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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1963 (possible)
He reports that one of the friends who read the letter knew the writer well and said that seeing her signature made her believe every word of it.
before 1963 (possible)
He has read many attempted scholarly interpretations of David's water shaft, all of which conclude the passage makes no sense.
before 1963 (possible)
He says it was revealed to him what God hid from the beginning — the secret of fatherhood — since nothing but his own son standing before him and calling him Father could prove him a father.
before 1963 (possible)
He testifies that everything he has achieved came when he was faithful to the use of God's name, and admits many times of unfaithfulness and coasting.
before 1963 (possible)
Neville says he has read the many books written about the sin against the Holy Ghost and had them at home, but that having had the experience himself he now knows they were rationalising God's word.
before 1963 (possible)
He states from his own experience that he has seen that the whole world of apparent reality is Imagination.
before 1963 (possible)
He says he cannot share the inner events that happened to him but can share the unnumbered results in the world that followed his teaching that imagining creates reality.
before 1963 (possible)
Neville says he keeps over 900 letters at home from people who knew nothing of the teaching and who testify to deliberately entering a state and seeing it become real.
November 1942
He was drafted into the army against his will, dropping from an income of $10,000-12,000 a year to $50 a month, while carrying a lease and supporting a wife and child.
before 1963 (possible)
He describes finding his own world a wild, unpruned tree of the blind and the lame, being told it did not exist independently of his perception, and then becoming the vinedresser who pruned it.
before 1963 (possible)
Speaking of the aftermath of the revelation, he describes from experience the excitement of it and how one bores one's friends because one can think of nothing else.
Barry says Neville returned from a Barbados stay in terrible shape, having 'gone home to die,' asked Barry to take over his Los Angeles audience, and introduced him to a packed Women's University Club before leaving with wife 'Bill' and daughter for
Description

Barry says Neville returned from a Barbados stay in terrible shape, having 'gone home to die,' asked Barry to take over his Los Angeles audience, and introduced him to a packed Women's University Club before leaving with wife 'Bill' and daughter for Barbados — after which the LA audience evaporated and Barry settled in Cambria. [Date evidence: coincides with Barry's move to Cambria — 'I moved here in 1963' (stated earlier in this transcript); chronology conflicts with Neville's documented LA lecturing until 1972] [Place: Women's University Club, Los Angeles]

Verbatim (witness's words)

When Neville came back from his stay in Barbados, he had gone home to die; he was in terrible shape. Everybody had told him he was going to last, and he, himself, didn’t believe he was going to, so he wanted me to take over his Los Angeles audience. That was when I came to Cambria, because it was half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco. [...] the night he introduced me to his Los Angeles audience, they were there in full force at the Women’s University Club, and it was full. O.K. The next day, he, Bill and their daughter went back to Barbados, and the next time I had maybe fifteen people there.

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
c. 1963 (probable)
Sources
Friends successfully forgive and assume new states
Description
Neville refers to dozens of friends in San Francisco and in his present audience whose stories of successful forgiving and assuming he has told from the platform.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1963 (possible)
  • before 19 February 1963
Told
19 February 1963
Sources
  • Source: The Sin Against the Holy Spirit ¶28 (My friends in San Francisco, and here – dozens of them whose stories I have told, who forgave, who took certain things that they wanted in this world and denied they did not have them and assumed they had them.)
before 1963 (possible)
Speaking of his own remaining life, he says he has finished the race and hopes personally that the curtain will not be long delayed, once he has told everything he was sent to tell.
before 1963 (possible)
Neville says he has visited his island home of Barbados in imagination when he lacked the means or time to go, and no longer uses the power lightly because the imaginal act compels an outer experience
before 1963 (possible)
Neville says he does not remember the moment God emptied himself upon him, but has had moments of remembering the thrill of it, and that being the tree on which God hanged himself was no pain to him a
before 1963 (possible)
He says he could have appealed to the President as a good Democrat with the community behind him, but instead went straight to the I AM.
before 1963 (possible)
Neville says he was raised in the Christian faith and found it the hardest thing in the world to stop thinking of an external, historical Christ after he had found Christ in himself as human Imaginati
A San Francisco impresario reports worshippers rejecting an unresponsive saint
Description
An impresario in San Francisco, a lifelong Catholic, told Neville two years earlier that he had seen worshippers pray to a saint, then spit on him and throw him out when he did not deliver, and go to another god.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1963
Told
15 January 1965
Sources
  • Source: The Cabala ¶46 (That was told me by an impresario in San Francisco two years ago. He said, “I actually saw it happen. I’m born a Catholic, I’m still a Catholic, I’m raised a Catholic, I’m a Catholic.”)
before 1963 (possible)
He mentions that in his own book he replaced the word “repentance” with “revision” because the older word had come to mean regret and remorse.
before 1963 (possible)
Neville recalls his theatrical career — four small shows, every theater east of the Mississippi, and six Broadway shows — as a strong, strapping fellow dancing for a living.
before 1963 (possible)
He describes his experience of the ascension — a golden liquid being, an earthquake, being split from top to bottom, rising into his skull and making a Herculean effort to get out around the throne of
before 1963 (possible)
He remembers the colonel who refused him kindly, saying the man was an awfully nice chap who did not know he was playing pharaoh, and that he knew the man had no choice once the hand of God had appear
Property is sold to a European buyer for nine hundred ninety thousand dollars
Description
Neville says he was home two years ago and knew then that the man wanted to sell a particular piece of property, which was later bought by a man coming from Europe for $990,000.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 1963
  • after 1963 (probable)
  • before 19 November 1965
Told
19 November 1965
Sources
before 1963 (possible)
Neville says he did not himself want to see Aida and never counts the cost of what he wants, and that he goes to the opera occasionally when he is in New York City.