A man doubles his salary and grows an impossible indoor tree
Description
A week earlier Neville told from the platform the story of a man present in the audience who doubled his salary, then received money without working, then grew a tree in his living room that nurserymen said could not grow there.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1966 (probable)
- 14 October 1966
Told
19 January 1967(refuted)- 14 October 1966
- 7 October 1966
Sources
- Source: What Must We Do ¶10 (Well, I told the story a week ago tonight, the gentleman was here and I told his story, how he believed it to the point where he tried it, and how he moved from one salary to doubling his salary.)
A broker's revision leads to appointment as co-trustee
Description
An investment broker in Neville's audience told him how, after reading a newspaper story about a dishonest broker, he revised it and bathed in the feeling of being trustworthy, and was then asked by a client he had never met to become co-trustee of his estate.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1966 (probable)
- 14 October 1966
- 7 October 1966
Told
19 January 1967(refuted)- 14 October 1966
Sources
- Source: What Must We Do ¶11 (He said, “A few months ago I read in the daily paper a story about a dishonest investment broker. I instantly revised it, changed the entire thing, because I, too, am an investment broker.)
14 October 1966
Neville recounts having earlier told a vision of the arm, in which a peg was nailed into his shoulder and the key of David given, and says he afterwards looked it up and found it in the 22nd chapter o
before 1966
(possible)
Neville recalls how his mother Wilsey, wanting to travel to America, would mentally prepare the trip until his father Joseph came home insisting she must go; the children, including Neville, Cecil and
Event described in telling 1237-4
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing two visions in one night: seeing a figure that turned out to be herself collapse in a faint which she lowered to the ground, and then seeing that same self rising head and arms first out of the earth.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 4 February 1966
Told
- 4 February 1966
- 4 February 1966
Sources
- Source: Commune With Yourself ¶23 (Another friend writes me that here, suddenly, she sees a figure; it’s to her right and forward. And looking at it, it turns and looks, and it’s herself.)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says he has had the experiences of glory himself but cannot find words to describe them, though he is not sworn to secrecy.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville mentions his habit of announcing his lectures by taking a small advertisement in the Times.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville recounts his own experience of the heavenly banquet: an angelic chorus called 'Neville is risen!', he rose luminous in a body of fire and air, glided past an enormous sea of human imperfection
before 1966
(possible)
In the Q and A he lists the cabled dividend, far larger than he expected, as an example of the law working after he simply talked to himself and gave thanks for it.
before 1966
(possible)
He names getting out of the army as one of the ways the law has been used, referring to it as a story his audience already knows.
before 1966
(possible)
A very dear friend of Neville's, whom he calls Rosy and who is now worth millions, told him how as a Jewish boy on New York's east side he had to run a daily gauntlet of two or three hundred yards pas
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says that from his own experience, when he tells robed churchmen that Jesus Christ is God the Father and their own human Imagination they are shocked, demand to know where he gets it in the Bi
1966
Neville describes his own experience of the eternal youth — the only begotten Son — standing before him and calling him 'Father', an emotion he says he cannot explain to anyone present.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville describes his own experience of the crucifixion as sheer ecstasy with no blood, tears or pain, and says reliving the memory of it still brings joy.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville tells the audience that his series is ending — two weeks left, four meetings remaining — and that he is leaving on the third on a one-way ticket, hoping that on his return they will have stori
between 1905 and 1923
(probable)
He recalls being raised a Christian and taught that the resurrection was a mass rising of everyone at some future time, which he later found to be wrong.
before 1966
(possible)
Asked about leaving the body, he says he has himself got out of the body and gone places, and that it is not difficult and has nothing to do with spiritual advancement.
before 1966
(possible)
He insists he is a man like the rest, with all a man's restrictions, and would never judge himself worthy of the grace he received.
before 1966
(possible)
He tells of arresting activity within himself and thereby freezing birds in flight, a walking waitress and diners at their meal, doing it entirely in his head.
