There isn’t a single book to be called a New Thought and Personal Development all-time classic. Wired differently, we find various approaches as more or less efficient, and everyone has their favorites. Despite that, I believe that the one I’m about to discuss off tops many lists of fitting the description titles. No, it really isn’t Think, Grow, Rich. Though it certainly comes from the same author. And they usually go hand to hand.

Called “Outwitting The Devil,” this written by Napoleon Hill absolute masterpiece was one of those to blow my mind” when I read/listened to them first. Because of that, I decided to do something I always wanted. Review the book by slightly interpreting and commenting on the stuff in it, I find most inspiring. While that includes plenty, to be maximally concise, I’ll keep it under 12 000 words total. Including the quotes. And address the following subjects:

Before starting, however, I think it’s only right to do this disclaimer. Like any other by N. Hill, OWD was meant to be studied and not just read. Approached in that manner, the book builds a growing with one’s life experiences perception. So what I do in the following paragraphs is presenting my version of that. Nothing more, nothing less!

Meaning I by no means pretend to be an authority on Hill’s philosophy/teachings. And neither on any of the subjects of discussion. I merely have the hunch that other, like-minded individuals may somehow benefit from my understanding, experiences, and thoughts. Having that said, please fasten your seatbelts! Don’t expect linear thinking. Do appreciate my work for what it is. And let’s and begin.

Not limited to a physical body, Hill’s Devil’s best described as preoccupying one half of the atom, Universe, and especially people’s minds energy. — Yours including. Where he dwells, is in those portions of the mind, one not only doesn’t utilize. But often isn’t aware they actually exist. Yes, rather than controlling planets and stars, the Devil’s all about turning people into his cause’s pawns. How he does that is through multiple ways. Yet the various forms of fear appear as best serving his initiative of converting people into not thinking/acting for themselves “drifters.” — More on that later.

What he also states is that though there are 6 forms of fear. Those of poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love, old age, and death. The first and the last are the handiest for controlling people.

Having a grip on 98% of them, through fear, he turns their lives (on earth) into a living hell. Commonly he does that by instilling the totally wrong, fear-based beliefs. Like that, there’s nothing but eternal punishment after this life/reality.

Despite furthest from the truth, the last saps peoples’ independent thought flow. Thus makes them of less possession of their own minds. An excellent example of a non-drifter, the Devil doesn’t waste time but rather swiftly takes advantage of that. And this is when the person’s real hell begins. 

You see? The Devil never really planned on taking anyone’s soul after death. Instead, he intends to make people fear that or something else. What else? Well, that such as whether or not the thing’s actually real is of absolutely no importance.

Because the truth is that fearing something not real is precisely as much destructive as “fearing” one that actually is. Knowing it better than anyone, the Devil merely quadruples on that. And then lets the chips fall where they may.

• Taking control over the young is one of the Devil’s highest priorities. The reason being is because that never lets people begin doing their own thinking. Nor developing themselves into definite, independently acting human beings. In other words, into what Hill describes as non-drifters and students of the Great University Of Life. — The only capable of teaching them their Definite Chief Aim.In all of its forms, however, fear really isn’t the single tool utilized by the Devil for breaking the young’s will. For that, he also employs four other devices.

Even that self-destructive habits come in couples and work as a magnet for each other, it’s safe to say that Devil puts extra effort into turning youngsters into smokers. Or as he likes to say… “Making them join his two packs a day club.” Though far from being the single self-destructive habit, smoking plays a role very substantial in the entire Devil’s scheme. What it does besides (of course) destroying the person’s will, vitality, and health, is that it opens doors for the whole gamut of self-destructive habits.

Okay. Let me stop reviewing for a moment and share an exciting, real-life story…

• Being a school-despising, household issues-facing, fearful, and very insecure child, I began smoking in third grade. While months later, I already masturbated up to 10 and often even more times a day, soon I also got into drinking. Matter of fact, I not only got into it. But also got into the toxicology because of poisoning myself with it. A few times in 5th grade.

