Tag Archives: Neville Goddard

7,841 words

Mitch Horowitz
The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2018

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. . . . When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church.”[1]

“Most Likely You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine”
Stephen King’s Fight Club

James J. O'Meara

3,820 words

Chuck Palahnuik
Adjustment Day: A Novel
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018

“Ears, gentlemen. Sandinista ears.”[1]

I had almost reached the massive iron door, hidden behind a construction dumpster, that serves as the entrance to the abandoned glove factory that has been my squat for the past several years Read more …

Published: September 7, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adjustment Day, Ayn Rand, book reviews, Chuck Palahniuk, Colin Wilson, James J. O'Meara, Jef Costello, literary criticism, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, The Fountainhead, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Noble Truths for Modern Mad Men

James J. O'Meara

4,562 words

Andrew Lynn
Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man
Classic Spirituality for the Modern Man
Howgill House Books, 2017

“In a time of universal triviality, seeking answers to the great questions of existence is . . . a revolutionary course of action. Those who have the humility to ask the question ‘Could it be us who have gone astray?’ are the true radicals.”–Andrew Lynn Read more …

Published: August 23, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Lynn, Aristotle, articles, Baltasar Gracián, book reviews, Chuang Tzu, excellence, Freidrich Nietzsche, James J. O'Meara, Niccolò Machiavelli, North American New Right, originals, Plato, the classics | Comments closed

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Looking for the Alt-Master

James J. O'Meara

4,611 words

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with Peter Christopherson
Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master
Texts and Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with Peter Christopherson. Edited with notes by Andrew M. McKenzie. Introductions by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Carl Abrahamsson
Trapart Books, 2018

“[Brion Gysin was] the only man that I’ve ever respected in my life. I’ve admired people, I’ve liked them, but he’s the only man I’ve ever respected.”[1]

Neville & the Rebel:
Reflections on Colin Wilson & Neville Goddard

James J. O'Meara

Neville Goddard

4,337 words

Part 2 of 2; part 1 here

Earlier, I noted Wilson’s second thoughts, 45 years later, about Religion and the Rebel as an “overstuffed pillow”; he specifically felt that the early biographical material on Rilke was “unnecessary.” But actually, it supplies us with a remarkable parallel to Neville’s method, as well as a hint of Wilson’s future development.

Wilson says if Rilke had died at age twenty-five, no one would have remembered him. Instead, he willed himself to be a poet. Read more …

Published: February 13, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Wilson, existentialism, James J. O'Meara, living well, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, William Blake | Comments closed

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Neville & the Rebel:
Reflections on Colin Wilson & Neville Goddard

James J. O'Meara

6,326 words

Colin Wilson

Part 1 of 2

“What was needed was not some new religious cult but some simple way of accessing religious or mystical experience, of the sort that must have been known to the monks and cathedral-builders of the Middle Ages.”–Colin Wilson[1]

“The serpent said that every dream could be willed into creation by those strong enough to believe in it.”–Eve to Adam, in Shaw’s Back to Methuselah Read more …

Published: February 12, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Wilson, existentialism, James J. O'Meara, living well, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion | Comments closed

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Lord Kek Commands!
A Look at the Origins of Meme Magic

James J. O'Meara

4,321 words

Neville (Goddard)
At Your Command: The First Classic Work by the Visionary Mystic Neville
New York: Snellgrove Publications, 1939; Tarcher Cornerstone Editions, 2016 (includes Mitch Horowitz’s essay on Neville’s life and work, “Neville Goddard: A Cosmic Philosopher”)

“Can a man decree a thing and have it come to pass? Most assuredly he can!” — Neville Goddard, At Your Command Read more …

Published: December 14, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Abdullah, Aleister Crowley, Arnold Josiah Ford, articles, Black Nationalism, books reviews, Donald Trump, Israel Regardie, James J. O'Meara, meme magick, memes, Mitch Horowitz, New Thought, Norman Vincent Peale, North American New Right, originals, Scott Adams, Traditionalism, Vincent Peale | Comments closed

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Jason Jorjani’s Prometheus & Atlas

James J. O'Meara

8,319 words

Jason Reza Jorjani
Prometheus and Atlas
London: Arktos, 2016

“A man is, whatever room he is in.”[1]

Christy Mattling: Tellin’ them innocent kids stories about the dead and their hauntings! That’s the work of the devil. You’ll pay for it. The Devil! That man is the Devil Himself!

Renee Coliveil: Oh shut up, you potentate of righteousness![2] Read more …

Published: September 26, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Herman Melville, James J. O'Meara, Jason Jorjani, magic, Martin Heidegger, meme magick, North American New Right, parapsychology, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Prometheus and Atlas, the occult, William James | Comments closed

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“Our Hemingway, Only Better“
Lovecraft Illuminated

James J. O'Meara

4,583 words

James Arthur Anderson
Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
Introduction by S. T. Joshi.
Wildside Press, 2014

“Drawing the line between concrete detail and trans-dimensional suggestion is a very ticklish job.” — H. P. Lovecraft[1]

Battle of the Magicians:
Baron Evola between the Dancer & the Druid

James J. O'Meara

5,274 words

A Constant Reader has called my attention (keep those cards and letters coming in, folks!) to some critical commentary on the magical writings of Baron Evola[1] by none other than John Michael Greer, who is Past Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America and current head of the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, dance, Introduction to Magic, John Michael Greer, Julius Evola, magic, meditation, New Thought, originals North American New Right, the occult, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Meme Magic is Real:
Neville Goddard’s Feeling is the Secret

News Item

210 words

Neville Goddard
Feeling is the Secret
Edited by James J. O’Meara
Amazon.com, Kindle, 2016

“This book is concerned with the art of realizing your desire. It gives you an account of the mechanism used in the production of the visible world. It is a small book but not slight. There is a treasure in it, a clearly defined road to the realization of your dreams.” Read more …

Published: July 27, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, magic, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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The Secret of Trump’s A Peale:
Traditionalism Triumphant!
Or: He’s Our Evola, Only Better?

James J. O'Meara

Norman Vincent Peale

7,144 words

“Personally, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling.” — Adlai Stevenson on hearing Norman Vincent Peale was supporting Eisenhower.

“I know that with God’s help I can sell vacuum cleaners.” — Rev. Norman Vincent Peale Read more …