Carl Jung's 1944 vision of the chapel and yogi
Description
Neville retells a vision recorded by Carl Jung in his memoir Memories, Dreams and Reflections: in 1944, in a state Jung himself called a waking dream, Jung found himself walking a country road and entering a small wayside chapel. Approaching the altar he found no crucifix or image of the Virgin but instead a display of flowers, and beneath the altar a yogi seated in the lotus posture who, on closer inspection, had Jung's own face. Jung awoke startled, remarking that it was he who was meditating him -- a middle portion of a larger vision that Neville compares to an analogous vision of his own from 1934.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1944
Told
14 November 1963
1944
(probable)
A woman reports meeting her deceased mother in Neville's Bible class
Description
In 1944, a grieving forty-five-year-old woman in Neville's Monday-night Bible class, whose mother had just died, asked whether she might see her again. Neville told her to fall asleep each night that week imagining herself back in class the following Monday, reporting that she had met her mother. On the fourth night she found herself out of her body in the small hours of Friday morning and watched her mother come through the door; her mother, who had always disapproved of Neville's teaching, told her she was 'just as stupid as ever' before a dog that had died five years earlier wandered in, and the woman's emotion at petting it snapped her back into her body. She rose the following Monday to tell the whole class what had happened.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1944
(probable)
Told
28 April 1964
Bereaved woman attends Neville's 1944 Bible class
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1944 (probable)
- c. 1944 (probable)
Told
28 April 1964
Carl Jung's vision of himself in the lotus posture
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1944
(possible)
Told
23 September 1968
Mother's twenty-five-year domestic burden
Description
A man who had sent his mother a set of Neville's books noticed at Christmas that she had not applied the teaching, fearing it might hasten her elderly father's death and leave her feeling responsible. He instead told her how Neville had once navigated a complicated love triangle without harming anyone, and though she gave no promise to try it herself, he decided to imagine that she had already applied the principle successfully. Soon after, her father did something that outraged the neighborhood, prompting her to decide to move out — giving her, for the first time in twenty-five years, her own apartment.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1944 and November 1969
(probable)
Told
24 November 1969(refuted)- 20 March 1964 (probable)
Jung's vision of a dead friend
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1944
(possible)
Told
20 March 1964
(probable)
between 1944 and 1965
(probable)
c. 1944
(probable)
c. 1944
(probable)
Neville describes his family: his mother never worked and had ten children with a full complement of servants, his sister lives at home with servants, and his wife worked until, about two years after
Bible-class woman meets her deceased mother
Description
At his 1944 Bible class in New York a woman of forty-five whose mother had just died asked to see her; Neville had her imagine telling the class she had met her mother, and the following Monday she reported waking out of her body, seeing her mother come through the door, being told 'You're just as stupid as ever,' and then recognising her dog that had died five years before.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1944
Told
28 April 1964
Sources
- Source: They Did Not Die ¶8 (I said, “Alright, this is Monday, it is now the following Monday and you’re in this room now and you’re telling my Bible class that you met your mother, and that your mother hasn’t died; there is survival in this world.”)
Carl Jung is frightened by a vision like Neville's
Description
Neville reports that Carl Jung had a vision like his own about ten years later, but was frightened by it because he knew that on waking Carl Jung would be no more.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1944
(probable)
Told
23 September 1968
Sources
- Source: The Father ¶18 (Carl Jung had a vision similar to mine about ten years after I did, but it frightened him, which indicates to me that he is not at the end of the journey.)
1944
Neville says his own experience came upon him suddenly, without warning, twelve years earlier in the city where he is speaking, so that he too could say he was 'untimely born'.
Walter Lanyon speaks with Phoebe Holmes and J. R. Moseley at a metaphysical practitioner's gathering
11 June 1944
(probable)
Writing in his syndicated column 'Thought for the Day', J. R. Moseley recorded: 'Sunday evening, June 11, I had the joy of being with Mrs.
19 July 1953
Clipping text gives a specific event date, 'will open his seventh annual lecture series here, July 19', at the Scottish Rite Auditorium.
c. 31 October 1944
(probable)
Neville recalls living at 32 Washington Square next door to Roosevelt at 29, and being stopped by police as he came home about a week before the November election of Roosevelt's fourth-term campaign,
c. November 1944
(probable)
7 November 1944
Neville recalls seeing a dying FDR pass by on Washington Square about a week before the 1944 presidential election, in which Roosevelt won his fourth term.
1945
Israel Regardie published The Romance of Metaphysics, which profiled Neville's early Rosicrucian asceticism and resulting physiological disturbances.
Person: Israel Regardie
1945
Neville published Prayer: The Art of Believing in 1945.
