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Joel S. Goldsmith

Consciousness

Joel Solomon Goldsmith (March 10, 1892–June 17, 1964) was an American spiritual author, teacher, spiritual healer, and mystic. He founded The Infinite Way movement.[1][2]
Early years
Joel Goldsmith was born in New York City on March 10, 1892.[3] Goldsmith’s parents, non-practicing Jews, had been married in New York City in 1891 and Joel was their first child. They subsequently had another son two years later followed by a daughter two years after that.
Goldsmith’s father became critically ill while in England 1915 and word was sent to the Goldsmith family to come for the body. However, according to Goldsmith, his father was healed by a Christian Science practitioner in London[3] From his early adulthood, Goldsmith had many spiritual experiences. He was a healer. He spent many years in spiritual studies, reading original scriptures of Aramaic, Greek and Sanskrit origins. His first book, “The Infinite Way” was published 1948.[4]
After serving in the Marines during World War I, Goldsmith returned to work in the garment district of New York City where he owned his own business. While on a return trip from Europe, he developed pneumonia. As his father before him, Goldsmith was healed by a Christian Science practitioner, who happened to be on-board his ship at the time. In 1928, Goldsmith began to have strangers approach him on the street asking for prayer and healing. He had no religious training whatsoever, but these people were healed. To seek answers about this phenomenon, Goldsmith first entered the Christian Science Church and worked at Rikers Island prison as a First Reader. After 11 years, he left the Christian Science Church and moved to Boston, where he set up his own office. He later moved to California before World War II and maintained a successful healing practice there. In 1948 Goldsmith wrote the book, “The Infinite Way”, which came to the attention of Willing Publishers. The title of this book also became the name associated with the spiritual message and work of Goldsmith, ref. The Taped Lectures of Joel S. Goldsmith 1950-1964.
The Infinite Way
Goldsmith self-published his most famous work, The Infinite Way, in 1947 based on letters to patients and students, as well as The Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture.
The writings which followed were transcriptions of his lectures which had been recorded on the first wire recorders in the late 1940s. These were distributed from the Goldsmith Publishing. They were: The Master Speaks, The First, Second, Third San Francisco Lecture Series, Consciousness Unfolding, God the Substance of All Form, and Metaphysical Notes. These original books were later republished during Goldsmith’s lifetime by publishers in various countries, making over fifty books.
As Goldsmith was approached by large publishing houses around the world to produce books of his talks, he enlisted the help of Lorraine Sinkler and her sister Valbourg to edit his books which were generally compiled from various lecture transcripts.
Goldsmith’s insistence on “no organization” insured that his message remained a personal journey with leaders naturally evolving from new generations. There is no service, ritual, dogma, ceremony in the practice of the Infinite Way. Goldsmith students can be found in all walks of life, in all religions. Goldsmith’s message is one that can be read and heard for a lifetime, always allowing new understandings to unfold in each individual.
Goldsmith stressed meditation practice in his teaching. The method he generally taught was short frequent meditation periods throughout the day. Joel told his student of 18 years, Walter Starcke, that the main reason to meditate was that through reaching the inner silence one could hear the still small voice and receive its intuitive guidance.[5] His teaching also stressed spiritual healing through conscious contact with God.
Death
Joel Solomon Goldsmith died on Jun 17, 1964, at the Piccadilly Hotel, Westminster, London W1, England. His body was cremated at Golders Green in London on June 18, 1964, and his ashes and effects where released to his widow, Emma Goldsmith, to take them back to their home in Hawaii. Both were interred in Sun City,Arizona.[6]
Bibliography
Living the Infinite Way
Practicing the Presence
The Thunder of Silence
The Infinite Way
The Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture
The Art of Meditation
The Art of Spiritual Healing
Parenthesis in Eternity
Beyond Words and Thoughts
Collected Essays of Joel S. Goldsmith
Conscious Union With God
Consciousness is What I AM
Contemplative Life
Gift of Love
God, The Substance of All Form (1949 edition)
Leave Your Nets (original)
The 1954 Letters
The 1955 Letters
The 1956 Letters
The 1957 Letters
The 1959 Letters
Living Now
Living Between Two Worlds
Man Was Not Born to Cry
The Master Speaks (original)
The Mystical “I”
Our Spiritual Resources
Realization of Oneness
The World is New
Consciousness Is What I Am
Consciousness Transformed
Consciousness in Transition
References
^ Ellwood, R.S. and Alles, G.D. (2007) The encyclopedia of world religions. Infobase Publishing. p 323.
^ Sinkler, L. (1992) The Spiritual Journey of Joel S. Goldsmith, Valor Foundation, ISBN 978-0-9629119-2-7.
^ a b Melton, J.G. (1999) Religious leaders of America: A biographical guide to founders and leaders of religious bodies, churches, and spiritual groups in North America. Gale Research. p 219.
^ Joel S. Goldsmith Family Archives 1948 to 2012
^ Starcke, Walter. Joel Goldsmith and I: The inside Story of a Relationship with a Modern Mystic. Boerne, TX.: Guadalupe, 2006. Print.
^ Report of the Death of an American Citizen Abroad, Repository Name: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), NARA Series #: RG59-Entry 5166, Roll/Box #: 13, NARA Box Description: 1964 GL – JK

