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Neville Lancelot Goddard
Birth date
Death date
Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

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.)
Jimmie Fuller reveals he began with fifty-four dollars
Description
Having told the Jimmie Fuller story two weeks earlier and been told repeatedly by listeners that Fuller must have had capital, Neville asked him on Friday night for the details and learned he began with fifty-four dollars, spent it all on Neville's meetings, and in the last year made a quarter of a million dollars.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1953 (probable)
Told
4 December 1953
Sources
  • Source: Sound Investments ¶6 (Now I told a story here two weeks ago of Jimmie Fuller. Well, I didn’t have all the details of the story, but after the meeting; dozens of you said to me, not only after the meeting that day, but after my meetings at the Ebell Theatre, that Jimmie Fuller…)
c. 1953 (probable)
About fifteen years earlier a friend took Neville to the Bohemian Club and introduced him to Walter Damrosch as a great metaphysician; when Neville said his teaching came from his own visions and not
A woman says Neville's balcony illustration clarified thinking from the end
Description
As Neville came in through the door, a woman told him that his balcony-and-stage illustration on Friday night had finally made clear to her the difference between thinking from an end and thinking of an end, so he repeats the illustration.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1953 (probable)
  • 1953
  • 4 December 1953
Told
  • 4 December 1953
  • 1953
Sources
  • Source: Sound Investments ¶22 (so here, one lady as I came through the door said, “Neville, you made it so clear on Friday night; something I’d not seen before, for you told us this year you brought a wonderful revelation and that is the wide difference between thinking from an end an…)
before 1953 (possible)
Neville recounts how he tried to persuade Jimmie Fuller that the restrictions he felt because of his colour existed only in his own mind.
13 March 1953
Neville says he is staying in a hotel room downstairs from the room in which he is lecturing, and uses it as the place he can mentally move to.
13 March 1953 (doubtful)
Neville tells the audience he leaves the city at the end of next week and expects them to report results to him before then.
12 April 1953
Neville's wife woke one Sunday morning to a voice telling her to stop spending her thoughts, time and money because everything in life must be an investment; she wrote it down, looked the words up in
12 April 1953
Neville describes the effect the revelation has had on him personally since he heard it, making him conscious of every moment.
between June 1953 and September 1953 (probable)
Neville contributed 'Fundamentals' to the International New Thought Alliance's Bulletin in the summer of 1953.
Neville foretells the birth of Neville Mark on November 10
Description
Before the child was born Neville saw in vision a four-year-old boy who called himself Neville Mark and said he was coming on the 10th of November; his wife thought it impossible, and a pregnant friend expecting a girl in late December was rushed to hospital on the 10th of November and bore a boy she named Neville Mark.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
September 1953 (probable)
Told
10 March 1967
Sources
  • Source: The Riddle ¶4 (This lad stood before me and I felt I was his father. His name was Neville Mark; he was about four. We talked and I said, “When are you coming?” He said, “On the 10th of November”…this is now September.)
before 1954 (probable)
He recounts his own visionary experience: when his inner eye first opened he saw men as trees walking, some like little antlers of a stag, others majestic in foliage, those fully awake in full bloom -
c. 1954 (probable)
About ten years ago Neville saw the interior of a fabulous building, stepped into the vision and explored it, told two frightened ladies that the whole world was a dream and he was the dreamer, refuse
c. 1954
Neville says the Mennonite facts he quoted tonight come from the Encyclopaedia Britannica he bought for his daughter about fifteen years ago.
1954
In 1954 Neville received an audio vision in which a voice told him that he does not move in waking any more than he moves on his bed in sleep, and the words have stayed with him ever since.
c. 1954 (probable)
He says he will leave the city where he is lecturing within two weeks, and expects the audience to report their results to him before he goes.
between 1954 and 1957 (probable)
Despite warnings about muggers during his last years in New York City, Neville felt an urge to walk in the park after a rainy spring and was thrilled by the green grass.
c. 1954 (probable)
Before the 1955 series, Neville gave one telecast on KTTV Los Angeles in 1954.
before 1954 (probable)
Neville says he met his little namesake, Louise and Joseph's son Neville, before the boy was born into this world.
1954
He notes that dozens and dozens of requests were taken from the audience at this morning's meeting, and that every one must be answered and none discarded.