A computer-business friend imagines a million-dollar computer working before a convention
Description
A friend in the computer business told Neville how, with a million-dollar computer failing days before a convention, he imagined it was already Tuesday morning and the computer working perfectly, and the missing parts turned up from a manufacturer only fourteen miles away in time for the show.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. November 1967 (probable)
Told
24 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Truth Word God ¶2 (A friend recently shared these experiences with me saying, “I am in the computer business. Every year we hold a convention, and this year our company chose to demonstrate a million-dollar computer.)
3 November 1967 (doubtful)

Lecture catalog #382 — text: HAVE

3 November 1967

Lecture catalog #383 — text: HAVE

between 4 November 1967 and 10 November 1967 (possible)
6 November 1967

Lecture catalog #384 — text: HAVE

6 November 1967

Lecture catalog #385 — text: HAVE

before 6 November 1967 (possible)
Neville recalls that years earlier, while walking through Harlem in New York City, the smell of cooking instantly carried him -- in imagination, though he remained physically present in Harlem -- two
9 November 1967
A doctor who had been attending Neville's lectures came to see him the day before the lecture 'Come O' Blessed' (delivered 1967-11-10), per Neville's own account at the opening of that lecture.
9 November 1967
The day before the lecture a friend who is a doctor and lives far away drove many miles for a short private visit, and told Neville he now saw clearly what he had thought he saw before.
9 November 1967
A doctor who had long been attending Neville's lectures came to see him the day before, and Neville realised he had not made himself clear; he told the doctor that whenever he helps the people who com
10 November 1967

Lecture catalog #387 — text: HAVE

10 November 1967

Lecture catalog #386 — text: HAVE

Couple reports a dream about Jan to Neville before his lecture
Description
Just before taking the platform for this lecture, Neville was approached backstage by a couple who told him they had met his friend Jan, present in the audience, in a dream; in it Jan said, 'I will not return any more.' Jan herself had no memory of it, but Neville read her words as a sign that she had achieved resurrection in the depths, tying it to the Gospel of Luke's teaching on the resurrected not marrying.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 November 1967
Told
  • 10 November 1967
  • 10 November 1967 (doubtful)
Couple dreams that Jan says she will not return
Description
Just before Neville took the platform for this lecture, a couple came back to tell him that in the man's dream their friend Jan said 'I will not return anymore' — which Neville read as resurrection.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 10 November 1967
  • 10 November 1967
Told
  • 10 November 1967 (doubtful)
  • 10 November 1967
Sources
10 November 1967 (probable)
On the previous Friday night five or six accounts of experiences were handed to Neville in quick succession while he was talking to two friends, and by the time he got home he was no longer sure which
A man dreams an imagined handwritten message
Description
Neville reads out a letter received this past week from a friend present in the audience, who imagined two words in another person's handwriting implying a problem solved, held them as he fell asleep, and in his dream saw a white-robed arm write the two words in that identical handwriting.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 10 November 1967 and 17 November 1967 (probable)
Told
17 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Jesus Christ, the True Identity of Man ¶4 (So let me share with you what was given to me this past week. It’s perfectly marvelous. This friend of ours, who is here tonight, he writes, “At the office I was confronted with a problem, and so, believing that imagining creates reality, I took two word…)
A woman dreams of crucifying herself through unloving conduct
Description
A second woman, also present, wrote Neville a letter: she had come to his lecture on Friday November 10th, heard the teaching about doing it unto the least of these, and the following Monday tore into a friend on the telephone; that night she dreamed of rooms in the Near East full of massacred men and finally of a man hanging as though on a cross, and understood she was crucifying herself whenever she was unloving to anyone.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 November 1967
Told
27 November 1967
Sources
11 November 1967 (probable)
Death of Neville's friend John Van Bruton
Description
Processing notes for lecture nid 1314 identify 'John Van Bruton' as almost certainly the playwright John van Druten, transcribed by ear (Carter Lodge, van Druten's companion/business manager, is also named nearby); left probable, no person id available in this packet to attach.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 11 November 1967 (possible)
11 November 1967 (probable)
Neville's oldest friend in California, Mort, aged fifty-three, died of a massive heart attack on Saturday; he had dined at Neville's home the week before and Neville had spoken with him the night befo
Grain-store dream of 1967-11-12
Description
A friend told Neville of a dream dated 12 November 1967 (a Sunday): he found himself in the ancient Near East, in a place primitive by 1967 Western standards yet a commercial and intellectual capital of its time, where he listened for weeks to a figure who spoke from a grain store, following him through the streets and questioning villagers about his remarks. His earthly parents came, troubled, but he was indifferent to them. He then met the figure on a side street, wearing a long white robe, told him of his experiences, and was assured 'you had done it' — waking with the feeling of having done it. Neville related this in the lecture 'Jesus Christ, the True Identity of Man' (nid 1306, delivered 1967-11-17), reading it as an enactment of Luke 2's temple episode.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
12 November 1967
Told
17 November 1967
A friend dreams of following Neville through an ancient city
Description
The same friend sends Neville an account, dated Sunday 12 November, of a dream in which he travelled to a primitive Near-Eastern city to hear Neville teach from a grain store, followed him through the streets collecting his sayings, was indifferent to his earthly parents who came to investigate, and finally met him in a long white robe who assured him he had done it.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
12 November 1967
Told
17 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Jesus Christ, the True Identity of Man ¶9 (Now let me share with you what happened to him last Sunday [...]. Undoubtedly it was the night’s dream, but it’s dated the 12th of November, which was Sunday.)
13 November 1967

