Reference Guide
Manifestation Glossary
Your complete reference for Neville Goddard and Law of Assumption terminology. Understand the key concepts behind conscious creation and manifestation.
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Affirmation
A positive statement repeated deliberately to impress a new belief on the subconscious mind. In manifestation practice, affirmations are used to replace limiting assumptions with empowering ones.
Alignment
Being in harmony with your desired state of consciousness so that your thoughts, feelings, and assumptions naturally reflect the reality you are choosing to create.
Assumption
A belief accepted as true that shapes your experience of reality. In Neville Goddard's teaching, assumptions are the fundamental building blocks of creation — what you assume to be true hardens into fact.
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Congratulations Technique
A manifestation technique where you vividly imagine friends, family, or colleagues congratulating you on the fulfillment of your desire, using their recognition as proof that your wish has been realized.
Consciousness
In Neville Goddard's teaching, consciousness is the only reality and the creative substance from which all physical experience arises. Your state of consciousness, meaning what you are aware of being, determines every aspect of your outer world.
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Feeling Is the Secret
The core principle from Neville Goddard's book of the same name, teaching that the feeling of an experience, not mere intellectual belief or visualization, is what impresses the subconscious mind and creates physical reality.
Fourth Dimension
Neville Goddard's term for the dimension of imagination and consciousness that exists beyond the three-dimensional physical world. It is the creative realm where all possibilities exist and from which physical reality is projected.
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I AM Meditation
A meditation practice rooted in Neville Goddard's teaching that focuses on the pure awareness of 'I AM' as the creative power of consciousness, used to assume new states of being.
Imagination
In Neville Goddard's teaching, imagination is not mere fantasy but the creative power of God within each person, the faculty through which all physical reality is first conceived and then brought into manifestation.
Inner Conversation
The constant stream of silent self-talk and mental dialogue that runs through your mind, which Neville Goddard taught is the true creative prayer that shapes your reality more powerfully than any spoken words.
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Ladder Experiment
Neville Goddard's famous beginner exercise where you imagine climbing a ladder at night while telling yourself during the day that you will not climb a ladder, proving that imagination overrides conscious intention.
Law of Assumption
The foundational principle taught by Neville Goddard stating that whatever you assume to be true with conviction and feeling will eventually harden into fact and become your reality.
Letting Go
The act of releasing your desire into the subconscious mind after impressing it through imaginal work, and trusting the creative process to bring it into physical reality without conscious interference.
Living in the End
The practice of mentally and emotionally inhabiting the state of already having your desire fulfilled, rather than waiting or hoping for it to arrive in the future.
Lullaby Method
A manifestation technique where you repeat a short, soothing phrase that implies your wish is fulfilled as you drift to sleep, allowing the repetition to gently impress your desire on the subconscious mind.
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Manifesting
The process of bringing desires from imagination into physical reality through the conscious use of assumption, feeling, and mental imagery.
Mental Diet
The practice of consciously monitoring and choosing your thoughts, inner conversations, and assumptions throughout the day, ensuring they align with your desired reality rather than reinforcing unwanted conditions.
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Persistent Assumption
The practice of consistently maintaining your new assumption about reality, especially when the 3D world appears to contradict it, based on Neville Goddard's principle that 'an assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact.'
Pruning Shears of Revision
Neville Goddard's term for the revision technique, where you mentally rewrite past events as you wish they had occurred, thereby changing your inner state and altering future outcomes.
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Reality Creation
The understanding that consciousness is the fundamental cause of all physical experience, and that you are constantly creating your reality through your assumptions, beliefs, and imaginal acts.
Reality Shifting
The practice of moving your consciousness between different realities or versions of existence. A modern concept that parallels Neville Goddard's teaching on states and the multi-dimensional nature of consciousness.
Revision Technique
A Neville Goddard technique where you mentally replay an undesirable event from your day, reimagining it as you wished it had happened, thereby changing the impression on your subconscious and altering your future experience.
Robotic Affirming
The practice of continuously repeating affirmations throughout the day in a mechanical, detached manner to reprogram the subconscious mind without engaging emotional resistance.
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Sabbath State
The deep inner feeling of peace, rest, and completion that arises when you have fully assumed your desire as already fulfilled, signaling that the impression has been made on the subconscious and no further mental work is needed.
Scripting
A manifestation technique where you write about your desired reality in the present tense as though it has already happened, engaging your imagination and emotions through the act of journaling.
Self-Concept
Your fundamental collection of beliefs, assumptions, and feelings about who you are, which shapes every aspect of your reality and determines what you can manifest.
Sleep Technique
A manifestation method that uses the hypnagogic state just before sleep to impress desires upon the subconscious mind, leveraging the natural lowering of conscious resistance.
Specific Person (SP)
The practice of using Neville Goddard's manifestation techniques to attract or improve a relationship with a particular individual, commonly abbreviated as SP in manifestation communities.
State
In Neville Goddard's teaching, a state is a particular attitude of mind — the total sum of your beliefs, assumptions, feelings, and expectations at any given moment, which determines your entire experience of reality.
State Akin to Sleep (SATS)
The drowsy, hypnagogic state between waking and sleeping that Neville Goddard identified as the ideal condition for impressing desires upon the subconscious mind through vivid imaginal scenes.
Subconscious Mind
The deeper layer of mind that Neville Goddard identified as the creative power that receives impressions from imagination and feeling, then faithfully expresses them as physical circumstances and experiences.
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Telephone Technique
A manifestation technique where you imagine receiving a phone call from someone confirming that your desire has been fulfilled, using the familiar experience of a phone conversation to make the scene feel real.
The Promise and The Law
Neville Goddard's two-part teaching framework. The Law is the practical principle that your assumptions create your reality. The Promise is the spiritual revelation that you will awaken to your true identity as God.
Timeline Shifting
The concept of choosing a different future timeline through a shift in consciousness and assumption. Related to Neville Goddard's teaching on revision and the malleability of both past and future through imagination.
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Vibration
A concept from the Law of Attraction describing the energetic frequency at which a person operates. While popular in modern manifestation culture, Neville Goddard used the term 'state' rather than vibration to describe a person's inner condition.
Visualization
The practice of creating vivid mental images of your desired outcome as though it is already real. In Neville Goddard's teaching, visualization is most effective when practiced in the state akin to sleep with full sensory engagement.
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Wish Fulfilled
The mental and emotional state of already having your desire realized, which Neville Goddard identified as the single most important element in manifestation.
Wonderful Human Imagination
Neville Goddard's reverent phrase for the creative power within every person — the imagination itself, which he identified as God, the sole creator of all reality and experience.
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