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.
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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.
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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.
Wanting to leave Barbados when only two ships were sailing and thousands were waiting, Neville asked his brother's help, found he had no influence, and instead imagined himself walking up the gangplan
He describes his own Bible as marked up throughout, with the passages relating to the night he was born from above and the night his arm was exposed marked against their scriptures.
As a schoolboy Neville answered his schoolmaster's question with "Take up thy bed and walk" but could not show the verse in his Bible, and was beaten from his buttocks down to his feet; he then crosse
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
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.”)
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.