after 1925
(possible)
1925
(probable)
between 1925 and 1934
(probable)
Neville recounts a vision from his twenties of the most beautiful woman he could perceive alongside a hairy, ape-like monster that called her 'mother'; realizing the monster was his own emanation, emb
c. 1925
(probable)
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1928
(probable)
Neville describes his orthodox Christian upbringing with Sunday school twice a week and his mother reading and interpreting Scripture as secular history, and how at twenty or twenty-two he was first e
c. 1925
Just after turning twenty Neville had the experience of being an infinite sea of liquid light, which he identifies with the words "I am the Light of the world."
1925
In London in 1925, aged twenty, Neville urged his friend Matthew Bentley to take an interest in his retired mining-engineer father's philosophy; Matt wanted to make a million first, went to India for
between 1925 and 1926
Neville remarks in passing that his own recollection of his life reaches back only to the age of about twenty or twenty-one, and that before the 1959 experience he lived as everyone lives in the world
c. 1925
(probable)
In his twenties, having already fathered a son and known the love of a woman, Neville swore himself to celibacy, vegetarianism, no alcohol and no smoking for seven years, believing violence to the bod
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1935
(probable)
In his twenties he paid $500 to a voice school where the teacher held him up before a class of forty as the example of everything done wrong, saying he would never earn a living with his voice; it mad
1925
Coming in from Europe in 1925 the ship's ballast and cargo shifted and she sailed for forty-eight hours at an angle of forty degrees, a little more and she would have gone over.
between 1925 and 1934
In his twenties Neville had a vision in which he stood between a supremely beautiful woman and a hairy ape-like monster that called her 'Mother'; he beat the monster, which grew on the violence, then
between 1925 and 1969
Asked whether dreams are astral projection, he says he has had out-of-the-body experiences repeatedly, both voluntary and involuntary, the voluntary ones since he had just turned twenty - but that the
Retired schoolteacher experiences the birth from above and sees David
Description
A 77-year-old retired Los Angeles schoolteacher in Neville's audience told him how, sleeping away from home at a friend's request, she felt a breeze and vibration in her head and saw her two brothers she had not seen in forty-odd years plus her landlord; her oldest brother said she was too old to have a baby but lifted the swaddled infant into her arms - and later, in a canyon where she lives, a blond blue-eyed lad came to her whom she knew to be her son David.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1925
(probable)
Told
between 15 July 1968 and 15 July 1971
(possible)
Sources
- Source: Who Am I July 15 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco ¶37 (“I’m in a strange home with a strange person in a strange atmosphere, and here I am in the wee hours of the morning, when I feel this peculiar breeze and vibration in my head.)
1925
In London in 1925, when Neville was twenty, a young man six months his junior named Matthew — whose retired opera-singer father had given Neville The Light of Asia and other books — refused all intere
between 1925 and 1935
He recalls being extraordinarily strong as a young man of twenty and until about thirty, one solid piece of muscle, and contrasts it with his body now at nearly sixty-five.
1925
In England in 1925 an old Scotchman interested in mystical subjects read him the Bhagavad-Gita and The Light of Asia and gave him the books; returning to America four months later he went wild buying
1925
In London in 1925 he was dancing for 100 pounds a week and, offered engagements in Paris and Germany, refused to be paid in Marks or Francs and insisted on dollars or pounds.
Neville's young friend Matt postpones spiritual study and dies in India
Description
In London in 1925 he urged his 21-year-old friend Matt, whose father had introduced Neville to The Light of Asia and the Bhagavad Gita, to take an interest in these things; Matt said he wanted to live first and would wait until he was old like his father, then went to India as a tea taster and died of a fever there about six months later, news reaching Neville in New York by a letter from Matt's mother.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1925
- 1925
Told
- 5 February 1965
- 22 November 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Gods Purpose ¶28 (He said, “No, I’m only 21, and when I get old enough like my father”—father was then 50—”when I get an old man like my father, then I become interested, if then. But I want to live first.”)
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶40 (I go back to 1925, in London, I said to this young chap, [Matthew?], “Why aren’t you interested in these thoughts?” I became so completely aroused at the age of twenty that I couldn’t conceive of anyone not being interested.)
between 1925 and 1934
In his twenties, having fathered a son and known the love of a woman, Neville swore himself to celibacy and vegetarianism, doing seven years of violence to his body by these non-doings out of zealousn
between 1925 and 1934
In his twenties, frustrated by a first marriage he calls a living hell, Neville took a vow of celibacy and lived seven years as a strict vegetarian and teetotaler believing he was acquiring merit; on
Broome recounts Neville's dancing career, marriage, England trip, and its end
Description
Broome's narration of Neville's dancing career: joining an established dancer, marrying and fathering a son, sailing for England in 1925 where he met psychical research, returning to America in 1926, and losing his dancing career when the depression closed the theaters in 1929.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1925
Sources
- Source: Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was God (Broome recounts dancing, first marriage and son, England, mysticism, and career end.)
