Events involving this person

Audience correspondent questions Neville about the historical Jesus
Description
A man in the audience wrote Neville a letter this week, saying he had been at the previous Friday's lecture where a lady asked about the historical Jesus, and asking whether Neville denies the historicity of Jesus as he would not deny that of Lincoln or Washington; Neville answers the letter from the platform because writing back would take too long and he has no secretary.
Persons
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Who Is Jesus Christ ¶0 (A letter came this week, and the gentleman is here tonight. I’m glad he is, because it would take too long a letter to answer his letter.)
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Today a small booklet arrived for Neville's wife to comfort her in her present distress; its back page carried a Thoreau passage about advancing confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and the l
Freedom Barry's stolen piano returns after Neville imagines hearing it
Description
Freedom Barry's grand piano, sent to the factory for $400 of work, vanished with the truck and driver on the way back; he phoned Neville in desperation, Neville imagined hearing him play a concerto on KFAC and thanked him for it, and the next day the piano was delivered at 4:30 in the morning, the driver having been arrested in San Luis Obispo.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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Sources
  • Source: All Powerful Human Word ¶2 (Right after I hung up, I heard him play that piano. I could put my hands upon his shoulder, and I could feel Freedom. I could feel the piano, and I heard this lovely music.)
Woman dreams Neville and his wife enact supernatural conception
Description
Neville reads out a letter from a woman present at the lecture who, awake within a dream, found herself on a slab in a morgue where Neville appeared as a physician with a black-haired nurse she recognised as his wife in a wig, and had union with her; he interprets it as her supernatural conception and tells her to record the date in her Bible beside Luke 1:35.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
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Sources
  • Source: Conception ¶3 (To illustrate my point, let me share an experience of a friend who is here tonight.)
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Having woken very early after six unbroken hours of sleep, Neville lay in bed and practised imagining himself seated in the black leather chair in his living room, from which he mentally looked back a
Neville's wife dreams human forms emerging into the dance of life
Description
Neville's wife had a vision one night of a grove whose panels (not doors) became animated and gave out beautiful human forms that began the dance of life; it turned into a dramatic, tragic dance and so frightened her that she woke herself, but she recorded what she had seen.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 0 (probable)
  • before 1972 (possible)
Told
1972 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Eighth Of John ¶29 (My wife one night had a vision. It’s so scary, she would not allow it to go beyond the first few paces.)
15 December 1968 (probable)
At a family party of fifteen the day before - all relatives of his wife - a college student asked Neville to explain his teaching, and grew enthusiastic until Neville claimed to be the central figure
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After lecturing at Town Hall in New York one Sunday night, Neville was struck by excruciating gall bladder colic, refused to cancel the next night's dinner party and left his wife to host it while he
Neville's wife dreams of secretly guiding guests out of a police state
Description
Neville recounts a vision his wife gave him two months earlier: they lived in a palatial apartment in a police state, hosting six dinner guests at a time; he explained to the guests the way of escape while they were already at their destination, and searchers who came never found anyone.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Blessed Are The Pure In Heart ¶10 (Now, my wife gave me a vision two months ago — it was the occasion to tell it, but it would be — it’s a river in this fantastic, magnificent, enormous apartment in a palace.)
between 1900 and 1966 (doubtful)
Neville says that he and his wife write a few charity checks every year according to what they can afford, one of them to the Red Cross, but he gives no ten percent of his income to any church.
Neville's wife dreams of books of Judaism and Christianity
Description
He tells his wife's vision of a clearing in a grove where two women each carried a book — one titled according to Judaism, the other according to Christianity — and read from them before a man at a table, leaving her struck by how much harder it is to be a Christian than a Jew.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1900 (doubtful)
  • before 23 June 1969 (probable)
  • before March 1971 (probable)
  • before 18 November 1968 (probable)
Told
  • 23 June 1969 (refuted)
  • 23 June 1969 (refuted)
  • 18 November 1968 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: The Mystery of Jesus Christ ¶21 (Now let me tell you a vision of my wife that happened years ago. She found herself in the clearing of a lovely grove of trees. At the end of the clearing was a man behind a table, and there were men around this one man, like an assembly.)
  • Source: Test Yourselves ¶2 (She found herself in a grove of trees with a wonderful clearing. At the end was this man and on the sides were people. One person entered and this was a woman bearing a book, and the title of the book was The Credence of Faith and the Forgiveness of Sin …)
before 1900 (doubtful)
Neville's wife's older sister Al told him many years ago that she did not believe one word he taught — she did not believe in survival after death — and though they loved each other he could not convi
before 1918 (refuted)
Lying on his bed in his New York apartment, Neville assumed he was in Barbados in his parents' bedroom, occupying the body of his nephew Billie who was dying of cancer, in order to comfort his sister
c. 1933 (probable)
Stranded for months on his island with only two small ships serving the whole of the Indies and a long waiting list, Neville imagined himself on the deck of a ship looking back at the island with his
between 1939 and 1949
When he first came to California, Neville and his wife visited an ardent Catholic family's home with a pool; her warning was that as a Protestant he was damned but could still enjoy himself, and the f
between 1940 and 1949
Back in the 1940s in New York City Neville suddenly stopped time; that same night he told a friend, and could tell his wife in the morning, though he knew he would be thought strange or insane.
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.
between 1941 and 1942 (probable)
When his daughter was conceived he would put his hand on his wife's stomach and feel the unborn child move, and it would kick where he asked it to; she spoke to him, gave him her name and told him abo
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
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
between 1942 and 1943
Neville's wife, a Smith College graduate, wrote to him daily while he was in the army, in handwriting so difficult that he had to read the letters alone to decipher them — and years later she could no