Neville's student Margaret Ruth Broome edited and published The Creative Use of Imagination, later republished as The Power of Unlimited Imagination.
Person: Margaret Ruth Broome
Neville Goddard's book "The Power of Awareness," containing the chapter "Power of Assumption," was published in 1952.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville dated to 1952, while living in New York City, a mystical experience of a great procession to the house of God and a voice identifying him with God.
Place: New York City
Flood's metaphysical studies were climaxed by degrees earned from the College of Divine Metaphysics in Indianapolis.
Place: Indianapolis
Person: Winifred Maccardell Flood
Flood finished writing her interpretive work on the Book of Revelation on July 26, 1952, over seven years after starting it.
A modern editorial note appended to the source questions the claim that Abdullah taught Flood, calculating he would have been about 98 years old by the time of this account.
By the time this book's preface was written, Neville Goddard is described as formerly of Barbados and now residing in California, indicating his relocation there sometime before 1952.
In 1952 in New York City he had his gall bladder removed, and when he came to after about four hours in the hospital recovery room he thought he was in the morgue because everyone he saw looked dead,
Neville describes a close friend, whom he had known since 1945, who together with her husband took over publishing all of his written works in 1952.
Verne serves at Wisconsin Air Force radar station
Description
Verne, a regular attendee of Neville's San Francisco lectures for four or five years, recounts from the platform (during Neville's lecture 'Test Him and See') his service as Personnel Officer at an Air Force radar station in Wisconsin.
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Neville states he came to New York City in 1922 and remained there until 1952. Told in the lecture 'Biblical Language' (nid 1481, delivered 1969-09-26).
Bill Donovan's twelve years of sobriety
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Neville published Out of This World: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally in 1949.
Jimmie Fuller earns a $250,000 annual profit
Description
The article says Fuller later made more than a quarter of a million dollars.
Neville tells this himself in 'Sound Investments': after urging Fuller not to let racial prejudice restrict him, he reports that in the year before the telling Fuller turned a net profit of about a quarter of a million dollars, corroborating the Bailes-article account of Fuller's later fortune.
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Date (happened)
between 1952 and 1953
(possible)
Told
4 December 1953
(probable)
Blind girl imagines and obtains daily transport to work
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A blind woman's imagined commute is fulfilled
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Neville recalls that in 1952, while recuperating in the hospital from a serious operation, his friend and physician Randy came to visit him.
About twelve years earlier Neville visited a friend's office on Sunset, where a handsome bearded man in an ankle-length white robe was begging for money and abusing his friend and the friend's wife fo
between 1952 and 1953
(probable)
About 1952 or 1953, living in Beverly Hills on El Camino, he saw and walked into a luminous palatial building in the wee hours, found himself shut out of this world, told two ladies in the hallway it
between 1952 and 1968
(probable)
Neville recounts wanting a different way of life after sixteen years of what looked like a Bohemian existence, and that his prospective wife's very conservative parents were concerned about what was c
He learned by letter today that Randy, his eastern doctor and dear friend who cared for his pregnant wife and his family, died a few weeks ago at sixty-five; he recalls that in 1952, after a serious o
Sam recognizes his story in The Power of Awareness
Description
A year later, in 1952, Neville wrote Sam's story into a book (The Power of Awareness) without Sam's knowledge, signing it with his initials; Sam recognised it, hid the book, and put all of Neville's books away, refusing to discuss the principle since.
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Sources
- Source: The Mystery of Imagination ¶11 (I wrote a book a year later 1952 in which I told this story. I did it without Sam’s consent or knowledge. Knowing the story I wrote the story myself and simply signed his initials.)
Blind woman imagines and receives rides to work
Description
Neville tells of a blind girl in his San Francisco audience whose bus route was changed so that her journey took two and a half hours; she imagined riding to work in a car beside a man and thanking him, and within days two strangers — a man interested in the blind and a liquor salesman who overheard her story in a bar — arranged between them to drive her to and from work, the first driver answering her with the very words she had imagined.
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A blind commuter imagines and receives a daily driver
Description
A blind woman in his audience, whose bus route change forced a two-and-a-half hour journey to work, imagined for two nights that she was being driven to her San Francisco office and thanking her companion; a man who overheard her story told at a bar volunteered to drive her, and three years later she told Neville he had never missed a day.
