Events involving this person
before 1966
(possible)
Neville's earthly father always left a large portion of food on his plate, saying the servants had to eat too — his way of leaving the harvest for the sojourner.
10 October 1966
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 28 November 1966
(probable)
He describes his own finances: he pays the hall rent in advance, pays the L. A.
before 1967
(possible)
Neville recalls his father, mother and brother each telling him that success is a matter of who you know.
Death of Neville's brother Lawrence
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- August 1967 (doubtful)
- c. 1953 (doubtful)
Told
- 30 October 1967 (possible)
- 26 October 1968 (probable)
1957(refuted)- 30 October 1967 (possible)
1957(refuted)- after 20 July 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Promise Fulfilled ¶10 (My brother Lawrence, who took part in my drama of the finding of the child, departed four years ago; he’s just as alive to me, only he is young. He was 62 when he departed.)
- Source: Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") ¶42 (Would I not bring back my brother Lawrence, who, last August, closed his eye and departed this sphere?)
- Source: Imagination Fulfills Itself ¶30 (When my brother, Lawrence, was making his exit from this world, I told my sister-in-law that there was marriage in the next world and she – in a very light vein – said: “I don’t want to go now, but do you think Lawrence will be waiting for me so we can g…)
before 1968
(possible)
From his own experience of entering a heavenly sphere he knows the Brotherhood there more intimately than he ever knew his own mother, father, brothers, wife, children or friends.
Neville's teaching that at death you are restored young — about twenty — with nothing transformed; asked why twenty, Warden honestly says he does not know ('that was Neville's experience').
Description
Neville's teaching that at death you are restored young — about twenty — with nothing transformed; asked why twenty, Warden honestly says he does not know ('that was Neville's experience'). [Retold 2 times across the interviews.]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Imagining creates the real in this drama, man. That’s what I heard from Neville Goddard fifty years ago, and it just bowled me over every time I thought about it, because if, as I think, I am, then I’m in control even if I’m out of control.
Neville (as quoted): "Imagining creates the real"
Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
Told
- 12 March 2021
- 24 July 1968 (doubtful)
- 24 July 1968 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: How to Think and Get What You Want Part 2 - Lindell, Student of Neville Goddard (lwf_JspO0aP_s9E — Lindell Warden, first-hand; also: lwf_Drsu34a2-y4,lwf_JspO0aP_s9E)
- Source: The Man Within ¶38 (The death is not when my father so-called died; he didn’t die to himself. He died to the family who he left behind him, but he did not die to himself. He was instantly restored to life in a body same as before only new, unaccountably new, terrestrial wor…)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says his own father kept a butcher shop and was a grocer, so people might dismiss him as the butcher's son just as they dismissed Jesus as the carpenter's son.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville's father drank heavily all his life, was a drinking pal of Winston Churchill, outlived the doctors who predicted his death, and lived to eighty-five, delighting in attending their funerals.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recalls his mother rebuking the children with "Have you forgotten that you are a Goddard?", though the family had no background at all, and by that alone making the name important.
Aunt Maude depends on Neville's generous father
Description
He says his aunt Maude loved his father only for the large monthly check he sent her; his father drank like a fish while she never drank in her life, and after his death he had arranged for the family to continue the payments.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 5 April 1968
Told
- 5 April 1968
- 5 April 1968
Sources
- Source: Eschatological Visions ¶58 (So she never failed to get her big monthly check from the brother who drank like a fish…and who raised one who is a devil.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville keeps photographs of his dead father and mother in his living room, where he sees them daily, smiles at them and talks to them.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville quotes a saying his father repeatedly used about money.
Neville's father predicts his own death that day
Description
Neville tells how his father, at the end, heard a vision and told Neville's brothers 'I'm going today' — and he did.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 12 April 1968
Told
12 April 1968
Sources
- Source: Real Meaning of Good Friday and Easter ¶43 (In my father’s case, yes, I can see that. At the end he heard a vision, and he said to my brothers, “I’m going today,” and he did.)
Joseph Goddard rebukes a minister claiming to be chosen
Description
Neville's father refused to attend church and disliked the minister; when the minister said he was one of the chosen, his father replied that he would not have chosen him.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 2 December 1968
Told
- 2 December 1968
- 2 December 1968
Sources
- Source: God's Almighty Power ¶23 (One day the minister said to my father: “I am one of the chosen.” My father looked at him and said: “I wouldn’t have chosen you.”)
- Source: God's Almighty Power and Wisdom ¶32 (Minister came home one day, as he always came every month on his usual monthly visit, and he said to my father, “You know, Mr. Goddard, I am one of the chosen.” My father looked at him and said “You’re a chosen one? You know, I wouldn’t have chosen you.”)
Joseph Goddard baptizes his son Fred himself
Description
When the same minister refused to baptize Neville's sixth brother because the two sea captains standing as godfathers were a Presbyterian and a Methodist, his father took the child, sprinkled water on him himself and named him Fred - which remains his name, Fred Goddard.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 2 December 1968
Told
2 December 1968
Sources
- Source: God's Almighty Power ¶24 (With that my father said: “Give me my son. I will baptize him myself.” He took the child out of the minister’s arms, dipped his free hand in the water, sprinkled it on the child’s face and said: “In the name of Jesus, your name is Fred” and walked out.)
- Source: God's Almighty Power and Wisdom ¶33 (He said, “Give me my son.” Took him out of his arms and said, “I’ll baptize him myself.” He took the water and sprinkled it on his face and he said, “In the name of Jesus your name is Fred” and then walked out with his son in his arms. That’s his name, h…)
Neville contrasts his parents' habits and deaths
Description
He contrasts his own parents: his mother, who never smoked or drank, died a painful death at 62, while his father drank heavily, ignored all health advice, and died at 85 of sheer exhaustion — which is why he ignores diet rules.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
28 September 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Biblical Language ¶28 (My mother never smoked or drank, yet she died a very painful death at the age of 62. My father drank like a fish. He broke every health code.)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he was one of twelve children, ten of whom survived, and that he loved his father and never questioned that he was his father.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recalls his father's favourite toast when he wanted a drink — a joke about a man rocking another man's child and thinking it his own — his father having sired, or thought he had, twelve childr
before 5 February 1963
Neville recalls that his own mother and father held strange and wonderful concepts of God, but always a God outside themselves to whom they turned.
before 1969
(possible)
Speaking of forgiveness, Neville says his mother is now gone from this world, and that he could forgive her, his father, or any of his brothers whatever they did.
Eight sons carry Neville's father to his grave
Description
Neville recalls that his brother was one of the eight sons who carried their father to the grave.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 6 November 1959
Told
6 April 1969(refuted)- 6 November 1959
Sources
- Source: The Value of Dreams ¶18 (My brother was one of the eight sons who bore my father to the grave.)
before 1969
(possible)
Retelling later in the same lecture: he tried repeatedly to love an invisible God more than his mother and could not, and thought of his father as the fairest man he ever met; only when he saw that fa
c. October 1933
He describes exactly how he slept in Barbados in imagination — placing New York northwest of him by latitude and longitude, hearing the tropical noises, seeing the sudden red-to-green Barbadian sunset