c. 1947
(probable)
Neville recounts that twenty years ago the memory of his own crucifixion suddenly returned, and that far from being painful it was an ecstatic vision in which the nails were vortices in his head, hand
between 1947 and 1951
(probable)
A few years ago Neville met William Blake in the heavenly spheres; Blake told him to stand still and fall backwards without restraint, and Neville fell like a star through infinite space, coming to re
between 1947 and 1948
(possible)
Neville says he was not educated and had not heard of Blake when he wrote the opening of his first book, 'Your Faith is Your Fortune' — 'In the beginning was unconditioned awareness of being ...' — an
1947
(possible)
A San Francisco notice announces 'one of the most extensive Truth Church meetings ever held here', organised by Rev.
c. February 1947
(possible)
Neville recounts that his secretary, a Catholic, dropped dead of a heart attack on a hot August day in New York; Neville returned east to arrange a proper Catholic funeral for him in Haverstraw.
15 August 1947
(probable)
In discussing the small population of Britain relative to the vast empire it once ruled -- including India's several hundred million people before Britain "became broken" and had to give it up -- Nevi
November 1947, 11:00
(possible)
Neville was announced to give The Search at 11 a.m. as the first of a November lecture series at the Church of Religious Science, 1750 Clay Street, San Francisco.
November 1947, 20:00
(possible)
Neville was announced to give the free lecture Displaced in Time at 8 p.m. the next Wednesday at the Church of Religious Science, printed as 1950 Clay Street, San Francisco.
between December 1947 and February 1948
In Barbados the previous winter a fisherman with a tiny vocabulary explained to Neville, better than Shakespeare could have, how the dolphin loves to play on a piece of drift-wood and how you bait it
1948
Neville delivered his classic Five Lessons lectures in Los Angeles in 1948, later published posthumously as a book.
Place: Los Angeles
Person: Neville Goddard
1948
(probable)
Having each broken from Ernest Holmes's Institute, Neville and Frederick Bailes shared the main stage at the 1948 International New Thought Alliance congress before 500 delegates.
between 1948 and 1948
Neville lectured regularly at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, charging $1.10-$3.30 admission.
Place: Wilshire Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles
Person: Neville Goddard
2 February 1948
Neville delivered the Five Lessons lecture series (Consciousness Is the Only Reality, Assumptions Harden Into Fact, etc.), later published as a book.
Person: Neville Goddard
1948
Neville recalls a supernatural experience of walking on water at a large party held in the summer of 1948 by a prominent New York judge at his home in East Hampton, Long Island (where Bacardi rum was
c. 1948
(probable)
between 1948 and 1963
(probable)
c. 1948
(probable)
Neville recorded this experience in his book Awakened Imagination; passage 546706 of the same lecture records a woman in that night's audience describing what she took to be the 'negative side' counte
c. 1948
(possible)
1948
(probable)
after 1948
(probable)
1948
After a party in East Hampton given by a prominent New York judge who was promoting Bacardi rum, Neville, staying as a house guest with a friend, found himself that night standing on unfrozen water, s
between 1948 and 1949
(possible)
Six or seven months after Jack Butler's death, Neville, fully awake and out of the body, met Jack restored as a young man in his twenties, with his sister-in-law Al also present; Jack did not know he
A childhood stock gift to Vicki grows dramatically into a payout
Description
Twenty years ago a friend of Neville's gave his daughter Vicki ten dollars' worth of stock — a hundred shares at ten cents; the friend has since died, the stock passed through several companies, and two weeks ago General Dynamics notified her it was being redeemed at twenty-two dollars a share.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1948
Told
12 April 1968
Sources
- Source: Real Meaning of Good Friday and Easter ¶23 (Well, just about, oh, I would say twenty years ago a friend of mine came home one day, “I want to give Vicki a little present.” I said alright. And he gave her ten dollars worth of stock—a hundred shares at ten cents a share.)
between 1948 and 13 December 1963
(probable)
He notes that his sponsor has sponsored him for seven years and attended his meetings before that, sells all his books, and that his other friends have known him on the West Coast for fifteen years.
c. 1948
Sixteen years ago Neville slipped back in time some two hundred years into a New England dining room and, by arresting an activity within himself, froze the entire scene — diners, waitress, a bird in
A drug salesman becomes Western States sales manager by assumption
Description
In 1948 Neville met a drug salesman and his wife, agreed with them on a scene implying a bigger territory, the man became a sales manager over the Western States, and years later the wife telephoned Neville complaining that her husband was always travelling.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1948
- c. 1949 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Law 2 ¶4 (Now, many years ago I would say 1948, in this city I met this perfectly lovely couple. He was a salesman, he sold drugs for an Eastern company, and he said to me, “Neville, I would like to do a bigger job than I am doing now.”)
