Benny undergoes the third mystical experience
Description
Neville predicts that his friend Benny -- who had already experienced 'birth from above' (on an October 20th in a prior year) and the vision of David calling him Father (confirmed 1968-03-06) -- would soon undergo the third of the four mystical milestones in Neville's own pattern, the splitting of the temple, within about a week or two of this lecture. This is a forecast rather than a report of a completed event; no later passage confirming it was found in this pass.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 28 June 1968 and 5 July 1968
(doubtful)
Told
21 June 1968
A friend tells Neville his childhood Ouija-board story
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 28 June 1968
(probable)
Told
28 June 1968
A woman sees the Father call Neville his resurrection
Description
A woman present at the lecture told Neville a vision in which she rode a train up out of a dark cavern into a world of pinnacles and light, stood before a great being seated on a tall chair who called her "Babe" and told her to "Record It", and who, on seeing Neville in the distance, described him and said "He is my resurrection" - which Neville takes as the Father speaking of him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 28 June 1968
- before 28 June 1968
Told
28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶5 (Seeing me in the distance, she said: “That is Neville” and the being seated in the chair began to describe me in the most endearing, possessing terms ending with these words: “He is my resurrection.”)
Woman dreams that her spiritual birth is thirty years away
Description
Another woman present told Neville a dream in which she said something was "only thirty minutes away"; he interprets it as thirty years until her spiritual birth, and notes she told him she has never wanted things or accumulated possessions, having always had a questing mind.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
28 June 1968
Told
28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶14 (“In my dream I was talking to two people, when one looked at me and said: ‘How far is it?’ to which I replied: ‘It is only thirty minutes away’ and awoke.”)
Woman remembers Neville teaching her in another age
Description
A woman not yet twenty-eight told Neville that her memory returned to another age and time in which she recalled him vividly, unchanged in face and voice, telling her about a father and a son which she did not then understand; he says he moves through sections of time at night gathering his other sheep.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
28 June 1968
Told
- 28 June 1968
- 28 June 1968
Sources
- Source: We Came Out From the Father and Return ¶31 (“I recall you vividly. You haven’t changed. You still have the same face, the same voice. You told me than about a father and a son and I didn’t understand.”)
A correspondent imagines paying for her car repair
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
July 1968
(probable)
between July 1968 and 22 July 1968
(probable)
c. July 1968
(probable)
Death of a person devoted to Neville's story
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
July 1968
Told
21 October 1968
c. July 1968
In the aftermath of the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.
Death of the woman who saw Neville as the risen Lord
Description
Neville spoke of those who, hearing him recount the full chronological detail of his own resurrection experience, fell in love not with him as a man but with what they heard, and so came to an unshakeable inner knowledge rather than mere belief. One such woman, who had died the previous July, had seen him and known without being told that he was the Lord, though she never claimed to personally know Neville himself.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. July 1968
(probable)
Told
21 October 1968
People see Neville as Risen Lord
Description
Someone who died the previous July, and another woman present in the audience, both saw Neville as the Risen Lord rather than as a man of flesh and blood.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
July 1968
Told
21 October 1968
Sources
- Source: Fall Love With Christ ¶9 (One who departed last July saw me as the Lord. Another lady here saw me as the Risen Lord.)
July 1968
Flying home from San Francisco last July one of his two checked suitcases — the one holding his wife's expensive couturier dresses — was lost by the airline; at two in the morning he revised the loss
Los Angeles man sees a fiery friend in vision
Description
A man from Los Angeles who has been attending Neville's meetings for years shared with him a vision of a great tree, a winding road, an enormous barking dog and a radiant fiery friend who came down, fused with him and carried him to the top room.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. July 1968 (probable)
- c. 0 (probable)
Told
24 July 1968
Sources
- Source: The Man Within ¶4 (Now, here is one from the south, in L.A. – how it came in his case. I’m very eager to get everyone to share with me their visions and their dreams, because God speaks to man through the medium of the dream, and unveils Himself through the medium of a vis…)
c. July 1968
(probable)
At an earlier meeting his friend Jack asked a question about the one birth through the womb, and Neville's answer, quoting the ninth chapter of Hebrews, confused several of those present; he says here
Predicted splitting and ascent experience of Benny
Description
After Benny reported seeing David on March 6, Neville predicted in March 1968 that Benny's next experience—bodily splitting followed by serpentine ascent—would occur on July 8; the reviewed passages do not confirm later fulfillment.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
8 July 1968
(probable)
Told
- 11 March 1968
- 15 March 1968
- 11 March 1968 (probable)
Benny's predicted awakening on July 8, 1968
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
8 July 1968
(possible)
Told
15 March 1968
Letter-writer has a confirming vision
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 10 July 1968 and 17 July 1968
(probable)
before 15 July 1968
before 15 July 1968
(probable)
between 15 July 1968 and 22 July 1968
(probable)
Neville notes that everything he has told his audience in the past week is based on his own experience, this being the sixth of six lectures.
