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
Neville recalled that Abdullah gave him two letters of Kabbalistic instruction, partly in technical Hebrew, around 1930 or 1931, which he rediscovered decades later in an old Bible.
While meditating in the Silence he saw a piece of quartz break into countless fragments, reassemble as a living human figure seated in the lotus posture which he recognised as himself, and then glow e
In the thirties Neville heard George Washington Carver speak at the annual New York Herald Tribune forum at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, where Carver told a thousand prominent guests that eve
Neville's opponents discover imagination as God
Description
Neville recalls that he began telling this story in the 1930's and that in the thirty-odd years since, those most determined to disprove him ended up finding God as their own human imagination.
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Sources
- Source: Yours For the Taking ¶19 (I started telling this story in the 1930’s and here we are in the 1960’s. During these thirty-odd years I have found those who really opposed me – those who were so moved and disturbed they were determined to disprove my words.)
In the early thirties Neville saw in vision a glorious heavenly woman and, below her, a hairy monstrous creature that called her its mother; he beat it and it grew stronger on the violence, until he r
Neville Goddard said he studied with Abdullah for five to seven years, a span the article argues extends well into the mid-1930s.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
Megan's imaginal game precedes the accident that saves her family
Description
In the Depression a little girl, Megan, played a game with Neville in which she told him all was well at home; a day later her mother Inez crushed her hand in a rowboat accident in Central Park and was paid $300 by the city, saving the family from dispossession.
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Sources
- Source: What Must We Do Believe ¶23 (And here was this little injury, twenty-four hours after we played a little game. She could play it with me and save her little Nineveh, saved the family.)
Neville recalled living for almost fourteen years in a New York City apartment during his period of study with Abdullah, where he practiced imagining himself at the telephone in the hallway.
He recalls beginning to teach in the thirties, speaking in New York City to audiences of a thousand or more while unsure of himself, and being challenged by ministers, rabbis and priests who threw the
Broome recounts Neville beginning lectures and meeting his second wife
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Broome's narration of Neville beginning to lecture in New York City in February 1930 to a handful of people, and of his second marriage: a young designer in his audience decided she would marry him and he, shaking her hand, thought the same.
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Bill features 'Hell Harbor' (Lupe Velez/John Holland) and Laurel & Hardy's 'Brats', both released March 1930, alongside Amerique & Neville — a specific vaudeville/theater bill not matched b
between 15 March 1930 and 15 April 1930
(possible)
Loew's, Akron, OH ('Akron's Friendly Theatre'): the film 'Hell Harbor' (Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland) with Loew's vaudeville on stage — the Watson Sisters, Amerique & Neville, Neal Sist
between September 1930 and October 1930
(possible)
Loew's circuit-wide theater listing (Brooklyn), showing D.W.
c. 4 September 1930
(probable)
Evidence from a newspaper clipping (Daily News, page 162, dated 4 September 1930 -- a Thursday, per the paper's own masthead) related to Neville's dance career.
between 15 November 1930 and 13 December 1930
The musical comedy "Hello Paris," co-starring Chic Sale, Polly Walker and Stella Mayhew, opened November 15, 1930 at the Shubert Theatre.
Place: Shubert Theatre, New York, NY
between 15 November 1930 and 13 December 1930
(probable)
Broadway musical revue 'Hello, Paris', produced at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York, 1930-11-15 to 1930-12-13 (IBDB production hello-paris-11263).
between 15 November 1930 and 13 December 1930
Neville danced the role of 'The Lover' in the Shubert production of 'Hello, Paris' (adapted from Homer Croy's novel 'They Had to See Paris'; music by Russell Tarbox and Maury Rubens, directed by Ben H
c. December 1930
(probable)
30 December 1930
(probable)
"Broadway Personalities," billed alongside Harry Richman and Dorrah Minevitch, played the Majestic Theatre in Brooklyn per a December 30, 1930 clipping.
31 December 1930
(probable)
'Greetings of 1931' — an 11:15pm New Year's Eve musical revue at the Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn, featuring Harry Richman, Norma Terris and Jack Pearl, extending the theatre's 'Broadway Personalities'
The Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine's 1931 Cleveland Study Center Report documents Neville as a visiting lecturer from New York, predating his study with Abdullah.