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
Neville describes the reception of his message: those who know him only by his physical origin, seeing the outside man called Neville, accuse him of blasphemy, and the rabbis and priests see him as an
He describes his life with his wife: she makes no excessive demands on his purse, tells him to charge things, and when he worries aloud about money for next week and the rent she tells him it is not h
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."
Date (happened)
between 1969 and October 1972
(probable)
Friend's vision of a baby declaring I am a father
Description
The same friend enclosed in his letter a vision in which he drove at night, felt he was going to have a baby, stopped at the only lighted house — a night school — and found a baby on his car seat, crying three times "I am a father."
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 17 February 1969
Sources
- Source: The Rock ¶24 (He picked up the baby and he said, “I’m a father,” and repeated it three times. “I am a father. I am a father.”)
Neville describes repeatedly moving into a certain society in vision, arresting within himself the activity that animates everything, so that all the people stood as still and dead as objects in a mus
Neville's wife disapproved of his artist friend's romance with a much younger woman and worked to separate them, while Neville did not mind either way.
Neville remarks that he comes from a very big family.
A woman hears Neville's voice thunder approval
Description
The same friend told Neville that, elated after hearing from her mother, she went into the kitchen to make coffee and out of nowhere heard his voice come like thunder saying 'That's the spirit!', so that she nearly dropped the coffee and stood trembling.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 31 March 1967
Sources
- Source: The New Idea Against the Old ¶33 (“And then, all of a sudden, out of the nowhere came your voice and your voice came like thunder through the kitchen, and it said, ‘That’s the spirit!’ I almost dropped the coffee and instead of having coffee all over the kitchen floor I held it just befo…)
Neville tells the audience he will be back Monday, lecturing every Monday and Friday until the middle of December, though he has no idea yet what he will speak on.
When he tells his own mystical experience of scripture unfolding in him, hearers are shocked and accuse him of blasphemy, yet he cannot deny the experiences.
He awoke in the tomb, pushed the stone away himself with no help, and looking back saw three witnesses as in Genesis; like Simeon he took the promised child in his arms and it laughed.
Neville tells the audience to take him seriously because he must soon depart.
Neville has appeared on television and radio around the clock with ministers, priests and rabbis, who look at him strangely when he quotes their own Book; when he quoted David's words in the 2nd Psalm
Neville says he found the truth as Paul did, not from any man or book but through a revelation - the unveiling of God within him - which occurred when he was confronted by and fused with the Risen Lor
Moving in spirit into another environment at night, Neville arrested a feeling within himself and everything he perceived - falling leaves, blades of grass, a bird in flight, the diners and the waitre
Neville says that at his last lecture night he tried to make his message clear but some did not understand, so he repeats it.
Lying on his bed in Beverly Hills he saw and then stepped into another world just as solid as this one, told two ladies in a plush hotel corridor that the whole thing was a dream, they fled from him a
Neville says he has experienced the whole Gospel story in detail, that those who know him well cite his weaknesses against him, and that he finds more witnesses in Los Angeles than anywhere else becau
Months after that awakening a further unfolding came, after which he knew beyond doubt who he is - that the whole thing is God playing all the parts.
He mentions the many books of biblical exegesis he keeps at home, none of whose scholars, he says, touch the truth of the experience.
Sharon sees heavenly music and Neville's home as a garden
Description
A woman named Sharon, present at the lecture, tells Neville a vision in which she woke to heavenly music from a ball of light containing a child's skeleton playing the piano, her father confirmed he heard and saw it, and on reaching Neville's home she found his living room to be a garden where he stood clothed in a body of love, watering flowers for his sleeping wife Bill.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
before 24 October 1969
Sources
- Source: We Are God Himself ¶13 (So here comes this experience of one who’s here tonight and she tells me that “I awoke within this dream. It was a complete waking state, because I heard the most heavenly music, and it was coming from this huge house in which I lived alone with my fathe…)
Neville points to his own known human family - his father and mother, now dead, his brothers, most still living, and his sister - as parallel to the scriptural objection that Jesus' family was known.
Neville contrasts his own familiar rented home and bed with the expensive hotels he stays in when he travels to lecture in San Francisco or New York.
Neville voices the objection that he was born with nothing — no education, no money, no social background.