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Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

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1925 (probable)
In the April 1955 TV-Radio Life profile Neville says he became interested in what he calls 'an aroused interest in the use of the mind' in 1925, while he was still a successful dancer, and that he lef
c. 1925
Just after turning twenty Neville had the experience of being an infinite sea of liquid light, which he identifies with the words "I am the Light of the world."
between 1925 and 1926
Neville remarks in passing that his own recollection of his life reaches back only to the age of about twenty or twenty-one, and that before the 1959 experience he lived as everyone lives in the world
between 1925 and 1930 (possible)
Career-retrospective column (Jimmie Fidler, c.1953) names the New York Hippodrome as a venue where Neville 'was a sensation' while dancing, within his documented 1925-1930 stage career.
between 1925 and 1929 (possible)
Generic career-retrospective mention of the Amerique-and-Neville partnership's American and European (including English) touring; the England/London leg specifically is independently dated 1925-26 els
c. 1925 (possible)
Source document 2216, quoting Israel Regardie, says that during Neville's 1925 England trip he met Arthur Begbie, was introduced to psychical research and attended a spiritualist seance.
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1935 (probable)
In his twenties he paid $500 to a voice school where the teacher held him up before a class of forty as the example of everything done wrong, saying he would never earn a living with his voice; it mad
1925

In 1925 Neville and his dancing partner Amerique sailed for England and toured widely, performing at Ciro's in London, the Winter Garden in Berlin, and the Ambassador in Paris.

between 1925 and 1932 (possible)
The same mid-1950s 'Views of Hollywood' column recalls that Amerique and Neville 'danced their way across America and into Europe', naming Edward, Prince of Wales, and George, Duke of York, as English
between 1925 and 1930 (possible)
Career-retrospective column (c.1953) combines the Broadway and old-Hippodrome mentions in one clause; no specific production or exact date is given by either surviving clipping of this text (media:124
1925 (probable)
Visiting London in 1925, Neville met an old Scotsman who told him that his attitude of mind determined his life — that he need not be enslaved by life but could control his future by his present think
1925 (probable)

Neville and his dance partner Amerique were a featured attraction at Ciro's in London in 1925, performing a 'jewel dance' for the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York.

Broome recounts Neville's dancing career, marriage, England trip, and its end
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Broome's narration of Neville's dancing career: joining an established dancer, marrying and fathering a son, sailing for England in 1925 where he met psychical research, returning to America in 1926, and losing his dancing career when the depression closed the theaters in 1929.
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Date (happened)
1925
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c. 1925 (probable)
In a Q&A exchange, Neville distinguishes true vision from astral projection and says he has had voluntary (and involuntary) out-of-body experiences from the time he had just turned twenty.
between 1925 and 1934 (probable)
Neville recounts a vision from his twenties of the most beautiful woman he could perceive alongside a hairy, ape-like monster that called her 'mother'; realizing the monster was his own emanation, emb
1925
In England in 1925 an old Scotchman interested in mystical subjects read him the Bhagavad-Gita and The Light of Asia and gave him the books; returning to America four months later he went wild buying
1925
In London in 1925, when Neville was twenty, he urged a friend of Scottish parents about six months his senior to take an interest in spiritual things; the friend said God was an old man and that he ha
1925

While in London, Neville had his first spiritual awakening after an old Scotsman gave him The Light of Asia and the Bhagavad Gita.

Place: London

Person: Neville Goddard

1925
In 1925 Neville was dancing in London for one hundred pounds a week; he and his company declined an offer to perform in Paris and Germany for payment in marks or francs, while a German-American family
c. 1925 (probable)
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
c. 1925 (probable)

As a featured attraction at Ciro's in London in 1925, Neville and Amerique performed a jewel dance for the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York.

Place: London, England

between 1925 and 1969
Asked whether dreams are astral projection, he says he has had out-of-the-body experiences repeatedly, both voluntary and involuntary, the voluntary ones since he had just turned twenty - but that the
1925
In London in 1925 he was dancing for 100 pounds a week and, offered engagements in Paris and Germany, refused to be paid in Marks or Francs and insisted on dollars or pounds.
between 1925 and 1934
In his twenties, having fathered a son and known the love of a woman, Neville swore himself to celibacy and vegetarianism, doing seven years of violence to his body by these non-doings out of zealousn