c. November 1971
(probable)
He turned on a televised evangelist's crusade in the pouring rain, watched twenty minutes of the evangelist and his father-in-law plugging each other, a book and an appeal for money, and turned it off
He told a friend earlier that same evening about the woman who thought he should not mention certain things.
Jack Buckner dreams of a cat on his head without remembering
Description
Neville's secretary Jack Buckner, who swore he never dreamed, was talked through a vivid dream of a cat on his head while asleep in Neville's hotel suite, and remembered nothing of it on waking.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 5 November 1971
(probable)
Told
5 November 1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Prune The Vine ¶15 (I had a secretary. His name was Buckner, Jack Buckner. And he swore he had never had a dream in his life. I would see him and hear him talk in his dreams. I had a three-room suite at the hotel, and Jack lived in one of my rooms.)
between December 1971 and March 1972
(probable)
Neville says he is buying a one-way ticket for his departure but will return sometime in the winter because he is keeping his home here.
A television writer receives thirty-five hundred dollars per script
Description
A television writer in the audience wrote to Neville that his mother, told he earned $3,000 a script, was unimpressed and simply assumed he was worth $3,500 — and two months later, against his own agent's advice and at the producer's own urging, he came out of the studio with a contract for $3,500 a script.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1964
(probable)
In his private interviews people insist on telling him their past troubles before saying what they want, and he tells them not to.
Neville uses the White House flag as an illustration — asking the guard whether the President is in residence — which may reflect an actual visit, though he does not say so.
He states he has himself experienced two bodies literally fusing and becoming one body.
He says he knows from his own experience that the Holy of Holies is the skull, that God awakes in it, finds it empty, and pushes his way out of it.
Neville notes that he has given his teaching from the platform and it is now on tape and cassette, and hopes one of his hearers will one day write it down, since the written word lasts.
Neville reports that his wife saw her doctor this past Wednesday; after a severe operation that removed her larynx and voice for a tumour, she faces seven more plastic-surgery operations beginning on
A San Francisco woman dreams Neville and her husband Jerry are one
Description
A woman writes from San Francisco describing a dream in which she met Neville expounding scripture, he embraced her and she pushed him away saying “no, Neville”; he told her he would have married her, and that the day would come when she knew that her husband Jerry and he were one. She had recorded ten of his San Francisco talks herself.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Feel Chosen ¶28 (And then she said, I said to her, you know, I would’ve married you. And she said, but I am married. And I said, yes, I know, but the day will come when you will know that Jerry, that’s her husband, and I are one.)
Neville remarks that he has never had a stroke himself, but has seen people crippled by one.
Freedom's refusal prompts a begging man to find work
Description
He sent his friend Freedom to San Francisco after teaching him the Law; there a begging man asked him for money and, instead of giving it, Freedom imagined him gainfully employed, and a week later the man thanked him for the refusal because it had driven him to get a job.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Repentance: A Gift of God ¶34 (A friend of mine went to San Francisco at my bidding. I taught him the Law, and as much as I could tell him of the other, part of the Promise, but the Law, just what I am talking about tonight.)
Neville led an enormous, gay, festive multitude in procession to the house of God; a voice from outer space said God walked with them, told the woman at his side that God was at her side, and when she
Soon after his experience of being turned around, Neville walked through the lobby of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where a great woman artist waiting for him was sketching furiously; she handed
He states from his own experience that he became one with God when he was embraced by him, and that in that experience there is a radical change of form — spirit, not this body — while identity is not
Neville describes his own experience of the crucifixion: hands, feet, head and right side nailed with six-pointed vortices, which was not painful but sheer ecstasy, followed by finding himself cramped
In a dream that night Neville discoursed to a crowd and was challenged by a short, heavy, insolent man of about two hundred pounds whom he told was only himself pushed out; on waking, the man and all
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 67 + birth 1905 = 1972. Told 2 times (1971).
He speaks of leaving the city of Los Angeles and going on elsewhere while the city itself remains — his own coming and going as a lecturer.
Neville awoke inside his own sealed skull, which he knew was the sepulcher, after a strange vibration he feared was a hemorrhage, and pushed at the base of the skull to squeeze himself out inch by inc
Neville recounts standing in the presence of infinite love, being embraced and infused with it, and then meeting David, who was the image of the being that embraced him, with memory returning as fathe
A friend drove Neville and his wife to the hospital, and on the drive home they discussed the writing of the Spaniard (Borges) whose page Neville then quotes.
After emerging he found the nativity symbolism around him — an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, three men as witnesses, and a great wind; one of the three picked up the child and said "It's Nevill