19 November 1942
Neville Goddard was drafted into the United States Army on 19 November 1942, when he was thirty-seven and approaching his thirty-eighth birthday.
between 19 November 1942 and 15 March 1943
(probable)
between 19 November 1942 and March 1943
Drafted into the Army in November 1942 and sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana, Neville applied for discharge and was refused by his colonel; he then slept each night imagining himself back in his Washington
19 November 1942
Drafted during the war, Neville slept in the assumption that he was honorably discharged, saw in vision his discharge paper with "Disapproved" crossed out and "Approved" written above it by the hand o
December 1942
(probable)
7 December 1942
(probable)
In December 1942, War Department Circular No. 397 permitted men aged 38 or older already serving in the U.S. Army to apply for discharge, subject to their commanding officer's approval.
1943
(probable)
By 1943 Arthur Ford and Frank Decker operated a 'Psychic Center' at 30 West 72nd Street, per period advertising.
Place: 30 West 72nd Street, Manhattan
1943
(probable)
In New York in 1943, Joseph Murphy met Tarot expert Ann Mussmann and studied Tarot symbolism with her, finding it aligned with biblical teaching.
Place: New York
1943
The New Yorker published an article about Neville Goddard titled "A Blue Flame on the Forehead" in 1943.
Place: New York
Person: Neville Goddard
c. 1943
(probable)
Neville gave Sunday evening lectures at Union Methodist Church in New York for a standard $0.25 admission.
Place: New York
Person: Neville Goddard
17 December 1963
For about 12 years Neville held free half-hour private interviews five days a week, 1-5:30pm, in New York.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
1943
Neville was profiled in The New Yorker magazine in 1943, shortly after returning from military training.
March 1943
(probable)
Neville's Army discharge is dated to March 1943, marking the start of his NYC private-interview years.
c. 1943
(possible)
Cantin's book states Murphy met a "Professor Abdullah," a Black Jew from Israel who taught Hebrew at Cambridge, in New York around the same period as meeting Ann Mussmann; this accou
c. 1943
(possible)
After being sent to Paris on business by her art-dealer employer, Louise met Joseph Berle at a party where they made an instant connection.
Place: Paris
Person: Louise Berle
March 1943
c. 1943
(probable)
1943
Neville recalls an unnamed New Thought leader who, back in 1943, told him he was coming to New York purely to make money in the New Thought movement; Neville contrasts this with the leader's now-wealt
between 1943 and 1957
(probable)
c. 1943
He describes his longing while in the army for his wife and his two-month-old baby whom he had not seen in three months, and his hunger for the odor of a child.
Freudian friend rejects Neville's method and remains in the army
Description
A very close friend of his, a Freudian of the same age, could have been discharged that same month; Neville wrote and told him exactly what he had done, but the friend would not believe it, stayed in the army four more years, and later wrote a book with a chapter on Neville calling him an atheist.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 1943 and 1947
- between March 1943 and March 1947 (possible)
Told
16 January 1964
Sources
- Source: The Larger Venture ¶17 (And I wrote him what I did, but he was a Freudian, and he knew exactly how this thing should not work, so he never applied it. So he remained for the next four years in the army.)
A New Thought leader tells Neville he intends to make money in the movement
Description
In 1943 a man told Neville he was coming to New York solely to make money in the New Thought movement; Neville thought he was in the wrong profession, and the man went on to build a fortune and a building paid for by his followers.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1943
Told
30 May 1969
Sources
- Source: Feel Deeply ¶19 (Back in 1943, this same man told me he was coming to New York for only one purpose and that was to make money in the so-called New Thought movement. When I heard him say this, I thought he was in the wrong profession.)
1943
Coming out of the army in 1943 he and his wife looked for an apartment; the rent was higher than the sum they had fixed on, but he persisted in his imagined figure, and in the third month the manager
1943
In 1943, out of the Army, he found a Manhattan duplex, having first told his wife what rent he would pay; he committed to a third more, and in the third month the manager returned all the excess retro
c. 1943
(probable)
One deep winter in New York, wanting only warmth, he slept as though under the palm trees of the Indies; distressing news then came, and 48 hours later he sailed from New York in wartime, reaching Bar
before 1943
(probable)
Neville says he chose his second wife exactly as he wanted her, having made a horrible mistake in his first marriage — as, he says, did she in picking him.
between 1943 and 1946
(probable)
Neville filed a Petition for Naturalization under Section 701 of the Nationality Act of 1940 — the wartime provision for members of the armed forces — in the U.S.
1943
(probable)
Neville's 1943 naturalization records and his later Army account place the family in a seventh-floor apartment at 32 Washington Square West.
c. 1943
(possible)
Neville recalled that his family of three lived at 145 W. 55th Street, apartment 15-C, for thirteen years and eight months; the chronology begins the residence around 1943.
between 19 February 1943 and 18 February 1944
(probable)
While serving in the Army, at age thirty-eight, Neville used the technique of assuming a desired end to imagine his way to an honorable discharge.
March 1943
Neville's Petition for Naturalization gives the discharge day as 15 March.
March 1943
(probable)
after March 1943
(probable)
March 1943
The vision itself: the disapproved paper appeared before his eyes, a hand out of nowhere scratched out 'Disapproved' and wrote 'APPROVED' above it, leaving the colonel's name intact, and a voice said
Freudian friend remains in the Army despite Neville's advice
Description
After his own discharge Neville wrote to a Freudian friend of the same age who was equally eligible, telling him what he had done; the friend never answered and stayed in the army until the war ended, having once told Neville he pressed his feet into the carpet at Neville's New York meetings to keep hold of reality.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. March 1943
(probable)
Told
19 February 1965
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Secret of the Sperm ¶24 (So when it happened to me in nine days I wrote a friend of mine who was my age, who was just as eligible, and I wrote him and I told him what I had done. He never answered my letter. He’s a Freudian.)
1 March 1943
15 March 1943
Neville recalls that while serving in the U.S.
15 March 1943
Neville's initial discharge application was disapproved by Colonel Theodore Bilbo Jr.; nine days after a nocturnal vision in which the rejection was overwritten to 'Approved', the colonel called Nevil
28 July 1943
The petition lists Willa Goddard and John D. Treadwell as witnesses and records a birthmark on Neville's upper lip.
between September 1943 and October 1943
between September 1943 and 1957
(probable)
Neville recounts that in 1943, on leaving the Army, he found a duplex apartment in the heart of Manhattan; after a rent mix-up led the landlord to give him free choice of wallpaper, paint and a custom
November 1943
After Neville and his wife rented an apartment in 1943 above their intended price, the manager reported that city review showed its lawful prior rent was lower and reduced the November charge to the a
1946
Neville published Feeling Is the Secret.
1944
(probable)
Walter C. Lanyon self-published his book "2 A.M." in Los Angeles, indicating his relocation there by this date.