20 July 1969
(probable)
Neville watched the moon landing on television while he was in San Francisco.
before 25 July 1969
(probable)
30 July 1969
Retiring early on Wednesday night, Neville asked for a simpler way to teach his principle before closing on Friday, and woke about five on Thursday morning from a vivid experience of travelling in a s
30 July 1969
Neville recounts, in the words of his plea before sleep, the mystical experiences he has already shared: being born from above, coming out of the grave as the resurrected one, his body split in two fr
August 1969
(probable)
August 1969
(probable)
An artist receives full payment after Neville imagines the debt paid
Description
An artist friend told Neville he had done work for a friend and not been paid as verbally agreed; Neville heard the friend tell him the debt was paid, and the friend reported the next night that the man had come to his house with a check for the full amount.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. August 1969 (probable)
- before 17 March 1969
Told
- 12 August 1969 (doubtful)
- 17 March 1969
Sources
- Source: Bear Ye One Another's Burdens ¶15 (After our discussion I heard my friend tell me the debt was paid. That was all I did. Last night he told me that, seemingly out of the blue, the man came to his house and gave him a check for the full amount agreed upon.)
2 August 1969
On the day of the lecture Neville turned on the radio as he was coming out and heard a bulletin about Ruth Judd, a murder case he vaguely recalls from years ago; he notes that his forty-five-year-old
Neville reads a newspaper account of a former first lady selling Kennedy gifts
Description
Neville describes reading in the day's paper, lifted from a magazine cover story written by her secretary, that a former first lady sold her father-in-law's wedding gift and jewels from foreign gifts to buy a finer diamond, and wonders how Joe Kennedy feels seeing it in print.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
2 August 1969
Told
2 August 1969
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: We Find the Father in Us ¶10 (I wonder how Joe Kennedy feels tonight when he sees it in print…not that he didn’t know it before.)
4 August 1969
Neville lunched with an unnamed friend born Mormon who had become a Christian Science practitioner. She challenged his identification of Jesus Christ with human imagination.
Neville lunches with a Mormon-born Christian Science practitioner
Description
Neville had a dear friend to lunch that day — a woman born Mormon whose parents had her married by proxy to a deceased Mormon to save her soul, and who is now a Christian Science practitioner; she told him he frightens her by taking away her traditional Jesus, and her two intended questions became two hundred.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
4 August 1969
Told
4 August 1969
Sources
- Source: Family Portrait ¶13 (Today I had a very dear friend of mine to lunch. She was born in the Mormon faith, but married outside of the faith, and her parents, to save her soul . . they are very good Mormons . . had her married by proxy to a Mormon who has been deceased, because …)
between 8 August 1969 and 10 August 1969
(probable)
Artist reports receiving full payment on August 11, 1969
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 11 August 1969 (probable)
- 16 March 1969 (probable)
Told
17 March 1969
September 1969
Bishop Pike was found dead in the Judean wilderness near the Dead Sea in September 1969 after becoming lost during a desert expedition with his wife.
c. September 1969
(possible)
Birthday of the young lady's older friend
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1969
(possible)
Told
29 September 1969
(probable)
September 1969
(probable)
September 1969
Neville recounts his own lost bag: coming down from San Francisco his bag was lost, he simply took it in his hand in imagination and held it, then received an anonymous air-mail letter from San Franci
14 September 1969
15 September 1969
(probable)
before 15 September 1969
(probable)
Neville says he has wanted things in his life with all his heart, obtained them, and found within the day of getting them that he did not want them and gave them away.
16 September 1969
(doubtful)
Lecture catalog #583 — text: HAVE
before 19 September 1969
(possible)
22 September 1969
(probable)
Neville tells his audience that this is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, ending at sundown and marked in every synagogue that day by the singing of a psalm beginning 'Awake, O Sleeper who forgot eter
22 September 1969
(probable)
In 'The Nature of God', delivered on Yom Kippur itself, Neville tells his congregation that the Day of Atonement has just ended at sundown with a psalm sung in every synagogue, and uses the day to ill
28 September 1969
Speaking of himself as the speaker, he says people would object that he is not yet seventy and could not know Abraham, and that he would answer 'Before Abraham, was I am.'
between 29 September 1969 and 5 October 1969
(probable)
Neville tells how one night in vision he gave his immortal eyes to a woman named Sharon, and how the previous week she came and told him her own vision: heavenly music, a ball of light with a child's
before 29 September 1969
(probable)
Neville says he could not bear to depart and leave those he loves behind, and would remain here forever if his remaining would awaken them.
Friend gives Neville a vision account during mid-October 1969
Description
Shortly before this lecture, a friend gave Neville an account of a wonderful vision experience, which he told the audience he would share that evening. He used it to illustrate 'divine history' as distinct from secular history, drawing a parallel to the raising of Lazarus in the Gospel of John before recounting the vision itself, in which a woman received Neville's own eyes and encountered a figure dressed in black.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. October 1969
(probable)
Told
17 October 1969
(doubtful)
Sharon sees Neville as the prince of light
Description
Neville notes that Sharon had seen the same vision of him as the prince of light only a few weeks before, and that Sharon gave the letter-writer the eyes Neville gave Sharon.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. October 1969
(probable)
Told
- 12 November 1969 (doubtful)
- 7 November 1969
Sources
- Source: Thou Art Our Father, Our Potter ¶25 (So she saw what only a few weeks before Sharon saw, the prince of light.)
Correspondent's experience of fusion with God
Description
A correspondent's letter, read by Neville, describes his own experience of 'fusion' with God about a month before this telling: not a bodily meeting but an immersion in 'a mixture of light, joy and love'; he calls it a thrilling relief after years of confusion, likening it to being gathered into God's body as though by melting.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. October 1969
(probable)
Told
24 November 1969(refuted)- 20 March 1964 (probable)
A lady sees Neville die in a vision
Description
A lady sent him a vision in which she watched Neville dying beyond reviving, in the company of the friend whose eyes are now incurrent witnesses, and refused to let anyone touch him lest he be held back; he collapsed and was gone.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between October 1969 and November 1969
(probable)
Told
14 November 1969
Sources
- Source: Experience the Mystery of Christ ¶25 (Another lady saw me dying. So many of you have been seeing me dead recently. May I tell you it’s healthy, it’s a very healthy state, very healthy.)