• After a decade as a smoker and months of planning it (inspired by my mom’s dad), I stopped smoking for a day. As if by Magick, during the next year, I also entirely gave up drugs and guess what happened then. I quit booze. Thought that happened, after months of real struggle. I mean like “Really Real.” Years later, in 2013, I did the same with fapping and the misuse of sex. Hence started seeing and utilizing the latter for what it truly is. — The most potent driving force in our lives.

No, I didn’t know who N.Hill was for that whole period. Despite that, my little story is concrete evidence that he was unbelievably ahead of his time. So ahead to be well-aware of some only recently discovered, ground-braking information. Somehow he knew the following. Identically to sugar, smoking also causes what modern science describes as a “Gateway Effect.” In other words, it makes the brain want to receive more stimulation from other, much stronger substances.

Known as “cross-sensitization,” as earlier stated, that basically is a door-opening process for more and harsher addictions. Quite impressive? Or isn’t it The more fascinating, if you ask me, is that OWD was actually written, in 1938. Meaning not just around 50 years before the world started opening its eyes for the truth about smoking. But also about 20 before tobacco companies started using quote-unquote scientists to advertise it as a weight-loss, health, well-being, and even athleticism promoting habit.

• Yeah, that actually happened back in the 60s. But if you don’t believe me, then be shocked after googling some of the cigarette ads from that era. Then you repeat for the mainly designed for women speed-based medications.

Latter on the same, he also explains that thanks to propaganda, he is ahead in the process of obtaining control over and even Hitlerizing America. While since not based there, I can’t really speak for the latter, I have the profound sense that he already succeeded in doing the first. Not only to the U.S. but to the entire world. How that happened was mainly through social media. Which, often appears as Web 2.0’s worst side-effect.

You see? While in previous times, ignoring something’s or someone’s propaganda was possible. And way more encouraged. That’s no longer the case. Now instead of only religious, political, and of various products and services, “propaganda” is unavoidable and about everything and anything.

It’s on phones, tablets, and computers. On the billboards and in every commercial and song you hear. In fact, for the most part, there isn’t that much difference between those two categories.

• Propaganda tells you what you should like, strive for, and spend on. Who you should hang and have sex with. Defining success and happiness, it says what your life purpose should be. Last but not least, propaganda provides a countless number of opinions to loosely express on any subject. Regardless of whether or not you researched and have experience with it. All and all, it does people’s thinking. And prevents them from using their minds.

Maybe in former eras, all that was optional. You were able to switch off the T.V. To not listen to the radio and to never read newspapers or magazines. Now things are different, and propaganda is omnipresent.

Permanently influencing all aspects of the environment, it manufactures, not solely the American. But the global drifting-glorifying culture/matrix. Known as consumerism, to me, the last kinda seems as a mutated version of Devil’s web. And that is another reason why Hill’s masterpiece isn’t just timeless. But also published right on time.

An excellent point the book makes is that rather than helping people advance spiritually, religion continues frightening them with the Devil. Thus keeps spreading, and even being the source of the fear of him. Surely Hill wanted us to consider that. Yet there are some more critical things to be deciphered in those sections. Or at least, I think there are.

The first is that rather than referring to all, the author covertly specifies, organized religions. While we all know what some of them did during the medieval ages, what they still do now is incomparably much worse than scaring people with an imaginary Devil.

They force individuals into a strictly dictated by their churches, fear-based relationship with God. Besides denying humans’ divine aspect, that prevents developing the most potent and direct link with Infinite Intelligence one could ever have.

Another known fact is that organized religion suppresses sex and free expression of will. Now, let’s stop for a moment and remind ourselves something extremelly substantial. Namely that while accordingly to the author, those two combined elevate one to highest states of genius. According to Freud (and others), suppressing them actually is the root cause of all mental illnesses.

