the future becomes the present. Be still and know that you are the desired state. 10. Creation:  Creation is finished; all possibilities coexist in an eternal now. “Creativeness” is simply becoming aware of what already exists. Your concept of self determines which portion of creation you experience. Persist in the assumption of the wish fulfilled, and your attention will be confronted with related images and events that lead to its realization. Failure concepts produce failure incidents; success concepts produce success. 11. Interference:  You possess the power of intervention through rising to a higher concept of self. Imagination, powered by attention, can do “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Christ in you (your imagination) is the redemptive mystery. Become aware that imagination molds consciousness into concepts that manifest as your world. 12. Subjective Control:  All progress depends on controlling and concentrating attention in the subjective (inner) world. Withdraw attention from outer impressions daily and focus it deliberately on chosen thoughts or moods. Master subjective attention, and you become master of your fate, putting all things in subjection to imagination. 13. Acceptance:  You live in a world of imagination; outer events are fruits of previous inner states. Intense absorption in the feeling of the wish fulfilled—complete acceptance—opens the “windows of heaven.” The passage between states is continuous; assume the spirit of the fulfilled desire. The man who can assume any state at will holds the keys to the Kingdom. 14. The Effortless Way:  Apply the principle of Least Action psychologically: move with minimum effort through mere assumption. Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and let it work without strain. Assumptions call the invisible into sight. Watch your assumptions diligently, for out of them flow the issues of life. Be still and know that you already are the desired state. 15. The Crown of the Mysteries:The assumption of the wish fulfilled is the highest use of consciousness. It lifts you to a new level; persistence makes it fact. Psychologically, the Immaculate Conception is the self-born idea, and Assumption is its crowning realization. Learn this art to create your own happiness. 16. Personal Impotence:  You can do nothing of yourself—you must yield to the law by assuming the feeling. Like magnetism, which cannot be forced but only displayed by conforming to its law, manifestation occurs through surrender to assumption. Willingly identify with your desire and be consumed by the feeling of fulfillment. 17. All Things Are Possible: Goddard shares his own successes through unwavering assumption. Live in sublime confidence, disregarding sensory denial. Merge with your Infinite Being (God) through assumption, and all things become possible. Assumptions determine the nature of your world.18. Be Ye Doers: Mere hearing (intellectual understanding) deceives; you must be a doer by persisting in the assumption. Identify with the ideal until you become it. The talent of conscious assumption must be used and multiplied, or it atrophies. Be magnetic through action rooted in being.19. Essentials: The three essentials: (1) intense burning desire with intention; (2) physical immobility (a state akin to sleep but controlled); (3) experiencing in imagination the reality of the wish fulfilled, thinking from the end. These lead to at-one-ment with your objective. The law works impersonally for any purpose, but noble use yields harmonious results.20. Righteousness: Righteousness is the consciousness of already being what you want to be—not moral codes or outer things. Sin is miBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/secrets-of-success-wealth-hidden-laws-of-money-power-success--5835231/support.