14 May 1955 (doubtful)

Lecture catalog #28 — text: HAVE

15 May 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 1:00 PM (block 1).

22 May 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 1:00 PM (block 1).

29 May 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 1:00 PM (block 1).

5 June 1955

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 1:00 PM (block 1).

5 June 1955 (probable)

Annual SF series opening 'tomorrow' (internally consistent only as Sunday June 5, 1955), with classes opening Monday June 6 and follow-up Sundays June 12/19.

5 June 1955 (probable)

A notice reports that Neville opens his annual San Francisco lecture series with a free public lecture, 'The Bible—Your Biography,' at 11 a.m.

5 June 1955 (probable)

A notice reports that Neville opens his annual San Francisco lecture series with a free public lecture, 'The Bible—Your Biography,' at 11 a.m.

6 June 1955, 19:30 (probable)

Course of nightly Monday-through-Friday classes opening June 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel.

6 June 1955 (probable)

The same notice announces that a course of classes opens the following Monday night, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, with sessions held nightly Monday through Friday.

6 June 1955 (probable)

The same notice announces that a course of classes opens the following Monday night, June 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, with sessions held nightly Monday through Friday.

12 June 1955, 11:00 (probable)

Neville public lecture Sunday, June 12 at 11 a.m., Scottish Rite Auditorium.

19 June 1955, 11:00 (probable)

Neville public lecture Sunday, June 19 at 11 a.m., Scottish Rite Auditorium.

16 October 1955

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

The neighbour in the marriage testimony divorces
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 17 October 1955
Told
17 October 1957
Sources
Divorced woman imagines marriage and remarries
Description
Neville relates a case history he has just received in a letter from a woman in his class, who applied his teaching for a neighbour divorced nineteen years and deep in debt: for four weeks they rehearsed the qualities she wanted in a husband and enacted the marriage ceremony together each night, after which a man at her office offered her his High Sierras hotel for her vacation, and though he swore he would never remarry, he married her, and has since been sending her son through college.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • before 17 October 1955
  • before 17 October 1955
Told
17 October 1957 (probable)
Sources
23 October 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

30 October 1955

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

between 1 November 1955 and 30 April 1975
6 November 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

13 November 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

20 November 1955

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

27 November 1955

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

Woman sends Neville a prophetic train-wreck sketch
Description
A friend who buys the National Observer only for its crossword puzzle cut out and mailed Neville the picture of a Virginia man's pen-and-ink sketch that duplicated an Idaho train wreck nineteen years before it happened; Neville keeps that picture at home.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between December 1955 and January 1956 (probable)
  • between December 1955 and January 1956 (refuted)
  • between 1 January 1967 and 21 February 1967 (probable)
Told
  • 3 March 1971 (refuted)
  • 21 February 1967 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: Imagining Creates Reality (revised) ¶21 (A friend of mine buys it only for the crossword puzzle, and seeing it, knowing what I teach, that imagining creates reality, she cut it out and mailed it to me.)
4 December 1955

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

7 December 1955

Lecture catalog #29 — text: HAVE

11 December 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

between 16 December 1955 and 16 February 1956
Neville mentions that he was away from the platform for two months, closing on 16 December and reopening the week before this lecture on 16 February; a lady had her elephant dreams during that interva
18 December 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

25 December 1955 (probable)

Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).

1956

Lecture catalog #40 — text: HAVE

1956 (doubtful)

Lecture catalog #38 — text: HAVE

1956

Lecture catalog #39 — text: MISSING

1956

Lecture catalog #41 — text: MISSING

c. 1956 (probable)

Neville stated in a 1964 Q&A that the last time he saw Abdullah was about eight years earlier, placing their final meeting around 1956 in New York City.

Place: New York City

c. 1956 (probable)

Neville said in his 1964 lecture that his last meeting with Abdullah was "about eight years ago" in New York City, placing it around 1956.

Place: New York City

1956

Neville published Seedtime and Harvest, based on lectures given June-July 1956.

Person: Neville Goddard

Neville's friend begins twelve years of sobriety through AA
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1956 (possible)
Told
  • 10 May 1968 (refuted)
  • 1970
Sources
  • Source: The Divine Body ¶41 (Then he joined AA. He hasn't had a drink now in possibly twelve years . . not one drop.)
c. 1956 (probable)
Announcing the close of a long run at his Los Angeles club venue, Neville tells the audience he has lectured there for nine years but that the club has become unavailable.
1956
Neville recounts that he took up residence in California ('came out West') in 1956, having previously lived in New York City, where an earlier vision (the 42nd Psalm unfolding within him) had occurred
between 1956 and 13 December 1963 (probable)
The San Francisco lady whose letter Neville read at dinner -- the same lady whose premonition of the Kennedy-assassination headline he shares in this lecture -- has sponsored his meetings there for th
Television writer receives residuals after imagining his house painted
Description
A television writer present in the audience told how, eight years earlier when he could not afford to have his house painted, he imagined being annoyed by painters at the window, the smell and feel of wet paint — and the next morning his agent offered him twenty-one thousand dollars cash for his residuals.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1956
Told
10 April 1964
Sources
  • Source: Be Master of the Mood ¶12 (I imagined the house painted. I was annoyed with the painters at the window; they could see me taking a shower.)
c. 1956 (probable)
The source describes this as a temporary family return. Broome describes this as a family return to New York.
before 1956 (possible)
Neville recalls being raised in a Christian household where grace was said at every meal, his mother invariably ending it with "For Jesus' sake, amen" - and nothing came of the prayers beyond the food
before 1956 (possible)
He describes writing his book Seedtime and Harvest — how he came to see deeper, mystical meanings in scripture and set out nine chapters interpreting the darker passages, giving Solomon's chariot of t
10 June 1956
He asserts, against the scientific view that the world is burning itself out, that he speaks as someone who has himself seen beyond the veil and knows life has no end.
before 1956 (possible)
In passing he places himself as a family man with a wife and a child, whose desires he can plant for as readily as his own.
c. 1956 (probable)
As a boy he was made to attend Sunday school every Sunday afternoon, where he was taught that Abraham was a man with sons, and could not understand the Bible from it.