18 October 1968
(probable)
before 18 October 1968
(probable)
before 18 October 1968
(probable)
before 21 October 1968
(probable)
Neville quotes and responds to a letter he says he 'recently received' from a woman who, having fallen asleep asking for deeper understanding, saw him as the Risen Christ and was handed the number 26;
between 21 October 1968 and 27 October 1968
He recounts hearing a preacher the previous week talking about the second coming of Christ in a physical body free of death and disease — the same taped broadcast airing again that night at 9:30 — and
Woman sees abandoned children create an abundant harvest
Description
He reads out a letter received that week from a woman present in the audience, describing a vision of obedient children in a bare house waiting for a father who will not return, then a farmhouse with an abundant harvest where the children begin creating for themselves.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 22 October 1968 and 28 October 1968
Told
- 28 October 1968 (probable)
- 28 October 1968 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Storm and the Calm ¶15 (I received a letter this week from a lady (who is here). Now this is her own wonderful being revealing to herself a wonderful picture.)
24 October 1968
25 October 1968
25 October 1968
(probable)
Three women decline Neville's lecture after objecting to the charge
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
25 October 1968
(possible)
Told
28 October 1968
(possible)
25 October 1968
The night before the lecture Neville heard Billy Graham for the first time — a crusade programme with a thousand-member choir and an appeal for money — and concluded Graham had no concept of Jesus or
Neville's Irish-American friend gives him a humorous definition of an Irishman
Description
Just before taking the platform a very dear friend of his, present in the audience, an American with an Irish background, gave Neville a definition of an Irishman which Neville retells.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
Told
21 August 1969(refuted)25 October 1968(refuted)
Sources
- Source: The Promise's Fulfillment in You ¶23 (But, something was said to me just before I took the platform by a very dear friend of mine who is here tonight although he will admit to me and to everyone in the world, he is one hundred and one percent American but he cannot deny the fact that he has …)
Three women refuse the admission charge and call the lectures tripe
Description
His wife told him that on Friday night three women arrived, and on hearing the three-dollar charge one of them said she would not pay for such lectures because they were all tripe.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 25 October 1968
- 25 October 1968 (probable)
Told
- 28 October 1968 (probable)
- 28 October 1968 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Storm and the Calm ¶26 (As my wife said to me last Friday night…three ladies came in and when they heard that there was a charge, one said, “How much?” and my wife said three dollars.)
28 October 1968
(possible)
28 October 1968
Returning to the J. C. Penney firing, he says his dreams of transcending that little job and single room were the cause of it, and that the storms of his slumber did their work before the calm came.
before 28 October 1968
(probable)
Neville describes his vision of the dove, which descended as if through clear water, lit on his extended finger and covered him with kisses.
31 October 1968
On October 31, 1968, Neville received an unnamed gentleman's letter describing a dream in which a man resembling Neville climbed to a brightly lit stage before an iron gate closed and a voice declared
A correspondent dreams that Neville's deception is at an end
Description
A gentleman wrote to Neville describing a dream in which a man resembling Neville came by laughing, singing and dancing, climbed onto a brilliantly lit stage, and a voice announced 'Your deception is at an end'; Neville interprets it as the dreamer leaving the world of deception.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
31 October 1968
Told
1 November 1968
Sources
- Source: How Interpret Scripture ¶13 (A gentleman’s letter came yesterday, in which he said: “In my dream I was standing on the sidewalk when I heard the words: ‘We will get him this time. He has been gone too long.’ Then a man resembling you, Neville, came by laughing, singing, and dancing.”)
Woman hears 'I am the resurrection and the life' within her soul
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. November 1968
(probable)
Told
22 November 1968
c. November 1968
He read an article in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post by a highly honoured English anthropologist who made little of the Bible, and rejects its account of man's origins.
A man brings Neville a dream of a singing man on a lit stage
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1 November 1968
(possible)
A man brings Neville an experience of a ball of light and an abyss
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1 November 1968
Sources
- Temporal reference: How Interpret Scripture ¶19 (today)
Audience members have visions of Neville's departure
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1 November 1968
(possible)
Told
1 November 1968
Sources
- Source: How Interpret Scripture ¶36 (many of you have had visions recently)
4 November 1968
That morning Neville received a chain letter promising a great fortune if he sent twenty copies to friends and threatening disaster if he did not; he read it and threw it away.
5 November 1968
(probable)
5 November 1968
(probable)
7 November 1968
On the night before the lecture, Neville went to bed contemplating what it means to know the Lord. The questions remained vivid on waking and prompted a day of scriptural investigation.
Tom dreams Miss Divine praises Neville's map
Description
Neville recounts a letter he received this past week from a young man (his friend Tom, present that night) describing a vision of a school examination set by a Latin teacher named Miss Divine, in which Tom defined crucifixion with Paul's words from Galatians 2, and Miss Divine announced that "Neville Goddard has the map and the correct route"; the epilogue was a radio announcer saying the Angels had played their fourth game in twenty-four hours before 400 people.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 7 November 1968 and 13 November 1968
Told
13 November 1968(refuted)- 22 May 1964
Sources
- Source: God Has a Purpose ¶11 (A letter given me this past week from this young lad who is here tonight, he said, “I found myself in the high school, and my teacher—-my teacher was the Latin teacher, her name was Miss Divine—-and as I entered, there was an examination taking place.)
8 November 1968
8 November 1968
At about 4:30 a.m. on November 8, 1968, Neville awoke with thoughts crowding his mind, got up, and searched scripture for uses of the words 'know' and 'knowledge'.
8 November 1968
He went to bed dwelling on two scriptures, woke about four thirty in the morning with his mind crowded with the single thought 'the knowledge of God', got up and spent much of the day researching the
A friend dreams of tame wild birds in Neville's sun parlor
Description
A friend present at the lecture told him a dream in which he was a guest in Neville's home with Neville and his wife in the sun parlor, where Neville put out strips of paper and countless wild birds came and were as tame as house pets; Neville interprets the birds as scriptural ideas domesticated by long study.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
8 November 1968
Told
8 November 1968
Sources
- Source: The Knowledge of God ¶55 (Like a friend of mine (who is here tonight) said, “I came into your home as your guest, you and your wife. We were in the sun parlor and you were putting out strips of paper. Then suddenly there were unnumbered birds.)
9 November 1968
(probable)
Neville Mark Burleigh turns sixteen
Description
Neville said that Neville Burleigh, sole heir to an international family business but devoted to drawing and painting, would turn sixteen on November 10, 1968.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 November 1968
(probable)
Told
11 October 1968
11 November 1968
(probable)