15 July 1968, 19:30
Neville lecture advertised for Monday, July 15, 1968 at 7:30 PM in Nicholas Hall, Marines Memorial Club, 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco; admission $3.00.
15 July 1968
(probable)
An advertisement announces a two-week series of Neville's evening lectures, Monday through Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles woman has infant vision after conception dream
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 16 July 1968
As the audience fell away Neville, who never drove, owned a car, or held a driver's license (nor did his wife), had his wife ask Barry at the ticket table to drive them home; Barry was so honored he washed the car.
Description
As the audience fell away Neville, who never drove, owned a car, or held a driver's license (nor did his wife), had his wife ask Barry at the ticket table to drive them home; Barry was so honored he washed the car. [Date evidence: 1959, during the post-'Birth from Above' audience collapse] [Place: Los Angeles]
Persons
Verbatim (witness's words)
he had his wife ask me when I bought my ticket to go in, he said, “Ask him if he will give us a ride home tonight, because Neville never drove in his life; he never owned a car; he never had a driver’s license; neither did his wife. I was so delighted to have those people in my car; they were the stars. I even washed the car. (Laughter) Drive them home – boy would I!
Neville (as quoted): "Ask him if he will give us a ride home tonight"
Location
Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
- 17 July 1968
- c. July 1959 (probable)
Told
18 July 1968
Sources
- Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
- Source: Prophetic Sketches July 18 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶15 (And sitting there with the simple little meal and a glass of beer, she said, “Oh, what a strange feeling!” and then her head began to move towards the table, and she’s gone suddenly.)
Neville receives the call reporting Marta's sudden death
Description
Neville reports receiving a call, the day before this talk, that a woman (identified in this passage as Marta) had suddenly died - her head fell over at the table while lunching with three others. He recalls having last seen her the previous Friday in June and says she had had a premonition of her death six months earlier. He frames her passing not as loss but as freedom: 'Marta is not restored to life; Marta is free.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
17 July 1968
Told
18 July 1968
17 July 1968
(possible)
17 July 1968
Neville says a friend of his called him today with news that a woman he knew - someone who had been at his last meeting, in Los Angeles the night before - had died suddenly.
17 July 1968
(probable)
In a vision he walked among giant sunflowers whose flowers were human faces, all rooted and moving in concert, and knew that he, for all his weakness, had greater freedom than all of them because he h
Woman dies after attending Neville's prior lecture
Description
A friend who had attended his meeting the night before in Los Angeles died suddenly that day in a little Mexican restaurant in Laguna, and he says he has no tears for her because she was born from above.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
17 July 1968
Told
17 July 1968
Sources
- Source: The Pattern Man ¶47 (She was sitting in a little Mexican restaurant down in Laguna − she and three others who were at the meeting last night in Los Angeles. They had some Mexican dish and a glass of beer, and she had two cigarettes. Then all of a sudden she said, “Why, isn’t…)
17 July 1968
(probable)
He remembers his mother in her tropical garden, passionately fond of roses, grafting them and directing two boy gardeners, shading her light skin with a parasol while he and his brothers ran out sunbu
before 18 July 1968
18 July 1968
Victor dismisses questions about the next world
Description
Neville's brother Victor told him he had come into this world not knowing what he was supposed to do and made a good job of it, so he would do a good job in the next world too, and asked not to be bothered with these things.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 18 July 1968
Told
18 July 1968
Sources
- Source: Prophetic Sketches July 18 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶48 (As my brother Victor said, “Look here, you are interested in what is going to happen after this world. I didn’t know what was going to happen when I came into it, and I made a good world of it.)
Death of Marta
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 19 July 1968
(possible)
A friend sees Marta and the serpent in vision
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 19 July 1968 and 26 July 1968
(probable)
19 July 1968
19 July 1968
(probable)
Neville recounts his vision of the Crucifixion: walking in a great Arab-like throng, a voice declared that God walks with them and, asked where, answered "At your side"; a woman turned, laughed and sa
21 July 1968
(probable)
Friend reports listeners disturbed by Neville's lecture
Description
After his Monday-night meeting a dear friend telephoned Neville to say her phone had been busy all morning with long-time listeners disturbed by something he had said, and by an answer he gave to a question after the meeting.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 22 July 1968
- 9 January 1968 (probable)
Told
- 24 July 1968 (doubtful)
- 24 July 1968 (doubtful)
- 12 January 1968 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Man Within (Lecture-2) (Unresolved ASR Witness) ¶0 (I tell you this, because last Monday night I thought it was clear, and the next day a very dear friend of mine called me and told me that her phone had been busy all morning where so many who have been coming over the years were disturbed.)