Woman revives an eastern study group and teaches relatives
Description
A woman friend of his circle returned only the day before from a trip East, where a year earlier she had left a small group of eleven; she revived three of them, and taught her daughter-in-law, facing a major operation, and her son-in-law, an army officer bound for the war in Asia, to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
6 April 1967
Told
7 April 1967
Sources
- Source: Put On the Lord Jesus Christ ¶3 (A friend of mine returned only yesterday…I saw her tonight and she’s here tonight. She was called East. Last year she was there and left a small circle. She went back to find enthusiasm in that circle and three completely dynamic, out of the circle of el…)
6 April 1967
At dinner the previous night a woman told him a profound story confirming that one is, male or female, the father of David; he promises to tell it at his lecture next Monday, and notes the series clos
between 7 April 1967 and 14 April 1967
(probable)
A woman wrote Neville that after two eye doctors independently diagnosed cataracts in both eyes, she began applying his teaching, imagining herself reading an eye chart perfectly and hearing a voice t
Woman reverses cataract diagnoses and a freeway accident
Description
A woman who had begun hearing him the previous September wrote him a letter describing how, after two oculists diagnosed cataracts in both eyes, she imagined reading an eye chart perfectly and hearing a man say her eyes were fine, until a third doctor found no cataracts and no astigmatism; she also described a dream in which, as an invisible observer, she revised a freeway accident and it happened as revised.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 7 April 1967 and 14 April 1967
Told
14 April 1967
Sources
- Source: Down to the Sea in Ships ¶1 (Well, this past week, a lady wrote me a letter and she said, “I began to hear you last September. Soon after I heard you I went to my oculist, my eye doctor. He examined me closely and he said, ‘You have cataracts on both eyes.’)
10 April 1967
(doubtful)
between 10 April 1967 and 17 April 1967
(probable)
A woman in the audience gave Neville a story from earlier that week: a mockingbird trapped overnight in her open garage exhausted itself flying in circles despite the wide-open door, until she and her
Couple rescues a mockingbird and resolves childhood guilt
Description
A woman present in the audience gave Neville this past week the story of a mockingbird trapped in her garage that she and her husband chased for hours until it knocked itself out, was revived by her husband and flew away; her husband said he felt redeemed for a lovebird he had killed with a slingshot as a boy, and she read the whole episode as the Father calling.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 10 April 1967 and 17 April 1967
Told
17 April 1967
Sources
- Source: The Father and Son ¶10 (So to make this clear let me tell you or share with you a story given me this past week. She’s here tonight.)
14 April 1967
Neville tells his audience about his close friend and dentist, with whom he regularly spends weekends at a pool in the Hollywood hills, who attended his lecture the previous Friday — his first visit o
Dentist Jim accepts revision but cannot follow the David mystery
Description
Neville's dentist and close friend Jim, who attended last Friday's lecture for the first time this year, told him the next day that he had loved the story of the lady who revised her eye diagnosis but was completely lost when Neville turned to David; Neville goes to Jim's home in the Hollywood hills almost every weekend for the pool and tried there to explain the mystery to him.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
14 April 1967
Told
17 April 1967
Sources
- Source: The Father and Son ¶0 (A friend of mine, who came here last Friday—it’s the first time he’s been here this year—a very dear friend of mine, in fact, he’s my dentist, and I go to his home in the Hollywood hills, well, almost every weekend if the weather permits.)
Woman revises two cataract diagnoses into perfect sight
Description
Neville refers back to a story he told at the previous Friday's lecture about a lady who revised a doctor's decision about her eyes, carrying the revision into a dream, so that after two doctors said cataracts a third pronounced her eyes perfect.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
14 April 1967
Told
17 April 1967
Sources
- Source: The Father and Son ¶34 (As the lady’s doctor said, “You’re eyes are perfect,” after two said, “Cataracts.” The third said, “No cataracts, no astigmatism,” and all these things pronounced.)
16 April 1967
(probable)
Woman dreams a funerary Holy of Holies before Kennedy's death
Description
Neville reads out a letter that reached him that day from a woman who had passed through several churches, was baptized a Catholic for the man she loved, and then in April 1963 dreamed she was shown the Holy of Holies and saw only a box of ashes, an apothecary's chalice and a dead bone; a Catholic friend told her it was the setting for a king's or cardinal's funeral, and when President Kennedy was assassinated that November she took the dream for prophecy.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
21 April 1967
Told
21 April 1967
Sources
- Source: Generation and Death ¶4 (Now let me share with you a letter that came to me today. This lady writes me this story.)
21 April 1967
Earlier that day Neville was reading Zechariah 12:10 in parallel versions and found that the King James kept the pronoun 'me' while the Revised Standard scholars changed it to 'him'.
