21 July 1952 (probable)
c. September 1952 (probable)
Neville recounts that in September, before the November birthday of his New York namesake, he saw the boy before he was born and asked when he was coming; the boy answered 'tenth of November.' He told
Neville Mark is born on the predicted date
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 November 1952 (probable)
Told
between 10 November 1970 and 31 December 1970 (possible)
Sources
1953

Lecture catalog #18 — text: HAVE

1953

Lecture catalog #21 — text: HAVE

4 December 1953

Lecture catalog #19 — text: HAVE

1953

Lecture catalog #20 — text: HAVE

1953

Cora Contee Guillaume, wife of Modeste Abdallah Guillaume, died in 1953 at 1709 Disston Avenue and was buried in Pleasantville Cemetery, per her Atlantic City Press obituary.

between 29 June 1953 and 9 August 1953 (probable)
A newspaper notice announces that Neville begins a new lecture series in Los Angeles the following day. For the next four Sundays he substitutes for Dr.
Death of the letter writer's mother
Description
The unnamed letter writer said her mother died in 1953 in her late sixties or early seventies; in a later vision she met the mother appearing about thirty and claiming to live as a twenty-one-year-old in the year 3804.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1953
Told
19 May 1964
Death of Larry's mother
Description
Neville relays a letter from his friend Larry describing a communication indicating that Larry's mother, who died in 1953, had never heard of Neville during her life but knows his works by the year 3804. Told in the lecture 'Jesus, God's Plan of Salvation' (nid 1821, delivered 1964-05-19).
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1953
Told
19 May 1964
Sources
Jimmie Fuller renews his friendship with Neville
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1953
Told
1953
Woman is ordered out of her daughter-in-law's home
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1953 (probable)
Told
1955 (probable)
13 March 1953
Neville says he is staying in a hotel room downstairs from the room in which he is lecturing, and uses it as the place he can mentally move to.
Friend sees his deceased mother in the future
Description
A friend told Neville of seeing his mother, who had died here at seventy, alive in the year 3804 at the age of thirty, married, beautiful and wealthy but still carrying the same fear of death.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1953 and 3804
Told
26 May 1964
Sources
  • Source: Call the Next Witness ¶21 (as my friend saw his mother, radiantly beautiful and moving through the year 1953, suddenly finding herself in the year 3804)
A woman asks whether the Odessa boy repaid the money
Description
When he told the Russian boy's story in this city about fifteen years earlier, a lady asked whether the man ever sent the money back, and Neville answered that it would have had to go to Stalin, who had stolen everything from the Czars.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1953
Told
29 March 1968
Sources
  • Source: Seek the Kingdom ¶28 (When I told that story in this city years ago, oh, maybe fifteen years ago, a lady said to me, “Well, did he ever send it back?” I said, “To whom, Stalin? He got it from the Czar’s regime.”)
c. 1953 (probable)
About fifteen years earlier a friend took Neville to the Bohemian Club and introduced him to Walter Damrosch as a great metaphysician; when Neville said his teaching came from his own visions and not
c. 1953
Neville says that as he has awakened his father has fed him new ideas and changed all his values and meanings, so that he no longer holds the meanings or values he held a year ago.
Larry finds his deceased mother knows Neville in the year 3804
Description
Neville says that when Larry's mother died in 1953 he was completely unknown, yet his works and name are known to her in the year 3,804.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 1953 (refuted)
  • 1953 (refuted)
Told
  • 19 May 1964
  • 19 May 1964
Sources
  • Source: Jesus, God's Plan of Salvation ¶16 (She knows that she never heard of me here in the year 1964. When she died in ’53, she never heard of me, I was completely unknown.)
between 1953 and 1961
He recalls that throughout Eisenhower's eight years a photograph of Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmie Fuller reveals he began with fifty-four dollars
Description
Having told the Jimmie Fuller story two weeks earlier and been told repeatedly by listeners that Fuller must have had capital, Neville asked him on Friday night for the details and learned he began with fifty-four dollars, spent it all on Neville's meetings, and in the last year made a quarter of a million dollars.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1953 (probable)
Told
4 December 1953
Sources
  • Source: Sound Investments ¶6 (Now I told a story here two weeks ago of Jimmie Fuller. Well, I didn’t have all the details of the story, but after the meeting; dozens of you said to me, not only after the meeting that day, but after my meetings at the Ebell Theatre, that Jimmie Fuller…)
A woman says Neville's balcony illustration clarified thinking from the end
Description
As Neville came in through the door, a woman told him that his balcony-and-stage illustration on Friday night had finally made clear to her the difference between thinking from an end and thinking of an end, so he repeats the illustration.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1953 (probable)
  • 1953
  • 4 December 1953
Told
  • 4 December 1953
  • 1953
Sources
  • Source: Sound Investments ¶22 (so here, one lady as I came through the door said, “Neville, you made it so clear on Friday night; something I’d not seen before, for you told us this year you brought a wonderful revelation and that is the wide difference between thinking from an end an…)
before 1953 (possible)
Neville recounts how he tried to persuade Jimmie Fuller that the restrictions he felt because of his colour existed only in his own mind.
before 1953 (possible)
Neville tells the man his own experience of coming to this country as a foreigner among Americans, and not finding it difficult.
before 1953 (possible)
Abdullah asked Neville whether he had ever seen a picture of the Sphinx, explained it embodies the four fixed quarters of the universe, and told him whoever modelled its human head must have been a ne
before 1953 (possible)
Neville describes the standing Abdullah had — scientists, doctors, lawyers and bankers sought an audience with him and thought themselves honoured to be received — and quotes his instruction to start
The Parkview Manor visitor reports financial success
Description
Last Sunday morning in the lobby the same gentleman came forward, took Neville next door to his Wilshire Boulevard office, said it took him almost three years to overcome the fixed idea that he was a secondary citizen, and told him he would net a quarter of a million dollars that year.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1953
  • 15 November 1953
Told
  • 1953
  • 20 November 1953
Sources
before 1953 (possible)
Having told this story at a small gathering in the city, three people objected that the man must have started with money or connections; Neville replies that he never asked the man for the facts, neve
Dentist Jim sells his Hollywood Hills house through assumption
Description
Neville's dentist Jim, who had bought a Hollywood hills house seventeen years earlier for twenty thousand dollars, could not sell it at seventy-five thousand for a year; Neville told him to sleep in imagination in the La Brea apartment he liked and view the house from there, and within a month a stranger paid seventy-five thousand in cash with no agent — after which Jim decided it would have happened anyway.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • c. 1953
  • 1970
Told
May 1970 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: He Is Dreaming Now ¶14 (I said, “Do you sleep in it every night? I know you do physically, but do you sleep elsewhere in your imagination, and view this home from that assumed state?)
1953 (possible)