• Yet that isn’t to say that organized religion has that much control, such as in previous times. But that the society and the governments merely inherited/employed its methods for mass control through fear. And of course, breaking one’s will when weakest and most vulnerable. Last but not least, here we can’t skip addressing the habit of imitation. The same describes the children’s natural inclination of imitating others at the time when their consciousness could be defined as a blank. And absorbs pretty much everything like a sponge.

• When properly utilized, flattery becomes a powerful weapon. One for gaining control over others. Compared to a “pulling rope,” according to the book in women, the same works on their vanity. But in men, on their egotism. However, I think that in our global ego-tripping culture and era, both genders crave flattery, not just more than ever. But also in a very identical manner. So let me extrapolate on that, with the following.

• Flattery’s efficiency is hidden within people’s insatiable thirst for validation. It provides us with something, even the best of us secretly, yet desperately-desire/badly crave. The fake insurance or illusion that we are or getting closer to becoming our idealized-selves. Intoxicating as those produced by drugs that could be seen as a real high to bring the worst of us. And make us delusional about our own places in life. Or at least it surely can. As long as the person bites the so-called chief bait. Hence thrust the flatterer’s words. Therefore begins living with the mentality that they’re accurate.

• Just like in the previous, in this case, the hypnotic rhythm will eventually take over. Then those things will become who you are and guess what. Once that happens, you’ll no longer need to rely on willpower to sustain them. Though some might be required at the earliest stages. Then imagining your life otherwise, will start feeling super-difficult. And if for the sake of seeing what’s going to happen, you for force yourself to not do them, everything will seem utterly wrong. And that precisely what the Time principle or giving permanency to positive, rather than negative thought-habits and developing wisdom is all about.

• All you need is (A) Doing it every day! (B) Being definite and at least somehow realistic; And (C) Not keeping up with the Joneses. Nor thinking of material goods to possess, mainly to flex on someone else. 

• Rather than wasting efforts envisioning cool yet totally unpractical stuff like “having 6 chains on,” invest the time to see, and most importantly, feel yourself living in abundance of two kinds of things. Ones to optimize your brain and body. Thus your health, performance, and life quality. And others to not just help you improve.

• But actually to reach absolute excellence with your skills, talents, and crafts. What I’m saying is, embed in your mind the perception of having not liabilities but more (and the right assets). Know that only them and not the luxuries are what will help you do your best when executing on this quote:

• Once more, N.Hll was far ahead of his time. What he also knew was something which, mostly due to functional medicine, science started considering only the last 1/2 decades. Namely that there’s a massive correlation between one’s eating habits and his or her mood and emotions. And mental and physical performance. Equal to permanent food poisoning, improper/conventional eating is, in fact, the root cause for the vast majority of illnesses. And according to the book, headaches. Called auto-intoxication, it tremendously overtaxes the whole system while filling one’s sewer with (a compared to deadly poison) waste. Besides, sick that makes the person physically sluggish and mentally irritable and fussy.

Deserving a separate review, this section teaches how to avoid one of the most self-destructive mistakes. Neglecting to understand and master the desire for sex. Rather than suppressed or allowed to follow its natural course, the same must be (A) recognized as one of the most potent driving and healing forces. (B) Channeled towards productive outlets; What that means operating as an alchemist and turning the desire for mere physical expression into one for personal achievement, vitality, excellent life quality, and all the magic that comes with them. Or as written in the Kybalion.“Transforming the nondesirable into worthy thus triumphant.” Letting the might of your not physically experienced orgasms, spillover. And while turning you into a far better person immensely optimize all aspects of your existence.

• Here I’d like to also suggest that when addressing the sexual desire or libido, N.Hill recognizes is it not that much in a Freudian but in a more Jungian way. And that is something to apply to all of his teachings. Meaning that rather than entirely sexual, to him, this actually is psychic energy. — One manifesting in a great variety of directions, including life itself.Expressed in instinct, function, and desire, it interchanges and transforms. Varying in, direction, intensity, and aim, it animates in all conscious purpose as a creative principle of life. Based on my research, both Jung and N.Hill (greatly) agree that the inception of every remarkable art piece, scientific discovery, invention, or successful business/product, is more or less originated by the same energy.

