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Other names
Neville Lancelot Goddard
Birth date
Death date
Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1969 (possible)
Neville says he has already returned to his Father as the Father and remains only to encourage those who are on their way back.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville says he deliberately imposed the limitation of speaking as though to another, and that whereas he formerly felt two beings within him, he now feels no sense of another at all.
before 1969 (possible)
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.
before 1969 (possible)
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
before 1969 (possible)
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
before 1969 (possible)
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.
before 1969 (possible)
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.
After Neville said from the platform that he loved to hear that anyone had seen him die, Carter told him the Judas death-vision, and Neville replied that he is Judas.
Description

After Neville said from the platform that he loved to hear that anyone had seen him die, Carter told him the Judas death-vision, and Neville replied that he is Judas. [Date evidence: between Carter's vision (c. 1969, three years before Neville's death) and Neville's death (Oct 1972)]

Verbatim (witness's words)

I didn't tell it to Neville for a long time, because it was so grisly. Then, when he said from the platform, I love to hear that anyone has seen me die. One night I found it in Scripture, so I told him, and he said, Yes, I am Judas.

Neville (as quoted): "I love to hear that anyone has seen me die. [and, on being told the vision:] Yes, I am Judas."

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
between 1969 and October 1972 (probable)
Told
13 June 1976
Sources
before 1969 (possible)
Neville states that he speaks from experience, having tested his creative power and awakened from the dream of life, undergoing the same experiences as Jesus Christ, and that others have seen him in a
Woman sees deceased Neville return as the Father
Description
A woman shared a vision in which Neville had died yet returned to lecture as usual, wearing her earthly father's face over his own bone structure while everyone called him the Father; she was fond of the Book of John and he suggested she read its 10th chapter.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
  • 27 February 1969 (possible)
  • 27 February 1969 (possible)
Sources
  • Source: Christ Bears Our Sins ¶22 (Now, another lady shared this experience, saying: “In my vision I knew you had died, yet you had returned to lecture and teach as usual. You were wearing my earthly father’s face, yet I knew the bone structure to be yours.)
Tommy's imagined phone call leads Neville to arrange a luncheon
Description
In New York, Neville's friend Tommy, an elderly commercial artist, was in love with a much younger woman named Ritchie who would not see him; Tommy imagined a three-thirty phone call inviting him to lunch, and at that moment Neville woke with the impulse to telephone Ritchie and then Tommy, arranging a luncheon at the Club which Tommy hosted and Neville paid for.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 29 October 1965
Told
  • 26 September 1969 (refuted)
  • 29 October 1965
Sources
  • Source: Your Creative Power ¶28 (And so, at home one day, sitting in the Silence, I woke at twenty-five minutes after three with an intense desire to call Ritchie (that’s her name).)
before 1969 (possible)
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.
before 1969 (possible)
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
before 1969 (possible)
He says he has tested the principle countless times himself and taught it to others who tested it and reported their results to him.
before 1969 (possible)
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.
before 1969 (possible)
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.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 2 June 1969
Told
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.)
before 1969 (possible)
Neville describes his own practice of taking the Bible and letting his intuition play upon it until the meaning surfaces.
before 1969 (possible)
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
before 1969 (possible)
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
before 1969 (possible)
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.
before 1969 (probable)
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