A 1953 clipping announces that Neville begins a new Los Angeles public lecture series tomorrow and will lecture at the Fox-Wilshire Theater for the next four Sundays during Frederick Bailes vacatio

19 July 1953

Opening Sunday lecture at 11 a.m., Scottish Rite Temple, San Francisco; source supplies 1953 but no month/day.

1953 (possible)

Wednesday evening lecture at Scottish Rite Temple during the 1953 San Francisco series.

1953, 19:30 (possible)

Opening closed class Monday at 7:30 p.m., Palace Hotel, during Neville 1953 San Francisco stay.

1953 (possible)

Closed-class program advertised at the Palace Hotel on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings at 7:30 during the 1953 San Francisco season.

Baird T. Spalding attends Neville's Ebell meetings and later collapses stepping off a streetcar
Description
Neville recalls Spalding attending his meetings at the Ebell ('I can see him now at my meetings at the Ebell'). Spalding, author of Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, never actually left America despite his book's claims of India; Neville notes that one day Spalding simply stepped off a car and dropped -- 'that was his exit'.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. March 1953 (probable)
5 March 1953
13 March 1953

Lecture catalog #16 — text: HAVE

13 March 1953 (doubtful)
Neville tells the audience he leaves the city at the end of next week and expects them to report results to him before then.
Neville's wife hears the sound-investment revelation
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
12 April 1953 (probable)
Told
4 December 1953
12 April 1953
Neville's wife woke one Sunday morning to a voice telling her to stop spending her thoughts, time and money because everything in life must be an investment; she wrote it down, looked the words up in