Neville recounts his father's poverty, the family he had to feed, his mother's death in 1941, his father's refusal to remarry, and his father's death in 1959 at 85, leaving each of the ten children independently wealthy in company stock, now managed by his brother Victor.

A woman Neville knows poured boiling water on her hand, then lay on the couch revising the scene — re-imagining that she had poured the water on the tea instead — until she fell asleep, and woke hours later with no trace of the burn; she wrote to him about it.

Neville recounts that the same friend told him one day of an experience of the dove, which Neville judged to be a foreshadowing or hallucination produced by a powerful thinker, because the dove does not come the way the friend described; he then describes how it truly comes, floating in translucent heavens and lighting on the outstretched hand.

Neville recalls recently telling the audience the technique of holding on to something touched while awakening in a dream, and reports that a lady wrote to say she tried it and proved it.

A friend of his in San Francisco who had been reading Tennyson quoted to him that the playwright may show in some fifth act what the play really means.

A friend who had recently flown in from San Diego told him how, from the air, he saw a thirty-foot boat's wake widening until it troubled the whole Pacific while the boat's occupant was unaware of it.

Neville describes his father's power of objective vision — sitting alone conjuring men, women and situations before him, arresting the state just before sleep, and later finding others setting in motion the deals he had already closed in imagination — without ever identifying that power as God.

A friend of Neville's received a letter from a professor friend whom Neville admires, dismissing the title of Neville's book Your Faith Is Your Fortune as a mere twist on "Your face is your fortune" without having read the book; Neville replied to his friend that the man has only mechanical talents and is coming to America for money.

He recalls a saying of his old teacher Ab (Abdullah) about stripping any man you think important and letting him perform the normal functions of life.

The same lady told Neville how she wanted rose-colored water glasses she was told she could not buy, imagined eight of them on her table daily, and a month later a new hostess gave her sixteen of them free.

Neville recounts the story of Archie Franklin, a man present in the audience, who mentally asked two banks for his balance three times a day for two months, then went to Caliente and returned with $32,000 - three dollars more than his imagined deposit.