This source states that in 1931 Neville embraced the Ethiopian-born rabbi Abdullah as his spiritual mentor.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
The man who urged Neville to hear Abdullah was David, a Fordham dropout and son of a Prohibition rumrunner who had lost his whole two-million-dollar inheritance on Wall Street in a year; Neville distr
The Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine's 1931 Cleveland Study Center Report documents Neville as a visiting lecturer from New York, predating his study with Abdullah.
between 3 January 1931 and 6 January 1931
(probable)
Loew's vaudeville bill ('Loew's Ace Vaudeville'): Mitchell & Durante, Amerique & Neville, on the screen the MGM film 'Reducing' (Marie Dressler, Polly Moran), a four-day Saturday-to-Tuesday bo
27 January 1931
(possible)
A Yonkers Herald Statesman clipping dated January 27, 1931 lists Neville and Amerique's act alongside the film "Outward Bound."
Place: Yonkers, New York
c. February 1931
(probable)
c. February 1931
(probable)
between June 1931 and December 1931
(possible)
Vaudeville bill at an RKO Proctor's theatre pairing a preview of the film 'Lover Come Back' (Columbia Pictures, general release 1931-06-16) with acts including Amerique & Neville and Miller &
between 18 July 1931 and 25 July 1931
(possible)
RKO Proctor's theatre vaudeville-and-screen bill: the First National film 'Chances' (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rose Hobart), advertised as opening that day, with Amerique & Neville on the R-K-O vaude
A Joseph Murphy-sourced account states Neville gave up the theater in 1932 to devote himself to mysticism and began his lecture career, a different date than the 1938 'begins own teaching'
Neville related making a sea voyage from New York to visit his family in Barbados during the Depression, with no money of his own, using imaginal power.
Place: Barbados
Neville notes he sleeps in the raw and has done for forty years, yet in his dream of the Queen he was clothed appropriately.
Neville and Amerique appeared on a vaudeville bill at the RKO Prospect Theatre in Brooklyn in July 1932.
Place: RKO Prospect, Brooklyn
Person: Neville Goddard
A Brooklyn Daily Eagle clipping dated July 15, 1932 documents a vaudeville engagement by Neville and Amerique at the RKO Prospect Theatre.
Next-day newspaper review of the RKO Prospect Theatre's vaudeville-policy reopening (see hist_event:20065 for the preview of the same night): a packed house for Amerique and Neville, Reed and Le Vere,
Opening bill of the R.K.O. Prospect Theatre's return to a vaudeville-and-feature-film policy ('two complete shows in one'), Saturday 16 July 1932: five R.K.O.
In the imaginal act he stood in New York and had a waking dream of hearing the coconut leaves on the roof of his mother's home in Barbados and smelling the tropical air through the open window, then f
Neville recounted, in the lecture "The One Greater Than John," a specific statement Abdullah made to him in 1933.
Person: Neville Goddard
When Neville first read the fourteenth chapter of John with understanding, something in his soul told him he could apply it; he did, it worked, and he then asked his New York City audience to join him
Neville lived in a basement apartment on West 75th Street, not knowing where his next dollar was coming from, when he had a mystical vision.
Place: 154 W. 75th St., New York City
In 1933, after eleven years in America, Neville declined his visiting parents' invitation to return to Barbados with them, and then, waving them off at the boat, was seized by a sudden intense desire
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
Neville's brother Victor sent him a steamship ticket and $50 for a Christmas trip back to Barbados (the 'You are in Barbados' Abdullah story).
Person: Neville Goddard
In 1933 his parents came to New York and begged him to come home to Barbados and join the family business; he refused, and then as he waved them off from the boat a sudden intense desire to go to Barb
About thirty years earlier, when Neville was a young professional dancer playing Broadway, he would repeatedly be halted while walking up the street — unable to put one foot in front of the other, ful