Events involving this person
between 1910 and 1970
(probable)
Freedom Barry recounts that Neville began having recurring visions in childhood, from around age seven, which frightened him at the time.
Place: Barbados
Person: Neville Goddard
c. 1915
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 10 + birth 1905 = 1915. Told 1 time (1971).
c. 1916
Aged about eleven, visiting St.
c. 1917
(probable)
After his separation from his first wife their son went back and forth between them; his mother, anxious for the boy's Christian upbringing, persuaded the wife to let her take him to Barbados for a co
1919
In 1919 in Barbados, his father - a ship chandler entertaining returning captains and officers - repeatedly declared at the family table that there would be another war in twenty years with Germany, J
c. January 1919
c. 1922
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 17 + birth 1905 = 1922. Told 1 time (1970).
Victor imagines the Goddard business building
Description
Neville tells how his brother Victor, who made a real fortune, confided his vision only to their mother — never to their father or the rest of the family — and for two years remained faithful to seeing the biggest building on the main street of Barbados reading J. N. Goddard & Sons.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1922 and 1924
(probable)
Told
8 December 1963
Sources
- Source: What Is Truth ¶48 (My brother Victor, who has made a fortune in this world, a real fortune, he only confided with my mother, only told mother, wouldn’t tell my father, never told us. And for two years he remained faithful to a certain vision, where he saw the biggest build…)
Neville's father rebuilds the family business after his 1922 expulsion
Description
In 1922 his father, a junior partner in a small grocery business who never looked at the books, was forced out of the partnership by false accusations and took to his bed for weeks, getting nothing of his equity; he then started again alone with his second son and a small loan from a friend, and the business multiplied until, when he died in 1959, he left his ten children millions.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1922
Told
14 April 1969
Sources
- Source: Man Soul Body Emanation ¶53 (My father was a junior partner in a small, little grocery business, and his partners ganged up with a few others to get him out, to ease him out of that partnership, and made these false accusations.)
1922
c. 1923
(probable)
His mother persuaded him as a child, almost to the point of frightening him, that priests were the wisest men in the world; when he grew up and the visions began he found them the most stupid people h
1926
In 1926 his mother visited him in New York City, was horrified that his two-year-old son was unbaptized, and he arranged an Episcopal baptism to satisfy her.
c. 1933
(probable)
In the imaginal act he stood in New York and had a waking dream of hearing the coconut leaves on the roof of his mother's home in Barbados and smelling the tropical air through the open window, then f
c. 1934
(probable)
Neville's mother took each of her sons aside separately and persuaded him privately that he was her favorite and must never let her down; only when he returned home after twelve years in America, over
1926
Neville's mother came to America when his son was two and a half, was shocked to learn the boy had not been baptised, and insisted; Neville took the boy to an Episcopal minister who wet his head, whic
2 February 1938
Neville says that 2 February 1938 was his first time publicly telling the story of God's law.
The source identifies the first lecture as Secret of the Sperm and recounts Neville taking his son to it.
1941
Explaining why Catholics defend the Pope, he speaks of his own earthly parents: he would justify any mistake of his father and would not stand for anyone criticising his mother, who died in 1941.
between 1941 and 1959
Neville recounts that his mother died in 1941, after which his father never remarried.
Place: Barbados
Person: Neville Goddard
1941
In 1941 Neville, living in America and unaware his mother in Barbados had been ill two years, had booked a month's vacation in Maine when a letter came from his brother in August saying their mother w
February 1941
In February 1941, a twelve-inch New York snowstorm reduced Neville's audience to roughly 150-175 at the first presentation of Your Faith Is Your Fortune; the lecture still took place.
1941
In February 1941 his first book Your Faith is Your Fortune came out during a twelve-inch New York snowstorm that cut his usual audience to about 150; that night he slept in the assumption that he was
1941
Neville's mother, who bore twelve children and died of cancer at 61 in Barbados looking 90, appeared to him in New York City on the day of her death as a blonde girl of 20 brushing her hair under an a
February 1941
In February 1941, when a snowstorm cut his usual New York audience of a thousand down to a hundred on the night his book Your Faith Is Your Fortune came out, he went to sleep assuming he was in his mo