before 1968
(possible)
Neville states that God's pattern has erupted in him and that what he teaches is his own story, told so hearers may prove it for themselves.
Neville declares Benny the father of David before his third experience
Description
Neville tells the audience that Benny, present in the room, is literally the father of David, God's only begotten son, and expects Benny to have the third experience within a week or two.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 21 June 1968
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶12 (If I told any biologist, any surgeon, any doctor, anyone familiar with the human body and how it works, that Benny is the father of the blondest, blue-eyed boy that ever walked the face of this earth and his name is David; and David is God’s only begotte…)
before 1968
(possible)
A woman wrote Neville that a voice told her that whenever David calls you Father you are as the Ancient of Days; Neville confirms it from his own experience, saying that when David called him Father h
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts that while discussing the unity of being, Blake told him to fall backwards; he fell in utter faith like a meteor through infinite space until his motion was arrested before a glorious
c. 1968
(probable)
Neville says he has been inside the new Ahmanson theatre in the Music Center in southern California, built by the financier Ahmanson who died leaving seven hundred million dollars.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he has himself tried Anthony Eden's principle on a person in his world who was stubborn in their attitude.
A man imagines and recovers his missing suit trousers
Description
A man told Neville that the trousers of his best suit vanished at the cleaners; refusing to sign for a replacement, he drove the freeway imagining his hands feeling the pants, and next day the cleaner rang his wife to say they had been found under another suit's pants.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 16 July 1968
Told
16 July 1968
Sources
- Source: There Is No Other God ¶23 (Here is a chap. His best suit he tells me: “It was my best suit. I liked it. I sent it to the cleaners.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville's wife once told him that the one thing wrong with him is that he cannot trust anyone but himself; he answered that he trusts everyone but asks no one for help.
A New York decorator insists she can pray only to a woman God
Description
Neville tells of a New York interior decorator, bitter in marriage, who with her two decorator sisters hated men and insisted her god must be a woman; he told her to go ahead and pray to a woman, since he prays to no one but appropriates.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 16 July 1968
Told
16 July 1968
Sources
- Source: There Is No Other God ¶34 (But there are people in this world – I have a lady in New York City, and she said, “I just cannot for one moment pray to a male god. My god has to be a woman.”)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts a two-hour television panel with a Baptist minister, the head of the Los Angeles Seventh Day Adventists and an archaeologist, where the ministers said his teaching robbed them of two
before 1968
(possible)
While reading the 14th chapter of John, it came to Neville intuitively that Christ speaking to the disciples was himself speaking to his own body, not to someone outside.
February 1941
(probable)
Neville tried assuming he was somewhere his reason and senses denied, stayed in the state until it seemed natural, then opened his eyes and was shocked to find himself back in his chair — and was afte
before 1968
(possible)
To comfort his sister, whose seventeen-year-old son Billy was dying of cancer in Barbados, Neville sat in New York and assumed he occupied Billy's room and was seen there by his sister; eight days lat
Marta dies at dinner and sees Neville as God in a vast hall
Description
Neville's friend Marta, returning from the Laguna Art Festival with three others, stopped at a Mexican restaurant, took a cigarette, said she had a strange feeling and died at the table; she then found herself in a vast glass-fronted hall where Neville stepped from a self-propelled carriage in an Inverness cape, proclaimed the power of God, and she said to herself “He is Neville and he is God.”
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 22 July 1968
Told
- 22 July 1968
- 22 July 1968
Sources
- Source: Faith July 22 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶52 (And she said to herself: “Why, it’s Neville, and he is God!” and she kept on repeating to herself: “He is Neville and he is God; he is Neville and he is God.”)
