Neville Goddard is one of the most profound  spiritual teachers of all time. His ideas about  

imagination, consciousness, and creating from  the fourth dimension have inspired millions,  

but for most people, they're hard to  actually apply. That changes today.  

I'm David Bayer. I've spent the last decade  transforming powerful spiritual principles  

into practical frameworks. And I built a $40  million business and a million listener a  

month podcast breaking these concepts down  for people just like you. In this episode,  

I'll walk you through Neville's seven core  teachings and show you exactly how to apply  

them to go beyond self-awareness, rewire  your brain, and re-engineer your reality.

Neville's core teaching number one, imagination  creates reality. Imagination is not fantasy.  

According to Neville, it's the creative power of  consciousness. Everything in the physical world  

was first imagined. He says, imagination  is God. Your inner world shapes your outer  

world. And most people dismiss imagination as just  daydreaming, but it's the most powerful force in  

the universe. What you consistently imagine and  feel real becomes your experience. And Neville  

explains that there are two dimensions that  exist simultaneously, a third dimension and  

a fourthdimensional reality. He says the third  dimension is a material reality. It is your daily  

life. It is what we generally exclusively refer  to as the only reality. He says it's fixed. It's  

five sensory. You can detect it through all of  your senses. It is a linear reality with a past,  

a present, and a future. But what he also says  is existing simultaneous to this thirddimensional  

space that we live in is a fourth dimension. He  said this fourth dimension has different qualities  

and characteristics. It is a reality of potential.  It is a quantum or wave or energy form reality as  

opposed to a particle or material reality. says,  "Everything in the fourth dimension is actually  

right here, right now as a potential waiting  to manifest." So that dream home that you want,  

it's actually right here, right now. That bank  account that you desire, it's actually right here,  

right now. The key is to tune your vibration or  match your emotions and your thoughts towards  

that reality. And through the day-to-day unfolding  of your life, it must become real. It must go from  

the fourth dimension to the third dimensional  reality through new thoughts that you have,  

new actions that you take and coincidences and  synchronicities. Your life will transform and  

that which is invisible but real right here,  right now in the fourth dimension will become  

your manifested experience. Now some people say,  "But Dave, my life never actually changes. How can  

you say that everything comes from the fourth  dimension?" Well, that's because even though  

your reality feels the same from day to day,  it's actually streaming moment by moment from  

the fourth dimension, but most people actually  think the same thoughts every day or they react  

the same way to their life. And so, their life  seems to stay the same even though it's actually  

materializing on a momentby-moment basis. It's  sort of like a Groundhog Day type of experience,  

living the same life over and over again. So,  money is hard to make. You can't trust people.  

You're not good enough. This is what you think and  this is what you think about your thirddimensional  

daily life. And so this is what you think. This is  what you imagine. And this is what you continue to  

call forth from the fourth dimension. The other  important thing to understand is imagination  

isn't just when you sit and visualize in a room  by yourself. Realize that we are imagining all  

the time. So, when you're having a conversation  in your head that someone shouldn't have said  

something to you or done something a particular  way or you're talking to yourself about having too  

much to do and that you can't get it all done,  that's actually the voice of imagination. You  

are imagining. When you drive from point A to  point B and you're stuck in your head and you  

don't even understand how you got to where you  were going, that whole time you're imagining.  

And unfortunately, most of us are spending way too  much time imagining a future that we don't want.  

So the key here is to be in your thirddimensional  life, but as it talks about in scripture,  

not of it. In other words, to bring your attention  to the future that you want, even when you are in  

a present moment that defies it. To know that  abundance is coming because it already exists  

right here, right now. And bring your attention  to it. In other words, find the abundance that is  

there and it will magnify. Find the health that is  there and it will magnify. Find the success that  

is there right now, even though it may not be as  much as you want, and it will begin to grow. It  

will continue to stream from the fourth dimension  in greater and greater quantities. Same thing  

with health. Same thing with success. Ignore your  present reality because it's basically old news.  