When wasted or inappropriately utilized, however, its incredible potency leads to a series of adversities. Starting with a deprived of magnetism, unattractive personality, that encompasses things like laziness, lack of perseverance and definiteness, absence of drive/enthusiasm, creativity depletion, all sorts of drifting, and diminished ability to self-heal. — The last includes both mind and body. Though not taught in school and usually skipped by parents, correctly understanding and using sex is just as substantial as doing the same with nutrition. And keeping your sewer clean. Yet to find more about sex transmutation, I suggest checking my “4″ and “5 years of NoFap” videos and articles. Such as that called “How to transmute your sexual energy.”

Equally destructive as the former two, this mainly encompasses three things. (1) Openly talking about your plans and goals. Here the book notes that “wise people keep their plans and ideas to themselves.” In other words, they move in silence. Besides preventing others from interfering with your schemes (as written on page 195), that if you ask me also spares facing plenty of greed, envy, and hatred. 

• Regrettably, people don’t want you to succeed. To prevent it from happening, they attempt to discourage you. And how they commonly do, it is with more loosely organized opinions. By eliminating that possibility and keeping your mouth shut, you do a favor to both you and the others. Why is that, is because you’re not giving them a reason to feel insecure and angry. Nor filled with other negative emotions.

(2) Giving opinions without being asked for them. The chief motive behind this is the craving for attention and impressing others. Blind to the possibility of embarrassment, the same is commonly triggered by one’s vanity and egotism. Thus could be examined as an actual craving for flattery.

(3) Though not stated in this exact manner, freely discussing or commenting on subjects you don’t comprehend. Never researched/done your homework on;And neither have any experience with. What that does is making you perceive the world through random guessing and not real information and facts. Ones to be either based on science, real-life experience, and common sense. Or ideally on a combination of them all.

No, I don’t have a written on this article. Despite that, to my mind, come a of suggestions to help you master it. (1) Move-in silence/secrecy. Thus not inform anyone about your goals and deepest desires. Instead, let others speak and patiently listen. (2) Before discussing it research a subject or topic as much as possible.

Unlike others, I don’t really believe, “disciplining” yourself is the outcome of that. Or at least not in the traditional sense of the word. Before continuing, however, I’d like to note that my perspective is of a person who, as mentioned, is never hungry nor eats more than once per day. Does NoFap for above 6 years. Seldom ejaculates. And whether or not I have the third, I’m leaving you to decide on your own.

We’ve been told that discipline is required for achieving anything. While having it kinda make us unstoppable and could be an all problem solution, without it, we’re basically lost. Although I can’t disagree with that, there was a critical detail, none of the discipline advocates has ever told me. One, I luckily figured out on my own journey. And with modern science’s and this book’s tremendous help.

Namely, that as mighty as it is, discipline is a lot like a powerful engine. To run not just optimally, but in fact, at all, it does require fuel. Meaning that without the last, discipline is like a car with no gas. It doesn’t go anywhere. And that’s regardless of how fast it could be. Same as our bodies, discipline works with/burns two kinds of fuel. (1) Want power; (2) Willpower; Extremelly potent and valued as priceless, they are both limited resources. Yet besides their abundance, “discipline” also requires maintaining very high levels of both physical and mental energy.

• What happens when you master all three isn’t that forcing yourself to do so and so completely and utterly against your will and desires becomes easy. It’s that you unlock/make readily available an ocean of those fuels. When that happens, even partially like in the cases of only eating OMAD or doing NoFap, people start reporting having superpowers. So do they have some? No, they do not! It’s just that rather than wasting, they begin cultivating and using the powers given them by nature. The same which, due to modern culture and living, they deprived themselves of since forever. Something I firmly believe is that once the first and the second are mastered, the third happens almost organically.

