After Neville said from the platform that he loved to hear that anyone had seen him die, Carter told him the Judas death-vision, and Neville replied that he is Judas.
Description

After Neville said from the platform that he loved to hear that anyone had seen him die, Carter told him the Judas death-vision, and Neville replied that he is Judas. [Date evidence: between Carter's vision (c. 1969, three years before Neville's death) and Neville's death (Oct 1972)]

Verbatim (witness's words)

I didn't tell it to Neville for a long time, because it was so grisly. Then, when he said from the platform, I love to hear that anyone has seen me die. One night I found it in Scripture, so I told him, and he said, Yes, I am Judas.

Neville (as quoted): "I love to hear that anyone has seen me die. [and, on being told the vision:] Yes, I am Judas."

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
between 1969 and October 1972 (probable)
Told
13 June 1976
Sources
During the years after Carter's vision, Neville repeatedly said from the lecture platform that he would love to hear that someone had seen him die, but Carter could not bring himself to tell his dream.
Description

During the years after Carter's vision, Neville repeatedly said from the lecture platform that he would love to hear that someone had seen him die, but Carter could not bring himself to tell his dream. [Date evidence: repeated from the platform in the window between Carter's vision (c. 1969) and Neville's death (Oct 1972)]

Verbatim (witness's words)

all that time he was saying from the platform, I'd love to hear that you have seen me die. Well, I kept hearing him say this, but I still could not bring myself to tell him this awful dream which I had had.

Neville (as quoted): "I'd love to hear that you have seen me die."

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
between 1969 and October 1972 (probable)
Told
6 June 1976
Sources
After finding the Acts 1 account of Judas's death, Carter phoned Neville (with Mrs. Goddard on the extension), told him the dream and said 'you're Judas'; Neville affirmed it, expounded the two scriptural traditions of Judas's death, and twice declar
Description

After finding the Acts 1 account of Judas's death, Carter phoned Neville (with Mrs. Goddard on the extension), told him the dream and said 'you're Judas'; Neville affirmed it, expounded the two scriptural traditions of Judas's death, and twice declared that Judas betrayed the messianic secret. [Date evidence: the morning after Carter found the Judas passage in Acts 1; sometime between the death-vision (c. late 1960s) and Neville's death (Oct 1972) — no closer anchor] [Place: telephone call]

Verbatim (witness's words)

I got on the phone and I called him. I got his wife on the phone too, on the extension. I wanted her to hear this. I told him the dream and I said, you're Judas. And he said, yes. Judas betrayed the messianic secrets. He went on to say, God entered this world by committing suicide. ... Neville went on to say, In the Orient, the honorable suicide is to disembowel yourself. ... Before Neville hung up, he said once more, Judas betrayed the messianic secret.

Neville (as quoted): "Yes. Judas betrayed the messianic secrets. ... God entered this world by committing suicide. ... In the Orient, the honorable suicide is to disembowel yourself. ... Judas betrayed the messianic secret."

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
between 1969 and 1 October 1972 (possible)
Told
31 October 1976
Sources
In the period after Carter's vision Neville repeatedly said from the lecture platform that he loved to hear that people had seen him die.
Description

In the period after Carter's vision Neville repeatedly said from the lecture platform that he loved to hear that people had seen him die. [Date evidence: habitual platform saying during the window between Carter's vision (c. 1969) and Neville's death (Oct 1972); variant later in the document: "I’d love to hear that anyone has seen me die"]

Verbatim (witness's words)

Well the dream was so grisly that I simply couldn’t tell him and yet at that time he was saying from the platform, “I love to hear that you have seen me die”. Well I kept hearing him say this, but I still couldn’t bring myself to tell him this awful dream which I’d had.

