Neville deliberately imagined himself in Barbados so his sister would see him; she came into the room where her desperately ill son lay and saw her brother Neville instead, and eight days later a lett
Woman imagines and recovers her stolen furniture
Description
Neville tells of a lady he knows well who returned from nearly a year in Paris to find her New York apartment stripped by her maid; he met her in her hotel and explained what he would do, she imagined herself seated in her own chair among her own furniture, and shortly after - disturbed by the bars on a bank door on Madison Avenue that recalled her earlier confinement, and turning the wrong way - she recognised the maid's ankles on a street corner and recovered the stored furniture that police and private detectives could not find.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
before 22 January 1965
Sources
- Source: Works of Faith, Not Miracles ¶40 (So she went to a hotel, and it was in her hotel that I met her and explained to her what I would do. Seated in the hotel room, I would assume that I was in my own apartment with all my own furniture.)
When he told his family of his experiences they rejected them entirely and challenged him about whether he believed in Jesus Christ.
In vision he came out of his own skull, saw the pale face of the body he had left, felt an unearthly wind, and three men appeared where the body had been; one found a babe on the floor and said 'It is
Neville tells of the plain dirty beige carpet in the home he rents, which was there years before they took the place, and how he looks through it until faces and forms appear and become animated.
Neville recounts waking inside his own sealed skull as in a tomb, pushing out at the base of the skull, seeing the ghastly pale head roll from side to side, feeling the wind of the Spirit of God, then
He recounts saying in San Francisco that Billy Graham's real subject is Billy Graham, whereupon an incensed lady rose to rebuke him for speaking so of 'Dr.
Neville's daughter reaches the Dean's list after his imaginal hearing
Description
He describes refusing to hear his daughter's anxious letters home about a tough exam and whether she would graduate, hearing only good news for her instead — and her last report card came in with B+s and A-s and placed her on the Dean's list.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: His Eternal Play ¶58 (I don’t ask my child’s permission to hear good news for her. I love her and I hear good news for her.)
During the past week Neville practised the technique on his wife, his daughter and people of the other sex, and found it not at all strange to wear their forms.
A bookstore customer receives an out-of-print book
Description
In a New York bookstore on 49th Street, Neville overheard a woman told a book was out of print, told her to assume she had it and leave her name; two weeks later a widow in Florida sent a box of books containing that very book.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
26 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Where Are Staying ¶21 (I stepped forward, I said, “You want the book?” She said, “Yes.” I said, “Well, will you please assume that you have the book and leave your name right here, leave your name and address right here with this lady.)
Young Neville Mark says he longs to see the identity behind his mask
Description
Visiting the family in New York City about five years ago, the boy Neville Mark came up to Neville and said he felt that if he could turn around he would see who he really was, that he was wearing a mask and could not wait to die - which upset his mother, a poor girl who had married wealth and feared anything to do with death.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1965
(probable)
c. 1964
(probable)
Told
22 June 1970
(refuted)
28 April 1969
Sources
- Source: The Riddle ¶5 (About five years ago, while visiting them in New York City, the little boy came in, walked over to me and said: “You know, Neville. I feel that if I could turn around I would see who I really am. I know I am wearing a mask and I can’t wait to die, cause …)
After his resurrection the first sign given him was an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, laid on a bed by witnesses who could not see him but who proclaimed the sign; he lifted the child, spoke an
Neville describes his own experience of the skull exploding like bursting flowers, after which David stood before him and called him Father.
A minister visiting the house could not answer Neville's questions or explain his visions, and his father then told him he must be an apostle; his mother had felt while carrying him that he would be a
He remarks that he almost never receives anyone at home, but made an exception for this woman because her need to tell him was so pressing.
He says he has recorded his own visions in his books — the chapter 'The Promise' in The Law and the Promise, the pamphlet He Breaks the Shell, and much of The Search — while his other books teach the
Neville says that if the choice of witness to his ascended state had been his, he would without hesitation have chosen his wife, the mother of his daughter.
He describes finding himself awake inside his own skull, which is sealed like an egg with no openings.
He describes his own habit of sitting in a chair or lying on his bed and suddenly seeing a world he ought not to see, then stepping into it and exploring it, and says the world tolerates him as sane o
Three years ago in Barbados Neville and his wife gave a small dinner party with his son and daughter-in-law and two ministers and their wives, and he argued with the Episcopalian minister, who would n
That morning Neville compared four Bible translations on the 'tenth hour' verse and could hardly believe the New English Bible's rendering of 'four in the afternoon'.
A second telling of the same childhood teaching, joined to his own resurrection: the power possessed him and he rose within himself, entombed, having been taught by his mother and teachers that the re
A young friend answers a mystical classroom test with Paul's words
Description
Neville relates that a young friend who used to attend his meetings and is now back in New York had a mystical experience in a classroom, facing a board of questions, and wrote his answer in Paul's words from Galatians 2:20.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
before 13 April 1965
Sources
- Source: The Marks of Jesus ¶44 (And a friend of mine who is now back East, a young chap, used to come here all the time, he’s now back in New York, and when he had this mystical experience it was in the words of Paul that he answered.)
The second sign given him was the son, David, who called him Father — the sign of the risen Father in him.
Neville says his own world is simple and comfortable, with no irritant to make him want more, so he has no desire at the moment to transcend the way he now lives.