He describes his own free practice of praying for friends who ask him: he brings the person before his mind's eye, hears them tell him their desire is fulfilled, and drops it.
Neville says he remembers having had all the obvious things of this world to complete saturation in a former state, and that having them did not make him grow or awaken, so he walked out and left it b
Neville recalls hearing the Bible story read aloud by his mother when he was too young to understand it.
Neville says he never imagined that Scripture written thousands of years before his own birth was about him, and then the whole pattern gathered and unfolded in him over 1,260 days, leaving him consci
Neville delivered the lecture "God's Purpose," reiterating his 1925 London encounter with Matthew and the Scotsman's gift of mystical books.
Neville says that from his own experience David of biblical fame stood before him and called him Father, my Lord and the Rock of his salvation, and that with that memory returned.
His wife would rearrange the furniture so completely that he came home believing he had walked into a strange apartment while she hid elsewhere.
Neville says that unlike the Evangelists, who told their own experience in the third person, no one in his spirit world curtailed his tongue, so he tells it in the first person, having experienced eve
Asked about a writer on Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, he says that if the book is by Nicoll he recommends him, calling Dr.
Penniless and wanting a trip that would cost well over a thousand dollars, he assumed he was already where he wished to be, saw the place he physically was two thousand miles away, slept in the assump
Neville remarks that "Sorry about that, old man" is a typical British expression he himself has used often.
Living in a hotel room in New York City, Neville felt a force in his head and spun out in a spiral motion to a beach; wishing to return and repeat it, he willed himself back into the room, saw his own
Neville describes David standing before him and calling him father — not as a startling new event but as a returning memory, as though he had recovered from total amnesia and had always known David wa
Caltech teacher predicts a larger earthquake
Description
A New Yorker who teaches at Caltech telephoned after hearing about the quake on TV, announced that this was only the first one and the big one is coming, and gave his name and degrees — frightening the woman he spoke to.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
12 February 1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: True Freedom Manifestation ¶21 (One call from a New Yorker says he just heard on the TV and he’s been trying all day to get you, and some are sorry, they’re all sorry, cranking up, and he says this is only the first one, the big one is coming.)
Three audience members assume they are Jesus Christ
Description
Neville recalls that a few weeks earlier he asked his audience to assume, on retiring, that they are Jesus Christ, and reports that three men from the small audience acted on it, two of whom are present tonight.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Greatest of All Blessings ¶5 (I asked you a few weeks ago to assume, as you retire a time, that you are Jesus Christ. I had a premise for it.)
A woman sees a boy while Neville is speaking
Description
Neville recalls a woman at a recent meeting telling him she saw a boy while he was speaking, and his reply that his hearers suffer from amnesia and do not know they are the infinite being.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Nothing But God ¶19 (like the lady said the other night — I saw a boy when you said it)
Neville says he has told his stories from the platform for years, and that someone in the audience listened constantly for twelve years and still never really heard him - so he repeats himself night a
A woman dreamed that her deceased father returned to life
Description
He reads out a letter received that week from a woman who dreamed of her father, dead a few years, coming back to life — blood rising from his feet to his head until he sat up and told her he was not dead — which Neville reads as the buried father within her returning.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Whom God Hath Afflicted ¶9 (Her father died a few years ago, and here she is in this room, and it’s obviously these days, and she knows her father had died. And then, looking at him, suddenly she began to sense: “You are living” — as the blood is coming into him, and then from the …)
He says the divine meaning of the gospel was wrought in him by the Spirit despite his obvious limitations, unearned and unconditioned.
Stranded on an island with thousands ahead of him on the shipping waiting list and a lecture commitment in Milwaukee, Neville refused to ask a favour of his wealthy businessman brother, sat in his hot
A woman dreams her husband's limiting shell cracks away
Description
A woman in the audience told Neville a dream in which she saw her husband encased in limitations from the hips down which cracked and fell apart, after which he jumped and danced for joy.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971
(possible)
before 7 June 1971
Sources
- Source: The Mystery Called Christ ¶56 (One who saw her husband encased in all kinds of limitations from the hips down, and before her eyes they all began to crack and break and fall apart, and then he jumped and danced for joy.)
His dentist, present in the audience, once thought silently while rebuilding his mouth that an anchor tooth would last thirteen years; thirteen years later exactly the tooth came out and his whole mou
Neville says he was sent to tell that everyone will experience this drama, and that he has finished the telling and can now only repeat it.
Neville recounts a night vision of an infinite field of human flowers like sunflowers, all moving in unison, from which he alone had been plucked and so was free to move as he wished.
When he complained months later that he would miss the boat, Abdullah rebuked him and slammed his door in Neville's face — his manner of teaching.