Events involving this person
Betty imagines her supposedly backward son succeeding academically
Description
Yesterday Neville received a letter from his friend Betty in Boston, who had been told by a psychiatrist, principal and teacher that her nine-year-old son was hopelessly backward, and who instead imagined him graduating from college; at eleven his Boston teacher promised him straight A's.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
9 April 1965
Sources
- Source: Gods Law ¶12 (A lady wrote me this past, well, yesterday I got the letter from Boston. She was born in this state, lived here until about a year ago when she married a fellow who came from Boston, and they returned to Boston.)
between March 1963 and May 1963
After a San Francisco lecture last spring in which Neville spoke on overcoming delusions, Bill Donovan invited him to an early dinner, and he, Betty and Neville went to a French restaurant where Bill
Matt's hearing is restored
Description
A friend of Neville's, Jan, left a letter in his box last Saturday while he was away, telling how in April 1966 she went to Pittsburgh and taught revision to her friend Betty and Betty's deaf husband Matt; Betty heard nightly for a year and a half the words 'Betty, I can hear', and after an attack of ear pain and a doctor's drops Matt woke hearing and came home early saying exactly those words.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 2 December 1967
- 1966
Told
- 4 December 1967
- 22 July 1968
Sources
- Source: He Supplies the Spirit in Us ¶4 (Now a friend of mine wrote me a letter, which she stuck in my box last Saturday when I was away.)
- Source: Faith July 22 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶22 (Betty said to me: “I will do it every night,” and she took a simple little sentence: “Matthew” (she called him Matt) – “Matt is hearing perfectly.” That’s all that she did.)
Betty acquires a Baldwin organ after practicing imagination
Description
His friend Jan visited Pittsburgh and taught her childhood friend Betty to imagine playing a Baldwin organ; an unexpected $3,500 from her father's estate and a sale price let her buy it, and when a $1,700 roof estimate followed Jan reminded her the principle is one, not forty case histories.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between June 1968 and August 1968 (probable)
- c. 1968
Told
- 3 June 1968 (doubtful)
- 26 October 1968 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates ¶15 (My friend went to Pittsburgh this summer and visited her usual friends, and her friend, Betty (she grew up as a child with Betty) they discussed this, and Betty loves all that Jan told her.)
- Source: Imagination Fulfills Itself ¶15 (My friend went to Pittsburgh this summer to visit a childhood friend, who expressed a desire for a new Baldwin organ. Now, owning an inexpensive organ, my friend told her that every time she sat down to play, to imagine seeing the word, “Baldwin” across …)