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Neville Lancelot Goddard
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Q343517
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he was sent into the presence of the Risen Christ, did not turn around, answered the question asked of him and was incorporated into his body; he says his journey is at its end and that a
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he has reached the point of being the door and the creative hand of God, and that it cannot be long before his garment (body) is removed permanently and he joins the brothers.
before 1967 (possible)
He appeals to his own experience of the risen Christ from the moment it began, and states he knows Christ is risen and therefore humanity is saved.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville states that he knows from his own experience that all men are one being without loss of identity.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says that from his own experience, like Isaiah before the throne of God, the only word one can use for what is seen is the serpent.
Woman sees a cursing being that wants her
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing a vision in which a being cursed her unspeakably and, asked why, replied "Because I want you!"; Neville answers her from the platform, explaining the curse as a personified religious institution losing her.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 1968 (possible)
Told
  • 11 September 1967 (refuted)
  • 3 June 1968
Sources
before 1967 (possible)
Neville recounts the exercise his old teacher Abdullah gave him: sitting daily in his living room with eyes closed, assuming he was in the chair by the hall telephone and then feeling himself back aga
before 1967 (possible)
Neville remarks in passing that he has met bishops, cardinals and popes, and found all of their rituals, beliefs and teachings far removed from the true story of Jesus.
Correspondent manifests abundance for a co-worker and success for a barber
Description
Returning from Barbados this year Neville found a letter waiting from a friend (present at this lecture) containing two stories: how the friend imagined abundance for a hard-up office colleague who then came into an inheritance, and how he imagined success for a barber who then topped his class and bought the shop.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1967
Told
10 November 1967
Sources
before 1967 (possible)
When Neville told the vision of the Labour politician and the tree, a lady in the audience objected that he was turning her daily bread into the substance of fairy, and he does not think she ever came
Cathy wins money, a piano, and a trip to St. Thomas
Description
A friend of theirs with a home in the Valley, Cathy, painted her kitchen, found the bill over estimate, told her mother she wanted money, and then won $800, a piano and a two-week trip for two to St. Thomas on a television show Neville was told to watch at 10:30 on Channel 4.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 4 December 1967
Told
4 December 1967
Sources
  • Source: He Supplies the Spirit in Us ¶37 (She received in the mail an invitation to a show that goes on—I never saw it until I was told to watch it on TV at 10:30, Channel 4, during the week. So I watched it and here is this sweet, lovely Cathy on the stage.)
Bob's and Benny's mystical experiences follow Neville's sequence
Description
Neville recounts that his friend Bob's experiences came in the same chronological order as his own, though Bob did not date his letter, and says he is now waiting for Benny's next experience about the 6th of March of next year.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1967 (possible)
  • before 18 December 1967 (probable)
Told
  • 18 December 1967 (possible)
  • 18 December 1967 (possible)
Sources
  • Source: Christmas, the Birth of Christ in Man ¶31 (When my friend Bob had the first experience, I was hopeful, but I did not write it down and he did not date his letter to me. But it did, it came in the same chronological order.)
1967
He says he lives in the world of Caesar like everyone else − a family to support, taxes he cannot refuse, prices risen since he bought the same item last year − and that he is not exempt from a headac
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he has seen Hamlet at least a dozen times on Broadway, played by different artists, no two alike.
before 1967 (possible)
Asked whether he will stay through the summer, Neville says he is making no plans, is keeping his unfurnished apartment with rent, phone, lights and gas running and his beloved library left behind, an
before 1967 (possible)
Neville describes his nightly experience of an inner eye opening as he goes to bed, intensifying what he sees until he shoots into another world as real as this one, where crowds wait for him and he t
before 1967 (possible)
Neville notes that for years he has been teaching his audiences how to move by imagining a scene implying the wish fulfilled.
before 1967 (possible)
He mentions bringing his wife a bouquet and calling them a bunch of pansies, a phrase she understands but which makes the average person raise an eyebrow, as an example of words changing meaning.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville says he has seen a tiglon, the sterile offspring of a lion and a tiger, as evidence of the law of identical harvest.
before 1967 (possible)
He commends his new book Resurrection, saying it is not theory but a plain account of the resurrection, birth from above, fatherhood of God, tearing of the temple curtain and descent of the dove exact
before 1967 (possible)
Neville recounts his own crucifixion experience: his hands, head, side and feet became whirling vortices, pierced by the six-pointed star of David, and it was joy rather than pain.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville recounts his own visions in which churches, organizations, customs and laws appear as persons, including a monstrous woman he first met at the mouth of a cave teaching children the black arts,
before 1967 (possible)
He notes he has told this vision before at this same place, but not everyone present tonight heard it.
before 1967 (possible)
Neville states from his own experience that after occupying space and time in imagination he has been seen by another who then called or wrote verifying his visit.
Friend dreams revision transforms a desert world
Description
Neville reads and then re-tells a letter from a very dear friend who woke at six in the morning, heard a thunderous inner voice declaring "I AM GOD! I AM SELF-CONTAINED! I AM SELF SUFFICIENT!", fell asleep and found himself in an infinite desert where he threw golf balls that instantly created homes, a putting green and a gate, but could not release the ball over a scene from the past until he persisted, whereupon a dilapidated house became a modern hotel and a decayed streetcar a streamlined bus, and finally transformed sloppily dressed young people on a Miracle Mile-like street into elegant ladies and gentlemen.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967 (possible)
Told
  • 17 October 1967 (refuted)
  • 17 October 1966
Sources
  • Source: Christ in Man ¶1 (Let me share with you a story of a very dear friend of mine, one who has had most of my experiences. Listen to me carefully, for God speaks to man through the medium of dream and unveils himself through revelation. This is his letter.)