before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he encounters so-called holy men wherever he goes and, having been through the furnaces of affliction himself, always turns away from them because he has already found him.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he loves engraving but cannot engrave, paint, draw or write plays, so verbal description is the only means he has of sharing his discovery.
before 1963
(possible)
At the close of the lecture Neville addresses a woman named Ina, telling her the time has come for her departure.
before 1963
(possible)
Answering a question, Neville recalls having once confessed that after receiving God's grace he ascribed the whole process of his salvation to God's actions and became convinced his own faith was God'
before 1963
(possible)
Neville stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days as described in Daniel, was asked what the greatest thing in the world was, answered 'Love', quoting faith, hope and love; the Ancient of Days embr
before 1963
(possible)
Going to bed convinced of the reality of God, he asked why the world was made, and from the depths of his soul came back the single word 'hatching', which sent his mind to Blake's Gates of Paradise en
before 1963
(possible)
He describes how, trained as he was, he long rejected the idea that his own Imagination was the cause of the phenomena of his life, searching for a God outside himself because others said he was out t
before 1963
(possible)
He mentions owning many different Bible translations at home, none of which agree, and says he especially likes Moffatt's for its poetry.
before 1963
(possible)
He tells of seeing one night a single being which, on coming closer, proved to be all the races and nations of the world incorporated into one, its heart glowing like a living ruby, and that being was
before 1963
(possible)
He claims in passing to have produced flowers by assuming and sensing their presence where there were none, and to have taught others to do the same.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville recounts standing in the presence of infinite love, which is Christ Jesus, answering that the greatest thing in the world is love, and being embraced and incorporated into that body without lo
Psychiatrist friend grips chair while hearing Neville
Description
The same psychiatrist friend told Neville that while listening to him in New York he would push his feet into the carpet and grip the chair to keep his sense of the reality and profundity of things.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1963 (possible)
- before 8 December 1963
Told
8 December 1963
Sources
- Source: What Is Truth ¶41 (He once said to me, “I love listening to you, Neville. You know what I do when I hear you? I put my feet into the carpet”—that was in New York City where we had carpets—“I put my feet into the carpet and I would hold the chair with my fingers to keep my …)
before 1963
(possible)
He mentions that the bed he imagined himself sleeping in while in the army is the same bed he still uses, having brought it with him.
November 1942
He was drafted into the army against his will, dropping from an income of $10,000-12,000 a year to $50 a month, while carrying a lease and supporting a wife and child.
before 1963
(possible)
He says he could have appealed to the President as a good Democrat with the community behind him, but instead went straight to the I AM.
before 1963
(possible)
He remembers the colonel who refused him kindly, saying the man was an awfully nice chap who did not know he was playing pharaoh, and that he knew the man had no choice once the hand of God had appear
before 1963
(possible)
A friend correcting the manuscript of his book advised him to delete the mystical part of the discharge story lest readers think a vision was required; he took the advice and has regretted it, printin
before 1963
(possible)
Answering a question about the first coming, he says he has stood in the presence of the Lord and knew that he incorporates his body and makes all equal, one by one.
before 1963
(possible)
He claims from his own experience that David came out of him, stood before him and called him Father.
before 1963
(possible)
He has sat on panels with priests, rabbis, Protestant ministers and educators, who were astonished because what he tells them was never revealed to them.
before 1963
(possible)
He describes the experience of the wind: the whole house vibrating like a cyclone, feeling it inside him yet coming from a corner of the room, and then three men appearing, two of them laughing in dis
before 1963
(possible)
He came from Barbados to America and stayed in the market place through poverty — hungry, going without food, tempted by easy money — never stealing and never wiring his father for a boat ticket home,
before 1963
(possible)
He says he personally never had the hunger to withdraw from the world; his desire on coming to America was to go straight into the market place.
between October 1967 and February 1968
(probable)
Neville recalls having spoken a few months earlier about the awakened Man shooting his arrows beyond the world of dream.
between 1963 and 1964
He read in the New York Times, while he and his wife were in New York, that Russia was up in arms over a Chinese map claiming large areas of Russia.
Property is sold to a European buyer for nine hundred ninety thousand dollars
Description
Neville says he was home two years ago and knew then that the man wanted to sell a particular piece of property, which was later bought by a man coming from Europe for $990,000.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1963
- after 1963 (probable)
- before 19 November 1965
Told
19 November 1965
Sources
- Source: What Are You Sowing ¶33 (I knew when I was home two years ago he wanted to sell that piece of property.)
Bill undergoes spiritual surgery and receives the implanted word
Description
His friend Bill, sitting at the back of the hall that night, was prepared and engrafted some two or three years earlier.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1963 and 1966
(probable)
Told
15 December 1967
Sources
- Source: Imparting and Implanting the Word ¶7 (Now here, I have a friend of mine, he sits in the back tonight, his name is Bill. A few years ago, he was prepared for “surgery” and it was engrafted in him.)
