A telephone supervisor develops an exceptional ear for voices
Description
Neville explains how his friend's ear was trained: she worked in the telephone business heading a long-distance department, and could recognise a caller's voice before they announced themselves.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1971 (possible)
- c. 0 (probable)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Law Your Choice And Risk ¶10 (She was in the telephone business for quite a while, in the — she headed her department on long-distance calls — until you hear voice after voice after voice, and she could actually register that voice, because she knew these voices; before you could eve…)
- Source: The Law: Your Choice and Risk ¶7 (She was in the telephone business for quite a while as the head of her department on long-distance calls, and she knew voice after voice after voice.)
Professor Imhoff assumes a lavish dependable income
Description
Neville retells the professor who affirmed a lavish, steady, dependable income long before he had a nickel, doing it entirely within himself so that he became the two who agree.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971
(possible)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Law Your Choice And Risk ¶3 (The great professor who said “I have a lavish, steady, dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefits” — this he stated long before he had a nickel, and he perfected himself of the reality of what he was hearing.)
Neville's penniless eastern friend imagines a business fortune
Description
Neville tells of a friend in the East who began with not a penny, believed Neville's teaching that imagining creates reality, and now owns buildings on 57th Street and businesses all over the world — interested in the law but not in the promise.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971
(possible)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Law Your Choice And Risk ¶15 (I have another friend of mine in the East, and the promise means nothing to us, but the law does. And so there’s many, millions — but millions — when you own buildings on 57th Street between 5th and 6th, you are in the money; when you have businesses all…)
before 1971
(possible)
Neville states that he himself has had the experiences of the promise — resurrection, the birth from above, the discovery of the fatherhood of God (David), and the ascent into heaven — and offers his
before 1971
(possible)
Neville says he has been trying night after night to convince his hearers that the central theme of the Christian faith is the fatherhood of God, which they will one day discover from their own experi
1971
Neville says he received a letter from someone in his audience saying they had not understood his answer to a question about Abraham, and identifies the questioner as Stan, who is present tonight; he
before 1971
(possible)
Neville recalls having had to say goodbye to his father, his mother, a niece, a nephew and many friends who have died.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville says the ordinary sufferings he lists — bankruptcy and its embarrassment, unemployment with obligations still owed — have come to him as well.
c. 1971
(probable)
Neville describes reading the Monday morning papers reporting Sunday's church services and setting himself against the clergymen who treat the story of Jesus Christ as secular history of two thousand
before 1971
(possible)
Neville describes standing in the presence of God as infinite love, saying he can describe the face, hands and voice but not the radiant body, and that one fuses with it and becomes one.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville gives the interval in his own experience between the appearance of the son (David) and the birth from above as exactly one hundred and thirty-nine days, against the thousand years of the writt
A woman tells atheist Al that he is God dreaming
Description
Neville reads a letter received the day before from a woman in Santa Barbara, who told her niece's atheist husband Al at a family dinner that she knew who he really was — God dreaming that he was Al.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1971
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nothing But God ¶1 (Let us start with the story that I got in the mail yesterday from Santa Barbara.)
Al dreams of receiving a robe and a new name
Description
In the same letter, Al recounts a dream in which a figure with Neville's face and Al's body brought him a white robe, and a lady in white then gave him a solid gold medallion inscribed with a new name Neville wanted to give him, which he woke before he could read.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1971 (probable)
- c. 1971 (probable)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nothing But God ¶3 (“He said, ‘That night, I had a dream. I was in a mountain home, my own home, way up in the mountain. And I went to the door, and as I opened the door, there you stood. But it was only your face. It was you. It was Neville. But the body was Al.)
- Temporal reference: Nothing But God ¶1 ('the story that I got in the mail yesterday from Santa Barbara' -- dates the recounted dream close to the telling)
c. 1971
Neville reports reading a newspaper's commentary on the Manson case, which said a soft core of fiction had come to life and a pornographic fantasy was made real, and objects that there is no such thin
before 1971
(possible)
Neville says he remembers having had all the obvious things of this world to complete saturation in a former state, and that having them did not make him grow or awaken, so he walked out and left it b
A woman sees a boy while Neville is speaking
Description
Neville recalls a woman at a recent meeting telling him she saw a boy while he was speaking, and his reply that his hearers suffer from amnesia and do not know they are the infinite being.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1971
(probable)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nothing But God ¶19 (like the lady said the other night — I saw a boy when you said it)
A correspondent dreams she is absent from a room's mirror
Description
Neville describes another vision the same correspondent sent him — a mirror reflecting the whole room but not herself — and says he cannot answer her six-page letter, having no secretary and no time, so he will phone her to explain it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1971
(possible)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Nothing But God ¶38 (I must call her on something, but I can’t answer that letter right — it takes too long. You’ve got to write a long portable six-page letter. There’s another one following with another three-page letter, and I don’t have a secretary, I don’t have the time.)
1971
He read this morning's newspaper obituary column, noting a brilliant man of forty-nine, head of the Urban League, whose heart gave out while swimming in the sea on a tour in Africa, and that the notic
before 1971
(possible)
He describes his own experience of total forgetfulness of who he was, and of memory now returning to him through the Spirit of Truth.
1971
Two nights before the lecture he had a visionary experience of going from one New Thought teacher to another across the country, telling them there is no such thing as new thought and that they came o
before 1971
(possible)
He testifies from his own experience that the crucifixion, the nailing by six vortices, was sheer ecstasy and joy beyond measure rather than pain.
before 1971
(possible)
He says remarks about the physical background of the little thing called Neville cannot offend him, because the being wearing it cannot be touched.
