before 1972
(possible)
Neville describes his own vision in which his son David stood before him leaning against an open door in a pastoral scene, with the enormous severed head of the giant before him, and Neville knew hims
before 25 April 1972
(possible)
Neville says his knowledge came not from study but by revelation, and recounts the shock of discovering that he is the Father and David is his son — a relationship of which he is more certain than of
1972
Neville says he is sixty-seven, that the allotted span is threescore and ten, that he does not expect to reach it, and that his departure cannot be long delayed now that his work of gathering is nearl
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says the people he has spoken to over the years — here, in the north, in the east and elsewhere — were met at scattered moments across years but are now all coming to fruition together, like e
c. 1972
(probable)
Neville reports that his wife saw her doctor this past Wednesday; after a severe operation that removed her larynx and voice for a tumour, she faces seven more plastic-surgery operations beginning on
A San Francisco woman condemns a friend throughout a foggy drive
Description
Driving back through heavy fog from a dinner seventy-five miles down the peninsula, a San Francisco woman friend spent the entire trip abusing another woman she called a friend, ending each tirade with "God bless her soul"; her life has gone from bad to worse and she cannot see she is the cause.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1972
(possible)
Told
- 2 January 1972 (doubtful)
- February 1972 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Feel After Him ¶13 (One night, riding with her, we went down, oh maybe seventy-five miles down the peninsula for a dinner, a lovely dinner, and all the way back, this very, very heavy fog, you could hardly see a few yards before you.)
before 1972
(possible)
A friend asked Neville whether he was following the Howard Hughes story; he replied that Hughes means nothing to him and wouldn't even buy him a sandwich, and remarks that the editors of Life were tak
before 1972
(possible)
He says he has repeatedly dared, at moments in his own life, to assume he had what reason and his senses denied, and it came to pass; he then taught the principle to others who also proved it.
before 1972
(possible)
At a party, young men who had come back from the war maimed — one deaf, one missing a foot and an arm, one with TB, one a near-priest who left the priesthood — dived into the pool still wearing the St
before 1972
(possible)
Speaking of the death-penalty ruling, he says that if he had a son on death row he would want him free regardless of what he had done — noting in passing that his son is not there.
A San Francisco woman dreams Neville and her husband Jerry are one
Description
A woman writes from San Francisco describing a dream in which she met Neville expounding scripture, he embraced her and she pushed him away saying “no, Neville”; he told her he would have married her, and that the day would come when she knew that her husband Jerry and he were one. She had recorded ten of his San Francisco talks herself.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1972
(possible)
Told
1972
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Feel Chosen ¶28 (And then she said, I said to her, you know, I would’ve married you. And she said, but I am married. And I said, yes, I know, but the day will come when you will know that Jerry, that’s her husband, and I are one.)
before 1972
(possible)
He states from his own experience that he became one with God when he was embraced by him, and that in that experience there is a radical change of form — spirit, not this body — while identity is not
before 1972
(possible)
He speaks of looking into the face of his Son, who scripture told him was God's Son, and having no feeling of God as another because God has so become him that he is the Father.
before 1972
(possible)
He states that he was called and sent, and that the command given him when he was sent was 'Down with the blue bloods' - meaning all external worship, not social class.
before 1972
(possible)
He says his own repeated experience - imagining a state, assuming it real, and seeing it crystallize - convinced him that his own awareness of being is God.
Harry Webb recounts Bob Hope's frugal vaudeville days
Description
He tells what he knows of Bob Hope's early days from his friend Harry Webb, a bandleader who played vaudeville with Hope: Hope borrowed money from Webb every week to keep a fixed sum in his bank account, repaid it the next week, and carried home all the leftover bread and rolls from restaurants.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1972 (possible)
- before 25 May 1972
Told
25 May 1972
Sources
- Source: God And I Are One ¶40 (I know the background of the man. A friend of mine who has now gone from this world, played in vaudeville with him. And he would borrow from my friend every week, a sum of money because he had to go to that post office and buy a postal money order and se…)
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recounts awakening inside his own skull, pushing his way out inch by inch like a child being born, and finding the symbolism of scripture around him — an infant in swaddling clothes and three
before 1972
(possible)
Neville describes coming upon a sea of human imperfection while clothed in the immortal body and gliding above the ground, everyone being made perfect as he passed, a heavenly chorus singing 'It is fi
before 1972
(possible)
A friend of Neville's tried to convince a woman back in the East about Neville's experiences; on learning that Neville's first wife had not died but had been divorced, she closed the book on him, sayi
before 1972
(possible)
In Barbados, sitting on the veranda with Jim — an artist and chef and close friend of the large Goddard family whom they supported — Neville told him of his experiences, and Jim said he could not have
Jim returns to Catholicism near death and continues his work afterward
Description
Neville describes Jim's life: born and raised Catholic, he gave it up in his prime when he became a good artist, returned to the fold when he sensed the end, had only one eye in his last years, and now has perfect eyes and is back at his work in the other sphere.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1972
(possible)
Sources
- Source: David Christ ¶48 (So Jim, today, he had only one eye in his last few years of his life. He has a good eye now, perfect eyes, back once more doing his work, but totally unaware of the mystery of Christ, because he didn’t have ears to hear.)
