Neville Goddard: The Frank Carter Lectures

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Frank Carter, friend of Neville Goddard (1905-1972) the twentieth century Christian Mystic, Author and Lecturer, gave a series of lectures in 1976, concerning his belief by way of his own vision and knowledge of scriptural meaning, that Neville Goddard's death had fulfilled scripture. The lectures contained in this book may not include every single lecture in Frank's series, and some of the audio was poor quality for transcription, but what we do have reveals little known details about Neville, a few anecdotes, Neville's last written words, and most importantly reveals what Neville's death meant scripturally, for us all. This book is not meant to be an exhaustive tale of Neville's life or even his work. In fact, the lectures, given by Frank Carter are focused more on Neville's last days and night, and Franks subsequent visions and understanding that Neville himself appeared in scripture. Neville's work is growing in popularity on the internet with available audio recordings and written lectures that continue to emerge, not to mention his books and booklets that can be purchased easily now. As more and more people come to find Neville's work, typically by way of learning The Law that Neville taught, I hope they continue to study Neville long enough to find truth mirrored back to them, to find themselves in Neville's work. As he said, the whole story in The Bible is actually about us, about awakening. This book of lectures can appeal to any truth seeker, or Bible lover, and especially any student of Neville Goddards who has read and believed. Grab a Bible and a concordance and follow along as Frank shares what he has found. The lectures contained in this book, in Franks words, are intended to reveal the great revealer. Frank said of Neville... "This man stepped out of the pages of scripture and came to us and gave us the great secret, and told us whatever we do, don't worship him. Don't make him into a demigod, this is all for awakening. " Review: Terrible transcriptions and repetitive - I would not go so far as to say this book is not worth reading. There was a lot of interesting information and ideas. Just be aware it gets increasingly painful to read as the repetitiveness makes it less and less worth the slog of enduring the terrible transcriptions. I’m not joking when I say it’s quite obvious that they paid different people with no real understanding of the material to transcribe each lecture. No one checked the words and passages Frank referred to in order to get the actual spelling of the words, and despite the same material being repeated half a dozen times or more, the spellings warp from lecture to lecture as a different transcriber is shuffled in, or worse, words are completely misheard. For example, by the time you’re completely tired of hearing every lecture how Paul said he was a “fool,” the last lecture transcribes it as “food” several times! Literally says that Paul said he was a food. At least it’s funny, but this is probably the only book I’ve ever read where it was genuinely clear there was literally not an editor. No one read the transcripts once they were sent over, they just threw them all into a book, printed it, and sold it. One of the earlier lectures even left in an mp3 filename that was clearly a personal reminder the transcriber forgot to delete. On top of that, none of the transcribers had any talent for punctuating the words to read as conversationally as Frank said them in the recordings so it reads as very rambly and incoherent. There are TONS of quote marks that are never closed. There are TONS of puzzling paragraph breaks and many places where there ought to have been paragraph breaks but there wasn’t. If the lectures had been transcribed with any skill, edited at all, checked against the Bible and Hebrew, Greek, and Egyptian words Frank referenced, and clarified with footnotes, this could have been a worthwhile book. As it stands, the best thing I can say about it is that it has kept the material from being entirely lost, and the material itself is interesting — though it could be easily condensed into a few dozen pages. Review: Not for beginners to Neville Goddard - Nice quality. The lectures here are repetitive. It would have been nice to hear the audios. Stick with Neville's material for the guidance as this book isn't about that. Waste of money if you're new to this material.