A prominent woman tries to slap a college speaker
Description
From this morning's paper he recounts a prominent woman, made prominent by her very prominent brother, who went to a college and tried to slap the face of a speaker because his statement offended her concept of the Virgin Mary.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1971
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: This Is Your Future ¶19 (This morning’s paper — some lady, prominent through her very prominent brother, came to defend her parish, and she was offended because someone spoke at one of the colleges, and she went up and made an attempt to slap his face, because it affected her co…)
before 1971
(possible)
He states he has been married twice, that his first wife bore him a son and his second wife a daughter, and that he has no doubt they are his own children — yet the certainty when David stands before
12 March 1971
(possible)
He speaks of his earthly mother and earthly father, saying his earthly mother is his father and his earthly father is his brother, refusing any sense of transcending his brothers.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville says the words of the psalmist erupted in him: God called him son and he called God father, three thousand years after the psalm was written.
before 1971
(possible)
His mother taught him the stories of Jesus Christ and he accepted the story as she told it until he experienced it himself.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville recalls hearing the Bible story read aloud by his mother when he was too young to understand it.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville says he has told his stories from the platform for years, and that someone in the audience listened constantly for twelve years and still never really heard him - so he repeats himself night a
before 1971
(possible)
He was raised in a Christian home where his parents taught him the story of Christ as history, and they died still believing it, before he discovered it was not history at all.
before 1971
(possible)
His mother, his schoolteachers and then the ministers all fixed in his mind the idea of Jesus Christ as an external man of history, so that he could read scripture forever without seeing what it said.
before 1971
(possible)
The day came when the block was removed and his son David stood before him and called him Father, which is how he knew he was God the Father.
A woman sees humanity chained in a pyramid beneath Neville
Description
He retells, in her own first-person words, the dream of a friend present in the audience: she woke unable to recall a momentous dream, took her son to the orthodontist, and while waiting in the car saw a partial sign reading 'Complete Vision' which brought the dream back — a pyramid-shaped sea of humanity all chained breast to breast, with Neville at the very top as the top stone, the chains then turning invisible.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1971
(probable)
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Top Stone ¶9 (Let me share with you a vision of a friend of mine who is here tonight; it’s biblical. On the surface you will think, “No, that’s only a dream, meaning nothing,” but let me give it to you as best as I can recall it — it’s not a wrong one, you shall see. …)
c. 1971
(probable)
In a vision one night he found himself in a square first-century room teaching the twelve, seated on the ground in robes; one of them went out to denounce him, a tall soldierly man of about forty ente
before 1971
(possible)
He stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days, who asked him to name the greatest thing in the world; when he answered 'nothing' the figure embraced him, their bodies fused into one, and he was sent
before 1971
(possible)
When he was sent out, words rang in his ears — 'done with the blue bloods' — and it was afterwards revealed to him that this meant done with church protocol and every external form of worship.
1971
(possible)
He says he would like to set the revelation down in writing but was never trained as a writer, so he tells it from the platform instead and hopes one day to tell it fully.
c. 1971
(probable)
Neville introduced Joseph Burleigh to the woman who became his wife at one of Neville's own meetings; Burleigh died about a year before this lecture leaving her millions, and Neville's barber once cha
A woman dreamed that her deceased father returned to life
Description
He reads out a letter received that week from a woman who dreamed of her father, dead a few years, coming back to life — blood rising from his feet to his head until he sat up and told her he was not dead — which Neville reads as the buried father within her returning.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1971
Told
1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Whom God Hath Afflicted ¶9 (Her father died a few years ago, and here she is in this room, and it’s obviously these days, and she knows her father had died. And then, looking at him, suddenly she began to sense: “You are living” — as the blood is coming into him, and then from the …)
1971
That morning, while writing and dwelling on birth from above, he saw the wind turn an umbrella inside out and understood it as an image of man being born out of himself — a first turning inside out fo
1971
A friend of his, talking that same evening with the person sitting next to her, used the word "engrafted", which struck a bell in him and brought up the word "embedded".
before 1971
(possible)
Neville recounts a vision in which he stood in a simple interior and saw the boy David standing before him as his own son, the enormous severed head of Goliath on a table, and two homosexuals from the
before 1971
(possible)
He describes the severed head in that vision as bigger than any head in any museum, filling the whole table, and the whole scene clearer and more vivid than his audience in front of him.
before 1971
(possible)
He says he did not know he was the father of David until God gave him himself, and that he went through hell before that moment when the promise was kept.
1971
(possible)
He says he has himself travelled the world Blake describes in The Mental Traveller, passing through those worlds night after night and seeing exactly what Blake describes.
before 1971
(possible)
He says he has never read anywhere else the gathering-together of these widely separated scriptural stories — it came to him alone, in his room, in the twinkling of an eye.
before 1971
(possible)
He states that he believes Shakespeare's 'all the world's a stage' absolutely because he speaks from his own experience, and extends it beyond the span from cradle to grave.
before 1971
(possible)
He says that having experienced the gift he can now say with Paul that the time of his departure has come, and that if he lingers a year or a few months it is only to encourage those who hear him.
before 1971
(possible)
Neville says he never imagined that Scripture written thousands of years before his own birth was about him, and then the whole pattern gathered and unfolded in him over 1,260 days, leaving him consci
before 1971
(possible)
He tells of writing a book called Resurrection, one chapter of which bears the book's title and is his personal confession of faith based on his own experience of the resurrection of the pattern withi