He recounts a dinner the night before, a party of four at a place on top of a building, where the aunt of a young friend would not be reconciled to her dead sister-in-law, while Neville insisted on sp
26 January 1967
(refuted)
He restates that he spoke earlier that evening from his own experience of the crucifixion, which was ecstatic and wholly painless, and that no Jew took his life — he willingly contracted to the limit
Correspondent imagines abundance for a co-worker who inherits money
Description
A correspondent told Neville that instead of being indifferent to a co-worker's daily complaints about money he began in February to hear him say he had more than enough, and by May the man had inherited money, bought a cabin cruiser, sent his son to college, repaired his house and bought a car and wardrobe — while the correspondent's own three children were named beneficiaries of an estate that had been in litigation over seventy years.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
10 November 1967
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The Most Practical, Yet Most Profoundly Spiritual ¶5 (This gentleman said: “A co-worker and I have lunch almost every day together. For some time he spent the entire lunch period telling me about his financial problems, and although I appeared to be interested, I really wasn’t, and wondered to myself how he…)
Mother imagines her critically ill daughter restored
Description
A woman friend present at the lecture told Neville her daughter would die within three weeks unless her kidney functioned; she instantly volunteered her own kidney, went into hospital for three days of tests and was told hers could not be used, and through daily telephone calls with Neville she held to the imaginal act of her daughter well and mothering again — and tonight she reported the daughter has recovered.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Rock and the Highway ¶21 (She volunteered instantly, “Well, take my kidney.” He said, “Alright, come into the hospital prepared to spend three days to make the tests.”)
- Source: The Riddle ¶42 (As we told the story last week…when the mother willingly volunteered to give her kidney for her daughter who needed a kidney, she volunteered, without price, without money.)
Dinner guest slips Neville a three-part vision letter
Description
A friend came to Neville's home for dinner a couple of weeks earlier and quietly slipped into his pocket, in the kitchen while Neville was pouring him a drink, a letter containing a three-part vision, which Neville read casually that evening, again after the friend left, and again the next morning.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 3 February 1967 and 10 February 1967
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Remembrance of Things Future ¶33 (I was in the kitchen…pouring him a drink, by the way…and he comes quietly into the kitchen, takes this letter from his pocket.)
New York teacher imagines a troubled child through graduation
Description
In New York City a teacher sat at his meeting and said she would try his method on a child the principal and psychiatrists had decided must be expelled; the child was not expelled but graduated, and the teacher wrote him the letter, which he tells with her consent.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Imagination My Slave ¶57 (And this lady sat at my meeting and said, “I’m going to try it. Difficult to believe…this thing that I have is a monster. It’s a monster, but I’m going to try it anyway.” That child graduated; she was not expelled. She graduated! I know that teacher. She…)
A falling library book leads a friend to Neville and a fatherhood vision
Description
A friend told Neville how in the spring of 1967 the book Your Faith is Your Fortune fell off the shelf at the Glendale library three weeks running until he read it; he later saw Neville's newspaper ad and he and his wife began attending the meetings, and in a letter he shared a vision of finding a baby on his car seat and declaring three times that he was its father.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between March 1967 and May 1967
Sources
- Source: The Rock ¶23 (A friend recently told me how he first came to hear me. It seems that in the spring of 1967, as he pulled a book off the shelf at the Glendale library, a book fell to the floor.)
A man who disagreed with something Neville had said came up after a meeting and told him he talks on the truth but not the whole truth; Neville says he could not agree more, since there is no absolute
Friend dreams of something moving from centre to surface
Description
Neville mentions a friend's dream of a few nights ago in which something starts from the centre and works toward the surface.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: He Dreams in Me ¶6 (And it is coming, as my friend’s dream of the other night, that it starts from the center and it’s working toward the surface.)
He recounts hearing David Ben-Gurion on television, he thinks on Meet the Press — a grand old fellow of eighty who takes scripture wholly literally and can quote it from cover to cover without any ide
Something was shared with him only yesterday morning, which he will pass on to the audience on Monday.
At the close of a Friday lecture, Neville tells his audience that he received a revelation 'only yesterday morning' and plans to share it with them on the coming Monday.
Neville admits that as a man he has certainly desired women he passed, and that at his age he now breaks the sabbath far more often than that commandment.
Doves are nesting outside his window right now; they come and go, kiss constantly, and leave the egg in confidence until the shell breaks.
Hugh Downs recounts a precognitive television dream
Description
Early one morning Neville switched on the television to check the time and heard Hugh Downs ad-lib the story of a dream in which he previewed a show that was taped the following Friday.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: He Dreams in Me ¶0 (Let me begin by telling you what happened to me last Tuesday morning. Early in the morning, desiring to check the time I switched on the television to the “Today Show.”)
Last Tuesday morning, unsure his always-slow watch was right, Neville turned on Channel 4 at about five to eight to get the time and caught Hugh Downs on the Today show telling a dream in which he wat
Woman hears that she has run the race
Description
Neville reports an unsigned letter received in the past week — he notes that he or his wife receive many such letters — from a woman who, awake and watching fish in her pond, heard a masculine voice say she had run the race and fought the good fight, and that night heard the same words from within in the first person.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
13 March 1967
13 March 1967
Sources
- Source: He Dreams in Me ¶10 (I received many letters or my wife received them; this one was not signed. I hope you’re present.)
UCLA teacher dreams of an examination and a 4:10 watch
Description
Neville attended a concert this past week with a gentleman who teaches at UCLA; at intermission the man began telling him a dream but was interrupted, so he wrote it out — a dream of taking an examination set by a man he had despised, writing the time 4:10, and hearing a deep masculine voice quote Matthew 7:21, together with an earlier dream of October 23rd in which his watch also read 4:10.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: He Dreams in Me ¶20 (This gentleman and I attended a concert this past week and during intermission he began to tell me his dream ’til something diverted him and the dream was unfinished, so he writes it to me. He teaches at UCLA.)
Asked about the technique he used when taking appointments in New York (which he had described in the previous Friday's lecture), Neville describes giving each caller his undivided attention, assuming
between 17 March 1967 and 24 March 1967
Neville reads the New York Times weekly and takes the L.A.
A pair of doves nested at Neville's window; the hen sat faithfully through wind and rain, the eggs hatched on the 21st — the day after 'her' birthday and the first day of spring — and four days later
The day before the lecture Neville's eyes fell upon the 80th Psalm, and he read its call about the man of God's right hand.
Virginia hears inner voices calling her David
Description
A woman friend of his (Virginia) heard an inner voice on 23 March that called her David and said "I am God…and I am you," and again on 24 May that said "I am God himself… You are me, my son… And I know you, Virginia. Jesus Christ is your world"; he tells the audience she has been redeemed.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Have You Found Him ¶7 (And she heard the voice coming from within her…this is on the 23rd day of March of this year…and the voice said, “You are David, my dear, and I want to love you with all my heart.”)
On the way to the lecture Neville casually mentioned the story to the friends driving him — David, Jack, Grace and his wife — and his wife told him it should be told, which is why he tells it that nig
Caller asks for a more practical lecture subject
Description
That afternoon a gentleman telephoned to ask the night's subject; Neville's wife took the call and reported the caller was unimpressed and wanted something more practical, and she doubted he would come.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)