External links
Official website
Joel Solomon Goldsmith at Find a Grave
Authority control
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Neville Goddard

IMAGINATION

Neville Goddard
Born 19 February [O.S. 19 February] 1905
St. Michael, Barbados in the British West Indies
Died 1 October 1972 (aged 67)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Author, Lecturer
Known for Metaphysics and New Thought teachers
Children Joseph Neville Goddard (first marriage), Victoria “Vicky” Goddard (second marriage)
Parents Joseph and Wilhelmina Goddard
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Neville Lancelot Goddard (1905-1972) was an influential Metaphysics teacher and New Thought/New Age author.[1]
Biography
Neville Goddard was born on 19 February 1905 in St. Michael, Barbados in the British West Indies, to Joseph Nathaniel Goddard,[2][3] a merchant, and Wilhelmina Nee Hinkinson.[4][5] Neville was the fourth child in a family of nine boys and one girl.
In 1922 he came to the United States on board the S.S. Vasari to study drama at the age of seventeen. He became a dancer, and during this time he married his first wife, and they had a son together,[6] named Joseph Neville Goddard.[7] While touring with his dance company in England he developed an interest in metaphysics after striking up a conversation with a Scotsman who lent him a series of books on the powers of the mind. Upon his return to New York he gave up the entertainment industry to devote his full attention to the study of spiritual and mystical matters.
Neville Goddard’s first marriage was short lived, and he remained single for years until in the 1930s he met his second wife, who was a designer.[6] After they married, they had a daughter named Victoria or “Vicky”.[8] In 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army at age 38,[9] which he did not want, especially since he felt he was too old to become a soldier and had a wife and daughter at home to take care of. Through the power of imagination, as Neville told it in his March 24, 1972 lecture,[9] he was honorably discharged after just a few weeks of training. One consequence of his brief Army training was that he received full United States citizenship, having been a British citizen up to this point.[9]
Abdullah
Goddard’s interest in esoteric interpretations of the Bible deepened after he met Abdullah, an Ethopian Jew who lectured on Esoteric Christianity and taught both Goddard and Joseph Murphy. Neville went to hear him somewhat under protest to satisfy the constant urging of a friend, saying “I recall the first night I met Abdullah. I had purposely delayed going to one of his meetings because a man whose judgement I did not trust had insisted on my attendance. At the end of the meeting, Ab approached me and said: ‘Neville, you are six months late.’ Startled, I questioned how he knew my name, when he said: ‘The brothers told me you would be here six months ago.’ Then he added: ‘I will remain until you have received all that I must give you. Then I will depart.’ He, too, may have longed to go, but he had to wait for me.”[10][11] From this introduction, Neville studied with Abdullah learning Hebrew, the Kabbalah, and the hidden symbolic meaning of Scripture.[12]
Lectures
After traveling extensively throughout the United States, Neville eventually made his home in Los Angeles where, in the 1950s, he gave a series of talks on television and radio, and for many years lectured regularly to capacity audiences at the Wilshire Ebell Theater.[13] In the 1960s and early 1970s, he confined most of his lectures to Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
In his early lectures and books Neville dealt solely with what he called The Law, the technique of creating one’s physical reality through imagining. It is this portion of his expression that most closely accords with the teachings of the New Thought movement. In describing The Law, Neville related how he made a sea voyage from New York to see his family in Barbados during the Depression, without any money of his own.[14]
He related how, by the use of imaginal power, he was honorably discharged from military service to continue his lectures during World War II.[15] He gave his audiences in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s accounts of how others had made use of The Law.[16] He discussed it on television in the Los Angeles area, saying, “Learn how to use your imaginal power, lovingly, on behalf of others, for Man is moving into a world where everything is subject to his imaginal power.”
The Promise and The Law
In the year 1959, he began to experience what he called “The Promise.” He later wrote, “I did not know of The Promise until I began to experience it and have it unfold within me beginning that summer and continuing during the next three-and-one-half years. And this is Scriptural; read it in the Book of Daniel where it is referred to as ‘a time, times, and a half.’ It comes to 1260 days in your experience of it.”
In the latter part of the 1960s and early 1970s Neville gave more emphasis to The Promise than to The Law. One could use imaginal power to change one’s circumstances, he said, but it would be temporary, “…and will vanish like smoke.” He went on to explain that The Promise superseded The Law, claiming “Oh, you can use it [The Law] to make a fortune, to become known in the world, all these things are done, but, your true purpose here is to fulfil Scripture.” After subordinating The Law to The Promise, he became as eager to hear accounts by those who had experienced The Promise, and sharing such accounts, as he had earlier of those with The Law.
Neville’s theological view of The Promise includes both the cosmology of union with the Godhead after death, and future restoration for those who do not accept The Promise during their lives. Of The Promise, he said “You do not earn it; it is a gift, it is all grace. God’s promise is unconditional; God’s law is conditional.”[17] and comes in its own good time. If you do not experience it in this life, he said, “You pass through a door, that’s all that death is, and — you are restored to life instantly in a world like this, just this world” [and] you go on there with the same problems you had here with no loss of identity – not old, not blind, not crippled, if you depart this life that way, but young.” In this restorationist afterlife, he said of people there, “They grow, and they marry, and they die there, too, with all the fear of death that we have here. And if they die there without experiencing The Promise, they are restored to life again and again in a place best suited to the work yet to be done in them. And it continues until ‘Christ be formed in You’ and as ‘Sons of The Resurrection’ you leave this world of death never to enter it again.”
In response to questions about the fear of eternal hell and damnation that many have, Neville replied with a quote from Scripture, “’Not one shall be lost in all my holy mountain.’ You are God and how could God eternally condemn Himself?” Until we awaken and make this discovery, he said, we are privileged to use a Law, given by God, to “cushion the blows of life.”[11] The Law, stated succinctly is this, In Neville’s words: “Imagining creates reality”.[18][19]
In the last years of his life he said, “I know my time is short. I have finished the work I have been sent to do and I am now eager to depart. I know I will not appear in this three-dimensional world again for The Promise has been fulfilled in me. As for where I go, I will know you there as I have known you here, for we are all brothers, infinitely in love with each other.”[20]
Neville Goddard died at the age of 67 on October 1, 1972, in Los Angeles. His work is being preserved on the Internet.
References
^ Goddard, N. and Vitale, J. (2005) At Your Command. Morgan James Publishing. p. 11.
^ Neville Lecture I Remember When 04/19/1968
^ Neville Goddard – I REMEMBER WHEN Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Lecture #62 God’s Wisest Creature 09/20/1968 Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Goddard – GOD’S WISEST CREATURE Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ a b Who is Neville Goddard?
^ Foundation Stone, Lecture
^ The Law Of Identical Harvest, Lecture
^ a b c Rearrange The Mind, Lecture, March 24, 1972
^ Neville Lecture #66 Power and Wisdom 10/04/1968 Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ a b Neville Goddard POWER AND WISDOM Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Goddard 1953 – Changing The Feeling Of “I” Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Who is Neville? Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Goddard – 1948 Lesson 3 – Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Goddard THE STATE OF VISION Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Lecture The Law 11/20/1959
^ Neville Goddard GOD’S PROMISE TO MAN Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Goddard IMAGINING CREATES Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
^ Neville Lecture #54 Imagining Creates 06/03/1968
^ Neville Goddard – NO OTHER GOD Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite
External links
Prayer The Art of Believing Book (Read Online)
Your Faith Is Your Fortune Book ( Read Online )
At Your Command Book ( Read Online )
Awakened Imagination & The Search Book ( Read Online )
Feeling Is The Secret Book ( Read Online )
Freedom For All Book ( Read Online )
Out Of This World Book (Read Online)
Seedtime and Harvest Book ( Read Online)
The Law and the Promise Book ( Read Online)
The Power of Awareness Book ( Read Online)
Free Neville Goddard Audios on Youtube
Free Neville Goddard Lectures and Audios
How To Use Your Imagination – Neville Goddard
Complete Neville Goddard scanned books at the Internet Archive
The Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard Text Archive
“Feeling is the Secret” by Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard Audio Lectures
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Titillation

