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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1964 (probable)
Neville tells of seeing a huge sign in the street at Hollywood and Vine advertising a lecture on 'How to live forever,' and remarks that the man will fool millions and be gone before it matters.
before 1964 (possible)
In a vision Neville found himself alone at the top of a very tall ladder above a jungle of violent beasts; realising the animals only mirrored his own fear, he lost the fear and they became domesticat
before 1964 (possible)
At a small theatrical school in New York City his teacher held him up before a class of forty as the horrible example, saying he would never earn a dollar using his voice; he left, never took another
1948
The first time his father heard him lecture in New York City, his father told him not to advise closing the eye completely when meditating but only partly; his father, who started with nothing and lef
before 1964 (possible)
He says he stood in God's presence and found God to be infinite love.
An audience member reports three successful experiments
Description
Neville thanks a member of the audience who told the meeting three of his own successful experiments from the platform, and invites everyone present to experiment and write to him for permission to tell their stories.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1964 (possible)
  • before 10 March 1964
Told
10 March 1964
Sources
  • Source: Who Are the Condemned ¶40 (So all these things he shared with us were exciting stories. I want to thank him from the platform, and hope that he will continue to favor us with more of these wonderful stories.)
before 1964 (possible)
Neville had two copies of The Candle of Vision and gave one to his friend Freedom Berry in San Francisco to encourage him in his work.
before 1964 (possible)
He states that he knows survival after death from his own personal experience, and that he does not want to awake to generation again.
before 1964
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
before 1964 (possible)
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
before 1964 (possible)
Neville recalls a young man of thirty he knew in New York City who spent ten minutes every morning while shaving telling President Roosevelt off in the mirror, and Neville warning him he was building
1964 (probable)
Neville announces his lecture contract ends this month but is extended to 26 May, after which he leaves on the 27th for New York for his daughter's graduation, then Barbados for a couple of months, Sa
before 1964 (possible)
Neville recalls that the night he saw the beasts he was frightened by what was only himself made visible.
before 1964 (possible)
Neville says he owns many concordances and judges James Strong's the greatest, noting Strong spent forty years compiling it.
before 1964 (possible)
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.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1964 (possible)
  • before 1971 (possible)
Told
  • 31 January 1964 (refuted)
  • 31 January 1964 (refuted)
  • 25 June 1971 (probable)
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.)
before 1964 (possible)
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.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1964 (possible)
  • before 13 February 1964 (probable)
Told
  • 11 February 1964 (possible)
  • 11 February 1964 (possible)
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.)
before 1964 (possible)
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.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1964
Told
  • 27 February 1969 (possible)
  • 27 February 1969 (possible)
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…)
before 1964 (possible)
Neville recalls having written in his latest book that the truth is literal though the words used are figurative.
8 April 1960 (probable)
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
c. 1964
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;