Neville (as quoted): "I love to hear that you have seen me die"

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
between 1969 and 1 October 1972 (possible)
Sources
Neville asked Barry to go teach in San Francisco in his stead — offering no money but praising his presentability, articulateness, and literate case-history write-ups — and put his San Francisco mailing list at Barry's disposal.
Description

Neville asked Barry to go teach in San Francisco in his stead — offering no money but praising his presentability, articulateness, and literate case-history write-ups — and put his San Francisco mailing list at Barry's disposal. [Date evidence: late 1959 — Barry moved to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960] [Place: Los Angeles]

Verbatim (witness's words)

Anyway, he asked me that night if I would go to San Francisco and teach. I said, “I don’t know anything about teaching. [...] He said, “The principle proves itself in performance. I can’t give you a nickel, but you’re presentable and articulate. You understand this obviously from the case histories you’ve sent me. And when you write, it’s literate. I don’t have to rephrase it. I can put this just as you wrote it. I can put it in a book. [...] I would like you to go there. I’ll give you my list. He said, “Do you have a list? I said, “A list of what?

Neville (as quoted): "The principle proves itself in performance. I can’t give you a nickel, but you’re presentable and articulate. [...] I would like you to go there. I’ll give you my list. [...] Do you have a list?"

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • c. December 1959 (probable)
Told
  • 25 June 1969 (doubtful)
  • 3 March 1972 (doubtful)
  • 25 June 1969 (doubtful)
Sources
  • Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
  • Source: Test Him and See ¶44 (There’s only one friend of mine in this area to whom I have given my list, and I recommend him one thousand per cent; and if you are on my list, you will be on his list, because he teaches what I teach.)
  • Source: Justified States ¶22 (I will not give you any money, but I will give you my mailing list of five hundred; it’s a live list, and you send out my list, and when I go, I will tell them that I allowed you to have my list, and I will get behind you in that manner, but not in any o…)
Friend tells an acquaintance about Neville's experiences and divorce
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1969 (possible)
Benny's forecast encounter with David
Description
Neville says he and Bob worked out the chronological order of the mystical experiences, and on that order a man in the audience, Benny, who has already found the child, must bring forth David on or about the 6th of March; others have written him letters forecasting the same.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
  • 18 October 1969 (refuted)
  • 27 October 1967
Sources
before 1969 (probable)
Neville recalls that a since-deceased family friend, Helen, once offered to get his daughter Vicki listed in New York's Social Register, an offer he declined on Vicki's behalf as too young to consent
Friend shares the magnetic-seeds vision with Neville
Description
A friend recently told Neville of a vision in which he saw that the buildings, trees, and houses around him were produced by tiny magnetic seeds clustered about his feet; when he scraped the seeds away, they instantly reformed to bring about corresponding changes in his outer world. Neville reads the vision through the 40th Psalm's image of feet lifted from the mire and set upon the Rock, treating the friend's own imagination as that Rock -- the one true cause behind everything he sees around him.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
21 February 1969
Neville's friend reads a medium's prediction in a Sunday paper
Description
A friend wrote to Neville that although she rarely buys a newspaper, she had bought a Sunday paper a few weeks earlier and read a story about a woman calling herself a "great medium," who -- believing California was about to sink into the Pacific -- moved with her whole family to Spokane. Weeks later another friend brought her a more recent paper reporting that the same woman, only twenty-nine years old, had died of a heart attack shortly after arriving in Spokane, despite having fled to escape the disaster she had predicted.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1969 (possible)
Told
  • 7 April 1969
  • 19 April 1969 (refuted)
  • 7 April 1969
1969 (probable)
Neville's daughter crashes on her first solo drive
Description
Neville's daughter, on her first solo drive at sixteen in a second-hand Buick they had bought her, swerved on the curve of Doheny Road at Sunset to avoid an oncoming driver crossing the double line, hit a palm tree, wrecked the car and smashed her nose; the other driver never stopped.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969 (possible)
Told
6 May 1969 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: The Battle of Armageddon ¶42 (My daughter on her first trip out, she was only sixteen. She had to wait until she was sixteen to drive a car, and we bought her a second-hand car, a nice little Buick.)
Someone asks Neville whether he only discusses the Bible
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1969 (probable)
before 1969 (possible)
Before writing the first chapter of his book Your Faith is Your Fortune he set down the line 'Man's faith in God is measured by his confidence in himself', and has been heavily criticised for it ever
1969
