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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 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.
before 1968 (possible)
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.
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"

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
before 1968 (possible)
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…)
Person abandons and resumes astrological reasoning
Description
Neville recalls someone telling him they had given up all belief in numerology and astrology, and then immediately reasoning from the moon passing Venus in their second house.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 20 May 1968
Told
20 May 1968
Sources
  • Source: Creation and Faith ¶27 (is like what someone once said to me: “I have given up all belief in numerology and astrology, but the moon is passing Venus tonight and because he is in my second house I know what to expect tomorrow.”)
before 1968 (possible)
Neville asserts he knows from his own proving that a desire drenched in the feeling of fulfillment objectifies itself.
before 1968 (possible)
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,
before 1968 (possible)
Neville tells a woman present, Sharon, that the vision she had was true even though the facts do not support it.
before 1968 (possible)
He mentions in passing that when he was born from above he was aware of a peculiar, unearthly wind.
before 1968 (possible)
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)
Date (happened)
before 1968 (possible)
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.)
before 1968 (possible)
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.
between 13 January 1968 and 14 January 1968
Over the past weekend Neville visited a doctor fascinated with anthropology who said that in spite of what Neville teaches we go back millions of years; Neville asked whether he was proud that his anc
Neville's woman friend visions feeding a hungry young man
Description
A woman friend shared a vision with Neville: overcome by sleep early in the day she lay on the couch, heard a knock at her own back door, admitted a hungry young man, and while preparing his food believed it was 5:30 P.M. and her husband due home - until her little daughter woke her and it was only 11:00 a.m.; remembering she had never fed him, she fed him in her Imagination.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
18 January 1968 (probable)
Told
18 January 1968
Sources
  • Source: God Speaks to Man ¶12 (Another friend shared this vision with me. (I call this a vision rather than a dream, for it was her own back door.) Although it was early in the day, my friend became so sleepy, she lay down on the couch and closed her eyes.)
Marta sees Neville arrive clothed in power and knows he is God
Description
Six months before her death Marta had a vision in which a self-propelled carriage drew up, Neville stepped out clothed in sheer power, and she repeated to herself that he was Neville and he was God; she wrote it down and told him she had no doubt of it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 18 January 1968
Told
18 July 1968
Sources
Woman student answers a biblical challenge in a hillside dream
Description
A woman told Neville last Friday night of a dream in which, before a huge crowd on a hillside, a man challenged anyone to disprove his knowledge of the Bible, and she rose and quoted Matthew 22 on how Christ can be both David's Lord and David's son, explaining that Christ is the Father and David the Son.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
19 January 1968
Told
22 January 1968
Sources
  • Source: The Gospel ¶6 (Now, here is a story I received last Friday night. This will illustrate how you will know when the Word is quickened in you. This lady found herself, in dream, in a huge crowd, seated on a grassy hillside.)
Woman experiences double vision through a white-robed being
Description
Another woman gave Neville a letter on Friday describing weeks of double vision - a lighted roadway seen in her living room, and a tall white-robed being holding a lamp through whose eyes she looked to see her husband asleep on the bed - and asked whether she could be that glorious being.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
19 January 1968
Told
22 January 1968
Sources
  • Source: The Gospel ¶16 (Now, another lady gave me a letter on Friday, saying: “I have been having the strangest thing happening to me. I have been having double vision.)
A woman freezes a tape reel by imagination in a dream
Description
Neville reads out a letter recently sent to him by a woman who felt his presence one Sunday night, then dreamed of watching a tape recorder and found that when she stopped the reel in her imagination it froze, and that she expanded when she did so and had to contract her senses again before the reel would move.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. February 1968 (probable)
Told
23 February 1968
Sources
  • Source: Jesus Christ ¶8 (Now, let me share an experience which was recently shared with me. The lady writes: “Last Sunday night I felt your presence so strong that I sat down expecting to see you. Instead all I saw were lights flickering on and off like fireflies.)
2 February 1968
Neville mentions reading in that morning's newspaper about officials who had been stealing from the government.
A woman dreams of Neville as God and travels to him by imagination
Description
A woman brought Neville a letter on Monday night recounting a doubled dream from the previous Friday night: a tall gray-haired man in an Inverness cape stepped from a self-propelled carriage and spoke only of power, and she knew he was both God and Neville; in the re-dreamed version she was struck by a polished topaz, lost her friend Marge Broome, her car, her money and the topaz, then remembered his teaching, imagined herself with Neville, and was instantly in his home telling him the dream.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
2 February 1968
Told
16 February 1968
Sources
  • Source: Power Sent Me ¶11 (A week ago last Friday night this lady taking to bed this message she heard from this platform, and she said, “I found myself in a far, far place. It was so remote both in place and in time, I did not understand anything that I saw or heard.)
Woman dreams of union with her radiant father-in-law
Description
A week before the lecture Neville received a letter from a lady recounting a dream in which she was twenty, newly married, living in the Basque country among shepherds, travelling by truck with her in-laws to a heavenly green valley, whereupon her father-in-law grew tall and young, his face became brilliant and she dissolved into the brilliance - which Neville interprets as her playing the part of Tamar and entering the mainstream.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 2 February 1968
Told
9 February 1968
Sources
  • Source: God's Creative Power ¶14 (I received a letter last week from a lady, who said: “In the dream I knew I was twenty years old, just married, and living in the Basque country among the shepherds.)
5 February 1968
On the afternoon before this lecture Neville imagined holding a red rose in his hand, and that evening a lady arrived with roses cut from her garden and asked him to wear one, which he did.
Ohio man claiming Davidic ancestry dies in his eighties
Description
The day before the lecture Neville read that a man in Ohio who claimed to have traced his ancestry back to David had died at the age of 84 or 85, which he calls nonsense if meant secularly.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
8 February 1968
Told
9 February 1968
Sources
  • Source: God's Creative Power ¶9 (Yesterday I read where someone in Ohio, who claimed he had traced his background back to David, died at the age of 84 or 85.)
A lady has the remote-place dream described to Neville
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
9 February 1968 (probable)
Told
16 February 1968