At dinner the previous night a woman told him a profound story confirming that one is, male or female, the father of David; he promises to tell it at his lecture next Monday, and notes the series clos
Couple rescues a mockingbird and resolves childhood guilt
Description
A woman present in the audience gave Neville this past week the story of a mockingbird trapped in her garage that she and her husband chased for hours until it knocked itself out, was revived by her husband and flew away; her husband said he felt redeemed for a lovebird he had killed with a slingshot as a boy, and she read the whole episode as the Father calling.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 10 April 1967 and 17 April 1967
Sources
- Source: The Father and Son ¶10 (So to make this clear let me tell you or share with you a story given me this past week. She’s here tonight.)
Dentist Jim accepts revision but cannot follow the David mystery
Description
Neville's dentist and close friend Jim, who attended last Friday's lecture for the first time this year, told him the next day that he had loved the story of the lady who revised her eye diagnosis but was completely lost when Neville turned to David; Neville goes to Jim's home in the Hollywood hills almost every weekend for the pool and tried there to explain the mystery to him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Father and Son ¶0 (A friend of mine, who came here last Friday—it’s the first time he’s been here this year—a very dear friend of mine, in fact, he’s my dentist, and I go to his home in the Hollywood hills, well, almost every weekend if the weather permits.)
Woman dreams a funerary Holy of Holies before Kennedy's death
Description
Neville reads out a letter that reached him that day from a woman who had passed through several churches, was baptized a Catholic for the man she loved, and then in April 1963 dreamed she was shown the Holy of Holies and saw only a box of ashes, an apothecary's chalice and a dead bone; a Catholic friend told her it was the setting for a king's or cardinal's funeral, and when President Kennedy was assassinated that November she took the dream for prophecy.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Generation and Death ¶4 (Now let me share with you a letter that came to me today. This lady writes me this story.)
Earlier that day Neville was reading Zechariah 12:10 in parallel versions and found that the King James kept the pronoun 'me' while the Revised Standard scholars changed it to 'him'.
Woman's vision of Neville placing his eyes into her sockets
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
between June 1967 and August 1967
(probable)
Last summer Neville argued with his friend Jim, who said the survival of a body after death was beyond him, by pointing to everyday miracles — bread turned into blood and tissue, the flowers in Jim's
between June 1967 and August 1967
He reads his Bible six or seven hours a day, seven days a week, and took only two books - the Bible and the Complete Works of Blake - both to New York City last summer and to Barbados for a three-mont
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.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
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…)
between 18 July 1967 and 17 July 1968
On a visit to Barbados in the past year he discussed his teaching with his sister, who was raised in the same Christian belief he was, and reflects that his family would be shocked by what he now says
Neville's friend advances his barber to contest champion
Description
A friend present in the audience wrote to Neville about the people he was healing, after having earlier lifted his barber from fourth man in the shop to owner and then to winner of an eleven-Western-States barbering contest and a seven-foot trophy.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between August 1967 and September 1967
(probable)
A woman sees Neville heal crowds in two visions
Description
A woman present at the lecture told him two visions: one of him on a raised circular platform instantly healing rows of deformed people while a marble Madonna came alive, and one a few weeks later of him as a doctor in a hospital where all were cured without drugs or surgery.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
10 September 1967
(doubtful)
10 September 1967
(doubtful)
9 October 1967
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Spiritual Feast ¶8 (Now here, let me share with you what was shared with me. The lady is here tonight. She said, “I had this wonderful experience. There was a huge, huge circular and raised platform and you were in the middle.)
c. September 1967
(probable)
He mentions reading a statement by Sir James Jeans a few days before the lecture.
Unconvinced couple moves to California after imagining it
Description
Three weeks before this lecture a man telephoned Neville to say that years earlier in New York City Neville had told him to assume he was already in California; he and his wife were now living there, but he credited his company's transfer rather than the teaching and remained unconvinced.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The New Christology ¶32 (A man called me three weeks ago, saying: “Many years ago in New York City you told me that if I wanted to go to California all I had to do was assume I was there. Well, my wife and I are here now, but I want you to know that I’m not sold on what you teac…)
Imprisoned killer is released after Neville's imaginal assurance
Description
While Neville was in Barbados a friend's brother killed a man in New York; the friend, guided by his mother's vision that Neville would give him the rainbow in the sky, telephoned Neville just as he got home from Barbados, and Neville answered "It's done!" — and two weeks ago the mother called to say the brother had been set free.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates Reality ¶21 (He called me when we just got into the house back from Barbados, before he was taking off for New York City, and when he told me the story I said, “Forget it! It’s done!”)
On the day of the lecture he went through his Bible tracing the word 'light', and was struck that the great scholars treat it as a figure of speech because they have not had the experience.
Lady dreams in a schoolyard while waiting for Ray
Description
He shares a penciled letter, dated the 11th and written after his Monday lecture, from a lady who dreamed she was in a schoolyard waiting for her husband Ray while all the fathers arrived via an obstacle course and the children became animated.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Have You Found Him ¶27 (Now, a lady wrote me a wonderful letter last Monday night and I must share it with you. It’s dated the 11th, so she wrote it undoubtedly from here, it’s all in pencil.)
Advertising campaign client cannot invest all new profit
Description
Following up a story he told the previous Monday about a friend whose advertising campaign raised a client's net by seventy-five million dollars in three months, the friend wrote back confirming the same client and saying the client asked them to modify the advertising because they had no place left to invest the money.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Have You Found Him ¶28 (And before we close, the one I told last Monday night, where this friend’s advertising campaign increased within three months the client’s net of seventy-five million dollars.)
Neville receives Benny's letters
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
between 18 September 1967 and 24 September 1967
During the past week, Neville saw Ionesco's play 'The King Dies' at the Huntington Hartford, in seats given by a friend present that night; the four of them left the theatre thrilled.
between 18 September 1967 and 24 September 1967
During the past week Neville saw Ionesco's play 'The King Dies' at the Huntington Hartford, in seats given by a friend who is present tonight; the four of them left thrilled, and the production closed
A woman cries out that love conquers all while in Spirit
Description
A woman, present tonight with her husband, gave Neville on Friday night her account of waking as though pushed into a seated position, screaming in the Spirit 'Love conquereth all things and is kind' without waking her sleeping husband; Neville told her to keep sending such letters.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
25 September 1967
25 September 1967
before 25 September 1967
(probable)
Neville says he knows from his own experience in this life what it is to be dispossessed for want of the rent, and that he had the gift all along without knowing it, discovering only years later what
between 30 September 1967 and 30 September 1968
On a four-month stay in Barbados living in his sister Daph's home, she asked him daily over tea whether his Christ was once really a man, and he answered as Paul would have, that Christ is the heavenl