c. 0
(probable)
A few years ago in New York City Neville took five friends to Sunday brunch at the Hilton, was reproached by a heavily accented head waiter for his open-necked shirt and seated out of sight, and insis
c. 0
(probable)
Neville says he has several times stepped out of the body into a world just like this one, where he met friends he knew intimately — some whose funerals he attended, others he had seen a month before
A man revises an infant's cancer diagnosis
Description
A man who attends Neville's meetings wrote to him that when his wife told him a fourteen-month-old girl had been diagnosed with cancer by five doctors, he tuned his wife out, revised the story in his imagination until he heard her voice give a different verdict, and days later the diagnosis was reversed.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0
- c. April 1969 (possible)
Told
21 April 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Law and the Plan of Redemption ¶1 (Now here let me share with you a couple of stories that came to me this week. You’ll see why I tell you this. He’s not here tonight but he’s here quite often, and he wrote these two stories.)
c. 0
Years later, stranded on an island and told he could not leave for months although he had an engagement in Milwaukee, he slept in the assumption of standing on a boat looking back nostalgically at the
c. 0
Neville followed the daily Los Angeles Times reports of a scientific congress in Montreal, and one scientist's paper on the mystery of the sperm passing through an unbroken egg surface set him thinkin
c. 0
Lying in bed early one morning thinking about the sperm, Neville felt himself detached from his body and found himself inside a completely sealed room which came alive as he entered it, then returned
c. 0
Neville says that on this last day of the series he has brought the audience things he has heard and experienced in the past year, including stories of his friend 'Crutcha'.
c. 0
Neville reports on a UCLA weekend class on extrasensory perception three weeks earlier - $100 for three days, five speakers, over 500 attending - and says not one man on the panel was a man of vision.
Man imagines a barber's professional success
Description
Neville recounts a letter he received the past week from a friend in the audience who, sitting in a barber's chair, imagined the fourth-chair barber to the top of his profession; the barber bought out the shop and then won prizes at a San Francisco contest, and the friend has told Neville in advance of contests to come in Southern California, Miami and Brussels.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
3 May 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Natural Effects Have Spiritual Causes ¶1 (Now let me share with you what was given to me this past week in the form of a letter (he’s here tonight). His father was a low man on the totem pole when he first encountered him.)
c. 0
Neville recalls that in his own previous lecture on Monday he told the story of Moses not crossing into the Promised Land while Joshua went over.
Music student dreams of records and a composition called Christ
Description
A young woman studying music, who wants to be a composer, handed Neville a letter last Friday night describing a dream in which her father gave her three records and told her to keep two and give the third to a much older man she loves, whose birthday had just passed; the sheet of music bore the composer's name Elam (Olam) and the title "Christ" — and Neville expounds it as the eternal youth David composing about himself.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0
- 26 September 1969 (probable)
Told
29 September 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Judas Betrays Messianic Secret ¶15 (Now here is a letter from a young lady…she’s still in school, she’s majoring in music, and she wants to be a composer, that’s her ambition. In her letter to me, which she gave me last Friday night, she said, “I have a very dear friend of mine, he’s much …)
c. 1957
(probable)
Neville lent his two volumes of Higgins' Anacalypsis to a woman friend twelve years ago and never got them back, and says she may keep them if she is getting anything out of them.
29 September 1969
(probable)
Neville read in that morning's paper a report of a preacher who had spoken the night before to almost 50,000 people, and recalls reading in the New York Times a few months earlier that the same man, s
c. 0
For about a year he refused to let himself sleep deeply, waking to write down every vision, then checking the next day whether the dream's events came to pass — they invariably did, but never in the o
c. 0
(probable)
He says he has no desire to live at San Simeon; trying earthly things in the belief they would keep him here forever is far back in his own experience, and his needs are now little.
