1953 · Neville Goddard

The Radio Lectures

The teaching for everyone: Neville's broadcast talks — short, direct, and complete, each one a whole sermon on the law.

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In these radio broadcasts Neville had minutes, not evenings — and it shows in the best way. Each talk states the whole law in miniature, in language meant for a listener who might never hear him again: assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, for to desire a state is to have it.

Because each lecture is self-contained, the series works as both an introduction and a refresher: pick any title and you get the essentials — assumption, feeling, meditation, answered prayer — delivered at conversational speed. Together they are the closest thing the vault has to Neville's elevator course.

Key ideas

The assumptive world

"What you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look." The world you fight and the world you enjoy are both assumption made visible.

To desire a state is to have it

Desire is not distance but evidence: the spiritual man speaks to the natural man through desire, and immediate obedience to that voice — assuming the wish fulfilled — closes the gap.

The check of mental conversations

You know your assumption has taken when your inner conversations with people change by themselves. The mental world is the honest one; watch it for your true state.

Meditation as controlled waking dream

The relaxed state akin to sleep, attention fixed on the fulfilled scene until it has sensory vividness — the radio talks describe the practice with unusual precision.

Chapter by chapter

The Law of AssumptionThe cornerstone talk: the assumptive world, the state akin to sleep, and the check of mental conversations.
Feeling Is The SecretThe book's thesis in broadcast form: feeling as the one language the deeper mind obeys.
MeditationThe practice itself: the controlled waking dream and how to hold attention within it.
Answered PrayerPrayer that is thanksgiving for the already-received, and why pleading postpones.
By Imagination We BecomeImagination as the transforming power — we become what we sustain in it.
Be What You Wish; Be What You BelieveBeing over wanting: belief assumed now versus hope deferred.
Affirm The Reality of our Own GreatnessSelf-valuation as practice: the greatness affirmed inwardly before it is met outwardly.
Stone, Water or WineThe Bible's transformations as levels of understanding — literal stone to psychological water to lived wine.
TruthTruth as what consciousness makes true — the responsibility hidden inside the freedom.

Essential quotes

“What you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the Assumption you make when you look.”
— Radio Lecture: The Law of Assumption

“To desire a state is to have it. As Pascal said, "You would not have sought me had you not already found me."”
— Radio Lecture: The Law of Assumption

“Define your highest ideal and concentrate your attention upon this ideal until you identify yourself with it. Assume the feeling of being it – the feeling that would be yours were you now embodying it in your world.”
— Radio Lecture: The Law of Assumption

Practice what it teaches

Who this book is for: For the newcomer with twenty minutes, and for the seasoned student who wants the whole law restated in one sitting — these talks serve both.