28 October 1966
Neville states that he speaks only from his own experience, that Scripture has been fulfilled in him and that his own days of conscious work here are finished.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville describes his two long-standing friends: Vera, born in Russia, who came to New York City to be a dancer and now runs a dress shop in the Disneyland Hotel, and Jimmie, born in Italy — he has kn
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says three of his brothers married Catholic women and, not being blessed in the church themselves, had to be married in a little chapel on the side; their children were all put through college
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says he has personally watched men who hated certain races and nations be saved by that very race and nation.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says friends of his who know him intimately as a man will not accept his teaching, and go off around the world after unwashed holy men until they find those too have clay feet.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville states that he knows from his own experience that there is only one body, into which you are gathered one by one.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville recalls Abdullah's meetings, where the seventeenth chapter of John had to be committed to memory by everyone, recited standing together at the close with no reading of books, and Abdullah alwa
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says that night after night he must gather all those within his world into the pattern as the Rock is re-established.
Man dreams of the silver serpent
Description
Neville tells of a second letter, from a man kept away by the weather, who dreamed friends told him the all-powerful silver serpent was in his room, and that searching would not find it - it would find him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 7 November 1966
Told
7 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Life Is for Acting ¶22 (Now the other chap, who undoubtedly because of the weather isn’t here, he wrote this story. May I tell you, his hunger to have an experience of God is all possessing. I never met anyone more hungry, more desirous of experiencing God.)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville describes dropping into St. Thomas' church in New York City at vesper hour, two blocks from where he lives, to sit in the quiet with the soft organ music.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville explains that he calls his wife Bill - never Willa, the name given her at birth - and usually Sweet, Darling or Dear; and that when separated from her by distance he calls her name inwardly in
Woman repeatedly seeks Neville's help being loved at work
Description
A woman telephones Neville again and again complaining that the people where she works do not like her, and however often he puts her into the state of being loved she falls back and calls him a week later.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 22 November 1966
Told
22 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Occupant or Inmate ¶25 (So like the lady who calls me all the time that they don’t like her, when I hang up I still must do what she asks of me…to have them like her.)
R. Crutcher dreams Neville leads him from enemies
Description
Neville reads out a letter from R. Crutcher describing a dream in which Neville led him from a hill where enemies shot at him from among vines to the back of the house, where the hill had become a field of harvested wheat; in the dream Neville told him he had been there two years and had learned how to move and discipline.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 22 November 1966
Told
22 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Occupant or Inmate ¶15 (So I told him the conflict is over, that hill that shot at you is no longer an enemy. It is now a field, a harvest of golden wheat with all gaily harvesting…already a mountain of harvested wheat.)
Woman dreams of harvest after assuming security
Description
A woman writes to Neville that after his story of the harvest she assumed security on going to bed and dreamed of leading a child and an old woman through a parting wall to a blazing fireplace, and days later dreamed of a harvested wheat field with a few matured stalks left and three buffalo she did not fear.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 22 November 1966
Told
22 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Occupant or Inmate ¶9 (A lady wrote, “The story of the harvest meant so much to me.”)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville's earthly father always left a large portion of food on his plate, saying the servants had to eat too — his way of leaving the harvest for the sojourner.
Woman dreams revision changes scenes
Description
A woman writes that in her dream she revised scene after scene and saw them change before her eyes, then on waking, communing with herself, was told to move into the state of love and felt herself falling backwards until she broke it by opening her eyes.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 22 November 1966
Told
22 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Occupant or Inmate ¶13 (The lady writes, “In my dream I came upon scene after scene, and every scene presented I revised, and before my eyes, the whole thing became what I had imagined, and I knew I was the cause of the change for it was changing as I saw it.”)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says he speaks from his own experience of seeing the face of Christ, a face of majesty and beauty which he knew to be his own.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville states plainly that he has seen David, and that reason cannot answer it.
