1895
(possible)
The 1920 census immigration column states Modeste Abdallah Guillaume immigrated to the U.S. in 1895, though this is not yet confirmed in ship records.
Person: Abdullah
Neville recounts his parents' childhood romance and modest wedding
Description
Neville tells of his parents' romance — his father met his mother when she was three and he was eight, they married when she was eighteen — and of his father telling his little niece at her lavish champagne party that at his own wedding he could ill afford a half-pint of rum.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1895 and 1898
(possible)
Sources
- Source: The Dreamer ¶9 (He said to my little niece, “So we give this fabulous party for you today, champagne is flowing like a river, everything. When I married your grandmother I could ill afford a half-pint of rum.”)
c. 1895
(possible)
A local-color humor item headed 'MAINEISMS' in the Oxford Democrat, filed as 'Greenwood Correspondence' (Greenwood, Maine), describes an unnamed itinerant peddler of 'Yankee notions' who passed throug
2 July 1896
(probable)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette item ('A Hebrew's Strange Story') reporting that a deaf-mute Black man, claiming his home was in South Africa, turned up in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and handed a clothing-st
1897
(possible)
An American Hebrew item, 'Jews With Black Skins', describes an unnamed blind black Jew who had been travelling the United States (West, South, North) and was last heard from in Hartford, communicating
c. 1897
(possible)
A piece in American Hebrew (reprinted here from an Oregon newspaper) reports periodic press items about 'a blind black Jew' touring the United States — West, South and North, last heard from in Hartfo
1898
(probable)
Neville tells his audience that fourteen years before the Titanic sank, a writer he describes as English (Morgan Robertson, though in fact American, is not named) published a novel called 'Futility' a
1898
Neville cites Morgan Robertson's 1898 novel Futility -- an unknown author's story of a great ship sinking on its maiden voyage after striking an iceberg -- as an imagination-made-real precursor to the
1898
(possible)
A Newark paper's 'A Negro Hebrew In Town' item profiles Joseph Lescovitz, described as a coal-black Negro claiming Hebrew faith, who arrived in Newark from Egypt two months earlier hoping to find work
1898
(possible)
A newspaper profile describes a Nubian Hebrew traveler associated with Joseph Lescovitz, Moses Simon, and Rabbi Lipman.
20 May 1898
Joseph Murphy was born on May 20, 1898, in a hamlet about fifteen kilometers from a small town on the south coast of Ireland.
5 October 1898
(probable)
A 25-year-old black man named Samuel Muskowitz, employed by a rabbi to write Torah scrolls, was arraigned before Magistrate Meade in the Essex Market court on a disorderly-conduct charge after a crowd
8 December 1898
(doubtful)
The Sun reported that this "Prof. Abdullah" admitted his real name was Behrendt and that he had no esoteric powers; confirmed unrelated to Neville's teacher.
Birth of Neville's writer friend
Description
Neville speaks of a close friend, a very successful writer five years his senior, who would not listen to his teaching about the Father-Son relationship -- afraid of it, and more interested, in his own words, in wanting money and 'some fun first.' Neville says this friend died about three years before this lecture while watching television, and adds that he is confident the friend is now, in death, being restored to the same understanding he refused to hear in life.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1899 and 1900
(possible)
Told
8 February 1968
Pope John XXIII begins his confessional writings at eighteen
Description
Reading a newspaper report on the recently published confessions of Pope John XXIII -- who had by then served four years as Pope and lived past his eightieth birthday -- Neville notes to his audience that the Pope began these private written confessions at the age of eighteen, using the fact to illustrate a lifelong practice of self-examination unfamiliar to most Catholics and Protestants alike.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1899 and 1900
(possible)
Told
19 March 1965
c. 1899
(possible)
A 'Courant' newspaper item ('Colored Man Says He Belongs to One of the Lost Tribes') profiles Samuel Valikovitz, a black Hebrew scribe ('sophor'), age 87, recently arrived from Boston and looking for
c. 1899
(possible)
The Elmira Daily Gazette profiles 'Samuel Volskovitz', described as 'the greatest curiosity' and 'a real live native Negro-Hebrew', who arrived in Elmira and conducted services in the synagogue the pr
3 August 1899
(doubtful)
The Sun reported Barin L. Behrendi, professionally "Prof. Abdullah, astrologer," was swindled out of $80; researcher flags this as a dead-end unrelated to Neville's teacher.
1900
(probable)
Neville's father entered an icehouse partnership on Broad Street, selling imported block ice.
