Events involving this person
Bob imagines working downtown and is moved there after being fired
Description
The same Bob, tired of the bumper-to-bumper drive to the RCA display area, spent the ride imagining himself downtown where he had worked for thirteen years; he was the one man in the whole building fired before Christmas, and ended up working downtown two blocks from his old job.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Sources
- Source: Believe It In ¶63 (So when he told me this story I said, “Bob, have you forgotten how you would sit next to Mort and when Mort drove for the week you would dream you were going downtown?” Well, where do you think he’s working, downtown within two blocks of where he worked …)
Bob dreams Neville has learned how to move after two years
Description
Many years ago Neville's friend Bob, in a vision, asked Neville how long he had been there and whether he had learned anything; Neville told him he had been there two years and had learned how to move.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Sources
- Source: I Remember When ¶18 (Many years ago my friend Bob discovered this. In his vision he questioned me, saying: “How long have I been here?” and when I replied: “Two years” he asked: “Did I learn anything?” to which I answered: “Yes, you learned how to move.”)
Bob imagines more income and receives a monthly raise
Description
Neville's friend Bob telephoned him the night before: after a Pasadena concert Bob sat at home in Eagle Rock imagining a little more money coming in, and next morning his boss gave him twenty-five dollars a month more.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
7 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Believe It In ¶63 (A friend of mine called me last night. He had gone to see…the night before he had gone off to Pasadena to hear [...], the great pianist, and he loved it.)
Bob and Benny experience distinct forms of birth from above
Description
Neville says he has repeatedly told his audience from this platform the experiences of his friends Bob and Benny alongside his own, each of whom had the birth happen in a different manner.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 1900 and 21 December 1967 (doubtful)
- before 1 December 1967 (probable)
Told
- 21 December 1967 (possible)
- 21 December 1967 (possible)
Sources
- Source: Christmas: The Birth That Gives Eternal Life ¶18 (You know what I have quoted concerning my friend Bob, my friend Benny, all my other friends and the experiences they have had, and you take all these things and you compile it into a narrative.)
20 July 1959
On July 20, 1959 in San Francisco, Neville experienced what he described as awakening from a tomb within his own skull, an event that marked a turning point in his lectures.
20 July 1959
This source collates Neville's repeated first-person accounts: he retired normally at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel and at about 4:00 a.m.
Neville witnesses Unico call his friend for an interview
Description
Neville was with his friend at home the day Unico telephoned to call him in for an interview, after which he started the next month.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 11 May 1965
Told
11 May 1965
Sources
- Source: The Art of Imagining ¶40 (And then, one morning he decides…in fact, I was with him the day the phone rang at home and they had been trying to get him at Unico: Come and see us tomorrow for some examination or some interview.)
Bob assumes a fulfilled state for a friend
Description
He recalls the story his friend Bob shared with him from the platform two weeks earlier — that Bob occupied the body of a friend in imagination and assumed for that friend what the friend could not assume for herself.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 20 April 1965 and 23 April 1965 (probable)
- before 4 May 1965
Told
4 May 1965
Sources
- Source: The Witness of the Spirit ¶4 (In Bob’s story, he occupied the body of a friend to give to the friend what the friend either could not or would not give to self.)
9 May 1965
On Sunday night, 9 May 1965, Neville had Bob and another RCA employee to dinner at his Los Angeles home.
A commuter's daydream leads from RCA dismissal to a better job
Description
Two friends who live together in Eagle Rock and both worked at RCA were at Neville's home for dinner last Sunday night, and one of them, who had been unexpectedly fired from RCA and afterwards found a better job at Unico downtown, realised while asking Neville a question that he had caused it himself by daydreaming, as they commuted the Santa Ana Freeway, of turning off towards downtown L.A.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 9 May 1965
- between 1 January 1965 and 9 May 1965
Told
11 May 1965
Sources
- Source: The Art of Imagining ¶2 (Last Sunday night, a couple of friends were home for dinner. I must tell you the story that you may appreciate how this thing works. They both worked at RCA, that is, the show room that RCA had in L.A.)
Bob's spiritual child emerges into his hand
Description
Neville reports his friend Bob's experience of the child coming popping out of his head and into his hand as he held it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1967 (possible)
- before 30 October 1967
Told
30 October 1967
Sources
- Source: Imaging Creates Reality ¶39 (My friend Bob, it came popping out of his head too but right into his hand as he held the child.)
