6 November 1961
(probable)
Neville went to see the burnt home and the burned brush on the night Aldous Huxley's house burned to the ground, Huxley losing his library of first editions and art objects and saving only the suit on
between 6 November 1961 and 26 May 1962
(probable)
Neville tells the audience he will solicit their letters and case histories to read and discuss from the platform, hoping everyone will have one to share before the class on the 26th of May.
c. 25 December 1961
(probable)
A year ago last Christmas Neville dreamed of a mansion where three generations spoke of an invisible grandfather who stood on a vacant lot and painted a word picture of what he desired there; he woke
Two friends experience birth from above
Description
Two friends of Neville's — one present at this lecture, one a young man in Sausalito — both had the experience of the birth from above, the child coming out through the forehead into their arms with witnesses present, though neither reports the resurrection first.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
4 December 1965
(doubtful)
4 December 1965
(doubtful)
7 December 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul ¶19 (Both have had the experience of the birth from above, both held the child in their arms, both had witnesses to the event. The one in Sausalito heard the voices coming from behind and they said, “He is born” and he walked off into space holding the Christ…)
between 1962 and 1965
(probable)
Neville tells of meeting Blake, who taught him to see the whole of humanity gathered into one man; Blake told him to fall backwards, and he fell as from a high-diving board through interstellar space
Neville Mark says he wears a mask over his true being
Description
About five years ago, in his parents' New York home, the ten-year-old Neville Mark told Neville that he knew he wore a mask and that if he could turn around he would see the being he really is; his mother, a poor girl who had married great wealth, stopped him because talk of death frightened her.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Riddle ¶5 (He said, “You know, Neville, I feel that if I could turn around I could see who I really am. I know I am wearing a mask, but I can’t turn around.”)
After the sunflower and rat vision he consulted psychiatrists or psychoanalysts, who offered interpretations he says were entirely wrong.
On one of his yearly visits to New York two years ago he called on an old friend who had since acquired a doctorate and was giving paid 'treatments'; through the door he heard the man pouring out 'Inf
between 1962 and 1965
(probable)
A few years ago William Blake told him to fall backwards; he did, tumbled through interstellar space, and when his motion stopped saw in the distance one glorious man with a heart like a flaming ruby,
He describes glimpses in which he stopped and started the whole world, not by moving his hand but by arresting the activity within himself that animated it.
In New York City, some years before his birth from above, he had the experience of the sea and everything living standing still because he arrested in his head the activity that animated them, an even
An infant was placed in his hands and one of the wise men told him the child was his own baby; only afterwards did he go back and find the whole thing already written in scripture.
Neville's empty-lot story: his grandfather saw the lot prosperous in his mind's eye, and Neville saw himself as the grandfather (DeCarlo, from recordings).
Description
Neville's empty-lot story: his grandfather saw the lot prosperous in his mind's eye, and Neville saw himself as the grandfather (DeCarlo, from recordings).
Verbatim (witness's words)
What is your dream? What is your mission? What is your goal? And you do have one. I hope you do have one. I remember Neville saying that several times. I do hope you have a dream, because you see, that’s what we’re told to do: to dream the dream. And it’s supposed to be a dream, not a nightmare.
Neville (as quoted): "I do hope you have a dream"
Told
9 July 2021
24 April 1964
19 November 1963
Sources
- Source: It Would Have Happened Anyway Part 1 - Lindell, Student of Neville Goddard (lwf_MwgjzH5Pvdc — Lindell Warden, first-hand)
- Source: The Friend of Sinners ¶29 (So I awoke, it was a little after three in the morning, and I took my yellow page and I wrote out my vision. Went back to bed and re-dreamed the dream, but this time I was Grandfather.)
- Source: Counting the Cost ¶35 (Then I woke and wrote the vision down. It was early in the morning, about three or three thirty, so I went back to bed and I re-dreamed the dream.)
- Source: I Remember When ¶0 (I found myself, in Spirit, in the interior of a stately mansion in New York City. It was the kind of home the great financial giants lived in at the turn of the century. Fully awake and aware, I was visible to the three generations who were present.)
He recounts waking the morning after the splitting experience to find his physical body still knit together with no scar on it, and concluding the torn body was not this one.
Coming out of the Ebell Theatre after giving his lecture, Neville looked up and saw the Hollywood hills aflame; some forty houses burned that night, one of them Aldous Huxley's, destroying his unpubli
He keeps Strong's and other concordances at home and uses them to look up words, while disclaiming any real scholarship in Hebrew or Greek.
Last year his daughter and wife jokingly asked what he wanted for Father's Day, and he asked for Carl Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections, having just read a review of it.
Neville describes visiting Huxley's dark house on King's Road, where the first wife kept every curtain drawn to protect his near-blind eyes, and how after the second marriage the couple moved to a hou
Bennett dismisses Your Faith Is Your Fortune without reading it
Description
A friend of Neville's sent Bennett two of Neville's books; Bennett replied with a letter dismissing the title 'Your Faith Is Your Fortune' and Neville's use of a single name, without having read the book, and Neville has a copy of that letter.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Unless I Go Away ¶73 (a friend of mine sent two of my books, “Your Faith Is Your Fortune” and “Awakened Imagination,” and I have a copy of the letter that he wrote to my friend)
Broome describes Neville's note-free lectures and intensive Bible reading
Description
Broome's account of Neville's practice: he never read his lectures or used notes, could quote the Bible verbatim, owned an enviable collection of Bibles and read them at least eight hours a day.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1962 and 1972
(probable)
Neville recalls going to his bank in Beverly Hills during Good Friday hours, where the guard he knew well reproached him for not being in church.
During that broadcast a woman phoned in telling him to read the thirteenth chapter of Mark, and he answered her with 1 John 3:2, telling her to keep looking until she looked like him.
He remarks that atheists and agnostics have come to him, men and women who liked to insist they were different, and he knew they believed in the depths of their souls.
Last Easter he watched a televised church service at home in which Nat King Cole sang at St. James and Dr.