22 November 1966
(probable)
Speaking of Emerson dying insane, Neville says that at sixty-two he would not care what his own exit looked like, and hopes those who love him would understand.
before 1966
(possible)
Neville recalls having dived backwards from a high-diving board, using it to describe the sensation of falling backwards in vision.
Couple independently imagines marriage and meets after a lecture
Description
Neville reads a letter from a woman living north of San Francisco who flew to Los Angeles to attend his lecture, met a man over coffee afterwards who offered to buy her a steak, heard an inner voice say 'This is your husband', and married him the following January; the man added his own account of wearing a pawn-shop wedding band nightly while imagining he was happily married.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1966
Told
18 September 1967
Sources
- Source: Yours For the Taking ¶9 (Last year this lady, living about sixty miles north of San Francisco, was possessed with the desire to come to Los Angeles and attend my lecture.)
c. 1966
On a visit home a couple of years ago, Neville's brother, a doctor who died at sixty-three, asked him about his memory; Neville said he remembers the Bible and poetry but nothing of the newspapers, wh
Bob learns through conflict how to move
Description
Neville recounts his friend Bob's experience of two years earlier, in which Bob asked how long he had been there and Neville told him two years, through conflict, and that what he had learned was how to move.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1966
Told
10 April 1968
Sources
- Source: I Remember When ¶19 (So my friend Bob two years ago had this marvelous experience. “Then how long have I been here?” I said, “Two years”—which is conflict—“through the conflict you were here.”)
c. 1966
About three years ago, in a vision, Neville gave a woman friend his eyes and she was told she was the incurrent witness; since then she has had the capacity to see reality from within.
Woman defeats embodied fear and knows herself as Christ
Description
Neville recounts the vision of a lady known to him - a young mother of two expecting her third child, who three years earlier had received his eyes in vision - in which she confronted a man dressed in black whom she recognised as the embodiment of fear, struck him, remembered an ancient dream of a tree, and knew herself to be Paul and Jesus Christ.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1966
Told
20 October 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Sorrow Produces Glorious End ¶13 (Now let me share a recent experience of a lady who received my eyes in vision about three years ago, at which time she was told that she was an incurrent eyewitness: one who gives passage to a current moving inward where reality is to be seen.)
Man imagines employment for an older woman
Description
The same man who sent the Denver story wrote to Neville about a woman who could not get a job because of her age; he imagined she told him she had a good job she loved, told her not to lie about her age, and in forty-eight hours she was employed by the Civil Service.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 1967 (possible)
Told
27 December 1966(refuted)27 December 1966(refuted)- 17 April 1967 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Jesus Or Barabbas ¶11 (Now the same gentleman who told me the story of Denver, he writes of a lady. Because of an age condition she couldn’t get a job, couldn’t find a job because you’re beyond a certain age limit.)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville's mother taught him that Jesus was a boy born unnaturally who rose to manhood, died for us and was sacrificed on a wooden cross, and he believed it; at school he was flogged unmercifully by a
before 1966
(possible)
Neville first heard the mystery of Christianity from a black man who was not born a Christian; the blow demolished everything he had believed and he had to rebuild his world from ashes and then prove
before 1966
(possible)
Neville tried the experiment of sleeping in imagination in another place as a joke and no longer dares to, because it always works and he finds himself compelled to make the journey when he does not w
before 1966
(possible)
Neville says he printed forty case histories in one book and could have printed a thousand, all of them stating plainly that the results came from imagining.
Tom has persistent marks on his skin
Description
He begins to cite a man named Tom as a living example, saying nothing would remove certain marks from his skin, but the tape runs out.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 1967 (possible)
Told
27 December 1966(refuted)27 December 1966(refuted)- 17 April 1967 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Jesus Or Barabbas ¶55 (Well, there is one chap, Tom, who certainly is a living example because nothing would remove these things from his skin…)