He recalls sitting in the park with Abdullah, who counted the people and birds passing by and tried to teach him the symbology of it, and who said you could tell the future of a bus ride from the peop
A learned friend — an advisor to professors at Columbia University — read his script and persuaded him to write “He is risen” instead of “Neville is risen”; Neville, thinking his lack of schooling mea
Neville describes his own small dividend income from Barbados, taxed forty percent there and taxed again when it reaches him in America, contrasting it with the tax-exempt wealth of the churches.
Neville recounts his own experience of standing in the presence of David, who called him Father, whereupon he felt himself to be the Ancient of Days, the Lord God Jehovah.
Neville describes his own daily practice: when he cannot remember something - a poem, a saying, a misplaced article - he says "Thank you Father, you always hear me" and the memory appears of itself.
Neville says he has received letters from people who believe he is a devil for saying the human imagination is God.
Ann imagines and receives the eighteen-dollar hat
Description
Ann, a prostitute who attended all his New York meetings and lived at the Ansonia, imagined wearing an $18 hat she saw in a window; a friend later gave her that very hat, and Neville questioned her until she admitted she would never have bought it even with $100 in hand.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
c. 1968
(probable)
before 6 November 1967
Sources
- Source: The Bible Is Addressed to the Imagination ¶24 (In New York City this lady came to all of my meetings, and I ran into her on 73rd and Broadway. She lived at the Ansonia.)
- Source: Foreknowledge ¶44 (She met me at the corner of Broadway and 72nd Street one night, and she said to me, “Neville, you said that whatever I desire I can have. Well, I would like a new hat.” I said, “Alright, imagine that you have the hat.”)
Kathleen Norris praises Clarissa after her death
Description
When Neville's friend Clarissa died, Kathleen Norris wrote to her husband saying she had never known a more giving person, one who never sent a letter without enclosing a recipe, a poem or a clipping.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
before 1972
(possible)
before 13 November 1967
Answering a question about an experience he had described before, Neville recounts appearing consciously to a group of people while his body lay asleep on his bed, telling them that if he awoke he wou
Neville recounts his own experience of the birth of the child, at which three of his brothers were present; the youngest of the three, Lawrence, lifted the infant and declared it to be Neville's baby,
Lying on his bed on his left side, Neville felt an intense personal force centred at the back of his head; he could move every part of his body but could not turn around to see who was applying it, an
A woman sees an arrow enter the center of concentric circles
Description
Someone brought him a message of a vision of circles within circles with an arrow entering the tiny central circle, which thrilled him because it is exactly what happens to him when he shoots his fiery arrows.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Spiritual Feast ¶36 (So someone will bring me a message, “I saw circles after circles after circles and a little, tiny circle in the middle, and then an arrow entered it.” I was thrilled that she brought back an [...], for that is exactly what has happened to me. I never mis…)
Neville describes Jack Butler further: dead at fifty and looking much older, he appeared as a young man of twenty when seen months later; while alive Jack attended Neville's meetings only to meet peop
Neville asked God why he created the universe and a voice from the depth answered "Hatching, just hatching"; he adds that he has stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days.
Neville describes from his own Barbadian knowledge that returning Barbadians and northerners sleep under mosquito nets while the local man sleeps exposed untouched.
He recalls seeing the play The Millionairess with Hepburn, and one line struck him forcefully: that all a pauper has to do to cease being a pauper is assume the arrogance of wealth.
A friend dreams his skull has been split
Description
In the same letter the friend told of a dream of lying on his bed, feeling the right side of his skull an inch higher, remembering his skull had been split, calling to his wife, and waking; he added that he had never felt more peaceful since, and joked about Blake's line on hatching ripe.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Primal Wish ¶12 (In the same letter my friend said, “This morning I dreamed I was lying on my bed as I felt the top of my head. The left side was normal, but the right side was at least one inch higher.)
Women in Neville's circle endure prolonged premature labor
Description
He mentions knowing others in his own circle who laboured twenty-four and forty-eight hours to bring forth a child of only five months.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
before 9 December 1966
Sources
- Source: We Are Witnesses ¶28 (I know of others in my own circle who labored for twenty-four hours and forty-eight hours to bring forth a child that was only five months.)
In New York City a man came to his apartment claiming he came from San Francisco and could not pay his four-dollar rent; Neville gave him twenty dollars though he asked for ten, and at the next lectur
Man sees workers opening an empty golden-haired skull
Description
Neville reads a letter from a gentleman who saw a young man of about 26 with golden curls sunk into the ground, two men working at the back of his skull, and discovered the skull was an empty mask of clay or plastic resting its chin on desert sand; Neville later answers this correspondent directly as 'my friend'.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
before 16 October 1967
Sources
- Source: A Movement Within God ¶12 (Now, a gentleman wrote, saying: “I saw a man, about 26 years of age. He had golden curls on his head and seemed to be sunk into the ground.)
Neville has bought clothes he could not explain buying and given them away; once his tailor sold him a suit his wife refused to be seen with him in, and a friend who wanted just such a suit got it.
Neville met his oldest California friend on the very first day he got off the train in San Francisco; his only earlier friend, Ursala, he had known in New York.
Neville claims from his own experience that he meets those who have died and sees them restored to a young body of about twenty in a world like this one.
One of his surviving brothers told him within the past year that he would face death when he came to it and that Neville's subject did not interest him.
Neville affirms from his own experience that he stood in the presence of God and found God to be man.