between December 1923 and December 1930
(possible)
between December 1923 and December 1930
(possible)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 19 + birth 1905 = 1924. Told 6 times (1963-1968).
Penniless man imagines and builds a property empire
Description
A penniless man persistently imagined for two years that he read his own father's name on a building he passed, and in 1924 a stranger financed his purchase of it on nothing but two signatures; he went on to own property everywhere, took his family into the business while insisting all decisions stayed his, and among other 'mistakes' bought six war-surplus diesel engines that later powered the whole island through a month-long blackout at the height of the tourist season, at a profit. Neville says he heard from this man recently and was at home two years ago when the man wanted to sell one of the properties.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: What Are You Sowing ¶28 (A man looks and he sees a name. He doesn’t like that name. That name represents to him the men who tried to dethrone his father, to make him walk in the gutter, and robbed him, in this man’s eye, of all he possessed.)
between 1924 and 1931
(probable)
For seven years Neville kept a starvation diet of vegetables only and a vow of celibacy, growing thinner and weaker and suffering nightmares from his suppressions while trying to be a holy man; his te
Neville's son from his first marriage, Joseph Goddard, was born the year after the marriage.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville recalled in a lecture that he was married at age nineteen and separated (but not yet divorced) at twenty, placing this first marriage around 1924-1925.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville left Macy's voluntarily, with no savings, after about a year, to pursue dance.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
between 4 October 1924 and November 1924
(probable)
Broadway play 'Great Music' by Martin Brown, opposite Tom Powers, at the Earl Carroll Theatre, New York, opened 1924-10-04, closed November 1924.
between 4 October 1924 and November 1924
(probable)
Broadway play 'Great Music' by Martin Brown, opposite Tom Powers, at the Earl Carroll Theatre, New York, opened 1924-10-04, closed November 1924.
Coming in from Europe in 1925 the ship's ballast and cargo shifted and she sailed for forty-eight hours at an angle of forty degrees, a little more and she would have gone over.
Newspaper photo caption ('Taking the Life' feature) describing Amerique and Neville, "the well-known dancers", performing a specialty dance in striking costumes at Ciro's.
Neville's young friend Matt postpones spiritual study and dies in India
Description
In London in 1925 he urged his 21-year-old friend Matt, whose father had introduced Neville to The Light of Asia and the Bhagavad Gita, to take an interest in these things; Matt said he wanted to live first and would wait until he was old like his father, then went to India as a tea taster and died of a fever there about six months later, news reaching Neville in New York by a letter from Matt's mother.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Gods Purpose ¶28 (He said, “No, I’m only 21, and when I get old enough like my father”—father was then 50—”when I get an old man like my father, then I become interested, if then. But I want to live first.”)
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶40 (I go back to 1925, in London, I said to this young chap, [Matthew?], “Why aren’t you interested in these thoughts?” I became so completely aroused at the age of twenty that I couldn’t conceive of anyone not being interested.)
In his twenties, frustrated by a first marriage he calls a living hell, Neville took a vow of celibacy and lived seven years as a strict vegetarian and teetotaler believing he was acquiring merit; on
Review, 'Dancing Artists of Very High Class at Keith State Theatre' — Amerique and Neville on the vaudeville bill alongside the film 'Lord Jim' (Paramount, 1925, dir.
An outgoing-passenger record contains the reversed name GODDARD Neville; no ship, port, day, or destination is inferred.
London engagement at Ciro's, 1925, as part of a European tour that also took Amerique and Neville to the Winter Garden (Berlin) and the Ambassador (Paris); they performed a 'jewel dance' for the Princ
between 1925 and 1926
(probable)
Documented by external research (Wikipedia; Cool Wisdom Books' 'Neville & Amerique' page) as part of a 1925-26 European tour with Amerique that also took the act to the Winter Garden, Berlin, and
In his twenties Neville had a vision in which he stood between a supremely beautiful woman and a hairy ape-like monster that called her 'Mother'; he beat the monster, which grew on the violence, then
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 20 + birth 1905 = 1925. Told 1 time (1964).
between 1925 and 1935
(possible)
Neville's brother Victor once met a Barbadian man known as 'the prophet Jordan', reputed to have real prophetic vision.
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1928
(probable)
Neville describes his orthodox Christian upbringing with Sunday school twice a week and his mother reading and interpreting Scripture as secular history, and how at twenty or twenty-two he was first e
In his twenties, having already fathered a son and known the love of a woman, Neville swore himself to celibacy, vegetarianism, no alcohol and no smoking for seven years, believing violence to the bod
between 1925 and 1929
(possible)
Generic career-retrospective mention of the Amerique-and-Neville partnership's American and European touring (c.1953 Jimmie Fidler column); no specific production, city or date is named.