He says he dived backwards and forwards many times as a boy all over the area where he was born, so the sensation of diving backward was familiar to him.
between 1910 and 1922
(probable)
At school in New York City, in an elocution class of forty, his teacher brought him forward and made him an example of what not to do, telling the others he would never earn a living using his voice —
Neville describes the golden light and the numberless little spermatozoa-like lights he can see at will, present even as he speaks, which he says he has been seeing since he was a boy and which match
between 1910 and 1922
(possible)
In his childhood home of ten children, ducks were fattened on unsold fish and had to be caged and fed on meal, corn and sour milk for ten days before eating; told by his mother to put ducks away, Nevi
between 1910 and 1920
(probable)
Neville says he was born and raised in a Protestant Christian environment and was taught as a child that the nativity was a literal historical event two thousand years ago — which he now says is not t
between 1910 and 1915
(probable)
As a little child Neville wept before a huge painting of the massacre of the innocents that his mother had hanging in the living room, among other religious paintings she owned.
between 1910 and 1918
(probable)
As a child in Barbados he watched his fair-skinned, blue-eyed mother, shaded by a parasol, graft shoots onto other stocks in the garden every morning, six days a week, while the gardener did the diggi
Neville's first vision, which came to him as a boy: standing among exalted beings in the presence of the risen Lord, he was asked what the greatest thing in the world was, answered automatically in Pa
between 1910 and 1920
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados, in a family of nine boys and a girl, he was told by his mother to pen up ducks two weeks before they were to be eaten and change their fish diet to corn, wheat and milk; when he
before 25 June 1910
(probable)
The Freeman's Atlantic City society column for 25 June 1910 reports a recital given by one of the town's ladies' club organisations, at which 'Prof. Abdallah, the noted baritone' assisted.
Identification caveat. This event documents Modeste Abdallah Guillaume / G. M. Abda'llah as named in the source.
Identification caveat. This event documents Modeste Abdallah Guillaume / G. M. Abda'llah as named in the source.
A specific, datable voyage (sailing from Montreal on the Lusitania to witness George V's coronation, pinned to 1911 by the ship's service dates and the coronation date) not covered by any existing
between 1920 and 1929
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 6 + birth 1905 = 1911. Told 1 time (?).
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 6 + birth 1905 = 1911. Told 1 time (1964). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 19 February 1911 and 18 February 1914
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 6 + birth 1905 = 1911. Told 1 time (1968). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Birth of Neville's audience friend in 1911
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Before sailing for Europe, Walter Lanyon was living in Chicago and had been working 'in a railroad office in Chicago for some months past'.
A position in the American Express Company's Paris office was secured by Walter Lanyon, described by the Carthage paper as a 'well known Carthage young man'.
6 January 1911
(probable)
2 December 1911
(possible)
The New Pittsburgh Courier published a photograph of Dr. Modeste Abda'llah Guillaume, later known as Abdullah, Neville's teacher.
11 December 1911
(probable)
Identification caveat. This event documents Modeste Abdallah Guillaume / G. M. Abda'llah as named in the source.
Alys Bentley occupied the largest studio (Studio 61) at Carnegie Hall from 1912 to 1938, teaching rhythmics and hosting figures including Ouspensky and Gurdjieff.
between 1910 and 1970
(probable)
Freedom Barry recounts that Neville began having recurring visions in childhood, from around age seven, which frightened him at the time.
Place: Barbados
Person: Neville Goddard
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 6 times (1954-1969).
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 2 times (1963).
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (1963). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (?). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (1959). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (1946). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (1959). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 19 February 1912 and 18 February 1917
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 7 + birth 1905 = 1912. Told 1 time (1959). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
When Neville was seven a lady told him she had had a vision concerning him — that he would do something for man that the centuries would not undo, and that hundreds of years later he would be named as
A woman told a seven-year-old Neville that she had had a vision concerning him: she could not say exactly what he would do, but that his impact would endure for centuries and that he would be counted
Neville recalls that when he was about seven years old in Barbados, a strange elderly Englishwoman living on a pension in a remote, sea-battered part of the island told his fortune: she said he would
between 1912 and 1926
(probable)
From around age seven, Neville underwent a slow-building inner separation -- an experience he could describe at first only as feeling like 'a stormy ocean' -- in which he sensed himself as both an ind
between 1912 and 1922
(possible)
Neville recalls the obstacle races his teachers set up as part of school life in Barbados: crawling through a length of canvas stretched tight and anchored on both sides, scrambling through barrels, j
between 1912 and 1913
(probable)
Neville recalls that water became a precious symbol to him because of his own first vision, which came to him at the age of seven.
When Neville was seven or eight an old Englishwoman at Bathsheba, on the windswept side of Barbados, told him he would do something men would discuss for centuries, with two others named with him, and
Englishwoman predicts Neville's life when he is seven
Description
When Neville was about seven, a strange Englishwoman living on a pension in a wild windswept part of Barbados told him he would leave the island and not return save to visit, would be the first of his family to marry, would marry more than once and have two children, would talk to unnumbered people and be selling something, and that centuries after he was gone his name would be linked with two others who did similar work.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
10 May 1968
(refuted)
1970
Sources
- Source: The Divine Body ¶41 (But centuries and centuries after you are gone, they will use your name and link it with two others who did similar work.)
Neville recalled that when he was about seven, an English woman living in Barbados told him he would leave the island except for visits, marry more than once, have two children, speak to unnumbered pe
between 19 February 1912 and 18 February 1914
(possible)
Walter Lanyon, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. D.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 8 + birth 1905 = 1913. Told 2 times (1971).
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 8 + birth 1905 = 1913. Told 2 times (1969).
between 1914 and 1914
(probable)
Between 1914 and 1923, Modeste Abdallah Guillaume (identified as Neville's mentor Abdullah) lived a double life in Atlantic City as a baritone/bel canto teacher running the Bel Canto Conservat