Place: Bridgetown, Barbados
Person: Joseph Nathaniel Goddard
Carter says Neville asserted in virtually every lecture that he was not theorizing but had experienced scripture from beginning to end, and that his hearers would have the same experience.
Description
Carter says Neville asserted in virtually every lecture that he was not theorizing but had experienced scripture from beginning to end, and that his hearers would have the same experience. [Date evidence: recurring across Neville's lectures; no specific occasion]
Persons
Verbatim (witness's words)
I don't think a lecture went by that he didn't say that I am not theorizing, I am not speculating. I have experienced scripture from the beginning to the end, and it's all true, and you're going to have the same experience.
Neville (as quoted): "I am not theorizing, I am not speculating. I have experienced scripture from the beginning to the end, and it's all true, and you're going to have the same experience."
Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
- between 1900 and 13 January 1964 (doubtful)
- 17 October 1967 (doubtful)
- 8 February 1963
- before 1971
Told
- 20 June 1976
10 February 1967(refuted)17 October 1967(refuted)16 April 1970(refuted)- 13 October 1969
- 8 February 1963
- 8 May 1969
- 12 December 1969
- 6 March 1972
- 17 October 1966
- 16 April 1971
- 22 March 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (ngr37__carter — Frank Carter, first-hand)
- Source: If Any Two Agree ¶16 (That’s what I’ve been trying night after night to convince everyone who is here: that you, one day, will discover that you are actually, literally God the Father!)
- Source: Christ in Man ¶15 (Standing before you tonight I can say, unschooled, unlettered, unknown, uneducated by human standards, yet scripture, the only reality in the world, has been fulfilled in me.)
- Source: Order Then Wait 2 ¶21 (What I am telling you I could never have discovered through reason. I never could have found it in a book. It is in the Bible, but I didn’t see it until it happened.)
- Source: The State of Paul: The Free Man ¶15 (But I’m quite sure he would have written the identical story as I’ve told you concerning that plan as it unfolded itself in me. It’s the same story.)
- Source: God's Promise to Man ¶34 (Every word I have told you this night, I have experienced.)
- Source: The Rock ¶16 (This I know from experience and speak to you with authority. The scribes speak from theory and speculation, but I speak with the authority gained from experience.)
- Source: God's Dwelling Place ¶36 (I have had all of the experiences that are now recorded in scripture concerning the Lord Jesus Christ - and I mean all of them; yet I am in a weak garment and will remain there until the day I take it off to return to my former state, glorified beyond wh…)
- Source: Mystery Life ¶12 (I told them thy Word as I experienced it. I interpreted thy Word to them, and Father – they heard it. Some rejected it and some believed it.)
- Source: John The Crown of Scripture ¶25 (So, this is the truth that I would share with you. I’ve experienced Scripture. I’ve experienced it from beginning to end.)
Neville recounted to his audiences his experience of watching a large quartz fragment into a million pieces and then reassemble as his own glorified form as Buddha in the lotus posture — seeing his very own being (Neville's own vision, known to Carte
Description
Neville recounted to his audiences his experience of watching a large quartz fragment into a million pieces and then reassemble as his own glorified form as Buddha in the lotus posture — seeing his very own being (Neville's own vision, known to Carter only through Neville's telling).
Persons
Verbatim (witness's words)
I’m sure you remember his experience of seeing the large quartz and as he looked at it, it fragmented. It broke into a million pieces and then as he looked at it contemplating it, it suddenly reassembled as his own glorified form as Buddha in the lotus posture. So, he was looking at his very own being.
Location
Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
- c. 1900 (doubtful)
- 1934
- 1934
- between 1934 and 1944
- 1934
- before 23 July 1968
Told
15 October 1968(refuted)- 14 November 1963
- 8 December 1963
9 December 1968(refuted)9 December 1968(refuted)- 23 July 1968
- 12 December 1969 (probable)
- c. 1962 (probable)
- 19 February 1969
- 15 September 1957 (probable)
- 18 February 1966 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (sd1601__carter-cwb — Frank Carter, first-hand)
- Source: The Power and the Wisdom ¶36 (One night sitting in the silence (rather, it was an afternoon) I was thinking of nothing in particular, and suddenly before my eyes came this force. It was an enormous force. As I looked at it, it fragmented itself, broke into numberless little pieces, a…)
- Source: He Is Meditating Me / The Rock ¶1 (So while watching this wonderful golden liquid light, suddenly out of the nowhere came a stone, a rock. There’s nothing more sterile, nothing more opaque, nothing more contracted as far as imagery is concerned than a rock.)
