Neville Goddard was a Barbadian-born writer, lecturer, and mystic whose books and talks became central to twentieth-century New Thought and modern manifestation teaching. Born in 1905 in Barbados, he moved to the United States as a young man and eventually became known simply as Neville, lecturing widely on imagination, assumption, consciousness, prayer, and the symbolic meaning of Scripture. His teaching treated the Bible not primarily as external history, but as a psychological and spiritual drama unfolding within human consciousness.Goddard's works include At Your Command, Your Faith Is Your Fortune, Feeling Is the Secret, Prayer: The Art of Believing, The Power of Awareness, Awakened Imagination, and The Law and the Promise. His influence has grown steadily among readers interested in New Thought, metaphysical Christianity, the law of assumption, visualization, manifestation, and the creative power of consciousness. Unlike many inspirational writers, Goddard spoke with unusual intensity and directness, insisting that imagination is not merely a faculty of the mind, but the very means by which human beings encounter and express divine creative power. He died in 1972.