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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1965 (possible)
Neville deliberately made himself appear bodily to his sister 2,000 miles away across water; she rubbed her eyes trying to rub him out, and wrote him a letter that same day which reached him eight day
before 1965 (possible)
Neville mentions having just read that the government is asking farmers to cut fifteen or twenty percent of their land out of production while the world starves.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville recounts that as he travels across the country he meets priests, ministers and rabbis, and that on television panels with them the question of Jesus Christ being Father always comes up and alw
before 1965 (possible)
Neville says that from his own visions he maintains the Old and New Testaments are the true vision, and that experience later confirms the scriptures.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville tells of awakening inside his own sealed skull, knowing it to be a tomb, with no recollection of having gone in and no sensation of having been dead.
before 1965 (possible)
He says he has never wanted money, that a considerable fortune given him by his father sits untouched and growing for his wife and children, and that he lives on what he earns.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville says he has discussed with rabbis, priests, ministers and all kinds of clergy the claim that Jesus Christ is the Father, and none of them has ever seen it in the same Bible he reads.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville says he has repeatedly sat in a chair, slipped into what he was seeing, and found himself in another terrestrial world as solid as this one, in a different section of time, with no road back.
before 1965 (possible)
Describing the third experience, he recalls ascending his split spine in liquid, serpentine form and getting stuck at a particular point in his skull where he tried with all his force to get through a
before 1965 (possible)
Neville states that he himself stood in the presence of the one and was incorporated into that one without loss of identity, and so knows he is the body of the risen Christ.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville describes an ancient drawing he keeps at home showing a majestic man with a dove on his head, facing a serpent of his own height that has a hand and is putting fruit into his mouth.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville describes his own family as half Catholic and half Protestant, and says his Catholic sisters-in-law would call the Pope's words blasphemy if they were told them without attribution.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville stood in the presence of the risen Christ, who was infinite love in the form of a man, was asked what the greatest thing in the world is, answered 'Love,' and was embraced and fused into one b
before 1965 (possible)
Neville describes his practice of imagining himself at the St.
30 January 1965 (probable)
Neville says he will himself be watching tomorrow's televised pageantry for a great man at seven in the morning, because he loves pageantry and the theater.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville reports a vision of his own in which the one rock became fragmented into billions of skulls.
before 1965 (possible)
Speaking of evolution he recalls the small rowing boats called "Moses" in Barbados, and says his mother named the garment Neville, though he himself is the Father who has played every part.
before 1965 (possible)
He says from his own experience he could never have devised the means by which his imagined ends came to pass, and that his own visions let him claim Imagination is God.
c. 1965 (probable)
In another section of time he was given an instruction, and before about a dozen men he held up a wraith, a shadow of a man, and told it to go and love, since only by loving would it acquire substance
before 1965 (possible)
Neville states as his own experience that David appeared and bore witness to his fatherhood, and is his eternal son.
A wealthy hamburger businessman dismisses dreams and visions
Description
A friend of his who made a fortune from a chain of hamburger stands in New York City told him he hated to go to bed because it was a waste of time; dreams and visions meant nothing to the man, and he has since died leaving the business to his wife and three children.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1965 (possible)
  • before 4 May 1965
Told
4 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: The Witness of the Spirit ¶11 (A friend of mine who made a fortune said to me, “Neville, I can’t wait to get up in the morning and I hate to go to bed, it’s a waste of time.”)
before 1965 (possible)
Neville describes his own experience of the skull breaking, the stone being rolled away, and coming out without loss of identity.
before 1965 (possible)
He says his mother named him Neville, that the name belongs to the garment and not to himself, and that he has played and suffered every part in the world.
before 1965 (possible)
He describes moving into the world of the dead, which is as solid and troubled as this one, where people suffer, worry and fear dying.
Writer's dream of a transforming lecturer
Description
Neville shares a letter written to him a year or more ago by a successful humorous writer in the audience, describing a dream of a tiny homely lecturer who spoke on transforming oneself by Imagination and then grew in stature and beauty as he left the stage.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 1965 and 1966 (probable)
  • before November 1965 (possible)
Told
7 November 1966
Sources
  • Source: Life Is for Acting ¶9 (Quite a while ago, I’m going back quite awhile, a year or more, he wrote me a letter and he said it’s not for publication. But that’s a year ago and he’ll forgive me, because I’m not going to reveal the entire letter.)