August 1941
(probable)
August 1941
(probable)
August 1941
(probable)
c. August 1941
Neville recalls that in August 1941 - after an idle imaginal act months earlier, in February, in which he fell asleep feeling himself present in his mother's home in Barbados during a snowbound lectur
c. August 1941
At the end of August 1941, a cable reporting that Neville's mother was dying caused Neville and his wife to abandon a planned Maine holiday and sail within twenty-four hours for Barbados aboard the br
18 August 1941
An AP newspaper clipping documented Louise Walsh Austad welding fighter plane parts at a Tucson airbase, becoming one of the country's first 'Rosie the Riveters.'
between October 1941 and November 1941
(probable)
Not long before her death, Neville spent three weeks in Barbados with his mother, who was then in the terminal stages of cancer, before returning to his home in New York City.
c. November 1941
(probable)
c. November 1941
Neville recounts his mother's death in 1941, about a month before Pearl Harbor: he had just returned to New York from three weeks with her in Barbados, where she was a terminal cancer case, and sittin
Neville's son volunteers and lands at Guadalcanal
Description
Neville tells how his son, having read a little book about Guadalcanal and fallen in love with the natives' sun-bleached headdresses, volunteered at seventeen right after Pearl Harbor and was among the first ashore at Guadalcanal — and did not enjoy it, but had asked for it.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. December 1941 (probable)
- before 1968 (possible)
- before 11 March 1968
Told
- 11 March 1968
- 27 September 1968
Sources
- Source: Conception ¶29 (Well, at the age of seventeen he volunteered, right after Pearl Harbor, and he was one of the first ashore in Guadalcanal.)
- Source: Brazen Impudence ¶50 (I know my son told me…I said, what on earth possessed you to volunteer for the Marines in the 2nd World War? This is after five years in the Marines.)
7 December 1941
(probable)
Neville's son volunteers for military service after Pearl Harbor
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
after 7 December 1941
(probable)
between 7 December 1941 and 2 September 1945
Neville recalls his late secretary Jack Butler, terrified by William Randolph Hearst's 'Yellow Terror' propaganda before the war with Japan (Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, to Japan's surrender, 2 Sept
11 December 1941
(probable)
11 December 1941
Neville recalls a New York City acquaintance of Germanic background who despised Roosevelt for the war with Germany even though he knew Germany had declared war on the US (11 December 1941); the man's
1942
Louise Walsh Austad's wartime welding work was featured in a 1942 issue of Look magazine.
Person: Louise Berle
25 February 1942
Neville married Catherine in 1942; later that year she gave birth to their daughter Victoria ('Vicky').
Person: Neville Goddard
1942
Neville published Freedom for All: A Practical Application of the Bible.
Person: Neville Goddard
June 1942
Freedom Barry states that Neville's daughter Vicki, later executor of his estate and in charge of publishing his books, was born in 1942.
28 June 1942
Victoria Goddard, daughter of Neville Goddard, was born in 1942.
Person: Victoria Goddard
The source identifies Victoria as the daughter of Neville and Catherine.
c. 1942
(possible)
A 1942 statement attributed to Neville is quoted (via O'Meara) declaring that public opinion demands proof that a theory works in practice.
Person: Neville Goddard
1942
(probable)
1942
(probable)
Death of Neville's father-in-law
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1942
Told
25 July 1968
1942
(probable)
1942
During a vivid early-morning reverie, Neville recalls falling instantly in love with the woman who would become his second wife the moment he met her in 1936, though she did not yet know it herself, a
Margaret Ruth Broome moves to California
Description
Broome says that hearing Neville ended her search through organized religious systems because she recognized imagination as causal.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1942
1942
between 1942 and 1952
(probable)
c. 1942
Fifteen years earlier in Beverly Hills, asleep beside his wife, Neville saw the interior of a plush hotel, stepped into it repeatedly, then chose to remain and was shut out of his body - walked its ha
between 1942 and 1943
Lying on his bed in Beverly Hills some fourteen or fifteen years earlier he saw the interior of a plush hotel, entered and returned to his bed a dozen or twenty times, then explored - opening a door w
c. 1942
When he was drafted into the army the woman taking his details would not accept 'Christian' or 'Protestant' as his religion because the army had no Protestant chaplains, only Episcopalians, Baptists a
between 1942 and 1943
Neville describes his morning routine: rising between five and five-fifteen, switching the Today show on at seven to set his watch against it, because his old living-room clock was his mother-in-law's
1942
His father as a young man always wore spats and a cane when he came to a cold climate, and his father-in-law, who owned about twenty canes, would not be seen without cane and spats until his death in
c. 1942
(possible)
Locked out by New York State law from divorcing his first wife and marrying the girl he wanted, Neville slept in the assumption that she slept beside him; within a week his first wife committed an act
Neville's father imagined owning the Harrison building until the Goddards acquired it in 1942
Description
Neville's father spent years looking across at the larger Harrison building and feeling he owned it; in 1942 the absentee English owners instructed their Barbados representative to offer it to a decent island family, and within about a week the Goddards owned it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1942
Told
1972
(probable)
Sources
- Source: Who Is Jesus ¶9 (And to my father — my father said, I’ve been watching that building for years now and feeling that we own it within. In about one week they cabled back to England, the news came back, and we owned the building.)
between 1942 and 1943
Neville's wife, a Smith College graduate, wrote to him daily while he was in the army, in handwriting so difficult that he had to read the letters alone to decipher them — and years later she could no
1942
He was drafted in November 1942 without volunteering, while his son had volunteered for the Marine Corps at seventeen right after Pearl Harbor and served at Guadalcanal, and his baby daughter, born th
25 February 1942
New York marriage certificate 4402 records license issuance to Neville Lancelot Goddard and Catherine Willa Van Schmus on 25 February 1942, two days before their ceremony.
27 April 1942
(possible)
A D.S.S.
Birth of Neville's daughter
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. June 1942
Told
18 July 1968
between June 1942 and November 1942
1945
Neville was drafted into the U.S.
c. November 1942
(probable)
between November 1942 and March 1943
(probable)
Neville recalls his four months in the army, where a man pulled out of the ranks and given a little insignia would keep you in his presence to be 'Sir'-ed to death, and says he knows the appetite for
19 November 1942
Neville's Petition for Naturalization under Section 701 of the Nationality Act of 1940 states that he entered the U.S.
12 November 1942
(probable)
12 November 1942
An Army enlistment record lists Neville L.