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
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
Stranded in Barbados after a post-war family visit with no way back before October, Neville imagined himself on the tender and up the gangplank of the ship leaving the island, caught the mood of a swe
Neville's psychiatrist friend fails to use his Army-discharge advice
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After his own discharge Neville wrote a detailed letter to a friend, an English Freudian psychiatrist drafted and stationed in Florida, explaining how to get out; the friend never answered, stayed in the Army three more years, and later told Neville that at his lectures he pressed his feet into the carpet and gripped the chair to keep his sense of reality.
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- Source: The Perfect Law of Liberty ¶17 (“You know, Neville, I love to come to your lectures and to hear you because it’s interesting. It’s fairy. You turn my daily bread into the substance of fairy; but while I listen to you, you know what I do? I put my feet right down into the carpet, and I …)
Stranded in Barbados after the war with no ship until September and a lecture series due in New York on the first of May, Neville imagined himself walking up the gangplank; he, his wife and his daught
Los Angeles Times feature by George L.
One night at sea in 1946, sailing from Port of Spain to Mobile, Alabama, he was lifted up, heard a heavenly chorus singing "Neville is risen", found himself clothed in a body of light gliding past an
Neville had the experience in 1946 and wrote it on the last page of his little book The Search; nothing since has caused him to modify it.
In 1946 Neville was lifted up as a being of fire in a body of air, self-luminous, moving through a scene of human imperfection which was made perfect as he passed, while a heavenly chorus sang his pra
In 1946, unable to travel to Barbados, Neville lay on his bed in New York and assumed he was lying on his dying nephew Billy's bed in the family home so that his sister would see him instead of her so
He dates his two experiences: the transfigured self in 1946 and the resurrection in 1959.
Neville recalls meeting Al Olstrom in 1946, the first year he came out to the West Coast, and exchanging annual visits with him thereafter - to Al's home one year, to Neville's hotel the next, and tak
In 1946 Neville was lifted up and heard a heavenly chorus proclaim him risen; he found himself a being of fire clothed in air, radiating light, and as he glided past an endless seated multitude of the
between March 1943 and 1946
Neville recounts giving a Bible class in New York City about seventeen years earlier that a fabulously wealthy, childless San Francisco couple flew in for, checking into a Plaza Hotel suite for six we
between 1946 and 1948
(doubtful)
His brother arrived in New York City during the sleepless dream experiment and was shocked at how he looked.
between 1946 and 1947
(probable)
Six or seven months after Jack died, Neville was consciously out of the body when his sister-in-law Al and the dead Jack both came into the room; he put his hand on Jack's solid thigh to prove his rea
Returning by sea from five months in Barbados in 1946 with a thick manuscript, he had a vision of a sea of humanity transformed as he passed, threw the manuscript overboard without saving a page, and
In 1946 he was lifted up while unnumbered people sat before him; as he walked by, every one was made perfect, and a heavenly chorus sang his ascension crying "Neville is risen!"
A 1946 flyer advertises the eighth printing and states that thousands of copies had been sold.
Twelve years earlier in that same city Neville awoke from the dream of life, found himself buried in his own skull, and came out of that sepulcher.
Neville recounts hearing the heavenly chorus calling his name and singing of his redemption in 1946, a beauty that has stayed with him ever since.