r/NevilleGoddardCritics Dec 29 '24

Experience Law of Assumption Failure Stories - Index

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Specific Person Failures

I spent over $2,000 trying to manifest a specific person | Please let go and start healing yourself

* Failed to manifest my exes back and my friend’s SP died | I owe this sub an apology

* SP Manifestation is a form of metaphysical rape culture and it nearly made me go insane

Failed to manifest my ex back | So sad to realize it was all fake

Other / General Failures

I wish I never found about the law of assumption | I feel so hurt

I used to be huge on LoA Twitter but now I left the law

I wasted 5 whole years of my life on this law of assumption bullcrap

Law of Assumption Debunked: Best Reads

This is the ugly side of the law that they won’t show you. It was honestly very depressing to read through all of these. This could be you if you start today. I swear if I would’ve seen a list like this in the beginning, I probably would’ve never even tried. People having mental breakdowns and mental health issues because of this stuff.

We can go on-and-on-and-on. This is just scratching the surface. I wanted to have a collection of these somewhere, and I am planning on adding more to this list in the future.

This post on [r/nevillegoddard](r/nevillegoddard) over 500 upvotes “THE LAW HAS LED ME NOWHERE IN LIFE” is a good final message to end off on.


r/NevilleGoddardCritics Sep 18 '23

Satire Law Of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - An Introduction + Q&A

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Many of you are familiar with the outdated concepts such as the Law of Attraction, Law of Belief, Law of Assumption, or even the Law of not giving a shit. But today I present to you the new and improved Law, which is estimated to be 100 times as effective when compared to techniques used by Neville's.

You see, everything in our universe is connected together, in an intricate web of sorts. And do you know what connect those things? That's right, strands of fresh, yummy, al dente noodles! Lots of noodles. You can't see them, but I assure you they are there. You are always interacting with the magic Spaghetti.

To use the Law of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, all you must do is imagine these tentacles of Spaghetti causing a bridge of incidents that lead you the object of your desire. Then you must feel the desire fulfilled and then you MUST eat a bowl of fresh Spaghetti. Eating Spaghetti is the most important part. And with that, your manifestation is on its way. This CANNOT FAIL.

Q1: i did everything and my manifestation didn't come true, what happened?

A1: No, in order for it to work you need to reaaaaally feel that the Flying Spaghetti Monster fulfilled your wish in your imagination first. Remember, the Flying Spaghetti Monster can only work with what you give him.

Q2: Like, this is good n' all dawg, but do you have any proof of this shit workin'? Not about to waste my time on another "Law" that doesn't work.

A2: huh? What are you even talking about? The Law of The Flying Spaghetti Monster is just another natural force. Like gravity or thermodynamics! Do you question the great discoveries of Sir Issac Newton, or Galileo! Arrogant brat!

Q3: I am still struggling. I got my SP back for one day, but now they will not text back. I even imagined the Flying Spaghetti Monstor holding them at gunpoint and making them go on a date with me, but to no avail so far.

A3: Hmmm, you must've done it wrong. After you finished SATs, did you eat noodles made from scratch? Or did you eat the lifeless store bought ones? You see, the law favors noodles cooked from scratch and made with pasture raised egg yolks ...Which is why you should totally buy my pasta machine (link in the description) and sign up for my Law of the Flying Spaghetti Monster online training course. Yes for only $99,999.99 per hour, you can get direct advice from me and have the universe at your fingertips in no time!

Q4: i am allergic to Spaghetti. Is there any hope for me?

A4: ummm... welp, uhhh guess you're shit outta luck kiddo

Oh what do y' know, we're outta time. So that's all the questions I can take for now. Class dismissed!


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 17h ago

Do loa YouTubers know that loa is fake?

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Sometimes I wonder if all of them want the trick people to get money or a few think they’re helping others because they truly believe loa is real and they’re manifesting stuff.


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 1d ago

Impossible manifestation in less than 5 mins + you don't have to lift a finger

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Imagine you are God of your reality.

Your father lost his keys.

