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Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

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Neville recalls advice his old friend Abdullah once gave him: when someone tries to make himself important at your expense, picture him performing his normal, natural functions and he is reduced to hi
Norma's mistaken astrology chart nevertheless fulfills its prediction
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In New York years ago he taught astrology to Norma, a retired Scranton schoolteacher living at Broadway and 72nd; she drew the wrong chart from a wind-blown Ephemeris, read it with total conviction, and the client wired her the promised $100 while Neville was present — yet she remained a professional astrologer, with Metropolitan Opera singers as clients, until she died.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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Told
4 November 1968 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Build on the Only Foundation: Jesus Christ ¶4 (Well, I couldn’t console her, but that night I was in her place when the phone rang from downstairs and the operator said, “There is a Western Union man here and he wants to see you, should I send him up?” So I was there when this Western Union brought u…)
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Continuing the same morning's experiment, he withdrew from his body without choosing a destination and found himself first in a beautiful sealed room with friendly people, then in a sealed room full o
A woman sees ascending angels and hears that few will believe
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A woman wrote to Neville this week describing a vision of a shaft of light with angels ascending, an ancient desert-dweller before her, and a voice asking who would believe his report and answering 'None...save but a few', followed by singing about herself and the words that all heard it on different levels.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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  • before 16 December 1968
Sources
  • Source: God Enters Into His Shadow ¶33 (One that came this week, she said, “I saw this shaft of light that stretched up into the heavens. On each side it began to unveil angels, and they seemed to be on the ascending, like steps to the very end leading into, well, into heaven.)
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Neville recounts a vision in which he was confronted with a vast sea of imperfect humanity, all the parts he had played, and as he was lifted up and walked by, every one of them was made perfect.
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Neville remarks on his own habit of being in bed early on a lecture night unless he is entertaining.
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Neville recalls living for thirteen years and eight months with his family of three in a duplex penthouse on the 15th and 16th floors of 145 W. 55th Street, with a playroom and a garden upstairs.
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He says he has no desire to live at San Simeon; trying earthly things in the belief they would keep him here forever is far back in his own experience, and his needs are now little.
A driver experiences universal light and hears All is one
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A friend present at the lecture told him that about ten years earlier, while driving, everything became nothing but light with infinity falling in tiny tadpole-like forms, he heard within him "All is one," stopped the car by reflex, and told the angry passing drivers that everything was all right; Neville tells him he was genuinely illumined and instructs him how to arrest one of the falling lights.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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  • c. 1956 (probable)
Told
28 November 1966
Sources
  • Source: Apostle ¶14 (He said, “I can’t say there was light and myself, no, just light…and infinity falling in little, little kinds of light, all light falling.)
A friend dreams that his imagination creates a desert settlement
Description
Neville reads out and then expounds a letter he received a few weeks earlier from a dear friend — a humorous writer and long-time student of his message — describing a voice within proclaiming 'I am God' and a dream in which he threw golf balls into an empty desert to create homes, a golf course and a gate, and could only change a dilapidated house and streetcar by persisting.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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Told
18 October 1966 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: The New Man 2 ¶0 (Now, let me share with you a story told me recently by a very dear friend of mine, one who has had most of my experiences. He wrote me this letter just a few weeks ago.)
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Neville recounts his own experience of the splitting of the great mountain, saying it was his own body that was divided from east to west, one part moving northward and one southward — the theme he ha
A woman imagines and receives two reconciliation letters
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In New York City this past May he told his audience they must be doers of the word, and a longtime student, estranged for two years from her son and daughter-in-law Mary, went home and for seven nights imagined reading two letters she had mentally written herself - one from her daughter-in-law and one from her grandson - and on the eighth morning received exactly those two letters in the mail; she gave him permission to tell the story, and his audience objected in the question period to the idea of writing one's own love letters.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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  • between May 1953 and May 1954 (possible)
Sources
  • Source: Awakened Imagination 2 ¶7 (For seven nights this lady read these two letters. On the morning of the eighth day she received the letter. On the inside there were two letters--one from her grandson and one from her daughter-in-law. These letters were identical with the letters she h…)
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He had his shoes shined that day by a man, offered as proof that everyone is doing God's work.
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Neville recalls telling a pastor, and telling Sid, about a vision in which a prominent public man associated with socialism in England repeatedly tried to fix a huge branching tree on his own head fro
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On an earlier occasion Neville found himself inside an image, was frightened by an object there, and got back by holding a fixed inanimate object and refusing to let go — a technique he says he uses t
Neville's confused friend Milo walks into a closet
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Neville recalls a New York friend named Milo who confused everything he touched — he could not walk down an aisle at Carnegie Hall without bumping into everyone, and one night leaving Neville's home he shook his hand goodbye and walked straight into the closet.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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Sources
  • Source: Power and Wisdom ¶68 (One night at home he took my hand to say good-bye, opened the wrong door and went right into the closet.)
Woman's court-martialed brother returns home
Description
At a San Francisco meeting a woman heard him, went home and for a week imagined the doorbell ringing and embracing her court-martialed brother; a week later he was honorably discharged and came home, and she rose in his audience of a thousand to tell it.
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Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 0 (probable)
  • before 1963 (possible)
  • before 29 March 1963
Told
29 March 1963
Sources
  • Source: You Can Forgive Sin ¶31 (In San Francisco, when I told this story, a lady sat in my audience who had just received notice from the army that her brother had been tried, court-martialed, and sentenced to six month’s hard labor.)
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A friend reminded Neville that the two of them had visited Dr.
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Neville's father, warned off drink by his doctor son, told Neville one day that he had given up drinking and that Neville's mother would have loved to see the day; Neville told his brother Victor, who
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Lying on his bed he saw a scene vividly, stepped consciously into it, explored a solidly real hotel, tried to persuade two ladies in the corridor that it was a dream, could not get back until he imagi
A listener acquires fifty properties in two years
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A man in the audience told Neville on Thursday that when he first heard him two years ago he had nothing, and now owns fifty pieces of property, thirty of them outright in his own name.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 0
  • between 1963 and 1965
Sources
  • Source: On the Law ¶21 (one told me just a little while ago, Thursday, and the other wrote me. I have the letter of one at home and I have the memory of the words of the one who just told me his story.)
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About a week before this lecture a woman friend telephoned Neville in tears, too distressed to get out her request; he reversed the entire conversation in his imagination, and that same night she told
15 December 1968 (probable)
At a family party of fifteen the day before - all relatives of his wife - a college student asked Neville to explain his teaching, and grew enthusiastic until Neville claimed to be the central figure
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Despite warnings about muggings and murders in Central Park, Neville took his daily walk through it during a New York visit and was struck by how green and thick the grass was after the rains ended th