Marge sees Neville preaching as Jesus to every faith in its own tongue
Description
Marge, the lady who was with Marta, had a vision of Neville standing on a beach with his back to an endless body of water, addressing an enormous crowd of every faith who each heard him in their own tongue, and she knew he was both Neville and Jesus.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 22 July 1968
Told
22 July 1968
Sources
- Source: Faith July 22 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶55 (And the lady who was with her, whose name is Marge, had the experience of seeing me on the beach, standing with my back to an enormous body of water.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts stumbling upon the principle of imagining, thinking it stupid, testing it lightly as an experiment, and finding that it worked but produced something he did not want — which is why he
A woman freezes and unfreezes a theatre director in a vision
Description
Neville relays a woman's vision: in an enormous silent theatre she typed out an act on a typewriter to give sound to the dancers, the director berated her, and in anger she froze him solid by arresting the activity in herself; waking on her bed she went back into the scene to unfreeze him, and grew angry again because he had no idea he had been frozen.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 9 September 1968
Told
9 September 1968
Sources
- Source: Eternal States ¶26 (Then she rose and looked at him, and she said not to him but to herself, “I am going to freeze you! All I have to do is to arrest in me the activity that makes you alive. I’m going to freeze you” and she did.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville describes his own visions in which he arrests the activity within himself and the whole scene freezes — a waitress, birds, diners, grass, a falling leaf — and then resumes when he releases it.
A Kansas minister runs a church, old ladies' home, and mortuary in one building
Description
Neville reports hearing of a minister in Kansas who runs a church on the first floor, a home for old ladies on the second and third floors, and a mortician's business in the basement — and says he could hardly believe it when he heard it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 9 September 1968
Told
- 9 September 1968
- 9 September 1968
Sources
- Source: Eternal States ¶45 (I know someone in the Mid-West, he’s a minister, he runs a church on the first floor, he runs a home for old ladies on the second and third floors, and he’s a mortician in the basement. That’s a fact.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he has himself experienced and unfolded within himself the meaning of the 1260 of Daniel and Revelation, which no exegesis he has read comes near, and will explain it from personal experi
before 1968
(possible)
In illustrating that identity does not change with state, Neville speaks of having been rich and having been poor as the same actor playing parts.
c. 1968
(probable)
Recently, sitting alone in his living room with his Bible while gathering thoughts for a San Francisco lecture series beginning July 15, he remembered to count the days between his recorded visions an
before 1968
(possible)
He has recorded the date of every great mystical event he experienced in his Bible next to the parallel passage of scripture, dating each one when it happened rather than filling dates in afterwards.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he read the evangelists' account over and over without seeing it, and only understood the Father/Son relationship when David stood before him; he has since discussed it with clergy and tr
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he constantly sees the dead restored: a woman who dies at eighty is remade as a lovely girl of twenty in a terrestrial world where people work and have children, unaware of the Father who
before 1968
(possible)
Hearing in New York City that his seventeen-year-old nephew Billy, his sister Daphney's oldest child, was dying of cancer in Barbados, Neville shut himself in his bedroom and assumed he was lying on B
before 1968
(possible)
In his New York City apartment Neville practised being elsewhere: sitting in his big reading chair he would assume he was at the telephone in the hallway, looking back into the living room from a plac
A woman sees Neville appear in her living room and say there is no time
Description
A woman who had last seen Neville painfully thin at 138 pounds, and believed him to be in Barbados, thought of him and hoped he looked better - whereupon he appeared in her living room brown from the sun, in a grey business suit he had bought in New York on the way back, said "There is no time" and vanished.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 27 September 1968
Told
- 27 September 1968
- 27 September 1968
Sources
- Source: Brazen Impudence ¶16 (As she thought of me, instantly I am in her living room standing before her, brown from the sun in Barbados, in a grey suit—which I did not own when I left here, a business grey, which I bought on my way back in New York City—and I said to her, “There is…)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he has himself been cast in the central role of the Christian mystery and has played the entire drama from beginning to end, so that the theologians' statements strike him as remote from
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he looks forward every week to the religion page of Time magazine to see what nonsense the theologians are saying about God now.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says that had he accepted the human definition of truth he would have been stuck for ever in his place of birth with no social, intellectual or financial background; but he and his family refu
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he saw or heard of a meditation teacher who went up to Shasta and took three or four hundred students at no less than $300 each for a six-week course, taking a thousand from those who cou
before 1968
(possible)
Neville tells a woman present, Sharon, that the vision she had was true even though the facts do not support it.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says Christ has awakened within him, that he is not and never will be a master, and that when people object that using only 'Neville' is too theatrical he answers that they may call him what t
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he can vouch for Blake's account of the biblical characters being states, because he has seen those states himself as Blake saw them.
before 1968
(possible)
In vision Neville came upon the state of Abraham personified as a tall man in his fifties leaning against a leafless oak tree whose branches resembled a human brain, with a human-faced serpent coiled
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts that when he met David he did not have to ask his name — David so permeated the room with the feeling of who he was; likewise Abraham's name radiated as faith.
before 1968
(possible)
At a dinner party Neville told Aldous Huxley that the biblical characters were not persons; Huxley objected that Caesar and Herod really lived and are mentioned in scripture, and Neville answered that
before 1968
(possible)
In passing, Neville notes that his own mother was not named Hagar, though in the language of scripture every woman who bears a child is Hagar.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville notes that friends present throw the facts at him just as the crowd threw stones at Jesus for saying 'Before Abraham was, I am'.
