In a vision Neville was taken in spirit into an early 5th Avenue mansion in New York at the turn of the century, where, invisible to the three generations present, he heard the eldest man tell how the
In 1960 he watched all the buildings fall in vision — not physical buildings but the beliefs he lived by; afterwards he could no longer believe in the little historical Jesus or in the Christian faith
A 1960 vinyl record of Neville was released, containing The Secret of Imagining and A Mystical Experience.
Person: Neville Goddard
Barry moved to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960, encouraged by Neville's confident vision that the audiences who had filled the Scottish Rite Auditorium for Neville would all come to Barry.
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Barry moved to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960, encouraged by Neville's confident vision that the audiences who had filled the Scottish Rite Auditorium for Neville would all come to Barry. [Date evidence: 1 January 1960; Barry's own lectures began 3 February 1960] [Place: San Francisco]
The first-person source states that Bernard and his mother drove Barry and his cocker spaniel to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960; Neville had encouraged the move by predicting that his former Scottish Rite Auditorium audience would come to Barry.
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1960. I moved there on New Year’s Day. Bernard and his mother drove me and my cocker spaniel to San Francisco, and I said good-bye to the south land I thought forever. Encouraged by Neville’s great vision that everybody that had come to him, and he had filled the Scottish Rite Auditorium, they would all be there for me. That’s what he felt sure would be the case.
Freedom Barry moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960, given Neville's mailing list, to take over lecturing to Neville's San Francisco audience.
between February 1960 and February 1963
Over the last three years members of his own audience have spoken against the sign, some never returning to the auditorium, though he still dines socially with some of them and they never discuss it.
123 days after the David revelation, a bolt of lightning split his body from the top of his head to the base of his spine, becoming a pool of golden liquid light with which he fused and ascended his s
Neville recounts the night his temple was split from top to bottom, when he saw the pool of golden liquid light, knew it was himself, and ascended by fusing with it.
Neville states that on 8 April 1960, eight years before this lecture, he ascended from earth into the highest heaven while still living, and that from that day on he has been seen as the risen Lord by
A hundred and twenty-three days after David's appearance, Neville's body was split from the top of his skull to the base
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A hundred and twenty-three days after David's appearance, Neville's body was split from the top of his skull to the base of his spine by a bolt of lightning; he fused with a pool of golden liquid light at the base of his spine and ascended like a coil of lightning into his skull with a reverberation like thunder.
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- Source: The Morning Star ¶31 (A bolt of lightning strikes you and you are cut in two from the top of your skull to the base of your spine, and you see at the base of your spine what appears to be a pool of golden, liquid light, and as you contemplate it, you know it is yourself.)
The source recounts the bolt splitting Neville from head to spine and his ascent as spiraling golden light.
Before December 1960 he had already experienced the birth from above, the discovery of the Fatherhood of God when the Son called him Father, and the Ascent of the Son of Man.
He tells how four and a half years ago they moved to their present home when there was not a tall building in the area, and now thirty- and sixteen-story buildings have gone up around it and the area
Two years earlier in Barbados a man asked him how this could have happened to a Goddard, since the Goddards are all business people; Neville answers that his family is a successful business family wit
Neville states flatly that he has had the vision himself and therefore knows Blake's account of eternity is true.
He mentions owning and using James Strong's biblical concordance to look up the word 'tree'.
He describes seeing, on another level of his being, a man emptying coal who had always been doing so — an eternal act glimpsed in vision.
before 3 May 1963
(possible)
Neville recounts coming upon an animated scene — a restaurant with diners, a waitress, falling leaves and flying birds outside the window — arresting an activity within himself so that the whole scene
He says that God has already begotten himself in him, so that he is he — not arrogance, since he did not do it — and that all his past suffering across unnumbered centuries is mercifully hidden from h
Neville published The Law and the Promise.
He recounts beholding at the base of his own spine a golden radiant light having the appearance of a man, glowing above and below the loins, and knowing that it was himself.
He assures the audience that the whole sequence he has described will happen to them exactly as told, because it has already happened to him.
Neville recalls a very successful writer friend, five years his senior, who was afraid and would not listen to his story of David, wanting money and fun first, and who died about three years ago while