10 June 1928 (possible)

Clipping announces Walter Lanyon speaking on 'The Magic of Goodness' at the Church of Truth.

17 June 1928 (probable)
Frank Aston's Cincinnati Post review (18 June 1928) of Gilda Gray's stage show at the Albee names 'the team, Amerique and Neville' as part of her own dancing revue, alongside 'eight sprightly gazelles
July 1928 (possible)

Clipping announces four weekly Walter Lanyon appearances at Unity Headquarters in Manhattan during July and August.

between November 1928 and December 1928 (probable)
Fox Theatre stage-and-screen premiere bill: 'Marriage by Contract' (Tiffany Pictures, Patsy Ruth Miller/Lawrence Gray, released 1928-11-09) on screen, with a Fox Theatre stage revue including the Stro
3 November 1928

A November 3, 1928 New York Times display ad advertised G. M. Akhmad Abdoullah's 'Soul Unfoldment' esoteric classes at 30 West 72nd Street.

c. December 1928 (probable)
Dance specialty on a Fox Theatre, Brooklyn stage bill (with the Stroud Twins and singer John Maxwell) accompanying the Fox Movietone News program and the midnight-performance screening of Tiffany Pict
17 December 1928

On December 17, 1928, Abdullah represented Islam on an interfaith panel alongside Swami Yogananda, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Dr. Frederick Lynch under the Three-Fold Movement.

between 30 December 1928 and 31 December 1928 (probable)
Stage-and-screen bill at the Fox Theatre, Brooklyn: feature film "Marriage by Contract" (Tiffany Pictures, dir.
31 December 1928 (probable)

Newspaper coverage places a "Marriage By Contract" performance at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn dated December 31, 1928.

between 1929 and 1929 (probable)

Celebrity trance medium Arthur Ford was hosted by the First Spiritualist Church at 30 West 72nd Street from 1929 to 1943.

Place: 30 West 72nd Street, Manhattan

Person: Arthur Ford

1929 (probable)

Elizabeth M. Maconochie, one of the women who helped incorporate Abdullah's church and who also surfaced in Unity Spiritualist filings, died in 1929.

Place: Atlantic City, NJ

1929

John McDonald published "The Message of a Master" in 1929, describing a David B.

1929 (probable)

Neville marked 1929 as the year his mystical journey began, describing being 'taken in spirit into the Divine Council' in a pre-dawn experience, as recounted in a 1977-published lecture.<

1929 (probable)

Neville studied under Abdullah for roughly seven years, per this timeline reconstruction.

Place: New York City

Person: Neville Goddard

1933

When the Depression hit in 1929 and theaters closed, Neville's professional career as a dancer also ended.

Place: United States

Person: Neville Goddard

between 1930 and 1931

A Catholic priest named David, who had lost a two-million-dollar inheritance on Wall Street, told Neville about Abdullah roughly six months before Neville finally attended one of Abdullah's cl

1933

While studying with Abdullah, Neville recalled having no job or money and living in a basement on 75th Street while Abdullah rented the first floor of a Morgenthau-owned house at 30 West 72nd Stree

1931

The Wikipedia chronology dates Neville's meeting with his teacher Abdullah, a turbaned Black man of Jewish descent, to 1931, with the pair working together for five years.

1929

Neville met Abdullah in 1929 in New York City and studied with him seven days a week for seven years thereafter.

between 1929 and 1936 (probable)

A Joseph Murphy-sourced account states Neville studied with Abdullah seven days a week for seven years, a longer duration than the 5-6 year figures given elsewhere.
Place: New York City

between June 1929 and August 1929
between 1929 and 1941
10 December 1929 (probable)

Describes a specific Yonkers theater bill (Douglas Fairbanks Jr / Loretta Young film) matching the touring act line-up of media:1052.

c. 1929
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: stated by Neville: 1929. Told 2 times (1969). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
1929
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: stated by Neville: 1929. Told 1 time (1971). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
between 1929 and 1931 (possible)
Neville recounts meeting his teacher Abdullah for the first time in New York City, on the recommendation of a Catholic priest he did not much respect.
Neville's father envisions a Barbados beach as a hotel site
Description
Neville's father stood on a Barbados beach thirty years earlier and saw it as the perfect site for a hotel; he never faltered in that dream, and when the property finally came up for sale the one man who could have outbid him was in Brazil and his cabled offer arrived twenty-four hours too late.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1929
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 1968 (possible)
  • c. 1918 (probable)
  • before 1968 (probable)
  • before 1969 (possible)
  • before 10 April 1968
Told
  • 6 April 1969 (refuted)
  • 10 April 1968
  • 2 December 1968
  • 6 November 1959
Sources
  • Source: The Value of Dreams ¶21 (My father stood on a beach in Barbados 30 years ago and saw it as a perfect place for a hotel. He never faltered in that dream.)
  • Source: I Remember When ¶13 (He stood one day in a huge place, for little Barbados a huge place, he looked out to sea and said to my brother, “You know, Vic, this is an ideal place for buildings, lovely homes and hotels.”)
  • Source: Tloa Lecturethe Word ¶16 (And then looking over this fabulous land, thirty-five acres, and the frontage was a lovely beach, a heavenly beach, and he said to my brother Vic, “Oh, Vic, what a wonderful place for a hotel!”)
  • Source: Foreknowledge ¶16 (When looking out to sea and looking over our land, he said, “This is a perfect spot for a hotel.” Then in his mind’s eye he saw the hotel, saw everything about it and then turned to the little ladies who owned it and said, “If you ever want to sell, thin…)
  • Source: God's Almighty Power and Wisdom ¶30 (Then he turned to my brother Victor and said, “This would be the ideal spot for a hotel.” Now, this is years and years ago when I was still in my teens.)
  • Source: God's Almighty Power ¶22 (Then, turning to Victor, he said: “This would be the ideal spot for a hotel.” A few years later the ladies decided to sell. One man with a great deal of money wanted those 35 acres very much, but was in Brazil the day my father - who had imagined owning …)
1929
He says he was called and sent in 1929, that night, without understanding anything of the mystery that happened.
between 1929 and 1930 (possible)
Neville recalls that although the deep, conscious understanding of his spiritual experience did not come until July 1959, he had actually first met and stood in the presence of God -- infinite love --
between 1929 and 1959 (probable)
Neville recounts that he was 'called' in 1929, and for the following thirty years he taught only the Law -- the technique of imagining a desire fulfilled -- without yet knowing the 'Promise' held with
between 1929 and 1934 (possible)
In his twenties, during the hard early years of the Depression, Neville describes going penniless one hot summer night to the old Columbus Circle in New York, where anyone could take a soapbox platfor
between 1929 and 1932
Neville recalled the early-Depression bank failures of 1929 through 1932 from his own time in New York: banks closing overnight, depositors with ten, twenty or fifty thousand dollars left with nothing
1929
Neville says he has worn the wakened body since 1929, when he was embraced by the Risen Lord and they became one body and one Spirit, and that he has heard Him say He laid Himself down within him to s
1929
Neville describes being sent into the world in 1929 as God's own word, with the command "Time to act." Having looked into the face of infinite love, he says, he and it embraced and fused into one bein
1929
Neville recalls meeting a New York City friend named Abdullah in 1929 -- an old man, then in his late eighties, who ate, drank, and smoked freely, in stark contrast to Neville's own strict vegetarian,
1929
Neville states he was called and sent -- incorporated into the body of love -- in 1929, though his ministry proper did not begin until 1959.