before 1967
(possible)
Neville describes Jack Butler further: dead at fifty and looking much older, he appeared as a young man of twenty when seen months later; while alive Jack attended Neville's meetings only to meet peop
before 1967
(possible)
Neville states from experience that one who knows how to give thanks can leave the body and meet those who have died.
A friend learns movement and reaches his eternal castle in vision
Description
A friend present at the lecture had a vision in which Neville appeared to him; asked whether he had learned anything, Neville told him he had learned how to move, and the barn and the shooting war turned into a castle where he was led to his eternal quarters.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
Told
6 October 1967
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Secret of Praying ¶8 (As a friend of mine, who is here tonight, when he had that fantastic vision. In it I appeared in his vision and after [...]—most of you have heard it, so I won’t repeat it—and he said, “Did I learn anything?” I said, “Yes, you learned how to move. You’ve…)
before 1967
(possible)
Neville says he has imagined himself elsewhere and been physically seen there by someone present, who was startled when he then vanished.
before 1967
(possible)
Neville has lain on his bed assuming he was elsewhere, told his wife at once what he had done, and afterwards received letters from people naming the day and hour they saw him, allowing for the time d
A woman recalls her father's last-dollar advice on the way to the racetrack
Description
Driving to the racetrack with a woman friend present at the lecture, she quoted her father's childhood advice to spend a last dollar as if it were a dried leaf and she the owner of boundless forests.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(possible)
Told
6 October 1967
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Secret of Praying ¶24 (again my friend who is here tonight and I quote a wonderful thing she said to me one day—we were driving toward the racetrack, and, of course, we’re all thinking in terms of, naturally, winning.)
before 1967
(probable)
Neville mentions other letters he is holding that did not fit tonight, one titled 'The Maverick' which he will use another night, and one from a gentleman who had tried to talk him out of / turn off t
before 1967
(possible)
He has been offered diamonds, jewels, money and years of paid rent by supporters and has always refused them, telling those who said it was common practice that he was not common.
A woman following Neville's lectures feels her heart begin to split
Description
A woman friend followed his lectures from place to place and wrote to tell him that at each lecture she became so excited her heart began to split.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1967 (possible)
- before 3 November 1967
Told
3 November 1967
Sources
- Source: Whatever You Believe in and Persist in Will Come to Pass ¶32 (One friend followed me from place to place, from level to level, as I taught scripture. In her letter she said: “At each lecture I became so excited, my heart began to split,and at the very end I could hardly contain myself.”)
A lady sees Neville give her his eyes and reveal life within his head
Description
A lady wrote of a vision in which Neville, dressed in a gray suit, stood in mid-air, removed the eyes from his head and pressed them into hers, calling her brother, showed her every living thing within his enormous transparent head, then lifted off the top of his head where green grass grew; Neville says he placed his eyes in her sockets over a year ago and she later saw a judge pronounce her 'the incurrent eyewitness'.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1967
(probable)
Told
24 May 1968
Sources
- Source: All Things Exist ¶20 (It was over a year ago when I placed my eyes into her sockets and gave her sight. Now she has become the incurrent eyewitness.)
before 1967
(possible)
He reports the present state of his own series of experiences: he has found him with the birth but not yet with David, and of everyone he knows only one — a friend present that night — has found him t
Woman sends Neville Browning's Saul
Description
A woman friend, a member of a Browning Society and present in the audience that night, sent him Browning's poem "Saul," which he reads from and thanks her for.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1967 (possible)
- before 15 September 1967
Told
15 September 1967
Sources
- Source: Have You Found Him ¶2 (We are told in this wonderful poem, a friend of mine wrote me, concerning the character called Saul. She is here tonight, I see her. She’s a member of a Browning Society, Robert Browning.)
before 1967
(possible)
He reports receiving that day a long series of letters from Benny and others, plus a further story about two weeks earlier from the advertising friend, and promises to share them at his next Monday le
A letter-writer learned of a neighbour's house for sale
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
January 1967
(probable)
Told
27 March 1967
c. January 1967
(possible)
A few days before this lecture, an unnamed friend gave Neville a letter recounting a vivid, symbolic dream, which Neville reads to his audience and interprets through scripture.
c. January 1967
(probable)
Neville was startled to hear the minister of a prominent church in his city mouth a sermon he had not written but subscribed to from the East, reading it badly Sunday after Sunday while people believe
c. January 1967
(possible)
Neville tells his audience that he and his wife had seen a play together the week before.
A woman dreams that Neville is the fish
Description
A woman friend told him of a disturbed dream in which she threatened her tormentors that she would tell Neville, and they answered, 'You would tell the fish.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. January 1967 (probable)
- c. February 1967 (probable)
Told
- 8 January 1967 (possible)
- 8 January 1967 (possible)
- 27 February 1967 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Adam and Christ Are One ¶22 (The other night when my friend, in her dream having these disturbed states and she said to these —which was nothing more than herself pushed out anyway, for there’s only one—and they’re really giving her quite a time, and she said in her dream, “I’m goin…)
2 January 1967
Two nights before the lecture he dreamed, knowing he was dreaming, that the Germans and Japanese as self-styled master races had taken over his area; a German soldier tried to humiliate him, questione
A woman dreams an injured dove becomes a human mouth
Description
A woman friend dreamed two nights before of finding an injured dove whose beak she pried open with a knife until it bled and turned into a human mouth; he interprets it as her discovery of the Holy Spirit within her.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 6 January 1967
- 25 February 1967 (probable)
Told
- 8 January 1967 (possible)
- 8 January 1967 (possible)
Sources
- Source: Adam and Christ Are One ¶23 (A friend of mine, two nights ago, she had a dream that she found a little dove and it was injured.)
