28 June 1968
He read in this morning's paper that tonight's scheduled film was cancelled as too gruesome and replaced by 'A Night to Remember', and uses that to tell the story of Walter Lord's discovery that an 18
2 June 1968
Neville describes watching Billy Graham preach on the second coming on television the night before, and his dismay at the appeal for money and at Graham's fleshly heaven.
Dora sails for Samoa after receiving a legacy
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 3 June 1968
(probable)
Told
3 June 1968
before 3 June 1968
(probable)
Neville recognizes spiritual births among members of his audience
Description
Neville says the letters and visions his students send him, plus visions he himself received during the past week, showed him that three people present have been born from above and one woman all but the dove.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 3 June 1968 and 10 June 1968
Told
10 June 1968
Sources
- Source: The Remnant ¶6 (Now, many here have not brought through the full consciousness, but I assure you from the visions that I received this week that three of you have been born from above.)
A woman sees the world as a dollhouse after awakening in her skull
Description
A woman wrote Neville a letter describing finding herself in a huge domed room she knew was her own skull, waking from it, and afterwards seeing the world as a dollhouse of mechanized dolls; she asked whether it related to the week's great public event and he answered that it did.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 3 June 1968 and 10 June 1968
Told
10 June 1968
Sources
- Source: The Remnant ¶17 (Then she said, “After this the world seemed to change. I looked upon the people in the world and, Neville, it’s strange to describe it, it doesn’t make sense, but no matter where I looked and saw people, the world looked like a huge great dollhouse fille…)
between 5 June 1968 and 8 June 1968
(probable)
5 June 1968
(probable)
6 June 1968
(probable)
6 June 1968
NBC studio scrambles to replace violent films after Kennedy's death
Description
A friend who worked at an NBC-TV studio told Neville that when Kennedy's death became official, an order came from New York that no violent films be shown for four days, causing pandemonium as the studio hunted through its files for enough non-violent film.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 6 June 1968 and 10 June 1968
Told
7 June 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: There Is No Fiction ¶6 (Although the networks will deny this, a friend at NBC-TV studio told me that when it was official that Kennedy was dead, he received an order from New York that for the next four days no violent films were to be shown.)
Ray Leigh again revises a woman's complaint
Description
In the same letter describing how he first revised a coworker's complaint about the lack of decent eligible men, Ray Leigh wrote that about two weeks before writing, the same woman came into his office looking 'very, very glum,' which reminded him to apply the imaginal revision technique on her behalf again. By the day before he wrote the letter, she was spending twenty minutes rapturously describing the wonderful man she was now dating.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 7 June 1968
(possible)
Told
21 June 1968
before 7 June 1968
(probable)
8 June 1968
Neville describes watching the Kennedy funeral broadcast - two hundred priests, cardinals and archbishops, the choral group, millions lining the sidewalks, all staged live in forty-eight hours - as a
9 June 1968
(probable)
10 June 1968
(probable)
10 June 1968
Watching the Today show that same morning, Neville heard the commentator insist that Mrs.
c. 12 June 1968
(probable)
c. 12 June 1968
About six weeks before this lecture, an ordained woman minister came forward at the end of one of his meetings and said she would take his theories under consideration; he told her he was not ordained
14 June 1968
Lecture catalog #453 — text: HAVE
Woman dreams of standing on water
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 14 June 1968 and 21 June 1968
(probable)
Neville recognizes scriptural experiences among his audience
Description
Neville says he is sharing not only his own experience but what others present tonight have shared with him, and that he looks at the audience knowing many of them have been born from above and have had these scriptural experiences; he expects to depart and, like Paul, remain only until it is organized while they carry on.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
14 June 1968
Told
14 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Old Testament Is Prophetic Blueprint of the Life of Jesus Christ ¶22 (And I can’t tell you my thrill when tonight I look in this audience and I know so many of you who’ve been born from above, and who have had all of these wonderful experiences of scripture.)
between 15 June 1968 and 21 June 1968
Neville received two letters from Ray Leigh that week telling the stories he goes on to relate.
A woman stands on water and instructs others to water ski
Description
A woman wrote Neville about two dreams in which she stood on water instructing others to water ski, and Ray Leigh appeared beside her and twice assured her she had instructed them perfectly.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 June 1968 and 21 June 1968
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶2 (She said, “I had a dream that happened this past week. I found myself standing on water and I was instructing others how to water ski. But I was standing on water. It didn’t seem strange or unnatural. Then suddenly I looked at my side and here is Ray Lei…)
Ray Leigh recognizes his flower-planting dream fulfilled
Description
The friend's letter continues with a night dream of the previous winter that he found himself living out in detail while planting summer flowers with his wife and youngest son.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 16 June 1968
- 16 June 1968
Told
- 20 June 1968
- 21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Walk on Water ¶6 (My friend continued his letter, saying: “There are certain things in my life I do not understand. Last Sunday, as my wife, our youngest son, and I were planting summer flowers, I realised that I was experiencing – in detail – what I had dreamed as happen…)
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶7 (“I am in the yard with my wife and my younger son, and we are planting summer flowers to replace the dead ones of the winter. Suddenly I look at my wife, I look at my son, and I am seeing and hearing in detail, word for word, scene for scene, what I had …)
17 June 1968
(probable)
before 17 June 1968
(probable)
Neville says he has rearranged the Book of John himself and keeps that rearrangement at home, and that his own little publications suffer dislocations and misspelled words in the same way.
Ray Leigh revises a reprimand and imagines a better job for a man
Description
Ray Leigh revised a story of a man unmercifully bawled out by his bosses into one of praise; the man quit anyway with no backlog and, after Ray heard him with a better job, started a new job with no day of lost salary and a twenty-five percent increase.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
20 June 1968
Told
21 June 1968
Sources
- Source: Imagination, the Real Man ¶9 (Then he said, “I told you a story of a man who was bawled out unmercifully by his bosses. I heard the story and I revised it, and I heard him being praised by his bosses in the immediate present.)
Ray Leigh meets a client on Monday morning
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 21 June 1968
(probable)
21 June 1968
Neville mentions his own reading: the Sunday New York Times his household gets every week, whose story on the Kennedy family raises the question of a curse, and the morning papers' reports of what pri
between 24 June 1968 and 28 June 1968
(probable)
A woman sees Neville give black umbrellas to her and Marta
Description
A woman told Neville a vision in which she and Marta, at a military drill, were called forward by Neville in a long black robe who gave them each a black umbrella and spoke profound words neither understood, until Dorothy Dix entered and offered to explain; Neville reads the black as the incomprehensible divine silence and says the vision was prompted by a conversation the woman had with a friend after his last lecture about waiting thirty years.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 24 June 1968 (probable)
- c. 31 May 1968 (probable)
Told
- 28 June 1968
2 June 1968(refuted)- 28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶11 (She said, “I found myself in this dream and Marta was with me, and here you stood before the two of us in a long black robe. We held umbrellas over us…we didn’t hold them, but they were over us…two black umbrellas, the old-fashioned with the peak.)
Two women discuss awaiting the birth from above after Neville's lecture
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 28 June 1968
before 28 June 1968