A woman dreams of answering I AM and is told her faith is her love
Description
A woman wrote him a letter this week describing a vision in which she was in a large class he was teaching; he handed her a paper asking what the most important thing in her was, she wrote 'I AM', and he told her to go to the top of the class — and in a further vision that night a figure whose shoulder she wept on, over her mother's opposition to her marrying, told her 'Your faith is your love.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Sources
- Source: Call Upon Self ¶6 (And I came by and gave her a piece of paper and drew a straight line, and the question was this: “What is the most important thing in me?” She said, “That’s easy.”)
c. 0
He earned his living as a dancer for eleven years and says he could not teach a single dance step.
c. 0
(probable)
He recalls writing Your Faith Is Your Fortune years ago and putting on the flyleaf that faith in God is measured by confidence in oneself; it has gone through many printings with no revision, and when
c. 0
(probable)
Years ago, before the promise was revealed to him and when he was working only on the law, his wife told him his one unfortunate trait was that he had faith in no one but himself — which he says was p
Marta sees Neville's transformed body and dies soon afterward
Description
A friend named Marta saw Neville's transformed body clothed in power, recognising his earthly face in it, and departed this world a month or two later, two years ago while he was in San Francisco.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Sources
- Source: The Kingdom of God: The One Body ¶10 (One departed two years ago when I was in San Francisco, and she saw it before she departed; she saw it clothed in power. She stood amazed. She was an eyewitness to the power in which it was clothed.)
9 November 1969
(probable)
Neville went to the cinema the night before to see a remake of Goodbye Mr.
A friend's imaginal support advances his barber to champion
Description
Neville reads from a letter given to him that week by a friend in the audience, who imagined his barber — the lowest man of four in the shop — to the top, after which the barber bought out the boss and then won trophies at a San Francisco contest, and who now tells Neville in advance that the barber will win in Southern California, Miami and Brussels.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
(probable)
Told
3 May 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Every Natural Effect ¶2 (Now let me share with you what was given to me this past week in the form of a letter. He’s here tonight. His barber was the low man on the totem pole when he first encountered him.)
c. 0
(probable)
Neville recalls having told the story of Moses and Jehoshua at his own lecture the previous Monday.
A bank-merger magnate dies by suicide under financial strain
Description
He recounts reading in yesterday morning's paper about a 47-year-old man with a personal fortune of over five billion dollars who shot himself under the strain of a huge merger of Swedish banks.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0 (probable)
- c. 21 November 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Gods Purpose ¶25 (Did you read yesterday morning’s paper? Well, here is a man, 47 years old, a personal fortune in excess of five billion dollars—not million, five billion.)
A woman sees Neville as Jesus addressing a multitude on a beach
Description
A woman present at the lecture told Neville during the past week of a vision she had had the previous November, in which she saw him standing on a beach with his back to the ocean, in a white robe, addressing an enormous crowd of many faiths, knowing simultaneously that he was Neville and that he was Jesus.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0 (probable)
- c. November 1967 (probable)
Told
17 June 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: John 10: The Shepherd ¶14 (“In my vision I was at the seaside and you were standing on the beach with your back to the ocean dressed in a while robe. You were addressing an enormous crowd of people of different faiths, and I knew you were Neville but I knew you were Jesus.)
Neville hears the radio bulletin announcing Ahmanson's sudden death
Description
On his way out to the lecture that evening Neville turned on the radio for a news bulletin and heard that Ahmanson, aged sixty-one and on vacation in Europe, had dropped dead, leaving three hundred million.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0 (probable)
- 17 June 1968 (probable)
Told
17 June 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: John 10: The Shepherd ¶32 (as I came out tonight, I turned on the radio to get a news bulletin and Ahmanson at sixty-one drops dead.)
