Neville Goddard, the mystic and metaphysics teacher from Barbados, was one of the most influential figures of the New Thought Movement. He influenced many modern teachers like Dr. Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra and Esther Hicks.

He thought his students that imagination is the only reality and that they could get absolutely anything they desired if they were bold enough to claim it as theirs in their imagination and persist in that assumption until it appeared in the physical world.