Neville recounts that when he entered death's door he found a male garment waiting there, as Blake described, and knew himself as Man, neither male nor female.
Neville states that he is one of ten children, of twelve born, two of whom did not survive birth.
He says inspiration comes upon him unexpectedly and cannot be stopped, always either while sitting in his living-room chair awake or at night on his bed, and that he is then possessed as though someth
Neville recounts assuming he was the man he wanted to be, telling no one, persisting in the assumption and watching it harden into fact - which taught him the world is a dream.
Asked about intensity and time intervals, he says frankly that he does not know, but that simple imaginal acts thrown off lightly have been confirmed by the phone ringing almost at once.
Neville recalls that he has often felt himself a lost, confused wanderer, not knowing where to turn for a dollar, while those who contemplate death saw him asleep on a couch of gold.
Neville says he has himself arrested an activity that seemed independent of him and found that although the forms were independent, their life was his own.
Women who insisted on one man later marry someone else
Description
People have repeatedly told him it must be one particular man or no man; he asks whether they would still want to marry if that man dropped dead, and he has sat in church at their weddings to someone else.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 30 September 1968
Told
19 March 1969
(refuted)
30 September 1968
Sources
- Source: I AM in You ¶30 (I have had them say to me, “Either that man or no man.” I haven’t gone down the aisle with them, but I sat in the church when they got married and they looked and smiled as they walked by because it wasn’t that man.)
A woman sees Neville arrive in a self-propelled carriage and recognizes him as God
Description
He recounts a woman's vision in which he arrived in a self-propelled carriage wearing a cape and carrying a briefcase, proclaimed the power of God, and vanished; she said to herself 'That is Neville, and yet it is God.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 7 January 1969
Sources
- Source: Maker Maker Things ¶19 (Then I told the story of a lady who found herself sitting in a chair in a very large room, when a self-propelled carriage appeared. The door opened and I stepped out, wearing a cape and carrying a briefcase.)
Night after night he passes beyond the world of dream into a world of reality entirely unlike this one, and returns each morning through the world of dream into this world of death, and will do so unt
Neville describes the shock of discovering, having been raised a Christian, that Christ is not an outside being to worship but his own human imagination, which turned his world upside down for a while
Neville says his mother wove the garment he entered and called him Neville, and that in time he claimed to be Neville until the "I" who entered awoke to discover it was God, whereupon God's son called
Neville describes his own family: he was raised Protestant, but his brothers fell in love with and married Catholic girls, agreeing their children would be raised Catholic, so half the family is Catho
Neville states that he did not know the 40th Psalm's word to be true until the Spirit of truth awakened in him, that he searched for and found Jesus Christ to be his own human imagination, and that he
He says that in the fullness of time he looked and found the Son calling him "Father", so discovering the fatherhood of God in himself.
Claims that Shakespeare encoded his name in Psalm 46
Description
Neville mentions having read the joke that Shakespeare wrote Psalm 46 and hid himself in it as the 46th words from each end, and the claim that Rufus, living in the 16th century, said the psalm inspired his hymn.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 9 June 1969
Sources
- Source: The First Principle ¶24 (I have read where certain people in their little jokes claim Shakespeare wrote it, incorporating himself into the chapter by making the 26th word “shake” and the 46th word from the end “spear.”)
He recounts his repeated experience of being out of the body and fully awake there, touching and embracing solid people and objects in a world as real as this one, so that no one can persuade him the
After his experiences he began experimenting with imagining what reason and the senses denied, became it, and then taught the method to others who tried it and proved it.
He says that after the descent of the Holy Spirit as a dove he had further experiences relating to the Old Testament, coming back to him like a returning memory.
Wanting his sister in Barbados to see him while he was 2,000 miles away, Neville moved in imagination; she saw him lying on the bed when she entered her son's room, and wrote to him that same day desc
Neville describes how he works: he does not argue with the learned and reputable but walks by, looking for willing ears, usually not scholars, trusting that his message will erupt in them later.
Moved in Spirit into a restaurant environment, Neville realised he was the life of everything he perceived, arrested the activity within himself, and the whole scene - diners, waitress, birds, falling
He describes his present life as spent testifying like Paul, answering the telephone and the letters that come, and claims to have experienced the whole story of Jesus Christ in detail.
During his travelling years he carried enormous amounts of books and read them in the dressing rooms while the others played cards — his dancing/touring life.
Neville's own vision: a hairy monstrous ape called his angelic being 'mother'; he beat it and it grew stronger on his violence, until he pledged to redeem it though it took eternity, whereupon it diss