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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

c. July 1951 (possible)

The same church-briefs column adds that Neville will also speak at 8 p.m.

c. 1952
About twelve years earlier Neville visited a friend's office on Sunset, where a handsome bearded man in an ankle-length white robe was begging for money and abusing his friend and the friend's wife fo
1952

Neville's student Margaret Ruth Broome edited and published The Creative Use of Imagination, later republished as The Power of Unlimited Imagination.

Person: Margaret Ruth Broome

1952

Neville Goddard's book "The Power of Awareness," containing the chapter "Power of Assumption," was published in 1952.

Person: Neville Goddard

1952

Neville dated to 1952, while living in New York City, a mystical experience of a great procession to the house of God and a voice identifying him with God.

Place: New York City

1952
In 1952 in New York City he had his gall bladder removed, and when he came to after about four hours in the hospital recovery room he thought he was in the morgue because everyone he saw looked dead,
1949

Neville published Out of This World: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally in 1949.

Blind woman imagines and receives rides to work
Description
Neville tells of a blind girl in his San Francisco audience whose bus route was changed so that her journey took two and a half hours; she imagined riding to work in a car beside a man and thanking him, and within days two strangers — a man interested in the blind and a liquor salesman who overheard her story in a bar — arranged between them to drive her to and from work, the first driver answering her with the very words she had imagined.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 1952 and 1954 (probable)
  • c. 1952 (probable)
Told
1955
Sources
between 1952 and 1968 (probable)
Neville recounts wanting a different way of life after sixteen years of what looked like a Bohemian existence, and that his prospective wife's very conservative parents were concerned about what was c
between 1952 and 1953 (probable)
About 1952 or 1953, living in Beverly Hills on El Camino, he saw and walked into a luminous palatial building in the wee hours, found himself shut out of this world, told two ladies in the hallway it
A blind commuter imagines and receives a daily driver
Description
A blind woman in his audience, whose bus route change forced a two-and-a-half hour journey to work, imagined for two nights that she was being driven to her San Francisco office and thanking her companion; a man who overheard her story told at a bar volunteered to drive her, and three years later she told Neville he had never missed a day.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1952 (probable)
Told
1955 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Tv Talk ¶18 (Now, that’s almost three years ago. I saw that girl just about six months ago, and she told me that he did not miss one day in five days — five days a week he would pick her up and send her — take her to her work, and take her from work home)
A man new to his firm imagines the airplane ramp and Swedish voices, and represents the firm in Sweden six months later
Description
A man came to Neville wanting to go to Sweden for his firm but, being new to the job, felt he would not be asked. Neville had him feel himself going up the ramp of an airplane, hear American voices around him, feel airborne, feel the plane come down, and hear only Swedish voices as he was now in Sweden. Six months later the man represented his firm in Sweden. He brought Neville back a crystal teardrop vase in appreciation, which Neville says he still has.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1952 and 1954 (possible)
Told
between 1953 and 1954 (probable)
1952
He learned by letter today that Randy, his eastern doctor and dear friend who cared for his pregnant wife and his family, died a few weeks ago at sixty-five; he recalls that in 1952, after a serious o
before 1952 (possible)

By the time this book's preface was written, Neville Goddard is described as formerly of Barbados and now residing in California, indicating his relocation there sometime before 1952.

between 22 June 1952 and 1952

Neville gave a dated series of lectures at the San Francisco Scottish Rite (Your Infinite Worth, Righteousness, Subjection to the Will of God, Pearl of Great Price, Self-Remembering, Your Destiny,

22 June 1952 (possible)

An advertisement for free public lectures on spiritual healing, personal success and peace of mind announces Neville speaking at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1270 Sutter at Van Ness, San Francisco

between 19 July 1952 and 19 July 1953 (probable)
Neville describes returning to Dr.
Students report imagined desires fulfilled during the past year
Description
Neville says that in the past year countless people who took him at his word came back and told him similar stories of results from denying the evidence of the senses and boldly imagining themselves to be what they desired.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 19 July 1952 and 19 July 1953
Told
  • 20 January 1958 (refuted)
  • 19 July 1953
Sources
  • Source: The Power of Awareness ¶32 (Now, I assure you, unnumbered similar stories have been told me in the past year by those who took me at my word and began to awaken Christ within)
c. September 1952 (probable)
Neville recounts that in September, before the November birthday of his New York namesake, he saw the boy before he was born and asked when he was coming; the boy answered 'tenth of November.' He told
before 1953 (possible)
Neville describes the standing Abdullah had — scientists, doctors, lawyers and bankers sought an audience with him and thought themselves honoured to be received — and quotes his instruction to start
1953

Lecture catalog #21 — text: HAVE

The Parkview Manor visitor reports financial success
Description
Last Sunday morning in the lobby the same gentleman came forward, took Neville next door to his Wilshire Boulevard office, said it took him almost three years to overcome the fixed idea that he was a secondary citizen, and told him he would net a quarter of a million dollars that year.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1953
  • 15 November 1953
Told
  • 1953
  • 20 November 1953
Sources
Friend sees his deceased mother in the future
Description
A friend told Neville of seeing his mother, who had died here at seventy, alive in the year 3804 at the age of thirty, married, beautiful and wealthy but still carrying the same fear of death.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1953 and 3804
Told
26 May 1964
Sources
  • Source: Call the Next Witness ¶21 (as my friend saw his mother, radiantly beautiful and moving through the year 1953, suddenly finding herself in the year 3804)
before 1953 (possible)
Having told this story at a small gathering in the city, three people objected that the man must have started with money or connections; Neville replies that he never asked the man for the facts, neve
Larry finds his deceased mother knows Neville in the year 3804
Description
Neville says that when Larry's mother died in 1953 he was completely unknown, yet his works and name are known to her in the year 3,804.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 1953 (refuted)
  • 1953 (refuted)
Told
  • 19 May 1964
  • 19 May 1964
Sources
  • Source: Jesus, God's Plan of Salvation ¶16 (She knows that she never heard of me here in the year 1964. When she died in ’53, she never heard of me, I was completely unknown.)