Events involving this person
27 October 1966
Neville recounts a dream of the previous night in which his two friends Vera and Jimmie — who have never met — appeared as mother and son, Vera declaring Neville to be Jimmie's father; he woke himself
27 October 1966
The previous afternoon, while Neville was reading the Bible in his shorts and his wife rested before a dinner engagement, a nun came to his door with a message from God about devils; he answered her w
before 1967
He tells of choosing a checkered suit at the tailor he has used for thirty-odd years, wearing it home to his wife's horror, never wearing it again, and giving it to his son Bill, who had been praying
Neville's wife sees Jewish and Christian books at an altar
Description
Neville's wife had a vision in a grove of trees where two women each brought a book to an altar and read aloud, one on the credence of faith and forgiveness of sins according to Judaism and one according to Christianity, and she realised it was infinitely more difficult to be a Christian than a Jew and that the whole thing was psychological.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
Told
- 2 October 1967 (doubtful)
- 2 October 1967 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The Secret of Prayer ¶16 (My wife had a wonderful vision where she found herself in a grove of trees. Walking down a clear passage, she saw people gathered around an altar.)
before 1967
(possible)
Neville has lain on his bed assuming he was elsewhere, told his wife at once what he had done, and afterwards received letters from people naming the day and hour they saw him, allowing for the time d
before 1967
(possible)
Neville tells his audience how he instructed his wife to arrange the cheapest possible funeral for him, no urn, and to ship his remains to Barbados and throw them in the sea.
before 1967
(possible)
Thinking about his coming New York season in May, Neville told his wife — who took it for a joke — to put down a title with the word 'pregnancy' in it rather than 'sabbath'.
before 1967
(possible)
Neville tells of his wife's oldest sister Alice, a good Christian who loves him but cannot believe what he teaches, and who refused to believe him when he said she would not die.
Small grandson threatens Granny after playing with matches
Description
A family circle is staying at his home — grandchildren on their way back to Vietnam where their father is a Marine flier — and that morning his wife caught one small boy with the matches, and when she threatened to spank him he said he was going to shoot Granny dead.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
24 February 1967
Told
24 February 1967
Sources
- Source: Election ¶8 (One got up this morning and he was corrected by my wife, “Don’t play with the matches!” The phone rang and she was diverted and she went to the phone. Came back to find he was tearing off one, just about to scratch it, and she said, “I told you I would s…)
Woman hears that she has run the race
Description
Neville reports an unsigned letter received in the past week — he notes that he or his wife receive many such letters — from a woman who, awake and watching fish in her pond, heard a masculine voice say she had run the race and fought the good fight, and that night heard the same words from within in the first person.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 7 March 1967 and 13 March 1967
- before 1967 (possible)
Told
- 13 March 1967
- 13 March 1967
Sources
- Source: He Dreams in Me ¶10 (I received many letters or my wife received them; this one was not signed. I hope you’re present.)
- Source: He Dreams in Me ¶9 (Now let me share a vision of a lady. She said: “While gazing at the fish in our pond and thinking of nothing in particular, I heard a masculine voice say: ‘You have run the race. You have fought the good fight.’)
24 March 1967
On the way to the lecture Neville casually mentioned the story to the friends driving him — David, Jack, Grace and his wife — and his wife told him it should be told, which is why he tells it that nig
Caller asks for a more practical lecture subject
Description
That afternoon a gentleman telephoned to ask the night's subject; Neville's wife took the call and reported the caller was unimpressed and wanted something more practical, and she doubted he would come.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
3 April 1967
Told
3 April 1967
Sources
- Source: Coming to Know the Only True God ¶0 (Then she came back and said, “I don’t think that he was at all impressed with that. He wanted something far more practical.”)
6 October 1967
At two in the morning of the day of the lecture a distressed woman friend telephoned from New York about a problem; Neville's wife answered and told her to see herself as she would be were she telling
17 November 1967
Neville describes waking at 1:30 that same morning, remaining in bed, and dropping into a state where he stood in a world just like this one telling his wife, his brothers, his friends and members of
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he finds more belief among strangers than in his own family: his wife believes, his son thinks it all stupid, and his 26-year-old college-graduate daughter thought him stupid at 18 and ha
before 1968
(possible)
Neville's wife once told him that the one thing wrong with him is that he cannot trust anyone but himself; he answered that he trusts everyone but asks no one for help.
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.
before 1968
(possible)
To comfort his sister, whose seventeen-year-old son Billy was dying of cancer in Barbados, Neville sat in New York and assumed he occupied Billy's room and was seen there by his sister; eight days lat
before 1968
(possible)
Speaking of the garments found in the grave, he says he found a male garment and his wife a female one, though neither is really male or female.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville, his wife and small daughter flew from Barbados to Trinidad to take a bauxite freighter from Port-of-Spain to Mobile, Alabama; the captain briefed him on meal times and warned him not to press
before 1968
(possible)
He remarks that he and his wife often think the same thoughts, yet even that intimacy is nothing to what awaits when the garments are taken off.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes how he and his wife think the same thoughts through the day, each voicing what the other has been thinking.
Neville's wife sees him carrying his radiant limp body
Description
About two weeks before this lecture, just before bed, his wife told him she had been disturbed all day by a vivid vision of him bathed in radiant light carrying his own limp body in his arms, like Michelangelo's Pietà.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 30 August 1968
Told
13 September 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days ¶22 (Well, about two weeks ago, just before we retired, my wife said to me: “I can’t go to sleep before I tell you what has been disturbing me all day. I had a vivid vision when I saw you bathed in radiant light, carrying yourself in your arms.)
September 1968
(probable)
In September, before the child was conceived, Neville saw an unborn boy who told him he was coming on the tenth of November and that his name was Neville Mark; he told his wife and then their pregnant
Three women refuse the admission charge and call the lectures tripe
Description
His wife told him that on Friday night three women arrived, and on hearing the three-dollar charge one of them said she would not pay for such lectures because they were all tripe.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 25 October 1968
- 25 October 1968 (probable)
Told
- 28 October 1968 (probable)
- 28 October 1968 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Freedom! ¶32 (As my wife said to me last Friday night…three ladies came in and when they heard that there was a charge, one said, “How much?” and my wife said three dollars.)