before 1969
(possible)
During his travelling years he carried enormous amounts of books and read them in the dressing rooms while the others played cards — his dancing/touring life.
before 1969
(possible)
Speaking of the linen clothes in the tomb, Neville says his own mother wove his fleshly garment in her womb.
Neville's friends flee California for Arizona after an earthquake prediction
Description
Friends of his left California for Arizona out of fear of the predicted catastrophe.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 7 April 1969
Told
7 April 1969
Sources
- Source: Outer World Responds Imaginal Acts ¶21 (Friends of mine left it, went off to Arizona.)
Women who demand one particular man later marry someone else
Description
Neville recalls women, several of them known to him in New York City, who insisted they wanted one particular (often married) man and refused any argument — and he went to their weddings, which were always to someone else.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 7 April 1969
Told
7 April 1969
Sources
- Source: Outer World Responds Imaginal Acts ¶35 (I’m not speaking of only one woman, I’m speaking of quite a few that I knew back in New York City who had these problems that they had to have that man…and it wasn’t that man.)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville states from his own experience that the dead are restored to life in a body like this one, and that having been raised from the dead he has presented himself to the woman and to others attendi
before 1969
(possible)
Speaking of forgiveness, Neville says his mother is now gone from this world, and that he could forgive her, his father, or any of his brothers whatever they did.
before 1969
(possible)
Asked his religion (in the context of applying for a job or being inducted into the Army), Neville answered simply "I'm a Christian", was pressed for a denomination, and told the woman asking that he
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says that on this level he would have given his eyes to his wife and then his daughter, but from above he gave them instead to a woman he knows only from his meetings - whose husband he knows,
before 1969
(possible)
Neville lays out the exact intervals of the mystical sequence - resurrection and birth from above the same night, the finding of the Father 139 days later, the splitting of the temple curtain and the
before 1969
(possible)
His own mystical baptism: everything became translucent, he rose up out of the body of water, a dove floated above him and descended smothering him with love, and the voice of God personified as a wom
c. 1969
(probable)
He recently read The Dialogues of the Buddha, translated from Sanskrit by Rhys Davids, and found in it words about human beings being stinking and revolting in the eyes of the gods that matched what t
before 1969
(possible)
A friend, having heard him speak of baptizing his son, asked him to arrange a baptism for his own five unbaptized children and to be their godfather; Neville arranged it and stood as proxy godfather.
before 1969
(possible)
He says he was judged far more kindly and mercifully than he could ever have judged himself, and would never claim martyrdom for his own life.
before 31 January 1969
(probable)
He explains that he cut his coming Monday lecture title down to 'Wonder Working Power' so it would fit the small ad on the Saturday religious page of the Times.
before 1969
(possible)
He had his dear friend Bob cremated and the urn returned to him held only a small handful of ash.
12 May 1969
(probable)
Neville mentions that after the lecture he will ride home with his friend, going by sight past familiar streets and objects.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville voices the objection that he was born with nothing — no education, no money, no social background.
before 1969
(possible)
He describes his own mystical experience: the curtain (veil) of his body split from top to bottom, he saw the blood of his ancestral being, fused with it and went up like a spiral of fire into his sku
before 1969
(possible)
He recounts the force with which he pressed into the kingdom, locating the entry point a little left of centre of his head and saying he tried his best to go beyond it.
A woman sees three golden men and a mother with infant in a cave
Description
He relates a letter from a woman who wrote that she found herself in a cave with one exit, seeing three men etched in gold and a woman holding an infant, which he reads as an adumbration of her coming birth from above.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1969
(possible)
Told
28 March 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Two Sides This Teaching ¶13 (Now, a lady wrote me that she found herself in a cave, and in that cave she saw three men etched in gold, and a woman holding an infant in her arms, and she is the observer of the entire thing.)
before 28 March 1969
(possible)
He states from his own experience that a man imagining intensely with feeling can influence myriads and speak through many voices.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville was raised in a Christian home and believed the gospel story as his mother taught it to him, so discovering that Jesus Christ is the human imagination came as a shock.
c. October 1933
He describes exactly how he slept in Barbados in imagination — placing New York northwest of him by latitude and longitude, hearing the tropical noises, seeing the sudden red-to-green Barbadian sunset
before 1969
(possible)
Abdullah told him cryptically that he would have died by the time he returned from Barbados; Neville, then seven years a strict vegetarian, non-smoking, non-drinking celibate after a disillusioning fi
before 1969
(possible)
He spent three months in Barbados as a guest of a family that made its money in groceries, meat, fish and alcohol while refusing all of it, and came back with money given him as an unsolicited gift.
before 1969
(possible)
He used to go to the movies with Abdullah; after taking him to see The Count of Monte Cristo, Abdullah asked him to interpret it, and was thrilled when Neville read it as teaching that there is nothin
before 1969
(possible)
At Abdullah's small Hebrew-teaching meetings of a dozen or twenty, Abdullah would have Neville rise and expound; he interpreted the 14th chapter of John in the light of his Barbados trip, to Abdullah'
before 1969
(possible)
He says he does not use the law constantly because he is fairly satisfied with his life, but applies it whenever he reaches a crisis.