- Source: What Is Truth ¶26 (For I saw the fragmented stone, the stone the builders rejected it is called by Peter, and “The stone that begot thee, thou art unmindful.” The stone… it broke into unnumbered fragments.)
- Source: The Mystery of Christmas ¶14 (So I lived in a basement apartment on 75th Street in New York City. I, too, did not know where the next was coming from. I didn’t despair; I sat in the Silence, not thinking of anything in particular…just simply with my eyes shut as in sleep, but I was c…)
- Source: Is Causation Imaginal ¶34 (And so, one day, you’re going to see him, just as you read in my little book — others sought the same experience — only mine preceded his by many years — his happened in 1944 and mine happened in 1934.)
- Source: The Rock ¶3 (In 1934, while sitting quietly not thinking of anything in particular, I closed my eyes and watched golden, pulsing light come out of my head. Suddenly a solid rock, such as a quartz, appeared before my eyes.)
- Source: Blake on Religion (Second Delivery) ¶45 (Or I encountered myself, seated in the Lotus posture. I looked at him — there’s never been a more radiantly beautiful manner, with a character that this little Neville does not possess — it was majesty, there was strength of character, there was nobility)
Friend's relative works in vaudeville theater
Description
Neville recalls a friend and her husband who, though she rarely sees him except on weekends, still find common ground discussing people long gone from the world -- in particular a relative of hers who had worked, under a stage name, in the old vaudeville theater before the turn of the century. He notes she seems to still be living, in a sense, in that vanished era, content to let the same old memories play again and again rather than disturb the pleasant illusion.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1900
(possible)
Told
21 January 1966
before 1900
(doubtful)
Neville tells of an argument years ago with his aunt Maude, his father's sister, a lifelong member of The Brothers: he told her the Bible says Jesus had brothers, she nearly struck him, he had her fet
c. 1900
(possible)
Neville took care of the funerals of two of the three friends he was serving in the dream, many years earlier in New York City, and has not heard from the third for a very long time.
c. 1900
(probable)
San Diego waitress imagines and sails to Samoa
Description
A story Neville tells of a seventeen-year-old waitress in San Diego who, riding a streetcar in the rain on Christmas Eve after her father's death, imagined the rain was sea spray and that she was sailing into the Bay of Samoa; ten days later a Chicago firm wrote that a dead aunt had left her three thousand dollars, and a month later she sailed into Samoa exactly as imagined.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1900 (doubtful)
- before 1955 (probable)
- before 1955 (probable)
Told
10 March 1958(refuted)10 March 1958(refuted)- 1955 (probable)
Sources
- Source: How to Use Your Imagination ¶2 (It’s the story of a young girl just turned seventeen. It was Christmas Eve, and she is sad of heart, for that year she had lost her father in an accident, and she is returning home to what seemed to be an empty house.)
Years ago Neville became aware of two beings - a beautiful angelic woman above him and a monstrous hairy ape-like creature below that called her 'Mother'; when he pummelled it and it fed on his violen
On 49th Street in New York Neville overheard two women in front of a window displaying his picture and books; one called him the mad mystic of 48th Street and urged her out-of-town friend to come and
Neville recounts a vision from many years ago in which he entered an infinite field of huge flower-like beings whose blossoms were perfect human faces, all moving in concert as if led by an invisible
Neville says the vision he had many years ago of man as an inverted tree that turns upright startled people, and that the first time he told it was in San Francisco, where the reaction was horrible.
One night Neville saw a vision of an enormous crowd of humanity walking forward like sleepwalkers toward some invisible Mecca, and it was revealed to him at that moment that he would reach six hours a
before 1900
(doubtful)
He recalls a French artist in New York City who took forty-six different pictures of Christ from the Forty-second Street library and projected them with a lantern, no two alike, each claimed as an ins
Woman's son returns from military service
Description
A woman interrupts from the audience to recount that many years earlier, at an old church in New York City, she asked Neville about her son at sea in the service; he told her to let him hear good news of the son's deliverance, and after a day of imagining on George Washington's birthday she received word within four days that he was returning home on a luxury liner.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1900 (doubtful)
- before 29 March 1963
Told
29 March 1963
Sources
- Source: You Can Forgive Sin ¶35 (Thank you, my dear. “I’ll never forget you, Neville Goddard. You don’t remember me, but I’ll never forget you.” May I tell you, thank you! It doesn’t fail!)
before 1900
(doubtful)
Many years ago at the Harvard Club in New York, Neville was introduced to Walter Damrosch as a great metaphysician; when asked which school he belonged to and answering 'None of these.
before 1900
(doubtful)
Walking through Harlem years ago, the smell of cooking instantly carried him back to Barbados though he was two thousand miles away.
before 1900
(doubtful)
Neville's vision of a coliseum flower exhibition where he found and bedded down a runt pig, then of a supermarket where the pig had grown thin; his daughter Vicki pulled a box of crackers from the bot
before 1900
(doubtful)
Neville recalls first telling the story of seeing men as trees walking in San Francisco many years ago, and a lady there telling him it seemed insane.