You've already imagined that and here it is. Live  your life in anticipation of what you want and  

what you anticipate must become your reality.  You know, I had a vision for a dream home,  

a sanctuary, a place where I could hold private  retreats in nature, entertain my family,  

big house. And even though I didn't know how or  where, I held on to that image and I anticipated  

that image. I went even went on Google images and  I found a picture of a home when I was broke and  

had two homes in foreclosure that I wanted and  I put it on my vision board. 10 years later,  

I'm living in my dream home. I have some friends  that come over and they see my vision board on my  

desk and one of them said, "Hey, did you pace the  front of this home on your vision board?" And I  

looked at it and I was like, "Oh my god, the front  of my house is identical to this home." So over  

the course of 10 years, my vision streamed itself  into my life through all kinds of circumstances  

and situations and of course action that I  took, but my imagination became my reality. Now,  

Neville's core teaching number two, the law  of assumption. Whatever you assume to be true  

becomes true in your experience. Assumptions are  beliefs that you hold without really consciously  

examining them. So most people assume that they're  limited. They assume that success is hard. They  

assume that they're not worthy or they're not  good enough. So to change your life, you have  

to assume the opposite of your limiting beliefs.  So live as if your desired state is already true,  

not something you're working toward. And this is  literally the core tool that we teach called the  

decision matrix. And it works like this. When you  identify a limiting belief like I don't matter for  

example or I'm not important. You make an opposite  decision something like I matter big time or I'm  

critically important and you assume the opposite  of the limiting belief. The third step in this  

framework from limiting belief to assuming  the opposite which solidifies it is to say,  

well, what evidence do I have for the fact that  that's true? What evidence do I have for the fact  

that I am critically important? See, questions  are really powerful because your brain is like  

a search engine. So, if you ask a question,  you'll get an answer. So, if you're sitting  

there writing out evidence for why your new  assumption is true, it might look like, well,  

how is it true that I'm critically important?  Because I play an important role in my work.  

Because I touch people's lives every day. Because  I'm connected to all other people. And I actually  

start to inform the intricate system of timing.  I'm part of the great system of timing that moves  

all of life forward. I'm a singular perception of  infinite intelligence. And my perspective matters.  

You reinforce the assumption with evidence  from your own life and what you truly believe  

about life. And you literally start to carve out  the old limiting belief and replace it with the  

new decision. Right? This is the neural pruning  process that allows you to disassociate yourself  

from the old patterns of of limiting beliefs and  assume something new. You can literally take your  

biggest limitation and assume the exact opposite  is true and find evidence to support the opposite.  

This is one of my most powerful daily practices  when I first started working with my beliefs.  

Every morning I'd wake up and if I was feeling  stressed or overwhelmed or depressed, I'd look  

at what I was thinking, what I was assuming,  and I'd use this decision matrix technique to  

shift it. By the way, I cover this technique and  more in my book, A Changed Mind. Neville's core  

teaching number three, feeling is the secret. So  Neville's concept here is uh and by the way, it's  

the title of one of Neville's most famous books,  is that ideas without emotion remain powerless. So  

you must feel the reality of your desire before it  manifests. Most people think about what they want,  

but they feel their current circumstances. So  he talks about this as the feeling of the wish  

fulfilled. The feeling of the wish fulfilled  is what impresses the subconscious mind. And  

Neville was really ahead of his time here. What  he understood was that the nervous system is a  

broadcasting antenna that when you have thoughts,  you experience that thought as an emotion and it  

goes from an electromagnetic activation in your  brain to a vibration throughout your entire  

nervous system and your entire body. Your nervous  system is like a broadcast tower. And emotion is  

the frequency that you broadcast. Now, two things  happen as a result of feeling your future. Number  

one, you start to activate that potential that  we talked about in the fourth dimension. So you  

start to have ideas. You start to see things  differently. You have hunches that will lead  

you to creating your desires. And second, your  broadcast is actually received at an unconscious  

level by other people. And so at an unconscious  level, they start doing things, taking action,  

creating rendevous with you. This is the idea of  law of attraction. You begin to create meetups  

and synchronicities with other people that  become part of you manifesting your desire.  