People repeatedly challenge Neville about a historical Jesus
Description
Everywhere he travels lecturing, including small dinner parties, people ask him whether he does not really believe in a physical Jesus who lived 2,000 years ago.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1969 (possible)
- before 22 February 1963
Told
20 June 1969(refuted)- 22 February 1963
Sources
- Source: Paul's Autobiography ¶19 (I go to a small little dinner party of four or five – “I know what you say Neville, but don’t you really believe that he did live, that he walked this earth 2,000 years ago and was called Jesus, and his mother was Mary and his father was Joseph – or mayb…)
before 1969
(possible)
He says he located Christ within himself by his own search and experiment, and discovered that God is his own human imagination.
before 1969
(possible)
He describes, in the second person, the same pilgrimage vision he had: the crowd asking where God is, the answer "At your side," their hysterical laughter, the voice saying "in the act of waking," and
before 1969
(possible)
In a night vision Neville sat on the floor facing twelve men explaining the word of God; one man left to inform the authorities, then a tall man in costly robes entered, hammered a wooden peg into Nev
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says that when he saw a man betray him he knew he had already played the part of the betrayer himself.
before 1969
(possible)
When Neville tells priests, rabbis and ministers that they have the same son and that they are God the Father, they throw up their hands in holy horror and accuse him of taking their religion away.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says David, God's only begotten son, stood before him and called him Father, so that he knows himself to be the father of the one and only son as told in the 2nd Psalm.
before 1969
(possible)
One night he felt an explosion in his skull and, when it settled, saw his son David and knew he had fulfilled scripture.
before 1969
(possible)
He was lifted out of his body, ascended in a spiral motion clothed in a body of fire and air, glided above the earth healing the blind, lame, halt and withered simply by passing them, heard a heavenly
before 1969
(possible)
He says he has found David and that his memory has returned, so that he knows there is no part he has not played and can condemn no one.
before 1969
(possible)
David stood before him and, looking into his eyes, his memory returned as though he had suffered amnesia, and he knew himself to be David's father.
before 1969
(possible)
Speaking of his own mortal frailty, he admits the man called Neville can drink too much and wake with a hangover, and asks not to be judged by what he does physically.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says visions came upon him which he checked against scripture and found dovetailed, and that he then recorded the messianic secret - that God's true son is David - in his book Resurrection, so
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes the reception of his message: those who know him only by his physical origin, seeing the outside man called Neville, accuse him of blasphemy, and the rabbis and priests see him as an
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he has seen in imagination a world unlike this one, and that when he entered it and let consciousness follow vision it was more real than the room he is lecturing in.
A woman imagines Norway and receives a film assignment there
Description
A woman friend told Neville she longed to visit Norway but could not afford it; he told her to sleep as though her bed were in Norway, and on the day of the lecture he received a card from her from Norway saying a casting office had called her to make a picture there.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1969 (probable)
- c. 0
- before 8 May 1969 (probable)
Told
8 May 1969
Sources
- Source: The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us ¶9 (I received a card from her today, from Norway, where she confessed that she dwelled in the state as though she was there and she received a call from a casting office requesting her to make a picture in Norway!)
before 1969
(possible)
Neville's own vision: a hairy monstrous ape called his angelic being 'mother'; he beat it and it grew stronger on his violence, until he pledged to redeem it though it took eternity, whereupon it diss
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says he has gone into world after world in which the visited world was the only reality while the apartment where his physical body slept was a shadow, and that the clothed body he wears there
before 1969
(possible)
In a vision Neville saw every part he had ever played and every costume he had worn waiting to be redeemed; as he walked by, everyone was made perfect, and a chorus sang out the last cry on the cross,
before 1969
(possible)
Neville describes his own role: he remains to tell his story to whoever will listen, speaking from what actually happened to him rather than theorizing, before he departs and others continue.
before 1969
(possible)
Neville awoke inside his own sealed skull, pushed at its base until it gave way, squeezed himself out as a child from a womb, and found himself in the imagery of Luke 2, holding the child in swaddling
before 1969
(possible)
Neville says that because he enjoys a good dinner, wine and martinis, his testimony that Christ has awakened in him is dismissed and he is thought an impostor.