A husband tells Neville of his wife's two experiences
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
19 November 1965
Audience member reports his wife's two experiences of the law
Description
Neville reports that just before taking the platform tonight a husband in the audience told him his wife had had two startling experiences of the working of the law, and Neville asks her to write them out so he can tell them from the platform.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
19 November 1965
Told
19 November 1965
Sources
- Source: What Are You Sowing ¶41 (Now, before I took the platform tonight, this husband told me that his wife has two of the most startling experiences on the working of the law.)
New Thought organization bars a woman from Neville's meetings
Description
A woman telephoned him yesterday and again today to say that a large international "new thought" organization has forbidden her to attend his meetings; afraid of their power she calls or writes instead of coming in person.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 21 November 1965 and 22 November 1965
- between 6 May 1965 and 7 May 1965 (probable)
Told
- 22 November 1965 (doubtful)
- 22 November 1965 (doubtful)
- 7 May 1965 (probable)
Sources
- Source: This World Is a Dream ¶29 (So she called yesterday, she called today again to repeat that this organization, international, very powerful, tells her she must not come to my meetings.)
22 November 1965
(probable)
Unemployed carpenter gains work through concerted imagining
Description
A lady he knows well told him before the lecture that, following his instruction of a couple of weeks earlier, she went to bed assuming "I am Christ" for her fifty-five-year-old unemployed husband; unknown to Neville his own wife and another friend had secretly agreed on the same project, and the husband went on a payroll yesterday, starting officially Monday.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 22 November 1965
- 6 May 1965 (probable)
Told
- 22 November 1965 (doubtful)
- 22 November 1965 (doubtful)
- 7 May 1965 (probable)
Sources
- Source: This World Is a Dream ¶22 (I know that another very dear friend of hers and my wife agreed in secret—-and to this day I didn’t know they had agreed—but I know she and my wife agreed to simply make this a project, to bring him into a wonderful state of affluence, of real, real affl…)
A friend tells Neville he longs for an experience of God
Description
Just before taking the platform for this lecture, a friend told Neville how hungry he was for an experience of God, saying that even if offered the combined wealth of Getty, Rockefeller, and Ford in exchange for such an experience, he would keep none of it and ask only for God.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
23 November 1965
Told
23 November 1965
25 November 1965
A gentleman came to Neville's door today bringing eleven case histories written by his wife, whom Neville had spoken to last Friday night and asked for them; Neville intends to use them to illustrate
Friend prefers an experience of God to immense wealth
Description
A friend spoke to Neville just before he took the platform tonight, saying he was so hungry for an experience of God that he would refuse the combined wealth of Getty, Rockefeller and Ford for it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 25 November 1965
- 23 November 1965
Told
- 25 November 1965 (doubtful)
- 23 November 1965
Sources
- Source: The Unrighteous Steward: Memory ¶34 (as a friend said to me before I took the meeting, took the platform, he said, “Neville, I am so hungry for an experience of God. If you took Getty’s wealth added to Rockefeller’s and added to the Ford’s, add them all together, and offered me it as agains…)
25 November 1965
Neville says his copy of the current Time magazine arrived today, and he read its religion page on indulgences and on Malcolm Boyd's prayers with disbelief, looking up at the calendar to check the yea
26 November 1965
(probable)
28 November 1965
Neville explains that the season of Advent comprises four Sundays, and names the Sunday nearest 30 November -- the first Sunday of Advent, which he calls 'The Day of Christ or Christmas' -- criticizin
28 November 1965
(probable)
30 November 1965
c. December 1965
(probable)
Danny reports completion of his album
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. December 1965
(probable)
Told
4 January 1966
Danny's album reaches the market
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
December 1965
Told
4 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Your Future ¶30 (this past month of December)
Neville watches Mike Quill denounce a judge before Quill's death
Description
Neville saw Mike Quill on television cursing the judge who sentenced him, and Quill, who then had a heart attack in prison, died today.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between December 1965 and January 1966
(probable)
Told
28 January 1966
Sources
- Source: What Must We Do Believe ¶31 (Just a few weeks ago when he was sentenced, he said–and I saw it on TV, here was a face filled with anger and filled with venom, speaking of the judge–he said, “May he drop dead in his black robes.”)
