Events involving this person
A friend dreams of tame wild birds in Neville's sun parlor
Description
A friend present at the lecture told him a dream in which he was a guest in Neville's home with Neville and his wife in the sun parlor, where Neville put out strips of paper and countless wild birds came and were as tame as house pets; Neville interprets the birds as scriptural ideas domesticated by long study.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
8 November 1968
Told
8 November 1968
Sources
- Source: The Knowledge of God ¶55 (Like a friend of mine (who is here tonight) said, “I came into your home as your guest, you and your wife. We were in the sun parlor and you were putting out strips of paper. Then suddenly there were unnumbered birds.)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville remarks that the spiritual gift of his eyes was not given on this level and not by his own choosing - had it been his choice he would have given them to his wife or daughter, not to a lady he
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recalls the joy of being told his wife was pregnant, and the thrill of first holding his son and seeing him make a fist.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville refers in passing to his ordinary human loves - a child, his wife, his family and friends - as a contrast to the love he met in vision.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes giving his immortal eyes, from another level of his own being and not by his own choosing, to a woman he does not know socially rather than to his wife or daughter, and keeping the g
before 1969
(possible)
Neville recalls going with his wife to the uncut, five-hour version of Hamlet on 44th Street off Broadway, breaking after two and a half hours for dinner at Sardi's and returning for the rest.
before 1969
(possible)
Walking on a Barbados beach with his wife and daughter, Neville watched two boys turn over a rock; the larger of two crabs ran off, then returned to seize the smaller one, press it to its breast and c
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he cannot balance his own small checkbook — the bank always tells him he has less than he thought, though once he got a $100 credit — and neither can his wife, who majored in mathematics
Tommy's imagined phone call leads Neville to arrange a luncheon
Description
In New York, Neville's friend Tommy, an elderly commercial artist, was in love with a much younger woman named Ritchie who would not see him; Tommy imagined a three-thirty phone call inviting him to lunch, and at that moment Neville woke with the impulse to telephone Ritchie and then Tommy, arranging a luncheon at the Club which Tommy hosted and Neville paid for.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 29 October 1965
Told
26 September 1969(refuted)- 29 October 1965
Sources
- Source: Your Creative Power ¶28 (And so, at home one day, sitting in the Silence, I woke at twenty-five minutes after three with an intense desire to call Ritchie (that’s her name).)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville's wife disapproved of his artist friend's romance with a much younger woman and worked to separate them, while Neville did not mind either way.
before 1969
(possible)
Lying on his bed in Beverly Hills he saw and then stepped into another world just as solid as this one, told two ladies in a plush hotel corridor that the whole thing was a dream, they fled from him a
before 1969
(possible)
He bought a suit from his tailor without knowing why; his wife would not let it into the house, and a friend who wanted just such a suit then took it.
before 1969
(possible)
At the time of the experience he had a wife and a daughter just entering high school, and had not yet provided money enough to cushion them if he died then.
before 1969
(possible)
He describes his home with his wife: a used library, comfortable functional furniture and some fine old pieces from his wife's mother's estate, which the annual valuers dismiss as worthless though buy
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says that on this level he would have given his eyes to his wife and then his daughter, but from above he gave them instead to a woman he knows only from his meetings - whose husband he knows,
April 1969
(probable)
Stranded in Barbados in April and told by the travel agent that no passage to New York was available before September, he imagined walking up the gangplank of a ship and feeling the salt on the rail,
7 April 1964
He refers in passing to his present life — sleeping at 1025 Carol Drive, and thinking now from the lecture room of his home where his wife is.
The 1964 Citizen-News notice names Neville and his wife
c. June 1969
His friend Freedom Barry telephoned in a panic because his grand piano had vanished with a truck and driver after factory repairs; Neville imagined it was Freedom playing the piano concerto on the rad
5 June 1969
Coming through to the surface on Thursday morning Neville saw the Belmont race in vivid colour two days before it was run - Arts and Letters first, Majestic Prince second, Dike third - told his wife a
19 June 1969
(probable)
In the small hours of a Thursday morning he saw a horse race in vision three days before it was run, seeing Arts and Letters win on the rail with Majestic Prince second and Dike third; he woke disappo
22 June 1969
Last Sunday he and his wife got up about 5:30 to watch the moon coverage on television, and he heard a preacher expounding on an upper and a lower hell, which he dismissed as nonsense.
24 June 1969
Neville says he and his wife prefer to live in a rented apartment rather than own a home, and that monetary security is illusory because a revolution on his native island could wipe out the family for
between 29 September 1969 and 5 October 1969
(probable)
Neville tells how one night in vision he gave his immortal eyes to a woman named Sharon, and how the previous week she came and told him her own vision: heavenly music, a ball of light with a child's
Woman confesses bargaining with God before her daughter's suicide
Description
At dinner the night before with a couple who are friends of his and his wife, the woman confessed for the first time that as a girl she had troubled her mother, and when her mother developed cancer had bargained with God to take the child she loved most in exchange; years later her third daughter, a successful dancer earning $500 a week, killed herself, and Neville kept silent rather than tell her the connection.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
23 October 1969
Told
24 October 1969
Sources
- Source: We Are God Himself ¶60 (I was in the company last night of a very wonderful, dear couple, friends of ours who have gone through a great tragic thing in the last few years, and she told me for the first time last night at dinner that she gave her mother a great deal of trouble w…)
before 1970
(possible)
In the middle of that same lost-suitcase night he got up, sat in the quiet of their apartment and read his Bible before dawn.