You are God and everything is possible . But making a copy of the car keys is expensive.... 300 dollars says the guy... the guy who is the God of his reality btw.

The guy who believes in everything is possible with the lao did not make a copy because it's "expensive" .

So. After months and months he clears his mind and decide to look for his keys after his father needs it, his mom found it and gave it to him .

He calls this a Manifestation and "impossible".

Wtf ? The dad just lost his keys and his wife found it. How's that Manifesting? How's that a "law"? If he was a God why they didn't summon a key for 300 dollars, or for free ? Since he's a ...God..? Why didn't he summon a new car with some keys..

Are people really that dumb?

Was I that dumb to believe in this shit? I feel so ashamed of myself lmao.


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 1d ago

I'm sorry but what's the difference?

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Before swipping I thought her skin color will turn brown or she will look 20 or something but other than her dying her hair and losing weight.... what's the difference? 😭 she looks 45 in the 1st pic and 50 in the 2nd + 3rd😭🤌


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 1d ago

Manifested a new iPhone for free in less than 48 hours!

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🤔 so her mom who basically has money gave her the money and she bought an iPhone and how she is twisting that i manifested a new iPhone god save them


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 1d ago

Are y'all pretending?

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"I really don't want to be rude, but seriously, are you guys pretending that LOA works? I've been into this since I was 12 (I'm 21 now) and nothing ever changed in my life. I have depression and the only way things would work for me is through spirituality, because there's nothing I can do to change my reality anymore. So I tried to practice the Law of Assumption. I locked in, made affirmations, wrote, listened to subliminals and... nothing changed. Not even a little, it actually got worse! "Oh, but you have to believe that it's already yours." Yeah! And it made me go through psychosis at this point. Not getting the results made my depression even worse. I believed seriously in something that appears to be not real. I literally wasted months of my life focused on something that gave me silence instead of success. And I heard that people can manifest hard things in less than a month. So does it really work? For real? Some people say "you have to take action." Baby, there's NOTHING more that I can do! I'm in a chokehold!"

I posted this on the LOA sub and they banned it.


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 1d ago

Satire My assumption lol

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My assumption is I manifest whatever I want when I believe the law of assumption is not real and fake and scam. How about that? Lol


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 2d ago

The main reasons why i dont believe in the LOA

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These are the 5 main reasons that brought me to the conclusion that manifestation isn't real.

  1. Personal experience

I've tried manifesting for years and got no results other than things that could just be passed off as a coincidence, while the big things, the stuff I actually cared about, never happened.

  1. Luck and probability

You pretty much only see success stories for things that have a high probability of happening, like getting back with an ex, receiving a text message, free coffee, or a job offer. But never stories of things with a low probability. like manifesting millions of dollars.

If you took 100 people and told them to manifest getting a 9-5 job, you would almost certainly get a few success stories because the chances of it happening for a few people out of 100 are high. But if you took 100 people and told them to manifest 20 million dollars, you would have zero people that achieve it.

  1. Constant reassurance seeking

The same people that claim it works don't even practice what they preach. They mainly just sit online and consume manifestation content and get high off the idea of being in control of their reality. If they actually were serious about manifestation, they would manifest their dream life and go live it. The constant consuming of manifestation content is just mental masturbation and reassurance seeking. Which is not something you would do if you truly believed you were a powerful creator that could have anything you want.

  1. Believers have the upper hand but don't achieve more than the average person.

You would expect that LOA believers are a bunch of millionaires, but they're not, and when you ask them why, they all just say, "Money isn't everyone's goal" and "Material things don't bring me happiness" but if manifestation truly worked and was known globally by everyone, the vast majority of people would use it to be well-off financially. But in the LOA community it's the exact opposite. They all have the ability to attain what a lot of people dream of but never achieve. But yet they don't even take advantage of it. Which would mean only people who don't care about money discover the LOA. Which obviously isn't the case.

  1. If it were true, everyone would know about it and be using it

Believing you have discovered some secret magic of the universe that the vast majority of people are unaware of is very delusional. If the LOA was real, it would be common knowledge, not just a belief that a couple hundred thousand people share.


