between January 1949 and February 1949
(probable)
Neville recounts that in May 1949, in Milwaukee, he described to an Allis-Chalmers physicist the same forward-and-back movement in time and imagination that Richard Feynman later described for the pos
Neville, described as a nationally known lecturer, Bible teacher and author, comes to San Francisco for his third lecture course there, sponsored by Carrick-Cook, minister and founder of the Absolute
Professor Imhoff sent Neville the "Scientific News Letter" dated October 15, 1949, containing an apologetic note and Richard Feynman's account of the positron as evidence the past co
c. 15 October 1949
(probable)
Korean War soldier enters a European dance while hospitalized in Japan
Description
In San Francisco a man who attended Neville's meetings told him of a stranger met in a bar who, wounded in the Korean War and lying in a hospital in Japan, found himself in Europe dancing with a lady in hoop skirts, told the crowd he was an American soldier, and returned by assuming he was back on his hospital bed.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1950
(probable)
c. 1965
(possible)
c. 1965
(doubtful)
Told
14 April 1969
(doubtful)
23 February 1965
(refuted)
14 April 1969
(doubtful)
23 February 1965
(refuted)
19 September 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Dreamer 2 ¶15 (In San Francisco on the very last night this chap told me a story just before I took the platform, and I asked him to tell it to those who were present.)
At the close of the same 1950 vision, before returning to his body, Neville was brought back in the crucifix — his palms, head, right side and soles were vortices — and felt himself nailed upon the cr
He had a major operation about fifteen years ago, and coming out of that anaesthesia was simply a return to this world, nothing like the mystical awakening.
The same notice reports that the last of Neville's closed classes will be given on a Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. at 111 O'Farrell Street.
A Black man asks Neville for help overcoming racial limitation
Description
A few years earlier, while lecturing at Parkview Manor near a lake in this city, a coloured gentleman asked to see him beforehand and, in the little park across the street, told Neville his insoluble problem was the pigment of his skin; Neville answered that no cause lies outside the arrangement of a man's own mind.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1950
(probable)
before 1953
(possible)
Sources
- Source: Changing the Feeling of I ¶9 (A few years ago in this city I was giving a series of lectures down near that lake – I can’t even recall the name of the lake but it was some Parkview Manor was the place where I spoke, and in that audience was a gentleman who sought an audience before t…)
Broome recounts Neville's post-war national lecturing and media career
Description
Broome's narration of Neville's post-war lecturing: travelling west as far as San Francisco, moving the family to Los Angeles in 1955, back to New York in fall 1956 and to Los Angeles again in 1957; a television program, two phonograph records, televised debates with ministers, priests and rabbis, and huge Sunday crowds at the Fox Wilshire Theater.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
A prominent New York lady imagines moving to Long Island and sublets her apartment
Description
A socially and politically prominent New York lady, daughter-in-law of a former governor of New York who became Vice President and then President, began attending Neville's meetings, came to his apartment for help subletting her New York apartment so she could open her Long Island summer home; he told her to sleep that night imagining she was in Long Island, and within two days a tenant took the apartment with immediate occupancy and she and her husband physically moved out to Long Island.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Talent ¶4 (Now let me tell you the story of a lady I knew in New York City about twenty years ago.)
Engineer imagines a higher salary and obtains the job
Description
An engineer friend in New York who had never earned more than $10,000 a year came to Neville's meetings, was told to imagine himself in the Madison Avenue firm's office, took the elevator in imagination and hung up his hat, and within a week was working there at $15,000 a year; after about five years with the firm he simply did not wake one morning.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1950
c. 1945
(probable)
Sources
- Source: What Are You Sowing ¶21 (There’s a friend of mine in New York City, he’d never worked for more than $10,000 a year. He came to my meetings. He couldn’t raise the sights too high. He was an engineer, helping out with the building of bridges all over this country.)
Neville imagines a friend's husband into a larger career
Description
Fifteen years ago a friend's wife told Neville she wished her husband, a Princeton graduate selling for a small pharmaceutical firm, were more important and made more; Neville imagined and conversed with her from the premise that he was making more, and the firm was twice absorbed by bigger firms until the husband had a huge territory, a sales force and a commission — after which she complained he was never at home, and now sees him only at weekends.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1951
c. 1951
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Human Imagination ¶15 (Turning to the only power that I know of, my own wonderful human Imagination, I carried on with her a conversation from the premise that he was making more.)
On a months-long stay in Barbados with his wife and small daughter, Neville met Major Morrison of Trinidad, who was enthusiastic about his teaching, and an elderly retired English professor of chemist
Neville recounts his own long, deliberate discipline over years, letting nothing interfere, to gain mastery of his attention and imagination and to summon at will the inner lights that dawned and fade
between 1951 and 1952
(probable)
Neville narrates a vision, seen fifteen or sixteen years earlier, of a forest of men walking like stags with great antlers; among them he saw a Welsh politician he identifies as one of the 'third in t
A few years ago in San Francisco, Neville watched General MacArthur drive by after his return from years abroad; a lawyer friend of his, who had attended his meetings for years, was hypnotized with he
In a 1951 Los Angeles Times interview Neville discussed the deeper meaning of the commandment against stealing.
He notes that his own experience of being embraced by God happened twelve years ago the coming month, and insists it was a gift he cannot boast of and that precedes others only in chronological order.
A notice announces that Neville, a national lecturer and Bible teacher, opens his fifth annual San Francisco lecture series on June 10 at 11 a.m.
The same church-briefs column adds that Neville will also speak at 8 p.m.
Neville gave a series of radio talks on Station KECA in Los Angeles in July 1951, including "Be What You Wish, Be What You Believe" and "The Law of Assumption".