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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1969 (possible)
He was lifted out of his body, ascended in a spiral motion clothed in a body of fire and air, glided above the earth healing the blind, lame, halt and withered simply by passing them, heard a heavenly
Businessman reports three mystical experiences to Neville
Description
Returning from Barbados last month Neville found a letter from this man reporting his biggest business months ever, and three mystical experiences he valued above all the money in the world: moving bodiless through infinite space repeating 'God'; going in meditation through the doors of a club and an adjacent hospital to fuse with the infinite soul of God saying 'I and the father are one'; and seeing a flame consuming nothing, approached by Moses, Abraham and Paul, who merged into one being named Jesus, out of whose body he saw himself come.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 1969 and 1970 (probable)
  • between January 1964 and September 1964 (probable)
Told
  • 1970 (refuted)
  • September 1964 (probable)
Sources
before 1969 (possible)
After performing an imaginal act he has had the telephone ring within minutes with someone thanking him for what had just happened; other times it has taken a day, a week, a month, or months.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says he has told rabbis, preachers and priests that he has seen David of biblical fame and that David called him father, and they laugh and then fall silent.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says scripture has taken place in him and that he speaks as the Resurrected Christ through the garment called Neville, which is why he can interpret scripture's ambiguous statements.
7 April 1969
Neville asserts from his own awakening that when he awoke he was Jesus Christ, the one imagination.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes how he set about making himself into the image of a successful minister of the word of God by assuming from the start that he had already finished, and remaining faithful to that ima
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says that being awake he can now pass beyond dream into the world of spirit and meet his friends there consciously.
Women see Neville clothed in power, wisdom, and love
Description
Neville mentions an earlier witness: one lady saw him clothed in power and wisdom, and now another has seen him clothed in the garment of love.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 10 October 1969
Told
10 October 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Reconciliation ¶15 (One lady saw me clothed in power and wisdom, and now I know one has seen me clothed in my perfect garment of love.)
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says he keeps books on the Bible at home, and that no scholar among them has touched the truth he is describing.
A woman sees faith, hope, and charity as three men
Description
A woman in the audience told Neville of a vision in which she saw a woman surrounded by three men who vanished, and on asking their names was told they were faith, hope and charity.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 1 December 1969
Told
1 December 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Heart of the Dreamer ¶5 (One lady found herself in a crowd, looking at a woman surrounded by three men, who suddenly disappeared. The lady approached and asked their names, to which my friend replied: “Faith, hope and charity.”)
c. 1969 (probable)
He recounts reading an interview in which Mrs. Martin Luther King said her husband, on the day Kennedy was assassinated, told her that was how he too would die.
before 1969 (possible)
He describes holding an infant in his hands in his own mystical experience and, unable to resist the impulse, calling it "How is my sweetheart?", after which the whole scene vanished.
before 1969 (possible)
He pays tax on every dollar taken at his lectures, claims no exemptions, and has repeatedly refused offers of ordination on the grounds that God sent him.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville states from his own experience that the dead are restored to life in a body like this one, and that having been raised from the dead he has presented himself to the woman and to others attendi
c. 1969 (probable)
He recently read The Dialogues of the Buddha, translated from Sanskrit by Rhys Davids, and found in it words about human beings being stinking and revolting in the eyes of the gods that matched what t
before 1969 (possible)
He says he has found David and that his memory has returned, so that he knows there is no part he has not played and can condemn no one.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says the Christ story erupted in him and completed itself in the scriptural span of days, so that he awoke inside his own skull and experienced the whole story of Jesus in the first person, pr
Neville's nephew persuades a holdout Barbados juror
Description
On a recent visit to Barbados his nephew sat on a jury where one juror could see nothing wrong in a man's obvious theft and held out against the other eleven, until the nephew warned him that perjuring his oath meant six months in jail — whereupon the juror instantly declared the man guilty; Neville uses it to show the man had not yet eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 1969 and 1970 (probable)
  • between January 1964 and September 1964 (probable)
Told
  • 1970 (refuted)
  • September 1964 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: The Spirit Gives Life ¶50 (In little Barbados where I was just a few months ago by sat on the jury and a man is on trial for an obvious theft.)
c. 1969 (possible)

Three years before Neville's 1972 death, Frank Carter had a night vision of Neville choking, falling, and dying in front of a restaurant called The Golden Bull.

Neville's daughter crashes on her first solo drive
Description
Neville's daughter, on her first solo drive at sixteen in a second-hand Buick they had bought her, swerved on the curve of Doheny Road at Sunset to avoid an oncoming driver crossing the double line, hit a palm tree, wrecked the car and smashed her nose; the other driver never stopped.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
6 May 1969 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: The Battle of Armageddon ¶42 (My daughter on her first trip out, she was only sixteen. She had to wait until she was sixteen to drive a car, and we bought her a second-hand car, a nice little Buick.)
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes his own personal practice: he catches the feeling of the wish fulfilled by imagining he is among people he knows well who see him as they would if his desire were already a fact, and
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says the whole story of Jesus Christ has unfolded in him — he has been crucified, buried and resurrected, and was as surprised as anyone when the pattern erupted in him.
A woman wrote to Neville about a disturbing dream in which she entered a jewellery store, took several items including a
Description
A woman wrote to Neville about a disturbing dream in which she entered a jewellery store, took several items including a beautiful green gem, and left without paying; he tells her to be thrilled, that she was eating of the Tree of Life and that the green stone was her hunger for the word of God.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Persons Represent States in Scripture ¶13 (Now a lady wrote, saying: “This dream disturbs me greatly. In the dream I entered an exquisite jewelry store, and picked up many items, among which was a beautiful green gem. Then I left without paying for the articles I took.)
Joseph rises from Russian poverty to New York wealth by imagining
Description
Neville retells the story of his dear friend Joseph, a poor Russian Jewish boy who imagined the bank teller making a mistake in his favour, received the overage the next day, and went on to become a multi-millionaire in New York who mentally writes letters thanking customers for cheques.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
  • 18 May 1969 (doubtful)
  • 18 May 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: The Artist Is God ¶5 (Let me share with you a simple story. A very dear friend of mine who lives in New York City was born in Russia of a very poor Jewish family. He knew what it was like to be frightened when he heard the Cossacks were coming, for they burned homes and cause…)