• The want for sex is transformed into one for plenty of research requiring betterment. One to inevitably require and develop plenty of the right kinds of habits. The spend on fighting the lost battle with hunger willpower preserved. Thus widely available for meaningful things. The latter also applies to one’s number of daily decisions, physical and mental energy. And other stuff extensively discussed in the mentioned content. IMHO that at least partially does what qabalists call getting your animal soul/lower self Nephesh on board. Often described as a distracted kid, it responds to and craves tastes, smells, and pleasures. If not given those, it does everything possible to sabotage your performance.

• Closing the door of one’s mind against the Devil, having definiteness of purpose is the most certain escape of drifting. Also described as the starting point from which to establish your own environment, and similarly to building skill, faculty, or an impressive physique, it develops only through constant, systematic use. Or in other words, through absolute perseverance. Beginning with independent thinking, it must be exercised in all areas of life. On the surface, that’s being very particular about your goals. And arranging everything so it could contribute to their achievement.

• Not part of the actual interview, the book begins with some real-life stories. And a very fascinating subject. Called the Other Self, the last becomes present during Hill’s challenging period of desperation, and lack of faith. Another aspect of his mind, The Other Self, gets the author on the right track, guiding him in fulfilling his absolute True Purpose. — Writing and publishing the success philosophy, Andrew Carnegie asked him to develop.

• The O.S. assures Hill that everything will turn out for the best. As long as instead of fearing and worrying, he has faith and focuses on the tasks at hand. Those orders make the author rediscover not just life and himself, but also “failure.” And even adversity. Then he begins recognizing the third for what it truly is. — Nothing more than temporary defeat and a fresh opportunity to try again. Now with much greater understanding and experience. How that comes to his mind is through an invaluable insight, I believe, even the best of us should meditate on. Or at least do so, whenever taking a loss.

• Supposedly we can safely assume that Hill’s Other Self is the main contributor to the book’s creation and the work we know him for. The more fascinating, however, is that the author reveals that we all have Other Selves. And by putting them into operation, we ensure most efficiently serving our Definite Chief Aim. Thus also automatically escape the Devil’s web. Can even you imagine?

• In the face of prayer, faith, and positive thinking, Hill also shares some tools to aid us in achieving that. Undoubtedly, one of the most compelling and lifechanging things to ever read in a book, I believe that opens the door for a whole different way of self-improvement. Yet perhaps also leaving some readers with the one puzzling question.

While solving that mystery took me some time (and more reading), to present my answer, I’ll have to first clarify something. — The meaning with which I’ll use the word “Ego” for the rest of this review. Rather than egotism or self-centeredness, by speaking of “Ego,” I’ll be referring to the following. The Individual’s center of conscious awareness. That of the personality through which one perceives both the internal and the external world. The “day to day” consciousness. And the “I” through which one experiences the reality. Including emotions, feelings, thoughts, memories and etc. In other words, I’ll be mostly using the term in its Jungian sense. Thus speaking of that part of the soul which those versed in the Qabalah call “Ruach.”

• Having that clarified, let’s imagine that one’s consciousness is divided into two. Or, as N.Hill says, inside it live two different persons. Or entities. While completely necessary, the ego is driven by fear and malleable to the Devil’s control. But the Other Self is driven by faith and, most importantly, pervasive to divine guidance. Representing one’s deeper consciousness or True Self depends on who you ask that could be seen as one’s link with his or her Holy Guardian Angel. Or Higher or Divine self. AKA that part of the soul, which is also part of GOD. Or Infinite Intelligence.

  Thus it’s the person’s direct link with it. Thelema calls that Khabs. Qabalah names it Yechida. In that way of thinking, Qabalistically, the Other or True Self corresponds that termed as Neshama. Or at least to the most approachable part of it.

