Neville delivered the lecture "Esau and Jacob," referencing the Light of Asia stanza and allegorizing Esau as the deterministic physical blueprint.
between 1959 and 25 July 1968
between 1959 and 1971
(probable)
In his final period Neville declared at every lecture, as fact and not speculation, that he had awakened as God the Father and discovered himself the father of David, and that every hearer would have the same experience.
Description
In his final period Neville declared at every lecture, as fact and not speculation, that he had awakened as God the Father and discovered himself the father of David, and that every hearer would have the same experience. [Date evidence: 'toward the last' — Neville's final lecture years]
Verbatim (witness's words)
his truly great experience was a discovery that he is the father of David. And he told all of us that we are to have the same experience. We are going to awaken as God the Father. ... every lecture Neville said, I am not speculating, I am not theorizing, I have awakened as God the Father, and every one of you is going to have this experience.
Neville (as quoted): "I am not speculating, I am not theorizing, I have awakened as God the Father, and every one of you is going to have this experience."
Date (happened)
between 1959 and 1 October 1972
(possible)
Sources
- Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (ngr27__carter — Frank Carter, first-hand)
- Source: Jacob's Ladder: Christ ¶24 (I have awakened from the dream of life. I am the Father of God’s only begotten Son, who is David.)
- Source: The Rock ¶2 (As far as I am concerned, individually, I have awakened. For me the dream of life is over and I know from experience that scripture is true from beginning to end.)
- Source: No Other Foundation ¶26 (You will never disprove my words, for I am not speaking from speculation or theory, but from experience.)
Toward the end of his ministry Neville declared in every lecture that he was not speculating but had awakened as God the Father through discovering he is the father of David, and that everyone would have the same experience.
Description
Toward the end of his ministry Neville declared in every lecture that he was not speculating but had awakened as God the Father through discovering he is the father of David, and that everyone would have the same experience. [Date evidence: "toward the end" of his ministry; variants elsewhere in the document: "I have experienced the whole book" and "I have experienced scripture from the beginning to the end and it’s all true"]
Verbatim (witness's words)
Now just in case there should be someone here who did not hear him toward the end, I want to mention that his truly great experience was the discovery that he is the father of David and he told all of us that we are to have the same experience. We are going to awaken as God the Father. … every lecture Neville said, “I am not speculating, I am not theorizing, I have awakened as God the Father and every one of you is going to have this experience”.
Neville (as quoted): "I am not speculating, I am not theorizing, I have awakened as God the Father and every one of you is going to have this experience"
Date (happened)
between 1959 and 1 October 1972
(possible)
At his home Neville fixed Barry a potent double scotch; Barry saw Neville finish a pitcher of martinis and go straight onto the platform, never appearing under the influence — 'I just like the lift it gives me.'
Description
At his home Neville fixed Barry a potent double scotch; Barry saw Neville finish a pitcher of martinis and go straight onto the platform, never appearing under the influence — 'I just like the lift it gives me.' [Date evidence: during Barry's close association, 1959 onward] [Place: Neville's home, Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
He fixed me the most potent double scotch. Neville adored a good martini. I’ve seen him finish a pitcher of martinis and go right on the platform without… he said, “I just like the lift it gives me. He was never “under the influence. But he certainly did love it.
Neville (as quoted): "I just like the lift it gives me."
Date (happened)
between 1959 and 1963
(possible)
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: stated by Neville: 1959. Told 1 time (?). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: stated by Neville: 1959. Told 1 time (?). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Neville's father was born poor in Barbados and, with Neville's mother, raised twelve children (two died at birth, ten survived).
Neville recounts a dream from years earlier in which he found himself swimming and, realizing he was dreaming, prolonged the experience by looking toward a primitive, uninhabited island -- unlike the
Goddard family sells its Barbados building to a bank
Description
Neville tells how his brother Victor, when the Goddard family had no money in 1924, spent two years daily picturing the family name on a Bridgetown building that still bore another company's sign; a casual acquaintance eventually bought the building for the family, without collateral, for fifty thousand dollars. Eight years before this lecture the family sold that same building to a bank for eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Reflecting on a letter he received the previous Tuesday night from a man in his audience, Neville says that the man is now in the same state of 'spiritual shock' that has left Neville himself permanen
between 1959 and 1964
(possible)
Neville tells his audience that 1959 was the year in which "God awoke" in him — his own personal awakening from spiritual sleep, which he sets alongside Blake's account of God's move from before Chris
Neville recounts that in 1959 he underwent a mystical 'birth from above' in which he discovered that he was, in a spiritual sense, the father of the biblical King David -- the same David whom scriptur
between 1959 and 1963
(possible)
Neville describes the mystical unfolding he calls the 'history of salvation' as coming in four acts: first the birth from above, then the discovery that one is spiritually the father of David who call
Neville tells of an experience from many years earlier in which he relived the crucifixion by fulfilling the 42nd Psalm: hearing a voice in the depths of his own soul proclaim "I am God," he became ma
Neville says that thirty years after the vision in which he was called and sent into the world, "the work" he had been carrying finally erupted within him, and he began to fulfill scripture in his own
Neville tells his audience that before 1959 he might simply have interpreted scripture as one more preacher offering his own reading of the text.
Neville described fusing in 1959 with an infinite being of love. He understood that union as permanent and as the spiritual body that would remain after the physical garment died.
Philip serves with the Marines in the Orient
Description
Neville described his nephew Philip, a Marine Corps captain who for the previous ten years had served throughout the Orient flying everything from supersonic bombers and fighters to helicopters. He used Philip's estrangement from his father, Neville's brother Fred, despite their striking physical resemblance, as an illustration of father and son being spiritually one even while remaining strangers on the human level.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1959 and October 1969
(probable)
Neville recounts a personal mystical awakening: an intense vibration at the base of his skull that he says began four years earlier, in 1959, after which he found himself waking up localized within hi
Neville says he woke in a tomb - his own skull - not knowing he had slept, and that 1,959 years had fled as though they had not been; emerging he was surrounded by the symbolism of the birth of God.
His father died at the age of eighty-five, per passage 546810 in 'A Confession of Faith' (1964-05-01): 'at eighty-five when he made his exit from this world'.
Bob Keeler writes to Douglas Fawcett
Description
Neville's friend Bob Keeler wrote to the 93-year-old Fawcett about a month before the lecture, sending him two of Neville's books and describing the technique of revision.
Person: Bob Keeler
Ruling: accepted as possible, Rudi 2026-07-23
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Imagining Creates ¶26 (A friend of mine sent Mr. Faucett my book, and called his attention to the chapter called, “Revision”. He also sent a copy to one who was a physicist at one of our great universities.)