November 1933
In 1933, after eleven years in America, Neville declined his visiting parents' invitation to return to Barbados with them, and then, waving them off at the boat, was seized by a sudden intense desire
c. 1933
(probable)
Stranded for months on his island with only two small ships serving the whole of the Indies and a long waiting list, Neville imagined himself on the deck of a ship looking back at the island with his
1933
In 1933 in New York he went to his old friend Abdullah, with whom he studied Hebrew for five years, full of superstitions - no meat, fish or chicken, no drink, no smoking, trying to be celibate - and
c. 1933
(possible)
A newspaper essay by Rabbi Jacob S.
2 February 1933
Neville says he began teaching the Law on 2 February 1933, his wife's birthday, because he had tried it himself, found that assuming a state and remaining faithful to it crystallized into fact, and wa
October 1933
October 1933
(probable)
c. October 1933
He told Abdullah of his desire to go to Barbados; Abdullah answered "You are in Barbados" and told him to sleep in Barbados in imagination and view the world from there, which Neville did nightly from
c. October 1933
(probable)
Neville went to Abdullah at 30 West 72nd Street and told him of his desire to go to Barbados; Abdullah insisted 'You are in Barbados' and taught him to live and sleep in Barbados in imagination, viewi
November 1933
Neville went from the boat to Abdullah, reported his desire to visit Barbados, and was told to occupy the fulfilled state: 'You are in Barbados.'
c. November 1933
(probable)
Taught by Abdullah to imagine himself already living in Barbados, Neville grew impatient as October gave way to November with no sign of a way to get there.
November 1933
(probable)
c. November 1933
At the end of November, when Neville complained he was no nearer Barbados, Abdullah repeated "You are in Barbados," turned his back and slammed the bedroom door on him, teaching him a lesson in faith.
November 1933
In November 1933, after twelve unsuccessful years in America, he saw his parents sail for Barbados and was then seized by a desire to go himself; Abdullah told him he was already in Barbados and must
between December 1933 and March 1934
(probable)
c. December 1933
(probable)
Neville, having imagined himself into Barbados while physically asleep in New York, receives a letter and draft from his brother Victor urging him to come home and covering his travel expenses; he sai
c. December 1933
(probable)
Bank employee manifests a Rockefeller Foundation position
Description
A friend in a dead-end bank job came to Neville needing a larger income for his family's education; Neville taught him what to do, he applied it while Neville was away in Barbados, and on Neville's return he had a position with the Rockefeller Foundation — but he now credits the man who spoke to him in church instead.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between December 1933 and March 1934
(probable)
Told
10 November 1959
Sources
- Source: The Only Christianity ¶22 (I taught him what to do and while I was absent in Barbados he did it and when I returned, he told me he had secured this fabulous position with the Rockefeller Foundation, where he still is.)
c. 3 December 1933
(possible)
Before Neville's December 1933 Barbados voyage, Abdullah told him that he would die but not surely die.
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
In the 1933 Barbados-trip narrative, Neville recounts that on the morning of the 3rd or 4th of December he received a letter from his brother Victor enclosing a $50 draft, inviting him home for a fami
3 December 1933
Having told Abdullah he wanted to go to Barbados for the first time in twelve years, Neville returns to consult him again -- first two weeks later, still no nearer his goal, and again on 3 December, s
between 3 December 1933 and 4 December 1933
(probable)
Days before the last ship of the season sailed, Neville received an unsolicited letter from his brother Victor enclosing a $50 draft and a paid passage, so the family of nine brothers and a sister cou
4 December 1933
(probable)
4 December 1933
(probable)
5 December 1933
6 December 1933
(probable)
6 December 1933
The steamship company could only offer him third class; Abdullah rebuked him — "you went first class" — and on the morning of sailing the agent told him a cancellation had freed a first-class berth.
Neville describes Abdullah's Ethiopian birth and religious background
Description
Neville describes his teacher and old friend Abdullah: born in Ethiopia, a black man raised in the Jewish faith who understood Christianity and the law better than any man he met.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 6 December 1933
(probable)
Told
after 6 December 1933
Sources
- Source: All Imagination Lecture ¶7 (He was born, so I am told, in Ethiopia. He was a black man, raised in the Jewish faith, but really understood Christianity as few men that I ever met understood it.)
- Source: Abdullah How We Got Together Qa (Neville describes Abdullah as North African, born to Jewish parents and raised Orthodox Jewish.)
6 December 1933
The steamship company could only give Neville third-class sleeping accommodation; Abdullah refused to accept it, saying he had already gone first class, and on the morning of sailing the ticket agent
A young waitress imagines Samoa and inherits the means to sail there
Description
Neville tells the case of a seventeen-year-old waitress in San Diego who, on a rainy Christmas Eve streetcar after losing her father, imagined the rain was sea spray and that she was sailing into the Bay of Samoa; ten days later a Chicago firm wrote that a dead aunt had left her three thousand dollars, and a month later she sailed into Samoa exactly as imagined.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
24 December 1933
Told
1955
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Mental Diets ¶3 (It’s the story of a young girl just turned seventeen. It was Christmas Eve, and she is sad of heart, for that year she had lost her father in an accident, and she is returning home to what seemed to be an empty house.)
1934
Neville described a 1934 vision of his perfected individualized self appearing as a quartz-to-Buddha transformation, later recounted in multiple lectures including Five Lessons (1948).
1934
(probable)
Walter C. Lanyon's book "Out of the Clouds" was published by L.N. Fowler & Co.
1934
(possible)
In a lecture Neville recalled meeting playwright Eugene (Gene) Conrad in New York in 1934; Conrad was the one who introduced him to his dancing partner Amerique.
Place: New York, NY
1934
(probable)
1934
(probable)
Neville recounts his 1934 voyage home to New York after three months in Barbados, a trip he had made at his brother Victor's unexpected written request.
1934
(probable)
Sitting quietly in contemplation in 1934, watching the interior of his own skull grow luminous with golden liquid light, Neville saw a rock appear before him out of nowhere.
1934
(probable)
1934
Neville describes turning his attention inward during a period of contemplative Silence in 1934, when his head began to glow with pulsing golden light and a solid block of quartz materialized before h
1934
Neville compares his own 1934 quartz-to-Buddha vision (a solid quartz breaking apart and reforming into a seated lotus-posture figure) to a parallel experience Carl Jung had in 1944, published posthum
1934
Neville recounts a vision of a “fragmented rock” he had in 1934, during the depths of the Depression, while living alone in a basement apartment on 75th Street in New York City and working as a dancer
1934
(probable)
1934
(probable)
1934
In 1934, meditating alone in his living room, Neville saw a large rough quartz shatter into countless pieces which an invisible force gathered and moulded into a man in the lotus posture whom he recog
c. 1934
(probable)
Neville's mother took each of her sons aside separately and persuaded him privately that he was her favorite and must never let her down; only when he returned home after twelve years in America, over