between 1905 and 1967
(possible)
Neville recalls waiting for God's will instead of acting, so that at the end of the month he could not pay the rent and the landlady told him to get out.
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.)
He describes his own experience of an explosion in his brain after which David of biblical fame stood before him and called him 'my Father'.
Neville recounts being born in Barbados and coming into the world with nothing; too poor to buy food, he would walk fifty blocks to find a friend with a dime for soup beans, and if the friend could no
A New York woman's two-million-dollar bequest passes to Saint Luke's
Description
He says he learned first-hand in New York City of a wealthy woman who willed two million dollars to St. Thomas on 5th Avenue only if Bishop Manning were dead; the bishop outlived her, so St. Luke's Hospital got the money instead.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 16 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Power Sent Me ¶30 (I know this from experience, for it came to me out of the horse’s mouth in New York City. St. Luke’s is a marvelous hospital in New York City and next to it is St. John the Divine, the unfinished cathedral…the biggest thing and really a beautiful piece o…)
Neville recalls experiencing the crucifixion himself, as a whirling vortex nailing him to his own body at six points.
Woman dreams of surgery notes, a sea pole, and a child
Description
A woman friend wrote to Neville that she woke with no memory of a dream but found the words ‘Neville, surgeon, operation’ on her note pad, as their friend Marta had experienced; a later dream of holding a grooved pole in a surging sea and carrying it home, then lifting a child in a bubble bath whose father was named Robert, which Neville interprets as the rod of Isaiah.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 10 April 1968
Sources
- Source: I Remember When ¶25 (Now, a friend of mine writes me this letter. She said, “I have no consciousness of a dream whatsoever, none. I woke in the morning and on my note pad I saw the words ‘Neville, surgeon, operation,’ and remembering our friend Marta who had that similar exp…)
Neville says Christ did not take on the person called Neville but his nature, using his own name to make the point about the pattern man is molded on.
Neville recounts a visionary experience in which he led an enormous crowd in gay procession to the house of God; a voice declared God walked with them, a woman at his side asked where, was told “At yo
Neville says he saw or heard of a meditation teacher who went up to Shasta and took three or four hundred students at no less than $300 each for a six-week course, taking a thousand from those who cou
One night Neville felt himself sink into an infinite, pulsing, golden, liquid light with no circumference, of which he was the center, knowing himself to be the light of the world.
He mentions holding magnets in his hand and feeling his whole body react, and being shocked by inadvertently touching something — to contrast with the vibration in the skull.
Neville names the things he loves in this life — his wife, his children, his family and his circle of friends — while saying he would still wish the vision of his departure were literally true.
Neville states that Christ rose in him and everything said of Christ in scripture unfolded in him, and that he can no more deny it than deny what he ate for dinner.
Neville says he did not volunteer for this work but was drafted into God's army without his permission or consent, in the state of Moses.
Carter reports Neville's claim to have been resurrected in the spirit by seeing his son David, calling resurrection Neville's great theme.
Description
Carter reports Neville's claim to have been resurrected in the spirit by seeing his son David, calling resurrection Neville's great theme. [Date evidence: none in text (Neville's David experience is independently known but no date evidence appears here)]
Verbatim (witness's words)
It must come to mind immediately that this was Neville's great theme, resurrection. He claims to have been resurrected in the spirit by seeing his son David.
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 8 February 1968
Told
20 June 1976
8 February 1968
In vision Neville came out of his own skull and found the imagery of scripture around him — a child in swaddling clothes and his three brothers as witnesses; Lawrence found the child and announced "It
Neville says that when he married he took on an obligation, then a child came and another, and that it was his own obligation - not an external being's instruction - to put his daughter through colleg
Lady friend's four-men dream
Description
Neville recounts a dream told him by a lady friend in which her mother's husband, who was also her father, was missing; she and her mother were entertained by four little men one foot high, one of whom she recognised as her father, and she awoke sobbing knowing he was not free to identify himself — which Neville interprets as Ezekiel's four-faced man.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 20 May 1968
Sources
- Source: Creation and Faith ¶25 (In this lady’s dream she encounters her mother, yet knows she is herself. Her husband, yet her father, was missing, and her mother said: “Listen, I can hear his voice.”)
Neville asserts he knows from his own proving that a desire drenched in the feeling of fulfillment objectifies itself.
Neville recounts that at the moment he heard the voice his body was completely crucified — hands, head, feet and side pierced by vortices — and that the crucifixion was not sad but the most glorious,
Neville tells a woman present, Sharon, that the vision she had was true even though the facts do not support it.
He mentions in passing that when he was born from above he was aware of a peculiar, unearthly wind.
On another occasion Neville entered a room that appeared animated and independent of his perception, and when he stopped an activity in himself everything froze, proving to him he was the life of the
Woman recognizes Neville and Paul in a vision without seeing their forms
Description
A woman friend recognised him in a vision without seeing his form, saying 'That is Neville' — and knew Paul with the same certainty though she had never met a man called Paul.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
26 July 1968
(refuted)
20 October 1967
Sources
- Source: The Signs of the End ¶27 (I’ll know you, just as my friend spotted me and knew me without any uncertainty, “That is Neville.” She didn’t see the form, and she never encountered a man called “Paul”, but she knew him with the same certainty that she knew me.)