9 June 1907
(possible)
A wire dispatch datelined Berlin, June 9 (year not given), reports an interview with Pastor Roden, a Spanish missionary in Berlin to revise the Abyssinian version of the Bible for the British Foreign
between 1908 and 1908
Between 1908 and 1923, Modeste Abdallah Guillaume was a public figure in Atlantic City newspapers as a baritone, voice teacher, founder of the Bel Canto Conservatory, and later Spiritualist/New Tho
c. 1908
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 3 + birth 1905 = 1908. Told 3 times (1964-1967).
between 1908 and 1909
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 3 + birth 1905 = 1908. Told 1 time (1969). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 1908 and 1909
(probable)
Neville says he can recall many things vividly at the age of three and four, yet he cannot recall his mother except as a mature lady -- even though she must have been only twenty-one or twenty-two whe
between 1908 and 1922
Neville remembers his childhood Christmases: up at four for a five o'clock service, then home to the football and cricket set that was the family's communal present because his mother could not afford
c. 1908
(probable)
Neville states he is twice born and recounts awakening, after fifty-odd years of walking the earth believing himself alive, inside the tomb of his own skull, and afterwards recognising Golgotha as the
6 February 1908
(probable)
The New York Age published a photo of the Williams & Walker Glee Club, identified by researchers as including a young Modeste Abdallah Guillaume (Abdullah).
Place: New York City
between 19 February 1908 and 18 February 1909
(possible)
Neville says that his own conscious memory reaches back no further than about the age of three.
1909
Fawcett published The Individual and Reality, an essay touching first principles of metaphysics.
Person: Edward Douglas Fawcett
c. 1909
(probable)
George Walker fell tragically ill in 1909, and the Williams & Walker company unraveled, prompting Guillaume's move to a full-time spiritual/musical career.
Person: George Walker
1909
In 1909 Atkinson wrote and published 'The Arcane Teaching,' a New Thought book whose ideas parallel Neville's later teachings.
Person: William Walker Atkinson
3 March 1909
(possible)
In 1909 Modeste Guillaume was photographed at Baker Art Gallery in full Ethiopian/Abyssinian turban costume, inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Alex Rogers.
1909
(probable)
c. 1909
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 4 + birth 1905 = 1909. Told 2 times (1967).
c. 1909
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 4 + birth 1905 = 1909. Told 1 time (1969). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
The artist's mother's funeral and last meeting with her friend
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1909 and 1919
(possible)
Told
26 February 1968
21 January 1909
The January 21, 1909 playbill for Chicago's Pekin Theatre credits a number, 'Chief Bungaboo,' as arranged by M. Bel Guillaume (Abdullah).
Place: Chicago
1910
The 1910 census records Modeste Guillaume living with his wife Cora Contee Guillaume at 1708 Arctic Avenue, occupation music teacher.
Place: 1708 Arctic Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ
c. 1910
(probable)
After the Williams & Walker company ended, Modeste Guillaume relocated to Atlantic City and established the Bel Canto Conservatory of Music.
Place: Atlantic City, New Jersey
c. 1910
(possible)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 5 + birth 1905 = 1910. Told 1 time (1964). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
c. 1910
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 5 + birth 1905 = 1910. Told 1 time (1967). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 1910 and 1917
(possible)
Neville recalls a childhood obstacle race in Barbados: as small children, he and the other 'little tots' had to crawl under a tarpaulin staked down so tightly that by the time you got through you were
between 1910 and 1911
(possible)
Neville recalls that his first mystical experiences came through the ocean, beginning when he was a boy of about five or six: at night he would somehow know in advance that something was about to happ
c. 1910
As a small child his father promised him a huge wonderful golden nothing if he would do something; he rushed to do it, heard only the word golden, and was duly given nothing — a lesson that what canno
c. 1910
As a boy in Barbados he ran paper chases around the whole island without tiring, and contrasts that with barely being able to run a block now.
c. 1910
(possible)
In discussing his own experience with LSD, Neville mentions that a physician friend, aware that Neville had been mystically inclined since childhood, wanted to test the drug's effects on him under obs
between 1910 and 1918
(probable)
As a boy his family kept their clothes in cedar chests because his mother firmly believed no moth or bug would attack cedar wood.
c. 1910
Walking through Harlem, kitchen smells of okra, coconut oil and plantains transport him instantly back to his childhood in Barbados.
between 1910 and 1918
(possible)
Neville recalls that as a little boy his family would take goods home 'on approval' -- bringing merchandise home to try before deciding whether to keep it or send it back -- and uses the childhood mem
between 1910 and 19 February 1918
(possible)
between 1910 and 1920
(possible)
between 1910 and 1911
As a boy of five or six his mother gave him two candies, one for himself and one for his brother Carl, and he ate both and never told Carl.
between 1910 and 1920
(probable)
Neville recalls his boyhood in Barbados, watching children shipped in from the other islands for the school year, crying themselves to sleep from homesickness while their parents left them there out o
between 1910 and 1920
(probable)
Neville recounts his own life as guided by the Father: shipped two thousand miles away to school as a boy with no friends or relatives to receive him, jobs lost or quit, being taken to London where a
c. 1910
Neville first heard the Bible orally as a child: his mother taught it to him before he could read, then he was taught it at school and heard the story from the teacher at Sunday school.
between 1910 and 1911
As a boy of five or six he would know in advance which night it would come, and lying in the big bed beside his brothers he would become an infinite ocean and also the wave on its back, tossing and ca
c. 1910
As a child Neville watched his mother direct the gardener in grafting shoots onto her rosebushes, some grafts taking and blooming with the flower of the graft, others failing.
c. 1910
In his large childhood household his mother would send a boy to separate two ducks from the flock and fatten them on corn for two weeks; when Neville forgot and only did it a few days before Sunday di
between 1910 and 1921
(probable)
As a schoolchild, and later in his mature years, he read Psalm 2:7 without it ever occurring to him that this scriptural character had any relation to him.
c. 1910
(probable)
Neville says that neither his mother, Sunday school, nor the church he attended as a boy in Barbados taught him that Christ is within him.
c. 1910
As a small boy in Barbados, Neville and three other boys rode a male donkey each Sunday to his grandmother's for a coin, and he spent his penny paying a man with a female donkey to give them a wild ri
c. 1910
As a small boy in Barbados, coming naked out of the sea toward the rock where he had left his clothes, he was startled when a black fisherman mending his nets called out that he was going to castrate
between 1910 and 1915
(probable)
As a boy, years before puberty, Neville had a recurring monthly experience of being both the ocean and a breaking wave, tossing himself into the sky and catching himself as he fell; he knew in advance
between 1910 and 1919
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados he and three brothers rode a gig behind a huge jack donkey to their grandmother's every Sunday; she gave each a coin, and he spent his penny every time paying a man to race ahead
c. 1910
(probable)
As a child at his little school he was taught that Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity and half believed Newton had made it and determined how things fall.
c. 1910
As a little boy his father let him go every week with his brothers to see the old silent pictures, where the reels broke and the lights went out.
c. 1910
His father, who had a butcher shop, gave him one and six for the pictures plus an extra threepence he claimed was for candy; instead he paid a big barefoot man called Mashmouth threepence every Saturd
c. 1910
Neville recalls how, as a boy, the family charged everything and had goods sent home on approval, his mother returning shoes and clothes that did not fit or look right.
c. 1910
He recounts his boyhood on Barbados, a sugar-cane island where the manure gathered over two years was spread on the fields in an operation they called broadcasting, long before radio existed.