A man telephoned Neville the day before yesterday asking him to call their mutual friend Walter, a sixty-two-year-old actor from Vienna who has lost a whole section of his memory after being beaten unconscious; Walter remembered Neville and the film An Affair in Trinidad but nothing since, and Neville reflects that Walter's lifelong gloom, which he could never talk him out of at his New York lectures and home, produced this.

He recalls having told, in a lecture on the 6th of February, Carl Jung's experience of a dead friend appearing at the foot of his bed and leading him to a red-bound book, The Legacy of the Dead, in the man's library.

Neville describes a letter he received that day from a man present in the audience, who in vision saw himself in the back row of a disorganized crowd suddenly brought into military order and moved to the front, while Neville from the lectern told a parable of a giant being about to eat another being that had compassion on its eater, with the puzzling word 'vomit' attached to it.

Neville tells of a man in that night's audience whose skin cancers were removed by painful surgery and radium until his doctor said no more radium could be given; the man then practised repentance, holding inner conversations with friends as though the cancers were gone, and one by one they vanished.

A friend of his, Bill, present in the audience, wrote him a letter describing how he dozed off watching TV at home, found himself awake inside a dream driving his car with his wife beside him, took the wheel back from her, remembered 'I am' as a pile-up approached, and woke back in his chair.

A friend, present in the audience, wrote to Neville describing how after being invited to address the Unity Men's Club he imagined a full house and congratulations three times, then spoke to sixty-four people (one short of capacity) and received invitations from several other clubs.

About eight months earlier his publishers Jack and Grace were watching a documentary on television; Grace, unwell and tired, dozed and repeated aloud 'I must remember what Neville said,' and on coming to she recalled the words 'Do not be afraid…I am with you always, to the close of the age' — the last verse of Matthew.

A woman friend who drives them took Neville's wife shopping; at the supermarket meat counter the butcher mistakenly charged his wife thirty-eight cents instead of ninety-eight for ground top sirloin, after the previous customer had claimed her cheap chopped round was for her dog, and Neville's wife pointed out the mistake.

At the barber's that day, Neville heard Mr. Snyder, manager of an apartment house on Doheny, tell how in Chicago, under mayor 'Honest' Bill Thompson, a licence-bureau official took his high-school son's last seventy-five cents for a driving licence.

At the barber that day Neville heard Mr. Snyder, manager of an apartment house on Doheny, tell how in Chicago under mayor “Honest” Bill Thompson a licence-bureau official took his high-school son's last seventy-five cents for a driving licence — and how Thompson's safe deposit boxes were found stuffed with cash after his death.