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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

Freudian friend remains in the Army despite Neville's advice
Description
After his own discharge Neville wrote to a Freudian friend of the same age who was equally eligible, telling him what he had done; the friend never answered and stayed in the army until the war ended, having once told Neville he pressed his feet into the carpet at Neville's New York meetings to keep hold of reality.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. March 1943 (probable)
Told
19 February 1965 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: The Secret of the Sperm ¶24 (So when it happened to me in nine days I wrote a friend of mine who was my age, who was just as eligible, and I wrote him and I told him what I had done. He never answered my letter. He’s a Freudian.)
March 1943
The vision itself: the disapproved paper appeared before his eyes, a hand out of nowhere scratched out 'Disapproved' and wrote 'APPROVED' above it, leaving the colonel's name intact, and a voice said
Bible-class woman meets her deceased mother
Description
At his 1944 Bible class in New York a woman of forty-five whose mother had just died asked to see her; Neville had her imagine telling the class she had met her mother, and the following Monday she reported waking out of her body, seeing her mother come through the door, being told 'You're just as stupid as ever,' and then recognising her dog that had died five years before.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1944
Told
28 April 1964
Sources
  • Source: They Did Not Die ¶8 (I said, “Alright, this is Monday, it is now the following Monday and you’re in this room now and you’re telling my Bible class that you met your mother, and that your mother hasn’t died; there is survival in this world.”)
1946

Neville published Feeling Is the Secret.

c. 31 October 1944 (probable)
Neville recalls living at 32 Washington Square next door to Roosevelt at 29, and being stopped by police as he came home about a week before the November election of Roosevelt's fourth-term campaign,
between 1945 and 1947 (probable)
A few years after his army discharge, told he could not leave Barbados for months, Neville applied the same principle, slept in the assumption he was where he wanted to be, and had confirmation within
c. 1945 (possible)

Federal indictments and financial paranoia around figures nicknamed 'Head' and 'Fred' reportedly drove Neville away from Ernest Holmes in 1945.

c. 1945 (possible)

Federal indictments and a dispute nicknamed the "$25 paranoia" drove Neville Goddard and Frederick Bailes away from Ernest Holmes's Religious Science movement, per the article's

1945
In 1945 Neville came to Los Angeles by train with his wife, two little girls and his wife's niece, having already spent thousands to get there, and they lived expensively at the Gaylord Hotel.
1945
On arriving in Los Angeles a man with self-conferred degrees tried to silence Neville for denying the historicity of Jesus and barred him from the dozens of groups where he was already contracted to s
1945
When he first came to this city in 1945 the head of the organization that had invited him objected that he did not treat the Bible as secular history and forbade him to say from that platform what he
c. 1945 (probable)
Stuck in Barbados and told there was no room on the two ships servicing the island for months, he sat in his hotel room and imagined himself standing on the deck of a ship at sea, holding the rail and
1945
In 1945, arriving late by plane for his first engagement addressing four or five hundred graduates of an organization, its head took him aside minutes before eight and forbade him to speak on the non-
c. 1945 (probable)
Neville preached the story of repentance for twenty-one years, from 1938 until 1959, before he could say he was a witness to what he had seen.
1945
Sailing to Barbados with his wife and small daughter at the end of 1945 on a one-way ticket, told by the shipping firm he had no chance of passage before October, he imagined walking up the gangplank
1945
On first coming to Los Angeles in 1945 he was invited by a prominent metaphysical figure to lecture on the Bible to his 400-500 graduates, and five minutes before taking the platform was told he could
1945

Neville published Prayer: The Art of Believing in 1945.

Person: Neville Goddard

before 1945
Neville tells a story he knows well about Dora, a woman of about his own age whom he first met in San Francisco in 1945, long after the events of her story.
1945 (probable)

On his first visit to Los Angeles in 1945, Neville was pulled aside minutes before a graduation-day address by Institute of Religious Science dean Ernest Holmes, who objected to Neville's bibl

1948 (probable)

In his 1948 Master Class Five Lessons, Neville gave students specific biological indicators of spiritual awakening: a blue light on the forehead, a shrill whistle in the ears, and autonomic nervous