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he cannot get away from the promise; he goes to bed and teaches all night in an entirely different sphere, and coming back in the morning is like putting on a straitjacket.
before 1972
(probable)
As a boy in Barbados he would go up to the potter's field and watch the potter form clay vessels by hand, including the "monkey" water jar that kept water cold in the heat of the day.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville remarks that he has never had a stroke himself, but has seen people crippled by one.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville describes his own experience of the crucifixion: hands, feet, head and right side nailed with six-pointed vortices, which was not painful but sheer ecstasy, followed by finding himself cramped
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recounts standing in the presence of infinite love, being embraced and infused with it, and then meeting David, who was the image of the being that embraced him, with memory returning as fathe
before 1972
(possible)
Neville recounts practising the move from state to state at home, sitting in his living room while imagining himself at the telephone in the hallway, or outside the house looking back at it, and being
Caller says she is hounded by devils
Description
Someone telephoned Neville about devils, having been to a Christian Science practitioner and now feeling hounded by them.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1972
(possible)
Told
3 March 1972
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Justified States ¶44 (Someone called me up and asked me about devils: that she went down to this Christian Science practitioner, who now feels she is hounded with devils.)
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says that in his own case, when a $12 suit was all he could afford, paying it was harder than paying $250 for a suit later became.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville mentions his own lecturing pattern in San Francisco: once a year for four weeks in the early years, now reduced to two weeks.
before 1972
(possible)
In a dream that night Neville discoursed to a crowd and was challenged by a short, heavy, insolent man of about two hundred pounds whom he told was only himself pushed out; on waking, the man and all
before 1972
(possible)
A friend drove Neville and his wife to the hospital, and on the drive home they discussed the writing of the Spaniard (Borges) whose page Neville then quotes.
before 1972
(possible)
In passing he gives his own height while describing the dream figure.
before 1972
(possible)
Neville says he can neither speak nor read Spanish and knows Borges only in English translation, and regrets what translation loses.
A woman's private request is fulfilled after Neville imagines for her
Description
A woman telephoned Neville a few days before the lecture asking him to pray for something too personal to disclose; he sat in his chair afterwards and imagined it fulfilled, and she drove from San Bernardino to that night's meeting to tell him it had happened.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. January 1972
(probable)
Told
- 27 January 1972
- 28 January 1972 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Faith Is Loyalty To Unseen Reality ¶42 (I sat in my chair after I spoke to her on the phone and heard her tell me, but she came back tonight and told me. Yet it has happened. She is here, she’s seated here tonight, drove all the way from San Bernardino to tell me the story.)
10 January 1972
(probable)
10 January 1972, 20:00
Neville lecture advertised for Monday, January 10 at 8 p.m., Women University Club, 540 South Catalina Street.
14 January 1972, 20:00
Neville lecture advertised for Friday, January 14 at 8 p.m., Women University Club, 540 South Catalina Street.
A stockbroker attends Neville's meeting and prays for a sign
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 20 January 1972 and 21 January 1972
(possible)
Told
between 27 January 1972 and 28 January 1972
(probable)
between 20 January 1972 and 27 January 1972
(possible)
A stockbroker sees David as his son in a foreshadowing dream
Description
A stockbroker friend in the audience wrote Neville a letter describing how, hungry for an experience of God despite slow business, he asked God for a sign and then dreamed of an ancient world in which a youth he instantly knew to be David, his son, appeared over a wooden fence; the memory came back on Friday morning while he drove to his office listening to a Neville tape. Neville answers him from the platform, calling it a foreshadowing.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 24 January 1972 and 27 January 1972
- between 27 January 1972 and 28 January 1972 (probable)
Told
- 27 January 1972
- 28 January 1972 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Faith Is Loyalty To Unseen Reality ¶7 (My friend, he’s here tonight. He didn’t think he could make it tonight, but I got his letter this week.)
- Source: Faith Is Loyalty To Unseen Reality ¶8 (I remembered the dream of the previous night... Friday morning on the way to my office... instantly I knew that he was David... I knew he was my son.)
26 January 1972
(probable)
A newspaper reports the Archbishop of Canterbury preaching in New York
Description
Neville reports reading in yesterday morning's newspaper that the Archbishop of Canterbury preached at St. Patrick's in New York and at Riverside Church and commented on Jesus Christ Superstar; Neville notes he has not seen the play himself.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 26 January 1972
- 27 January 1972 (probable)
Told
- 27 January 1972
- 28 January 1972 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Faith Is Loyalty To Unseen Reality ¶23 (I read in the morning’s paper, rather yesterday morning’s paper, that the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke, the first Archbishop ever to speak at St. Patrick’s in New York City.)
before 27 January 1972
(probable)
before 27 January 1972
(probable)
between 28 January 1972 and 1972
Neville lectured into his final year of life in 1972, from Faith Is Loyalty to Unseen Reality (Jan 28) through Revelation (May 8), shortly before his death that October.
30 January 1972
Neville tells how his daughter, who works for Channel 28, told him to watch a programme the previous night in which David Susskind interviewed robed, shaven-headed followers of Krishna for over an hou
31 January 1972
In a vision Neville found himself seated on the floor of a small square room discussing the word of God with twelve men; one jumped up and left to betray what he had heard, and a tall, magnificently a