Neville says he has had his own experience with so-called holy men, who come over from India, charge $500 for a special course, and go home with fortunes taken from people with more money than brains.
He uses his own name as an illustration: if paged in a lobby by the name Neville he would raise his hand and identify himself, though there may be millions of Nevilles.
before 30 April 1972
(possible)
Neville gives the chronology of his own experiences: the awakening within him, the birth the same night, the discovery of the son who reveals him as father 139 days later, the splitting of the temple
At a party, young men who had come back from the war maimed — one deaf, one missing a foot and an arm, one with TB, one a near-priest who left the priesthood — dived into the pool still wearing the St
A friend of Neville's tried to convince a woman back in the East about Neville's experiences; on learning that Neville's first wife had not died but had been divorced, she closed the book on him, sayi
In his last years Neville returned to Barbados in poor health; a brother who had practiced medicine in Canada helped restore him to reasonable health and reduced his gin intake, before his 1972 dea
Neville recounts a vision in which he glided as a radiant being of fire and air past thousands of broken members of humanity, all of whom were made perfect as he passed; when the last was made perfect
Neville describes his own origins as humble and unremarkable — born into a simple environment with no educational, social or financial advantages, struggling like everyone else for rent, food and clot
Neville recalls playing a second part — a cad — in a Broadway play, and judging his performance by whether the audience, especially the ladies and children at matinees, hissed him when he came on.
Neville states from his own experience that an assumption, though denied by the senses and called false by the world, will harden into fact if persisted in.
Joseph Burleigh repeatedly gave Neville's needy friend interest-free loans
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Neville repeatedly asked Joseph Burleigh to give a friend in need money — often a thousand dollars — and Burleigh always gave it, interest-free, returning any six percent that was sent back to him.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Who Is Jesus ¶20 (I have said it time and time to Joseph, so-and-so needs help, I think a thousand dollars will be in order at the moment, Joseph always gave the thousand dollars.)
Neville describes the dove descending on him: it floated stationary about twenty feet above him in a crystal clear atmosphere, he raised his left hand like Noah and the dove lit on his index finger an
Speaking of the death-penalty ruling, he says that if he had a son on death row he would want him free regardless of what he had done — noting in passing that his son is not there.
In Barbados, sitting on the veranda with Jim — an artist and chef and close friend of the large Goddard family whom they supported — Neville told him of his experiences, and Jim said he could not have
Neville says he has never worn a straitjacket himself but has seen men put into them, and so knows the confinement they feel — the same confinement he felt returning into his body.
Neville insists his knowledge is not scholarship: he does not know Greek, Latin or Aramaic and never combed the Scriptures for a theory — it all came to him as revelation.
Neville says he forgives the thieves who came into his world, including those who took from his pocket by not giving him what a contract called for, because it forced him to stand secure on his own fe
Neville recalls appearing on television with an archaeologist, a Baptist minister and a Seventh Day Adventist minister; the archaeologist produced a piece of cloth said to come from the tomb of Christ
He was born and raised a Christian, knowing only what his mother taught him and what he learned at school, and his mother read him the Bible stories, which he took to be secular history of thousands o
Freedom Barry imagines an unemployed stranger gainfully employed
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Neville tells of his friend Freedom Barry, whom he sent to San Francisco to teach the law: a man out of work asked him for money while he was walking his dog, and Freedom, having none to give, stood on the sidewalk and saw the man gainfully employed — a month later the man crossed the street to thank him for not giving him money, saying he had been so angry with himself that he went home determined to get a job and had one the very next day.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Immortal Man ¶26 (Here was a friend of mine, Freedom Barry, that I sent to San Francisco to teach this law. He hasn’t had the experience of the promise, so he can’t teach the promise, but he teaches the law.)
Dining at the University Club in New York City, Neville's host took him to the window and showed him a huge blank wall; the friend explained it was the spite wall John D.
He says his own repeated experience - imagining a state, assuming it real, and seeing it crystallize - convinced him that his own awareness of being is God.
Neville says he cannot get away from the promise; he goes to bed and teaches all night in an entirely different sphere, and coming back in the morning is like putting on a straitjacket.
Eyewitness detail: whenever Neville stepped off the lecture stage he was immediately surrounded by a dozen women; Warden was often the only man among them, and shaking Neville's hand was 'a big deal' — he never got really close.
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Eyewitness detail: whenever Neville stepped off the lecture stage he was immediately surrounded by a dozen women; Warden was often the only man among them, and shaking Neville's hand was 'a big deal' — he never got really close. [Retold 2 times across the interviews.] [Date evidence: Sequence anchor: Warden explicitly was NOT with Neville to the end of his lecture career / the Promise emphasis — bounding his attendance to before Neville's final period.]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Somebody asked a question in the Facebook group, actually on the YouTube channel, and they said, “What was Mr. Lindo's life before he met Neville?” I said, “His first forty years were a mess and the second forty years were cleaning up the mess.” Boy, that is true. It really is. See, that's what I'm telling you—I’m working on it every day. I've been doing this for more than forty years and I still have to work on it every day
Sources
- Source: Don't Feed the Monsters Part 1 - Lindell Student of Neville Goddard (lwf_efBBl3dYV-Y — Lindell Warden, first-hand; also: lwf_7OPOnasimC8,lwf_efBBl3dYV-Y)
Neville states from his own experience that he was embraced by and fused with the being who sent him, becoming one with him.