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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

Married man visions himself as a woman desiring a man
Description
Neville received a letter today from a married man, present in the room, who found himself in a vision to be a woman lying in bed, desiring one particular olive-skinned Oriental man, whom he then assumed into appearance; Neville takes it as long-awaited testimony that in the resurrection man changes his sexual garments at will.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 11 April 1969
  • before 11 April 1969
Told
11 April 1969
Sources
  • Source: Creating One New Man Instead Two ¶24 (I’ve been waiting for someone to bring forward an actual vision to testify to the truth of that statement. Well, one came forward in a letter that I got today. He is here tonight.)
14 April 1969
He says that if given the choice tonight between his own death and his daughter's he would not hesitate to die instead, being confident of restoration - and that everything promised in scripture has a
Bill becomes lucid in a driving dream by proclaiming I AM
Description
A friend of Neville's, Bill, present in the audience, fell asleep watching TV, dreamed he was driving his car with his wife, became lucid in the dream, proclaimed "I AM" and woke in his chair; he shared the experience with Neville.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
14 April 1969
Told
  • 14 April 1969 (doubtful)
  • 14 April 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Dreamer 2 ¶9 (A very dear friend of mine is in the audience tonight. I am so thrilled for him and for anyone who comes and has such an experience and shares it with me.)
A couple sitting in the audience; the wife tells Neville how, in the Silence, she twice heard his voice asking 'Do you r
Description
A couple sitting in the audience; the wife tells Neville how, in the Silence, she twice heard his voice asking 'Do you really know it?' and then saw a pyramid with its top stone missing, a sphere and a crown of brilliant light.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
14 April 1969
Told
25 April 1969
Sources
  • Source: Persons Represent States in Scripture ¶5 (Now, here in the audience sits a couple. She said, “A week ago last Monday, as I closed my eyes in the Silence, I thanked you for once more explaining the law.)
The Greek-Bible retort: challenged whether he had read the Bible in Greek, Neville answered that they read it in Greek without understanding while he reads it and understands (DeCarlo retelling).
Description

The Greek-Bible retort: challenged whether he had read the Bible in Greek, Neville answered that they read it in Greek without understanding while he reads it and understands (DeCarlo retelling).

Verbatim (witness's words)

Can I add something real quick? Your conversation with the woman— a lot of times when we impart truth to the ego mind, truth doesn’t seem kind. In fact, it may even sound harsh. But when you get into spirit, it’s like what Neville said to you: I’m not hearing that you’re on your own side. That was the thing that shook your world, and it was also the catalyst for your change. Now, when you heard it the first time, you were like, “This guy is not nice.” Whatever your inner conversation was, it was what you needed to hear.

Neville (as quoted): "I'm not hearing that you're on your own side"