Suspended Father Schaffer publicly rejects Catholic rituals
Description
Neville recounts reading in a current magazine that week an article by Father Schaffer, a priest of fourteen years, then suspended, who wants to quit the Catholic Church and its rituals, recalling his own ordination at twenty when his family knelt before him and wept.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
(probable)
Told
17 June 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: John 10: The Shepherd ¶23 (as I read in a current magazine this week this priest of fourteen years wants to quit the Catholic Church, to change all the rituals…beginning with the name Father.)
c. 0
(probable)
Neville hunted down two out-of-print books, the Zermatt Dialogues and the Oberland Dialogues, at Acres of Books in Long Beach - where old Mr.
c. 0
(probable)
On his first day home from the schooner voyage his mother forbade him the sun; he went out anyway to see his guinea pigs and rabbits, and she took off her shoe and whacked him - she always kept her wo
c. 0
(probable)
Neville announces that on Friday he will show the parallels between David of the Old Testament and Christ of the New, quoting the passages, and says he knows they are the same being from his own exper
Grace hears Neville's words after dozing during a travelogue
Description
Neville tells how his friend and publisher Grace, unwell two years earlier, dozed while watching a travelogue on TV and on waking said aloud that she must remember what Neville said — 'I am with you always to the end of the age' — which he identifies as the words of the risen Christ.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
after July 1967(refuted)- 15 November 1966 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Return of Jesus ¶18 (My friend and publisher, Grace, two years ago she wasn’t feeling well—this is after he had returned in me, it couldn’t have happened before, for these are the words of the risen Christ—she sat at home looking at a travelogue on TV and dozed for a few mom…)
A woman dreams a mountain path and hears she is a Melchizedek priestess
Description
Neville reads a letter that came that week from a woman who dreamed of building a crooked pathway of squares and triangles up an enormous mountain to find the Father, heard a voice say 'Be', later 'I am the Father', and later still that she was a priestess after the order of Melchizadek — and he answers her from the platform.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0
- between October 1965 and September 1966 (probable)
Told
15 November 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Return of Jesus ¶20 (Now another letter came this week: “A year ago last October, I found myself in a crowd at the base of an enormous mountain. There was no pathway up the mountain, yet we all desired to climb it. I knew that if I climbed that mountain I would find the Fath…)
Neville appears to a woman while believed absent in Barbados
Description
The same correspondent writes that in July, fully awake after dinner, she thought of Neville — believing him still in Barbados, since he had left in March and said he would not return until the fall — and he suddenly stood before her in a grey business suit, said 'There is no time', and vanished.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0
c. July 1967(refuted)- c. July 1966 (probable)
Told
after July 1967(refuted)- 15 November 1966 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Return of Jesus ¶26 (I knew when you left here in March on the way to Barbados, and that you said you wouldn’t return ‘til the fall of the year. So I took it for granted you were still in Barbados and wondered how you were. Suddenly you are standing before me.)
A woman dreams of a lighted house and people unable to answer their names
Description
He reads out a letter received that past week from a woman in his audience, describing a dream in which she alone had a lighted house in a dark street, followed grey puppet-like people up a hill where a lion-maned man with a light over his head called each person's name three times and none could answer, and a cold receptionist told her the sleeping people were in a house that was not their own.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
28 November 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Apostle ¶7 (Now here this past week I received a lovely letter. She isn’t here tonight, but you can tell her. No, she is here, pardon me. She had this experience.)
A driver experiences universal light and hears All is one
Description
A friend present at the lecture told him that about ten years earlier, while driving, everything became nothing but light with infinity falling in tiny tadpole-like forms, he heard within him "All is one," stopped the car by reflex, and told the angry passing drivers that everything was all right; Neville tells him he was genuinely illumined and instructs him how to arrest one of the falling lights.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0
- c. 1956 (probable)
Told
28 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Apostle ¶14 (He said, “I can’t say there was light and myself, no, just light…and infinity falling in little, little kinds of light, all light falling.)
