At Neville's home the morning of his death the coroner, puzzled by the quantity of blood, questioned Carter about Neville's drinking and twice showed him the body — rigid on its back, arms outstretched, nude, napkin over a contorted face as if he had choked — saying Neville had apparently shed every drop of blood in his body, which Carter matched to his Judas vision. [Date evidence: morning of 1 October 1972; Carter also says two men in the family of the daughter's friends cleaned up the blood and he told them of his old vision "so that it was on record"] [Place: Neville's home (Los Angeles)]
The coroner kept asking me what had happened, he said, “Was Mr. Goddard a heavy drinker?” … he took me in to the part of the house that was closed off and there was Neville lying on his back in a rigid position with his arms stretched out like this, nude with a napkin over his face, and the coroner said, “We don’t understand all the blood. See?” and with that he reached down and picked up the napkin and showed me and there was the image which I had seen in my dream all those years before. A terrible contorted expression on his face as if he had choked to death. … The coroner said, “Apparently he shed every drop of blood in his body”.
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (sd1601__carter-cwb — Frank Carter, first-hand)
An obituary reports that Neville Goddard, 67, collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack in his West Hollywood home on a Sunday, with no funeral services held locally and memorial services plan
An obituary reports that Neville Goddard, 67, collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack in his West Hollywood home on a Sunday, with no funeral services held locally and memorial services plan
An obituary reports that Neville Goddard, a West Indian-born author-lecturer on religious subjects who had lived in the Los Angeles area for nearly 20 years, collapsed and died of an apparent heart
The next morning Neville's daughter, who had come to take him to pick up Mrs. Goddard, phoned Carter saying 'I think Daddy went during the night'; Carter rushed over to find the body sealed off and the coroner, county officials, family and friends present. [Date evidence: the morning after Neville's death (historically 1 Oct 1972); Carter did not witness the death itself] [Place: Neville's home]
So the next morning, the phone rang, and it was his daughter, and she had come to get him to go pick up Mrs. Goddard, and she said, Frank, I think Daddy went during the night. Can you come over? I said, certainly, I'm on my way. So I rushed over, and when I got there, the body had already been sealed off. The authorities were there — the coroner, the county officials, and members of the family, and the daughter's friends.
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (ngr27__carter — Frank Carter, first-hand)
Visiting the home the week after the death, Carter found a note prominently displayed beside Neville's big black leather armchair — three scripture quotations and one short sentence declaring the Last Supper his true experience and that Judas betrayed the messianic secret. [Date evidence: the week following Neville's death (early October 1972)] [Place: Neville's home, Los Angeles]
The following week I was in the home. Mrs. Goddard had returned from the hospital, and I went close to his big black leather armchair, the place where he spent so much of his time. There, prominently displayed beside the armchair on the table, was a note. There were three scripture quotations in one short sentence. This is my true experience of the Last Supper. Judas betrayed the messianic secret.
Neville (as quoted): "This is my true experience of the Last Supper. Judas betrayed the messianic secret."
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (ngr45__carter — Frank Carter, first-hand)
The week after the death, on a Thursday, Carter found a handwritten note beside Neville's armchair citing Isaiah 53:1, declaring 'This is my true experience of the Last Supper. Judas betrayed the messianic secret', and quoting Amos 8 and Isaiah 22:22-25 — which Carter took as Neville's message that his death fulfilled Scripture. [Date evidence: 'the following week... on Thursday' — the first Thursday after Neville's death (Oct 1972)] [Place: Neville's home, beside his armchair]
The following week I was in his home, and I happened to go near his armchair, where he spent so much of his time, and there beside his armchair was a note. The note read, Isaiah 53, first verse, who hath believed our reports. Following that were the words, This is my true experience of the Last Supper. Judas betrayed the messianic secret. ... Now this note I found on Thursday.
Neville (as quoted): "This is my true experience of the Last Supper. Judas betrayed the messianic secret."
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (ngr27__carter — Frank Carter, first-hand)
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures ¶12 (Carter finds and transcribes Neville's handwritten note)
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures ¶13 (Carter specifies Thursday and interprets the note)
The Thursday of the week after Neville's death Carter found beside Neville's armchair a handwritten note citing Isaiah 53:1, declaring "This is my true experience of the last supper. Judas betrayed the Messianic secret", and quoting Amos 8:11 and Isaiah 22:22–25 — which Carter took as Neville signalling he knew his death would fulfil scripture. [Date evidence: "The following week … this note I found on Thursday" — Thursday after 1 Oct 1972, i.e. 5 October 1972; Carter opens the document saying Neville "left two documents. One is a formal document and the other is a handwritten note"] [Place: Neville's home, beside his armchair]
The following week I was in his home and I happened to go near his armchair where he spent so much of his time and there beside his armchair was a note. The note read, “Isaiah 53 first verse who hath believed our reports” following that were the words, “This is my true experience of the last supper. Judas betrayed the Messianic secret”.
Neville (as quoted): "Isaiah 53 first verse who hath believed our reports … This is my true experience of the last supper. Judas betrayed the Messianic secret"
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (sd1601__carter-cwb — Frank Carter, first-hand)
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures ¶12 (Carter finds and transcribes Neville's handwritten note)
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures ¶13 (Carter specifies Thursday and interprets the note)
A living tribute for Neville was announced at the Temple of Soul-Truth, 801 S. Wilton Place, Los Angeles.
