- 21 March 1958
- 21 March 1967
16 September 1969(refuted)- 31 March 1967 (doubtful)
- 31 March 1967
- Source: The New Idea Against the Old ¶13 (“I must tell you Neville, I have never been able to use the word Imagination in my family. It’s anathema. I can’t use it, so I use the word God to my mother.)
Freedom Barry began attending Neville's twice-weekly lectures at the Wilshire (Fine Arts Auditorium) in June, roughly a year before Neville's 1959 San Francisco "Birth from Above&quo
After Barry's first lecture he asked Neville whether he taught privately; Neville answered with a flat 'No,' telling him 'You are the operant Power' and that he no longer took individual students. [Date evidence: June, c. 1958 — Barry's first attended lecture] [Place: the Wilshire, Los Angeles]
I went back to see him after the first lecture. I said, “Do you teach privately? He said, “No. As short as that. He said, “You are the operant Power. Not meaning my person, although I’m afraid I must have thought at that time that was what he meant. “You are the operant Power. He said that it’s a Principle that proves itSelf in performance. “I no longer take individual students.
Neville (as quoted): "No. [...] You are the operant Power. [...] I no longer take individual students."
- Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
Barry heard Neville five or six times before his annual two-week San Francisco engagement; on Neville's return Barry gave him two written case histories of the teaching applied, and Neville was delighted — Barry then never missed a lecture for a year. [Date evidence: summer c. 1958, one year before the 1959 'Birth from Above'] [Place: Los Angeles]
Well, I continued going; this was then in June until he closed. I heard him five or six times before he closed and went for his two weeks in San Francisco. When he came back from San Francisco, I gave him two case histories of where I had put it to work. He was delighted. So, I never missed a single lecture from then until the calendar had come around another year, and he went to San Francisco
- Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
A woman in the audience asked Neville point-blank whether he drank; he answered 'Do I drink?! Of course, I drink... I do nothing in moderation,' adding that his father finished a fifth of gin every morning before ten o'clock — Barry was present that night. [Date evidence: during Barry's attendance at Neville's Los Angeles lectures, 1958 onward] [Place: lecture hall, Los Angeles]
In fact, someone in his audience… I was there one night and she said, “Neville, I have heard it said that you drink. Do you drink? He said, “Do I drink?! Of course, I drink. And he said, “May I tell you I do nothing in moderation.” (Laughter) He said, “They used to tell me, ‘You’re just like your father,’ and I am. My father finished a fifth of gin every morning of his life before ten o’clock.
Neville (as quoted): "Do I drink?! Of course, I drink. [...] May I tell you I do nothing in moderation. [...] They used to tell me, ‘You’re just like your father,’ and I am. My father finished a fifth of gin every morning of his life before ten o’clock."
- Source: Freedom Barry Neville Goddard (sd1575__barry — Freedom Barry, first-hand)
An article reports that Neville has given personal consultations to more than 150 people, averaging three a week, since starting his current lecture series at the Ebell Club the previous September.
Recurring Neville lectures Mondays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. at the Ebell Club. The current series was to conclude in late June and the advertisement states lectures resume September 8.
A notice reports that Neville, who lectures each Monday and Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the Ebell Club, will conclude his current series late in June and will resume his Los Angeles serie
- 20 October 1958
- 3 November 1969
10 November 1969(refuted)- 7 November 1969
- Source: Thou Art Our Father, Our Potter ¶24 (A friend of mine shared this experience with me last Monday night. She said, “My friend Sharon and I were with you as you prepared to go to the platform. You looked very pale and weak in your dark blue suit, so we bought you some chocolate pudding, choco…)
- 26 October 1958
26 October 1958(refuted)- before 7 November 1969
10 November 1969(refuted)- 7 November 1969
- Source: Thou Art Our Father, Our Potter ¶1 (Let me share a story I read in the October 26th magazine section of the New York Times. It was a letter written by one while in prison on an island in the Asian Sea.)
- c. November 1958 (probable)
c. November 1958(refuted)- between 1 September 1967 and 8 October 1967 (probable)
- 9 October 1967
- 9 October 1967
- Source: God Is Light ¶9 (Then a few weeks ago she had this dream. In it I was a doctor in a hospital which had no surgery or drugs. Everyone simply came to me and was cured.)
- between 3 November 1958 and 9 November 1958
between 3 November 1958 and 9 November 1958(refuted)
- 15 January 1968
- 15 January 1968
- Source: Live the Answer Now ¶1 (Here is a letter given me this past week. She said, “A friend of mine who is a Mormon has said to me time and again, ‘You’re always reading the Bible, but you never go to church.’”)
- c. 17 November 1958
- c. 17 December 1963 (probable)
- Source: The Supreme Ideal ¶35 (So, in my Silence…I only spent a minute in the Silence…that night when she went home he was at home, took her hand, so she tells me, kissed her hand and kissed her hand, and said, “Please come with me to Palm Springs.”)
27 January 1964(refuted)- 16 April 1963
- Source: The Pearl of Great Price ¶7 (She went into the baker to buy the usual things that we buy when we go to a bakery, and the lady who waited on her didn’t look well.)
- c. December 1958
- before 19 July 1959
- Source: The True Story of Christmas ¶17 (May I tell you, at that time in her life six years ago, she felt quite low in spirits, quite low physically, and really entertained the thought that she would make in the not distant future her exit from this world.)
Neville delivered a 1959 lecture called "Fawcett's Letter," describing correspondence with a philosopher/teacher at Oxford (Fawcett) about his book's chapter on revision.
Following his father's death, Neville received an equal share of the roughly $20 million Goddard Enterprises estate (about $2M).
Person: Neville Goddard
In summer 1959, Neville began experiencing what he called 'The Promise,' a mystical unfolding that he said continued over roughly three and a half years.