1921
Fawcett published Divine Imagining, a continuation of his prior work The World as Imagination.
1921
(probable)
c. 1921
(possible)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 16 + birth 1905 = 1921. Told 1 time (?). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
1921
(possible)
between 1921 and November 1933
Neville recounts saying goodbye to his parents in New York in November 1933 as they sailed back to Barbados, marking twelve years since his own arrival in America.
Broome recounts Neville's early New York jobs and resolve for independence
Description
Broome's narration of Neville leaving Barbados at seventeen for New York in 1921, working as an elevator operator for J.C. Penney at $15 a week until let go, then on Macy's shipping dock at $13 a week, until he resolved never to work for another again.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1921
Sources
- Source: Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was God (Broome recounts the J.C. Penney and Macy's jobs and Neville's resolve to work for himself.)
Victor imagines and acquires the Main Street building for the family business
Description
Neville's brother Victor, at nineteen, saw a building on Main Street bearing 'F. N. Roach and Company' and would not move each morning until he had re-read the marquee as 'J.N. Goddard and Sons'; two years later the building came up for sale, a stranger with a lawyer bid on their behalf though they had no money or collateral, and they owned it — bought in 1921 for fifty thousand dollars and sold nine years ago to the Bank of Nova Scotia for eight hundred and forty thousand.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1921
(probable)
Told
1971
Sources
- Source: The Potter's House ¶29 (And my brother Victor — at the age, but he was only nineteen — when he had this vision that imagining creates reality, and he saw a building on Main Street, and the building actually had over its marquee “F. N. Roach and Company.”)
1921
(possible)
Cast members from the play 'Oh Millie', directed locally by Walter Lanyon, travelled to Pittsburg, Kansas to help stage the play there on a Wednesday night, for a benefit sponsored by the Knights and
1921
(possible)
A preview notice describes an Italian sketch with Mrs.
17 December 1921
(possible)
The Monett Times reports that Monett Chapter DeMolay staged the comedy 'Oh Milly, Wait a Minute', written and directed by Walter C.
20 February 1921
(probable)
Identification caveat. This event documents Modeste Abdallah Guillaume / G. M. Abda'llah as named in the source.
28 March 1921
Freedom Barry, later associated with Neville Goddard teaching circles, was born March 28, 1921 in East Parsonsfield, Maine.
Place: East Parsonsfield, Maine
Person: Freedom Barry
4 August 1921
(possible)
Identification caveat. This event documents Modeste Abdallah Guillaume / G. M. Abda'llah as named in the source.
7 August 1921
(probable)
Second ad (published Aug 4, 1921) previewing the same lecture series 'beginning Sunday evening, Aug. 7' by G. M. Abda'llah.
c. December 1921
(possible)
The musical comedy 'Oh, Milly, Wait a Minute', written and directed by Walter C. Lanyon, was staged at Carney Hall auditorium for two nights ('tonight and tomorrow night').
Dora imagines arriving in Samoa on Christmas Eve
Description
Streetcar-into-Samoa imagining placed circa Christmas Eve, 1918-1924 (doubtful, from her age relative to Neville's), and recounted by Neville in lecture nid 1281 on 1968-06-03.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 24 December 1921
(doubtful)
Told
3 June 1968
1922
Joseph Murphy, later a fellow student of Abdullah and biographer of Neville, arrived in New York in 1922.
Place: New York City
Person: Joseph Murphy
25 September 1922
Neville immigrated from Barbados to New York City at age 17.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
c. 1922
(possible)
Neville worked as a clerk at J.C. Penney for $22/week after arriving in NYC.
between 1922 and 1922
(possible)
After arriving in New York, Neville toured for about a decade as a ballet and ballroom dancer.
Person: Neville Goddard
Ruling: accepted as possible, Rudi 2026-07-23
1922
1922
At age seventeen, Neville came to the United States aboard the S.S. Vasari to study drama, later becoming a dancer.
1923
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 18 + birth 1905 = 1923. Told 2 times (1965-1971).
1922
(possible)
Identification caveat. This event documents Modeste Abdallah Guillaume / G. M. Abda'llah as named in the source.
c. 1922
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 17 + birth 1905 = 1922. Told 1 time (1964).
c. 1922
(possible)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 17 + birth 1905 = 1922. Told 1 time (1969).
c. 1922
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 17 + birth 1905 = 1922. Told 1 time (1970).
c. 1922
(probable)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 17 + birth 1905 = 1922. Told 2 times (1964).
c. 1922
He left Barbados at seventeen and came to America.
1922
Neville recounts that as a boy of seven or eight, an old Englishwoman told him at Bathsheba, a windswept area of Barbados, that he would one day do something men would discuss for centuries, would be
1922
Neville recalls that as a boy in Barbados, unschooled and with no background, he dreamed only of coming to America.
between 1922 and 1952
(possible)
1922
Neville recounts that in 1922 his father was forced out of the grocery/food-business partnership he had built up in Barbados, an event Neville frames as the turning point that unraveled the family's e
1922
(possible)
between 1922 and 1923
Neville recalls arriving in America in 1922 with no training, and at seventeen or eighteen being turned away for jobs he sought (climbing telephone poles, lumberjacking in Canada) for lack of trade ex
c. 1922
(possible)
between 1922 and 1933
Neville describes the interval from his arrival in the United States around 1922 through the 1933 Barbados decision, repeatedly calling it eleven years in this country.
c. 1922
(probable)
Neville recalls coming to America at seventeen, when someone urged a store to give the courageous young newcomer a chance despite his unfamiliarity with American ways; he was given an advance of aroun
between 1922 and 1924
(probable)
Neville tells a family story as a case study in imagination made manifest: his brother Victor imagined owning a particular business building, then was unexpectedly offered financing by a stranger who
Victor imagines the Goddard business building
Description
Neville tells how his brother Victor, who made a real fortune, confided his vision only to their mother — never to their father or the rest of the family — and for two years remained faithful to seeing the biggest building on the main street of Barbados reading J. N. Goddard & Sons.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1922 and 1924
(probable)
Told
8 December 1963
Sources
- Source: What Is Truth ¶48 (My brother Victor, who has made a fortune in this world, a real fortune, he only confided with my mother, only told mother, wouldn’t tell my father, never told us. And for two years he remained faithful to a certain vision, where he saw the biggest build…)
Victor imagines acquiring the family business building
Description
Neville tells how his brother Victor, penniless and running a little shop on a Barbados side street, imagined for two years that the family sign J. N. Goddard & Sons stood on one of the biggest buildings on the main street in place of F. N. Roach & Co.; on the day of the sale a man who had never called before offered to buy it for him through his lawyer on a ten-year six-percent note, and the family owned it that day.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1922
Told
13 October 1967
Sources
- Source: The Wearer of the Mask ¶23 (In his Imagination he sees not F. N. Roach & Co., which was there, he sees J. N. Goddard & Sons. Every day on the way to the little shop on the side street he sees it and feels a thrill, until finally it was fixed in his mind’s eye.)
1922
Neville mentions arriving in New York in 1922, when a few of the great Fifth Avenue mansions still stood.