About a year ago a Jehovah's Witness with a marked-up Bible rang Neville's doorbell while he was reading Scripture; he refused her admittance, gave her his own interpretation of the passage she quoted
He has lectured at the present club for nine years and loves it, but it is now unavailable, so his friend Harry Smith, who owns the building at 6005 Sunset, is giving him all Tuesdays and Fridays for
Neville explains that after nine years at the Ebell he has moved his lectures to Dr.
While still living in New York City, before he came out West in 1956, Neville found himself fulfilling the 42nd Psalm — leading an enormous throng towards the invisible house of God, when a voice said
Six or seven months ago he dreamt of a little dog on a leash defecating repeatedly on the sidewalk; reading the repetition as Genesis 41's sign that a thing is fixed by the Lord, he told his wife he w
A man present in the audience wrote to Neville that eleven years earlier he and his wife (a Lowell of Massachusetts, who
Description
A man present in the audience wrote to Neville that eleven years earlier he and his wife (a Lowell of Massachusetts, whose relative was a headmaster) had once discussed sending their two-year-old son to Phillips Exeter, never thought of it again, and the day before had received an offer of a scholarship to Phillips Andover for the boy.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Keep the Sabbath ¶10 (In this case, and he’s here tonight, he said, “When our first son, our oldest son, when he was about two years, his mother and I discussed the possibility of sending him to a prep school back East, and it was Phillips Exeter.”)
Neville says only in general terms that he knows from his own experience that an assumed state others would call an illusion becomes real when he walks faithful to it, and ceases when he disentangles
About two years earlier, leaving the platform after speaking in this same hall, he looked out and saw great flames and beautiful homes burning, all consumed in moments.
A woman dreams a banquet guest laughing that Neville is Christ
Description
A man present in the audience has a wife who, that week, had a vision of a formal banquet Neville gave, in which a man seated at Neville's right laughed hysterically at his own dream that Neville was Jesus Christ, while she knew the dream was true; she wrote Neville a letter about it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1956
(doubtful)
July 1968
(probable)
Told
1972
(refuted)
17 July 1968
(refuted)
Sources
- Source: The Pattern Man ¶73 (There is a gentleman here tonight whose wife had this experience this week and wrote me this letter.)
Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).
8 January 1956
(probable)
Half-hour Sunday broadcast, KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, 2:00–2:30 PM (block 2).
Woman hears two voices on the night of 24 January 1956
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Lady hears voices declare faith, hope, love, and the Father
Description
A lady in his audience told him in person, and then at his request wrote him a letter, of hearing two voices one night — one saying 'I am faith, hope and love' and a deeper masculine one saying 'I am the Father' — and Neville describes his thrill at receiving the letter.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
1 February 1956
(probable)
Lecture catalog #34 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #35 — text: HAVE
17 February 1956
(probable)
Lecture catalog #36 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #37 — text: HAVE
Neville mentions that he set out the Four Mighty Ones as a drama in the second chapter of his most recent book, and proposes to make it practical for the audience today.
After six months of practicing Neville's controlled imagination technique, Carlos called Margaret on a Saturday night and asked to visit with some paintings.
Place: Los Angeles
Bookseller Mary is killed by a truck
Description
Visiting New York City last summer, Neville went to call on the metaphysical bookstore where he had long bought books from a woman named Mary, only to be told by a friend that Mary had been struck by a car and killed a month earlier; she had never been interested in what his books contained and never gave him a chance to tell her what he had experienced.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Told
1957
(refuted)
20 February 1969
(doubtful)
1957
(refuted)
20 February 1969
(doubtful)
after August 1966
(probable)
23 September 1966
(probable)
Sources
- Source: When Spirit Truth Comes ¶16 (She always said to me, “You know, Neville, you have the most vivid dreams, don’t you?” “Not dreams at all. These are visions where I commune with myself, but the self is God, and yet it is myself.”)
- Source: Love Endures ¶3 (I would go in and she would say, “Oh, Neville, you certainly do dream, don’t you?” I said, “Mary, these are not dreams, these are visions paralleling scripture.” “Oh, Neville!” then she’d turn to something else.)
- Temporal reference: Love Endures ¶4 (Mary was killed last month (relative to nid 1803's 1966-09-23 delivery))
Lecture catalog #1120 — text: HAVE (PROVISIONAL: youtube-caption source, pending verification)
between 17 June 1956 and 1 July 1956
(probable)
Internal evidence (the concluding lecture's own byline repeated twice as 'by Neville Goddard 7/1/1956', and its 'this morning' framing matching a Sunday) contradicts the doubtful catalog date of 1956-
21 August 1956
(probable)
A September 1956 passenger manifest for the S/S Liberté lists Joseph Berle and family, including Neville Marc, sailing first class from Le Havre to their Central Park South home.
Lecture catalog #49 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #70 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #72 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #73 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #50 — text: MISSING
Lecture catalog #74 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #75 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #76 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #66 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #71 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #67 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #68 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #69 — text: HAVE
Neville recounted meeting Abdullah's secretary about seven years before his 1964 lecture, who told him Abdullah planned to return to Ethiopia; Neville said he never heard from either again.
Abdullah's secretary reportedly told Neville that Abdullah went to Ethiopia to die in 1957; author estimates he would have been about 109.
Place: Ethiopia
Person: Abdullah
Abdullah is presumed to have died around 1957-1958 after returning to Ethiopia.
Place: Ethiopia
Person: Abdullah
Ruling: accepted as possible, Rudi 2026-07-23
About seven years before a 1964 lecture, Neville met Abdullah's secretary who said Abdullah planned to return his body to Ethiopia to die.
Place: New York City
Neville Marc recalled a large Christmas party at his parents' home, attended by 75-100 people, where he met Neville around age 12.
Place: New York
Person: Neville Marc Berle
Neville Marc recalled sailing to France around 1957 aboard the Andrea Doria on one-way tickets, claiming the ship sank on its return trip; this conflicts with the Andrea Doria's actual 1956 si
c. October 1957
(probable)