After the sunflower and rat vision he consulted psychiatrists or psychoanalysts, who offered interpretations he says were entirely wrong.
He describes glimpses in which he stopped and started the whole world, not by moving his hand but by arresting the activity within himself that animated it.
In New York City, some years before his birth from above, he had the experience of the sea and everything living standing still because he arrested in his head the activity that animated them, an even
An infant was placed in his hands and one of the wise men told him the child was his own baby; only afterwards did he go back and find the whole thing already written in scripture.
He keeps Strong's and other concordances at home and uses them to look up words, while disclaiming any real scholarship in Hebrew or Greek.
Bennett dismisses Your Faith Is Your Fortune without reading it
Description
A friend of Neville's sent Bennett two of Neville's books; Bennett replied with a letter dismissing the title 'Your Faith Is Your Fortune' and Neville's use of a single name, without having read the book, and Neville has a copy of that letter.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: Unless I Go Away ¶73 (a friend of mine sent two of my books, “Your Faith Is Your Fortune” and “Awakened Imagination,” and I have a copy of the letter that he wrote to my friend)
He remarks that atheists and agnostics have come to him, men and women who liked to insist they were different, and he knew they believed in the depths of their souls.
Neville guest lecture at 11 a.m., Wilshire at La Brea. The theater name and calendar date are unreadable; filename supplies 1962.
An advertisement tied to Dr. Donald Curtis's ministry names Neville as guest lecturer on 'You and Your Wonderful Imagination' at 11 a.m.
10 February 1962
(probable)
Last Easter he watched a televised church service at home in which Nat King Cole sang at St. James and Dr.
after 22 April 1962
(probable)
Neville recalls Bertrand Russell's 90th birthday party, where a woman seated beside Russell -- "the most famous atheist in the world" and now its oldest -- reportedly asked him to consider what if he
between 1960 and 1964
(probable)
8 July 1962, 11:00
(possible)
Sunday lecture at 11:00 a.m., Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1320 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco.
between 9 July 1962, 19:45 and 20 July 1962
(possible)
Classes at 7:45 p.m., Monday through Friday, July 9-20, 465 Post Street, San Francisco.
Lecture catalog #730 — text: HAVE
Lecture catalog #119 — text: MISSING
A television writer asks imagination to feed him challenges
Description
A television writer wrote to Neville that after their Sunday talk about challenges he heard an authoritative voice say 'Feed me with challenges! How else can I grow?', then threw away an accepted story and wrote a better one in an hour.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
Sources
- Source: Speaking From Experience ¶11 (So he very generously gave me in letter form his reaction to our conversation on Sunday, which tonight then I can share with you.)
A woman uses 'I remember when' and gains a fifty-dollar-a-day job
Description
A woman in the audience told Neville that after realising she had never applied his 'I remember when' technique she used it about earning ten dollars a day, and a former employer promptly phoned and hired her at fifty dollars a day.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
(refuted)
between 1 May 1964 and 8 May 1964
Sources
- Source: Speaking From Experience ¶14 (Now, another lady (she is here this night) and she said this past week to me, “I was talking to some friends and I said, ‘You know, I remember when…’ and as I said ‘I remember when’ it dawned upon me, these are Neville’s words, the words he used to descr…)
A young man envisions fusion with the cross in a theatre
Description
A young man in the audience wrote to Neville describing a vision in a theatre in which a man walked to a cross, fused with it, and a voice said 'I say unto you today, you will be with me in Paradise…for a little while.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 15 July 1962 and 22 July 1962
Neville's San Francisco series advertises Lengthened Shadows for July 15 at 11 a.m. at Women's City Club Auditorium, 465 Post Street; no year is printed.
Lecture catalog #120 — text: MISSING
Lecture catalog #121 — text: HAVE
Neville's San Francisco series advertises Speaking from Experience for July 22 at 11 a.m. at Scottish Rite Auditorium, 1920 Van Ness Avenue; no year is printed.
Neville personally encouraged Freedom Barry to conduct his own spiritual investigation and to speak only from conclusions his own personal experience would yield.
Description
Neville personally encouraged Freedom Barry to conduct his own spiritual investigation and to speak only from conclusions his own personal experience would yield. [Date evidence: Before August 1962 (the book's author's note is dated Laguna Beach, California, August 1962); no specific date or venue given for the encouragement itself.]
