He says that practically everyone in the room has written him a letter testifying to the truth of God's word.
Walking down Central Park West with his friend Abdullah, they saw the word 'purity' on a sign on the Ethical Society building, and Abdullah mocked it - 'Pure what, Neville?' - with a graphic story of
Louise nightly imagines her family's objectives fulfilled
Description
Neville describes Louise, who started with nothing in Los Angeles and is now a multimillionaire, keeping his book The Law and the Promise at her bedside and doing nightly 'homework' - imagining objectives for her husband, children and herself until they are objectively real, then sleeping.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
before 2 November 1965
Sources
- Source: Life Is a Race ¶36 (She keeps my book The Law and The Promise at her bedside. The word Promise means nothing to her…it frightens her.)
Friend remembers his exalted identity beyond an invisible curtain
Description
Neville retells a friend's vision: from above the friend remembered his exalted position, but stepping down through an invisible curtain he forgot it and was haunted by the sense of something to remember; when he remembered and turned back, all the people of the world stood frozen, animated only by his own motion.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Unrighteous Steward: Memory ¶59 (As he stepped, he stepped through an invisible curtain, and then no memory whatsoever of his position from above. As he walked, he was haunted by the thought, “There is something I must remember. What is it?”)
Neville repeatedly tries to lift Walter from his habitual gloom
Description
Over years of Walter's weekly visits Neville repeatedly tried and failed to pull him out of his gloom by insisting that imagining creates reality.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
before 5 February 1965
Told
5 February 1965
5 February 1965
Sources
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶4 (I would say, “Walter, what are you doing? Don’t you believe what I’m talking about? Imagining creates reality! That’s my premise, and every time you come home you talk about Hitler, you talk about this, you talk about the other. I don’t care what he has …)
Neville explains what he charges for his meetings — three dollars in New York City because he lived in hotels there, two dollars in this city and two in San Francisco — and says he is a spendthrift wh
Neville recalls from his time living in New York City the Sabbath customs of a strictly orthodox Jewish community — tying a handkerchief to the hand rather than carrying it, and walking ten miles rath
Widow inherits wealth after imagining abundance
Description
A lady who had heard him lecture years earlier in Detroit and Minneapolis imagined having lots of money despite poverty; after her mentally ill husband took his own life and her frugal brother and his wife died within three weeks of each other, she inherited everything and now lives in luxury as she had imagined.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Believe in Him ¶41 (A lady recently called, who had heard me many years ago in Detroit and Minneapolis. Although she and her husband had nothing, she believed what I said and imagined having lots of money.)
He describes his own repeated practice of putting himself, while thousands of miles away, into his objective as though physically there, sleeping in that assumption, and then being moved under compuls
He took gas in a dentist's chair in Atlanta, Georgia for an extraction, talked in his sleep, and woke normally — unlike the awakening in the skull.
Neville says he knows from his own experience the end of the drama, when the crown appears as a pulsing halo of living golden light all over the head.
Neville testifies from his own experience that living by the law carries into dreams, where he became master rather than victim of his imagination and looked forward to sleep for the experience.
Neville says he has, more than once, entered the animated world in Spirit and arrested an activity in himself, at which everything froze and the people stood dead until he released it again.
Neville states his practice about money: he charges for meetings because he pays for the hall whether people come or not, and charges for his books, but has never charged for an interview.
He remarks that half his family are Catholics, in the course of dismissing the idea of earning merit by attending early Mass.
Neville recounts a vision in which he saw the earth as a tree of unnumbered trees, and was told by those in that state that no one who came here could ever return; when he told them his own stories an
Asked about something he supposedly said at the time of Kennedy's death about the seamless coat, Neville says he does not recall ever having said it and suggests the questioner heard it from another l
Neville recounts his vision of seeing the dreamer - a being of great beauty and radiance sitting in a lotus posture in profound sleep - and realizing that the dreamer was himself and was dreaming him.
He says he has told the story of his experiences in his book Resurrection and has come to bear witness to it.
Neville says in passing that he has himself had the sensation of departure from this world, with similar results.
Louise imagines and buys her Huntington Palisades home
Description
Neville recounts being in Louise's Huntington Palisades home, where she had imagined herself conducting a dinner party in its dining room with Neville at her right and his wife at her husband's right, before the house was offered to her; she beat the price down from $117,500 to $75,000, and Neville was present when the $7,500 deposit was put down.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
before 2 November 1965
Sources
- Source: Life Is a Race ¶50 (I was in her home here in Huntington Palisades when she by doing her homework she saw the house, sat in the room which is the dining room, and conducted the dinner party where I sat at her right and her husband at the end of the table, and my wife sat at…)
He says he saw Margot Fonteyn dance in New York and has never seen anything like her, though he has not seen the Russian dancer performing with her.
Neville compares the labor of the spiritual birth to his two sisters-in-law - one who labored two days, one who yawned and the child came out - and says his own experience was like the second.
In the same arrested state a bird in flight did not fall but hung stationary in space, which made him doubt gravity as it is taught.
Neville points the audience to the book table, saying the recommended books there are ones he keeps at home in his own library.