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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

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.
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Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1965 (probable)
  • before 28 February 1969 (probable)
Told
  • 5 March 1965 (refuted)
  • 5 March 1965 (refuted)
  • 28 February 1969 (probable)
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.)
before 1965 (possible)
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
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
He remarks that half his family are Catholics, in the course of dismissing the idea of earning merit by attending early Mass.
before 1965 (possible)
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
before 1965 (possible)
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
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
He says he has told the story of his experiences in his book Resurrection and has come to bear witness to it.
before 1965 (possible)
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
Told
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…)
before 1965 (possible)
He recounts having stood in the presence of infinite love — a human form that embraced him and with which he mingled — and says he has no words for the ecstasy of it.
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
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.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville points the audience to the book table, saying the recommended books there are ones he keeps at home in his own library.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville says he can bear witness to the truth of Blake's vision from his own experience, but that unlike Blake he can neither paint, carve nor engrave and must rely on words alone.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville says he had never read Blake at the time of his vision, and only afterwards found Blake's lines about the Holy Word walking among the ancient trees; many listeners never came back after hearin
before 1965 (possible)
Neville states that he is himself a man and the father of children, wholly male in every physical sensation, and yet is unashamed to call himself the bride of God.
before 1965 (possible)
He describes his own known background: an earthly father and mother, brothers and a sister, a large family, no education, no wealth and no social position.
before 1965 (possible)
Neville refers to his own regular practice: he asks his audience to test his teaching and report back, and he does this work publicly on Tuesday and Friday nights.
before 1965 (possible)
He says the whole story of Jesus Christ unfolded in him, that it was not earned or based on what he was taught, and that he still dislikes certain things - it was pure gift.
before 1965 (possible)
He describes his San Francisco arrangements: he begins on the morning of the 11th at the Women's Club, just behind the St. Francis hotel where he and his wife stay, on the same block on Post Street.