Neville describes his own need for money in daily life while lecturing - picking up a lunch check, paying his hotel bill, and paying his railway fare back to New York.
Neville delivered the Five Lessons lecture series (Consciousness Is the Only Reality, Assumptions Harden Into Fact, etc.), later published as a book.
Person: Neville Goddard
between 1948 and 13 December 1963
(probable)
He notes that his sponsor has sponsored him for seven years and attended his meetings before that, sells all his books, and that his other friends have known him on the West Coast for fifteen years.
Neville says he enjoys telling his plans to his wife because they both get a thrill when the plans come into being.
between 1948 and 1951
(possible)
Neville states: 'It has been my privilege and pleasure to address Dr. Frederick Bailes' Sunday audiences in the past few years.
Neville says he owns several volumes of the Apocrypha at home but does not use them in his teaching, and retells one of their stories - the boy Jesus breaking the children's mud birds and re-molding o
Neville tells of once quoting a line from Shakespeare and a lady objecting that Hamlet had said it.
Sixteen years ago Neville slipped back in time some two hundred years into a New England dining room and, by arresting an activity within himself, froze the entire scene — diners, waitress, a bird in
between 1948 and 1949
(probable)
Six or seven months after his secretary Jack Butler died suddenly in 1948, Neville, fully awake, visited Jack in the other world with Alice beside him; Jack appeared as a young man, did not know he ha
At sea, in an idle interval, Neville meditated on the perfect state, was lifted above the senses, felt himself a being of fire in a body of air, heard a chorus singing 'He is risen', and then found hi
Neville states that he himself has observed events before they occurred in the three-dimensional world.
Neville states that his own mystical experiences have convinced him that perfection comes only by the transformation of oneself, and that his meditations invariably bring union with the state contempl
Neville says the formula he teaches came out of years of his own searching and experimenting, that experience taught him to condense the imaginary action into a single repeated act, and that his own m
Thirty-five students tell Neville their desires were realized
Description
Two weeks before this lecture Neville left the platform and stood at the door shaking hands with the audience, and at least 35 out of a class of 135 told him that the desire they had joined the class with had already been realized.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Consciousness Is the Only Reality ¶63 (Two weeks ago I left the platform and went to the door to shake hands with the audience. I am safe in saying that at least 35 out of a class of 135 told me that which they desired when they joined this class they had already realized.)
15 February 1948
(probable)
Neville tells the audience he is leaving the city on Sunday night and urges them to remain faithful to the instruction after he goes.
A friend in the audience sent Neville a note describing how, late for a wedding at a church with no street car in sight
Description
A friend in the audience sent Neville a note describing how, late for a wedding at a church with no street car in sight, he imagined himself already in the church, and a car immediately stopped and the driver took him there in time.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Remain Faithful to Your Idea ¶6 (I have just read a note here from a dear friend of mine in the audience. Last Sunday he had an appointment at a church for a wedding; the clock told him he was late, everything told him he was late.)
Neville dreamed of delivering a package to the restaurant in his apartment building, a hostess saying "You can't leave that there," letters from the elevator operator and mutual thanks, and the night
Neville recounts imagining, on a Thursday afternoon, that he was walking up the gangplank of the ship home, repeating the act until it felt real and falling asleep in it; the next morning, Friday, the
While Neville, his wife, and their three-year-old daughter were in Barbados in spring 1948, the Alcoa Steamship Company telephoned after his imaginal gangplank exercise and offered a cancelled two-ber
Neville recounts sailing back from Barbados with his wife and three-year-old daughter Vicki, arriving in New York on 1 May to keep a Milwaukee engagement, after the Alcoa Steamship Company unexpectedl
Ad describes a three-week M-F class series beginning Monday Aug 2, 1948, substituting for Dr. Frederick Bailes at the Fox-Wilshire Theater.
Neville foresees Neville Mark's November birth
Description
Neville saw in vision a four-year-old boy who told him his name was Neville Mark and that he was coming on the 10th of November; he told his wife and then a pregnant friend, and the boy was born to that friend on November 10th.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1948
(probable)
Told
10 March 1967
(refuted)
10 March 1967
(refuted)
28 April 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Riddle ¶4 (Before he was born he stood before me in vision and I felt I was his father. Appearing to be about four years old, he told me his name was Neville Mark. When I asked him when he was coming, he said the 10th of November. This was now September.)
In a 1949 lecture series in Milwaukee, Neville met the head chemist at Allis-Chalmers, Professor Imhoff, and debated with him about entropy and the alterability of the past.
Neville published Out of This World.
Person: Neville Goddard
Jimmie Fuller spends his last fifty-four dollars on Neville's meetings
Description
Jimmie Fuller told Neville he first heard of him four years earlier through Dr. Bailes on the radio, and that he and his wife spent their last fifty-four dollars attending every one of Neville's meetings, once with no money left for the babysitter.
The article states that Fuller spent his last fifty-four dollars to hear Neville after Bailes' recommendation.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Sound Investments ¶7 (He said, “When you came here four years ago, Neville, I came to hear you. My wife asked me ‘Why do you come to hear Neville? Who told you of Neville?’ He said, I turned the radio on one night and I heard Dr. Bailes. I had never heard of the man before.)