Katherine Jegede - Infinite Possibility: How to Use the Ideas of Neville Goddard to Create the Life You Want

by Mitch Horowitz

A S SOMEONE WHO has written extensively on the history of New Thought and other mystical movements, I dread one (and only one) interview question: What voices in contemporary New Thought excite you? The honest answer is: almost none.

New Thought and positive-mind philosophy today have lost their bravery. Almost all of their books make tepid or vague claims, and almost all of their exponents vacillate between sloganeering and bland generalizing.

Almost.

An exception is Kate Jegede. She writes with the passion of the pioneers, especially Neville Goddard, whose methods receive a practical and dynamic re-exploration in this book.

As a student of Nevilles thought, Katelike any true spiritual experimenterhas nowhere to hide. A practical spiritual philosophy either works or it doesnt. That was Nevilles challenge to modern lifeand it is a challenge that Kate confronts here with courage, clarity, and practicality. Her book is about trying things; and measuring results.

As you will see from her introduction, Kate has worked intimately with Nevilles methods, and has repeatedly tested his audacious and inspiring principle that God is the human imagination. Through times of deep personal sorrow and extraordinary triumph, Kate reached the informed, radical conclusion: Neville was right. You will find that she uses no dodges or slogans, and has weathered immense personal challenges to reach this conclusion.

Kate divides Nevilles methods into simple, powerful chapters, each of which lays out a specific technique and guides you in exactly how to use it. She, like Neville, asks no one to take anything on faith or goodwill. Rather, Kate brings her own insights and personal experiences to weigh on Nevilles ideas, and offers irresistibly simple but dramatic methods to test the ultimate power of your mind. Try these ideas or forget them. The choice is yours.

I feel confident that if youve read this far in this foreword you will accept Nevilles and Kates challenge, and will work with the methods in this book. Most of us have lost the ability of personal ethical and spiritual experimentation. We nest within a world of social and news media, most of which affirms whatever we already believe, and mitigates against our asking: What if theres another way?

How do you or I know that a moral or mystical idea is to be taken seriously, or that our lives are bound by certain parameters, unless we challenge our conduct through new systems of thought? It is not enough to find a given idea appealing; its efficacy will remain unknown unless we attempt to live by it. And that is what this book is for.

Nothing in Kates book will rupture or divide you from your personal obligations and relationships. This book contains strictly inner experiments, though each is geared toward outward results (which is the only authentic way to measure an inner experiment).

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his journals on January 15, 1857: This good which invites me now is visible & specific. I will at least embrace it this time by way of experiment, & if it is wrong certainly God can in some manner signify his will in future. Moreover I will guard against evil consequences resulting to others by the vigilance with which I conceal it. Put differently, experiments of the mind allow for correction, and do not endanger the well-being of others, or the good that already is. That is the spirit in which we proceed here.

In approaching these ideas, remember: you are not required to join anything or quit anything; change the outer labels of your life; rearrange personal relations; or pay money or tributes to anyone. In using these techniques, you are working solely within the exquisitely private world of your mind. And in so doing, you may discover that your mind is all the world.