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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

between 3 May 1964 and 4 May 1964
For the last two days he has been watching, a few feet from his eye, a pair of doves nesting in the pine tree in front of his house, one sitting faithfully on the nest through fifty-mile-an-hour gusts
Woman reports descending light and out-of-body experiences
Description
Neville reads a letter received the day before from a woman who woke to a hammer-blow on her head and the suns of the universe coming alive, later saw her own body lying outlined in light on the bed and was possessed by a descending light, and now sees everything in vivid colour and steps into another world at will.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 14 May 1964
  • 7 February 1968
Told
8 February 1968
Sources
  • Source: The Last Days ¶25 (Yesterday a lady wrote, saying: “I woke receiving an enormous blow on my head resounding like a hammer on steel. Then all the suns of the universe came alive; all the planes, buses, and cars of the world moved within me.)
before 15 May 1964 (probable)
He says the things he now sees constantly are only memories of what he saw before he set forth, and that night after night the vision comes back to him.
before 15 May 1964 (possible)
He describes the sequence of the four grand events — resurrection and birth together, the discovery of the fatherhood of God, the departure by the serpent, and the fourth, Judah/the Daleth — in the se
Bill dreams a tiny Neville hatches and grows immense
Description
Neville reads out a letter from his friend Bill, who in a vision sat on a nest, saw an egg break and a two-inch Neville come out, who then grew to immensity and led Bill and their mutual friend Jan Johnson up into the sky by the hand.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 19 May 1964
  • before 19 May 1964
Told
19 May 1964
Sources
  • Source: Jesus, God's Plan of Salvation ¶11 (As I observed the egg, I felt the egg breaking. Suddenly the egg began to break and it broke, and out came you. You were about two inches tall but you were fully proportioned, everything was perfect in proportion.)
19 May 1964
Neville says the three vision letters received that morning are worth more to him than any large cheque his students could have enclosed.
26 May 1964
Neville closes the last lecture of the session, thanks his audience for the case histories and visions they shared with him, and says he will return on 6 October.
June 1964
Neville left for New York on 27 May 1964 to attend his daughter Victoria's graduation and was in the city during June.
between June 1964 and August 1964 (probable)
In a lecture given 1964-02-18, Neville announces his upcoming travel: leaving late May for New York to attend his daughter's graduation, then to Barbados with his family for a couple of months, before
between September 1964 and November 1964
Neville recalls that at the opening of his current lecture season last fall he asked his audience to share their experiences with him, and says nothing thrills him more than testimony to the word of G
A surgeon tells Neville that some autopsies reveal no cause of death
Description
Last September in San Francisco, a friend who is a surgeon came up to Neville after a meeting — where Neville had told of his experience in answer to a question from the audience — and told him that in autopsies everywhere in the world ten percent reveal no cause of death.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • September 1964
  • September 1964 (probable)
Told
17 November 1964
Sources
  • Source: Gathered One-by-One ¶19 (A friend of mine in San Francisco last September, a surgeon, and he told me that ten percent of all autopsies reveal no cause of death.)
October 1964
Neville recalls opening his lecture season last October after returning from a trip East, and asking his audience to share their experiences with him so he could pass them on from the platform.
c. 13 October 1964
A month ago he went with his wife and two friends who come with him every week to see a comedy film set in Greece and Turkey about the theft of a bejewelled sword, ending with the imprisoned woman pro
Neville criticizes a millionaire profiled in Time
Description
Answering a question, he describes a man featured inside the current issue of Time magazine — a millionaire whose family he knows well — who claims over $20,000,000, professes in print that money is not important, and yet worships gold and repossesses a car for a payment twenty-four hours late.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. November 1964 (probable)
  • 30 November 1965
Told
  • 13 December 1965 (refuted)
  • 30 November 1965 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Advent ¶54 (There’s one on the inside, I won’t mention his name. I know his sister-in-law and his wife and his brother-in-law through marriage very, very well.)
Woman recovers franchise payment through assumption
Description
A lady told him this past week that after buying a franchise she found the company president was a fraud; she could not produce the endorsed Bache and Co. check for over $3,000, applied his principle, and four months later Bache called to say the check had never cleared, stopped it and issued her a new one, so she got every penny back.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 8 November 1964 and 13 November 1964
  • before 13 November 1964
Told
13 November 1964
Sources
  • Source: Thy Dead Shall Live ¶24 (Now here is a story told me this past week. A lady said she bought a franchise—didn’t tell me the nature of the franchise—-to discover right after she’d paid for it that the president of the concern was a fraud.)
c. 10 November 1964
A week ago Neville was given a sample copy of a little book called Daily Light — a 365-day arrangement of Bible readings with a foreword by Billy Graham — which he found marvellous and recommends to t
11 November 1964
This past week he bought Wednesday's New York Times, whose front page reported that Russia had at last revealed a fantastic robbery of a jewelled sword from a museum a year earlier — the same plot as
13 November 1964
He recalls what he did at his own recent lectures: last Friday night he asked those present to read the 13th chapter of 1st Kings, and a week ago he told them that the one whom he loved was the one he
24 November 1964
Just before he came on the platform a woman told him how she had imagined herself into a picture with Elvis Presley; the first attempt failed but she persisted and finished a second picture with him a
A woman refuses a million dollars rather than deny imagination
Description
A Special Delivery letter reached him in the morning's mail from a woman present at the lecture, recounting two visions: a bare room filling with real pearls and a voice telling her 'He will find you', and a crowd where she refused a million dollars rather than deny that imagining creates reality, after which her eldest daughter - an ardent Catholic who personifies reason to her and calls Neville only 'him', the anti-Christ - asked why she had not taken it and given it to her.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
24 November 1964
Told
24 November 1964
Sources
  • Source: Go Down to the Potter's House ¶15 (Well, this morning’s mail brought a letter Special Delivery from a lady who is here tonight. These are revelations…and you listen to them carefully. She gave two.)
24 November 1964
He reports reading in the current issue of Time magazine that the council then sitting had altered its wording so that Protestants 'seek him in the scriptures' rather than have 'found him' there.
Vicki sells a blind-horse story to Disney
Description
A woman friend present at the lecture told Vicki the story of her family's blind horse led down from the High Sierras by another horse; Vicki wrote it up in synopsis form, Neville registered and posted it to Disney, and that very day a letter came from Disney accepting the story and asking her to name her price.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 1 December 1964
  • 1 December 1964
Told
1 December 1964
Sources
  • Source: You Are My Witnesses ¶7 (My daughter went home and banged that story out, just in synopsis form, moved beyond measure, and then said to me, “Daddy, post this for me to Disney.” Alright, I think I’ll register it for you, so I did.)
A woman awakens within a dream at a lecture hall
Description
Neville reads out a letter he received from a woman who, knowing she was dreaming, deliberately awoke inside the dream, found herself at a fixed desk in a lecture hall of an institution of higher learning, was surrounded by nine young men who called her a visitor from another world, and escaped by imagining a bed and pillow — leaving an empty chair behind.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 1 December 1964 (probable)
  • before 1 December 1964
Told
4 December 1964
Sources
  • Source: The Primal State ¶1 (Now, let me share with you a letter that came to me last Tuesday. This lady writes that she was dreaming and she knew she was dreaming, and in the dream she remembered this teaching and said to herself, “Neville tells us that if I know that I am dreaming…)