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I am often asked about a historical profile I wrote of mystic Neville Goddard (1905-1972) in the March 2005 issue of Science of Mind magazine. It appears here gratis. When the piece first ran, Neville was a near-unknown, even in New Thought circles. My boss, a New Thought minister, teased me that perhaps fifteen people would read it. The article brought renewed attention to the mind-power icon, who had died in relative obscurity in 1972. Interest soon surged. Today, Neville is among the most widely read and heard figures in twentieth-century spirituality, abetted by his prescient decision to allow listeners to freely record his lectures in an era of nascent portable audiotaping technology. At the time of my writing, there existed little background on Neville. He was, in a sense, a man of mystery. I reproduce the article exactly as it appeared in 2005—including the photograph, then one of very few available. The piece contains certain historical references that I have since updated. It is followed by several recent links, including my documentation of his death. I hope this profile fills a gap in the cultural “lost years” of the teacher’s legacy. On a practical note: before this piece, I had not written historically on metaphysics. Experience taught me that what you do on a micro scale is repeatable on a macro scale. Within two years, I had a contract for my first book, Occult America. Let that inform your efforts. -M- mitchhorowitz.substack.com/p…