between 1910 and 1920
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados, in a family of nine boys and a girl, he was told by his mother to pen up ducks two weeks before they were to be eaten and change their fish diet to corn, wheat and milk; when he
As a boy in Barbados he ran paper chases around the whole island without tiring, and contrasts that with barely being able to run a block now.
Walking through Harlem, kitchen smells of okra, coconut oil and plantains transport him instantly back to his childhood in Barbados.
between 1910 and 1915
(probable)
As a boy, years before puberty, Neville had a recurring monthly experience of being both the ocean and a breaking wave, tossing himself into the sky and catching himself as he fell; he knew in advance
between 1920 and 1929
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 6 + birth 1905 = 1911. Told 1 time (?).
between 19 February 1911 and 18 February 1914
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 6 + birth 1905 = 1911. Told 1 time (1968). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
When Neville was seven or eight an old Englishwoman at Bathsheba, on the windswept side of Barbados, told him he would do something men would discuss for centuries, with two others named with him, and
When Neville was seven a lady told him she had had a vision concerning him — that he would do something for man that the centuries would not undo, and that hundreds of years later he would be named as
A woman told a seven-year-old Neville that she had had a vision concerning him: she could not say exactly what he would do, but that his impact would endure for centuries and that he would be counted
between 1910 and 1970
(probable)
Freedom Barry recounts that Neville began having recurring visions in childhood, from around age seven, which frightened him at the time.
Place: Barbados
Person: Neville Goddard
Englishwoman predicts Neville's life when he is seven
Description
When Neville was about seven, a strange Englishwoman living on a pension in a wild windswept part of Barbados told him he would leave the island and not return save to visit, would be the first of his family to marry, would marry more than once and have two children, would talk to unnumbered people and be selling something, and that centuries after he was gone his name would be linked with two others who did similar work.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
10 May 1968
(refuted)
1970
Sources
- Source: The Divine Body ¶41 (But centuries and centuries after you are gone, they will use your name and link it with two others who did similar work.)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 2 times (1963).
between 1912 and 1926
(probable)
From around age seven, Neville underwent a slow-building inner separation -- an experience he could describe at first only as feeling like 'a stormy ocean' -- in which he sensed himself as both an ind
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (?). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 19 February 1912 and 18 February 1917
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (1959). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 8 + birth 1905 = 1913. Told 2 times (1971).
As a boy of about nine or ten he travelled to the then Danish Virgin Islands, where his mother told him to copy whatever the lady at the boarding-house table did; he imitated her with the oysters, cou
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 9 + birth 1905 = 1914. Told 1 time (1969). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
As a boy of nine in Barbados he was flogged by his schoolmaster because he quoted “Take up thy bed and walk” and could not produce his own Bible against the master's “Take up your couch and walk”; he
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 10 + birth 1905 = 1915. Told 1 time (1971).
Broome recounts Neville's school beating over a Bible quotation
Description
Broome's narration of Neville's schoolboy beating: with the family's only Bible already taken to school by a brother, Neville recited "Take up thy bed and walk", was corrected by the teacher to "couch", could not produce his Bible, and was stripped and beaten.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1915 and 1917
(probable)
between 1915 and 1925
(probable)
Neville describes the extreme poverty and lack of education of his boyhood, and how his father and then his brother Victor found the Principle and used it to make the family the biggest financial powe
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: stated by Neville: 1916. Told 1 time (1967). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
As a small boy, for several years, he had a recurring monthly experience he could feel coming all day: falling asleep he became both the ocean and the wave, tossing himself up into the skies in terror
Aged about eleven, visiting St.