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Neville Lancelot Goddard
Birth date
Death date
Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

10 November 1967 (probable)
On the previous Friday night five or six accounts of experiences were handed to Neville in quick succession while he was talking to two friends, and by the time he got home he was no longer sure which
A man dreams an imagined handwritten message
Description
Neville reads out a letter received this past week from a friend present in the audience, who imagined two words in another person's handwriting implying a problem solved, held them as he fell asleep, and in his dream saw a white-robed arm write the two words in that identical handwriting.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 10 November 1967 and 17 November 1967 (probable)
Told
17 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Jesus Christ, the True Identity of Man ¶4 (So let me share with you what was given to me this past week. It’s perfectly marvelous. This friend of ours, who is here tonight, he writes, “At the office I was confronted with a problem, and so, believing that imagining creates reality, I took two word…)
A woman dreams of crucifying herself through unloving conduct
Description
A second woman, also present, wrote Neville a letter: she had come to his lecture on Friday November 10th, heard the teaching about doing it unto the least of these, and the following Monday tore into a friend on the telephone; that night she dreamed of rooms in the Near East full of massacred men and finally of a man hanging as though on a cross, and understood she was crucifying herself whenever she was unloving to anyone.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 November 1967
Told
27 November 1967
Sources
Couple dreams that Jan says she will not return
Description
Just before Neville took the platform for this lecture, a couple came back to tell him that in the man's dream their friend Jan said 'I will not return anymore' — which Neville read as resurrection.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 10 November 1967
  • 10 November 1967
Told
  • 10 November 1967 (doubtful)
  • 10 November 1967
Sources
11 November 1967 (probable)
Neville's oldest friend in California, Mort, aged fifty-three, died of a massive heart attack on Saturday; he had dined at Neville's home the week before and Neville had spoken with him the night befo
A friend dreams of following Neville through an ancient city
Description
The same friend sends Neville an account, dated Sunday 12 November, of a dream in which he travelled to a primitive Near-Eastern city to hear Neville teach from a grain store, followed him through the streets collecting his sayings, was indifferent to his earthly parents who came to investigate, and finally met him in a long white robe who assured him he had done it.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
12 November 1967
Told
17 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Jesus Christ, the True Identity of Man ¶9 (Now let me share with you what happened to him last Sunday [...]. Undoubtedly it was the night’s dream, but it’s dated the 12th of November, which was Sunday.)
17 November 1967
Neville describes waking at 1:30 that same morning, remaining in bed, and dropping into a state where he stood in a world just like this one telling his wife, his brothers, his friends and members of
A woman experiences herself split into three persons
Description
Answering Ina's question, Neville says a letter arrived today from a woman present in the audience who found herself split into three persons of differing sexes, and that he will treat it next week; he adds that those he has met in that other world after death wore the same sexual garments they wore here.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
17 November 1967
Told
  • 17 November 1967
  • 17 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Jesus Christ, the True Identity of Man ¶53 (Yet a letter came to me today, which I will treat next week, a fantastic letter, of one who found herself split into three persons and they where not the same sex.)
17 November 1967
Neville tells the audience that in this small gathering he can identify two people sitting behind the questioner who have already had the resurrection experience and three others on the verge of it.
20 November 1967
Speaking of the sterling devaluation, Neville indicates he holds money in the sterling area which he is not converting into dollars, and speaks of Barbados having to import from the dollar area.
An audience member dreams of Neville's dog and a spiritual operation
Description
A woman present in the audience shared with Neville this week two dreams: standing on the top of the world above a limitless amphitheater hearing her own voice say the world is a theater and she is the whole world pushed out, a collapsing world and a little white dog with a lamb's face whom the voice called Neville's dog and whom she named Junior; then a second dream in which Neville was the surgeon operating painlessly on her shoulder with a luminous silver comb of needles, after which she woke at 7:30.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 20 November 1967 and 27 November 1967 (probable)
  • before 27 November 1967
Told
27 November 1967
Sources
between 27 November 1967 and 4 December 1967 (probable)
Neville says he will share with the audience what was shared with him during the past week (the letters that follow).
c. December 1967
Neville recalls that just before he closed his lecture series the previous December a man challenged him because his teaching conflicted with the man's belief in a flesh-and-blood Jesus, and the man n
1 December 1967 (probable)
Neville announces his lecture break this month and reopening on the 8th of January on the same schedule, saying he does not feel like sending out notices.
4 December 1967
Neville describes his daily Bible reading of five to seven hours and how that very day he opened the book casually at the 88th Psalm.
6 December 1967
Neville remarks on watching television the previous night, where Cardinal Spellman was placed in his crypt and praised as a holy man for bringing hundreds of millions of tax-exempt dollars into the di
between 11 December 1967 and 17 December 1967
Neville had seen David's show the previous week and loved the music and the whole treatment of it.
between 11 December 1967 and 15 December 1967
Neville announces his own lecture schedule: two lectures remain, then a three-week closure and a reopening on 8 January, with no notices mailed this year.
Woman dreams of a lover and restored youth
Description
A lady wrote to him — the letter arrived the day before the lecture — describing a dream in which she found her ragged lover in a barn, fed him, walked hand in hand past the many houses she had lived in, and saw a poisoned five-year-old boy become an infant while she herself became a woman just out of her teens.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
14 December 1967
Told
15 December 1967
Sources
  • Source: Imparting and Implanting the Word ¶27 (Here is a lady, she is not present tonight, she said, “I had this wonderful dream, here I am and my youngest daughter said to me”—now this lady is a grandmother, one of the youngest grandmothers you’ve ever seen but a grandmother—“and my youngest daughte…)
15 December 1967
Neville announces his own lecture schedule: meetings until the 15th of the month, then closed until the 8th of January, with an advertisement instead of mailed notices.
Canyon resident reports birth, David, and splitting visions
Description
Neville reads out a letter he had waited for since 15 December, from a woman living in a rustic canyon, recounting three visions: the infant in swaddling clothes placed in her arms by her long-unseen brothers and her landlord at 3:30 a.m.; five months later the blond, blue-eyed youth David walking out of the canyons toward the sea; and four months after that, at 3:30 a.m., an earthquake and bomb splitting her being from top to bottom - she now awaits the descent of the dove.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
15 December 1967
Told
2 February 1968
Sources
  • Source: Your Husband ¶17 (Now let me share a letter I have been waiting to receive since the 15th of December. This lady’s home is in a small, rustic canyon.)
16 December 1967
On Saturday morning while shaving, Neville's wife told him David had phoned needing help — the soprano's long hairpiece for his show of the Magi at U.C.L.A.
16 December 1967 (probable)
During the interval Neville was occupied with household duties — watching the stove his wife had left on while she and his daughter were out on errands.
Woman dreams of Neville lecturing by a river
Description
Neville reads from a letter that arrived that day from a woman friend who dreamed she attended one of his lectures held outdoors by a river, attended by priests, ministers and rabbis, one rabbi saying he came because Neville teaches the truth; she then dreamed of turning over a jar with a sleeping bug in it and woke.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
18 December 1967
Told
  • 18 December 1967 (possible)
  • 18 December 1967 (possible)
Sources
  • Source: Christmas, the Birth of Christ in Man ¶19 (A friend of mine wrote me, I got the letter today, she said, “Last week I found myself attending a lecture of yours held in the outdoors by a river, and among the audience were priests, Catholic priests, there were ministers, there were rabbis. And someo…)