Man asks about imagining a project
Description
A man wrote to Neville asking whether he should continue imagining a project that involves other people who may not wish to be part of it, and Neville answers him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
Told
18 December 1968
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Revelation Risen Christ ¶1 (A gentleman wrote: “You say others have bodies and lives of their own, but their reality is rooted in you as your reality is rooted in God. I have a desire that involves others, yet I have the feeling that they do not want to be a part of it.)
Friend revises son's report card dream
Description
A friend told Neville of a dream in which he received his son's report card showing he must improve in four subjects including algebra; he revised it, then angrily refused the responsibility of revision and awoke.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
Told
18 December 1968
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Revelation Risen Christ ¶7 (Now, a friend had a dream in which he received a letter with his son’s report card inside, indicating that he must show a decided improvement in four subjects, one of which was algebra.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville says he has already risen, lives a double life with night experiences unrelated to this world, and remains to tell the story of redemption.
Woman sees Neville as Risen Christ
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing how she fell asleep asking for a deeper understanding, saw him as the Risen Christ, and was handed the number 26; he explains that he was giving her the mouth — a voice of authority to speak out what she intuitively knows.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1968
(probable)
Told
21 October 1968
Sources
- Source: Fall Love With Christ ¶4 (In it she said: “I fell asleep requesting a deeper understanding when you appeared as the Risen Christ and handed me the number 26. I have tried to understand this and can only come up with the number eight.”)
People see Neville as Risen Lord
Description
Neville says he has been seen as the Risen Lord by people in New York, San Francisco and elsewhere who love the message they heard from him.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 21 October 1968
- after 8 April 1960
Told
21 October 1968
Sources
- Source: Fall Love With Christ ¶15 (I have been seen as the Risen Lord in New York, San Francisco, and all over, by ones who are in love with the word which they have heard from me.)
before 1968
(possible)
Neville recounts writing his book Resurrection, in which he set down his own visions in chronological order — an ordering he says no other book, the Bible included, provides.
before 1968
(possible)
Neville testifies that Christ rose in him and God's son appeared to reveal him as God the Father, and that until then he had always taken himself to be merely a body of flesh.
Woman receives money after imagining
Description
Neville reads a letter he recently received from a lady who imagined a $62 car-repair credit slip as a check and received an unexpected $68 referral commission, and who imagined her chair newly upholstered and was handed a hundred dollar bill by a neighbour whose son had stayed with her.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
Told
26 October 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates ¶12 (Now let me share a few wonderful letters I recently received. A lady writes: “In July my car needed repair. As I signed the credit slip agreeing to pay the cost of $62, I imagined it was a check, for I never sign a check unless there is money in the bank…)
Ann receives imagined hat
Description
Neville tells of his New York friend Ann, a prostitute who attended his meetings; she imagined wearing a $17.50 hat she saw in a shop window and ten days later a friend gave her that very hat, and Neville explained to her on the corner of Broadway and 72nd Street why God gave it through a friend rather than as money.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 26 October 1968
Told
- 26 October 1968 (probable)
- 26 October 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates ¶17 (Then my friend told her the story of my friend Ann, who lived in New York City. Ann was a member of the world’s oldest profession, that of being a lady of the evening. She often came to my meetings, but this day we met on the corner of Broadway and 72nd …)
Lady dreams of a missing purse
Description
Neville reads a letter from a lady who dreamed her purse was left in a paper bag with $30 and her Unity minister's card missing, and interprets it as her having paid the thirty pieces of silver and transcended man-made ordination.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1968
(possible)
Told
26 October 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates ¶19 (Now, a lady wrote, saying: “I dreamed I was in a large department store with a dear friend who agreed to watch my purse while I shopped. But when I returned, my friend was gone and my purse was sitting in a paper bag on the floor.)