- Source: Miracle Imagination Margaret Ruth Broome (Broome introduction recounting Neville's first marriage and son, the 1925 England trip and psychical-research interest, the 1926 return, and the Depression ending his dance career.)
1925
In 1925 Neville was dancing in London for one hundred pounds a week; he and his company declined an offer to perform in Paris and Germany for payment in marks or francs, while a German-American family
between 1925 and 1934
In his twenties Neville found himself in vision before a supremely beautiful woman and a hairy ape-like monster that called her "mother"; he attacked it, it grew on the violence, he recognised it as h
1925
In London in 1925, when Neville was twenty, he urged a friend of Scottish parents about six months his senior to take an interest in spiritual things; the friend said God was an old man and that he ha
1925
(probable)
Review, 'Dancing Artists of Very High Class at Keith State Theatre' — Amerique and Neville on the vaudeville bill alongside the film 'Lord Jim' (Paramount, 1925, dir.
between 1925 and 1932
(possible)
The same mid-1950s 'Views of Hollywood' column recalls that Amerique and Neville 'danced their way across America and into Europe', naming Edward, Prince of Wales, and George, Duke of York, as English
c. 1925
(probable)
London engagement at Ciro's, 1925, as part of a European tour that also took Amerique and Neville to the Winter Garden (Berlin) and the Ambassador (Paris); they performed a 'jewel dance' for the Princ
c. 1925
(probable)
London engagement at Ciro's, 1925, as part of a European tour that also took Amerique and Neville to the Winter Garden (Berlin) and the Ambassador (Paris); they performed a 'jewel dance' for the Princ
between 1925 and 1930
(possible)
Career-retrospective column (Jimmie Fidler, c.1953) names the New York Hippodrome as a venue where Neville 'was a sensation' while dancing, within his documented 1925-1930 stage career.
between 1925 and 1926
(probable)
Documented by external research (Wikipedia; Cool Wisdom Books' 'Neville & Amerique' page) as part of a 1925-26 European tour with Amerique that also took the act to the Winter Garden, Berlin, and
between 1925 and 1929
(possible)
Generic career-retrospective mention of the Amerique-and-Neville partnership's American and European touring (c.1953 Jimmie Fidler column); no specific production, city or date is named.
between 1925 and 1929
(possible)
Generic career-retrospective mention of the Amerique-and-Neville partnership's American and European (including English) touring; the England/London leg specifically is independently dated 1925-26 els
between 1925 and 1930
(possible)
Career-retrospective column (c.1953) combines the Broadway and old-Hippodrome mentions in one clause; no specific production or exact date is given by either surviving clipping of this text (media:124
c. 1925
(probable)
London engagement at Ciro's nightclub, part of Neville's 1925 European tour (Ciro's London, the Winter Garden Berlin, the Ambassador Paris).
c. 1925
(possible)
Newspaper photo caption ('Taking the Life' feature) describing Amerique and Neville, "the well-known dancers", performing a specialty dance in striking costumes at Ciro's.
1925
(probable)
In the April 1955 TV-Radio Life profile Neville says he became interested in what he calls 'an aroused interest in the use of the mind' in 1925, while he was still a successful dancer, and that he lef
1938
(probable)
Excerpt from a scholarly history of African American spiritual-supply publishing: Black Herman's Secrets of Magic, Mystery, and Legerdemain, written by 'the African American stage magician Herman Ruck
1925
(probable)
Visiting London in 1925, Neville met an old Scotsman who told him that his attitude of mind determined his life — that he need not be enslaved by life but could control his future by his present think
1925
(possible)
A Portland notice announces that Walter Lanyon will speak each evening of the coming week in the rooms of The Realization League on 'Beauty and Strength, the Divine Ideal of Life.' Lanyon is described
c. 1925
(possible)
Source document 2216, quoting Israel Regardie, says that during Neville's 1925 England trip he met Arthur Begbie, was introduced to psychical research and attended a spiritualist seance.
1925
(possible)
An outgoing-passenger record contains the reversed name GODDARD Neville; no ship, port, day, or destination is inferred.
1925
(possible)
A religious-meetings listing announces Walter Lanyon, traveller, author and lecturer, addressing the Realization League at 11 a.m.
1 January 1925
(probable)
The residence chronology places Neville, his wife Mildred (Mary), and their son Joseph at 401 W. 57th Street in Hell's Kitchen on 1 January 1925.
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1928
(possible)
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1927
(probable)
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1935
(possible)
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1926
(probable)