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
c. 16 April 1969
Told
  • 17 November 2023
  • 16 July 1969
Sources
  • Source: Now Part 2 - Lindell Student of Neville (lwf_OWiK0BQQCsQ — Lindell Warden, first-hand)
  • Source: Many Mansions ¶1 (Well, my confession is always: “No, I do not, and cannot, read Greek.” Then, of course, they have that supercilious attitude: “Well, then you haven’t read it in Greek! Isn’t that strange?” This happened just about three months ago)
A woman wrote to Neville describing a vision, seen while she sat in the silence, of a pyramid with its top stone missing
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing a vision, seen while she sat in the silence, of a pyramid with its top stone missing crowned by a spinning sphere of brilliant white light; Neville replies that she would indeed have seen a being emerge but that it is not yet her time.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 21 April 1969 and 27 April 1969
  • 14 April 1969
Told
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
  • 27 April 1969 (doubtful)
  • 25 April 1969 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Persons Represent States in Scripture ¶5 (A lady wrote this week, saying: “A week ago last Monday as I closed my eyes in the silence, I thanked you for once more explaining the law although I already know all about it, when I heard you say, ‘But do you really know it?’)
1 May 1969 (probable)
Stranded in Barbados with no ship passage available before September, Neville imagined himself already aboard a ship bound for New York with his family seeing him off, and the next day received a book
A correspondent dreams of a monstrous monkey clinging to his back
Description
Neville received a letter that week from a man who dreamed a series of dreams ending with a huge horrible monkey clinging to his back which began to make love to him, and he tore it off and awoke; Neville reads it as a vision of the misuse of creative imagining.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 4 May 1969 and 8 May 1969
Told
  • 8 May 1969
  • 8 May 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us ¶11 (I received a letter this week from a man who shared a series of dreams which occurred one night. The final one is the clue to the dreams. In it he saw a huge, horrible monkey which clung to his back.)
Woman friend dreams of carrying a neglected living fish
Description
A woman friend gave Neville a letter last Monday recounting her dream of carrying a barely living fish that was attacked by catfish, shrank to a minnow, and made her feel wholly responsible for it, waking to a male voice saying 'O my God'; Neville reads the fish as the neglected saviour, her own Imagination.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
5 May 1969 (probable)
Told
10 May 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Holding to Our Faith ¶28 (Now a friend of mine wrote me a letter which she gave me last Monday. In it, I won’t go into all the details, she found herself walking down the street holding a fish and the fish was still, like a dead fish; but she could see its pulse, therefore, it st…)
before 5 May 1969 (probable)
Neville states that he has personally had all the experiences recorded in scripture concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, while remaining as weak and limited as anyone while wearing the body.
before 8 May 1969 (probable)
He describes going into world after world while his physical body sleeps in his apartment, wearing there a real body and clothes his imagination provides - noting that he sleeps in the nude.
Neville receives card from Norway on May 8, 1969
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 8 May 1969 (probable)
  • 8 May 1969
Told
8 May 1969
10 May 1969
Neville remarks that although he may not be as finely tuned musically as others in the audience, he appreciates music and wants to be left alone to hear what is coming at a concert.
before 18 May 1969
Neville notes that whenever he has told the Joseph story in the past, someone in the audience has criticized him for leading people astray, and he suspects such critics are justifying their own behavi
7 April 1964
He refers in passing to his present life — sleeping at 1025 Carol Drive, and thinking now from the lecture room of his home where his wife is. The 1964 Citizen-News notice names Neville and his wife
A retired Macy's employee asks Neville to imagine him leading a western group
Description
A retired Macy's antique-department man came from New York the day before to ask Neville's help in becoming the leader of a group out west, and Neville, though sorry the man wanted only the spotlight, granted the request.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
29 May 1969
Told
30 May 1969
Sources
  • Source: Feel Deeply ¶18 (A chap came to see me from New York City yesterday. When I heard his request I would not tell him my reaction to it, but that I would hear that he had it.)
30 May 1969
Just before waking on the morning of the lecture Neville met his dead brother Lawrence, restored to about twenty-three, who asked him to tell his widow Doris the money he left was for her and not to b
c. June 1969
His friend Freedom Barry telephoned in a panic because his grand piano had vanished with a truck and driver after factory repairs; Neville imagined it was Freedom playing the piano concerto on the rad
A father sees the rabbit-headed man after his daughter's rabbit recovers
Description
A friend with five children asked Neville to pray for his little girl's sick pet rabbit; the rabbit recovered after the vet treated it, and the next morning the father saw a tall man with a rabbit's head at the foot of his bed who thanked him for helping his people.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. June 1969
Told
24 June 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: The Forming of Christ in You ¶18 (The following morning, the father saw a tall man standing at the foot of his bed, whose head was that of a rabbit. Then he spoke saying: “Thank you for helping my people.”)
before June 1969 (probable)
Neville recounts that a friend and father of five, whose daughter's pet rabbit was sick, asked him to pray for it; the following week the vet treated the rabbit and it recovered, and the next morning
5 June 1969
Coming through to the surface on Thursday morning Neville saw the Belmont race in vivid colour two days before it was run - Arts and Letters first, Majestic Prince second, Dike third - told his wife a
5 June 1969
On the Thursday morning before the race, returning to the surface from sleep, Neville saw the finish of the Triple Crown race at Belmont in complete detail; he chose not to revise it, and when he watc
A woman sees herself as both father and son and as bearing the Son of God
Description
A woman in the audience wrote to him this week describing a vision of a man and his young son at a table in which she knew she was both, and a second vision in which a friend loudly proclaimed to a crowd that she was pregnant and bringing forth the Son of God.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 8 June 1969 and 10 June 1969
  • before 6 June 1969 (probable)
Told
  • 10 June 1969 (doubtful)
  • 6 June 1969 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Nature God Revealed Us ¶6 (I received a letter this week from a lady who is here tonight. In a vision she saw a man and his young son sitting at a table. At that moment she knew she was the son and the father and that they were one.)
An audience correspondent dreams of the cage and the number seven
Description
He responds to a letter written to him the previous week by someone in the audience, describing their experience of trying to drown someone in a cage and realizing they were themselves in the cage, and a second experience concerning a child they longed for, in which the number seven appeared.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 8 June 1969 and 14 June 1969
Told
  • 21 June 1969 (possible)
  • 21 June 1969 (possible)
Sources
  • Source: Personifications, Not Persons ¶43 (Your wonderful experience that you wrote me last week, I think it’s perfectly marvelous. When you realized after you tried to drown this one in a cage that you yourself were in the cage.)
8 June 1969
He watched the foreseen race on television and heard the commentators explain afterwards what should have happened, remarking that no one would listen to a man who cannot even ride a horse.