5 December 1965
(probable)
between 7 December 1965 and 4 January 1966
(probable)
Immediately after delivering this lecture, Neville announces a two-week vacation from lecturing, telling the audience to expect lectures to resume on Tuesday, January 4, 1966 -- a date independently c
Perplexed correspondent warns Neville about national subversion
Description
That morning's mail brought Neville a long typewritten, unsigned letter signed 'perplexed', from someone disturbed by what he said the previous Sunday morning and detailing their fear that the country was being eaten by subversion; he answers the writer from the platform in case they are present.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 December 1965
Told
10 December 1965
Sources
- Source: The Unalloyed ¶14 (This morning’s mail brought a letter, typewritten, unsigned, but a little type perplexed. I can’t answer your letter if you’re here tonight.)
17 December 1965
(probable)
17 December 1965
(probable)
17 December 1965
19 December 1965
Last Sunday afternoon a close friend who works for Hughes on the space programme told him excitedly about the twenty Mars pictures due on July 14th, and Neville replied by asking whether he had read M
Caller asks why Neville's lecture break will be long
Description
Someone telephoned him the day of the lecture to say they could not attend and to ask why the break would be so long.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 20 December 1965
- 29 June 1965
Told
20 December 1965
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Summary 1965 ¶59 (As someone said to me today over the phone, “I can’t make it tonight, I’m not up to [...] But why so long?”)
Friend manifests second-row Royal Ballet tickets
Description
That morning's mail brought him a letter from a friend present in the room, telling how he invited a guest to the sold-out Royal Ballet without tickets, was offered only seats in the seventeenth row of the balcony, persisted in his imaginal scene of a fine seat, and at the box office was handed by a ticket seller named Max two seats in the second row right off the center aisle.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 20 December 1965
- 29 June 1965
Told
- 20 December 1965 (doubtful)
- 29 June 1965
Sources
- Source: Summary 1965 ¶71 (This morning’s mail brought me a letter from a friend who is here tonight. He said, “This, if you can use it, you can tell it to anyone. I decided to go the ballet, the Royal Ballet.)
25 December 1965
(probable)
In his 'Christmas' lecture, Neville tells his audience that a week from the next day -- Christmas Day -- preachers everywhere will explain the birth of Jesus in naturalistic, historical terms.
25 December 1965
(probable)
A friend gave Neville and his wife a subscription to the Sunday New York Times as a Christmas gift.
Agent brings Mrs. Roosevelt a tenant
Description
Neville recounts that after Mrs. Roosevelt visualized already having rented her Long Island home (Thursday night), her rental agent called at Friday noon with a tenant who paid for the summer and required immediate occupancy that same day; she moved out and slept in Long Island that Friday night, then called Neville Saturday morning to report it. Told in the lecture 'Your Future' (nid 1863, delivered 1966-01-04, a Tuesday); working the Thursday/Friday/Saturday sequence back from that date places the agent's call on Friday, 1965-12-31.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
31 December 1965
(probable)
Told
4 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Your Future ¶16 (the agent's Friday-noon call and the tenant's same-day move-in)
- Source: Your Future ¶17 (Mrs. Roosevelt's Saturday-morning call to Neville reporting she slept in Long Island)
1966
Neville published Resurrection.
Person: Neville Goddard
1966
Rod Serling's 1966 TV film "The Doomsday Flight," about a bomb aboard an airliner, later inspired a real 1971 Qantas bomb-extortion hoax that Neville referenced disapprovingly in a l
between 1966 and 1966
(possible)
Freedom Barry worked as a tour guide at Hearst Castle for 16 years, retiring approximately 14 years before this September 1996 lecture, placing the run roughly 1966-1982.
c. 1966
(possible)
A friend brought Ramana to hear Neville Goddard lecture at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, after which Ramana spoke with him and was invited to return; the memoir places this around the same period as
1966
(probable)
Lecture catalog #1161 — text: HAVE (PROVISIONAL: youtube-caption source, pending verification)
1966
(probable)
c. November 1966
(probable)
before 1966
(possible)