Neville's friend tells a story about unintentional imaginal acts
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 10 January 1967
(probable)
Told
24 January 1967(refuted)24 January 1967(refuted)- 11 November 1966 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Take My Yoke ¶22 (A friend of mine, who is here tonight, told the story two weeks ago.)
between 13 January 1967 and 27 January 1967
(probable)
Neville tells his audience that for the past two weeks he has been receiving a stream of letters from people sharing their own visionary and mystical experiences.
between 13 January 1967 and 27 January 1967
He thanks his audience for the experiences they have been sending him over the past two weeks so that he may share them with everyone.
between 16 January 1967 and 1967
Neville gave a January 1967 lecture series at the Marines' Memorial Club in San Francisco, running from Time to Act (1/16) through God Plays All the Parts (1/27).
Neville's friend has a scriptural vision while Neville is in San Francisco
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 16 January 1967 and 31 January 1967
(probable)
Told
17 February 1967
between 16 January 1967 and 22 January 1967
He pictures inviting the entire cast of a play he and his wife had seen to supper, and his wife greeting each one as they arrive and hearing each declare 'I am' before naming the part he played.
Neville's friend experiences a three-part symbolic vision
Description
Neville reads out his friend's three-part vision: standing in blue robes by a gorge where light from a mountain bores a hole revealing golden liquid light in serpentine motion; a brilliant future city where people eat by tucking a card over their heart while he alone cannot; and a room with a sand floor where a nude girl sinks into the sand and a door rises bearing a nude boy carried out by four men.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 16 January 1967 and 31 January 1967
Told
17 February 1967
Sources
- Source: Remembrance of Things Future ¶4 (“I am in the far, far distant future. A few men and I are in blue robes. We’re standing on sand, and it seems we are on a kind of a gorge, and across the water is this huge mountain that rises out of sight.”)
between 16 January 1967 and 31 January 1967
Neville was in San Francisco during the last half of January, on the night his friend had the vision.
Friend's wife reports a waking experience to Neville
Description
That same night the friend's wife told Neville, in words, her own experience — had while wide awake, not in dream or vision — and also sent him a letter he has thanked her for but not yet taken up; he promises to tell it next time.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 16 January 1967 and 31 January 1967
(probable)
Told
17 February 1967
Sources
- Source: Remembrance of Things Future ¶24 (And that night his wife gave me, in words, her experience, not in dream or in vision but while wide, wide awake, and that is equally fantastic, which I will tell next time.)
A friend dreams his squadron fuses into Neville
Description
A few days before the lecture a dear friend gave Neville a letter recounting a dream in which the friend was in a war-torn farmhouse in Europe, saw his squadron fuse into a single being who was Neville, was led to the back of the house to see a harvest field of wheat, and was told he had been there two years and had learned how to move.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 18 January 1967 and 22 January 1967 (probable)
- between 19 October 1966 and 23 October 1966 (probable)
Told
- 23 January 1967 (doubtful)
- 24 October 1966
Sources
- Source: The Primal Wish ¶1 (Now let me share with you a letter that was given to me a few days ago by a dear friend of mine. Listen carefully, for the dream is filled with symbolism. I’ll bring it out from scripture. This is his dream.)
Woman dreams her cross becomes a fruit-bearing tree
Description
A woman friend present in the audience wrote him a letter describing a three-part dream: she woke at three remembering only gathering ripe fruit, slept again and woke at seven with a blank pad, and later that morning her friend Jan's phone call about the Book of Job triggered the memory of being on a painless wooden cross that rooted, branched and became a living tree full of ripened fruit.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 19 January 1967 and 25 January 1967
- between 2 December 1966 and 8 December 1966
Told
26 January 1967(refuted)- 9 December 1966
Sources
- Source: We Are Witnesses ¶24 (Now, a friend of mine, in the audience tonight, she wrote me a letter this past week. She said, “I had this wonderful experience. I woke at three in the morning and I can only remember the last part of my dream.)
22 January 1967
(probable)
Early on the Sunday morning before this lecture, Neville had a vision of himself teaching the word of God in an intimate setting, in which he twice noticed a watch — not on his wrist but lying on a ta
22 January 1967
Early on the Sunday morning before the lecture Neville found himself explaining the word of God intimately rather than from a platform, looked at his watch lying on a table and saw 4:10, talked for an
24 January 1967
(probable)
Woman gives birth swiftly after Neville assumes a perfect delivery
Description
A grandmother telephoned him that evening to thank him after a birth he had assumed to be perfect: the baby boy, three weeks overdue and 8 lbs 4 oz, was born almost before the mother could get onto the hospital bed.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
26 January 1967(refuted)- before 10 December 1966
Told
26 January 1967(refuted)- 9 December 1966
Sources
- Source: We Are Witnesses ¶28 (The grandmother called me tonight and thanked me for whatever happened. What did I do but assume that she called me that the thing was perfectly done and the child was perfect.)
He restates that he spoke earlier that evening from his own experience of the crucifixion, which was ecstatic and wholly painless, and that no Jew took his life — he willingly contracted to the limit
26 January 1967
He recounts a dinner the night before, a party of four at a place on top of a building, where the aunt of a young friend would not be reconciled to her dead sister-in-law, while Neville insisted on sp
c. February 1967
(possible)
Neville tells his congregation about a visit from his nephew's two small sons, Roger (two and a half) and his four-year-old brother, whose father is a Marine Corps flyer bound for Thailand.