He had his shoes shined that day by a man, offered as proof that everyone is doing God's work.
Neville recalls telling a pastor, and telling Sid, about a vision in which a prominent public man associated with socialism in England repeatedly tried to fix a huge branching tree on his own head fro
On an earlier occasion Neville found himself inside an image, was frightened by an object there, and got back by holding a fixed inanimate object and refusing to let go — a technique he says he uses t
Neville's confused friend Milo walks into a closet
Description
Neville recalls a New York friend named Milo who confused everything he touched — he could not walk down an aisle at Carnegie Hall without bumping into everyone, and one night leaving Neville's home he shook his hand goodbye and walked straight into the closet.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Power and Wisdom ¶68 (One night at home he took my hand to say good-bye, opened the wrong door and went right into the closet.)
Neville recalls advice his old friend Abdullah once gave him: when someone tries to make himself important at your expense, picture him performing his normal, natural functions and he is reduced to hi
Lying on his bed he saw a scene vividly, stepped consciously into it, explored a solidly real hotel, tried to persuade two ladies in the corridor that it was a dream, could not get back until he imagi
A listener acquires fifty properties in two years
Description
A man in the audience told Neville on Thursday that when he first heard him two years ago he had nothing, and now owns fifty pieces of property, thirty of them outright in his own name.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
between 1963 and 1965
Sources
- Source: On the Law ¶21 (one told me just a little while ago, Thursday, and the other wrote me. I have the letter of one at home and I have the memory of the words of the one who just told me his story.)
About a week before this lecture a woman friend telephoned Neville in tears, too distressed to get out her request; he reversed the entire conversation in his imagination, and that same night she told
15 December 1968
(probable)
At a family party of fifteen the day before - all relatives of his wife - a college student asked Neville to explain his teaching, and grew enthusiastic until Neville claimed to be the central figure
Despite warnings about muggings and murders in Central Park, Neville took his daily walk through it during a New York visit and was struck by how green and thick the grass was after the rains ended th
Eddie hears 'I AM' in the desert and encounters a rattlesnake
Description
Neville relays Eddie's story as it was told to the letter-writer and passed on to him: Eddie, fifty-four, orphaned in the '30s, a failed suicide put in an asylum, living in a tent and prospecting for gold, heard a voice in the empty desert say 'I AM' and 'Do not come up here, I AM', climbed the hill anyway and found an uncoiled four-foot rattler staring at him, and ran.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
29 February 1972
c. March 1964
Told
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1964
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Is Causation Imaginal ¶19 (Now, that is Eddie’s story, he said, just as it happened, and so I will share it with you and tell it to you as it was told to me.)
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶4 (So, Eddie saw the symbol of God and he ran, he was scared too. The identical story. What did he hear? The revelation of God’s name, I am. He first heard it, I am, no one in sight.)
- Source: Our Real Beliefs ¶8 (The story we told you last Tuesday of one whose name was Eddie…Eddie had the identical experience of the one recorded in the Book of Exodus, when he heard “Do not come up here.”)
Neville's father builds a fortune through disciplined daydreaming
Description
Neville describes his father: no education and no money, who sat every day in the Silence in a Burmese chair after his 10:30 breakfast in Barbados with his eyes partly shut seeing the day's business as he wanted it, knew his Bible better than any minister on the island, and died at eighty-five leaving his ten children a fortune of over twenty-five million dollars.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
23 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Dreamer ¶19 (He would sit in the Silence…I can see him now…in what I call in Barbados a Burmese chair, it comes from Demerara, it’s a chair with elevated, extended arms.)
Neville hears the radio bulletin announcing Ahmanson's sudden death
Description
On his way out to the lecture that evening Neville turned on the radio for a news bulletin and heard that Ahmanson, aged sixty-one and on vacation in Europe, had dropped dead, leaving three hundred million.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
(probable)
17 June 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: John 10: The Shepherd ¶32 (as I came out tonight, I turned on the radio to get a news bulletin and Ahmanson at sixty-one drops dead.)
Neville hunted down two out-of-print books, the Zermatt Dialogues and the Oberland Dialogues, at Acres of Books in Long Beach - where old Mr.
He describes getting the friend's letter in the mail two or three weeks ago, being thrilled by it, and wondering which lecture night it would fit before settling on this one.
A woman stops and starts a tape-recorder wheel in dream
Description
Neville reads out a letter received that week from a woman who felt his presence in her home the previous Sunday night, saw lights like fireflies, then dreamt of a tape recorder wheel which she stopped and started by arresting the activity of her imagination, feeling something open and expand above her head each time; he interprets the wheel as divine reunion.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Did a Man Called Jesus Christ Walk the Earth? ¶22 (Now, let me share with you what was shared with me this week. This lady writes, “Last Sunday night I felt your presence so strongly in my home. It was so strong I sat down expecting to see you. All I saw was simply lights, like fireflies, lights, lights,…)
Some months after Jack's death Neville found himself consciously in the world where Jack now is, met both Jack and his sister-in-law Alice there, and told Jack he was dead and that he had paid for and
A woman telephones Neville disturbed by his praise of Judas
Description
A lady telephoned Neville this week, thrilled but disturbed by his previous Monday night lecture in which he had spoken highly of Judas the betrayer, arguing that no one could betray a man without knowing his secret.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: God's Timeless Purpose ¶28 (And you hear — a lady called me this week. Each, I read home last Monday night, I was thrilled with what you said, I am disturbed.)
His dentist, present in the audience, once told him that when he first saw Neville's mouth he had silently said to himself the anchor tooth would last thirteen years – and thirteen years later exactly
About a year ago Blake showed Neville how to throw himself backwards like a backward dive; he whirled through interstellar space and came to a stop before one radiant being that contained all races an
Neville recalls his publisher handing him a large six-month royalty check, whereupon the publisher's wife said 'You see how much I have given you?' — and he told her she had given him nothing, only re
Woman's court-martialed brother returns home
Description
At a San Francisco meeting a woman heard him, went home and for a week imagined the doorbell ringing and embracing her court-martialed brother; a week later he was honorably discharged and came home, and she rose in his audience of a thousand to tell it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
(probable)
before 1963
(possible)
before 29 March 1963
Sources
- Source: You Can Forgive Sin ¶31 (In San Francisco, when I told this story, a lady sat in my audience who had just received notice from the army that her brother had been tried, court-martialed, and sentenced to six month’s hard labor.)
A friend reminded Neville that the two of them had visited Dr.
Neville's father, warned off drink by his doctor son, told Neville one day that he had given up drinking and that Neville's mother would have loved to see the day; Neville told his brother Victor, who