At Your Command by Neville Goddard

At Your Command Reviews

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  Lori Koppelman

  Love this kind of shit. Mind blown.
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  Greg

  The last third of the book is literally just a sales letter, or at least the version I read off of scribd. I guess it's a funny bit of irony that literally a few pages after Neville writes to trust no man except for one self in finding solutions to your problems that Vitale offers the 'secret' to solving all your problems and how to manifest a new car for the low payment of just 137 (everyone told him he was crazy out of his fucking mind for not charging 997 for this!! So it must be a good deal!)
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  Lenin

  Thank God for audiobooks—finishing this very short and concise work by Neville was easy thanks to the reading by 'Giving Voice to the Wisdom of the Ages' on YouTube.
  
  At Your Command focuses on one core manifestation of Neville—anything can be achieved easily if you first drop all conditioning by going into the state of 'I Am'. Although Neville's favourite method in most works is the 'state akin to sleep', this book focuses on the 'I Am' method.
  
  This is a very quick and concise book on improving your life by the master of New Thought and Law of Attraction.
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  Jessi Payne

  Interesting mindset book about taking responsibility for your life and taking action.
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  liv

  Hands down one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read. Gem after gem. No fluff, every sentence dives so deep and is full of healing power. A Must-read for anyone who wishes to live life to the FULLEST.
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  Brian Tubbs

  Neville Goddard's "At Your Command" resorts to heresy and blasphemy in order to bolster the New Thought movement and the Law of Attraction.
  
  I want to be fair in this review, so let me acknowledge my perspective. I’m a Bible-believing Christian. But, unlike some Christians, I’m also open to learning. I read widely - from different authors with various perspectives, including those who do not share my faith.
  
  In that spirit, I don't have a knee-jerk, disapproving reaction to anything related to the so-called "Law of Attraction." Indeed, I agree with many of the observations and wisdom put forward by those (like Goddard) who were pioneers of “New Thought” and many today who embrace the “Law of Attraction.”
  
  There’s wisdom to be gleaned from Goddard’s work, such as these quotes from “At Your Command”:
  
  "You can only be to others what you are first to yourself.”
  
  “Your opinion of yourself will determine your expression in life.”
  
  “To dissolve a problem that now seems so real to you all that you do is remove your attention from it. In spite of its seeming reality, turn from it in consciousness. Become indifferent and begin to feel yourself to be that which would be the solution of the problem.”
  
  “Life does not care whether you call yourself rich or poor; strong or weak. It will eternally reward you with that which you claim as true of yourself.”
  
  But there’s also some bad, even dangerous, advice such as:
  
  "Your desires contain within themselves the plan of self-expression. So leave all judgments out of the picture and rise in consciousness to the level of your desire and make yourself one with it by claiming it to be so now."
  
  Really? What about those who have a desire to exploit or abuse others?
  
  And then there's the premise itself, namely the author’s audacious undertaking to remake and redefine the Bible to be something that it is not AND to then insist that this is the best (and only legitimate) way to look at the Bible.
  
  Goddard writes: “Instead of looking upon the Bible as the historical record of an ancient civilization or the biography of the unusual life of Jesus, see it as a great psychological drama taking place in the consciousness of man.”
  
  Well...why? Much of the Bible IS a “historical record.” The Bible is actually a collection of books - and those books come in a variety of genres. But some of those books are indeed history books!
  
  Goddard completely redefines the Bible to be about consciousness and manifestation. And he centers it on everyone’s favorite subject: YOU.
  
  He writes: “If you, the reader, will give up all of your former beliefs in a God apart from yourself, and claim God as your awareness of being—as Jesus and the prophets did—you will transform your world with the realization that, ‘I and my father are one.’”
  
  This is breathtaking in its intellectual dishonesty! Goddard takes quotes by biblical prophets — and refashions them as if these people were speaking of themselves and their own consciousness! He also takes Jesus’ quotes and redefines them as Jesus asserting the same kind of divine consciousness that (Goddard says) all of us have — or can have.
  