Person: Neville Goddard
1945
(probable)
On his first visit to Los Angeles in 1945, Neville was pulled aside minutes before a graduation-day address by Institute of Religious Science dean Ernest Holmes, who objected to Neville's bibl
1948
(probable)
In his 1948 Master Class Five Lessons, Neville gave students specific biological indicators of spiritual awakening: a blue light on the forehead, a shrill whistle in the ears, and autonomic nervous
c. 1945
(possible)
Federal indictments and financial paranoia around figures nicknamed 'Head' and 'Fred' reportedly drove Neville away from Ernest Holmes in 1945.
c. 1945
(possible)
Federal indictments and a dispute nicknamed the "$25 paranoia" drove Neville Goddard and Frederick Bailes away from Ernest Holmes's Religious Science movement, per the article's
Engineer obtains a $15,000 job through imagining
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1945
(doubtful)
Told
19 November 1965
1945
(probable)
1945
Neville describes coaching Catherine to imagine her producer praising her designs; he says the producer's treatment changed within twenty-four hours, and that he later asked her to stop working once h
1945
(probable)
c. 1945
(possible)
Mrs. Roosevelt rents her town home annually for over twenty years
Description
Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, daughter-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt and a pillar of the Episcopal Church in New York, told Neville that for more than twenty years she had successfully rented out her New York town home each year, using the advance rent to open her Long Island country home for the season. That year, for the first time, no one had shown any interest, and despite the family's prominent name she and her husband were not wealthy and depended on the arrangement.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1945 and 1965
(probable)
Told
4 January 1966
1945
Neville recalls that he was serving on jury duty when the last war ended, and the judge's remark that morning as the news came.
1945
(probable)
between 1945 and 1950
(possible)
1945
1945
(probable)
c. 1945
(probable)
Stranded in Barbados after a post-war family visit with no way back before October, Neville imagined himself on the tender and up the gangplank of the ship leaving the island, caught the mood of a swe
Engineer imagines and obtains a higher-paid overseas job
Description
Neville tells an engineer who had never earned more than ten thousand a year to imagine himself already in the twenty-thousand-a-year job in a Madison Avenue building; within two weeks he had it, travelled the Near East building dams, and died five years later.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
after 1945
(probable)
Told
12 February 1963
Sources
- Source: Esau-Jacob-Israel ¶8 (I said: “Al right, now stand in that elevator and go up, see it stop at the floor and get off, walk right into the place, take off your hat and jacket, and just simply be natural in the job.” Within two weeks he was on that job at twenty thousand a year.)
1945
Coming through the Caribbean Sea, Neville felt himself lifted up and saw an infinite seated crowd of the blind, deaf, lame and maimed; as he walked by every one was made perfect and a heavenly chorus
between 1945 and 1965
Neville describes his long friendship with a woman who has been his friend since 1945 and, with her husband, publisher of all his works since 1952, with never any friction between them.
before 1945
Neville tells a story he knows well about Dora, a woman of about his own age whom he first met in San Francisco in 1945, long after the events of her story.
c. 1945
(probable)
Neville recalls the huge parade held when General Eisenhower came home from his victorious campaign, with thousands of people bowing before him.
1945
On first coming to Los Angeles in 1945 he was invited by a prominent metaphysical figure to lecture on the Bible to his 400-500 graduates, and five minutes before taking the platform was told he could
Neville's wife reverses the Music Hall producer's treatment through imagination
Description
Neville tells how his wife, a costume designer at the Music Hall for eleven years, was treated unmercifully by the head producer until Neville had her imagine, as she walked the five blocks to work, that he praised her designs and begged her father to raise the budget - which happened within twenty-four hours.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1945
Told
16 July 1969
Sources
- Source: Many Mansions ¶44 (How long do you think it took for him to actually change his attitude towards her? I’ll tell you: twenty-four hours! When she came downstairs with this wonderful collection of designs, he raved about them, and he actually went to her father and begged hi…)
Neville's psychiatrist friend fails to use his Army-discharge advice
Description
After his own discharge Neville wrote a detailed letter to a friend, an English Freudian psychiatrist drafted and stationed in Florida, explaining how to get out; the friend never answered, stayed in the Army three more years, and later told Neville that at his lectures he pressed his feet into the carpet and gripped the chair to keep his sense of reality.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1945
Told
2 April 1971
Sources
- Source: The Perfect Law of Liberty ¶17 (“You know, Neville, I love to come to your lectures and to hear you because it’s interesting. It’s fairy. You turn my daily bread into the substance of fairy; but while I listen to you, you know what I do? I put my feet right down into the carpet, and I …)
1945
In 1945, arriving late by plane for his first engagement addressing four or five hundred graduates of an organization, its head took him aside minutes before eight and forbade him to speak on the non-
1945
Sailing to Barbados with his wife and small daughter at the end of 1945 on a one-way ticket, told by the shipping firm he had no chance of passage before October, he imagined walking up the gangplank
c. 1945
(probable)
Neville preached the story of repentance for twenty-one years, from 1938 until 1959, before he could say he was a witness to what he had seen.