Neville recounts telling a rabbi in New York City that the rabbi had called him Father, and asking whether that is not the fulfilment of the 89th Psalm.
Neville insists that everything he teaches came to him by revelation and personal experience, not by reasoning - he has no training in logic and is no philosopher; scripture simply unfolded within him
A woman in a previous audience objected that his imagined ship booking might have caused someone else to cancel their trip, and he answered that it was the only Christian thing to do.
A woman dreams of holding a naked baby at a friend's home
Description
Another woman in the audience wrote to him about a dream in which, sleeping at a friend's home, she found a naked baby boy on a blanket, answered the doorbell holding him, and was told by her daughter to put clothes on the baby.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
10 June 1969
(doubtful)
6 June 1969
(probable)
6 June 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nature God Revealed Us ¶10 (Three other ladies in this audience tonight…and one wrote me this. She is sleeping on a little, I would say, couch in the home of a friend…in other words away from her own home.)
He states he has himself experienced everything said of Jesus Christ in the Gospels — the crucifixion, the descent of the Holy Spirit as a dove, the ascension and the discovery of the Fatherhood of Go
Neville notes he has not looked in that wallet for thirty years, does not carry a wallet, does not drive, and his wife carries the money and gives him what he wants.
When he came to this city last year he told the vision of a friend who had died, and a lady objected and left with a party of five or six who never came back; he supposes they went home and prayed for
Neville states that he knows from his own experience, by God's self-revelation within him and not by reasoning, that God is infinite love.
Neville describes his habit of granting requests made to him by telephone at home - assuming before the receiver is down that it is done - and how only about one in ten ever comes back, sometimes year
His own mystical experience fulfilling the 14th of Mark: while he was teaching, one departed and another entered, a beautifully dressed man of about forty who kissed him, embraced him with arms extend
Neville mentions knowing a woman in New York City who bought last year's dresses from wealthy houses and resold them in her own shop, notifying clients when she had, for instance, Jackie's wardrobe.
He recounts having been taught the story first by his mother, then by his school, then by church tradition, believing until his own experience that he was just a little man born of a certain woman and
Neville describes his vision in which he was presented to the Ancient of Days exactly as pictured in the seventh chapter of Daniel, with infinite might in a carriage drawn by glorious horses, a woman
He recounts a vision in which Blake told him to let himself go and fall backwards; he dived backwards like a meteor into infinity, came to a stillness, and saw a single man approaching with a heart af
He describes his own mystical experience: the curtain (veil) of his body split from top to bottom, he saw the blood of his ancestral being, fused with it and went up like a spiral of fire into his sku
He says he does not use the law constantly because he is fairly satisfied with his life, but applies it whenever he reaches a crisis.
Neville says that when he saw a man betray him he knew he had already played the part of the betrayer himself.
Neville says his own experience has proved the method for himself and for others, while admitting he has not mastered control of his attention.
Neville asked Barry to go teach in San Francisco in his stead — offering no money but praising his presentability, articulateness, and literate case-history write-ups — and put his San Francisco mailing list at Barry's disposal.
Description
Neville asked Barry to go teach in San Francisco in his stead — offering no money but praising his presentability, articulateness, and literate case-history write-ups — and put his San Francisco mailing list at Barry's disposal. [Date evidence: late 1959 — Barry moved to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960] [Place: Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Anyway, he asked me that night if I would go to San Francisco and teach. I said, “I don’t know anything about teaching. [...] He said, “The principle proves itself in performance. I can’t give you a nickel, but you’re presentable and articulate. You understand this obviously from the case histories you’ve sent me. And when you write, it’s literate. I don’t have to rephrase it. I can put this just as you wrote it. I can put it in a book. [...] I would like you to go there. I’ll give you my list. He said, “Do you have a list? I said, “A list of what?
Neville (as quoted): "The principle proves itself in performance. I can’t give you a nickel, but you’re presentable and articulate. [...] I would like you to go there. I’ll give you my list. [...] Do you have a list?"
Told
25 June 1969
(doubtful)
3 March 1972
(doubtful)
25 June 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
- Source: Test Him and See ¶44 (There’s only one friend of mine in this area to whom I have given my list, and I recommend him one thousand per cent; and if you are on my list, you will be on his list, because he teaches what I teach.)
- Source: Justified States ¶22 (I will not give you any money, but I will give you my mailing list of five hundred; it’s a live list, and you send out my list, and when I go, I will tell them that I allowed you to have my list, and I will get behind you in that manner, but not in any o…)
Carrying a mood, he went to his own library, took down a book of poetry he had not touched in years, opened it casually, and found the mood beautifully confirmed on the page.
He recalls that in Barbados, where his family were always in business, the wives of some of the richest families on the island were kleptomaniacs who would pocket small things like apples; the clerks
Neville recalls Baird Spalding's meetings, false travel claims, and sudden death
Description
He knew Baird Spalding, author of Masters of the Far East, who attended his meetings at the Ebell and died stepping off a car; Spalding wrote his books as fact although he never left America and never saw India, and shares Neville's publisher.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
19 March 1969
(refuted)
30 September 1968
Sources
- Source: I AM in You ¶57 (Spaulding was about that big, with a huge, big growth on his nose. I can see him now at my meetings at the Ebell. One day he simply stepped off the car and dropped…that was his exit.)
A friend dreams of being recognized as the Lord in an English restaurant
Description
A friend wrote to Neville describing a dream in which, at four moments in time, he entered a plush eating establishment in England and was greeted as royalty; when he tried to disguise himself by entering the rear door the maitre d' said 'He really is the Lord.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: No Other Foundation ¶13 (A friend wrote telling of a dream which, although it seemed as though years separated the events, it took place in one night.)
He recalls being repeatedly asked about his college background and having to confess that he never went to college and never graduated from high school, feeling inadequate among degree-holders while k
Neville says the pattern of the tree of life has bloomed in him in its fullness, and that when he shares his experiences he claims no superiority over anyone else.