Neville Goddard And The Prisoner Of Amorgos

06 Nov Neville Goddard and The Prisoner of Amorgos

One of Neville Goddard’s lectures, “Thou Art Our Father, Our Potter” contains one of the most startling demonstrations of “imaginal causation” in a real historical event recorded in the New York Times in October 1969.

In the lecture, Neville highlights the escape of George Mylonas, who was a political prisoner exiled by the Greek junta to the island of Amorgos in the late 1960s.

Mylonas’ letter to the NYT on October 26, 1969 (see below), describes, his “imaginal act” that preceded his escape. Things like the coffee cups in the square, the cobbler opening his shop, the smell of fresh bread, the plainclothes informer puzzled that the prisoner had not appeared on his balcony.

It’s pretty obvious why Neville seized upon this news because it is a shocklingly clear example of his imagination teachings.

This letter is something very rare. Seeing a historical “involuntary mystic” performing an act of “The Law” Neville has exhaustively discussed.

It’s a very cool story and take into consideration Mylonas was under surveillance twenty-four hours a day, forbidden movement, cut off from the world and yet he entered the one place no junta could enter: the imagination.

Neville says in the lecture:

Now let me share with you a story I read two weeks ago in the New York Times, the magazine section. It was written by one who was imprisoned on the island of Amorgos in the Aegean Sea. He was a Greek imprisoned by the present regime that has taken over Greece, the generals. He was under house arrest and he was watched twenty-four hours a day. He was allowed to leave the house for a restaurant and by doctor’s orders to go for a certain walk after he had signed in at 6 PM with the police. Every morning at nine he had to sign in at the police and at 6 PM to return and sign in. Then he could go for a walk. These are his words, he said, “I began to imagine the scene in the village of horror the day after I escaped.” Then he imagined, “the elderly would be drinking coffee at nine in the morning, and then the cobbler would have opened up his doors for business, and then the scent of fresh bread would come straining through the windows of the bakery. By 9:30, because I had not registered, they would inquire of the one who had always sat in the public square dressed as a civilian looking at my apartment, and he would tell them that he had not seen me…I had not come upon my balcony. By 10:00 they would come to investigate themselves and then they would knock down the door. Then by 10:30 it would be, well, the news would scattered abroad and all would know that I was not there. Throughout the day the villagers would pass in their silent way, secretly but in a knowing way look one to the other that he isn’t here. That night they would gather in secret around their little shortwave radios listening for news from abroad of my escape. And so, I began to imagine that scene. The scene that gave me the greatest happiness was the scene when they all would know that I had escaped.”

Well, it came to pass, and he wrote his letter. His name is George Mylonos. It was on the 26th day of October, this last month that that letter appeared in the New York Times magazine, the Sunday issue. It all began in his Imagination. He was there for 409 days. At first it was only a dream, only a daydream. Then in the end he began to really do something about it. Now he told a story—which I will question because he wants to save the other prisoners on the other islands, also on the mainland—concerning exactly how he did it. Oh yes, there were physical means, but the means came into being as a result of his imaginal activity. To attempt to change circumstances before you change your imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of things. For this world in which we live is a world of Imagination. You are all Imagination and God, your reality, is all Imagination. Divine Imagination has reproduced himself in the human Imagination; therefore, all things exist in the human Imagination for all things exist in Divine Imagination.