Right? On a practical level, you just know that  often times you think about someone and they  

call you or you've been thinking about someone  and you run to them in a grocery store. Hey,  

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This is why paying attention to how you feel is  so important because when you feel good, you're  

creating good feeling events in your future. But  when you're feeling bad, you're creating future  

events that are undesirable. So as Neville says,  feeling is the key. And he encourages us to stay  

in a powerful state more consistently if we want  to create a future that we love. Neville's core  

teaching number four, he calls it SATS, state akin  to sleep. Now, this is just fancy Neville talk,  

but he talks about the drowsy state right  before you go to bed. He says in this state, the  

conscious mind relaxes and suggestions penetrate  the subconscious mind. He says you should create  

a scene. You should imagine something that  implies that your desires are fulfilled. And  

you should loop this scene with sensory vividness  as you fall asleep. Basically, visualize on loop.  

And the subconscious mind starts to accept these  imagined experiences as real when the conscious  

mind is quiet. Now, it sounds a little kooky at  first, but guess what? What Neville was talking  

about more than 50 years ago is 100% supported  by neuroscience and brainwave data. Here's how  

it works. During this state, EEG studies show  a drop in alpha wave activity that's associated  

with relaxed wakefulness as you fall asleep and  the emergence of theta ripples and the flattening  

of EEG signals. This is indicative of loosening  cognition, a relaxing of your mind and increased  

receptivity. Individuals in this state are more  receptive to suggestion. This is a hypnotic state  

and research has shown that listening to hypnotic  suggestion before sleep can significantly increase  

slowwave sleep especially in highly hypnotizable  individuals. So this state has also been  

identified as a creativity hot spot. So it's  a place where original ideas can surface more  

freely before falling fully asleep. So Neville was  absolutely right. The brain shifts into thetarich  

receptive states right before sleep providing  a solid physiological basis for the idea that  

suggestions or imaginative thoughts during that  moment are more likely to take root. So in short  

yes there's a scientific backing for the notion  that the moments just before sleep are especially  

powerful for influencing the subconscious mind.  Neville's core teaching number five living in  

the end. Neville talks about the importance  of mentally and emotionally inhabiting your  

desired outcomes now. Not waiting until they  happen, but now. He says, "Doing that now is  

actually what allows them to happen in the  future." He says, "Don't live in the process  

of getting there. Live as if you're already  arrived." And he has a great quote. He says,  

"Think from the end, not of the end. Your current  circumstances are just the bridge between where  

you were and where you're going. And when you live  in the end, the bridge of what he calls incidences  

appears automatically. Again, the coincidences,  the synchronicities, the path. And this relates a  

lot to what I teach on current self versus future  self. Neville's basically saying act as if you've  

achieved the outcome. And even though a lot of  people think of this as fake it until you make it,  

it's really much more powerful than that for a  couple of reasons. Number one, if you want to  

become a millionaire and on a daily basis, even  though you have no money right now, you start to  

act like a millionaire, you start to think like a  millionaire, you start to feel like a millionaire,  

and you took that daily action and you started  doing that for enough time and you interacted  

with people like a millionaire. Don't you think  over time eventually you'd become a millionaire?  

I mean, think of this. If you acted like an  alcoholic, if you thought like an alcoholic,  

if you bought like an alcoholic and only hung out  with alcoholics and you drank like an alcoholic,  

give it enough time, wouldn't you become an  alcoholic? This was actually one of the things  

my sponsor taught me as I got sober. He said,  "Look, even though right now you're an alcoholic  

and a drug addict, you're going to start building  the identity of someone who is sober. How do you  

do that? You start thinking, feeling, acting,  and hanging out with sober people." One of my  

good friends, Cody Jefferson, says, "This is  who I am, so this is what I do." You do like  

a rich person does and you get rich. You do like  a sober person does and you get sober. So there's  

a lot of truth in the idea of acting as if right  now or inhabiting the desired outcome. Now the  

other really interesting thing and this comes  from a study in 2009. I've referenced this on  

other episodes. It was featured in Time magazine.  It was conducted at Harvard. They brought in piano  

players to play the piano and they studied what  parts of their brain lit up. And so as they were  

playing the piano, they studied them. Then they  had them come back in and just imagine playing  

the piano and the same parts of their brain lit  up. So what we learned from this study and there  

have been several others since then is your brain  doesn't know the difference between imagination  

and reality. So if you inhabit or imagine a wealth  consciousness now, you literally start to build  

memories as if you were a wealthy person already.  If you start to assume health now, you start to  

build memories as if you were healthy already.  Your brain doesn't know the difference between  

your current situation and where you're placing  your attention, your focus, your thoughts, your  

emotions, and your imagination. You start to build  a memory of a future that hasn't happened yet.  

