between 1960 and 1964
(probable)
A television writer asks imagination to feed him challenges
Description
A television writer wrote to Neville that after their Sunday talk about challenges he heard an authoritative voice say 'Feed me with challenges! How else can I grow?', then threw away an accepted story and wrote a better one in an hour.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
Sources
- Source: Speaking From Experience ¶11 (So he very generously gave me in letter form his reaction to our conversation on Sunday, which tonight then I can share with you.)
A woman uses 'I remember when' and gains a fifty-dollar-a-day job
Description
A woman in the audience told Neville that after realising she had never applied his 'I remember when' technique she used it about earning ten dollars a day, and a former employer promptly phoned and hired her at fifty dollars a day.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
(refuted)
between 1 May 1964 and 8 May 1964
Sources
- Source: Speaking From Experience ¶14 (Now, another lady (she is here this night) and she said this past week to me, “I was talking to some friends and I said, ‘You know, I remember when…’ and as I said ‘I remember when’ it dawned upon me, these are Neville’s words, the words he used to descr…)
A young man envisions fusion with the cross in a theatre
Description
A young man in the audience wrote to Neville describing a vision in a theatre in which a man walked to a cross, fused with it, and a voice said 'I say unto you today, you will be with me in Paradise…for a little while.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
Neville's San Francisco series advertises Lengthened Shadows for July 15 at 11 a.m. at Women's City Club Auditorium, 465 Post Street; no year is printed.
Neville's San Francisco series advertises Speaking from Experience for July 22 at 11 a.m. at Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1920 Van Ness Avenue; no year is printed.
Neville personally encouraged Freedom Barry to conduct his own spiritual investigation and to speak only from conclusions his own personal experience would yield.
Description
Neville personally encouraged Freedom Barry to conduct his own spiritual investigation and to speak only from conclusions his own personal experience would yield. [Date evidence: Before August 1962 (the book's author's note is dated Laguna Beach, California, August 1962); no specific date or venue given for the encouragement itself.]
Verbatim (witness's words)
My gratitude to Neville is immeasurable, for it was he who wisely encouraged me to conduct my own spiritual investigation, and to speak only from conclusions my personal experience would yield.
Date (happened)
before August 1962
(probable)
between 1 February 1963 and 1963
Neville delivered a long dated lecture series through 1963, including The Book of Job, The Bible - Your Biography, Paul's Autobiography, The Crucifixion, and The Resurrection.
between 27 November 1962 and 1962
(probable)
Neville lectured at the Ebell Club in Los Angeles from around late November 1962 through the winter of 1962-1963, possibly continuing into 1963.
Place: Los Angeles - Ebell Club
Man obtains a better job after Neville's imaginal act
Description
A man who had sat in the audience with his wife about three months before was passed over for a Christmas bonus that went to one of the boss's girlfriends; he and Neville agreed mentally on a better job, and that morning Neville received the man's letter saying he now has it, with the man's mother-in-law present in the audience that night.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: You Can Forgive Sin ¶20 (And I received that letter this morning. I remained faithful to that letter that I knew would come from him when he would write it.)
Neville recounts how his mother used to 'let' his father do things for her, and how his wife does the same — saying 'I'm going to let you wash the dishes tonight', which he cannot refuse; today doing
He tells of plunging headlong into the sacred flame, recognising it as himself, and going up in serpentine form into Zion, his own skull, and returning to tell it.
Neville says he personally felt and observed the tearing of the body — the scaffolding — beginning with an enormous blow in the head, though he bears no scars from it.
Woman's vision of thanking every being after the final act
Description
A woman told Neville of a vision she had, at the end of which she realized that when the curtain comes down on the final act you will thank every being in the world for the part they played toward you — even those who murdered, imprisoned, hurt, wrongly accused or spat upon you — because without those parts you could not have been awakened.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1963
(possible)
before 15 March 1963
Sources
- Source: Christ Unveiled ¶76 (then she told me that she had a vision, and at the end of the vision, she realized this play, and realized that when the curtain really comes down on the final act, you will thank every being in the world for playing the part they played relative to you,…)
Answering a question about a prolific writer (called Mr. Burns in the transcript, Mr.
Neville states that he fathered his two children in this world, but that natural fatherhood is not what God's promise means.
Answering a question about the first coming, he says he has stood in the presence of the Lord and knew that he incorporates his body and makes all equal, one by one.
While contemplating Buddha — having been reading The Life of Buddha the night the earlier experience first came — he saw a huge flint break into fragments which invisible hands moulded into a beautifu
He states he was born and raised British, under the Union Jack, of Scotch, English and Irish stock, with forefathers from Cornwall, and that his whole family still lives under the British flag.
Neville recounts the second tear: an explosion, after which the Son appears and calls him Father, and he knows who he is.
He restates, in the second person, his own experience of coming home without the quarter because he would not steal it, when others who loved him depended on him and the rent was unpaid.
Neville uses his own finances as the example: he knows his bank balance and must pay the tax he owes on the fifteenth of next month, and instead imagines it is May 1 with everything paid in full.
He says he knows his Bible and read the verse about Moses lifting the serpent time and again without ever relating it to a mystical experience in himself.
Neville describes being brought into the presence of God, asked what the greatest thing in the world is, answering 'love' in the words of Paul, and being embraced and incorporated into the body of God
Neville says he encounters so-called holy men wherever he goes and, having been through the furnaces of affliction himself, always turns away from them because he has already found him.