before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts standing in the presence of the Risen Christ, being asked to define the greatest thing in the world, answering with Paul's words about faith, hope and love, and then being embraced by
before 1968
(possible)
Neville states briefly that he has entered other sections of time in vision, that the experience was as real as the present moment, and that the difference was that he remembered where his body was an
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes his present practice: when he closes his eyes in meditation he sometimes has a little dream, and at other times enters a world just like this one where he is totally awake and aware
Neville notes that his correspondent is younger than his son
Description
Neville notes in passing that the correspondent is younger than his own son.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 29 January 1968
Told
29 January 1968
Sources
- Source: Blake: Four Types of Vision ¶27 (All things being relative in this world, he’s younger than my son.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes his own ordinary evenings - entertaining at home, having a drink, and reading the Bible all through the day - while a listener may be having union with the state he personifies.
Neville recounts a deceased actress friend's life and decline
Description
Neville recalls a friend of his, now dead - born poor in Boston, brought by her mother to New York where George M. Cohan cast her in his chorus even though she could not dance; she married the young Danish dancer who chose her, had three children, craved pomp and circumstance, and spent the last fifteen years of her life as a wino.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 2 February 1968
Told
2 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Your Husband ¶6 (I recall a friend of mine who has now departed this world. Born in Boston to a very poor family, she hungered for the glamour of the theatrical life.)
2 February 1968
Neville remarks on this particular audience - small enough to be counted on your fingers - and on his own boundless joy at how many in it have already experienced the truth or are on the verge of it.
Daughter hears the ageless cry of a child in silence
Description
Neville shares a letter from a daughter who, in the silence, heard the crying of a child that she knew was the cry of the ages, able to wake man from sleep.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 5 February 1968
Told
5 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Faith in God ¶9 (Now let me share an experience of a daughter and her mother. The daughter wrote, saying: “While in the silence I heard the crying of a child. It was not the cry of a baby, but of the ages.)
Mother dreams of a newborn child with formed teeth
Description
Neville reads the mother's letter, in which she dreamt of a newborn child with perfectly formed teeth and of Neville telling her that all the children in his family are born with perfectly formed teeth.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 5 February 1968
Told
5 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Faith in God ¶10 (Looking at me you said: ‘Have you forgotten that all the children in my family are born with perfectly formed teeth?’ Then you turned and walked away.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he has repeatedly imagined a state and watched it externalise itself as a physical fact, and has taught others to do the same.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville was born and raised in a Christian environment but learned the truth of Christ in man nowhere in it - not in Sunday school, church, or home; his mother taught him the traditional story of an o
before 1968
(possible)
Having received the knowledge that God in man is the human imagination from no man and no book but by revelation, Neville had no one to turn to and began to experiment with it; it proved itself, and h
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes his own method: confronted with a problem he turns only to his own imagination, asks what he would see, hear and how he would act if the problem were solved, and acts as though it we
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he becomes so annoyed when someone repeats what an astrologer or medium told them that he wants to shout, asking whether they have ever heard him.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts being born in Barbados and coming into the world with nothing; too poor to buy food, he would walk fifty blocks to find a friend with a dime for soup beans, and if the friend could no
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says his own father kept a butcher shop and was a grocer, so people might dismiss him as the butcher's son just as they dismissed Jesus as the carpenter's son.
A lady asks how infinite God can give himself to an individual
Description
A lady asked Neville how it is possible for the infinite God to give himself to an individual - the question this lecture answers.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 12 February 1968
Told
12 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Salvation History ¶15 (So, you can tell anyone in the world if they ask that question of you, as this lady asked of me, “How on earth is it possible?”)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes his habit of receiving letters in the morning and extracting only the significant points from them, as an analogy for reading scripture.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville's father drank heavily all his life, was a drinking pal of Winston Churchill, outlived the doctors who predicted his death, and lived to eighty-five, delighting in attending their funerals.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he found both hell and heaven in marriage - his first marriage was everything but heaven, his second was happiness - and that he would still not undo the first.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville states throughout that the whole history of salvation recorded in scripture has been his own personal experience - his autobiography - and that he speaks from experience rather than theory.
before 1968
(possible)
Retelling of the same commission: he was sent by sheer might, by a God who did not use vocal chords but simply thought the words "Time to act!" and Neville heard them.
before 1968
(possible)
He recalls seeing the New York Stock Exchange trading floor when the day's volume was only eight million shares, and thinking he was in Bedlam.
