When he confessed at a meeting, after seven years of rigid discipline, that he now drank and ate meat, some ladies in the audience cried because he had been their personal savior and the image cracked
In 1936, sitting quietly in the silence, Neville saw a rock appear before his vision, divide, and reassemble into a man seated in the lotus posture meditating, whom he recognised as himself meditating
Bill imagines Leonidov praising her designs and changes his behavior
Description
When they were first married, Neville's wife Bill designed costumes at the Music Hall for a Russian boss, Leonidov, who kept her late every night; Neville told her to walk down Sixth Avenue imagining him praising her designs in his broken English, and within 24 hours his attitude changed permanently.
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Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: There Is No Other God ¶20 (My wife, when we were first married, she worked at the Music Hall, and the man who was her boss – a Russian, would keep her after hours.)
When Neville and Bill got engaged in 1936 his dancing partner, who disapproved of his interest in the Bible, told his wife to wear a dress resembling the Bible to keep him; he read it six hours a day,
Neville met his wife in 1936 and knew at that very moment she would be his wife, telling her so although he had no social, intellectual or financial background to recommend him.
Neville says that the first time he met the girl who now bears his name and is the mother of his daughter he knew she would be his wife; six months later they sailed for Barbados, where she met his mo
Because New York's archaic divorce law made it nearly impossible to be free of his first marriage, Neville slept for one solid week as though he were happily married to the girl who now bears his name
Neville was telephoned to appear in a New York federal court where his first wife, from whom he had been separated almost fourteen years, had been arrested for shoplifting; he took the stand, pleaded
He met his wife in 1936 and fell in love with her instantly, telling her at once that she was going to be his wife, although he had no social, intellectual or financial background to justify it.
Seated in his living room in 1936, eyes shut but awake, he saw a quartz rock fragment and be reassembled by an unseen force into a man in the lotus posture bearing his own face perfected, which then g
The Carthage Evening Press reports that Walter C.
Passenger manifest lists Neville L. Goddard, age 31, occupation artist.
between 19 May 1936 and 18 May 1937
(probable)
Neville recalls that after he and his first wife separated, their young son was shuttled back and forth between them 'like a swinging door,' and his devout mother, worried about the boy's baptism, eve
According to a newspaper profile, Winifred MacCardell Flood first became interested in divine metaphysics in 1937 through Dr. Emmett Fox.
Person: Winifred MacCardell Flood
After 1937 she knew Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity School of Christianity, and took all the Unity courses offered.
Person: Winifred Maccardell Flood
Following her Unity studies, Flood came under the tutelage of Neville Goddard, described as formerly of Barbados and then living in California.
Place: California
between 1931 and 1936
(probable)
After studying under Neville, Flood's next teacher was the mystic Abdullah, described in the source as being from Africa.
Person: Winifred Maccardell Flood
A biographical note states that Flood, after coming to metaphysics in 1937 through Emmett Fox and taking all Unity courses, came under the tutelage of Neville Goddard ('formerly of Barbados and now in California'), and that her next teacher after Nev
Description
A biographical note states that Flood, after coming to metaphysics in 1937 through Emmett Fox and taking all Unity courses, came under the tutelage of Neville Goddard ('formerly of Barbados and now in California'), and that her next teacher after Neville was 'the great mystic Abdullah, from Africa.' [Date evidence: Tutelage under Neville falls after 1937 (post-Fox, post-Unity courses) and before the book's completion; the book is dated 'Begun Jan. 26, 1945—Finished July 26, 1952', and Neville is described as 'formerly of Barbados and now in California' as of the 1952 publication.]
Verbatim (witness's words)
FLOOD first became interested in divine metaphysics in 1937, through the efforts of Dr. Emmett Fox. She knew Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity School of Christianity, and took all Unity courses offered. After that Dr. Flood came under the tutelage of Neville, Neville Goddard formerly of Barbados and now in California. Her next teacher was the great mystic Abdullah, from Africa. These studies were climaxed by degrees earned from the College of Divine Metaphysics in Indianapolis.
Date (happened)
between 1937 and 26 July 1952
(possible)
Neville described finding himself in an infinite field of sunflowers, each flower a perfect human face moving in unison, while he experienced himself as freer and separate from that collective beauty.
In a vision about thirty years ago Neville found himself in an infinite field of sunflowers whose every flower was a perfect human face moving as one chorus, and he knew that though less beautiful he
An artist friend, a member of the New York Library, took him there and projected forty-six different pictures of Jesus, no two alike — American, Germanic, Italian, French — each the painter's own pers
Passenger manifest entry for Neville Goddard; route and exact day are not asserted beyond readable OCR.
German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann delivered his lecture "On My Painting" in London, recounting a vision of William Blake; Neville later quoted this passage repeatedly in his own l
Neville began his own teaching and lecturing career in 1938 per the Wikipedia chronology.
Person: Neville Goddard
Student Margaret Ruth Broome recounted that Neville studied many subjects and taught astrology before he began public lecturing in 1938.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville's first independent lecture at Steinway Hall charged a low $0.25 admission for local students.
Place: Steinway Hall, New York
Person: Neville Goddard
By 1938 Snellgrove packaged books for elite lecturers, publishing socialite Clarissa W. Collins's Mexican Vignettes.
Place: New York City
Person: Jane A. Snellgrove
In the course of urging his audience not to fear opposition, Neville mentions in passing that he has been speaking publicly since 1938 — nearly thirty years by the time of this 1967 lecture — framing
A woman undergoes spiritual conception around 1938
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Woman's spiritual conception thirty years before her vision
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Anonymous (not verified)
Prominent New York woman attends Neville's meetings around 1950
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1938
(possible)
c. 1950
(possible)
Before he began teaching in 1938 he worked many jobs in the world of Caesar — dancer, elevator operator for Macy's, filling bins for J. C. Penney.
He notes that a woman sitting in tonight's audience, along with his wife, attended his very first meeting and can vouch for the truth of what he is describing.
In almost thirty years on the platform he has never asked an audience for money, and he returned a 'seeming' gift when conditions were tied to it.
He states that he has been speaking publicly since 1938.
between 1938 and 1968
(probable)
Neville notes that he has been asked whether he believes in a Jesus born of Mary throughout his years of teaching.
In thirty years on the lecture platform, and repeatedly on TV and radio with clergymen, he has challenged them to say whether they have experienced Christ or been called Father, and they call it blasp
A woman sees her imminent birth from above in a series of visions
Description
Neville relates a woman friend's series of visions - passing Point Conception on a ship off California, hearing a voice call "Father, father," seeing an infant and a youth, and confronting a knife-wielding thief and murderer whom she embraced and recognised as a long-dead friend.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: The Remnant ¶7 (In her vision she was on a ship moving down the coastline of California, when she asked someone to let her know when she would pass Point Conception. A man at her side said: “We passed that thirty miles back, don’t you remember?”)
Neville says he felt unqualified when sent, having had no formal education, and that in his early platform years his uneasiness invited all kinds of strange criticism, which stopped after the birth fr