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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1968 (possible)
Neville recalls the Barbadian saying 'I have a hind-claw' and the island's beach crabs, which run over a precipice and catch the earth just below the surface to stop their fall.
before 1968 (possible)
Many years earlier Neville experimented while awake inside a dream by seizing a stationary object and refusing to let it go, and so learned that one wakes and returns by feeling solidity.
before 1968 (possible)
He recounts entering the kingdom by way of the ascended spine, and the storm and earthquake he himself caused in a tremendous effort to get out again.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville states that what he teaches came to him by revelation unfolding within him, not from any book or from any man's lips.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says of himself that he has no wish for fabulous wealth and does not want the responsibility it brings, believing the fabulously wealthy have no time for spiritual awareness.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recounts standing in the presence of the Risen Christ, being asked to define the greatest thing in the world, answering with Paul's words about faith, hope and love, and then being embraced by
before 1968 (possible)
Having received the knowledge that God in man is the human imagination from no man and no book but by revelation, Neville had no one to turn to and began to experiment with it; it proved itself, and h
before 1968 (possible)
He recalls seeing the New York Stock Exchange trading floor when the day's volume was only eight million shares, and thinking he was in Bedlam.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville recalls practising double vision morning, noon and night with his teacher Abdullah, who told him to look at a lampshade, a carpet or a wall and report not what he saw but what lay beyond it, u
before 1968 (possible)
In that same night's vision Neville met a dear friend from Barbados who is still alive — a bachelor hotel owner, a name-dropper — unchanged and playing the same gay, light part.
before 1968 (possible)
He asserts from his own experience that one must feel oneself to be God in order to know God, accepting that the world may call him crazy.
before 1968 (possible)
While reading the 14th chapter of John, it came to Neville intuitively that Christ speaking to the disciples was himself speaking to his own body, not to someone outside.
Woman sees Neville as Risen Christ
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing how she fell asleep asking for a deeper understanding, saw him as the Risen Christ, and was handed the number 26; he explains that he was giving her the mouth — a voice of authority to speak out what she intuitively knows.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1968 (probable)
Told
21 October 1968
Sources
  • Source: Fall Love With Christ ¶4 (In it she said: “I fell asleep requesting a deeper understanding when you appeared as the Risen Christ and handed me the number 26. I have tried to understand this and can only come up with the number eight.”)
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says that for years he had to agree, and still would, with someone's observation that a thousand rush in sympathy to the hurt but meet another's fortune with envy rather than joy.
before 1968 (possible)
He states that he has borne the Son of God within himself, and that the Son came out, stood before him and called him Father.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says he has himself repeatedly stopped the world and found it frozen and dead, at intervals scattered over many years.
before 1968 (possible)
He ordered several suits from his New York tailor of thirty-five years; his wife disliked one of them and he agreed, never wore it once, and gave it to his son, who had wanted a new suit and loved it.
A correspondent asks how to imagine a project involving reluctant partners
Description
A man wrote Neville a series of questions, asking him to take the fourth first: he has a project he cannot give up but which involves other men who he suspects would not want to be involved, and asks whether he should go on imagining it; Neville answers to take the objective alone and let the partners be drawn in.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • between 14 October 1968 and 18 October 1968 (probable)
Told
18 October 1968 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Revelation Risen Christ ¶1 (I’ll start first with this, it’s a series of questions, and the gentleman asked me if I could fit it in to take the fourth one first.)
Benny Gould describes the same blond, blue-eyed David
Description
Neville, who says he was born and raised among Negroes, tells of asking Benny Gould — the blackest man he knows, living in Los Angeles, who had the identical experience — to describe David honestly, and Benny painted a word picture of the same blond, blue-eyed lad.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 26 July 1968
Told
26 July 1968
Sources
  • Source: Signs End July 26 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶34 (The blackest man that I know in this world – and I was born and raised among Negroes – tonight is the father of David and he lives in Los Angeles, and his name is Benny Gould. He had the identical experience that I had.)
before 1968 (possible)
He says he meets people who have left this time/space and do not know they have died.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville, his wife and small daughter flew from Barbados to Trinidad to take a bauxite freighter from Port-of-Spain to Mobile, Alabama; the captain briefed him on meal times and warned him not to press
before 1968 (possible)
In his own experience the child was presented to him; he held it, looked into its face and called it "How's my sweetheart?", whereupon the whole scene suddenly vanished - an event he says took place i
before 1968 (possible)
Neville says he is departing and his time is short, and hopes his friend will be the one chosen to tell it.
before 1968 (possible)
Neville states in the first person that having found David he anointed him with holy oil and David called him My Father, my God and the Rock of my salvation.
before 1968 (possible)
In vision David appeared to reveal Neville's fatherhood, with homosexuals standing nearby looking concupiscently at David; Neville then told them the story of how David brought down the giant Goliath.