before 1972
(possible)
Neville describes bearing the marks of Jesus on his own body as six twirling vortices — hands, side, and two soles — forming the six-pointed Star of David, and affirms that he himself has brought fort
before 1972
(possible)
Stranded in Barbados with no ship passage back to America before September, he imagined walking up the gangplank of a ship leaving the island, and the next day the shipping company offered him a cance
before 1972
(possible)
He speaks of the large family of his that he was leaving behind on the island of Barbados, with mixed feelings, as he sailed for America.
before 1972
(possible)
On the voyage back he had a single cabin with two beds: his three-year-old daughter slept with her mother and he took the upper bunk for the eleven days to New York.
before 1972
(possible)
A friend of his, now dead, gave him a literal translation from the Greek of the Lord's Prayer, showing that the Latin has no aorist imperative passive and so could not carry the evangelist's sense.
before 1972
(possible)
In his private interviews people insist on telling him their past troubles before saying what they want, and he tells them not to.
Freedom's refusal prompts a begging man to find work
Description
He sent his friend Freedom to San Francisco after teaching him the Law; there a begging man asked him for money and, instead of giving it, Freedom imagined him gainfully employed, and a week later the man thanked him for the refusal because it had driven him to get a job.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1972
(possible)
Told
- 27 February 1972 (doubtful)
- 27 February 1972 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Repentance, A Gift From God ¶33 (A friend of mine went to San Francisco at my bidding. I taught him the Law, and as much as I could tell him of the other, part of the Promise, but the Law, just what I am talking about tonight.)
before 1972
(possible)
He speaks of leaving the city of Los Angeles and going on elsewhere while the city itself remains — his own coming and going as a lecturer.
A writer imagines his cat clawing a backyard mat
Description
The writer, starting with small things, imagined his fifteen-year-old cat clawing a mat in the backyard instead of the new rug; on the third day she went out to the mat and never tore the rug again.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1972
(possible)
Told
6 March 1972(refuted)6 March 1972(refuted)- 6 March 1964 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶23 (So, I went to work in my imagination and saw this cat in the backyard tearing up a mat that we had in the backyard for just such a purpose. On the third day, she was out in that backyard, clawing the mat until the day she died, she never once tore up our…)
A writer receives the scarce Swiss record changer he imagined
Description
The writer ordered a Swiss record changer that was months from arriving, prepared the outlet and had a stand designed for it, imagined the machine in place, then paid the $375 bill in advance — and two days later was given the first of only four units in a shipment against twelve orders.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1972
(possible)
Told
6 March 1972(refuted)6 March 1972(refuted)- 6 March 1964 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶29 (Now, he said, now that I have the machine it is the only fair to pay the bill. So, he sat down and wrote the check out and sent the check off to the electronic firm for $375 in full for his machine. Two days after this, they called him to say, we have yo…)
A boy restores a television picture through imagination
Description
Jen told Neville by telephone that on her current nursing job, with the TV aerial blown flat by high winds and no picture, the little boy of the house put both hands on the set, said his imagination would do it, and a perfect picture came.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1972 (possible)
- before 1964 (possible)
Told
6 March 1972(refuted)6 March 1972(refuted)- 6 March 1964 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶26 (And Jen told me over the telephone because she’s working, she can’t come here now, that the little boy only put his hands on it and swore that there would come a picture, and the picture came to Jen’s amazement, but not to the boy’s.)
- Source: Our Real Beliefs ¶32 (And Jan told me over the telephone, because she’s working and can’t come here now, that the little boy only put his hand on it and swore that here would come a picture; and the picture came to Jan’s amazement but not to the boy’s.)
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says of himself that he is not a musician and cannot play, yet he finds inner hearing extremely easy — he catches a man's tone of voice for a second and puts any word he wants upon it.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville states that he is not theorizing but speaking from his own experience of standing before God and looking into the face of man.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville describes his own origins as humble and unremarkable — born into a simple environment with no educational, social or financial advantages, struggling like everyone else for rent, food and clot
before 1972
(possible)
Neville insists his knowledge is not scholarship: he does not know Greek, Latin or Aramaic and never combed the Scriptures for a theory — it all came to him as revelation.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he sees his dead father, mother, brother and many departed friends, alive in a terrestrial world like this one with all their struggles.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he was not permitted to keep his experience to himself — like Jeremiah, a burning fire shut up in his bones compels him to tell it, where others are embarrassed to mention it.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says no one taught him what he teaches and he never turned to anyone for support; though it is in the Bible, he never saw it there until after he had experienced it.
