Event described in telling 1237-4
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing two visions in one night: seeing a figure that turned out to be herself collapse in a faint which she lowered to the ground, and then seeing that same self rising head and arms first out of the earth.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1966
(possible)
before 4 February 1966
Told
4 February 1966
4 February 1966
Sources
- Source: Commune With Yourself ¶23 (Another friend writes me that here, suddenly, she sees a figure; it’s to her right and forward. And looking at it, it turns and looks, and it’s herself.)
Neville states that he speaks only from his own experience, that Scripture has been fulfilled in him and that his own days of conscious work here are finished.
Neville describes dropping into St. Thomas' church in New York City at vesper hour, two blocks from where he lives, to sit in the quiet with the soft organ music.
between 1930 and 1939
(probable)
He describes his daily habit of meditation, in which the dark convolutions of the brain burst into golden liquid light pulsing around his head.
He mentions how he was brought up not to offend guests, and so kept his thought to himself when a guest asked whether his brother could grasp the Christian mystery.
Neville says he has had the experiences of glory himself but cannot find words to describe them, though he is not sworn to secrecy.
Neville explains that he calls his wife Bill - never Willa, the name given her at birth - and usually Sweet, Darling or Dear; and that when separated from her by distance he calls her name inwardly in
He states that he received the four signs without any memory of having earned them, and that speaking of them to hundreds of thousands has been his privilege.
Neville mentions his habit of announcing his lectures by taking a small advertisement in the Times.
R. Crutcher dreams Neville leads him from enemies
Description
Neville reads out a letter from R. Crutcher describing a dream in which Neville led him from a hill where enemies shot at him from among vines to the back of the house, where the hill had become a field of harvested wheat; in the dream Neville told him he had been there two years and had learned how to move and discipline.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1966
(possible)
before 22 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Occupant or Inmate ¶15 (So I told him the conflict is over, that hill that shot at you is no longer an enemy. It is now a field, a harvest of golden wheat with all gaily harvesting…already a mountain of harvested wheat.)
He quit Macy's rather than be fired again, and from then on never worked for another person — even through six Broadway shows he refused to think of Mr. Schubert as his boss.
Neville states his own age, saying he will be sixty-one at his next birthday while his friend is fifty-four.
A friend brought Ramana to hear Neville Goddard lecture at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, after which Ramana spoke with him and was invited to return; the memoir places this around the same period as
Asked what the greatest thing in the world was, he answered instantly with Paul's words about faith, hope and love, whereupon infinite love embraced and incorporated him into its body.
Neville recounts his own experience of the heavenly banquet: an angelic chorus called 'Neville is risen!', he rose luminous in a body of fire and air, glided past an enormous sea of human imperfection
Woman defeats embodied fear and knows herself as Christ
Description
Neville recounts the vision of a lady known to him - a young mother of two expecting her third child, who three years earlier had received his eyes in vision - in which she confronted a man dressed in black whom she recognised as the embodiment of fear, struck him, remembered an ancient dream of a tree, and knew herself to be Paul and Jesus Christ.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
20 October 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Sorrow Produces Glorious End ¶13 (Now let me share a recent experience of a lady who received my eyes in vision about three years ago, at which time she was told that she was an incurrent eyewitness: one who gives passage to a current moving inward where reality is to be seen.)
Before turning professional he lectured only as an amateur, invited to platforms in the cities he danced in.
Neville recounts his vision of leading an enormous festive crowd, a voice declaring "And God walks with them", a woman in Arab robes at his side asking "Is Neville God?" and the voice answering "Yes,
Neville announces he is taking two weeks as a real vacation and will reopen on Tuesday January the 4th, advertising only in the Los Angeles Times.
At sixty-one, Neville recalls how in his own lifetime it was fashionable to have appendix and tonsils removed.
Neville says he hurried through his shower the day before the lecture in order to hear the Secretary of State speak, and found he said nothing that had not been in the papers for months.
c. 22 January 1966
(probable)
Neville announces that his friend Freedom, whom he persuaded some eight years ago to go do this work in San Francisco, visited him about ten days ago, and has agreed to come down from Cambria once a m
At six o'clock that evening he turned on the news and heard of a hush-hush meeting in Washington of the cabinet, the war staff and the president over some great decision.
between 31 January 1966 and 1 February 1966
(probable)
Neville says his phone has rung all week with dozens of callers asking whether he is closing, and confirms he is closing on the 25th but will be back.
A friend telephoned Neville the night before asking him to review the first chapter of his out-of-print book Out of This World, and the Sunday New York Times, given to them as a Christmas gift, arrive