Humor - remember that? LoL

Don’t you hate it when someone answers their own questions? I do.
Russ Lewis

People who live in glass houses are one busted water-main away from People who live in aquariums.
RL

The first rule of “Condescending Club” is really kinda complex and I don’t think you’d understand it even if I explained it to you.
RL

There are two words in a person’s life that will open a lot of doors for them… PULL and PUSH

It’s all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.

Thank you for calling the hug hotline. Please hold.
RL

What if there’s no such thing as the Placebo Effect, and instead, sugar just actually cures everything?
RL

You can never lose a homing pigeon. If your homing pigeon doesn’t come back, what you’ve lost is a normal pigeon.

I hate spelling errors so much. You mix up two letters and your whole post is urined.

The whole US Postal service is a fraud! There’s no way a letter can get from one place to another, because envelopes …

… are stationary.

It helps to be an enlightened mail.

NmmThere was this man working at a brick factory for years. Everyday he would leave with a wheelbarrow full of hay. The security guard would stop him, do a full search and find nothing.

Years later, the security guard saw the man and said, “I know you were smuggling something all those years, what was it?”
The man answered, “Wheelbarrows.”

I was so unpopular growing up, I had an imaginary bully…
Mike Carter

Woke up screaming this morning. My apologies to everyone at church…
RL

There is a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.
RL

Don't be so shellfish!
Don’t be so shellfish!

Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac? laid awake all night wondering if there really is a dog!

I had something witty to say. And now it’s gone. Oh well your loss.

Lol. Just musing. This may be the first time (exception JFK and LBJ) in a while when moving in to the White House is downsizing.

Consciousness

Whatever it is in you that is living, that is projecting these concepts of God or man – whatever it is within you that is your very life or being – whatever that is – that is God. That is all there is that is closer to you than breathing.
It’s your SELF, your BEING.
Joel S. Goldsmith