A transcript survives of a televised talk Neville gave on station KTTV in 1955, part of the search for lost video footage of him.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville read in that day's paper about a very famous Italian actress injured when her Rolls Royce was smashed, who credited her survival to her little St.
A young lawyer imagines control of a savings company and becomes wealthy
Description
A young lawyer of thirty, penniless, began attending Neville's lectures and imagined himself controlling the Berkeley Savings and Loan Company; within six months he controlled it and doubled its assets, then sold out, built four hotels in Hawai'i and is now president of the company building the Comstock co-op on Nob Hill, and he wrote Neville a letter saying his conviction came from listening to the lectures.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1955 and 1958
(probable)
Told
11 September 1959
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Second Vision ¶9 (I have told you the story of this man before. He was a young lawyer of thirty, without funds, when a few years ago after coming to my lectures he decided to use his Imagination to obtain an immense objective.)
between 1955 and 1957
(probable)
Neville sent the first copy of his first book, Your Faith Is Your Fortune, to his parents with an inscription saying he would ask for no greater parents if he had to return by reincarnation; his fathe
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 50 + birth 1905 = 1955. Told 1 time (1969).
Neville hosted a series of radio and television talks in Los Angeles in 1955.
In 1955 Neville, having decided his major work was to be in Los Angeles, packed up his wife and daughter and moved the Goddard family there.
Visiting Barbados after fifteen years away, Neville was told by his brother that no ship passage to New York was available before September; instead of joining the waiting list he sat in his hotel roo
Ross Reports lists the debut of KTTV Channel 11's Neville program, describing Neville as an author and lecturer discussing imagination as a power.
Stranded in Barbados and told no ship was available for months, Neville imagined walking up a gangplank with his hand on the rail, looking back at the island and his family, and the telephone rang alm
between 6 March 1955 and 8 January 1956
(probable)
26 half-hour Sunday broadcasts on KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, in two blocks of thirteen: block 1 ~Mar 6 – May 29 1955 at 1:00 PM; block 2 Oct 16 1955 – Jan 8 1956 at 2:00–2:30 PM.
Norman Vincent Peale distinguishes himself from Neville: 'he is a one hundred percent metaphysician, whereas I am a minister'
Description
Asked for an opinion about Neville, Norman Vincent Peale remarked that Neville was undoubtedly a fine man, but added: 'However, bear in mind that he is a one hundred percent metaphysician, whereas I am a minister.' Reported in TV-Radio Life's April 1955 profile, which also notes that Neville's approach, while adjacent to the power of positive thinking, differs from Peale's.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
before 22 April 1955
(probable)
A friend of Neville's wrote to the Library of Congress asking that his books be catalogued under the 'New Thought' department.
between 30 April 1955 and 1 May 1955
(probable)
Visiting his family in Barbados, Neville is asked on 30 January when he intends to return to America; he says he would like to stay until the end of April and return to New York around the first of Ma
Neville recounts that he took up residence in California ('came out West') in 1956, having previously lived in New York City, where an earlier vision (the 42nd Psalm unfolding within him) had occurred
About two years earlier, leaving the platform after speaking in this same hall, he looked out and saw great flames and beautiful homes burning, all consumed in moments.
He has lectured at the present club for nine years and loves it, but it is now unavailable, so his friend Harry Smith, who owns the building at 6005 Sunset, is giving him all Tuesdays and Fridays for
While still living in New York City, before he came out West in 1956, Neville found himself fulfilling the 42nd Psalm — leading an enormous throng towards the invisible house of God, when a voice said
Neville recalls being raised in a Christian household where grace was said at every meal, his mother invariably ending it with "For Jesus' sake, amen" - and nothing came of the prayers beyond the food
He describes writing his book Seedtime and Harvest — how he came to see deeper, mystical meanings in scripture and set out nine chapters interpreting the darker passages, giving Solomon's chariot of t
Neville explains that after nine years at the Ebell he has moved his lectures to Dr.
He asserts, against the scientific view that the world is burning itself out, that he speaks as someone who has himself seen beyond the veil and knows life has no end.
In passing he places himself as a family man with a wife and a child, whose desires he can plant for as readily as his own.
Neville stated in a 1964 Q&A that the last time he saw Abdullah was about eight years earlier, placing their final meeting around 1956 in New York City.
Place: New York City