He has been asked from the auditorium whether it is right to tell his experience, and answers that it is right and that one cannot restrain oneself.
Neville observes people rise through imagination and later deny its role
Description
Neville says he has watched people rise from nothing to great heights and then deny that their own imaginal activity caused it, saying it would have happened anyway.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 1 December 1959
On receiving the same woman's letter about the phrase 'the incurrent eyewitness', Neville looked the word up in his own unabridged Webster's Third International Dictionary and found a better definitio
Man dreams Neville shoots four golden arrows into him
Description
Neville reads out a dream sent to him by a man who saw Neville on the platform shooting four golden arrows into him - resurrection, David, ascension, and a white dove - followed by a second dream in which a stranger promised to come for him on the seventeenth; Neville later calls this man his friend.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 5 April 1968
Sources
- Source: Eschatological Visions ¶1 (Now, I have a few perfectly marvelous eschatological dreams to share with you. Here is an experience of one who heard and believes.)
Neville claims he has already awakened and knows that when this body is laid off he will not return to this world of death.
Neville remarks on this particular audience - small enough to be counted on your fingers - and on his own boundless joy at how many in it have already experienced the truth or are on the verge of it.
Neville states throughout that the whole history of salvation recorded in scripture has been his own personal experience - his autobiography - and that he speaks from experience rather than theory.
Neville points to Benny in the audience, notes how opposite they are in pigment, and says they are the same man because the same David called each of them Father.
A woman's visions show her birth from above is imminent
Description
A woman told Neville a series of visions - passing Point Conception thirty miles back, hearing a voice call 'Father', seeing an infant and a youth when she cupped her eyes, and embracing a criminal who turned out to be a long-dead friend - and Neville interpreted the thirty miles as thirty years and told her her birth from above was imminent.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1968
(probable)
before 10 June 1968
Sources
- Source: The Remnant ¶7 (But I said to her the thirty miles is really thirty years. That happened thirty years ago and therefore your birth from above is imminent.)
- Temporal reference: The Remnant ¶6 (Immediately precedes 538305; Neville says 'from the visions that I received this week' about the same unnamed lady, weakly narrowing when her report reached him.)
Neville states that God's pattern has erupted in him and that what he teaches is his own story, told so hearers may prove it for themselves.
In illustrating that identity does not change with state, Neville speaks of having been rich and having been poor as the same actor playing parts.
In vision Neville came upon the state of Abraham personified as a tall man in his fifties leaning against a leafless oak tree whose branches resembled a human brain, with a human-faced serpent coiled
A woman sees Neville leave and return to his body onstage
Description
Neville reports that many in his audience have lately had visions of his departure, one lady seeing him leave his garment on the stage while speaking on the law, stand lifeless behind the podium, then return with difficulty and finish; he says he wishes her vision were true and that he has now told her all he can of the law.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: How Interpret Scripture ¶37 (One lady was listening to me speak on the law when suddenly I left the garment on the stage. Standing lifeless behind the podium, a silence filled the room so thick that it could be cut with a knife.)
During a series of ten San Francisco lectures last year, a woman who had just called him the greatest teacher of truth was so shocked by his claim that man is God — and by his telling of another woman
Only as a mature man did Neville realise, through mythology and The Lost Language of Symbolism, that the bull of his boyhood daydream was the creative power of the universe; he saw there pictures of t
He describes standing in the presence of the Son of God, being asked to name the greatest thing in the world, answering with faith, hope and love, and being embraced into one body and one spirit.
Los Angeles woman sees Neville as God emerging from a mysterious carriage
Description
A Los Angeles woman told Neville of a vision in which she sat alone in a glass-fronted marble interior, saw him step from a self-propelled carriage wearing an Inverness cape, speak only of Infinite Power without recognising her, and then re-enter the carriage and vanish; she kept saying it was Neville and it was God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 15 July 1968
Bob, Christine, and Benny experience the scriptural drama
Description
Neville names friends — Bob, Christine and Benny — in whom the same drama has unfolded, and says he would compile their accounts with his own the way Luke compiled his narrative.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
3 January 1968
(refuted)
1 March 1968
Sources
- Source: They Related Their Own Experiences ¶5 (What happened to Neville in whom this whole drama has unfolded, what happened to Bob in whom it is unfolding, what happened to Christine in whom it has almost completely unfolded, that doesn’t really matter.)
Neville describes his own speaking life - addressing a hundred or one, broadcasting on radio across the nation to two million, and travelling across the country speaking to hundreds of Christians and
A friend of Neville's who wrote a book called How To Live Forever died two years ago, and Neville went to his funeral; the friend left unsold copies behind.
Woman's stomach trouble disappears after Neville's silence session
Description
A woman came to his home about a problem, they ended up discussing something else entirely and went into the silence on that other matter; she then crossed on the Staten Island ferry, ate cabbage and sausages at a German restaurant without a thought for her chronic stomach trouble, and had no distress.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 15 January 1968
Sources
- Source: Live the Answer Now ¶22 (I took her off that state and we were discussing something entirely different, and then I said, “Let’s go into the silence.” So we did, went into the silence on an entirely different matter.)
Lady dreams of a child by running water and asks can a man bear a child
Description
Another lady writes of a dream in which she watched a child by a cavern of running water while Neville stood high above them, and heard the words 'Can a man bear a child?' - words Neville identifies as Jeremiah 30.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 5 April 1968
Told
5 April 1968
5 April 1968
Sources
- Source: Eschatological Visions ¶23 (Another lady writes, saying: “I was looking at a deep cavern in the earth, watching water running into it as though from a long trough.)
Neville says he meets people who have left this time/space and do not know they have died.
Neville recounts a vision in which he saw a rock fragment and be gathered together again into a glorious being seated in the lotus posture, glowing like the sun, which he recognised as himself; when i
A woman hears Joseph speak from inside an elongated box
Description
Another woman told Neville a vision in which she held an elongated box, knew she was inside it, and heard her own voice say she was Joseph and could not get out until he became Jesus; Neville read it as the coffin in Egypt at the end of Genesis.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 10 June 1968
Sources
- Source: The Remnant ¶13 (Then she heard her own voice coming from there and the voice said, “I am Joseph, but I cannot get out until I become Jesus.”)