Neville tells of reading of David as mere history until, at fifty-four, the story unfolded within him and he knew instantly that he was David's father and David his son — a relationship more intimate
A few months after the birth, lying in bed at night, his head exploded and David of biblical fame stood before him; each knew the other as son and father.
Neville's resurrection schema begins with awakening within his skull and emergence from it, followed immediately by the birth-from-above sign; he dates this first fulfillment to July 1959.
Neville dated his canonical 'birth from above' mystical experience to July 1959, often described as lasting twenty minutes at Sea Cliff, retold in lectures through 1972.
Neville describes the sequence he underwent: an awakening, then 139 days later the birth of the child as its sign, and only when David appeared and called him father did he know he was the Lord.
between 20 July 1959 and 1 January 1963
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Neville states from his own experience the sequence of mystical events he underwent - awakening and birth from above, David standing before him calling him Father five months later, the splitting of h
between 20 July 1959 and 1 January 1963
He describes the four-part unfolding — awaking and being born out of his own skull, then five months later David standing before him calling him Father, then four months later (nine months in all) bei
Neville dates his four mystical experiences: the night of 20 July 1959 in San Francisco; 6 December 1959, when David revealed the Fatherhood of God by calling him father; the Ascent into Heaven on the
between 20 July 1959 and 8 April 1960
He describes the three-part mystical experience he claims as his own: awakening inside his skull as in a tomb and being self-born, the son (David) appearing and calling him father in fulfilment of the
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.
between 19 July 1959 and 20 July 1959
Neville's 'Birth from Above' awakening occurred, and that morning he spoke to a free open meeting of about a thousand people.
Place: Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco
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.
One hundred and twenty-nine days after the birth from above, an explosion in his head brought a vision in which he sat at a table bearing an enormous severed head, and David of Biblical fame, a lad of
6 December 1959
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Neville recounts being born from above and, five months later, encountering David, who stood before him and called him Father, ending all doubt about who he is.
c. December 1959
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He says the showing of the son, which resolves how he can be one with the Father and still have a son, came five months after the experience of oneness.
c. December 1959
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Neville recounts his own mystical experiences: the birth of the Christ child, whom he held in his own hands, and five months later meeting God's only begotten son David, who called him Father.
c. December 1959
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Neville tells of holding the Christ Child in his arms, asking "How is my sweetheart?" and seeing a heavenly smile break on its face before the vision dissolved; a few months later David appeared, and
c. December 1959
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He lays out the four-act mystical pattern with its intervals - the awakening in the skull with the child and three witnesses, David calling him Father five months later, the body cleft by lightning fo
Five months after that birth, David stood before him and he knew with certainty that he was David's father, fulfilling the 89th Psalm.
A few months after his birth from above, a similar vibration came with an explosion, and when it settled he was looking into the face of David, who knew him as father and called him Father.
c. December 1959
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Neville recounts his own mystical experience of David standing before him and being revealed as his son, which told him he himself was the father of the Christ child.
One hundred thirty-nine days after the birth experience, the same intensity in his head bursts and he finds himself in a modestly furnished room where David of biblical fame, a handsome youth, leans a
Neville held the infant and called him sweetheart, wrote the story down and mailed it to his wife, and felt no change in consciousness until one hundred thirty-nine days later, when his head exploded
6 December 1959
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Asleep one night in Beverly Hills his skull exploded and David of biblical fame stood before him, with Goliath's severed head on the table, and he knew he was David's father — after which his memory r