A woman recognises Neville's teaching and devotes herself to service
Description
A woman told him she had never wanted things, that on first hearing him she knew this was the truth she was seeking, and that she has worked, served, and trained her two children to serve and love.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
2 June 1968
(refuted)
28 June 1968
Marta dies at dinner and sees Neville as God in a vast hall
Description
Neville's friend Marta, returning from the Laguna Art Festival with three others, stopped at a Mexican restaurant, took a cigarette, said she had a strange feeling and died at the table; she then found herself in a vast glass-fronted hall where Neville stepped from a self-propelled carriage in an Inverness cape, proclaimed the power of God, and she said to herself “He is Neville and he is God.”
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 22 July 1968
Told
22 July 1968
22 July 1968
In his New York City apartment Neville practised being elsewhere: sitting in his big reading chair he would assume he was at the telephone in the hallway, looking back into the living room from a plac
Neville says he looks forward every week to the religion page of Time magazine to see what nonsense the theologians are saying about God now.
Neville recounts writing his book Resurrection, in which he set down his own visions in chronological order — an ordering he says no other book, the Bible included, provides.
Woman heals her back through imaginal revision
Description
A woman wrote to Neville thanking him for teaching her who Jesus Christ really is, describing how she healed a strained back by imagining lifting her typewriter without pain, and then a dream in which she refused to kneel before a Catholic altar.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
26 November 1968
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The Name of God (I AM Is Synonymous With God) ¶2 (Recently a lady wrote thanking me for teaching her who Jesus Christ really is. Then she said: “On my job I lift a typewriter every day. The other day, while moving it I strained a muscle in my lower back and experienced great pain.)
Neville describes his habitual experience of golden liquid light: whenever he closes his eyes and meditates a moment, the dark convolutions of his brain grow luminous and golden light comes out of his
Neville describes teaching his maid Doris, who comes to the house every Monday and is like a member of the family, pulling her up on negative statements and spending fifteen minutes of her paid workin
Spiritually awakened people see the risen Being in Neville
Description
He says that people whose spiritual eyes are opened have repeatedly met him and seen not the little man but the risen Being awake within him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 17 July 1968
Sources
- Source: The Pattern Man ¶32 (I have had that experience unnumbered times from those whose eyes spiritually are opened.)
Neville recounts the day the dove descended upon him in bodily form and remained, smothering him with kisses.
A woman sees Neville leave his garment during his last lecture
Description
A woman sent Neville a vision in which he lectured on the law, left his lifeless garment on the stage, struggled back into it, rushed through the most profound things he had to say knowing the signs had come and this was his very last lecture, then departed never to return.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: How Interpret Scripture ¶37 (For instance, here’s one that came this week. Now she said, “You do with it as you will, because you told me not to interpret the dream, just give it to you just as it came.)
A voice told Neville that it had laid itself down within him to sleep and to dream, and he knew in advance what it would say.
He describes his own ordinary daily life - shaving, bathing, eating, working to pay the rent - as itself part of the dream.
Neville recalls being raised in the low church of the Episcopal world, his mother telling him priests were the wisest men in the world, and his believing that until he became a man and the visions beg
He was raised on the animal's internal organs — brains, sweetbreads, kidneys, livers, hearts and tripe — because there were ten children plus father, mother, grandmother and servants to feed and the c
Neville describes his own marriage: the house is empty when Bill is not there, and if she says she will be back at five and comes at six he is not himself between five and six.
Audience members report the birth experience
Description
Neville reports that two people present in his audience have had the birth experience — one with no witness, and a lady with three witnesses: two brothers and a friend she thinks of as a brother.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 20 May 1968
Sources
- Source: Creation and Faith ¶19 (Two people here have had that birth. In one case there was no witness; therefore his witness is scripture. In the other case, the lady had three witnesses: two brothers and a friend she thinks of as a brother.)
Neville says he becomes so annoyed when someone repeats what an astrologer or medium told them that he wants to shout, asking whether they have ever heard him.
Neville says he knows San Francisco well, having lived in many of its hotels for a month or two at a time, and uses it as his example of assuming a state — sitting on Union Square or in the St.
A woman in the audience dreams of eating God's body
Description
A woman friend, present in the audience, wrote Neville a letter describing a dream in which a voice told her to eat a raw steak from a beautiful plate and then said she had eaten the body of God; he identifies it with John 6.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 15 March 1968
Sources
- Source: Truth of Conception Known by Feeling, It Inspires ¶19 (Now here came a letter from a friend of mine (she’s here tonight). She said, “I had this dream. I have this most beautiful plate and on it was a raw steak. The voice said to me, ‘Eat it’ and I ate it and enjoyed it. Then the voice said, ‘You have eaten t…)
Marge sees Neville preaching as Jesus to every faith in its own tongue
Description
Marge, the lady who was with Marta, had a vision of Neville standing on a beach with his back to an endless body of water, addressing an enormous crowd of every faith who each heard him in their own tongue, and she knew he was both Neville and Jesus.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 22 July 1968
A woman sees Neville appear in her living room and say there is no time
Description
A woman who had last seen Neville painfully thin at 138 pounds, and believed him to be in Barbados, thought of him and hoped he looked better - whereupon he appeared in her living room brown from the sun, in a grey business suit he had bought in New York on the way back, said "There is no time" and vanished.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 27 September 1968
Told
27 September 1968
27 September 1968
Sources
- Source: Brazen Impudence ¶16 (As she thought of me, instantly I am in her living room standing before her, brown from the sun in Barbados, in a grey suit—which I did not own when I left here, a business grey, which I bought on my way back in New York City—and I said to her, “There is…)
Neville says that had he accepted the human definition of truth he would have been stuck for ever in his place of birth with no social, intellectual or financial background; but he and his family refu
Neville testifies that Christ rose in him and God's son appeared to reveal him as God the Father, and that until then he had always taken himself to be merely a body of flesh.
He describes using San Francisco hotels he has lived in as the place from which to imagine, knowing them intimately from his stays there.