Since time immemorial, people have sought the identity and the nature of two things: the creative source and themselves. Neville Goddard proposes that these two are one and the same thing.
Among popular speakers and authors in contemporary times, he is quite unique. But among the philosophers known as transcendental idealists, Neville has precursors.
Scholar Virginia López-Domínguez tells us that Kant was a pioneer in this movement, as he considered the imagination “an authentic creative force” and “builder of our reality”. Fichte (1762 – 1814) followed Kant, and made the imagination “the basic faculty of man... which creates new spheres of freedom, constructing all human activity...”.
Neville himself was fond of this quote from English philosopher E. Douglas Fawcett:
“The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems, to the solution of which every one should aspire, for supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the far-off solution of this mystery.”
In his 1921 publication The Divine Imagination , one of a series devoted to imaginism, Fawcett declares:
“Current available hypotheses about the world-ground proving unsatisfactory, someone has to take a risk and launch another. After all, metaphysics has to progress by... imagining novel solutions and applying them tentatively to the field of experience.” (That’s what we’re doing in the podcast.)
Fawcett states his working hypothesis: Reality is imaginal. The imagination is “the conscious energy of the universe”. This is “the most important, the most utterly enthralling” truth we can ever entertain.
What is the result? Life has become an “amazing romance... at once an adventure and a discipline”.
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