before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he put the name I AM to the test in countless ways and found that only I AM responds, not the words Jehovah or Jesus.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville admits he does the same thing himself: Jehovah's Witnesses are determined to convert him, and his ex-wife sends him magazines which he thanks her for, tears in half and throws in the ashcan.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says that when he withdraws deeply enough the confirmation has come instantly — the telephone has rung interrupting his meditation, and answering it he heard the very confirmation of what he w
before 1964
(possible)
Neville testifies to his own mystical experience: he was never taught it by any man, it came by revelation when he least expected it; God awoke in his skull and he was he, and God's only begotten son
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he has slept elsewhere in imagination as though elsewhere were here, and that it worked — he awakened there and events compelled the journey.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls a young man of thirty he knew in New York City who spent ten minutes every morning while shaving telling President Roosevelt off in the mirror, and Neville warning him he was building
before 1964
(possible)
Neville insists that what he teaches is not speculation but his own experience, which he is reporting exactly as it happened.
1964
(probable)
Neville announces his lecture contract ends this month but is extended to 26 May, after which he leaves on the 27th for New York for his daughter's graduation, then Barbados for a couple of months, Sa
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he has never been through a cyclone but has been through many hurricanes, at sea and on land, and knows what hurricane-force winds sound like — nothing like the wind heard on the night of
c. 1964
He states his own age — fifty-nine — and that he still reacts as an American to threats to the way of life he likes, because he still wears the garment of flesh with its relationships of wife, childre
before 1964
(probable)
Neville tells of seeing a huge sign in the street at Hollywood and Vine advertising a lecture on 'How to live forever,' and remarks that the man will fool millions and be gone before it matters.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville had to ask his wife what a Don Loper dress was before he could understand the letter he was reading out.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville describes his vision of the universal or heavenly man, in which he saw the block letters "virgin pure" and experienced himself as that one man clothed in the skin of every being that walked th
Engineer imagines and obtains a Madison Avenue job
Description
In New York City an engineer asked Neville's help to earn a certain sum; Neville told him to imagine riding the elevator, hanging up his hat and sitting at his desk at a Madison Avenue firm, he got the job within a week, and died of a heart attack at fifty-six after four years and one day, his wife and daughter having also attended the meetings.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964 (possible)
- before 3 April 1964
- before 2 April 1960
Told
3 April 1964
Sources
- Source: His Own Credentials ¶80 (A chap came to me in New York City and he said, “Neville, I want to make”…and he mentioned a sum of money. He was an engineer, but he never really made big money, but always held responsible jobs.)
before 1964
(possible)
Just before coming out to lecture Neville took a phone call from New York City from a woman who had flown in the night before, asking his help; he remarks she could not credit him with such power face
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he has a daughter named Vicki, and also a Son who revealed him as Father — he saw him, and the Son called him Lord and Father.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville mentions having eaten eels, which the French love, and found them delicious.
before 1964
(possible)
In a vision Neville found himself alone at the top of a very tall ladder above a jungle of violent beasts; realising the animals only mirrored his own fear, he lost the fear and they became domesticat
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls that the night he saw the beasts he was frightened by what was only himself made visible.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville retells the ladder vision: terrified and alone before living, moving beasts, he lost his fear and they became kittens, then he arrested the activity in himself and came down the ladder to find
c. 1964
To settle the argument Neville asked the hostess for a Bible; without his glasses — being 'pushing sixty' — he could not read the fine print, could not use one gentleman's offered glasses, but a secon
before 1964
(possible)
Neville describes an experience in which he arrested an activity within himself and the whole scene froze — a waitress carrying food, a man lifting soup to his mouth, a bird in flight that stayed susp
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls playing in the theatre with a wealthy woman who kept having face-lifts until her face could no longer move.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says that he and his hearers have friends or relatives who were part of the mass murders of Hitler and Stalin, and that such a friend was never really touched.