Allen Spraggett and Canon William Rauscher's biography "Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked With the Dead", exposing some of Ford's séance fraud, was published by W.W.
Eleanor Blau's New York Times article, reporting Ford's biographers' findings of séance fakery, was published March 11, 1973.
Person: Arthur Ford
Arunachala Ramana, who had earlier met Neville Goddard, experienced his own spiritual Awakening on June 4, 1973.
Person: Arunachala Ramana
Freedom Barry states Neville's wife died about two years after Neville's October 1972 death, placing her death around 1974.
Person: Neville Goddard's wife
Frank Carter reports that in February 1974 Mrs. Goddard mentioned, in passing, that she had 'fused' with the deceased Neville, without further explanation.
Fate: True Stories of the Strange and Unknown ran a feature on Carlos Castaneda and Neville Goddard in its February 1975 issue, pages 70-81.
Person: Neville Goddard
On March 9, 1975 the New York Times Magazine ran a cover story on Rev. Ike, whose prosperity teaching drew on Neville Goddard's ideas.
Place: New York City
Jeff Love published 'The Quantum Gods,' presenting Qabalah in the light of Samuel Bousky's teachings, across 1976 and 1979 editions.
Place: New York
Frank Carter delivered the first of four Sunday lectures recounting his time with Neville Goddard, including the account of Neville's death and last note.
Answering a question, Carter dated Neville's death to April-Fool's-Day-exact three and a half years earlier — October 1st 1972 — and said Neville was "here" (Los Angeles) from 1954 until his departure. [Date evidence: gives death date 1 October 1972 and LA residence from 1954; the 3.5-year remark also dates this Q&A to on/just after 1 April 1976 (the lecture series' third lecture is dated 6/20/76)]
Where did this man Neville teach and when did he pass away? Was that long ago or lately? It was exactly three and a half years April Fool’s Day. Again, the fool. He, I believe, was here from 1954, to the time of his departure in 1972, October the 1st 1972.
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (sd1601__carter-cwb — Frank Carter, first-hand)
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures ¶49 (Q&A death date and Los Angeles tenure)
A second, more garbled scan of the same 'Immortal Man' CSA Press book ad already seen as media:939 in this same batch.
In June 1979 Bernard Cantin and Frances Kennedy met again with Joseph Murphy, who strongly suggested they open a French-language New Thought center in Montreal.
In August 1979 at Caxton Hall in London, Joseph Murphy counseled a distraught man to "preach the Gospel to yourself," reframing his mental adversaries as fear and self-deprecation.
Neville's first wife, Mildred Mary Hughes, died.
Person: Mildred Mary Hughes
Joseph Murphy died ("passed to another dimension") in 1981, per Bernard Cantin's introduction written in June 1987.
Person: Joseph Murphy
After ending his regular San Francisco teaching, Freedom Barry was invited by Viv to lead a Holy Week class in 1984.
Person: Freedom Barry
Neville's son, Joseph Neville Goddard, died.
Person: Joseph Neville Goddard
During the 1987 Peace Child tour pairing Soviet and American youth, Neville Marc was music director but was banned from the production by his girlfriend Madeline after a bulimic binge episode.
Jean L. Murphy (Mrs. Joseph Murphy) signed and dated the preface to Bernard Cantin's book on Joseph Murphy in June 1987 from Laguna Hills, California.
Richard Feynman, whose 1949 positron letter Neville cited in his lectures, died February 15, 1988.
Person: Richard Feynman
In the early 1990s, Neville Marc traveled to Northern India with Baba Hari Dass and a group of followers.
Place: Northern India
Person: Neville Marc Berle
Samuel Bousky, a Neville Goddard student, published his book 'Mystical Heritage.'
Louise Berle died in the mid-1990s after a series of small strokes followed by a major one; her ashes were scattered off the coast of Maui.
Place: New York
Person: Louise Berle
Barry, still in touch with the family in 1996, reports: daughter Vicki (b. 1942) lives in Los Angeles, uninterested in the teaching but executor of the estate and in charge of the books; son Neville Joseph Jr. ('Joe') lives in Barbados and wanted none of 'this Neville stuff'; Neville's wife died two years after him; and no written biography of Neville exists. [Date evidence: Vicki born 1942; wife's death two years after Neville's — c. 1974]
Yes, Vicki… she was born in 1942. She lives in Los Angeles. We’re in touch. She’s not interested in this at all. She is the executor of his estate, and has charge of the publishing of his books. His son, by the first marriage, lives in Barbados. His name is Neville Joseph, Jr., but he has always gone by the name of Joe. He didn’t want any of this Neville stuff. Freedom: His wife died, she followed him in two years. [...] No. There is no written biography of Neville.
- Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
After twelve years in Hawaii, Neville Marc moved to Vermont with his partner Dove in the early 2000s so she could be near her grown children.
Place: Vermont
A few years after moving to Vermont with Neville Marc, his partner Dove died of cancer.
Place: Vermont
Person: Dove
Ruling: accepted as possible, Rudi 2026-07-23
Victoria Goddard, daughter of Neville Goddard, died in 2024.
Person: Victoria Goddard