c. 0
The other day he was reading a comment calling Blake insane on account of his pictures, so he went through his own collection of Blake's pictures at home, including the 13th plate of The Gates of Para
c. 0
(probable)
As a schoolboy in Barbados Neville was savagely beaten by his schoolmaster for supposedly misquoting scripture ('Take up thy bed and walk' against the master's 'couch'), could not produce a Bible beca
Palisades woman finds serpent ring, cross, and chalice
Description
A woman from the Palisades, absent that night, walked along the beach the previous week and found in turn a tiny ring of a serpent swallowing itself, a small silver cross off a necklace, and a little wooden chalice; she brought all three and Neville saw them in the little room behind the lecture hall.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0
- c. May 1964 (probable)
Told
15 May 1964
Sources
- Source: Signs and Wonders ¶13 (But sometimes, as it happened this last week…the lady is not here tonight but she lives in the Palisades and she’s right on the beach and sees the ocean all the time. Walking down the beach this past week she saw a little object and said to herself, “No,…)
A friend dreams that his imagination creates a desert settlement
Description
Neville reads out and then expounds a letter he received a few weeks earlier from a dear friend — a humorous writer and long-time student of his message — describing a voice within proclaiming 'I am God' and a dream in which he threw golf balls into an empty desert to create homes, a golf course and a gate, and could only change a dilapidated house and streetcar by persisting.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
18 October 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The New Man 2 ¶0 (Now, let me share with you a story told me recently by a very dear friend of mine, one who has had most of my experiences. He wrote me this letter just a few weeks ago.)
c. 0
He describes getting the friend's letter in the mail two or three weeks ago, being thrilled by it, and wondering which lecture night it would fit before settling on this one.
c. 0
He notes that in a lecture the week before he had quoted the 22nd chapter of Isaiah without knowing it was the one chapter in scripture containing the word 'ball', which his friend's dream then fulfil
c. 0
Neville says he will give the pattern of the unveiling from his own personal experience, and recounts it in sequence: resurrection followed instantly by birth from above, five months later the discove
A man dreams of removing a yoke and receiving divine honor
Description
Neville reads a man's two dreams sent to him — pulling many feet of wire out of his own neck after shaving in Paris, and finding a name on a long list and marking it with an asterisk — and interprets them from Jeremiah and Isaiah as the yoke being taken off his own neck and the great honor of God unveiling himself in him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
26 April 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The World Is Imaginal in Character ¶15 (But I’ll take one now. I have two tonight, one from a gentleman, one from a lady, and both are here.)
A woman dreams of conception and a white animal biting her thumb
Description
Neville relates a woman's letter and vision — a first part he will not tell publicly, which he says means she has conceived of the Holy Spirit, followed the same night by a wharf rat that turned into a small white animal which bit her thumb, which she threw into the field, saying she must show it to Dr. Neville — and interprets the white mouse through Bayley and Cinderella.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Told
26 April 1968
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The World Is Imaginal in Character ¶27 (Now, we have the lady’s story. The second part is an interesting part, which seemed to confuse her after so wonderful a first part.)
c. 0
Years earlier, on the anniversary of this night, Neville relived the 42nd Psalm: he led the throng in procession to the house of God, heard a voice from the depths of his soul saying "I am God in the
c. 0
Neville recounts his own experience of the splitting of the great mountain, saying it was his own body that was divided from east to west, one part moving northward and one southward — the theme he ha
A woman stops and starts a tape-recorder wheel in dream
Description
Neville reads out a letter received that week from a woman who felt his presence in her home the previous Sunday night, saw lights like fireflies, then dreamt of a tape recorder wheel which she stopped and started by arresting the activity of her imagination, feeling something open and expand above her head each time; he interprets the wheel as divine reunion.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 0
- 18 February 1968 (probable)
Told
23 February 1968
Sources
- Source: Did a Man Called Jesus Christ Walk the Earth? ¶22 (Now, let me share with you what was shared with me this week. This lady writes, “Last Sunday night I felt your presence so strongly in my home. It was so strong I sat down expecting to see you. All I saw was simply lights, like fireflies, lights, lights,…)
c. December 1967
(probable)
Neville recalls a gentleman who sat in the audience just before he closed the previous December, took issue with this same teaching that Jesus Christ is not a man of flesh and blood, and has never com
22 February 1968
Neville reports reading yesterday's L. A.
c. 0
(probable)
At his lecture the previous Friday night Neville told the story of a mother, a daughter and a stepfather who were present in the audience; a lady in the room wrongly took it to be about herself, her s