You start to become the healthy, wealthy person,  literally in terms of your brain structure. Now,  

give it a little bit of time and reality has to  catch up. Neville's core teaching number six,  

revision or rewriting your past. So, revision is  rewriting past events in your imagination. You  

go back to moments that created limiting beliefs  or emotional wounds, and you imagine those events  

happening the way you wish they had. And this  isn't denial. It's actually recognizing that  

your current memory is creating your present  experience. And when you revise the past,  

you change its influence on your future. Now,  most people think that the past is fixed,  

that once something happens, it's set in stone.  But that's not actually how the brain works.  

The truth is your memory is not a filing cabinet.  It's more like a Google doc. Every time you open  

it, you're editing it whether you realize it  or not. So revision is where you go back to  

painful or limiting memories and you imagine  them unfolding the way you wish they had. A  

conversation where you felt rejected becomes  one where you're accepted. A moment of shame  

becomes a moment of love. And when you do this  deliberately, something incredible happens.  

your nervous system starts to respond as if  that new version is what actually happened. Now,  

some people hear this and think it's denial, but  it's not. It's actually grounded in science. In  

neuroscience, there's a phenomenon called memory  reconsolidation. And research shows that when you  

recall a memory, it becomes temporarily malleable.  And during that window, usually a few hours,  

you can change the emotional association of that  memory. And when the brain saves it again, it  

includes the new emotional tone. That's how trauma  can be healed. And it's exactly what Neville was  

teaching. Decades before we had fMRI scans to  prove it. Psychology backs this too. Modalities  

like EMDR or internal family systems and sematic  experiencing all use the same principle. They go  

back to the source of the wound. They bring  consciousness and imagination to it and let  

the body encode a new experience. So you're not  pretending it didn't happen. You're reclaiming  

your authorship of what it means. And here's why  this matters. Your subconscious isn't reacting to  

the world. It's actually reacting to your memory  of the world. So when you revise the past, you're  

not changing history. You're changing the lens you  see through. And that lens shapes your thoughts,  

your emotions, your choices, and your future. So  the question is, what story from your past still  

holds power over you? And are you willing to go  back not to relive it, but to rewrite it? Because  

when you do, you don't just change the memory,  you literally change who you are. Neville's core  

teaching number seven, persistence and mental  diet. So Neville's concept here is persistence,  

meaning maintaining your assumption despite  contradictory evidence. Right? Life is always  

going to show up as you start to make these new  decisions, as you assume a different future. And  

there's going to be old evidence or old patterns  that show up. And so he talks about getting into a  

mental diet. In other words, carefully monitoring  and choosing your thoughts throughout the day.  

See, most people give up when they  don't see immediate results. And so,  

your dominant mental diet, meaning what you think  about most, it's creating your experience. And so,  

you have to be vigilant about what you  allow your mind to dwell on. And, in fact,  

how you're reacting to your current reality. So,  there's a concept we teach called the echo effect.  

And it's a really powerful concept as people get  into belief shifting or assuming a new reality.  

And it allows you to stay loyal to your new  beliefs or your imagined future even when your  

reality is showing up as something contradictory  to it. You have to understand that the reality  

that you're living today and tomorrow and for  the next few days, it's already been determined.  

If you're creating your reality through what you  think, which you are, then that means the present  

moment is actually a byproduct of what you've  been thinking before. So for a period of time,  

you're going to be experiencing an echo of the  old version of you. Old belief systems, old  

patterns of thought, old patterns of emotion have  already determined to a great degree what your  

next few weeks are going to look like. You have  to stay loyal to your new decision to your future  

during this period of transition. So when life  shows up contradictory to what you've decided,  

just know it is a passing thought. It is an echo.  It should not deter you from holding on to your  

new belief systems. Now in summary, Neville's work  is brilliant and it can feel abstract without a  

practical application system. The missing piece  is usually real-time integration and bridging his  

meditation and visualization concepts with a lot  of the distinctions that we talked about today.  

His teachings work best, I find, when combined  with consistent belief work and nervous system  

regulation. And none of this is about positive  thinking. It's about conscious transformation.  

My recommendation is start with one level  technique and master it before adding others. I  

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