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
Lecture catalog #909 — text: HAVE
Thirty-five students tell Neville their desires were realized
Description
Two weeks before this lecture Neville left the platform and stood at the door shaking hands with the audience, and at least 35 out of a class of 135 told him that the desire they had joined the class with had already been realized.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Consciousness Is the Only Reality ¶63 (Two weeks ago I left the platform and went to the door to shake hands with the audience. I am safe in saying that at least 35 out of a class of 135 told me that which they desired when they joined this class they had already realized.)
between 2 February 1948 and 6 February 1948
(probable)
after February 1948
(probable)
Lecture catalog #1 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #2 — text: HAVE
15 February 1948
(probable)
Neville tells the audience he is leaving the city on Sunday night and urges them to remain faithful to the instruction after he goes.
Lecture catalog #3 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #4 — text: HAVE
A friend reaches a church wedding after imagining his arrival
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
A friend in the audience sent Neville a note describing how, late for a wedding at a church with no street car in sight
Description
A friend in the audience sent Neville a note describing how, late for a wedding at a church with no street car in sight, he imagined himself already in the church, and a car immediately stopped and the driver took him there in time.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Remain Faithful to Your Idea ¶6 (I have just read a note here from a dear friend of mine in the audience. Last Sunday he had an appointment at a church for a wedding; the clock told him he was late, everything told him he was late.)
Lecture catalog #5 — text: HAVE
Neville dreamed of delivering a package to the restaurant in his apartment building, a hostess saying "You can't leave that there," letters from the elevator operator and mutual thanks, and the night
Neville recounts imagining, on a Thursday afternoon, that he was walking up the gangplank of the ship home, repeating the act until it felt real and falling asleep in it; the next morning, Friday, the
While Neville, his wife, and their three-year-old daughter were in Barbados in spring 1948, the Alcoa Steamship Company telephoned after his imaginal gangplank exercise and offered a cancelled two-ber
Neville recounts sailing back from Barbados with his wife and three-year-old daughter Vicki, arriving in New York on 1 May to keep a Milwaukee engagement, after the Alcoa Steamship Company unexpectedl
c. August 1948
(probable)
Neville's secretary, Jack Butler, died suddenly and unexpectedly at age fifty, in or around August 1948, while Neville was on a lecture tour in California; he returned to New York for the funeral, whi
Ad describes a three-week M-F class series beginning Monday Aug 2, 1948, substituting for Dr. Frederick Bailes at the Fox-Wilshire Theater.
Neville foresees Neville Mark's November birth
Description
Neville saw in vision a four-year-old boy who told him his name was Neville Mark and that he was coming on the 10th of November; he told his wife and then a pregnant friend, and the boy was born to that friend on November 10th.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. September 1948
(probable)
Told
10 March 1967
(refuted)
10 March 1967
(refuted)
28 April 1969
(probable)
Sources
- Source: The Riddle ¶4 (Before he was born he stood before me in vision and I felt I was his father. Appearing to be about four years old, he told me his name was Neville Mark. When I asked him when he was coming, he said the 10th of November. This was now September.)
After leaving Carnegie Hall, Bentley taught at the Edgewood School in Greenwich, Connecticut until her retirement in 1949.
Place: Greenwich, CT
Person: Alys E. Bentley
In a 1949 lecture series in Milwaukee, Neville met the head chemist at Allis-Chalmers, Professor Imhoff, and debated with him about entropy and the alterability of the past.
Neville published Out of This World.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville recounts the history of the positron to his audience: predicted by Paul Dirac in 1928, confirmed experimentally by Carl Anderson four years later, then in 1949 Richard Feynman, by then at Calt
Fuller said he discovered Neville after hearing Bailes promote the forthcoming Sunday appearance as a must for two weeks on radio; he attended Sunday morning and then Neville's following-night meeting
Jimmie Fuller spends his last fifty-four dollars on Neville's meetings
Description
Jimmie Fuller told Neville he first heard of him four years earlier through Dr. Bailes on the radio, and that he and his wife spent their last fifty-four dollars attending every one of Neville's meetings, once with no money left for the babysitter.
The article states that Fuller spent his last fifty-four dollars to hear Neville after Bailes' recommendation.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Sound Investments ¶7 (He said, “When you came here four years ago, Neville, I came to hear you. My wife asked me ‘Why do you come to hear Neville? Who told you of Neville?’ He said, I turned the radio on one night and I heard Dr. Bailes. I had never heard of the man before.)
A notice announces that Neville, a New York lecturer and author, will speak at the Absolute Science Church's Sunday 11 o'clock service on 'Your Faith is Your Fortune' and again
A notice announces that Neville, a New York lecturer and author, will speak at the Absolute Science Church's Sunday 11 o'clock service on 'Your Faith is Your Fortune' and again
A notice announces that Neville, a New York lecturer and author, will speak at the Absolute Science Church's Sunday 11 o'clock service on 'Your Faith is Your Fortune' and again
between January 1949 and February 1949
(probable)
between February 1949 and March 1949
(probable)
Feynman's paper "The Theory of Positrons," cited in Neville's lectures as evidence of time's reversibility, was received by Physical Review on April 8, 1949.
Neville recounts that in May 1949, in Milwaukee, he described to an Allis-Chalmers physicist the same forward-and-back movement in time and imagination that Richard Feynman later described for the pos
between 20 June 1949, 19:15 and 2 July 1949
(possible)
Neville course, 7:15, June 20 through July 2, School of Psychology and Divine Science, Groveland Terrace; advertised themes include How to Use Your Mind and The Effortless Way.
Neville, described as a nationally known lecturer, Bible teacher and author, comes to San Francisco for his third lecture course there, sponsored by Carrick-Cook, minister and founder of the Absolute
c. September 1949
(possible)
Before the birth of a boy who would grow up bearing his name, Neville had a vision in which the not-yet-born child -- appearing as though about four years old -- stood before him and introduced himsel
Professor Imhoff sent Neville the "Scientific News Letter" dated October 15, 1949, containing an apologetic note and Richard Feynman's account of the positron as evidence the past co
c. 15 October 1949
(probable)
15 October 1949
(probable)
Neville recounts that in May 1949, in Milwaukee, he described to a physicist how he mentally 'traveled' to a future wish fulfilled and then found himself shocked back to the present moment.