He caught the flu in the epidemic that hit much of the country, went through all the pains and fevers, and lost twelve pounds he has not regained — and refused to blame any cause outside his own Imagi
before 31 January 1969
(probable)
He explains that he cut his coming Monday lecture title down to 'Wonder Working Power' so it would fit the small ad on the Saturday religious page of the Times.
He describes, in the second person, the same pilgrimage vision he had: the crowd asking where God is, the answer "At your side," their hysterical laughter, the voice saying "in the act of waking," and
Neville says visions came upon him which he checked against scripture and found dovetailed, and that he then recorded the messianic secret - that God's true son is David - in his book Resurrection, so
He was born a subject of the British crown, and uses the queen's son being a prince — but not his prince — to argue that if David is his prince he must himself be the king.
He remembers his father and mother teaching him a physical Jesus, and says that though they are gone from this world his love for them has not decreased and they are alive to him.
Neville delivered a lecture titled "Many Mansions" in 1969, discussing the imaginal activities of humanity as an infinite might/great computer.
Neville describes his delight in his daughter — how thrilled he is that she is his daughter, how happy he is when she comes home, and that he could never be too tired to welcome her.
Neville reports that someone accused him of drinking too much, and answers that he does drink, always before dinner, eats what he wants and makes no excuses and is no holy man.
Neville describes his own incarnation as Neville, a member of a family of many brothers, a sister, a mother and father, with a wife and children, from all of whom he felt completely separated and isol
He says he has tested the principle countless times himself and taught it to others who tested it and reported their results to him.
Neville says that when he recounts what happened in him he speaks as though it were external, but the three people who witnessed his own transformation appeared within him.
Neville describes himself as a normal, formally uneducated man, married, once divorced, with two children, who has nevertheless experienced everything said of Jesus Christ in the gospel.
between 19 February 1922 and 18 February 1923
(probable)
Neville recalls leaving Barbados at seventeen, unschooled, having voiced a desire to be a minister of the word of God, and that his one consuming desire was to have a true rather than a borrowed visio
A newly appointed American ambassador admits ignorance of his posting
Description
Neville recalls hearing an interview with a newly appointed American ambassador who admitted he did not know where his posting was on the map, having been appointed for his campaign contributions.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 2 June 1969
Sources
- Source: The Sphere Within ¶28 (In our land, I recall hearing an interview with a man who had just been appointed an ambassador.)
Neville describes his own practice of taking the Bible and letting his intuition play upon it until the meaning surfaces.
Neville recounts the night of his awakening: he fell asleep normally and dreamed of a glorious city whose enormously wide sidewalks were filled with laughing boys and girls and set at intervals with c
before 20 October 1969
(doubtful)
He tells how on many mornings he woke aware of a peculiar odor of death, told his wife that a particular person had died at a certain hour, and later that day a phone call confirmed the death and the
Neville describes giving his immortal eyes, from another level of his own being and not by his own choosing, to a woman he does not know socially rather than to his wife or daughter, and keeping the g
Neville recounts reading in the New York Times that Billy Graham hoped to live long enough to meet the second coming of Jesus Christ and shake his hand, and rereading it in disbelief.
Neville was taught as a child the orthodox story of Jesus as a man who came into the world 2,000 years ago, died and rose again — taught to him by his mother, whom he would never question, and which h
He describes his daily study routine: rising about 4:30 with a cup of tea and reading the Bible until the paper comes, comparing King James and Revised Standard in The Interpreter's Bible with its twe
He had his dear friend Bob cremated and the urn returned to him held only a small handful of ash.
Neville mentions that after the lecture he will ride home with his friend, going by sight past familiar streets and objects.
Abdullah told him cryptically that he would have died by the time he returned from Barbados; Neville, then seven years a strict vegetarian, non-smoking, non-drinking celibate after a disillusioning fi