Neville admits his ordinary human appetites - drinking, enjoying all food - and says he is told he is not discriminating enough because he can find nothing to condemn.
He describes his own practice: a private mailing list never given away or sold, one advertisement in the L. A. Times the Saturday before he opens, leaving at the end of June and returning in November.
Neville recalls a man who criticized his telling of the story of the Russian at the age of eight and another story, and who has not come back to his meetings since.
Jen receives an all-expenses-paid journey to Egypt
Description
A nurse named Jen, who seven years earlier had imagined going to Egypt despite having no money and was mocked by her friends for it, telephoned Neville this past week to say a friend had handed her a first-class all-expenses-paid thirty-day door-prize trip to the Near East including Egypt.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1972
(refuted)
6 March 1964
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶6 (Seven years ago, a lady, she’s not here tonight, she’s now on a new job and is taken away for a while. But when she heard it, that imagining creates reality, she said to herself, “Well, if that is so, I would like to go to Egypt.”)
Neville's wealthy brother, who thinks constantly of the expansion of money, drags him round the churches of New York City dropping large bills into the boxes while Neville, bored, follows with a dolla
When his seventeen-year-old nephew Billy was dying of cancer in Barbados, Neville, living in New York City, shut himself in his bedroom on a Monday and imagined himself lying on Billy's bed so that hi
Neville says he was unaware he was dead and buried until God united him with himself, and that when he rose in the tomb he saw no one but himself.
He speaks from his own experience of a memory image of the crucifixion returning, feeling again the vortices that nailed him to the body — not painful but sheer ecstasy.
Neville says he will leave here in the summer to go north and then to New York City in the fall, and wants listeners' proofs to share with audiences from here to the East Coast.
Woman rejects Neville's story after learning of his divorce
Description
A friend recently told an acquaintance Neville's story, then mentioned that he had been divorced and remarried; on hearing of the divorce the lady closed her mind and rejected the whole story.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1965
(probable)
c. 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Believe in Him ¶33 (A friend recently told an acquaintance the story of my experiences, then later mentioned that I had been divorced and had remarried. The moment the lady heard I was divorced, she closed her mind and could not accept the story that I was called, incorpora…)
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.