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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

16 April 1963

Lecture catalog #148 — text: HAVE

A missing poodle is recovered after its owner imagines it home
Description
At last Friday's meeting Neville's wife came to the door asking whose little dog had been left in a car; the poodle had escaped through an open window, the owner telephoned Neville late that night, Neville told him to sleep feeling the dog's presence in the house, and the dog was recovered.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 19 April 1963
  • between 20 April 1963 and 23 April 1963
Told
23 April 1963
Sources
  • Source: Wonder-Working Power ¶27 (For last Friday night, my wife came to the door and said, “Is there a gentleman in the room or a lady in the room who left a little dog in a car? Well, he is needed, or she is needed.”)
Neville refuses payment from a poor woman seeking help
Description
A poor woman, told by three practitioners of different -isms in the city that she would forever have to depend on them, sends each of them money every month; Neville, whom she also calls, has repeatedly refused to take a penny from her, wanting instead to produce the change in her.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before May 1963 (probable)
Told
17 May 1963
Sources
  • Source: Tloa Lecturethe Cross ¶16 (I’ve always warned her, “Don’t you send me one penny”—which she doesn’t have a dime—“Don’t you send me a nickel. I want to produce in you the change.”)
3 May 1963
He recalls having taught the previous Friday night that Moses discovered the dwelling place of Jehovah in a tree that was aflame and yet not consumed.
7 May 1963
Earlier that day he was reading a recent commentary by a hundred-odd leading biblical scholars and went to his Bible; the scholar's verdict on the Zion passage was that the script must have been distu
c. 17 May 1963
About two weeks before the lecture a young man of about twenty-six or twenty-seven came to him with a heavily marked Bible, opening it at Revelation to prove something about the beast whose number is
c. 24 May 1963
He says he encountered the serpent again only a week before the lecture; he has never killed it, only cornered and arrested it, and it remains alive as the opposition he needs.
between June 1963 and November 1963 (probable)
In New York City the past summer/fall, Neville's Jewish podiatrist Hal told him of a prominent lady, a Christian Scientist trying to convert Hal, who had read Neville's books but would not attend his
between 8 July 1963 and 12 July 1963 (probable)
A newspaper notice announces that Neville returns to San Bernardino to conduct a five-day lecture course on 'How to Use Imagination', held nightly at 8 p.m.
Bill Donovan's racial hatred is broken by a Jewish soldier and a Black worker saving him
Description
A San Francisco businessman, Bill Donovan, told Neville in person how his hatred of Jews and Negroes was destroyed when a Jewish private saved his company in New Guinea and a Negro worker saved his life from a factory fire.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between September 1963 and November 1963
  • before December 1963 (probable)
Told
28 January 1964
Sources
  • Source: Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶3 (So let me share with you a story told to me this past year in the city of San Francisco, this past fall. He’s one perfectly marvelous chap. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of parents who came here from Ireland, raised in a very rugge…)
Baltimore woman's friend recovers a lost purse and bracelet
Description
Just back from New York City, he recounts how a lady came from Baltimore to a Wednesday-evening meeting last month to tell him that a friend in her office, whose purse and treasured bracelet vanished in July, had imagined wearing the bracelet daily after being given a set of Neville's books, and the purse turned up in October behind a fitting a fireman pulled from the wall during a safety inspection, with the bracelet intact and only the $1.35 change missing.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
October 1963
Told
14 November 1963
Sources
  • Source: He Is Meditating Me / The Rock ¶12 (I’ve just returned from New York City, and last month on a Wednesday evening this lady came in from Baltimore. That’s quite a long journey, and she came to bring me good news.)
Woman imagines her underpaid husband becoming a judge
Description
A woman told Neville a year earlier that her forty-year-old lawyer husband earned only eighty-seven dollars a week and asked whether she could use the technique on him without his knowledge; Neville told her to treble it, and last month in New York she brought the husband, now earning $300 a week, and asked Neville to help make him a judge — he told her to have her servants always refer to him as 'the judge.'
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
October 1963
Told
19 November 1963
Sources
  • Source: Counting the Cost ¶6 (She said, “He’s now making $300.00 a week. Now, this is what I want, Neville, I want him to be a judge.”)
c. October 1963
A month before this lecture Neville visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see Rembrandt's 'Aristotle contemplating the head of Homer', and while there saw crucifixion paintings in the same gallery
October 1963
His brothers Lawrence and Victor stayed two weeks with him in New York last month; Lawrence wanted to see the sold-out Aida, so Neville went with his wife and brothers to the Metropolitan box office,
November 1963
Opening his season at this platform last November, on his way back from New York, he lectured on "We Have Found Him", and afterwards a man leaving by the door told him "I'll be seeing you sometime", w
November 1963
Neville notes that Larry has attended his lectures for years while Bill only started coming last November, and the two only met in this room in the last few months — yet their letters arrived the same
Woman foresees the Kennedy assassination headline
Description
A woman not present tonight told Neville that ten days before Kennedy was assassinated she saw the headline of it, on the same coloured paper it came out on.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
12 November 1963
Told
  • 26 May 1964
  • 10 December 1963 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Call the Next Witness ¶37 (Well, a lady who is not here this night could tell me that ten days before Kennedy was assassinated that she saw the headline on the same color paper that it was brought out ten days later.)
12 November 1963

Lecture catalog #161 — text: HAVE

Opening-night lecture for a series; Neville later recalled in node 1137 that he opened the prior November with this subject.

12 November 1963
Opening the lecture series, Neville says he chose not to begin with practical teaching about houses, jobs and money because his time is short, and instead to tell them that he has found Jesus Christ.
14 November 1963
In passing he mentions standing at the lectern thinking of the home he left an hour ago, using it as an example of a daydream.
between 20 November 1963 and 20 November 1964
On a visit to Barbados in the past year Neville came upon two barefoot women in a small alley, one holding an open Bible while the other, who had learned the whole Bible by ear and probably could not
Barber wins professional success through a friend's imagining
Description
Neville reads out a letter from a friend who imagined his barber at the top of his profession; within a year the barber owned the shop, and after a further imaginal act he and two colleagues came back from a San Francisco styling contest with four of the nine trophies, the friend now predicting further wins in Southern California, Miami and Brussels.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • December 1963
  • April 1968
Told
3 May 1968
Sources
  • Source: Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶1 (Hearing the desire expressed, my friend imagined the man had reached the top of his profession. Within a year the barber had bought the shop and had moved to the first chair!)
7 December 1963
He read the lady's letter to his wife, then last weekend invited four mutual friends plus his San Francisco sponsor to dinner - seven in all - read it aloud and passed it round; they treated it as a c
A woman foresees the Kennedy shooting headline
Description
A woman at his Tuesday night meeting handed him a letter, which he read about midnight; in it she described seeing a green newspaper headline 'KENNEDY SHOT' at an intersection on 12 November, dismissing it by reason, forgetting it, and then recognising it ten days later on 22 November when a co-worker slapped the same green paper on her desk.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 10 December 1963
  • 12 November 1963
Told
13 December 1963
Sources
  • Source: Where Are You From ¶5 (Now, let me share with you a story told me last Tuesday night - the lady is present. She gave me a letter just before I started. I had no time to read it before my meeting, and had no time until just before I retired that night - so about midnight I read…)
13 December 1963
He read that day from a new translation, the Modern English Bible (New Testament only so far), and found its rendering of John 19 far removed from the meaning.