before 1972
(possible)
Answering a question about Blake, Neville says he has met Blake in the risen world and found him one of the most majestic creatures one could meet, and that Blake had everything described in Scripture
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recounts that people have asked him why Blake had no money, and answers that no amount of money could today buy the single coloured copy of Jerusalem Blake sold for about a hundred guineas, no
before 1972
(possible)
Neville uses the White House flag as an illustration — asking the guard whether the President is in residence — which may reflect an actual visit, though he does not say so.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville led an enormous, gay, festive multitude in procession to the house of God; a voice from outer space said God walked with them, told the woman at his side that God was at her side, and when she
before 1972
(possible)
Neville awoke inside his own sealed skull, which he knew was the sepulcher, after a strange vibration he feared was a hemorrhage, and pushed at the base of the skull to squeeze himself out inch by inc
before 1972
(possible)
After emerging he found the nativity symbolism around him — an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, three men as witnesses, and a great wind; one of the three picked up the child and said "It's Nevill
before 1972
(possible)
Immediately after the experience he wrote the whole thing down in detail and mailed it to his wife, going down the hallway to post it so there would be a record.
before 1972
(possible)
He was born and raised in the Christian faith and calls himself a Christian, but his training never revealed that David is the son and he the father.
before 1972
(possible)
He states that he has made himself seen twice to at least a dozen people, by his own deliberate choice rather than by their catching him by surprise.
1929
Neville says the risen Lord embraced him and sent him with the words "down with the blue bloods," and that everything he teaches came from his own experience rather than from any book.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recounts being fired from J.C.
before 1972
(possible)
At a little school a woman told Neville he would never make a living using his voice and fired him, which he says lit a fire in him and made her his friend.
28 April 1972
Neville speaks of his present wife and daughter, saying his marriage is a heaven in this world despite what is happening to her at the moment, and that he has asked for an extension into May because o
before 1972
(possible)
He has appeared on television panels with ministers who brought pictures of Jesus to show him.
before 1972
(possible)
At a small New York speech school his father had paid $500 (or $600) for a six-month course, the teacher held him up before about forty students as an example of what not to do, saying his guttural vo
before 1972
(possible)
He later met one of his classmates from that school selling groceries at Macy's, who asked what he did; Neville said he talks on the Bible from having experienced it, not as a minister.
before 1972
(possible)
His start as a speaker: having had many related visions and wanting to tell them, he sent out fifty penny postcards, paid three dollars for a hall, wore a tux, and six people came; he spoke ten minute
before 1972
(possible)
About three years later the same rival was imprisoned for a couple of years for an infraction of New York City law; when he came out no one else would speak for him, so Neville spoke for him without t
before 1972
(possible)
His awakening: with no inkling beforehand he awoke within his skull and found it a sepulcher, came out, found a child wrapped in swaddling clothes, saw three witnesses, heard the storm-like wind, saw
before 1972
(possible)
He states he has himself experienced two bodies literally fusing and becoming one body.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville states that everything recorded in Scripture, including the finding of David, has actually been fulfilled in him as a real, solid experience, and that he speaks from experience and not theory.
c. 1960
(possible)
Soon after his experience of being turned around, Neville walked through the lobby of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where a great woman artist waiting for him was sketching furiously; she handed
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recalls his mother, passionately fond of roses, who left digging, fertilizing and watering to the gardeners but insisted on doing all the rose grafting herself, choosing both the graft and the
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he was called, embraced by the risen Lord and sent, and so must tell his experience; he was raised in the teaching that teachers give today, found it untrue, and afterwards found confirma
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recalls playing a second part — a cad — in a Broadway play, and judging his performance by whether the audience, especially the ladies and children at matinees, hissed him when he came on.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he forgives the thieves who came into his world, including those who took from his pocket by not giving him what a contract called for, because it forced him to stand secure on his own fe
Audience members repeatedly dream of death and Neville's death
Description
Neville reports that many in his audience have written to him lately of dreams of death, and that many have dreamt of his own death numberless times, which he calls a healthy sign of growth.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1972 (possible)
- before 5 May 1972 (probable)
Told
5 May 1972
Sources
- Source: Even the Wicked ¶34 (So, anyone dreaming of death, many of you have dreamt of my death numberless times, as Paul said, “I die daily.”)
before 1972
(possible)
Neville describes his own present finances — a bank account he owes more than it holds — and says he deposits fifty times more than is there in his mind's eye.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville heard the Bible story as a child from his mother, had it confirmed at school, and went on believing it as a tale until it erupted in him in manhood.
before 1972
(probable)
He says he knows from his own experience that the Holy of Holies is the skull, that God awakes in it, finds it empty, and pushes his way out of it.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he himself stood in the presence of Infinite Love, saw that God is man and is the Ancient of Days, was embraced by that love and sent to tell it.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he has seen David, the eternal youth described in the sixteenth chapter of First Samuel.