He mentions reading, that same day, a scholar writing about the little child of Matthew 18 and wondering who the child was, treating the passage as secular history.
1969 (probable)
Woman who gave Neville the Epistle of James dies
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1969 (possible)
Told
1970 (probable)
An unmarried woman seeks a great companion
Description
He mentions hearing of a lady who would make some man a wonderful wife but is unwed and wants a great companion, and uses her as the self he must sacrifice by revision.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 1954
Told
  • 28 March 1969 (refuted)
  • 1954
Sources
before 1969 (possible)
Neville recounts his own mystical experience in which David came out of him, stood before him, and he knew instantly who David was and their relationship, before David called him father.
before 1969 (possible)
Neville states that the whole pattern of scripture unfolded within him personally, that he has told the chronological order exactly as it happened to him, and that he speaks from experience rather tha
Music student dreams of records and a composition named Christ
Description
Neville reads out a letter he received from a young woman still at school, a music major who wants to be a composer, who dreamt her father handed her three records and told her to keep two and give the third to a friend, and who then saw a sheet of music titled 'Christ' by a composer named 'Olam' - which Neville interprets as David, the eternal youth.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 29 September 1969
Told
29 September 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Great Secret ¶15 (I received a letter from a young lady who is still in school. She is majoring in music as she wants to be a composer.)
before 1969 (possible)
Living in New York City, where he walked miles every day and met many friends, he could name a couple of dozen people so unfailingly depressing that he would cross the street to avoid them; he contras
before 1969 (possible)
Carrying a mood, he went to his own library, took down a book of poetry he had not touched in years, opened it casually, and found the mood beautifully confirmed on the page.
before 1969 (possible)
He read Churchill's Guild Hall speech printed in full in the New York Times; the sentence about mood deciding fortunes jumped off the page at him, so he made a record of it as he does with everything
Woman imagines good fortune and receives two trusts
Description
A woman in her middle sixties in New York, earning seventy-five dollars a week and living in a hotel room, applied Neville's teaching with 'Something wonderful is happening to me now!'; her long-time companion, who had sworn never to give her a nickel, settled a $100,000 trust on her and then a second, and now she telephones Neville every week from New York while cursing the old man who has since parted from her.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 7 March 1969
Told
7 March 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Game of Life ¶13 (And, here is a lady in her middle sixties, she confessed to that (I’m inclined to believe she is even older than that) but she had nothing and all of a sudden she began to put this into practice. “Something wonderful is happening to me now! Something won…)
Woman sees a giant rise from her body
Description
A woman present at the lecture told Neville she saw herself lying in state, ghastly pale as one dead, and a giant of a man rising out of her body.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 7 March 1969
Told
7 March 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Game of Life ¶20 (Another lady (she is here tonight) said, “I saw myself lying in state, ghastly pale like one that is dead, and then suddenly out of my body rises a giant of a man. I can see his feet now standing out of me. And that was it, this man.”)
before 1969 (possible)
After performing an imaginal act he has had the telephone ring within minutes with someone thanking him for what had just happened; other times it has taken a day, a week, a month, or months.
Music Hall pianist identifies every chord instantly
Description
He would test a friend of his in New York City who played at the Music Hall by striking any chord or discord on the piano, and she would name it instantly.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 7 March 1969
Told
7 March 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Game of Life ¶50 (A friend of mine in New York City she played at the Music Hall, and I would test her. I would hit a chord, any chord, and she would instantly call it. I could hit a discord and she’d call it.)
Neville's father drinks heavily
Description
His father, who sold all the food and drink of the island, was himself a very heavy drinker, and rum was made in Barbados.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 30 January 1969
  • before 9 January 1964
Told
  • 30 January 1969 (refuted)
  • 9 January 1964
Sources
c. October 1933 (probable)
He tested the assumption by thinking of New York and seeing it two thousand miles to the north of him, which proved to him he was clothed with Barbados.
before 1969 (possible)
Before he sailed Abdullah told him he was going to die but would not surely die, and refused to interpret it; later Abdullah said only that 'The Brothers' had told him, meaning the Elohim.
before 1969 (possible)
On the ship going north he broke the whole seven-year discipline in one evening — wine ordered by the man beside him, soup, fish and meat — and kept it up for the ten or twelve days at sea.