23 April 1967
(probable)
between 24 April 1967 and 28 April 1967
28 April 1967
28 April 1967
between 28 April 1967 and September 1967
(probable)
between May 1967 and September 1967
(probable)
Office friend receives an inheritance
Description
A correspondent imagined an indebted office friend speaking from abundance; in May or June 1967 the friend inherited enough to buy a cabin cruiser and car, send his son to college, enlarge his home, and replace his wardrobe.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between May 1967 and June 1967
Told
10 November 1967
Co-worker reports receiving an inheritance
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
May 1967
(probable)
Told
between 3 November 1967 and 10 November 1967
(possible)
May 1967
(probable)
Woman's vision of Neville placing his eyes into her sockets
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 24 May 1967
Told
24 May 1968
Woman's second inner-voice experience
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
24 May 1967
Told
15 September 1967
Sources
- Source: Have You Found Him ¶8 (the 24th day of May, two months later)
Woman hears authoritative inner words on May 24
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
24 May 1967
Told
15 September 1967
between June 1967 and September 1967
(probable)
Over the summer of 1967 Neville received three letters he reads to his congregation as testimonies to imagining creating reality: one about a bank loan, one recounting a woman's marriage prospects (wi
between June 1967 and August 1967
(probable)
Neville recalls a conversation from the previous summer with his friend Jim, who had objected that the transformations of the body -- and by extension the miracles of scripture -- were simply beyond b
between June 1967 and August 1967
(probable)
Last summer Neville argued with his friend Jim, who said the survival of a body after death was beyond him, by pointing to everyday miracles — bread turned into blood and tissue, the flowers in Jim's
between June 1967 and August 1967
He reads his Bible six or seven hours a day, seven days a week, and took only two books - the Bible and the Complete Works of Blake - both to New York City last summer and to Barbados for a three-mont
between 5 June 1967 and 10 June 1967
(probable)
Neville keeps a chronology of Christine, Bob, and Benny's mystical births
Description
Neville says he keeps a chronological record of others' mystical experiences, and names Christine, Bob and Benny as having had the birth in the same order he teaches, with Benny anxiously awaiting one more in July.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. July 1967
(probable)
Told
31 May 1968
Sources
- Source: The Cup of Foaming Wine ¶37 (And from my own chronological record I can see how it happened to all others. Christine had it in the same manner. Bob had it. Benny had it…he has one coming up in July, waiting anxiously for July…)
between July 1967 and July 1968
(possible)
Neville recalls a woman who died last July who had seen him as the risen Lord, and another woman present at the lecture who only wrote to tell him after the one who has since died made her write the l
between 18 July 1967 and 17 July 1968
On a visit to Barbados in the past year he discussed his teaching with his sister, who was raised in the same Christian belief he was, and reflects that his family would be shocked by what he now says
August 1967
(probable)
Death of Neville's brother Lawrence
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- August 1967 (doubtful)
- c. 1953 (doubtful)
Told
- 30 October 1967 (possible)
- 26 October 1968 (probable)
1957(refuted)- 30 October 1967 (possible)
1957(refuted)- after 20 July 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Promise Fulfilled ¶10 (My brother Lawrence, who took part in my drama of the finding of the child, departed four years ago; he’s just as alive to me, only he is young. He was 62 when he departed.)
- Source: Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") ¶42 (Would I not bring back my brother Lawrence, who, last August, closed his eye and departed this sphere?)
- Source: Imagining Creates ¶30 (When my brother, Lawrence, was making his exit from this world, I told my sister-in-law that there was marriage in the next world and she – in a very light vein – said: “I don’t want to go now, but do you think Lawrence will be waiting for me so we can g…)
Neville's friend advances his barber to contest champion
Description
A friend present in the audience wrote to Neville about the people he was healing, after having earlier lifted his barber from fourth man in the shop to owner and then to winner of an eleven-Western-States barbering contest and a seven-foot trophy.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between August 1967 and September 1967
(probable)
Told
11 September 1967(refuted)- 3 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates Reality ¶17 (No wonder he wrote me the story of that long procession of people he’s healing one after the other.)
A woman sees Neville heal crowds in two visions
Description
A woman present at the lecture told him two visions: one of him on a raised circular platform instantly healing rows of deformed people while a marble Madonna came alive, and one a few weeks later of him as a doctor in a hospital where all were cured without drugs or surgery.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. August 1967 (probable)
- before 9 October 1967 (probable)
Told
- 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
- 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
- 9 October 1967 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Spiritual Feast ¶8 (Now here, let me share with you what was shared with me. The lady is here tonight. She said, “I had this wonderful experience. There was a huge, huge circular and raised platform and you were in the middle.)
Lady's dream of Neville as a doctor
Description
Neville shares a dream a woman had a few weeks earlier, in which he appeared as a doctor in a hospital with no surgery or drugs, where people were simply cured by coming to him. She told him she hoped such a hospital could exist here on earth, and he answers her in the lecture that it belongs to a level beyond this one, not to this world.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1967
(possible)
Told
9 October 1967
September 1967
(probable)
Woman sees Neville as doctor in healing hospital
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1967
(possible)
c. September 1967
(probable)
He mentions reading a statement by Sir James Jeans a few days before the lecture.
Man imagines an executive office and receives a same-day call
Description
The same man told Neville he passed a prominent building, imagined a fantastic salary and his name on the office door there, and that same day an agency called about executive positions for that very company.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1967
(probable)
Told
22 March 1968
Sources
- Source: Infinite States ¶11 (“On my way to work the other morning I passed a very prominent building and said to myself, ‘I wonder what it would be like to work there?’ Knowing nothing about the company, I played with the idea of them offering me a fantastic salary and even imagined…)