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.)
Neville states of himself that he has resurrected the Father in himself and knows himself to be the Father, which he did not know before coming out.
Neville's teaching that at death you are restored young — about twenty — with nothing transformed; asked why twenty, Warden honestly says he does not know ('that was Neville's experience').
Description
Neville's teaching that at death you are restored young — about twenty — with nothing transformed; asked why twenty, Warden honestly says he does not know ('that was Neville's experience'). [Retold 2 times across the interviews.]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Imagining creates the real in this drama, man. That’s what I heard from Neville Goddard fifty years ago, and it just bowled me over every time I thought about it, because if, as I think, I am, then I’m in control even if I’m out of control.
Neville (as quoted): "Imagining creates the real"
Told
12 March 2021
24 July 1968
(doubtful)
24 July 1968
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: How to Think and Get What You Want Part 2 - Lindell, Student of Neville Goddard (lwf_JspO0aP_s9E — Lindell Warden, first-hand; also: lwf_Drsu34a2-y4,lwf_JspO0aP_s9E)
- Source: The Man Within (Lecture-2) (Unresolved ASR Witness) ¶37 (The death is not when my father so-called died; he didn’t die to himself. He died to the family who he left behind him, but he did not die to himself. He was instantly restored to life in a body same as before only new, unaccountably new, terrestrial wor…)
Neville points out on his own forehead the spot, slightly left of centre, where he reverberated when he ascended into Zion and tried with all his force to penetrate the skull and get out.
Neville describes how he buys clothes: he refuses to be shown three ties or told what to want, asking to see fifty or a hundred, and selects a suit length by texture and colour from a dozen or more be
Lady's symbolic salvation dream
Description
Neville describes a letter from a lady recounting a long dream full of scriptural symbols — rising crystal-clear water, logs carried vertically, a dog with a human face, a rope becoming a serpent — which he interprets as the mystery of salvation.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 20 May 1968
Sources
- Source: Creation and Faith ¶30 (Another lady wrote, sharing a very long dream filled with scriptural symbology. The crystal clear water rising. Logs cut to the height of men who were carrying them vertically. A dog with a human face. A piece of rope becoming animated and acting like a …)
Neville states that after his resurrection and return into unity, David called him Father.
Neville describes his own ordinary evenings - entertaining at home, having a drink, and reading the Bible all through the day - while a listener may be having union with the state he personifies.
In passing he says that he himself vanished without leaving a trace, and that his departure will come in that same manner.
Neville says the experience came suddenly and unexpectedly to him and likewise to Bob, Benny and Christine.
Neville tells his audience that he himself has experienced the pattern, has seen it on the mountain top, and has come to report exactly what happened to him without altering it, knowing not everyone w
A young woman remembers Neville teaching her in another age
Description
A woman present tonight, not yet twenty-eight, told him her memory returned of another age in which he taught her of a Father and a Son with the same face and voice, though she did not understand him then.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
2 June 1968
(refuted)
28 June 1968
A woman sees miniature figures presenting the Christ child
Description
The same woman told Neville a further vision: half asleep, she looked through (not with) her right eye, saw a quarter-inch figure of Jesus Christ in a white robe, then three figures, then a woman surrounded by them with one presenting a child, which she took to be Mary receiving the Christ child; each of the men announced “I am a man.” Neville tells her to read Blake's Vision of the Last Judgment and Deuteronomy 32 and Amos 7.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 14 June 1968
Neville recounts stumbling upon the principle of imagining, thinking it stupid, testing it lightly as an experiment, and finding that it worked but produced something he did not want — which is why he
A woman dreams of claiming a lamb as her baby
Description
A correspondent wrote of a dream of an ancient world in which, while talking to three men, she picked up a little lamb at her feet and said 'This is my baby'; Neville reads it as a foreshadowing of the birth from above.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 1968
(possible)
before 1 November 1968
Sources
- Source: How Interpret Scripture ¶17 (Here, another one came and this one is concerning a little lamb. He said, “I found myself in what seemed to be an ancient world…it seemed like an ancient, ancient world.)
He says that after the experience all his concepts of Jesus Christ crumbled, and that despite knowing what he had done and was capable of doing he could find no other explanation in scripture than tha
Woman hears resurrection words in sleep
Description
A woman who attends his meetings told Neville she heard the words "I am the resurrection and the life," and a few days later woke from the depth of sleep with the word "resurrection" ringing in her ear.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
He recalls that when the vibration came to him it was so great he believed he could not survive it and that his body would be found dead in the morning, but instead he awoke.
Green Beret rejects Neville's I am Mary statement
Description
A Green Beret who attended every night of Neville's Los Angeles lectures objected from the front row when Neville said 'I am Mary', never came back, and afterwards told him he taught some of the truth but not all the truth.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 18 July 1968
Neville recounts unrecorded experiences - the unveiling of the arm and the nailing of the peg into his shoulder - and the betrayal by a man he had taught and believed loved the teaching, who rose quic
Walter loses time after a violent incident in Trinidad
Description
Neville tells of his friend Walter, a painter who lost a block of time after allegedly being struck by a jealous friend on the docks in Trinidad; Walter believes he was shot there and is now confined to a home for the rest of his life.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 7 October 1968
Sources
- Source: The Most Precious Gift ¶33 (Nevertheless, my friend Walter is in this home for the rest of his earthly days with a large section of time completely missing.)
Neville says he tested the power on one person after another - imagining an unemployed person gainfully employed - found that it worked, and so tells everyone who will listen to try it.
He was taught as a boy that the serpent of Genesis was a horrible monster that had somehow intruded into God's world.
Lady hears that knowing God requires expansion
Description
Neville reports a letter from another lady who woke laughing after hearing words telling her that knowing you are God only requires expansion, which he connects to Blake's Jerusalem.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
before 20 May 1968
Sources
- Source: Creation and Faith ¶32 (Another lady wrote, saying: “I woke laughing, hearing these words, ‘It’s so easy to know you are God. All you need to do is to expand.’”)