Prayer – The Art of Believing

Readers drawn to the wisdom in our featured text by Neville Goddard, The Power of Awareness, may wish to explore his wider body of work.

In The Power of Awareness, Goddard teaches that consciousness is the only reality – that the ‘I AM’, your awareness of being, is the sole creative force behind everything you experience. What you persistently assume to be true of yourself and your world becomes fact; and the path to change, therefore, is not outward action but inner assumption.

Prayer – The Art of Believing is devoted entirely to teaching prayer as a precise, learnable art. Its foundation is the law of reversibility: just as motion produces feeling, a sustained feeling must produce its corresponding outer reality. From there, Goddard moves into the dual nature of consciousness – the conscious and subconscious as two aspects of one mind, the conscious originating the premise and the subconscious faithfully giving it form – and into the mechanics of how thought transmits itself from one mind to another. This is the title in which Goddard turns the teaching most explicitly toward others, showing in practical detail how to pray effectively for those around you. The book closes with what he calls the greatest prayer of all – assuming the feeling ‘I AM Christ’ – the highest concept of self, from which you begin to see not the limitations of others, but the perfection sleeping within them.