Woman recovers stolen furniture through assumption
Description
A wealthy New York woman who had once been an incurable violent mental patient went to Europe for nine months and returned to find her furniture stolen; after police and private detectives failed, she came to Neville, they sat in the Silence and she assumed her furniture restored, and then she met her maid by chance a block from her Madison Avenue bank and the maid took her to where the furniture was stored.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1900 (doubtful)
- before 16 January 1964
Told
16 January 1964
Sources
- Source: The Larger Venture ¶12 (And then, we sat in the Silence and she and I agreed that she had her furniture. I asked her to assume that she was sitting in her own place where she had paid the rent, and here, lovely pictures of her children on the piano, and all the things were ther…)
Neville recalls an earlier vision in which people, a bird and leaves were alive only because he made them alive, and stood still the moment he stopped the activity within himself.
A Bible-class student imagines and obtains exact pay
Description
In his Bible class in New York City Neville had a woman name the exact pay she wanted down to the penny, feel, smell, shake and count the contents of the imagined envelope; within a week she had that job at that amount.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1900 (doubtful)
- before 4 December 1964
Told
- 4 December 1964
- 4 December 1964
Sources
- Source: The Primal State ¶20 (Just as someone one night in my Bible class in New York City, I asked if she knew what she wanted. She named it down to the penny. She said, “My withholding tax is so much, and I don’t want less than so much in my envelope.”)
Neville was taken one night into a world of beings who had not yet entered the shell, who called Earth 'Woodland' and refused to believe his account of it; Heine told him they did not believe a word,
Neville woke in a state of heightened awareness to see a supremely beautiful woman above him and a monstrous hairy ape-like beast below calling her "mother"; he beat the beast, which grew stronger on
Neville's father foretells and accepts his death
Description
Neville's father announced on the morning of his death, to Neville's brother Collin, that he was going that day, refused to be contradicted, and died that day — of a piece with a life in which he never doubted anything and read only the Bible.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1900(refuted)- before 12 January 1965
Told
12 January 1965
Sources
- Source: Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶41 (The day he died he said to my brother Collin, “I’m going today,” and he said, “No, Daddy, you can’t go today.” “Oh, yes, I’m going today. This is my day.” He went that day.)
A widow fills two apartment buildings through a dated assumption
Description
Many years ago in New York City, reading the 14th chapter of John, he devised the collapsing-of-time experiment and asked his audience to try it; a widow with two nearly empty, rundown apartment buildings in Brooklyn assumed the 28th of October with every unit rented, and by that date they were all rented — she had chosen the date so she could get a bank loan for repairs.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1900 (doubtful)
- before 25 June 1965
Told
25 June 1965
Sources
- Source: The Fundamental Sin ¶49 (I went to the meeting that night, and asked everyone present to join with me in the experiment—just to experiment, it costs you nothing.)
Poor woman inherits a fortune and abandons her friends
Description
A poor woman who came faithfully to Neville's meetings was brought by her wealthy-minded neighbour, who applied the teaching for her; within the year a relative died and left her $600,000, after which she cut off Neville, all her teachers and her friends out of suspicion that they were after her money.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1900 (doubtful)
- before 19 November 1965
Told
19 November 1965
Sources
- Source: What Are You Sowing ¶2 (This lady…well, many years ago she came every Tuesday, every Friday, and when I spoke on Thursday, every Thursday, never failed. She had no money, very little; she was the poor member of a very large family of wealthy people.)
before 1900
(doubtful)
Lying on his bed on El Camino in Beverly Hills, Neville saw the interior of a luxurious hotel, stepped into it a dozen or more times, and on deciding to explore found the world closed around him as so
before 1900
(doubtful)
In an earlier dream Neville found himself wading in water beside the surviving pillars of a long-gone bridge, held a stationary pillar and compelled himself to awake, and so awoke inside the dream.
before 1900
(doubtful)
He recalls the film The Scoundrel, in which Noel Coward's unloved editor dies in a plane crash, is gloated over by New York readers, and is given three more days on earth to find one person who will s