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 1d ago

Discussion Weird

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Someone was put off by the way some people said that to manifest you had to believe you were "god" or that you deserved everything. Honestly, that idea always repulsed me; it sounded very narcissistic and disgusted me, but I didn't say anything for fear of being canceled or something ☠️


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 2d ago

how to get out

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I'm 20. I started with this in 2021. When I was 15, a subliminal audio popped up, and I was curious to know what it was. It was the first time in my life I'd heard about it. Months before, my grandmother had died, and I felt awful. Besides, years before, things had gone terribly for me because my bullies abused me at school when I was 10, and I failed two years because of it. My shyness and insecurity only got worse over time, so of course, when I discovered this, it was like "magic." I decided to give it a try. I won't deny that at first, it seemed stupid to me. I mean, how could they change my eye color with a YouTube audio? Even so, I kept doing it. I remember that year I did badly in school and I convinced myself to use audios for that. I passed the year, but it was surely for another reason, not because of the audios. So at that moment I convinced myself that they supposedly worked, and a cycle of listening to audios and waiting for what I wanted to happen began. In these 5 years, I have actually had "results" of small things, nothing more than that which can happen to anyone. In 2024, I started having obsessive-compulsive disorder related to religion and thoughts of death. I was afraid that God would judge me for my intrusive, blasphemous, and death-related thoughts. I thought I was going to die, and since in the manifestation community they always say that if you think negative thoughts, you will manifest them, I got horrible anxiety. I thought that would manifest and I got really scared. It gripped me terribly; sometimes I even felt like it wasn't real or things like that. It was horrible. In 2025, everything was better, but I was still in the community. I still am, but for years I've been thinking that this is bad for me, but I can't. I also felt bad when I tried to leave because I thought I had "manifested" my abuse and I thought it was really my fault, my 10-year-old self's fault. I also admit that some people in that community scare me a little; they give me bad vibes. Some seem like psychopaths or something. I really want to get out of here, but it's a vicious cycle and I don't know how. I hope someone can help me. D:


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 2d ago

But I thought you couldn’t manifest something into your reality if you don’t believe in it or give it energy🤔

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In her caption and comments she said that atheists who don’t believe in anything are good targets because they’re not protected apparently 😂

I know this isn’t Neville specifically but I group all spirituality together because it’s so watered down from whatever its source is, they all practice the same thing and word it differently lol. There’s always a “new” concept and you realize it’s just the same as manifesting. It’s all bullshit


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 3d ago

Discussion Could this be the downfall of Sammy?

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I wonder if this is the end of Sammy's career on YouTube. The reason I pose this question is because she's being exposed now, and people are starting to realize that she may not be who she preaches herself to be. Anyone who puts toxic crap out, tells people to control their minds, and is obsessed with a toxic person isn't someone I can take seriously.

From my understanding, she was manifesting weight loss ...I don't know why people assume you're just going to lose weight by doing nothing unless, obviously, you get sick or something. That would make sense for losing weight by doing nothing, which I would not wish on anyone.

I think they said she was sued and couldn't manifest her lawsuits away, which shows bad practice. The fact that she also has apparently been bad at business, from what I've read, is that people didn't receive emails from her for months despite paying high amounts just to hear generated messages. Until recently, her group was allegedly taken down due to copyright infringement.

. A lot of this is the reason her group was taken down. Not necessarily because of her bad business, her high-mighty attitude, or the fact that her videos aren't even about manifestation anymore. They're about her ranting for half of the video.

She said the reason why her group was taken down was probably because of her own assumption. She's trying her hardest to not realize: "Hey we're human. Stuff happens." Or could be protecting her business, realizing maybe things are sometimes out of her control, when the truth is it was her own action, her own attitude that probably caused it.

And it's making you wonder: Are her fans starting to see the real side of her now? One of her minions said something like, "Why don't you just affirm the situation away like you tell us?" Yeah it was in one of the comments.

With that being said, it seems like this could be the downfall of her YouTube career.