A woman dreams of prophetic charts and her deceased grandmother
Description
Another woman wrote to Neville describing a dream in which she left a dormitory of women governed by a twelve-day letter chart, taught them revision, journeyed away with her child, returned to find her place taken and her encyclopedias put under the bed, and then met her grandmother — dead since 1962 — fifteen years younger and full of vitality, who embraced and kissed her and then went rigid, dropped and vanished, leaving her joyful rather than sad.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1968
Told
16 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Power Sent Me ¶20 (Now, here is another story. We speak of symbols in the world…everything is a symbol I don’t care what it is. Your mother’s a symbol, your father’s a symbol, all symbols. And this lady writes, “The dream started and I am in a huge, big dormitory.)
16 February 1968
He says his physical origin is on record — the birth and baptism records taken at the time he was born on the little island — and anyone can go and see them.
A New York woman's two-million-dollar bequest passes to Saint Luke's
Description
He says he learned first-hand in New York City of a wealthy woman who willed two million dollars to St. Thomas on 5th Avenue only if Bishop Manning were dead; the bishop outlived her, so St. Luke's Hospital got the money instead.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 16 February 1968
Told
16 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Power Sent Me ¶30 (I know this from experience, for it came to me out of the horse’s mouth in New York City. St. Luke’s is a marvelous hospital in New York City and next to it is St. John the Divine, the unfinished cathedral…the biggest thing and really a beautiful piece o…)
before 1968
(possible)
In passing he says that he himself vanished without leaving a trace, and that his departure will come in that same manner.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville states that the whole drama of salvation has already been fulfilled in him, and lists the experiences he has had: the birth from above, the discovery of God as David, the splitting of the temp
A man removes his skin cancers by hearing congratulations
Description
Neville recalls having told this same audience about a man with skin cancers who, while shaving and seeing them still on his face, heard friends congratulating him on his good fortune, and the cancers disappeared without a trace.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 26 February 1968
Told
26 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Raise Imagination to the State of Vision ¶17 (Here in this audience tonight, I told the story of this gentleman who had these skin cancers. He used sound.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he never heard the mystery of the Bible from anyone and never saw it in his reading; like Paul, he was not taught it but received it by revelation — an act of God self-revealing in him.
A woman completes feeding a strange dream visitor in imagination
Description
In the question period Neville recounts a friend present that night whose dream had a strange man come asking for food; she hesitated because her husband was due home, was woken by her baby before feeding him, and on waking fed him in her Imagination so as not to turn him away.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 26 February 1968
Told
26 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Raise Imagination to the State of Vision ¶36 (A friend who is here tonight, in her dream someone wanted food and so she intended feeding him even though there was apprehension on her part because it was late in the evening and her husband was just about to return from work and what would he think of…)
A starving artist imagines a feast and is brought food
Description
A starving woman artist told Neville how, too tired to go to the YWCA for a meal, she imagined setting her best table, fell asleep dreaming of lifting a platter cover, and was woken by a telephone call from an old friend of her mother's who brought food and cooked with her that night.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
Told
26 February 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The State of Vision ¶5 (I know a very fine artist (whose works are in national galleries) who was starving, and didn’t have a dime with which to buy food. One night she was so tired she couldn’t even walk to the YWCA to offer her services for a meal.)
Neville's friend cures his skin cancers through imagined sound
Description
A friend of Neville's cured his skin cancers by persistently hearing, in imagination, his friends congratulating him on a complete cure, despite the evidence remaining each morning as he shaved.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1968
(probable)
Told
26 February 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The State of Vision ¶16 (A friend recently cured his skin cancers through the use of sound. Every morning as he shaved the evidence remained.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes his own habitual practice: touch being his strongest sense, he handles letters people write him about their desires, believing as he touches the paper that they are telling him of fu
before 1968
(possible)
Neville states from his own case that when a man stands in the presence of the risen God it is an embrace, and the embrace fuses the two.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville mentions that he has books at home, among them Sex Symbolism in the Bible, and remarks on how scholars turn from such passages in disgust.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he knows San Francisco well, having lived in many of its hotels for a month or two at a time, and uses it as his example of assuming a state — sitting on Union Square or in the St.
