The wonderful story about the first time I tested and successfully manifested on a grand scale using Neville's teachings:
It was the spring semester of my junior year of college as a Business student at San Diego State University.
At the time, the thing that I desired most was to spend a semester abroad studying and living in a foreign country. I had long given up on the idea as I was already heading into my final year of university without having made any plans or preparations for studying abroad. At the same time, my parents were already struggling to support my tuition and living expenses, and I was barely scraping by financially as a broke college student. Nonetheless, if Neville Goddard's teachings were true, I knew I would have nothing to lose by testing them out to manifest studying abroad for a semester.
I decided definitely what I wanted: To spend an exciting memory-filled semester studying abroad in New Zealand (I was always intrigued by the country's natural beauty since watching the original Lord of The Rings movies) in the fall semester of my senior year, being able to return to San Diego, complete my studies, and walk in my graduation ceremony the following spring semester.
I also desired to make international friends from all over the world during my time abroad, and to journey with a few of them on a road-trip around the country after the completion of my studies abroad.
Here was the imaginal scene that I created:
The setting of the imaginal scene was the beautiful Milford Sound, in New Zealand's South island (I had also set a photo of Milford sound as my desktop photo on my laptop). Before I went to bed, I imagined myself as if I were in New Zealand looking at the beautiful glacier carved rock formations of Milford Sound. To my right were a group of 3 friends that I had made at university during my studies abroad, implying that this scene was taking place at the end of the semester.
I repeated to myself something along the lines of." I am so grateful that it all worked out" and having felt my desire fulfilled, dropped the image and dozed off to sleep.
3 days later, as I was walking on the main campus of SDSU, I ran into a girl that I hadn't had any contact with since my freshman year of college. She had lived in my freshman dorms and had been an acquaintance of mine.
She was happy to see me and I of her. I asked her what she had been up to, and she informed me that she had just returned from a semester studying abroad in Melbourne, Australia. She raved about her time there and the experiences she had. It was then that I informed her that I too was strongly considering studying abroad in Australia's neighboring country, New Zealand!
She became excited for me, as she had also spent 2 weeks traveling New Zealand's south island during her 2 week mid-semester break, speaking very highly of the country's natural beauty. She promptly listed out all the steps I would need to take to Study abroad the following semester, informing me that the first step would be to attend one of the study abroad workshops held by the college of business . I thanked her for the information and exchanged contact information as we went our separate ways (yes, I was astonished by the incident!)
That very same evening, I received in my inbox an email from the college of business informing me of an upcoming study abroad workshop taking place on the Thursday of that week..
That Thursday I attended the workshop. There were about 15 people in total and the workshop was run by a woman who introduced herself as the Director of Study Abroad Affairs for the College of Business,
The meeting commenced and she gave us all the information we needed to know if we desired to study abroad, including application deadlines for those of us who desired to study abroad the following semester.
She proceeded to the financial portion of the workshop, informing us that SDSU operated on a partner university exchange program, meaning if we desired to study abroad at a partner university, we would pay SDSU tuition, and trade spots with another student from our desired university! On top of that, she informed us that SDSU had a large scholarship fund that awarded grants for student's plane tickets to travel abroad! All that was left was to cover were housing and living costs, and considering that San Diego was already one of the priciest places to live in the world, studying in foreign countries where the cost of living was cheaper and spending stronger US dollars could actually save us money!
But, it only gets better...
Toward the end of the workshop the director of study abroad affairs took a poll regarding where the students in the workshop desired to study. She asked who desired to study in Europe, and 10 of the 15 people raised their hands. She then proceeded to Asia, and another 4 people raised their hands. She then got down to the Oceania universities and asked if anyone desired to study in Australia or New Zealand. To my surprise, I was the only one with my hand up.
She decided that she should use me as a guinea pig example to see if I would actually be eligible to study abroad at my desired University. She brought up the Auckland University of Technology's transferable business courses to SDSU credits. She then questioned me to what core business courses I had left to complete my degree. After her demonstration she showed that AUT in New Zealand had an abundance of courses for me to choose from to complete my core curriculum and that the university would be a perfect fit for me! She even concluded the demonstration by saying, "If you apply to be nominated for a study abroad experience next semester, you might as well pop the champagne now, because you're a shoe-in!"
I applied for the program that week, and just a few weeks later was notified that I had been nominated to study abroad at AUT in Auckland, NZ for the fall semester of my senior year, exactly as I desired! My friends and family were all caught off guard because I had never even spoken of the desire to them! That's how fast it all happened!
Now there were some even more amazing synchronicities... too many to list out in this post (my boss for a summer bookkeeping job I took on that summer decided to pay for my $1400 plane ticket using his credit card travel reward points for a $700 job I performed + I was awarded a grant in the amount of $900 by SDSU to contribute toward my travel expenses!)
Nevertheless, In July of 2017 I got on a plane departing LAX and landed in Auckland, NZ, spending what would be the most amazing time of my life studying and living in the middle of Auckland's city center, exploring the city on weekends, enjoying the nightlife, making International friends from all over the world, learning about Kiwi culture, taking a 2 week backpacking trip up Australia's East coast during my semester break and most notable of all, going on a 2 week road trip around New Zealand's south island after the completion of my studies abroad with 4 of my closest international friends that I had made during my semester at AUT (Yes, we stopped at Milford sound on that road trip, and yes I shed a couple tears at the realization that I had created the experience by first entering it in my imagination 10 months before!)
I know this was a lengthy post, but if you made it this far, then take my story as a sign that Neville's teachings are very real and they do work, and if you have any doubts, just test them out as I did. You will surprise yourself at how powerful you are in creating your own experience of life. Yes, it does take practice to discipline your mind and focus on the things you desire to experience in your imagination, but the rewards are priceless
To all of you lovely souls who took the time to read this post, I send you love, and happy manifesting on your journey!