In vision many years ago in New York City Neville led a great festive crowd in Near-Eastern dress in procession toward the house of God; a voice announced that God walks with them, an Arab woman at hi
1 January 1963
(probable)
Neville experienced the dove descending upon him in bodily form, smothering his face and head with affection, while an objective woman's voice at his left said 'He loves you' and explained that the do
He awakens inside his own skull, pushes at its base, is born head-first out of it, hears a sound like a strong driving wind filling the room, and turning back sees three men where his body had lain an
Neville says he has never been through a cyclone but has been through many hurricanes, at sea and on land, and knows what hurricane-force winds sound like — nothing like the wind heard on the night of
Neville retells the ladder vision: terrified and alone before living, moving beasts, he lost his fear and they became kittens, then he arrested the activity in himself and came down the ladder to find
Neville recounts his vision of David, standing against an open door looking out on a pastoral scene, calling him Father — and Neville answering not 'Neville is your father' but 'I am'.
Bill Donovan tells Neville that he and Becky met in AA and abstain from alcohol
Description
Bill Donovan took Neville out to dinner and, knowing Neville drinks, told him that he and his wife, both from AA, never touch a drop.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
(possible)
before 28 January 1964
Told
28 January 1964
28 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶7 (Took me out to dinner, he knows I take a drink, he said, “Neville, you have all you want, but Becky and I (his wife) we never touch a drop. We both were AA and met in AA because of our problem.”)
Neville says he himself taught the orthodox story of God dying to save man, year after year, and that the fixed interpretation was hard to dislodge in his own mind until revelation did it.
Neville says his latest book contains forty case histories selected from close to a thousand he had collected, all resting on the claim that imagining creates reality.
Correspondent reports ears pierced in the centre
Description
Someone wrote to him reporting that they had had their ears pierced — not the lobes but the very centre of the ear — which he ties to the 40th Psalm.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
(possible)
before 1971
(possible)
Sources
- Source: Purpose Revealed ¶39 (As someone wrote, they had their ears pierced — not the lobes of the ear, but the very center of the ear.)
In passing he says he has eaten so many dolphin in his life that they would make a school of dolphins.
Despised people repeatedly rescue a prejudiced man
Description
He says he has repeatedly seen a man saved from some embarrassment by a member of the very race, nation or religion he despised.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Power of Faith ¶51 (I’ve seen it time and again. And so he could not have plotted the little play whereby he was put in a predicament, and then the only person who rushed forward to save him was a member of the hated group.)
Neville describes his own mystical experience of being split in two from skull to base of spine by a bolt of lightning, seeing living molten golden liquid at the base of his spine, fusing with it and
Lawyer applies the law and builds the Comstock co-op
Description
Several years ago Neville gave nineteen lectures in San Francisco attended by a woman and her lawyer son; the son judged him sincere but possibly wrong, yet mother and son practised the law nightly, and by his return the next year the son had formed an organisation building the Comstock, the largest and most modern co-op in the Bay Area, and had since become worth millions while still not understanding how it came about.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Christ Bears Our Sins ¶15 (Several years ago I gave a series of nineteen lectures in San Francisco, attended by a lady and her lawyer son.)
Sister-in-law rejects Neville's teaching on immortality
Description
His sister-in-law, a pillar of the Episcopalian church, told him she loved him for taking care of her sister but did not believe a word of his teaching or in immortality; he argued that life everlasting is one of the three foundation stones of Christianity.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
(possible)
before 13 November 1964
Told
13 November 1964
13 November 1964
Sources
- Source: Thy Dead Shall Live ¶15 (My sister-in-law always said to me, “I love you because you take care of my sister, but I don’t believe one word that you say. I don’t believe in immortality. I believe that we are immortal only through the loins—-our children who are our extension in th…)
Neville recalls having written in his latest book that the truth is literal though the words used are figurative.
The third act: a bolt of lightning splits him from the top of his skull to the base of his spine; at the base of the severed body he sees a pool of molten gold he knows to be himself, fuses with it, a
At a dinner in Barbados the previous year, at his son Larry's hotel with his wife, Larry and Larry's wife and two ministers and their wives, he told an Episcopal minister of David calling him Father;
Neville read the previous week's Life Magazine instalment on General MacArthur, and was struck by the charge given to MacArthur's West Point class that they would be at war before taking off the unifo
Neville says that when he was born of his mother, neither he, his mother, his father nor his brothers knew he was to be designated Son of God — nobody knew until it happened in him.
Standing in the presence of the risen Christ, encompassed in light and infinite love, he was asked what the greatest thing in the world is, answered 'love', was embraced, and was sent.
While nursing Scotty, a brilliant surgeon addicted to dope, for two weeks in a twentieth-floor hotel room with the Police Department's consent, the whole of Your Faith is Your Fortune was dictated to
Neville uses his own name as the example of the outer tag that a man discards when he finds the real Name.
Neville tells of being in another world whose inhabitants had not yet been born into this one; they called the earth "Woodland" and would not believe him when he told them he had returned from it, bec
Neville testifies that the scriptural experience of God begetting himself has happened in him personally, that he has contrived nothing and wants no church or organisation, and that he is only reporti