Neville Goddard and His Mentor Abdullah: The Complete Series of Neville Goddard's Lectures Featuring Mentor Abdullah's Teachings (Neville Goddard Lectures) Paperback – March 23, 2024

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I absolutely enjoyed this book ! Once I opened up this book, I couldn’t put it down. I will definitely read it again.

Eye have read a lot of Neville Goddard work, listened to many lectures. The very first speech in this book, along with the image on the cover, however, feel forced and cause me to question their veracity.To be clear, Goddard states that he abstained from meat, alcohol, and sex for seven years for undisclosed reasons. However, Goddard then states that he began eating meat and drinking wine again for no explicit reason, and relates it to John the Baptist as a mental state “which does violence to itself”; Ex: 1. “John represents that state in man’s ongoing when he does violence to his appetite.” and 2. “John thought that by doing violence to his appetite he would get into the kingdom.”This does not correspond with other Goddard works in which the kingdom of heaven is a spiritual/mental creation, and one which a promise to oneself—a promise to god—would keep one out of “the kingdom”; rather, he or she would be in “the kingdom” because they kept the promise. When someone abstains from any substance or behavior for any reason, it is a far cry from doing “violence to one’s appetite.” Many times, there’s spiritual reasoning behind forgoing certain activities. So to say that one is doing “violence to one’s appetite” is extremely far-fetched if not outright false when he or she has lost the taste for such activities and by doing so may have helped to soothe/cure certain ailments and found peace of mind. So how is a disciplined abstinence from meat, alcohol, or sex “doing violence” to one’s appetite when the kingdom of god is found within? If god protects babies and fools, this ain’t it.Even Goddard states that his father was a "very heavy drinker" and his family "suffered it." So the reading begins to feel as though the author's purpose for including this ancedote is simply not to slow alcohol or meat sales at stores like the one his family owned in Barbados.Also, now not sure that images of Abdullah represent any one at all at this point. They are different in different books. In some writings, he is a “mystic” or a "Moor"; this book states that he is a “Jewish Rabbi”. So the question becomes: Is Abdullah simply a mental state like Jesus or Abraham as stated in other Goddard lectures?

I was curious about Neville Mentor AbdullahBut the book was different than my expectations he talked about christianity .