  He even plays this redefinition game with one of the most reverent and holy identifiers for God in the Scriptures:
  
  “Before man can attempt to transform his world he must first lay the foundation—‘I AM the Lord.’ That is, man’s awareness, his consciousness of being is God. Until this is firmly established so that no suggestion or argument put forward by others can shake it, he will find himself returning to the slavery of his former beliefs.”
  
  To those who take God and the Bible seriously, this statement is nothing short of heresy and blasphemy!
  
  But even if you don’t believe in God or the Bible...
  
  What Goddard is doing is intellectually dishonest. Texts have meaning. The authors who wrote texts, including ancient texts, had goals and intentions when they (the authors) wrote those texts.
  
  Who is Neville Goddard to ignore or redefine the intentions of the biblical authors?
  
  Goddard’s approach represents a radical postmodernist conceit that (if fully imbibed) divorces one from reality.
  
  He even goes so far as to assert that his take on Jesus and the Bible must be accepted without question and that the alternative to his view is “slavery” to one’s former (and fundamentally flawed) beliefs.
  
  In his excellent book “Never Get Angry Again,” psychologist David J. Lieberman writes that “all roads out of reality lead to the land of suffering.”
  
  I commend anyone who wishes to better their life. I don’t want to pour water on that desire. But I encourage you not to divorce yourself from reality and intellectual integrity. That’s too high of a price to pay.
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  Marcelo Fernandes

  Just got into Neville Goddard's works, and there is no looking back. Loved this book and will continue to discover him more deeply.
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  A

  "Use your mind, ignorant creature. It has POWER to take you anywhere - to Mars, to Jupiter, nigh, even across the whole universe! You have not been properly taught how to use it, but you must picture whatever you want and you will get it. Yes, I tell thee! Thy mind has supreme power."
  
  Very intriguing for the persuadable, but loses its shine after a week or so.
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  Mark David Vinzens

  This rising in consciousness is the spiritual marriage where two shall agree upon being one and their likeness or image is established on earth.
  
  “Deny it if you will, it still remains a fact that consciousness is the only reality and things but mirror that which you are in consciousness. So, the heavenly state you are seeking will be found only in consciousness, for the kingdom of heaven is within you. As the will of heaven is ever done on earth you are today living in the heaven that you have established within you. For here on this very earth your heaven reveals itself. The kingdom of heaven really is at hand. NOW is the accepted time. So, create a new heaven, enter into a new state of consciousness and a new earth will appear.
  
  […]
  
  “I AM the Lord the God, which has brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; thou shalt have no other gods before me.” What a glorious revelation, your awareness now revealed as the Lord thy God! Come, awake from your dream of being imprisoned. Realize that the earth is yours, “and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that dwells therein.” You have become so enmeshed in the belief that you are man that you have forgotten the glorious being that you are. Now with your memory restored DECREE the unseen to appear and it SHALL appear, for all things are compelled to respond to the Voice of God, Your Awareness of Being – the world is AT YOUR COMMAND!”
  
  ― Neville Goddard, At Your Command
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  David Rambo

  A short but interesting book on metaphysical principles. In my opinion Neville Goddard was ahead of his time,as quantum physics are now bearing witness to the truth of many of his ideas. Goddard stressed our consciousness and imagination,coupled with emotion and belief as keys to manifesting in life. Quantum physics has proven that our conscious observation of energy affects it's behavior and causes materialization and localization of that energy. Goddard as well as other New Thought proponents taught that conscious action on an energetic field which pervades all of life is responsible for the materialization and creation of events and objects in life. Thoughts are comprised of energy,and energy and matter are interchangeable. It is not given to man to know how it works,God does that,but we know that it does work. I also appreciate a point made by Goddard,as well as other New Thought authors as to how we can be one with God,yet we are not God. Consciousness may produce an idea,the idea is one with the consciousness,yet the consciousness which produced the idea is far greater than the idea itself. Therefore we can say we are one with God,yet God is far greater than we are,his ways are past our knowing. Anyhow a good,short and thought provoking book.
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  Es

  Finished the Law of Consciousness and wanted to give this one a try. If you're new to the Law of Assumption and to Goddard's teachings I wouldn't recommend this as the first book to read, perhaps a good 5th or 6th.
  