Lecture catalog #388 — text: HAVE

A woman writes Neville about her vision
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 13 November 1967 (probable)
c. 13 November 1967 (probable)
A new mother dreams of three selves and a luminous green dog
Description
A woman in the audience, a recent mother, wrote Neville a letter this past week describing a dream in which she was three people and waited for a little green dog that shone like the sun, and was told that her building was finished and all she had to do was turn around and claim it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 13 November 1967 and 20 November 1967 (probable)
Told
20 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Purpose: To Build a Dwelling Place for God ¶3 (Now, let me illustrate it with a story told me this past week by a lady who is present. Let me tell you, this lady is a mother. She recently had a little boy, so she’s very much a woman, and here is her story as she wrote me in her letter.)
between 13 November 1967 and 20 November 1967 (probable)
This past week Neville read a newspaper article, he thinks the New York Times, by an old White House servant who had served every President from Wilson onward and found not one of them a happy man.
A woman undergoes a mystical engrafting experience
Description
Neville points out a woman in the audience, seated to his right, who he says had been mystically 'engrafted' only a few weeks earlier, much as his friend Bill (also present that night) had been engrafted some years before. He uses both cases to illustrate that no one can know in advance when such a graft will germinate and 'erupt into flower,' comparing it to the hidden timing described in the first chapter of Acts.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 November 1967 and 15 December 1967 (probable)
Told
15 December 1967
17 November 1967

Lecture catalog #389 — text: HAVE

17 November 1967

Lecture catalog #390 — text: HAVE

17 November 1967 (probable)
A woman tells Neville her vision of spiritual surgery
Description
Neville recalls a friend who, a few weeks earlier, asked him 'Is it necessary?' while lying prone on a hospital cot in a vision, with Neville cast as her spiritual surgeon; he assured her it would not hurt, and using an implement like a silver comb with needle-like teeth, performed the operation, which she experienced as a cool brushing before declaring herself ready and the implanting complete. He offers the vision as an example of the word being fully implanted rather than merely imparted.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 17 November 1967 and 1 December 1967 (possible)
Told
15 December 1967
17 November 1967
Neville describes waking at 1:30 that same morning, remaining in bed, and dropping into a state where he stood in a world just like this one telling his wife, his brothers, his friends and members of
A woman experiences herself split into three persons
Description
Answering Ina's question, Neville says a letter arrived today from a woman present in the audience who found herself split into three persons of differing sexes, and that he will treat it next week; he adds that those he has met in that other world after death wore the same sexual garments they wore here.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
17 November 1967
Told
  • 17 November 1967
  • 17 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Jesus Christ, the True Identity of Man ¶53 (Yet a letter came to me today, which I will treat next week, a fantastic letter, of one who found herself split into three persons and they where not the same sex.)
17 November 1967
Neville tells the audience that in this small gathering he can identify two people sitting behind the questioner who have already had the resurrection experience and three others on the verge of it.
18 November 1967 (probable)
A computer worker solves two technical problems through imagination
Description
A man newly attending Neville's meetings wrote to him this week describing how he used imagination twice at his company's computer business — first to make a million-dollar computer work in time for an Anaheim convention, then to find two missing parts for an old model, which the salesman found in a package ten feet away.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 18 November 1967 and 24 November 1967 (probable)
Told
24 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Baptism Into One Body ("Truth, the Word of God") ¶2 (A chap wrote me this week—he isn’t here tonight—but he said, “Every year we have in Anaheim this convention for all those who deal in computers, and my company is now demonstrating a million-dollar computer.)
20 November 1967

Lecture catalog #392 — text: HAVE

20 November 1967

Lecture catalog #391 — text: HAVE

20 November 1967 (probable)
A friend gave Neville a long poem by D. H. Lawrence, 'The New Heavens and Earth,' on the Monday night before this lecture.
A woman wakes from her second symbolic dream
Description
A woman in the audience shared with Neville a two-part symbolic dream from earlier that week. In the second half, she lies on a hospital cot as Neville, cast as her surgeon, prepares to operate on her with a luminous, needle-toothed instrument; she wakes at 7:30 having called out to a little dog named Junior, who answered to his name. Neville reads the hour and the dog's name symbolically, taking 7:30 as the stage just short of eight, the number of Christ, and Junior as a marker of her advancing spiritual state.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 20 November 1967 and 27 November 1967 (possible)
Told
27 November 1967
20 November 1967
Speaking of the sterling devaluation, Neville indicates he holds money in the sterling area which he is not converting into dollars, and speaks of Barbados having to import from the dollar area.
A woman sees Jerusalem's gates closed
Description
Neville refers to a lady present that night who had had a vision of coming to the gates of Jerusalem and finding them closed, and explains that entrance is only up the water shaft of the spine.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
20 November 1967
Told
20 November 1967
Sources
  • Source: Purpose: To Build a Dwelling Place for God ¶39 (The gates of Jerusalem? Well, that lady’s here tonight. When she comes to the gates of Jerusalem, the gates were closed, because the entrance into Jerusalem cannot be through that gate.)
An audience member dreams of Neville's dog and a spiritual operation
Description
A woman present in the audience shared with Neville this week two dreams: standing on the top of the world above a limitless amphitheater hearing her own voice say the world is a theater and she is the whole world pushed out, a collapsing world and a little white dog with a lamb's face whom the voice called Neville's dog and whom she named Junior; then a second dream in which Neville was the surgeon operating painlessly on her shoulder with a luminous silver comb of needles, after which she woke at 7:30.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 20 November 1967 and 27 November 1967 (probable)
  • before 27 November 1967
Told
27 November 1967
Sources