Neville recounts words spoken to him from the depths of his own soul, the Lord telling him he had laid himself down within Neville to sleep and dream.
In passing he describes his family's manner of living and travelling - that checking into the Plaza and taking a normal room would not be thought extravagant by any of them, because they live that way
He recounts reading recently a humorous remark that a man who prides himself on agnosticism is only confessing in Greek what the Latin calls ignoramus.
Neville recalls going with his wife to the uncut, five-hour version of Hamlet on 44th Street off Broadway, breaking after two and a half hours for dinner at Sardi's and returning for the rest.
Neville declares that what he brings he never read in a book nor heard from anyone, but experienced - specifically the experience of being the Father of David.
Blind speaker Clyde Munroe refuses restored sight
Description
Neville tells of a blind man he knew, Clyde Munroe, who told him frankly he did not want to see, because blindness had brought him memorised books, an audience in the New York public squares, and an adulation he never had as a sighted farm boy in Kansas City.
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He recounts the force with which he pressed into the kingdom, locating the entry point a little left of centre of his head and saying he tried his best to go beyond it.
When Neville tells priests, rabbis and ministers that they have the same son and that they are God the Father, they throw up their hands in holy horror and accuse him of taking their religion away.
Neville says his own experience has proved the method for himself and for others, while admitting he has not mastered control of his attention.
Neville asked Barry to go teach in San Francisco in his stead — offering no money but praising his presentability, articulateness, and literate case-history write-ups — and put his San Francisco mailing list at Barry's disposal.
Description
Neville asked Barry to go teach in San Francisco in his stead — offering no money but praising his presentability, articulateness, and literate case-history write-ups — and put his San Francisco mailing list at Barry's disposal. [Date evidence: late 1959 — Barry moved to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960] [Place: Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Anyway, he asked me that night if I would go to San Francisco and teach. I said, “I don’t know anything about teaching. [...] He said, “The principle proves itself in performance. I can’t give you a nickel, but you’re presentable and articulate. You understand this obviously from the case histories you’ve sent me. And when you write, it’s literate. I don’t have to rephrase it. I can put this just as you wrote it. I can put it in a book. [...] I would like you to go there. I’ll give you my list. He said, “Do you have a list? I said, “A list of what?
Neville (as quoted): "The principle proves itself in performance. I can’t give you a nickel, but you’re presentable and articulate. [...] I would like you to go there. I’ll give you my list. [...] Do you have a list?"
Told
25 June 1969
(doubtful)
3 March 1972
(doubtful)
25 June 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
- Source: Test Him and See ¶44 (There’s only one friend of mine in this area to whom I have given my list, and I recommend him one thousand per cent; and if you are on my list, you will be on his list, because he teaches what I teach.)
- Source: Justified States ¶22 (I will not give you any money, but I will give you my mailing list of five hundred; it’s a live list, and you send out my list, and when I go, I will tell them that I allowed you to have my list, and I will get behind you in that manner, but not in any o…)
Carrying a mood, he went to his own library, took down a book of poetry he had not touched in years, opened it casually, and found the mood beautifully confirmed on the page.
He recalls playing in a Broadway show for some twenty-five to thirty weeks, being hissed eight times a week — six shows and two matinees — while the author who wrote the part remained unseen.
His lifelong-Republican family back east campaigned and paid for Johnson against Goldwater and now feel beguiled; when he visits for dinner he can start an argument simply by saying he did not vote fo
Neville told Norma that he no longer believed in astrology but in his intuitive power, and offered to show her how to see in a chart whatever a client wanted, so that she would be self-persuaded.
The
He describes his own night work instructing in the region beyond dreams, where he can assume any mask - appearing as an Oriental to Orientals, a Negro to Negroes, and a blond, blue-eyed man to Caucasi
Neville states that birth from above is a literal event which he knows from his own experience, against the interpretations he has heard argued.
Neville states that he speaks from having personally undergone the experience of the drama beginning and ending in the skull.
Neville states that he himself brought forth the Christ child, and that in doing so he was Mary.
Neville says that before this vision he had already discovered that his Imagination is God, yet went on applying a rational approach and failed to exercise it, and resolved after seeing the lit candle
He says that when the revelation came to him everything within him fell - the structures of the mind by which he had lived.
Neville says he has himself seen the inner man and knows it to be his own human imagination.
Asked where his books can be bought, he says any bookstore can order them from his publisher, DeVorss, in Los Angeles.
Neville describes how life changed for him after the experience: he can think of nothing else, large crowds no longer interest him and only a small party of a few chosen friends does, and his nights a
Neville states that everything he teaches rests on his own experience, that he has awakened from the dream of life and has experienced all the things said of the Lord Jesus Christ in scripture.
Neville visited the mental institution in Barbados where his brother Lawrence was the doctor and saw patients tearing up Bibles and eating the pages.