17 November 1969
Neville says he had dinner that evening and drove to the lecture with a friend and his wife, using it as evidence as undeniable as his mystical experience.
17 November 1969
Neville retells a story he gave a week earlier: he was the cause of a woman's misfortune, because his imaginal act compelled her to do the thing for which she was criticized, sentenced and suspended -
before 17 November 1969 (probable)
Neville recalls believing his mother when she told him of the word of God, whereas now he knows it from his own experience.
Woman sees a living loaf of bread pouring blood
Description
A woman friend of Neville's had a vision of a loaf of bread that was alive and pouring forth blood, which he interprets as her complete acceptance that imagining creates reality, making church communion unnecessary for her.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 17 November 1969 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Jeremiah's Discovery ¶32 (Eventually you will eat the entire loaf as my friend saw it, as alive, pouring forth blood.)
between 19 November 1969 and 21 November 1969 (possible)
Needing to prove his age for Medicare, Neville had gone to an office a week or so earlier and realized he no longer knew where his old baptismal certificate was.
20 November 1969
An intense woman friend who lunched with Neville the day before asked whether the man who drives him to his lectures each week is unreliable; Neville denied it, and the next day that friend called for
21 November 1969

Lecture catalog #623 — text: HAVE

1 December 1966

In the lecture 'Enter the Dream,' Neville described a recurring visionary practice of his inner eye opening and moving out of his body, likening it to acting in Broadway plays.

between 21 November 1969 and 27 November 1969 (probable)
Someone recently asked him whether the Bible was all he ever talked about, thinking it limited and monotonous; he answers that he finds it a never-ending mystery.
24 November 1969

Lecture catalog #42 — text: HAVE

24 November 1969 (doubtful)

Lecture catalog #624 — text: HAVE

24 November 1969 (probable)
L4 witnessless search note: the only corpus witness found for a Neville 'splashdown' remark (passage 551531, nid 2013, delivered 1968-12-27) matches the real Apollo 8 splashdown date, not Apollo 12 (1
24 November 1969
Neville tells his audience that 'today' three astronauts have splashed down after returning from the moon, using the half-million-mile round trip as an image for how consciousness can travel without t
before 24 November 1969 (probable)
Neville recounts the night he faced a monstrous reddish hairy ape-like beast that called a glorious woman "Mother"; he beat it, then knew both beast and woman were his own creations, pledged to redeem
A woman receives the airport's letter about her lost bag
Description
A woman had lost her bag on a trip and, rather than dwelling on the loss, imagined that she already had it back, mentally unpacking her clothes and the gifts she had bought for family and friends. Six weeks after returning home, on 26 November, she received a letter from the airport warning that her bag would incur storage charges if not collected within five days; she had it retrieved with a friend's help, never having told the friend it had been missing at all.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
26 November 1969
Told
5 December 1969
28 November 1969