Verbatim (witness's words)
My gratitude to Neville is immeasurable, for it was he who wisely encouraged me to conduct my own spiritual investigation, and to speak only from conclusions my personal experience would yield.
Date (happened)
before August 1962
(probable)
Neville lecture on The Law and the Promise, August 13, 1962 at 8 p.m., Mark Twain School Auditorium, North Long Beach; sponsored by Lakewood Church of Religious Science.
Neville lecture on The Law and the Promise, August 15, 1962 at 8 p.m., Mark Twain School Auditorium, North Long Beach; sponsored by Lakewood Church of Religious Science.
Neville lecture on The Law and the Promise, August 17, 1962 at 8 p.m., Mark Twain School Auditorium, North Long Beach; sponsored by Lakewood Church of Religious Science.
Neville lecture on The Law and the Promise, August 21, 1962 at 8 p.m., Mark Twain School Auditorium, North Long Beach; sponsored by Lakewood Church of Religious Science.
Neville lecture on The Law and the Promise, August 23, 1962 at 8 p.m., Mark Twain School Auditorium, North Long Beach; sponsored by Lakewood Church of Religious Science.
between 1 February 1963 and 1963
Neville delivered a long dated lecture series through 1963, including The Book of Job, The Bible - Your Biography, Paul's Autobiography, The Crucifixion, and The Resurrection.
Mrs. Bower rents her Brooklyn rooms through assumption
Description
Mrs. Bower, a widow in Neville's New York audience with two Brooklyn houses she could not get a bank loan on, assumed in the first week of October that on the twenty-ninth of October every room was rented; by that date every room was rented, and she told Neville she had chosen the date so she could get her loan on the first of November.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1 October 1962 and 7 October 1962
(probable)
Sources
- Source: In These Last Days by His Son ¶37 (I said to her, “Mrs. Bower, why did you take the twenty-ninth of October? Is it an anniversary? Is there some reason for it?”)
Husband restores relationship and delivers a stereophonic machine for his wife's birthday
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
11 October 1962
(probable)
Neville tells the audience not to put the teaching away until he gets back in November, indicating a coming absence and return.
between 27 November 1962 and 1962
(probable)
Neville lectured at the Ebell Club in Los Angeles from around late November 1962 through the winter of 1962-1963, possibly continuing into 1963.
Place: Los Angeles - Ebell Club
Neville and an audience member imagine the man's better job
Description
About three months before this lecture, a man and his wife sat in Neville's audience. The man had worked hard at a good job with the promise of a Christmas bonus, but the large bonus instead went to a favorite of the boss's who rarely came to work, while he himself got almost nothing. Neville and the man 'agreed mentally' that he would have the most wonderful job, with more money and everything he wanted. On the morning of this lecture a letter arrived reporting that it had happened: he now held that very job, with more money, more responsibility, and more opportunity than before.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. December 1962
(probable)
Little girl's family receives a playhouse filled with toys
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. December 1962
(probable)
The man's expected Christmas bonus goes to another employee
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
25 December 1962
(probable)
Writer's mother assumes his higher script fee
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 25 December 1962
(possible)
Man obtains a better job after Neville's imaginal act
Description
A man who had sat in the audience with his wife about three months before was passed over for a Christmas bonus that went to one of the boss's girlfriends; he and Neville agreed mentally on a better job, and that morning Neville received the man's letter saying he now has it, with the man's mother-in-law present in the audience that night.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Sources
- Source: You Can Forgive Sin ¶20 (And I received that letter this morning. I remained faithful to that letter that I knew would come from him when he would write it.)
Lecture catalog #170 — text: HAVE
Freedom Barry, a student of Neville Goddard, published his first book "I DO" through Vantage Press, described as the textbook of his spiritual teaching.
Person: Freedom Barry
In 1963 Joseph Murphy published The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, a work whose print run would soon reach a million copies across translations.
Person: Joseph Murphy
Neville gave the lecture 'Ask What I Shall Give You,' recounting composite private interviews before a talk.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville gave a lecture titled "Advent: The Four Tears" that again quoted Blake's words to Max Beckmann and referenced JFK's assassination.
Likely refers to Sir John Eccles' 1963 Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine, for work on the human brain/nerve cell), per Neville's own reference in the lecture 'He Stirs in Me' (delivered 1967-03-20):