Prayer: The Art of Believing
Neville Goddard · 1905–1972
Neville redefines prayer as an act of imagination rather than petition: a relaxed, almost sleeping state in which the person praying assumes that what they desire is already true. He calls the principle behind it the 'law of reversibility' — if a fact produces a feeling, a feeling can produce a fact.
- First published
- 1945
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Reading time
- Not measured
- Translation
- Written in English
Some sources give 1946; a 1945 second edition is recorded, so we use 1945.
- prayer
- belief
- relaxation
- reversibility
Where to read it
Copyright
- Kenya
- Public domain since 1 Jan 2023 (author d. 1972)
- United States
- Renewal status not yet verified (published 1945)
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Questions for discussion
How does Neville's definition of prayer differ from the one you grew up with?
Is the 'law of reversibility' an argument, an analogy or a hypothesis? How would you test it?
What does this book ask of a sceptical reader, and is that request fair?
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