Bill's spiritual engrafting experience
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1964 and 1965
(possible)
1964
(probable)
c. 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls that about five years before this lecture he was invited to a dinner party where the other guests were telling jokes.
between 1964 and 1968
(possible)
c. 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls a beach conversation in Barbados, two years before this talk, with his two nephews - recently graduated from Cambridge in medicine - during a visit home.
c. 1964
(probable)
A woman searches for an affordable apartment
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1964
(possible)
Told
12 November 1965(refuted)- after 25 February 1964 (probable)
Audience sends Neville vision letters in early 1964
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1964
(probable)
before 1964
(probable)
1964
(probable)
1964
(probable)
1964
(probable)
before 1964
(probable)
A woman friend gave Neville a copy of the Observer the day before this lecture (the Observer reaches him on Mondays), and that same day telephoned to ask whether he had seen a letter on page thirteen
1964
(probable)
c. 1964
(probable)
c. 1964
(possible)
before 1964
(possible)
While nursing Scotty, a brilliant surgeon addicted to dope, for two weeks in a twentieth-floor hotel room with the Police Department's consent, the whole of Your Faith is Your Fortune was dictated to
c. 1964
(possible)
c. 1964
(probable)
between 1964 and 1965
(probable)
Grace speaks words of the risen Christ after Neville's awakening
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1964
(probable)
Told
15 November 1966
(probable)
Broome begins testing Neville's teaching
Description
Broome says she began testing Neville's teaching in 1964 and concluded that failures reflected her own belief rather than the teaching.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
1964
1964
(probable)
before 1964
(possible)
1964
(probable)
1964
(probable)
c. 1964
(possible)
c. 1964
(possible)
1948
The first time his father heard him lecture in New York City, his father told him not to advise closing the eye completely when meditating but only partly; his father, who started with nothing and lef
before 1964
(possible)
Neville uses his own name as the example of the outer tag that a man discards when he finds the real Name.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville tells of being in another world whose inhabitants had not yet been born into this one; they called the earth "Woodland" and would not believe him when he told them he had returned from it, bec
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls the saying his old friend and teacher Abdullah used repeatedly about persisting in willing until the thing willed is expressed.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recounts hearing a commanding voice in the depth of his soul telling him "That which I have done I have done. Do nothing" — while in army barracks, where no soldier around him heard it.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he has read the Bible backwards and found no place where Paul spells out his claim to fatherhood, concluding there must be a missing letter of Paul.
21 January 1964
Neville notes that the Luke passage about Simeon is one he has never used before from this platform.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville states that he can preach nothing but what he has himself seen and heard, and that he has seen the story he is telling.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he has himself repeatedly assumed and become what he desired to be, and that this is why he is on the platform at all.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville mentions that he published the seventy-year-old woman's story in his latest book.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says his latest book contains forty case histories selected from close to a thousand he had collected, all resting on the claim that imagining creates reality.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville testifies that the scriptural experience of God begetting himself has happened in him personally, that he has contrived nothing and wants no church or organisation, and that he is only reporti
Friend grips chair and carpet during Neville's meetings
Description
That same friend told Neville that at his meetings he would push his feet into the carpet and grip the chair to hold on to his sense of the reality of things.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964 (possible)
- before 16 January 1964
Told
16 January 1964
Sources
- Source: The Larger Venture ¶17 (But he told me himself, “When I come to your meetings, I like it, but I put my feet into the carpet and I stick my hands on the chair and I hold on firmly to keep my sense of the profoundness and the reality of things.”)
before 1964
(possible)
When he wrote the army story down in detail, a very practical friend who read the manuscript asked to delete the mystical aspects, and Neville was persuaded to leave them out — which he says he should
before 1964
(possible)
He and his wife send small yearly checks to three or four charities, the Red Cross always among them, as ordinary members of society and not as tithing to God.
before 1964
(possible)
He describes seeing the blood of Christ as a golden living liquid light which one knows to be oneself and fuses with.
before 1964
(possible)
He states that all the characters of the Old Testament have appeared before him and that he knows his relationship to every one of them.
before 1964
(possible)
He recounts assuming he was the man he wanted to be when reason and his senses denied it, resting in the assumption, and things then happening so naturally that they looked as though they would have h
before 1964
(possible)
He describes his repeated practice of asking himself what he wants, assuming it, sleeping in the assumption, and later being carried over a bridge of incident to its fulfilment.
before 1964
(possible)
He insists his teaching comes wholly from his own experience, not from another man or from a book.
before 1964
(possible)
In the Q and A he reflects that everything that came to him after assuming he was what he wanted to be arrived by means he could never have devised himself.
Correspondent reports ears pierced in the centre
Description
Someone wrote to him reporting that they had had their ears pierced — not the lobes but the very centre of the ear — which he ties to the 40th Psalm.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964 (possible)
- before 1971 (possible)
Told
31 January 1964(refuted)31 January 1964(refuted)- 25 June 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Purpose Revealed ¶39 (As someone wrote, they had their ears pierced — not the lobes of the ear, but the very center of the ear.)