Neville dreamt he was on an enormously crowded subway train with his friend David Morton, the two of them quoting Blake to each other and agreeing that no argument could persuade anyone that all this
Bob imagines working downtown and is moved there after being fired
Description
The same Bob, tired of the bumper-to-bumper drive to the RCA display area, spent the ride imagining himself downtown where he had worked for thirteen years; he was the one man in the whole building fired before Christmas, and ended up working downtown two blocks from his old job.
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Sources
- Source: Believe It In ¶63 (So when he told me this story I said, “Bob, have you forgotten how you would sit next to Mort and when Mort drove for the week you would dream you were going downtown?” Well, where do you think he’s working, downtown within two blocks of where he worked …)
Returning from a deeper state the previous morning, Neville held for ten or fifteen minutes the luminous body he was wearing — all power, love and wisdom, under his own control — and looked out at glo
Neville says that on this last day of the series he has brought the audience things he has heard and experienced in the past year, including stories of his friend 'Crutcha'.
9 November 1969
(probable)
Neville went to the cinema the night before to see a remake of Goodbye Mr.
Neville appears to a woman while believed absent in Barbados
Description
The same correspondent writes that in July, fully awake after dinner, she thought of Neville — believing him still in Barbados, since he had left in March and said he would not return until the fall — and he suddenly stood before her in a grey business suit, said 'There is no time', and vanished.
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Date (happened)
c. 0
c. July 1967
(refuted)
c. July 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Return of Jesus ¶26 (I knew when you left here in March on the way to Barbados, and that you said you wouldn’t return ‘til the fall of the year. So I took it for granted you were still in Barbados and wondered how you were. Suddenly you are standing before me.)
Louise's husband Joseph dies of a ruptured aorta
Description
Louise telephoned Neville from New York at three in the afternoon to tell him that her husband Joseph, aged 77, had died of a ruptured aorta in her arms and in the arms of their son Neville, Neville Goddard's namesake.
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Neville mailed several checks to his nearby Beverly Hills bank on Tuesday and by Friday no receipt had come back, and he refuses to be concerned about it.
Waking at 4:15 that morning, Neville asked for a significant dream before going back to sleep, and dreamed he was in his old apartment house at 145 West 55th Street where the superintendent Eddie Fox
One night Neville was shown a world of people who call this earth "Woodland" and believe no one ever returns from it; he spoke there with the great German poet [Hauptmann?], who told him "Neville, the
Victor buys the remaining family business at his own price
Description
A few years ago in Barbados Neville asked his brother Victor about the family business, and Victor innocently remarked that the man owning two-thirds of it worked long hours and seemed to be getting tired; six months ago that man asked Victor to buy him out, and Victor got the business at his own price.
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Sources
- Source: I Remember When ¶12 (A few years ago, while in Barbados, I asked my brother about the business and he replied quite innocently: “It is doing remarkably well. The man who owns two-thirds of it is a good manager, but his hours are long and I think he is getting tired.”)
Neville tells the audience that his publisher has decided to stop printing his books and retire, that only fifty to seventy copies of his latest book remain, and urges them to get a copy, particularly
Neville says he himself has had the mystic's vision of the earth seen from above as something dead — one night he was shown how to look and he saw it.
c. October 1968
(possible)
On the evening of the lecture Neville asked his friend David what the word 'wasp' actually means, and David told him it stands for white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant.
Neville reports on a UCLA weekend class on extrasensory perception three weeks earlier - $100 for three days, five speakers, over 500 attending - and says not one man on the panel was a man of vision.
Widow sells her multiple-unit property after Neville's imaginal help
Description
A lady who attends occasionally wrote asking help to sell her late husband's multiple-unit property for $650,000; Neville assumed she had sold it, and months later she wrote thanking him because everything had worked.
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Told
5 November 1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Prune The Vine ¶26 (So as I got the letter, I simply sat in my chair, I saw in my mind’s eye, and I congratulated her on her good fortune, having unloaded the property.)
Male correspondent dreams of a monstrous clinging monkey
Description
He received a letter that week from a man who described a series of dreams in one night, the last of which was a huge horrible monkey clinging to his back which he tore off as it began to make love to him.
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Sources
- Source: The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us ¶11 (I received a letter this week from a man who shared a series of dreams which occurred one night. The final one is the clue to the dreams. In it he saw a huge, horrible monkey which clung to his back.)
Mrs. Niemeyer imagines roses and receives three dozen at the Waldorf
Description
A friend of Neville's, Mrs. Niemeyer, heard him tell the rose story at a New York lecture, imagined embracing a huge bouquet of roses, and that night found three dozen long-stemmed Beauties in her room at the Waldorf Astoria towers — left over from an English-Speaking Union banquet for Queen Elizabeth, sent up by the head waiter because she loved roses.
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Sources
- Source: The Potter's House ¶10 (A friend of mine — she’s gone from this world now — in New York City, many, many years ago, I told a story similar to this tonight, and sitting in my audience, she said, well, now I’m going to test this, and in the silence she embraced a huge bouquet of …)
- Source: Walk by Faith ¶13 (A few years ago I gave a similar lecture in New York City and a lady in my audience decided to test me. While sitting in her chair she embraced a large bunch of roses.)
- Source: The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶19 (In New York City one night when I was giving something similar, a lady sat in the front row…and she lived in the Waldorf Astoria.)
- Source: Personifications, Not Persons ¶28 (One lady one night said, “I will test it now.” She wasn’t altogether certain it would work, but she embraced a huge, huge bunch of flowers, roses. She could detect the aroma of the rose.)
Bob dreams Neville has learned how to move after two years
Description
Many years ago Neville's friend Bob, in a vision, asked Neville how long he had been there and whether he had learned anything; Neville told him he had been there two years and had learned how to move.
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Sources
- Source: I Remember When ¶19 (Many years ago my friend Bob discovered this. In his vision he questioned me, saying: “How long have I been here?” and when I replied: “Two years” he asked: “Did I learn anything?” to which I answered: “Yes, you learned how to move.”)
Neville says he has himself experienced God: he was awakened out of a profound sleep by the voice of a heavenly youth, David, who called him Father, whereupon memory returned and he knew himself to be
He says his mother taught him, as the hearers' mothers taught them, that everything claimed of Christ happened two thousand years ago.
In vision Neville came upon a family of four dining in what he felt was New England two hundred years earlier, arrested an activity within himself, and everything in the scene froze until he released
between 1767 and 1817
(probable)
Neville recounts his own experience of moving in Spirit 150 or 200 years back into a New England house where four people — two young men in their twenties and their parents in their forties — were din
between 1770 and 1820
(probable)
In another such experience Neville saw a family of four — father, mother and two sons — in the New England states of about 200 years ago, with a little swinging Dutch door, the wind in the leaves and