  In this book, Neville emphasizes biblical imagination over practical reality. The formula, for Neville, is simple: your desire + your awareness of being ("I AM") = reality (the expression of that desire).
  Life does not make mistakes. Life does not care about right or wrong, morality was man's doing and undoing. Life does not care about whether or not you are worthy, whether or not you are deserving. Life does not give conditions. Again, these are man's doings and undoing.
  Instead, Neville teaches us to accept our desires as they are, remain convicted in our awareness that they have already been fulfilled, and watch everything happen as you command it.
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  Markus Nylund

  I listened to the audio versio of this from the Complete Reader (which I will review later). The content and narration is magnificient! Neville says the bible is about man's consciousness. I don't know if that is true but it's a compelling perspective. Looking forward to listen to the other books in the series. I also ordered a Neville collection in book form because I want to really understand this way of seeing the world as a manifestation of our own thoughts. I like combining spirituality with wealth and making one's whole life his work. That is something I am also in the process of doing. There is nowhere to hide when god and jesus are inside.
  
  This book feels like vitamins
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  Buck Wilde

  An actor-turned-mystic encountered a mystic-turned-mystic named Abdullah who fed him vague koan platitudes until he stumbled upon what was essentially the prototype for Law of Attraction, supported by out-of-context translations of Judeo-Christian scripture.
  
  The take-home is every time the Bible says "I AM", it's talking about consciousness, not God. So basically, our boy Neville is saying, "It's you! You just gotta own it, and the world is yours! You're God, dude!"
  
  Yeah, tell me something I don't know.
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  Lutf Chehne

  Another gem for truth seekers
  
  this knowledge can be linked to the sacred names of allah mentioned in the Quran, and the work of Amin Sabry concerning using them in prayers الدعاء باستخدام الأسماء الحسنى وتفعيلها,
  I believe this concept of praying using the various sacred names of the creator exists in Judaism too.
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  Maïssa Hammami

  «  LAW is never violated and you can rest confidently in the knowledge that every man's conception of himself is going to be his reward. So, you do not have to bother yourself about seeing whether or not man gets what you consider he should get. For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself. »
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  Canem

  "You can only be to others what you are first to yourself."
  
  Wonderful book about what Neville calls The Law of Assumption (and what the mainstream calls The Law of Attraction.
  This one is his first book and has many bible references in it. He quotes them and then interprets those in a mystical way, rather than in a religious way.
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  sasha

  Basta Neville Goddard yan 5 stars 🌟
  but, on a more serious note, this is the kind of self-help book I’ll never get tired of reading. the way it was written isn’t too complicated given that this topic isn’t particularly an easy one. I definitely won't recommend this to close-minded people most especially those who are sensitive to the topics of religion.
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  classicreader

  At Your Command is my favorite Neville Goddard book! I've read a lot of his works and listened/studied tons of his lectures and this by far is my favorite collection of his ideas. At Your Command is clear and concise, and somehow captures his spirit and character all into one short book. This would be the book I'd recommend any serious student of Neville and/or spiritual law in general. 5/5 stars!
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  Ninebubblewaters

  I really enjoyed this. It's the type of teaching that you can't rush through. I've read it and listened to the audio version. It takes some time to sink in. I wish I could hear Nevilles thoughts today! It gives an interesting perspective on what God is,or who he is.
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  Ali Hussein

  The Lord is your awareness of being. ‘I Am’. ‘Behold onto yourself all the powers you have portrayed on an external God’. This book was great. Lessons in Dualism and a Oneness with life. The awareness of ‘I Am’.
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  Amanda

  I had no idea what this book was going to be about. I thought it was a Christian philosophy book, but it's a metaphysical or new thought book, using Christian ideology or philosophy to make its claims. Would have been 2 stars, but there were some nuggets that pushed it to 3 stars for me.
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  MD

  If you don’t know, you better get to know. The information contained within this little gem of a book is easy to digest and understand but it requires study.
  
  Powerful stuff, if the Bible was taught like this, I’d be in church everyday!
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  Dawn

  Oh the power of the human mind.
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  Forgoszel

  …és ez így van!