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
A New York friend of Neville's told a distressed mutual friend to raise $1,500 a month by asking a dozen people, Neville among them, for $150 a month each with no repayment for six months; Neville and
Neville befriends the singing shoe shiner in his barber shop
Description
He describes the man who shines his shoes in his barber shop, whose singing and talk annoys the boss-barber, and whom he treats as God and enjoys talking with.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
28 November 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Christian Mystery Experienced Biblethroughneville ¶46 (I can‘t meet anyone…he shines my shoes in the barber shop, I respect him. He will come on, he’ll do all kinds of things, and he will sing and talk…to the annoyance of the boss-barber who thinks he should not be so intimate with the customer.)
Neville says he has gone into world after world in which the visited world was the only reality while the apartment where his physical body slept was a shadow, and that the clothed body he wears there
Neville hears a story about selling cut glass under a diamond's price tag
Description
He retells a story someone told him about making a ring in England: put the price tag of a great diamond on a piece of cut glass and the buyer with no gem knowledge will choose by the tag, because people cannot see values, only tags.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Eschatology ¶60 (Someone once told a story: if you make a ring in England, and you took a galaxy and jammed it until a piece of cut glass, and put on it the price of a great diamond, and then put that tag on the cut glass or the diamond, the average person, not understan…)
A lady who always sat in the front row, and who died about a year ago at almost 90, gave Neville the book containing the Epistle of James, which he had never been able to read in his own Bible because
Neville Marc's older brother Larry Berle was killed in a car accident; Goddard later framed the loss in lectures as a spiritual lesson for the parents.
Person: Larry Berle
During the years after Carter's vision, Neville repeatedly said from the lecture platform that he would love to hear that someone had seen him die, but Carter could not bring himself to tell his dream.
Description
During the years after Carter's vision, Neville repeatedly said from the lecture platform that he would love to hear that someone had seen him die, but Carter could not bring himself to tell his dream. [Date evidence: repeated from the platform in the window between Carter's vision (c. 1969) and Neville's death (Oct 1972)]
Verbatim (witness's words)
all that time he was saying from the platform, I'd love to hear that you have seen me die. Well, I kept hearing him say this, but I still could not bring myself to tell him this awful dream which I had had.
Neville (as quoted): "I'd love to hear that you have seen me die."
Date (happened)
between 1969 and October 1972
(probable)
Neville states that the whole pattern of scripture unfolded within him personally, that he has told the chronological order exactly as it happened to him, and that he speaks from experience rather tha
Neville says his own awakening is complete and finished, that he remains only long enough to tell it, and that he has been sent to get the audience's ear for the God within them.
He says he knows from experience that David found him and called him Father, God, My Lord and the Rock of his salvation, David being all the parts Neville has ever played fused into one youth.
Neville says he has awakened from the dream of life and now waits for and repeatedly tells his story so that everyone else may awaken.
Neville sets out the predetermined pattern of the mystical experiences - awakening from the sleep of death, the son calling him father, the splitting in two, the ascent as a fiery serpent from the bas
Norma's mistaken astrology chart still predicts a successful venture
Description
Neville, who once believed in astrology himself, taught it years ago to a retired school teacher friend named Norma, who became a professional astrologer; when a breeze blew her papers she drew the wrong chart and told a client his venture would succeed, and the promised $100 check arrived anyway - she remained an astrologer until her death though she knew the charts meant nothing.
Norma accidentally drew a chart for a person born ten years later because wind had turned her ephemeris pages, yet her confident reading persuaded the businessman.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 4 November 1968
He caught the flu after reading in the paper that fifty per cent of people had it, and became the fifty-first per cent — learning that even after his mystical experiences he remains subject to what al
He distinguishes the being that awoke within him from the man whose parents, brothers and limitations everyone knows, and who entertains guests at home and enjoys dining in a good restaurant.
A second telling in the same lecture: on first finding the true vine he could hardly sleep for days, disillusioned by the responsibility he had always laid on another, until he accepted it and began t
He tells his Catholic and Protestant relatives that the only one erupted suddenly within him and he knew who Jesus Christ was, and they answer that they know his origin, his father and his mother.