1966
Neville says he has written his own revelation in his book Resurrection, and that if the original New Testament scripts are ever found his story will be found in them; any editor today would strike th
before 1966
(possible)
Neville states his own age, saying he will be sixty-one at his next birthday while his friend is fifty-four.
Neville's niece undergoes three caesarean births
Description
Neville tells of a niece of his who had three caesarean operations, using it to argue that the birth from above need not always come in the same order or manner.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1966 (possible)
- before 19 February 1966 (possible)
Told
- 1966 (probable)
- between 19 February 1965 and 19 February 1966 (possible)
Sources
- Source: My Husband (tape) ¶32 (I have a niece who had three caesarean operations, which is normal. She made their fate up, surely, for a caesarean is not a normal or natural birth, but it can be a natural birth.)
before 1966
(possible)
Neville recounts moments when, entering a room, he arrested something within himself and everything around him stood still — a falling leaf stopped, people held motionless in the act of moving — and w
before 1966
(possible)
Neville appears to begin a recollection of his boyhood while ridiculing dietitians and doctors, but the transcript loops on the phrase and no story survives.
before 1966
(possible)
He mentions his own study habits and library: Cheyne's Psalms translation is in their library and he has read many commentaries and keeps many exegeses at home.
before 1966
(possible)
He states that his knowledge of scripture and his authority to preach came from no man, school or organization, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ, and that he now reads scripture only as confirmatio
Wealthy woman declines after pursuing meditation
Description
A wealthy woman who had heard him speak in this city about eighteen years earlier — and used his teaching to gain wealth, meeting a rich husband on a blind date and bearing two sons — told him in New York City last year that she would prove him wrong by sheer Imagination, joined a yoga society, and went off to do meditations; this past week he received a sad letter from a close friend of the family describing her mental decline.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1966
- between 8 September 1967 and 14 September 1967 (probable)
Told
15 September 1967
Sources
- Source: Have You Found Him ¶20 (One told me in New York City last year she is going to prove to me I’m wrong, and she’s going to actually do it by sheer Imagination, by proving that she can conjure this.)
A friend recommends a singer for the Art Linkletter Show
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. January 1966
(possible)
Told
8 February 1966
(probable)
1 January 1966
(probable)
In this last lecture before Christmas, Neville told his audience he was closing for a short break and would reopen on Tuesday, January 4, 1966, at the same place and time.
4 January 1966
(probable)
Questioner plans to move the weekend after Neville's lecture
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
after 4 January 1966
4 January 1966
Neville announces he is taking two weeks as a real vacation and will reopen on Tuesday January the 4th, advertising only in the Los Angeles Times.
Artist sends Neville four holiday-period visions
Description
An artist (a lady) sent Neville four accounts of her dreams and experiences during the week between his 17 December closing and his 4 January re-opening, and he reads them to the audience.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 5 January 1966 and 11 January 1966
(probable)
Told
11 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Behold the Dreamer ¶1 (Tonight I have four stories that this artist brought me, or rather sent me this past week.)
10 January 1966
Art reports a dramatic increase in weekly income
Description
Neville tells the audience of a letter Art wrote him describing a move from nothing to a considerable weekly sum, notes Art now travels from Long Beach, and mentions a call he received from New York the previous night that he asks Bill to be told about.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 January 1966
Told
11 January 1966
Sources
- Source: Behold the Dreamer ¶75 (You wrote a marvelous letter, where you moved from scratch to a considerable sum weekly—unfortunately, he’s now in another city and comes all the way from Long Beach—but his jump is a considerable jump in the financial world.)
Artist sends Neville four visionary stories
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 11 January 1966
(probable)
before 11 January 1966
14 January 1966
(probable)
14 January 1966
(probable)
14 January 1966
(probable)
Neville uses a night's news from Brazil -- "thousands of homes" lost to flooding, matching the severe January 1966 Rio de Janeiro floods and landslides -- to illustrate that no earthly possession, eve
14 January 1966
At sixty-one, Neville recalls how in his own lifetime it was fashionable to have appendix and tonsils removed.
18 January 1966
(probable)
20 January 1966
20 January 1966
Neville says he hurried through his shower the day before the lecture in order to hear the Secretary of State speak, and found he said nothing that had not been in the papers for months.
c. 22 January 1966
(probable)
Neville announces to the audience that his friend Freedom Barry -- whom he had persuaded some eight years earlier to begin teaching this work in San Francisco -- had come down about ten days before th
c. 22 January 1966
(probable)
Neville announces that his friend Freedom, whom he persuaded some eight years ago to go do this work in San Francisco, visited him about ten days ago, and has agreed to come down from Cambria once a m
23 January 1966
The night before this lecture, Neville's wife told him about two close friends of theirs in the city, pillars of a Beverly Hills church who gave generously of both money and time.
23 January 1966
His wife told him the night before about two close friends in the city, pillars of a Beverly Hills church, who would miss a party because they were going to Billy Graham's gathering in Denver; Neville
24 January 1966
He received a letter that day from his daughter-in-law in New York City telling him she is taking instruction at St.
24 January 1966
At six o'clock that evening he turned on the news and heard of a hush-hush meeting in Washington of the cabinet, the war staff and the president over some great decision.
after 24 January 1966
(probable)
24 January 1966
25 January 1966
(probable)
between 25 January 1966 and 1 February 1966
(probable)
28 January 1966
(probable)
between 28 January 1966 and 30 January 1966
(possible)
before 28 January 1966
(probable)
28 January 1966
Neville reports that Mike Quill, the Transport Workers Union leader who had been jailed weeks earlier for defying a court injunction during a New York transit strike and had cursed the sentencing judg
before 28 January 1966
29 January 1966
(probable)
While reviewing a friend's request to revisit the fourth-dimension chapter of his own book Out of This World, Neville describes reading the editorial page of a Sunday New York Times a friend had given
between 31 January 1966 and 1 February 1966
(probable)
Neville says his phone has rung all week with dozens of callers asking whether he is closing, and confirms he is closing on the 25th but will be back.
February 1966
(probable)
Bishop James Pike's son James Jr. died by suicide in February 1966; the NYT biography-review article gives his age as 20.
Person: James A. Pike Jr.