Bob's and Benny's mystical experiences follow Neville's sequence
Description
Neville recounts that his friend Bob's experiences came in the same chronological order as his own, though Bob did not date his letter, and says he is now waiting for Benny's next experience about the 6th of March of next year.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1967 (possible)
- before 18 December 1967 (probable)
Told
- 18 December 1967 (possible)
- 18 December 1967 (possible)
Sources
- Source: Christmas, the Birth of Christ in Man ¶31 (When my friend Bob had the first experience, I was hopeful, but I did not write it down and he did not date his letter to me. But it did, it came in the same chronological order.)
Neville keeps a chronology of Christine, Bob, and Benny's mystical births
Description
Neville says he keeps a chronological record of others' mystical experiences, and names Christine, Bob and Benny as having had the birth in the same order he teaches, with Benny anxiously awaiting one more in July.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. July 1967
(probable)
Told
31 May 1968
Sources
- Source: The Cup of Foaming Wine ¶37 (And from my own chronological record I can see how it happened to all others. Christine had it in the same manner. Bob had it. Benny had it…he has one coming up in July, waiting anxiously for July…)
Bennie experiences the child emerging from his skull
Description
Neville reports that his friend Bennie, lying cataleptic, heard the cry of a child, felt a wind in his skull, saw a star explode from it and a child in swaddling clothes fall into his arms, and was left with a photograph of the child; Neville judges this to be the birth from above and predicts David will come to him five months later.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
20 October 1967
Told
23 October 1967
Sources
- Source: A Lesson in Scripture ¶7 (Last Friday morning my friend Bennie found himself cataleptic. Unable to open his eyes or move his body, Ben could hear within himself the cry of a child as he felt an unearthly wind in his skull.)
Neville predicts Benny's vision of David from the shared mystical sequence
Description
Neville says the same chronological order of mystical events happened to him and to his friend Bob, and so predicts the birth of David five months after Benny's experience.
Neville marks Benny's vision as having happened on 20 October 1967 and predicts its fulfillment (David's coming) five months later, circa 20 March 1968 -- a forecast, not yet an established happening.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
23 October 1967
Sources
- Source: A Lesson in Scripture (Second Version) ¶7 (if the chronological order is correct as it happened to my friend Bob, and it happened to me, it should then happen five months from now, the coming of the wonderful Son of God who reveals him as the Father, who calls him Father.)
Bob, Christine, and Benny experience the scriptural drama
Description
Neville names friends — Bob, Christine and Benny — in whom the same drama has unfolded, and says he would compile their accounts with his own the way Luke compiled his narrative.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
Told
3 January 1968(refuted)- 1 March 1968
Sources
- Source: They Related Their Own Experiences ¶5 (What happened to Neville in whom this whole drama has unfolded, what happened to Bob in whom it is unfolding, what happened to Christine in whom it has almost completely unfolded, that doesn’t really matter.)
Bob sees a world where wishes provide food
Description
Neville relates what his friend Bob told him: Bob found himself in another world where at lunch hour people took a small card from their pocket, wrote on it what they wanted to eat, replaced it, and then showed heavenly expressions as they enjoyed invisible food.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 8 February 1968
Told
8 February 1968
Sources
- Source: The Last Days ¶19 (My friend Bob, who has had all of the experiences, found himself in a fantastic world where at the lunch hour people stopped what they were doing and took a little card from their pocket, made notes on it as to what they wanted to eat, and replaced the c…)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says the experience came suddenly and unexpectedly to him and likewise to Bob, Benny and Christine.
before 1969
(possible)
He had his dear friend Bob cremated and the urn returned to him held only a small handful of ash.
Benny's forecast encounter with David
Description
Neville says he and Bob worked out the chronological order of the mystical experiences, and on that order a man in the audience, Benny, who has already found the child, must bring forth David on or about the 6th of March; others have written him letters forecasting the same.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
18 October 1969(refuted)- 27 October 1967
Sources
- Source: Love Divided From Imagination (expanded "The Cup of Experience") ¶24 (If that chronological order that Bob and I followed is the order, and I’m convinced that it is, then Benny must, on the 6th or approximately the 6th of March bring forth David.)