c. June 1971
(probable)
A lady asks Neville to imagine the sale of her property
Description
A lady who attends occasionally wrote Neville asking him to imagine the sale of multiple rental units she had inherited from her late husband, for $650,000; he assumed it done, and though her later thank-you letter did not say outright that she had sold it, she wrote that 'everything has worked' and 'everything that I asked of you has happened'.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between June 1971 and August 1971
(possible)
Told
5 November 1971
(probable)
A lady writes Neville about selling her property
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. June 1971
(possible)
Told
5 November 1971
(probable)
between June 1971 and August 1971
(probable)
He recalls going with someone to see As You Like It at the open-air theatre in Central Park, New York City, in the summer, and loving the play.
Neville imagines a correspondent's wish fulfilled and she later thanks him in person
Description
A lady wrote asking him to exercise his imagination lovingly on her behalf; reading the letter in his easy chair he took about ten seconds to hear her say it had happened, and a week or two after his October 4th opening she wrote thanking him — and she is in the audience tonight.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before June 1971
(probable)
Told
10 December 1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Message Abdullah Told ¶25 (As I read the letter, I was sitting in my big easy chair. I put the letter down, brought it before my mind’s eye, and did not for one moment hesitate until — it only took me about ten seconds, ten seconds — to actually hear her tell me that it had all ha…)
An Egyptian student's father dreams a friend's death one week early
Description
Just before leaving for this lecture, Neville talked with an Egyptian U.C.L.A. student who sits with his wife on lecture nights and answers the phone; the student told him his father had dreamt of a friend falling dead in the street with people weeping over him, and a week later the friend dropped dead exactly so, the father seeing him ask, "What are they crying about?"
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
7 June 1971
Told
7 June 1971
Sources
- Source: The Mystery Called Christ ¶29 (Before I came out tonight, this University student from U.C.L.A. . . he sits with my wife while I come to the lectures because we need someone to answer the phone and to be present, and before my friend arrived to bring me here, we got to talking about t…)
A woman dreams Neville addresses a multilingual Jewish wedding
Description
Another woman, sitting next to the first one that night, told Neville a dream of a Jewish wedding at which he was present and was to give the main speech; he spoke in his own tongue but each man heard him in his own tongue, and all but one accepted him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
7 June 1971
Told
7 June 1971
Sources
- Source: The Mystery Called Christ ¶57 (I sat to her right at a very long table, but across the table, and they all wondered why Neville is here, because this was a Jewish wedding.)
Woman's reported dream on May 8, 1959
Description
Title reads '(reported dream on) May 8, 1959'; that traces to the lecture's now-doubtful 1959-05-10 catalogue claim. Neville's own arithmetic in the passage ('letter dated the 11th of June, so this is the 9th of June') places the dream in June, and the lecture is now dated (probable) to 1971-06-18 -- giving the dream's date as 1971-06-09, not May 1959.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
9 June 1971
(probable)
Told
18 June 1971
(probable)
Woman writes Neville in the week of May 10, 1959
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 12 June 1971 and 18 June 1971
(probable)
Told
18 June 1971
(probable)
A friend becomes Culver City's purchasing agent after assuming the job
Description
A friend without a college degree wanted a promotion he was legally unqualified for; Neville told him to sleep in the assumption that he was already Purchasing Agent of Culver City, and last week the law was rearranged and he was appointed, effective in July.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 13 June 1971 and 19 June 1971
Told
21 June 1971
Sources
- Source: Secret Imagination ¶22 (I said, “Don’t for one moment entertain that thought. The job is yours if you want it. Don’t push the other one out. He can go higher. You want to be the Purchasing Agent of the whole City of Culver? You are the Purchasing Agent. Sleep in it just as thou…)
Grace Roosevelt is killed instantly in a car crash
Description
Grace Roosevelt was killed instantly last week, aged about 73, in a car driven by her husband, who was unhurt; she had learned the Law from Neville but never came to his meetings because as a pillar of the Episcopal Church it would have been slumming.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 13 June 1971 and 19 June 1971
Told
21 June 1971
Sources
- Source: Secret Imagination ¶33 (Well, she was just killed last week, at the age of 73; I think it was. He was driving; he wasn’t injured, and the friend in the car was injured, but Grace was killed instantly.)
21 June 1971
(probable)
Dentist's anchor tooth lasts thirteen years
Description
Neville tells of his dentist, present in the audience, who years earlier -- while giving Neville's mouth a complete restructure -- had silently predicted to himself that a particular anchor tooth would last thirteen years; it did, failing exactly thirteen years later and requiring a full restructure of Neville's mouth.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 21 June 1971
(probable)
Told
21 June 1971
between 28 June 1971 and 5 July 1971
(probable)
Neville reads a letter he received two or three weeks before this lecture from a prisoner named 'Bob' held at Folsom State Prison.
between 28 June 1971 and 5 July 1971
Two or three weeks before this lecture he received a letter from a prisoner at Folsom signed 'Bob', who had heard him on television, applied the teaching successfully, and asked questions about death;
July 1971
(probable)
Friend begins as Culver City purchasing agent
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
July 1971
(probable)
Told
21 June 1971
Friend's appointment as Purchasing Agent takes effect
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
July 1971
July 1971
(probable)
He notes that he only visits this city and this lecture room once a year for ten nights, and that his home is in Los Angeles.
before 19 July 1971
(probable)
before 19 July 1971
(probable)
between 19 July 1971 and 30 July 1971
19 July 1971
He tells the audience that he gave the Law the previous night and the Promise tonight, mixing the two through a series of ten lectures of which eight remain.
19 July 1971
Before the meeting he told a friend that at his age he has more friends on the other side of the veil than on this side.
4 October 1971
(probable)
2 October 1971
(possible)
between 4 October 1971 and 10 December 1971
(probable)
between 10 October 1971 and 10 November 1971
(possible)
between 11 October 1971 and 18 October 1971
(probable)
between 18 October 1971 and 24 October 1971
(probable)
23 October 1971
(possible)
At a party the Saturday before this talk, Neville met a retired gentleman who had built his own elaborate, numbered catalogue of the levels of heaven, and who, in front of a young mother and her two s
c. November 1971
(possible)
c. November 1971
(probable)
November 1971
(probable)
c. November 1971
(probable)
He turned on a televised evangelist's crusade in the pouring rain, watched twenty minutes of the evangelist and his father-in-law plugging each other, a book and an appeal for money, and turned it off
c. November 1971
He told a friend earlier that same evening about the woman who thought he should not mention certain things.
2 November 1971
(probable)
2 November 1971
(probable)
Neville describes mailing a letter with four or five hundred dollars in dividend and other checks to his bank, dropping it in the corner mailbox on the preceding Tuesday around midday.
Neville receives a property owner's letter of thanks
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
4 November 1971
(probable)
Told
5 November 1971
after 5 November 1971
(probable)
Jack Buckner dreams of a cat on his head without remembering
Description
Neville's secretary Jack Buckner, who swore he never dreamed, was talked through a vivid dream of a cat on his head while asleep in Neville's hotel suite, and remembered nothing of it on waking.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 5 November 1971
(probable)
Told
5 November 1971
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Prune The Vine ¶15 (I had a secretary. His name was Buckner, Jack Buckner. And he swore he had never had a dream in his life. I would see him and hear him talk in his dreams. I had a three-room suite at the hotel, and Jack lived in one of my rooms.)
6 November 1971
(probable)