• Meaning that the Other Self is the single entity within the conscious mind capable of keeping one connected with the Divine. Or said differently of channeling one’s highest and intrinsically purest genius. The same which btw is mentioned all across N.Hill’s teachings. Especially those regarding the 6th sense; the intuition, and (of course) the sexual transmutation. What appears to be the case IMHO is that the author somehow established and strengthened that link (solely) through faith, positive thinking, and the other, referred to in his work devices. Alternatively, you may think of it like this. Your Other Self is your True Self. But your susceptible to the devil’s influence and control ego wants to usurp and command your entire conscious mind.

Where I think something similar’s depicted is in the legendary Neon Genesis Evangelion. Particularly in its 16th episode — Splitting Of The Breast. After losing consciousness during a battle, there the main character Shinji Ikari talks to his Other Self. Revealing some truths about him, those around, and the created by his ego narrative, the last appears in an extremelly challenging moment. Identically to what happens with N. Hill. Shinji’s Other Self looks like his child version. A symbol of purity and the times when his ego wasn’t so developed. And he was closer to GOD. More importantly, however, is that Shinji’s Other Self has The Sun shining behind his back and above his head as a sphere. What I think that symbolizes is the connection with the same Yechida, Kether, or HGA. Or at least, it certainly does when considering the embedded in the entire series qabalistic symbolism. Something not mentioned in Outwitting The Devil, but said in Eva, is that the OS doesn’t live only in one’s mind, but also in those of others knowing one. A product of Hideaki Anno’s genius, that concept I believe is another worthy of meditating on. So to find more about it, I highly encourage watching the anime. Now it’s on NetFlix.

Different than the Eastern Tradition, which ultimate goal is reaching Nirvana or becoming one with the Divine, by getting rid of many aspects of one’s soul, particularly the ego, that of the West strives for pretty much the total opposite. Unveiling one’s divinity by developing the mind. So it could be suitable for that. Or, as some metaphysicians say: Transforming it into a cup/vessel to hold Angel’s Light.

• How the Western System does that isn’t by eliminating but by bringing into operation more aspects of one’s mind. What that includes isn’t only the material, the person doesn’t utilize nor is aware of. But also that he or she deliberately suppresses and denies. Because (A) As Dr. Christopher Hyatt says, it’s not good enough to fit someone’s “idealized self.” — Leading cause of inferiority complexes, that’s the never reachable, fictitious, idealized version, he or she chooses to compare themselves with. Or (B) their persona — AKA, the edited mask they decide to show to the world. Nowadays, on social media.

Scared to be who they really and entirely are people mistreat and suppress large parts of themselves. While pushing those deep into the mind’s unknown regions prevents one from ever becoming complete. In the context of this book, it equals surrendering them to the Devil. And even calling him to come starts controlling them.

Similar to most of the book, there are layers of understanding to this one as well. Or at least I believe there are. While the first is about ensuring you don’t waste skills and talents or maybe tools and equipment. Or perhaps even stuff you can sell. The more profound is that of accepting yourself as a whole. And making tangible/putting into operation as much of that whole is humanly possible.

The more you do that, the more you move the separating your ego threshold in favor of your Other Self. Hence the more you make it grow. So the more powerful and present it becomes in your daily thoughts and actions. In other words, the more appropriately shaped and pervasive to divine guidance your (day to day) consciousness becomes.

• The more you neglect, suppress, deny, and refuse aspects of yourself because they don’t meet society’s ever-changing trends or criteria nor fit some twisted ideals, the more they start working against you. Hence become Devil’s property. Whether or not you want to accept that, I think the same once more brings to Jung. Splitting certain aspects of yourself because you find them somehow inappropriate, shameful, traumatic, offensive, or whatever reason might be precisely what creates psychological tension and leads to neurosis. And obviously one or more of the “basic fears.” The key is, is not denying anything of what you already are. But instead making it tangible and using it all to become that you were intended to be. Learning from and conquering life by being definite and striving to do your best, driven by divine guidance and the sense of personal achievement. Living life as nothing but a mere expression of the Universal Will.