A New York teacher imagines a vast audience and reaches Carnegie Hall
Description
Neville recounts the technique of an able teacher he knows who, speaking to only fifty or sixty people in a small New York hall, would address an imagined vast audience, and who now speaks to about 2500 people in Carnegie Hall.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1948
(possible)
Told
- 1948
- c. 1948 (possible)
Sources
- Source: Five Lessons: Questions and Answers ¶12 (I can answer you best by sharing the technique used by a very able teacher I know. When this man first came to this country he began speaking in a small hall in New York City.)
c. 1948
(possible)
Neville describes his own need for money in daily life while lecturing - picking up a lunch check, paying his hotel bill, and paying his railway fare back to New York.
before 1948
(possible)
Neville says he enjoys telling his plans to his wife because they both get a thrill when the plans come into being.
before 1948
(possible)
Neville says he owns several volumes of the Apocrypha at home but does not use them in his teaching, and retells one of their stories - the boy Jesus breaking the children's mud birds and re-molding o
before 1948
(possible)
Neville tells of once quoting a line from Shakespeare and a lady objecting that Hamlet had said it.
An advertising executive rises by assuming he is successful
Description
Neville relates how a friend of his attended a meeting of young advertising executives where the speaker shook a fish bowl of walnuts and beans to show that the big ones always rise to the top; the friend took the message to heart, assumed he was a successful businessman, and now employs over a thousand people in New York City.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1948
(possible)
Told
1948
Sources
- Source: Five Lessons: Questions and Answers ¶108 (One evening a friend of mine attended a meeting for young advertising executives. The speaker of the evening said to these young men: “I have but one thing to say to you tonight, and that is to make yourself big and you cannot fail.”)
between 1948 and 1949
(probable)
Six or seven months after his secretary Jack Butler died suddenly in 1948, Neville, fully awake, visited Jack in the other world with Alice beside him; Jack appeared as a young man, did not know he ha
between 1948 and 1949
(possible)
Neville met Jack in the world of the so-called dead, awakened in a young body in his twenties and unchanged, and could not convince him that he had died even by telling him he had attended and paid fo
before 1948
(possible)
At sea, in an idle interval, Neville meditated on the perfect state, was lifted above the senses, felt himself a being of fire in a body of air, heard a chorus singing 'He is risen', and then found hi
before 1948
(possible)
Neville states that his own mystical experiences have convinced him that perfection comes only by the transformation of oneself, and that his meditations invariably bring union with the state contempl
before 1948
(possible)
Neville describes his own personal practice of prayer: defining the objective and assuming he is elsewhere; putting himself into the drowsy state every day at a set hour; sitting in a comfortable chai
before 1948
(possible)
Neville states that he himself has observed events before they occurred in the three-dimensional world.
before 1948
(possible)
Neville says the formula he teaches came out of years of his own searching and experimenting, that experience taught him to condense the imaginary action into a single repeated act, and that his own m
between 1948 and 1951
(probable)
Neville says he has spoken to Dr. Frederick Bailes' Sunday audiences over the past few years and is now beginning a series of radio talks to Bailes' radio listeners.
1948
(probable)
Paul Flood and Winifred Hanchett MacCardell, by then associate speech teachers, were married in 1948 in the Rollins Chapel by Dean A. D.
between 1948 and 1951
(possible)
Neville states: 'It has been my privilege and pleasure to address Dr. Frederick Bailes' Sunday audiences in the past few years.
1948, 11:00
(possible)
Neville lecture The Search announced for tomorrow at 11 a.m., Absolute Science Church, 1750 Clay Street; filename supplies 1948 but no calendar day.
1948
(possible)
Neville Goddard is named among speakers at the annual banquet in Hotel Senator and in the scheduled afternoon session at Tuesday Clubhouse.
1948
(possible)
A newspaper brief reports that Neville, described as a New York author, lecturer and teacher, will be the speaker at the 11 o'clock service of the Absolute Science Church, meeting at 1750 Clay
1948
(possible)
A heavily damaged convention report on a New Thought Alliance gathering of several hundred delegates names Neville Goddard of New York, author and lecturer, among the speakers at the convention
1948
(possible)
A notice states that Neville, widely known as an author, lecturer and teacher from New York, will speak the next morning at the 11 o'clock service of the Absolute Science Church, meeting at 17