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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Wikidata QID
Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

Woman dreams of handkerchiefs illustrating absorption and acceptance
Description
Neville received a short letter from a woman present in the audience who woke, wrote down a sentence heard from the depths, and then dreamed of two handkerchiefs, one absorbing mucous and one merely accepting a marble.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
3 November 1966
Told
  • 24 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 24 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 11 November 1966 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Take My Yoke ¶3 (She said, “I sat up in bed and wrote these words as I heard them come from the depths, ‘Like a handkerchief you absorb the truth, rather than accept it.’”)
Correspondent dreams of infinite love and star-shaped crystal gifts
Description
Neville read out a long letter from a distant correspondent who dreamed of a wonderful man of infinite love in her house, of gifts of star-shaped crystal, and of fighting her way back to him through a market place with a heavy stick.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
3 November 1966
Told
  • 24 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 24 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 11 November 1966 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Take My Yoke ¶9 (Now the other letter, it’s a very long one, so I have to somewhat condense it, long, page after page of typewritten [...] so this is the essence of it…the same 3rd of November.)
15 November 1966 (probable)
Neville says he does not need a microscope to see the spermatozoa-like serpent forms — brilliant diamond heads with a spinal column trailing behind — because when the eye is open he can see them at an
Woman dreams Neville's donated watch will heal her eyes
Description
He reads a third letter of the same week: a dream of a rummage sale of watches and perfumes in which a clerk says 'Neville donated this one' and that looking into it will heal her eyes.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 21 November 1966 and 27 November 1966 (probable)
Told
  • 27 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 27 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 2 December 1966 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: God Plays All the Parts ¶8 (Then comes another letter, all in the same week, and in her letter she said, “I came to a rummage sale and all kinds of gifts where there, jewelry and watches, and I wanted a watch.)
Woman hears divine unity and sees neighbours declare themselves God
Description
He reads a letter from a lady who, after his November 22nd lecture, heard a voice repeating 'You are the apple of my eye', and two nights later heard 'In God there is no black or white, Jew or Christian', whereupon Ben (present in the audience) and her neighbour Frieda appeared and each declared themselves God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
22 November 1966
Told
  • 27 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 27 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 2 December 1966 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: God Plays All the Parts ¶2 (So let me share with you a wonderful experience that came to me through the mail. In fact, I have many to share with you tonight.)
Correspondent dreams a whipping moves darkness into light
Description
He reads a second letter, received the next day, describing a dream of a terrified black man being whipped by a Spanish-looking woman, with a voice saying 'That is how we move from darkness to light.'
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 23 November 1966 (probable)
  • before 2 December 1966
Told
  • 27 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 27 January 1967 (refuted)
  • 2 December 1966 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: God Plays All the Parts ¶6 (Well, next day came another letter…I will not go through the entire thing. This friend writes, “In my dream I had this experience concerning the black.)
before 28 November 1966 (probable)
He describes his own finances: he pays the hall rent in advance, pays the L. A.
between December 1963 and January 1964 (probable)
A few weeks earlier Neville's publisher suggested combining several of his hardcover books into a soft cover volume; while dwelling on a new last chapter he was one with the brothers, the Elohim, who
before 1967 (possible)
Neville admits he once lived by astrology and numerology and that it took him time to break the habit — he smashed the old birth chart in his mind's eye, and even after proving it worked only because
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he has repeatedly used his own technique - assuming he is the man he would like to be, and assuming for others that they already have what they want - and it has never failed him.
before 1967 (possible)
In his own vision the three men who came were not kings but his own brothers — ordinary men he had played, wrestled and fought with, and loved dearly.
before 1967 (possible)
He tells the audience about his newly published fifth book, The Resurrection, which contains four previously out-of-print books plus a piece never printed before, and says every word of it is his own
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he knows from his own experience that God is man - infinite love, the Ancient of Days - and not an impersonal force.
A friend dreams a battlefield becoming ripe wheat
Description
A friend told Neville of a fantastic vision in which he asked whether he had learned anything; Neville told him he had learned how to move, and the vision transformed into a hovel becoming a castle and a battlefield becoming a sea of ripened wheat as the friend was escorted into his eternal home.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1967 (probable)
Told
  • 2 October 1967 (doubtful)
  • 2 October 1967 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: The Secret of Prayer ¶6 (A friend recently had a fantastic vision, during which he asked: “Did I learn anything?” and I answered: “Yes. You learned how to move.”)
before 1967 (possible)
He recalls the impression Paul's phrase 'it is more necessary that I remain in the flesh' made on him when he first read it.
before 1967 (possible)
A doctor friend told Neville he disturbs him and asked what he could do not to disturb his hearers, and Neville answered that he is sent to disturb and stir man to the truth; later he tells the same m
before 1967 (possible)
Neville recalls witnessing the previous cardinal's funeral pageantry in New York City, the monks in black, brown and white habits walking down Fifth Avenue.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville remarks that he himself could never have found the hairpiece, being lost in so big a university, and that he did nothing but rest on what he had heard as a promise of God.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says that today he could not graciously accept even the most glorious plant, because he is leaving in a couple of weeks and would have to give it to a friend to keep.
before 1967 (possible)
In illustrating Blake's instruction, Neville mentions the dozen or so New York hotels he lived in and entered.
before 1967 (possible)
Restless in his search for the word of God, he crossed the ocean to America and joined the theatre, which he says prepared him to stand and speak before any audience without nervousness.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville states from experience that one who knows how to give thanks can leave the body and meet those who have died.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he knows from experience that he teaches more asleep than awake, passing beyond the world of dream into a world of spirit waking, and that the thoughts and visions people report to him ar
before 1967 (possible)
He describes seeing the stars, moon, sun and people in his dreams as vividly as waking sight, and conversing with them.