Neville’s Greatest Lesson

BY TIM BOTTA

“Think from the end” was one of Neville Goddard’s greatest practical lessons in manifestation. It was a lesson that inspired New Thought luminaries Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden and many others. As New Thought historian Mitch Horowitz said of Tim Botta’s graphic interpretation of Neville’s fateful encounter with his teacher Abdullah this is a an eight panel comic that can change your life if you put it into practice. Botta plans to do a full length New Thought graphic novel someday and here’s hoping that is sooner rather than later. It is an extraordinarily effective way to convey these deep teachings.

Who was Abdullah? Horowitz writes of Botta’s portrait of Arnold Josiah Ford (at right, and portrayed in the comic above) , “Is this the face of Neville Goddard’s teacher Abdullah? Tim Botta’s impressionistic rendering of black rabbi, Marcus Garvey colleague, and Ethiopian emigrant Arnold Josiah Ford, a possible source (or one of several) behind Abdullah, a thesis explored in my “Neville Goddard: A Cosmic Philosopher.” (You can read Horowitz’s earlier Science of Mind magazine article “Searching for Neville Goddard” here.)

Below are more images from Botta’s gallery of Neville portraits. One of my personal favorites is his “Neville: The Magician” an impressionistic rendering that captures the spirit of Neville’s reality-bending teachings that Horowitz says prefigure the connections being drawn today between findings in quantum physics and metaphysical teaching.

-Harv Bishop

North Carolina artist and educator Tim Botta’s work appears at http://timbotta.tumblr.com/ and Fine Art America . You can also visit him on Facebook at Tim Botta Visual Art.