Called Infinite Power, Supreme Consciousness, The Great G or Architect, and of course, The All, I.I. could also be recognized in other New Thought/Mind Causality books. A perfect example of that is another favorite of mine. The Written by William Walker Atkinson/”Three Initiates” in 1908 “The Kybalion.” According to that, we find that we live in a mental Universe. And the same is sourced from The All’s Universal Father/Mother Mind. Naming it the Universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence, OWD teaches that by attuning our minds to it and adapting to its laws, we can manifest whatever we want.

• Though likely unusual, I like to think of Infinite Intelligence as the Thelemic Star goddess Nuit. Or as the same is the actual “storehouse.” manifesting from what qabalists call Ain Sof Or. Or Infinite Light. Aka the source of everything and anything. Actually to my knowing Nuit corresponds to the second veil. So to me, that’s the easiest way to envision that which no one can imagine. Or at least its somewhat more comprehensible to a finite mind aspect. Not solely because She’s the infinite space, time, and the whole Universe. Nor because OWD refers to I.I. as She. The reason for the latter is that, besides all mentioned, Nuit is the very infiniteness of experiences and possibilities which may or may not happen. Said differently, She’s all potentialities.

• Also carried within each person, Hadit, aka Nuit’s masculine partner, is the center point perceiver of all those events or experiences. Because of that, I think it could be said that putting in control the Other Self is quite alike attuning one’s own Hadit to the right possibilities. Those which the sum total of makes the person’s True Life Purpose. Or definite chief aim. Then for lack of a better term, one’s consciousness downloads them. And the person manifests them on the physical plane through definiteness of purpose, while strengthening his or her own inner communion with the universe’s eternal soul.

Something which I believe is kinda what the law of attraction explains. In that way of thinking and besides all else, the Devil could be seen as the sum total of possibilities for one to fail/fall into drifting.

As found in all of N.Hill’s teachings, a critical role for the former plays the Imagination. Тhe stronger it is, the more readily those downloads happen. And the more perfect I think, the earlier suggested sequence becomes. Such as that of the intuition, the source imagination is rooted in the unconscious.

Part of what I meant when speaking of the Other Self’s functions, I think that opens plenty of room for researching another brilliant mind of the New Thought tradition. Nevil Goddard. A core belief in his principles is that GOD actually is the people’s imagination. And the same is what creates reality.

Whether or not that entirely describes the truth, I can’t say. What I can, however, is that it provides another unique perspective of basically the same. Without deviating from the concept that the Divine is experienced via the linked to the astral plane unconscious.

What I think makes OWD priceless is that it conveys not only some fundamental truths about the Universe. But also hints for aspects of some of the most ancient and potent transformational practices. And philosophies.Presenting them in a manner understandable by simple, noninitiated people like me, it opens doors for a whole new level of self-development. One based on seeking wisdom beyond the seen here and now. Yet also deeply within. Moreover, it does that while elegantly staying in the context we live in. And the imposed by organized religion belief system. By even employing the same’s symbol of ultimate evil.Through that, it reveals the reader the harsh reality. Namely that whether or not liking it, the former is at war. And that’s valid from the moment of one’s birth.

What that war is against are two things. (1) One’s ego worst qualities; (2) The existing in one’s mind and in the outside world Devil’s weapons and devices. Aiming to drag one into drifting, by enlarging the first, the second group is pretty much omnipresent within our society. The good news, however, is that they can’t really work without the person’s help.That reminds of the battle’s ultimate goal. Increasing the possession of one’s own mind. How I think that’s done is through definiteness of purpose and of course, by not denying. But assimilating more of one’s entirety as a mighty, functioning Other Self. The more that’s achieved, the fitter for serving one’s definite chief aim the person becomes. And the more guided by Infinite Intelligence he or she gets. Something which despite its utmost importance, I believe the modern self-help tends to neglect.

Thank You For Your Time!