Lecture catalog #625 — text: HAVE

28 November 1969

Lecture catalog #797 — text: HAVE

before 28 November 1969
28 November 1969
He reports reading in that morning's newspaper that the relic called Peter's throne has been dated to only about 900-1,000 years and so cannot have been Peter's.
before 28 November 1969 (probable)
28 November 1969 (probable)
28 November 1969
He reports reading in that morning's newspaper that scientists have dated the supposed throne of Peter at only 900 years old, and that it is being kept as a holy relic anyway.
A woman imagines her lost airline luggage home and recovers it
Description
A woman wrote to Neville describing how, after her luggage was lost by an airline on a flight from La Guardia to Chicago, she refused the loss, nightly imagined lifting the bag onto her bed and putting away the clothes and gifts, and six weeks later was notified by the airline to collect it or be charged storage.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 28 November 1969 and 4 December 1969
Told
5 December 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Secret of Causation ¶1 (Let me share with you two experiences which came to me this past week. The first lady said: “Returning from a wonderful cruise recently, I checked my baggage at La Guardia Airport, bound for Chicago, where I expected to spend a few days with friends.)
A woman freezes and revises a murderous dream
Description
A second woman shared with Neville a dream in which she stood in a neighbour's kitchen among Mennonites who had killed the neighbour's second husband; gunmen entered, she awoke within the dream, froze everyone, told the gunman he loved the woman, and watched him lay down his gun and embrace her before her alarm woke her.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 28 November 1969 and 4 December 1969
  • between 28 November 1969 and 4 December 1969
Told
  • 5 December 1969
  • 5 December 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Secret of Causation ¶8 (Now, another lady shared this experience with me: She found herself in a neighbor’s kitchen, filled with men and women dressed as Mennonites.)
28 November 1969 (probable)
A questioner reminds him that in last week's lecture he spoke of the war with the Philistines, and asks what the Philistines mean.
28 November 1969
He announces his own lecture schedule: closing two weeks from that night on Friday the 12th and re-opening Monday the 5th of January after three weeks, possibly without mailed notices but with a newsp
A woman recovers a suitcase after six weeks of imaginal unpacking
Description
A woman who studies with Neville wrote to him describing how she lost her most valuable suitcase in transit from New York to Chicago, refused to accept it as lost, imagined every night that she had it home and was unpacking the clothes and presents onto her bed, told no one - not her daughter, her grandchildren, her friend or Neville - and six weeks later got a letter from the airport threatening storage charges, and collected the bag intact.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 29 November 1969 and 5 December 1969 (probable)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • 26 November 1969
Told
  • 5 December 1969
  • 5 December 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Secret of Causation ¶2 (Now let me share with you two experiences that came to me this past week. Here is the first one, the lady wrote me dated December the 1st…that’s the date of her letter.)
  • Source: The Secret of Causation ¶4 (I assure you she didn’t tell me. And under the circumstances, she would have called me and asked for help as she has on other occasions for different problems, but this time I knew nothing of it.)
  • Source: The Secret of Causation ¶5 (Then on the 26th of November ... she received a letter ... she got the bag.)
30 November 1969 (probable)
between 30 November 1969 and 1 December 1969
The night before the lecture, wondering what to speak about, Neville dreamed at about 1:30 in the morning that he was serving Barbados yams at dinner to three friends (two of whose funerals he had arr
A woman dreams Neville's brother restores money to a ledger
Description
A second woman in the audience told Neville that he had been with her all through the night explaining the mystery of imagining, calling on his 'brothers' to demonstrate: one brother silently looked at a man's ledger that showed exhausted funds, and the money appeared recorded there.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 30 November 1969 and 1 December 1969 (probable)
Told
1 December 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Heart of the Dreamer ¶9 (Another lady shared this experience, saying: “You were with me all through the night, explaining the mystery of imagining. At one point you said: ‘Come, brothers, show how it works,’ and instantly a man appeared at my left, and another man – holding an o…)
between 24 October 1969 and December 1969 (probable)
between December 1969 and June 1970 (possible)
Neville reports reading in the paper that the Rhine River had gone stagnant with fish, with millions dying of an undetermined cause some weeks or months earlier; he notes the waters had already replen
1 December 1969

Lecture catalog #626 — text: HAVE

between 1 December 1969 and 5 December 1969 (probable)
A lady writes Neville about recovering her lost bag
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1 December 1969
A lady writes Neville about her Mennonite vision
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
2 December 1969 (probable)
Told
5 December 1969
A woman freezes and reconciles gunmen in a Mennonite dream
Description
A second woman, also present, wrote to Neville on 2 December describing a dream in which she stood in a neighbour's living room full of Mennonites who had killed the woman's second husband; gunmen arrived, she woke within the dream, felt and arrested the activity in herself that made the figures seem alive, froze them, and then told the gunman and the woman that they loved each other, whereupon he laid down his gun and embraced her - and her alarm woke her before she could free the rest.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
2 December 1969
Told
5 December 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Secret of Causation ¶9 (Now here is another lady. She’s here tonight, too, both are here. Her letter is dated December the 2nd, only a few days ago, she said, “I found myself in my neighbor’s living room and in her living room all are dressed as Mennonites.”)
5 December 1969

Lecture catalog #627 — text: HAVE

5 December 1969
Neville alludes in passing to an unspecified, disturbing murder-related item in that day's newspaper, without naming the case or giving further detail.
A woman changes a dream gunman's motive from murder to love
Description
A woman friend told Neville of a dream in which she found herself among people dressed in 300-year-old fashion, where armed men in black came to kill; realising the dream was herself pushed out, she froze her perception, changed the killer's motive from murder to love, and released it, and he laid down his gun and embraced the woman.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
5 December 1969 (probable)
Told
8 December 1969
Sources
  • Source: The Divine Event ¶14 (Then she began to awake in her dream to realise that, although they all seemed to be independent of her perception of them, they were only aspects of her dream.)
7 December 1969
The previous morning, returning from within, Neville held himself on the surface of his being for ten to fifteen minutes wearing his immortal body, and looked out on three-dimensional heavenly scenes
8 December 1969

Lecture catalog #628 — text: HAVE

12 December 1969

Lecture catalog #1003 — text: HAVE