Is Your Imagination God?

The radical metaphysics of Neville Goddard

Wearing it on his sleeve: Mitch’s tattoo of Neville.

I recently received an ebullient letter from a barbershop owner in Lafayette, Georgia, who loves the work of mystic Neville Goddard. As a historian of the occult, I receive few fan letters from Lafayette — this one made me take special notice.

The metaphysical teacher Neville, who wrote and spoke under his first name, has…