Neville says people in the south write him letters asking him to interpret dreams they cannot interpret for themselves, and that he finds himself intuitive enough to do it.
Twelve years earlier in New York City Neville was taken in spirit into a New England restaurant scene of about two hundred years before, arrested an activity within himself so that the whole scene — d
Neville alludes to the experience of the Son of God standing before him and calling him Father, spoken of as something he knows rather than theorizes.
Neville uses his own dealings with his tailor as an illustration — picking material, telling the tailor what suit he wants, and the tailor executing his vision.
Neville's wife has the vision of the hand of death
Description
Five years earlier, while his daughter was in high school and he had risen early to make her breakfast and lunch and then gone back to his library to read his Bible, his wife slept late and woke from an experience in which her hand was held by the hand of death, with Neville sitting on the bed recognising death intimately; when she said she was not afraid to die but had unfinished business, the hands disengaged.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
8 March 1963
15 December 1964
Sources
- Source: The Original Sin ¶11 (Five years ago, when my daughter was in high school, it was my pleasure every morning to get up early and prepare breakfast for the two of us, then make a little lunch basket for her, and then bid her good-bye as she went off to school.)
- Source: The True Story of Christmas ¶16 (One morning my wife said to me when we met for brunch, “I had the strangest experience this morning.” She said, “I awoke and I sat up in bed, and then you came into the room and you sat on the bed. And then as you sat on the bed, a hand came out of nowhe…)
Neville tells the audience that he will be there for four weeks and asks them to prove the method within that interval and report back to him what happened.
In vision Neville was confronted by a hair-covered monstrous speaking creature and a radiant angelic being; he struck the monster and it grew stronger, then realised he had fathered it out of his own
A woman imagines her court-martialed brother returning with an honorable discharge
Description
Lecturing in San Francisco to about a thousand people, Neville was asked by a woman whether she could free her court-martialed brother; a week later she reported that after rehearsing the scene of his return the brother arrived home with an honourable discharge.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Signs From Above ¶14 (In San Francisco, about ten years ago, I was teaching an audience of approximately one thousand, when a lady stood up and said: “My brother is in the army. I do not know what he did, but I do know that he has been court-marshaled and sentenced to six mon…)
Neville's wife dreams Death takes and releases her hand
Description
Neville tells of a morning seven years earlier at El Comino when, after seeing his daughter off to school and reading his Bible, his wife came out at brunch and told him a dream within a dream in which a hand — Death's hand — took hers, and she told Neville she did not want to die but was not afraid, at which the hands disengaged.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
4 December 1965
(doubtful)
4 December 1965
(doubtful)
7 December 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul ¶41 (Well, here is a true story. Seven years ago when we lived on El Comino, I rose early one morning as I always did, got breakfast for my daughter and saw her off to school.)
Neville refers to his own birth on a tiny unknown island with no social, intellectual or financial background.
Neville stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days, who asked him to name the greatest thing in the world; he answered with Paul's words 'faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love', wa
Neville's wife, before they married, slept as though wearing the wedding ring he had not yet given her; a sensitive asked her why she had taken off her wedding ring and began to guess his name, 'Neb -
Los Angeles friend sees Neville risen in a vision
Description
Neville received a letter that day from a friend in Los Angeles who had attended his meetings twice a week for three years, describing a vision in which a woman said 'Neville has risen' and pointed to a corridor filled with golden light where he knew the Lord stood.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
21 January 1958
c. 1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Who Is the Son of Man ¶9 (But he said to me in this letter which I got today: “Last Tuesday morning, early in the morning, I had a vision; and a woman said to me, ‘Neville has risen. Look down there,’ and she pointed down to the end of the corridor.)
Kentucky oilman listens to the earth and finds oil
Description
At the Turf Club last Saturday, where he had been taken with his wife, Neville was introduced to a small odd man from Kentucky who had bought land in Ventura County and slept on the ground with his head to the earth listening for and smelling oil until he brought it in; he is now worth over six million but bored, unwell, and has forgotten the name of God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
26 February 1963
(probable)
Sources
- Source: His Name ¶11 (Now here is a true story which I heard this last Saturday. I am not a member of the Turf Club, but I go occasionally when I am invited and someone takes me. So last Saturday I and my wife were taken to the Turf Club. I was introduced to this little man w…)
For weeks Barry went to Neville's lecture venue, heard his voice over the loudspeaker but deliberately would not go in, buying one book per visit until he owned and had critically read them all — unable to catch Neville contradicting himself — before
Description
For weeks Barry went to Neville's lecture venue, heard his voice over the loudspeaker but deliberately would not go in, buying one book per visit until he owned and had critically read them all — unable to catch Neville contradicting himself — before finally attending a lecture. [Date evidence: spring-June, c. 1958 (Barry: 'this was then in June until he closed')] [Place: Fine Arts Auditorium at the Wilshire, Los Angeles]
The first-hand account places these repeated visits at the Fine Arts Auditorium on Wilshire, ending when Barry finally attended a Monday lecture during the June 1958 series.