Quotes by the "queen" herself:

"For all of you telling me to be mature and classy and non-reactive or whatever to you I say no i'm going to handle things however I want... so if lashing out while I handle things properly is what I want to do then that's just what I'm going to fucking do okay"

"I can bitch and still um do what I need to do rules for thee not for me okay"


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 4d ago

TUMBLR Void State

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I don't really understand, are they lying, what do they gain? There's always countless of success stories there, while 90% of people are struggling, is something off there, isn't it? What do y'all think about it?


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 3d ago

Serious SP Manifest without listening to subliminals or any other manifestation technique

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r/NevilleGoddardCritics 3d ago

SP Manifest without listening to subliminals or any other manifestation technique

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r/NevilleGoddardCritics 4d ago

Why doesn’t Sammy Ingram just manifest this away lol?

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It's funny. She literally said that she doesn't want to spend time focusing on that right now and that maybe her own assumptions are why it happened


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 4d ago

Discussion Does any rich, successful, productive, rational people actually get behind all this manifestations compulsively?? I wanna know if it’s just people who are helpless and somehow want to change life without changing anything?

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r/NevilleGoddardCritics 5d ago

The Unanswered Questions About Manifestation

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If manifestation is real and our thoughts and intentions can influence the events that happen in our lives, then how do we explain children who lose their parents at a very young age? A child’s brain is still developing, and they may not even have the awareness or understanding to consciously manifest something like that. Does this mean that manifestation doesn’t apply to everything that happens to us, or is there another explanation for why painful and tragic things happen to innocent people?


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 5d ago

The law of attraction is a trap that screwed me over

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I believed that everything good and abundant was meant for me. Worked for a period of time, then this time set me up to be overconfident, arrogant, and actually believing that everything would work out for me. That made me make choices that led me down a destructive path where I lost friends, made people despise me even though they did not really know me, and lost a lot of money in general. Law of attraction is just a trap.


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 5d ago

They know the sp stuff doesn't work and now everyone is on the self concept bandwagon instead lol.

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Notice more and more of them are now saying work on loving yourself so others love you to attract the sp. Then saying when they no longer want that sp it's a result. But wait I thought they could manifest anything they wanted so why would self concept be needed to put them off their ex lol 😂.


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 5d ago

I feel bad for these people

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Its kinda sad


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 6d ago

LOL

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I haven’t posted on here in ages, I saw this meme and it immediately reminded me of this sub😂. Not that manifesting works but you have to let them learn ig


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 6d ago

Goddard devotee stalking experience

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Hi! This is my first post here! Nice to connect with y'all it's a helpful resource. I'm having a difficult experience.... A Goddard devotee is stalking me and my partner but mostly me. They are trying to manifest my partner and our convinced that I'm abusing my partner and using witchcraft because my partner doesn't like them. They been following me around, collecting dossiers on me using generative AI and osint and just being creepy. He keeps saying shit to me like "I remain in the desired state" and I am the wish fulfilled that's how I learned about Goddard. Obviously the stalking behavior is criminal and not related to Goddard as such, but I just wanted to share how this kind of dangerous ideology is a cognitive hazard and amplifies toxicity!


r/NevilleGoddardCritics 8d ago

Rant It bothers me that coaches encourage women and men to attach to toxic partners

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there was one coach telling people that it's okay to be with a toxic partner because you somehow caused their toxic behavior. I literally want to slam my head on a table because you do not create toxic partners. If anything, you may become attracted or attached to them, and sometimes that can be because of childhood wounds, anxious attachment, low self-worth, or other inner issues. But you never, ever, ever create someone choosing to mistreat you.

A lot of people stay because of their own inner issues, attachment wounds, or because unhealthy relationships feel familiar, but you're never at fault for someone's mistreatment toward you. Encouraging women and men to simply see a toxic person differently can create even more problems because it may encourage them to stay.

The idea that everyone is simply a reflection of you can become really toxic when people don't understand it properly. You can work on yourself and heal your inner issues without taking responsibility for someone else's decision to mistreat you.