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Sources
- Source: Tv Talk ¶18 (Now, that’s almost three years ago. I saw that girl just about six months ago, and she told me that he did not miss one day in five days — five days a week he would pick her up and send her — take her to her work, and take her from work home)
He received notice that his friend and physician Randy had died; in 1952, while Neville recuperated in hospital from a serious operation, Randy saw his Bible, questioned his interest in it, and heard
A man new to his firm imagines the airplane ramp and Swedish voices, and represents the firm in Sweden six months later
Description
A man came to Neville wanting to go to Sweden for his firm but, being new to the job, felt he would not be asked. Neville had him feel himself going up the ramp of an airplane, hear American voices around him, feel airborne, feel the plane come down, and hear only Swedish voices as he was now in Sweden. Six months later the man represented his firm in Sweden. He brought Neville back a crystal teardrop vase in appreciation, which Neville says he still has.
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Date (happened)
between 1952 and 1954
(possible)
Told
between 1953 and 1954
(probable)
between 1952 and 1953
(probable)
Neville recalled living with Catherine in a furnished Beverly Hills home on El Camino in 1952 or 1953.
2 February 1952
(doubtful)
A passenger manifest showing Neville, Victoria, and Catherine Goddard traveling from Bermuda to New York is not matched by any listed existing event (the 1952 list covers lectures, publications, th
between 22 June 1952 and 1952
Neville gave a dated series of lectures at the San Francisco Scottish Rite (Your Infinite Worth, Righteousness, Subjection to the Will of God, Pearl of Great Price, Self-Remembering, Your Destiny,
Neville lecture advertised for Sunday 22 June 1952 at 11 a.m., Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1270 Sutter at Van Ness, San Francisco.
An advertisement for free public lectures on spiritual healing, personal success and peace of mind announces Neville speaking at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1270 Sutter at Van Ness, San Francisco
29 June 1952, 11:00
(probable)
Neville lecture at Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1270 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Sunday June 29, 1952; the series continued through July 6.
Monday-Friday at 8 p.m., except July 4: Subjection to the Will of God, The Pearl of Great Price, Self Remembering, and Your Destiny; source does not map titles to individual days.
6 July 1952, 11:00
(probable)
Final free lecture in a twelve-talk series, Sunday July 6, 1952 at 11 a.m., Scottish Rite Auditorium, San Francisco.
Lecture catalog #15 — text: HAVE
An eighty-two-year-old woman returns The Law and the Promise as Godless
Description
A letter arrived in that morning's mail from a woman of eighty-two, unknown to Neville, saying she was returning his book The Law and the Promise because none of its forty stories gave any credit or thanks to God, making it a Godless book; Neville asks the audience not to judge her, comparing her to his own parents who conceived of God as external.
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Date (happened)
7 July 1952
(doubtful)
5 February 1963
Told
8 August 1969
(refuted)
5 February 1963
Sources
- Source: The Bible: Your Spiritual Biography ¶1 (This morning’s mail brought me a letter. I do not know the lady - she claims she is eighty-two. She said: “I am returning your latest book, The Law and the Promise.”)
Neville insists he speaks not from theory but from experience, having experienced everything said in the Bible in the depths of his soul, and says the full glory cannot be actualized while he still we
Neville closed-class series advertised to open Monday 7 July 1952 at 7:30 p.m. in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, under the title The Bible Is Your Biography.
Neville Bible classes in the Comstock Room of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, July 7 through July 11, 1952.
The same advertisement announces that, following the Scottish Rite Auditorium public lectures, Neville opens a new series of closed classes titled 'The Bible Is Your Biography' on July 7
between 19 July 1952 and 19 July 1953
(probable)
Neville describes returning to Dr.
Students report imagined desires fulfilled during the past year
Description
Neville says that in the past year countless people who took him at his word came back and told him similar stories of results from denying the evidence of the senses and boldly imagining themselves to be what they desired.
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Date (happened)
between 19 July 1952 and 19 July 1953
Sources
- Source: The Power of Awareness ¶32 (Now, I assure you, unnumbered similar stories have been told me in the past year by those who took me at my word and began to awaken Christ within)