Neville Goddard The Law Of Identical Harvest

Summary

Neville Goddard argues that imagination is the source of what people experience as reality. He presents this as a spiritual principle: imagined ideas can become visible outcomes, while the “harvest” is the result that eventually appears in a person’s life. He identifies imagination with God and Jesus Christ, and describes the physical world as a shadow of a deeper reality.

He illustrates his teaching through stories about a friend, Louise. According to Goddard, she went to Paris despite having limited money, later built a wealthy life, and used determination to find a new business location and housing when circumstances seemed to offer no solution.

He also recounts her grief after her son Larry died in a car accident. Goddard says she later imagined a vivid encounter with Larry, which she described as bringing relief from her grief and physical pain. These are presented as personal anecdotes supporting his spiritual beliefs, not as clinical guidance.

Practical Method Goddard Recommends

• Identify what you want, rather than dwelling on what seems unavailable or impossible.
• Imagine a scene that would imply your goal has already been fulfilled.
• Become absorbed in the scene and experience it as real in your imagination.
• Let the imagined act go, trusting that it will eventually appear in life.
• Approach desires with love, not merely with the aim of acquiring material things.
• Persist in the inner experience, even when immediate external circumstances seem to contradict it.

Goddard also says that people often forget the thoughts or imaginings that preceded later events, and therefore fail to connect their experiences with what they had imagined. The lecture’s central takeaway is to use imagination deliberately and lovingly, while treating the stories as illustrations of his metaphysical worldview.

Presenter/source: Neville Goddard (lecture).