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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

c. 1929 (doubtful)
"Broadway Personalities", a specialty revue assembled from performers drawn from several current Broadway shows for a brief run at the Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn: Harry Richman (master of ceremonies),
1929 (probable)

Neville marked 1929 as the year his mystical journey began, describing being 'taken in spirit into the Divine Council' in a pre-dawn experience, as recounted in a 1977-published lecture.<

between June 1929 and August 1929
1929
Neville says he has worn the wakened body since 1929, when he was embraced by the Risen Lord and they became one body and one Spirit, and that he has heard Him say He laid Himself down within him to s
1929
He describes his circumstances at the time of the 1929 call: unschooled, unknown, sleeping in a tiny room and not knowing where the next week's rent would come from.
1929 (probable)

Neville studied under Abdullah for roughly seven years, per this timeline reconstruction.

Place: New York City

Person: Neville Goddard

between 1929 and 1939
During the Depression, penniless in New York with four mouths to feed, he walked fifty blocks rather than spend a nickel on the subway, hoping a friend would give him a quarter for vegetables, and tho
1929
In 1929, aged twenty-four, Neville stood in the presence of the Risen Lord, was asked a simple question, and answered in Paul's words about faith, hope and love - afterwards wondering why he had used
1929
In 1929, believing Jesus Christ to be someone other than himself, he stood in His presence, embraced Him and was incorporated into His body; thirty years later David of biblical fame exploded from wit
between September 1926 and February 1927 (possible)
Stage bill during a 'Greater Movie Season' promotional week at the Aldine (a Warner Bros.
1933

When the Depression hit in 1929 and theaters closed, Neville's professional career as a dancer also ended.

Place: United States

Person: Neville Goddard

between June 1929 and August 1929
In the summer of 1929 Neville was taken into the divine assembly and brought before the risen Lord — the experience that began it all — and thirty years later the mighty acts of God began unfolding in
24 June 1929 (probable)

"Keep It Clean" opened at the Selwyn Theatre on June 24, 1929 and closed July 6, 1929 after 16 performances, with Neville and Amerique in the cast.

between June 1929 and August 1929

Neville recounted, in a 1968 lecture, that back in July 1929 he was taken in spirit into the Divine Assembly, meeting a ledger-keeping angelic being, then Infinite Love, and finally Infinite Might,

between September 1929 and March 1930 (possible)
Vaudeville dance specialty billed as 'MELODY & RHYTHM' on an all-talking vaudeville bill in Yonkers, NY, paired with a Douglas Fairbanks Jr./Loretta Young photoplay (the two co-starred only in Fas
between September 1929 and June 1930 (possible)
Gala vaudeville bill at Loew's Yonkers: Amerique and Neville billed as "International Dancers", with Wilton Crawley ("Storm of Jazz"), McLaughlin & [name illegible], and Gibson & Price, shown
between October 1929 and September 1930 (possible)
Two-part vaudeville bill at the Willard: first half — Bert Gordon (dialect comedian) in "The Boy Scout", Amerique and Neville in a song-and-dance revue, Leon and Dawn in "Kids Is Kids", Leonid Martov
c. December 1929 (probable)
External check: "The Careless Age" (First National-Vitaphone, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young and Carmel Myers) had a national release date of 1929-09-15, consistent with the existing De
10 December 1929 (possible)

A Yonkers Statesman listing dated December 10, 1929 places Neville and Amerique's vaudeville act alongside the film "The Careless Age."
Place: Yonkers, New York

between 1930 and 1939
Sitting in the Silence in the nineteen-thirties with his eyes closed, Neville saw a huge quartz rock that fragmented, whose pieces were gathered by an unseen hand into a living statue seated in the lo
between 1930 and 1939
In the thirties Neville was asked by a wealthy Barbadian father, through his own father, to find his estranged alcoholic son Ken in New York and bring him home; they found him in the gutter, and Nevil
between 1930 and 1939 (probable)
When he owned only one suit and could finally afford a second, Neville put on the new suit and hat and walked down 5th Avenue certain everyone knew it was new, and nobody knew him at all; in those day
between 1930 and 1939
Neville recalls his personal friendship with Aldous Huxley, whom he knew well and found a delightful dinner companion, and quotes Huxley's confession from Ends and Means that he had motives for wantin