Neville Goddard

Mitch Horowitz (2025) found Neville's account of his life matched the record except for his teacher Abdullah, who has no definite paper trail beyond Neville's descriptions.

Mitch Horowitz, 'You Are As Your Mind Is' (Substack, 22 May 2025)

Barbadian-born New Thought teacher (1905–1972) who taught that imagining makes things real.

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Primary source

Neville Goddard, The Law and the Promise, 1961, closing section 'The Promise: Four Mystical Experiences'Neville's teaching that God dwells in each person as the human imagination, that imagining creates reality (the Law), and that the Promise is a birth in which God brings forth his son from the believer's own body.
He lives in us as our wonderful human imagination.

Where this claim originates

Mitch Horowitz, You Are As Your Mind Is, 2025, Substack post of 22 May 2025Horowitz's finding that Neville's self-told timeline matches the available record except for his mentorship by Abdullah; also Neville's dates (1905-1972) and that he quit the stage by early 1938 to write and lecture.
a man for whom there exists no definite paper trail beyond Neville’s descriptions