Verbatim (witness's words)
Well, the very next Thursday, I went the first chance I could, and I could hear his voice coming over the loud speaker, but I would not go in. I bought one book because that’s all I could afford to pay for it. [...] I was reading all of Neville’s books seeing where he was going to trip himself up. And I couldn’t find a place that he did. So, when I had read them all, the next Monday, I went to the lecture, and there I began kicking myself up and down all the hills that I wasted the opportunity, because this began to unfold.
Date (happened)
between March 1958 and June 1958
(probable)
Margaret reported seeing Neville on a Los Angeles street while he was supposedly lecturing in San Francisco; he later told an audience he could appear to people at will.
Dwelling on the father/son relationship, Neville retired and awoke about 2:30 A.M.
Neville recalls that his brother Fred used to say that of his four children the one he did not understand was Philip - father and son looked alike but had nothing in common - and in the dream Neville
before 24 March 1958
(refuted)
In a night vision Neville saw a hairy gorilla-like monster calling a radiant heavenly female creature "Mother"; he struck and pummelled it and it gloated on the violence, until he realised both were h
After Barry's first lecture he asked Neville whether he taught privately; Neville answered with a flat 'No,' telling him 'You are the operant Power' and that he no longer took individual students.
Description
After Barry's first lecture he asked Neville whether he taught privately; Neville answered with a flat 'No,' telling him 'You are the operant Power' and that he no longer took individual students. [Date evidence: June, c. 1958 — Barry's first attended lecture] [Place: the Wilshire, Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
I went back to see him after the first lecture. I said, “Do you teach privately? He said, “No. As short as that. He said, “You are the operant Power. Not meaning my person, although I’m afraid I must have thought at that time that was what he meant. “You are the operant Power. He said that it’s a Principle that proves itSelf in performance. “I no longer take individual students.
Neville (as quoted): "No. [...] You are the operant Power. [...] I no longer take individual students."
Barry heard Neville five or six times before his annual two-week San Francisco engagement; on Neville's return Barry gave him two written case histories of the teaching applied, and Neville was delighted — Barry then never missed a lecture for a year
Description
Barry heard Neville five or six times before his annual two-week San Francisco engagement; on Neville's return Barry gave him two written case histories of the teaching applied, and Neville was delighted — Barry then never missed a lecture for a year. [Date evidence: summer c. 1958, one year before the 1959 'Birth from Above'] [Place: Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Well, I continued going; this was then in June until he closed. I heard him five or six times before he closed and went for his two weeks in San Francisco. When he came back from San Francisco, I gave him two case histories of where I had put it to work. He was delighted. So, I never missed a single lecture from then until the calendar had come around another year, and he went to San Francisco
Date (happened)
between June 1958 and July 1959
(probable)
Freedom Barry began attending Neville's twice-weekly lectures at the Wilshire (Fine Arts Auditorium) in June, roughly a year before Neville's 1959 San Francisco "Birth from Above&quo
A woman in the audience asked Neville point-blank whether he drank; he answered 'Do I drink?! Of course, I drink... I do nothing in moderation,' adding that his father finished a fifth of gin every morning before ten o'clock — Barry was present that
Description
A woman in the audience asked Neville point-blank whether he drank; he answered 'Do I drink?! Of course, I drink... I do nothing in moderation,' adding that his father finished a fifth of gin every morning before ten o'clock — Barry was present that night. [Date evidence: during Barry's attendance at Neville's Los Angeles lectures, 1958 onward] [Place: lecture hall, Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
In fact, someone in his audience… I was there one night and she said, “Neville, I have heard it said that you drink. Do you drink? He said, “Do I drink?! Of course, I drink. And he said, “May I tell you I do nothing in moderation.” (Laughter) He said, “They used to tell me, ‘You’re just like your father,’ and I am. My father finished a fifth of gin every morning of his life before ten o’clock.
Neville (as quoted): "Do I drink?! Of course, I drink. [...] May I tell you I do nothing in moderation. [...] They used to tell me, ‘You’re just like your father,’ and I am. My father finished a fifth of gin every morning of his life before ten o’clock."
Date (happened)
between June 1958 and 1963
(possible)
between September 1958 and June 1959
(probable)
An article reports that Neville has given personal consultations to more than 150 people, averaging three a week, since starting his current lecture series at the Ebell Club the previous September.
Woman sees Neville become a giant of light
Description
A woman friend told Neville of an experience in which she and her friend Sharon bought him chocolate before he took the platform, then saw his form vanish and become a towering giant of light; she added the sweets cost 28 cents, so he says he owes her that and, like Socrates with his cock, will not leave owing anyone.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
20 October 1958
3 November 1969
Sources
- Source: Thou Art Our Father, Our Potter ¶24 (A friend of mine shared this experience with me last Monday night. She said, “My friend Sharon and I were with you as you prepared to go to the platform. You looked very pale and weak in your dark blue suit, so we bought you some chocolate pudding, choco…)