between 22 December 1967 and 28 December 1967
Neville says four letters from students arrived that week and he reads them out as the substance of the lecture.
c. 25 December 1967
(probable)
He mentions in passing that he and his own family will be getting together to celebrate Christmas Day.
Neville Goddard's book The Knowledge of God was published in 1968, containing his account of being taken into the Divine Assembly in 1929.
Person: Neville Goddard
Harry Webb patents a collapsible dress box seen in vision
Description
A violinist friend, Harry Webb, saw a collapsible dress box in a vision, cut an accurate model of it, patented it and sold the patent for $10,000 while the manufacturer made millions.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: That Which Already Has Been ¶26 (A friend of mine, a violinist, cut an accurate model of something he had seen in his mind. It was a collapsible box such as now used by department stores to hold dresses and such.)
He describes his vision of the crooked serpent, a green, yellow-green, slimy monster large enough to fill the room, which came toward him and which he tried to corral rather than kill, once trapping j
Bob sees a world where wishes provide food
Description
Neville relates what his friend Bob told him: Bob found himself in another world where at lunch hour people took a small card from their pocket, wrote on it what they wanted to eat, replaced it, and then showed heavenly expressions as they enjoyed invisible food.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 8 February 1968
Sources
- Source: The Last Days ¶19 (My friend Bob, who has had all of the experiences, found himself in a fantastic world where at the lunch hour people stopped what they were doing and took a little card from their pocket, made notes on it as to what they wanted to eat, and replaced the c…)
Neville's male friend dreams of mental movement and being chosen
Description
A friend told Neville a dream: his birthday party with two large cakes, a cake and all the guests vanishing, then a beach where a friend pointed to people on a rock out to sea and said they got there "Mentally", after which he mentally moved a frightened child onto the big rock; the dream ended in a lecture hall where Neville came down a stairway, took his hands and greeted him as "chosen one".
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 18 January 1968
Sources
- Source: God Speaks to Man ¶6 (Now the dream changes and my friend finds himself in a lecture hall with a stairway in the center of the stage. Coming down the stairs, I place his hands in mine and say: “I’m glad you have made it, chosen one.” Then he awoke.)
Mother dreams of a newborn child with formed teeth
Description
Neville reads the mother's letter, in which she dreamt of a newborn child with perfectly formed teeth and of Neville telling her that all the children in his family are born with perfectly formed teeth.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 5 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Faith in God ¶10 (Looking at me you said: ‘Have you forgotten that all the children in my family are born with perfectly formed teeth?’ Then you turned and walked away.)
Neville says he loved his daughter before she was born, saw her before she came into the world and she told him her name, which he then gave her; she has never attended one of his meetings.
Neville recalls asking his brother Victor why he did not give responsibility to their brothers Cecil, Fred and Collin, and Victor answering that they were not qualified and would lose the business.
Dozens in Neville's audience experience birth from above
Description
He reports that at his two weekly Los Angeles meetings, dozens in the audience are having the experience of the birth from above.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Man Within ¶16 (Every Monday and Friday are my two nights, and in that audience dozens are having it, but they have it differently, as they have everything else differently.)
Neville says that when he was reborn in San Francisco he was already a grown man and a father of children, and his own mother had already died, so he reacted like Nicodemus to the idea of being born a
Mother of five becomes aware inside her skull
Description
Neville reads a second letter, from a lady with five children who, sitting at table talking with her husband and her oldest child Leslie, suddenly became aware she was within her skull looking through her eyes and not with them, and asked whether scripture or Blake mentioned it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
3 January 1968
(refuted)
1 March 1968
Sources
- Source: They Related Their Own Experiences ¶9 (She has five children. She and her husband and her oldest child, Leslie, began to talk and began to explain something. As she looked at him, she suddenly became aware that she’s looking from within herself.)
Neville affirms that he knows the teaching works from his own personal experience.
On an all-night New York radio panel, a professor challenged Neville to turn a white pencil yellow by imagination; Neville answered that he would if brought yellow paint, and told the professor he was
Neville says he meets those the world calls dead and cannot persuade them that they have died.
A lady dreams of crossing water, Neville's many roles, and a great wind
Description
A lady wrote to Neville a series of dreams: crossing water to his classes on stones placed just below the surface, seeing him in a theater playing every part including a blind man, and being caught up by a great wind and waking saying 'I love thee, O Lord.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 24 May 1968
Sources
- Source: All Things Exist ¶5 (Now a lady wrote, saying: “I found myself looking at an enormous building at the edge of a vast body of water where your classes were held. A man at my side asked: ‘How do the students get to the classes?’ Pointing to another student who was walking on t…)
In his 1968 lecture 'I AM in You,' Neville recalled visiting his teacher Abdullah in Atlantic City.
Place: Los Angeles
Person: Neville Goddard
He says he has heard the new song of the 144,000 - a heavenly chorus calling him by name - and being lifted up through his skull into a world with no sun.
Neville says he has repeatedly imagined a state and watched it externalise itself as a physical fact, and has taught others to do the same.
Retelling of the same commission: he was sent by sheer might, by a God who did not use vocal chords but simply thought the words "Time to act!" and Neville heard them.
Neville says he never heard the mystery of the Bible from anyone and never saw it in his reading; like Paul, he was not taught it but received it by revelation — an act of God self-revealing in him.
A subway rider claims a seat after receiving an impression of pregnancy
Description
Neville retells a story he heard in New York City of a young girl who rushed into the subway asking a gentleman for his seat as a pregnant lady, and when he asked when the baby was expected, replied that she did not know because it had just happened.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 15 March 1968
Sources
- Source: An Inner Conviction ¶39 (It reminded me of a story I heard in New York City. This young girl came rushing into the subway, and standing in front of a gentleman she said: “Would you please let a pregnant lady have your seat?”)
In listing examples of the technique, Neville recalls a time when nobody knew him and he could not sell a book or anything he wrote.
Neville says that from his own experience, when he speaks from the platform or on radio or television, he draws argument because what he says conflicts with people's prefabricated misconceptions of sc