Neville recounts a vision from many years ago in which he entered an infinite field of huge flower-like beings whose blossoms were perfect human faces, all moving in concert as if led by an invisible
Woman recovers stolen furniture through assumption
Description
A wealthy New York woman who had once been an incurable violent mental patient went to Europe for nine months and returned to find her furniture stolen; after police and private detectives failed, she came to Neville, they sat in the Silence and she assumed her furniture restored, and then she met her maid by chance a block from her Madison Avenue bank and the maid took her to where the furniture was stored.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1900
(doubtful)
before 16 January 1964
Sources
- Source: The Larger Venture ¶12 (And then, we sat in the Silence and she and I agreed that she had her furniture. I asked her to assume that she was sitting in her own place where she had paid the rent, and here, lovely pictures of her children on the piano, and all the things were ther…)
In an earlier dream Neville found himself wading in water beside the surviving pillars of a long-gone bridge, held a stationary pillar and compelled himself to awake, and so awoke inside the dream.
Neville recounts his vision of Messiah's banquet: lifted up on high in the human form divine as a radiant glowing light, he glided past an infinite sea of all the imperfect parts he had played, and ea
Neville's vision of the crucifixion: walking in Arabic dress with an unnumbered crowd toward an invisible Mecca, a voice said 'And God walks with them'; a woman asked where he was, the voice said 'At
One night many years ago Neville stepped from his bed into another world, solidly real and peopled with figures clothed as we are, into which he had not been born through any womb and could have produ
Neville says the vision he had many years ago of man as an inverted tree that turns upright startled people, and that the first time he told it was in San Francisco, where the reaction was horrible.
He recalled an earlier, similar experience in which he had woken himself out of that other state by touching and holding an object and commanding himself to wake.
Alice Bentley receives rent money after an apparition of Neville
Description
In New York many years ago his friend Alice Bentley (Ali-Ben) told him that he had appeared bodily in the night to the Wellington Hotel's restaurant manager and ordered her to empty her purse into Ali's lap — which she did, and Ali, who owed rent, needed the money; Neville was wholly unaware of it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
14 July 1962
(refuted)
14 July 1962
(refuted)
after 25 February 1964
(probable)
after 25 February 1964
(probable)
c. 12 November 1965
(refuted)
Sources
- Source: His Eternal Play ¶14 (I’ve been accused by many people of entering their rooms uninvited, but I’m totally unaware of it. In New York City, many years ago, my friend, Alice Bentley—she’s now gone from this world—she was a darling soul.)
Woman's son returns from military service
Description
A woman interrupts from the audience to recount that many years earlier, at an old church in New York City, she asked Neville about her son at sea in the service; he told her to let him hear good news of the son's deliverance, and after a day of imagining on George Washington's birthday she received word within four days that he was returning home on a luxury liner.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1900
(doubtful)
before 29 March 1963
Sources
- Source: You Can Forgive Sin ¶35 (Thank you, my dear. “I’ll never forget you, Neville Goddard. You don’t remember me, but I’ll never forget you.” May I tell you, thank you! It doesn’t fail!)
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.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
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.)
In earlier years in New York City he practised the same withdrawal, sitting in his living-room chair and putting himself at the telephone he could not see from that angle, then assuming himself back,
Many years ago at the Harvard Club in New York, Neville was introduced to Walter Damrosch as a great metaphysician; when asked which school he belonged to and answering 'None of these.
Neville recalls an earlier vision in which people, a bird and leaves were alive only because he made them alive, and stood still the moment he stopped the activity within himself.
Neville recalls being told years ago by a voice that you do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed in sleep — which puzzled him that day because he had appointments taking him out of hi
A Bible-class student imagines and obtains exact pay
Description
In his Bible class in New York City Neville had a woman name the exact pay she wanted down to the penny, feel, smell, shake and count the contents of the imagined envelope; within a week she had that job at that amount.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1900
(doubtful)
before 4 December 1964
Told
4 December 1964
4 December 1964
Sources
- Source: The Primal State ¶20 (Just as someone one night in my Bible class in New York City, I asked if she knew what she wanted. She named it down to the penny. She said, “My withholding tax is so much, and I don’t want less than so much in my envelope.”)
Coming out of his theater on 48th Street and walking towards Fifth Avenue, Neville saw the young Sinatra standing on the runway of a stalled cab in the middle of Fifth Avenue, signing autographs for t
Neville's wife dreams of books of Judaism and Christianity
Description
He tells his wife's vision of a clearing in a grove where two women each carried a book — one titled according to Judaism, the other according to Christianity — and read from them before a man at a table, leaving her struck by how much harder it is to be a Christian than a Jew.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1900
(doubtful)
before 23 June 1969
(probable)
before March 1971
(probable)
before 18 November 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Mystery of Jesus Christ ¶21 (Now let me tell you a vision of my wife that happened years ago. She found herself in the clearing of a lovely grove of trees. At the end of the clearing was a man behind a table, and there were men around this one man, like an assembly.)
- Source: Test Yourselves ¶2 (She found herself in a grove of trees with a wonderful clearing. At the end was this man and on the sides were people. One person entered and this was a woman bearing a book, and the title of the book was The Credence of Faith and the Forgiveness of Sin …)
Neville's vision of a coliseum flower exhibition where he found and bedded down a runt pig, then of a supermarket where the pig had grown thin; his daughter Vicki pulled a box of crackers from the bot
He recalls a night in Abdullah's small class, mostly Negroes with only four Caucasians, when Abdullah looked at him and asked whether he could embrace a very black person if he knew the occupant was h
A friend dreams of being shot dead onstage
Description
A friend of Neville's, present at the lecture, told him over dinner at Neville's home of a vivid dream in which he was an actor in Greek costume shot dead on stage by an opponent whose gun was not loaded with a blank; he rose from the body saying 'Why, that S.O.B., he shot me!' — and that same friend has since experienced the resurrection, the birth from above and the discovery of the son David.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1900
(doubtful)
before 24 March 1967
Sources
- Source: He Wakes in Me ¶40 (So here, I could not help but see a relationship, this analogy between what my friend told me at home one night for dinner…and he said it just innocently, “I had this vivid, vivid dream. I don’t quite understand its meaning.”)
Years ago, when Neville was in a slump, his wife told him his trouble was that he could not ask anyone for help and could trust no one but himself; he agreed, since there is no other to turn to.
One night Neville saw a vision of an enormous crowd of humanity walking forward like sleepwalkers toward some invisible Mecca, and it was revealed to him at that moment that he would reach six hours a
Neville was taken one night into a world of beings who had not yet entered the shell, who called Earth 'Woodland' and refused to believe his account of it; Heine told him they did not believe a word,
between 1900 and 1968
(refuted)
Neville says he has never liked reptiles and avoids the reptile house when he goes to the zoo, which makes it strange to him that he himself rose as a serpent.