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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

c. 1942 (possible)
Locked out by New York State law from divorcing his first wife and marrying the girl he wanted, Neville slept in the assumption that she slept beside him; within a week his first wife committed an act
between November 1942 and March 1943 (probable)
Neville recalls his four months in the army, where a man pulled out of the ranks and given a little insignia would keep you in his presence to be 'Sir'-ed to death, and says he knows the appetite for
12 November 1942

An Army enlistment record lists Neville L.

19 November 1942
Neville's Petition for Naturalization under Section 701 of the Nationality Act of 1940 states that he entered the U.S.
19 November 1942
Neville Goddard was drafted into the United States Army on 19 November 1942, when he was thirty-seven and approaching his thirty-eighth birthday.
19 November 1942
Drafted during the war, Neville slept in the assumption that he was honorably discharged, saw in vision his discharge paper with "Disapproved" crossed out and "Approved" written above it by the hand o
between 19 November 1942 and 15 March 1943 (probable)
between 19 November 1942 and March 1943
Drafted into the Army in November 1942 and sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana, Neville applied for discharge and was refused by his colonel; he then slept each night imagining himself back in his Washington
Freudian friend rejects Neville's method and remains in the army
Description
A very close friend of his, a Freudian of the same age, could have been discharged that same month; Neville wrote and told him exactly what he had done, but the friend would not believe it, stayed in the army four more years, and later wrote a book with a chapter on Neville calling him an atheist.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 1943 and 1947
  • between March 1943 and March 1947 (possible)
Told
16 January 1964
Sources
  • Source: The Larger Venture ¶17 (And I wrote him what I did, but he was a Freudian, and he knew exactly how this thing should not work, so he never applied it. So he remained for the next four years in the army.)
before 1943 (probable)
Neville says he chose his second wife exactly as he wanted her, having made a horrible mistake in his first marriage — as, he says, did she in picking him.
between 1943 and 1946 (probable)
Neville filed a Petition for Naturalization under Section 701 of the Nationality Act of 1940 — the wartime provision for members of the armed forces — in the U.S.
A New Thought leader tells Neville he intends to make money in the movement
Description
In 1943 a man told Neville he was coming to New York solely to make money in the New Thought movement; Neville thought he was in the wrong profession, and the man went on to build a fortune and a building paid for by his followers.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1943
Told
30 May 1969
Sources
  • Source: Feel Deeply ¶19 (Back in 1943, this same man told me he was coming to New York for only one purpose and that was to make money in the so-called New Thought movement. When I heard him say this, I thought he was in the wrong profession.)
1943
In 1943, out of the Army, he found a Manhattan duplex, having first told his wife what rent he would pay; he committed to a third more, and in the third month the manager returned all the excess retro
1943

The New Yorker published an article about Neville Goddard titled "A Blue Flame on the Forehead" in 1943.

Place: New York

Person: Neville Goddard

c. 1943 (probable)

Neville gave Sunday evening lectures at Union Methodist Church in New York for a standard $0.25 admission.

Place: New York

Person: Neville Goddard

1943

Neville was profiled in The New Yorker magazine in 1943, shortly after returning from military training.

c. 1943 (probable)
One deep winter in New York, wanting only warmth, he slept as though under the palm trees of the Indies; distressing news then came, and 48 hours later he sailed from New York in wartime, reaching Bar
17 December 1963

For about 12 years Neville held free half-hour private interviews five days a week, 1-5:30pm, in New York.

Place: New York City

Person: Neville Goddard

March 1943 (probable)

Neville's Army discharge is dated to March 1943, marking the start of his NYC private-interview years.

1943
Neville recalls an unnamed New Thought leader who, back in 1943, told him he was coming to New York purely to make money in the New Thought movement; Neville contrasts this with the leader's now-wealt
1943
Coming out of the army in 1943 he and his wife looked for an apartment; the rent was higher than the sum they had fixed on, but he persisted in his imagined figure, and in the third month the manager
c. 1943
He describes his longing while in the army for his wife and his two-month-old baby whom he had not seen in three months, and his hunger for the odor of a child.