A subway rider claims a seat after receiving an impression of pregnancy
Description
Neville retells a story he heard in New York City of a young girl who rushed into the subway asking a gentleman for his seat as a pregnant lady, and when he asked when the baby was expected, replied that she did not know because it had just happened.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 15 March 1968
Told
15 March 1968
Sources
- Source: An Inner Conviction ¶39 (It reminded me of a story I heard in New York City. This young girl came rushing into the subway, and standing in front of a gentleman she said: “Would you please let a pregnant lady have your seat?”)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes his practice of keeping a diary of his scriptural experiences and writing them into his Bible beside the relevant passage, so that he can measure the intervals between events.
A woman in the audience dreams of eating God's body
Description
A woman friend, present in the audience, wrote Neville a letter describing a dream in which a voice told her to eat a raw steak from a beautiful plate and then said she had eaten the body of God; he identifies it with John 6.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 15 March 1968
Told
15 March 1968
Sources
- Source: Truth of Conception Known by Feeling, It Inspires ¶19 (Now here came a letter from a friend of mine (she’s here tonight). She said, “I had this dream. I have this most beautiful plate and on it was a raw steak. The voice said to me, ‘Eat it’ and I ate it and enjoyed it. Then the voice said, ‘You have eaten t…)
A New York subway rider claims to have just become pregnant
Description
Neville retells a New York subway incident in which a young woman asked for a seat as a pregnant lady, a gentleman rose at once and asked when she was expecting, and she answered that she did not know — she had just had the impression.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 15 March 1968
Told
15 March 1968
Sources
- Source: Truth of Conception Known by Feeling, It Inspires ¶44 (And she comes rushing into the subway and she says, “Would you please let a pregnant lady have a seat?” A gentleman jumps right up and he’s very concerned and he wonders, well now, when is this lady expecting? She says, “I do not know. I’ve just had the …)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville mentions in passing that he wears a cross, the Tau, the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which he calls “400 years.”
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts a vision in which he saw a rock fragment and be gathered together again into a glorious being seated in the lotus posture, glowing like the sun, which he recognised as himself; when i
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he loved his daughter before she was born, saw her before she came into the world and she told him her name, which he then gave her; she has never attended one of his meetings.
Neville's friend dreams of the father-builder, king snake, and pole
Description
A friend present at the lecture told Neville a vision in which he built a great building knowing his unseen father was the greater builder, picked up and loved a black and white king snake (putting back a second, poisonous one), talked with the snake about her departed husband, and then saw the same snake climb a pole and turn to descend.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1968 (probable)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 25 March 1968
Told
- 1968
- 25 March 1968
Sources
- Source: The Serpent ¶9 (Now let me share with you the experience of a friend who is here tonight. Throughout the entire experience the presence of a father, and he knows it’s “my father,” he’s present.)
Neville's woman friend sees an empty talking head in a cave
Description
A woman friend wrote to Neville describing a vision of being in a rock-hewn cave containing a great urn with a carved face, moving freely in and out through the walls, then finding the urn was itself a head with moving lips and its top removed and empty, before she awoke.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 25 March 1968
Told
- 1968
- 25 March 1968
Sources
- Source: The Serpent ¶15 (Now here, another friend writes, this lady, “I found myself in the depths of the earth, in a cave, and the walls were all hewn out of rock.)
A woman revises unwanted actions while still dreaming
Description
Another woman, present that night, told Neville of dreams in which she caught herself and revised what she did not like while still in the dream, and urged others in the dream to revise at once.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1968 (probable)
- c. 18 March 1968 (probable)
Told
- 1968
- 25 March 1968
Sources
- Source: The Serpent ¶17 (Now another lady, and she is present, and this thrills me. In her experiences, she finds herself in the experience checking herself and revising it.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recalls practising double vision morning, noon and night with his teacher Abdullah, who told him to look at a lampshade, a carpet or a wall and report not what he saw but what lay beyond it, u
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes sitting in his own living room looking into the couch rather than at it, and finding himself carried into an entirely different living world, sometimes having to break it off.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says his memory reaches far back over the parts he has played in his descent, and that he has known both being fabulously wealthy and being without, without ever losing his sense of I-ness.