Neville Goddard was a passionate and well-spoken preacher of the "New Thought" movement. Neville was the middle child in a big family of nine boys and one girl when he was born in St. Michael, Barbados, in 1905. In 1922, at the age of seventeen, he travelled to the United States to study drama. He started dancing, married his first wife, and had a son named Joseph Neville Goddard during this time
Neville's philosophy took an extreme turn during the last twelve years of his life, a turn that would jeopardise his metaphysical popularity. In 1959, he had a vexing supernatural encounter. "From inside his skull, which opened like a womb, Neville was renewed as a child, " he said. The spoke of "the promise, " that each of us is waiting to be freed through metaphysical fulfilment, in a difficult elucidation of the Bible and his own experience. The God beginning is, in fact, our imaginations. Psalm 82:6 was interpreted by him as the true state of man.