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he was raised in the Christian faith and found it the hardest thing in the world to stop thinking of an external, historical Christ after he had found Christ in himself as human Imaginati
before 1963
(possible)
Asked whether his being in the army was someone else's imaginal act, Neville explains he was then not a citizen but was sent a notice asking whether as a foreigner he objected to serving; he wrote str
before 1963
(possible)
Neville recounts how his mother used to 'let' his father do things for her, and how his wife does the same — saying 'I'm going to let you wash the dishes tonight', which he cannot refuse; today doing
Doris's language establishes Lawrence as Barbados's doctor
Description
Neville's brother Lawrence, a doctor in Barbados, became the island's most prominent physician because from the day they married his wife Doris always referred to him as 'the doctor', even distinguishing him from their two doctor sons.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1963 (possible)
- before 19 November 1963
- 19 November 1963
Told
19 November 1963
Sources
- Source: Counting the Cost ¶8 (Today in Barbados he is the most prominent doctor, he has the biggest practice, many doctors working for him, and a clinic with thirty beds.)
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he did not himself want to see Aida and never counts the cost of what he wants, and that he goes to the opera occasionally when he is in New York City.
before 1963
(possible)
He took Isaiah 30:8 for the title page of his latest book, The Law and the Promise.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville recounts a mystical experience in which he arrested an activity within himself and the whole world froze - birds in flight, falling leaves, waving grass, walking people, diners - then released
before 1963
(possible)
He reports that one of the friends who read the letter knew the writer well and said that seeing her signature made her believe every word of it.
before 1963
(possible)
Neville recounts his first experience of fourfold vision: lying in his Beverly Hills home on El Camino he saw the interior of a strange building with his eyes closed, stepped into it repeatedly, explo
before 1963
(probable)
He awoke to find himself entombed in the sepulchre of his own skull, was resurrected by a fantastic power, and came out.
A San Francisco impresario reports worshippers rejecting an unresponsive saint
Description
An impresario in San Francisco, a lifelong Catholic, told Neville two years earlier that he had seen worshippers pray to a saint, then spit on him and throw him out when he did not deliver, and go to another god.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1963
Told
15 January 1965
Sources
- Source: The Cabala ¶46 (That was told me by an impresario in San Francisco two years ago. He said, “I actually saw it happen. I’m born a Catholic, I’m still a Catholic, I’m raised a Catholic, I’m a Catholic.”)
before 1963
(possible)
While contemplating Buddha — having been reading The Life of Buddha the night the earlier experience first came — he saw a huge flint break into fragments which invisible hands moulded into a beautifu
before 1963
(possible)
Neville says he taught his own children to say thank you and to be gracious.
Neville's father succeeds without exploiting others
Description
Neville recalls his father, a very successful businessman in Barbados who was incapable of taking advantage of another for personal gain and left a fortune to his family; he says the same ethical code held in his own family.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1963 (possible)
- before 30 April 1963
Told
- 30 April 1963
- 30 April 1963
Sources
- Source: The Kingdom ¶15 (I can go back to my own personal experience in my father’s life. A most successful businessman, very successful, incapable of taking advantage of another for personal gain, in a highly competitive society, little, tiny Barbados, very competitive; but he …)
Neville's playwright friend refuses assumption and later dies
Description
Neville tells of a friend, a very successful Broadway playwright ten years his senior, who always refused to try the assumption, saying he was afraid of it, and who died about two years ago when he got up from watching TV to go to the bathroom and fell.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1963
Told
14 May 1965
Sources
- Source: Greatest of All Blessings ¶42 (I had a friend of mine, a very successful playwright—he had, I think, three very successful Broadway plays; I know one ran over a year—and he and I would always discuss this. He said, “No, I have no time for that. I’m afraid of it.”)
before 1963
(possible)
He mentions in passing that he has a wife and a child, and that his own death would matter to them but not to him.
before 1963
(possible)
In a vision he walked among a vast crowd of humanity dressed in Arabic clothes when a voice out of the blue announced that God walks with them; an attractive Arab woman in her thirties or forties aske
before 1963
(possible)
Immediately following that vision he experienced the crucifixion as pure delight: his hands, feet, head and side became vortices and he was driven into his body on the bed, held by six vortices.
before 1963
(possible)
He says he was born from above and went through the entire series of mystical experiences described in scripture within an interval of five months (elsewhere in the same passage, nine months) by ordin
before 1963
(possible)
He reports that through all his mystical experiences his sense of identity never changed — he was always aware of being "I am" while something took place in him.
before 1963
(possible)
He says God promised him at the beginning and then put him through furnaces of affliction without his consent, so that his own experience of the crucifixion differs from the churches' depiction.
before 1963
(possible)
He recounts how people object to his interpretation of scripture, telling him by name that he has it wrong and that Jesus did not mean what he says.
before 1963
(possible)
He says he has searched and never found any book that sheds light on Zion, but can speak of it because he has experienced it himself.