Speaking on 12 April 1971, Neville used the Mafia informer as his example of a Judas — a betrayer of a trust: "A man just died in New York City in prison who betrayed the trust of the Mafia.
Barry says Neville returned from a Barbados stay in terrible shape, having 'gone home to die,' asked Barry to take over his Los Angeles audience, and introduced him to a packed Women's University Club before leaving with wife 'Bill' and daughter for
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Barry says Neville returned from a Barbados stay in terrible shape, having 'gone home to die,' asked Barry to take over his Los Angeles audience, and introduced him to a packed Women's University Club before leaving with wife 'Bill' and daughter for Barbados — after which the LA audience evaporated and Barry settled in Cambria. [Date evidence: coincides with Barry's move to Cambria — 'I moved here in 1963' (stated earlier in this transcript); chronology conflicts with Neville's documented LA lecturing until 1972] [Place: Women's University Club, Los Angeles]
Verbatim (witness's words)
When Neville came back from his stay in Barbados, he had gone home to die; he was in terrible shape. Everybody had told him he was going to last, and he, himself, didn’t believe he was going to, so he wanted me to take over his Los Angeles audience. That was when I came to Cambria, because it was half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco. [...] the night he introduced me to his Los Angeles audience, they were there in full force at the Women’s University Club, and it was full. O.K. The next day, he, Bill and their daughter went back to Barbados, and the next time I had maybe fifteen people there.
Years after reading Neville's book instruction to lie flat with head level (no pillow) to release the sense of personhood, Barry asked him about it and Neville laughed it off: 'Well, I never do it that way anymore.'
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Years after reading Neville's book instruction to lie flat with head level (no pillow) to release the sense of personhood, Barry asked him about it and Neville laughed it off: 'Well, I never do it that way anymore.' [Date evidence: 'probably five or six years' after Barry first read the books (c. 1958) — early-to-mid 1960s]
Verbatim (witness's words)
You remember how Neville used to say in his books about lie flat down with your head on a level with your body, not on a pillow. [...] I spoke to him about that later, probably five or six years later. He says, “Well, I never do it that way anymore.” (Laughter)
Neville (as quoted): "Well, I never do it that way anymore."
Date (happened)
between 1963 and 1964
(probable)
Neville recounts an earlier exchange with a scientist he calls Inmar (also called Larry in the same telling), who insisted that the past is fixed and unalterable ('entropy') and dismissed Neville's cl
Woman's brother returns home after her imaginal practice
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Woman is separated from her son at sea for three years
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Woman calls Neville about paid practitioners
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between 1963 and 1964
(probable)
between 1963 and 1964
(possible)
Neville describes reading in the New York Times, a year or two before this lecture while he was in New York, that Russia was outraged over a Chinese map that included vast Russian territories as part
A family spends several months abroad in 1971
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A nurse, reconnecting with a friend she had not spoken to in a year, learns the friend's family had spent several months abroad 'last year' and had no desire to go abroad again. Told in the lecture 'Know What You Want (Our Real Belief)' (nid 1535); internal content evidence situates the lecture's delivery in 1964-03-06 rather than the doubtful catalog date of 1972-03-06, placing the family's trip in 1963.
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between 1 March 1963 and 31 May 1963
Grandmother arranges a South Pacific and Orient trip
Description
A grandmother wrote Neville that the previous fall, having arranged a trip to the South Pacific and the Orient, she asked her two-year-old granddaughter what gift she would like brought back. After consulting with her mother, the girl asked for a stuffed kangaroo, and the grandmother went looking for one once she reached Australia.
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San Francisco impresario tells Neville about devotional practices
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between 1963 and 1965
(probable)
Neville's wife told him that a visitor had recently asked one of 'the teachers in the city' what he thought of William Blake, and the teacher dismissed Blake as mad and insane.
Neville recounts a recent visit to a race track with friends.
Death of Neville's playwright friend
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Neville Mark speaks of seeing his true identity
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Friend's family travels abroad
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Poplar trees obscure a correspondent's view
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between 1963 and 1966
(possible)
Neville mentions that Robert Cummings -- an old acquaintance from his days studying under Abdullah and from years together in New York -- attended two of his meetings the previous year.
Neville says his own religion was inherited: his mother told him about God and took him to church, and he heard it from ministers and rabbis, so he expected a just, man-made God rather than a God of g
Neville describes, apparently from his own experience, how God's voice comes out of a whirlwind — a sound and feeling like the most frightening storm, after which the words or a vision more real than
One night Neville saw Esau as a red-haired monster and Jacob as a glorious female being; when he pledged to redeem the monster it melted before his eyes and all its embodied energy returned to him.
In a vision Neville saw Christ as the ox, the wild ass and the wild goat of the questions put to Job.
Neville describes his own long suffering while living wholly by his senses and passion, then hearing of and seeking Jacob until Jacob became a concrete reality he saw, together with a redeemed Esau.
Neville says he has performed the imaginal act of playing the part of Isaac and believing in its reality countless times, and it always worked.
Neville recounts his own experience of being brought into the presence of God, supernaturally prompted with the answer to the question 'What is the greatest thing in the world?', answering as an echo,
Neville says he has read the many books written about the sin against the Holy Ghost and had them at home, but that having had the experience himself he now knows they were rationalising God's word.
Friends successfully forgive and assume new states
Description
Neville refers to dozens of friends in San Francisco and in his present audience whose stories of successful forgiving and assuming he has told from the platform.
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Date (happened)
before 1963
(possible)
before 19 February 1963
Sources
- Source: The Sin Against the Holy Spirit ¶28 (My friends in San Francisco, and here – dozens of them whose stories I have told, who forgave, who took certain things that they wanted in this world and denied they did not have them and assumed they had them.)