Events involving this person
1922
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
Neville's brother Victor sent him a steamship ticket and $50 for a Christmas trip back to Barbados (the 'You are in Barbados' Abdullah story).
Person: Neville Goddard
between 1945 and 1946
Visiting Barbados after fifteen years away, Neville was told by his brother that no ship passage to New York was available before September; instead of joining the waiting list he sat in his hotel roo
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he has seen many of his own people die — his father, mother, brother, nephew, friends and hundreds he knew.
1964
Neville says he cannot persuade his brother — who is two years his senior and still believes Christ is on the outside — to take any interest in what lies beyond; when Neville was home last year his br
before 1964
(possible)
He spent three months at home in Barbados, returned 1st Class with a sum of cash given him as a gift, and reckons the trip would have cost $3,000 had he paid for it.
1965
Last year Neville returned to Barbados for a few months and made out his will, naming his brother and two nephews, whom he trusts implicitly, as co-trustees.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes the one bone of contention between him and his brother: the brother hated their father's heavy drinking and questions how a man of the Spirit can drink, to which Neville answers that
before 1965
(possible)
Neville tells his brother that although he earns no money from his work he has as much as any member of the family through his stock in the business, and says he was shown all the parts he could play
Neville's businessman brother treats the thirteenth as lucky
Description
His practical, unsuperstitious businessman brother treats the thirteenth as his lucky day because his father's blow, his own new business, his marriage and his building purchase all fell on the 13th of the month.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 18 February 1966 (probable)
Told
18 February 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Rock Water Wine ¶26 (Thirteen, as far as he is concerned, that’s the greatest day of the year, certainly of the month.)
31 October 1966
Neville describes returning from that other state with the memory of having met Abdullah, his father and his brother - all dead - embracing and kissing them and finding them as solidly real as this wo
before 1967
(possible)
Neville recalls his father, mother and brother each telling him that success is a matter of who you know.
Neville's brother grows richer through imaginal sleep
Description
His brother in Barbados grows steadily richer in finance by sleeping in his dreams and cannot understand Neville's indifference to money.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
Told
- 30 October 1967 (possible)
- 30 October 1967 (possible)
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") ¶30 (Go home to Barbados, to my brother, and here he gets bigger and bigger and bigger in the world of finances by sleeping in his dreams. He can’t understand why I am not interested in finances.)
before 1970
(possible)
He describes his origins in Barbados — a small unknown island twenty-one miles by fourteen — in a very large family with no financial, social or intellectual background, but whose father, mother and b
before 1971
(possible)
He mentions the deaths of his father, mother and brother as proof that they did not cease to be when his senses lost them.