Dora imagines an island voyage and receives a legacy
Description
Neville retells a story from one of his books about a very dear artist friend, Dora B., whose father was killed leaving her untrained and working as a waitress in San Diego; on a rainy Christmas Eve on an open streetcar she hid her tears in the rain and imagined herself holding the rail of a ship coming into a South Pacific island - shortly afterwards a Chicago legal firm notified her of a $3,000 legacy from an aunt in Switzerland, and within days she was on that ship, and later described the arrival to him by letter exactly as she had imagined it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
before 22 January 1965
Sources
- Source: Works of Faith, Not Miracles ¶52 (And there she closed her eyes to the obvious and assumed that she was holding the rail of a ship and she was coming into this South Pacific island.)
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.
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
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?”)
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.
between 2 January 1965 and 8 January 1965
This past week Neville made a deposit at the bank on Monday, bought papers at Martindale's and an item at Jurgensen's, and next day on the way to the barber found twenty dollars more than he should ha
Man imagines and catches his club's record trout
Description
A man wrote Neville a letter describing how he imagined catching a record trout for his club, then went out the next day and landed a twelve-and-a-half pound trout, the biggest the club had ever had.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
4 January 1965
before 4 January 1965
Sources
- Source: The Real Man ¶14 (Well, here is one…he writes me a letter, I got it yesterday morning…I don’t see him here tonight…he said, “I went to bed as I always do thinking of nothing in particular, and then I said, ‘What am I doing? I have gone to Neville, I have his books, I beli…)
between 5 January 1965 and 1965
Neville delivered a dated lecture series throughout 1965, running from The Real Man in January to Christmas in December, plus talks at the Ebell Club and Women's City Club Auditorium.
Nurse reports that an imagined physical crisis has passed
Description
Neville received a telephone call the previous day from a lady, a nurse, who only mentioned late in a long conversation that a physical crisis he had worked on had passed - she had not called on the day it happened, and was now asking about a love affair.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Works of Faith, Not Miracles ¶43 (I got a call yesterday from some lady. She hadn’t called me, but it worked. She met this crisis—this was a physical condition— the whole thing disappeared.)
Audience member sees himself as the womb of the universe
Description
A man in his audience told him in a letter last Tuesday night of a vision of being the womb of the universe; Neville took the letter home and read it before retiring and could not contain his thrill, and the man is present at tonight's lecture.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
26 January 1965
before 29 January 1965
Sources
- Source: The Womb of the Universe ¶8 (Now let me tell you a story as told me in a letter last Tuesday night. When I got home I had the letter with me and before I retired I read it. I can’t tell you my thrill!)