1964
Neville says he has been taken off the wheel of recurrence but must stay on the 1964 wheel to tell the story until his body comes off for the last time, never to die again.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville reports the rumours told against him — that he is an ordinary man, twice married, with children, a meat eater who drinks — used to dismiss his message.
before 1964
(possible)
Bill's letter refers to a story Neville had told his audience about a dove nesting in the tree outside his window.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville describes slipping into another world where he met the German poet Heine, who told him that world calls Earth 'Woodland' and believes no one recovers from descending to it; when Neville's time
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he has slipped into these other worlds countless times, and that when he speaks of this world its inhabitants are terrified, regarding Earth as hell.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he owns many concordances and judges James Strong's the greatest, noting Strong spent forty years compiling it.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recounts his vision of David, standing against an open door looking out on a pastoral scene, calling him Father — and Neville answering not 'Neville is your father' but 'I am'.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he has personally undergone almost every experience recorded of Jesus in the gospels, including the crucifixion, which he describes as six vortices nailing him to the body followed by God
before 1964
(possible)
His elocution teacher held him up before a class of forty as an example of a voice that could never earn a dollar, and he refused to waste the 600 dollars his father had given him for six months of dr
A lecturer demonstrates life's rhythm with mixed nuts
Description
Neville recalls a lecturer who demonstrated life's rhythm with a bowl of mixed nuts: however deep he buried the big walnut, shaking the bowl brought it back to the top, and the little nut placed on top sank to the bottom.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964 (possible)
- before 8 May 1964
Told
8 May 1964
Sources
- Source: Speaking From Experience ¶59 (There used to be a lecturer and he had a system, he had a huge big glass bowl and he’d fill it with all kinds of nuts.)
A woman phones Neville to confirm her December request was fulfilled
Description
A woman telephoned Neville the morning before this lecture to thank him for a request she had made of him on the 29th of December, which he had granted by imagining that she had already called with the good news.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1964
Told
14 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Binding and Loosing ¶17 (A lady called me yesterday morning to thank me for something she’d asked of me on the morning of the 29th of December when I spoke to Dr. Palmer.)
A woman's friend sells her New Mexico trailer within an hour
Description
The same woman told Neville how she applied his teaching for a friend who needed to sell a trailer in New Mexico among seventeen others for sale, and the friend sold it within an hour of arriving, at exactly her price.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964 (possible)
- before 1964 (possible)
- before 14 January 1964
- before 14 January 1964
Told
14 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Binding and Loosing ¶18 (She went off to New Mexico and within one hour after she arrived—in spite of the seventeen trailers for sale—she sold her trailer at the price she had stated, not one penny less, not a penny more.)
before 1964
(possible)
At a small theatrical school in New York City his teacher held him up before a class of forty as the horrible example, saying he would never earn a dollar using his voice; he left, never took another
c. 1964
Neville read the previous week's Life Magazine instalment on General MacArthur, and was struck by the charge given to MacArthur's West Point class that they would be at war before taking off the unifo
before 1964
(possible)
Neville testifies that he has himself experienced everything recorded of Christ in scripture — the resurrection, the birth, the discovery of the fatherhood of God, the ascent into heaven and the desce
Freedom imagines a beggar employed and meets him working four months later
Description
His friend Freedom, in San Francisco, refused a beggar money but imagined him gainfully employed; four months later the same man stopped him in the street to thank him for refusing, saying he had got a job that very day.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964
- before 14 January 1964
Told
14 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Binding and Loosing ¶45 (Like my friend who went to San Francisco, Freedom, a total stranger on the street was asking for money, and he doesn’t give him money, but in his mind’s eye he sees the man gainfully employed.)
A five-year-old reconciles her divorced parents through an imaginal game
Description
Neville mentions a five-year-old child, whose grandmother was in the audience that night, who brought about a reconciliation between her divorced parents by playing a little game the grandmother had devised.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 1964
- 1964 (probable)
Told
14 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Binding and Loosing ¶55 (A little child five years old, whose grandmother comes here (she’s here tonight) who actually brought about reconciliation between divorced parents by playing a little game that the grandmother had devised.)
Neville's Navy friend watches a ship's wake persist from the air
Description
A Navy friend of Neville's came home to dinner and told him that, flying from San Diego to Los Angeles low over the water, he had watched a tiny ship's wake go on travelling long after he could see it, and realised it would run on until some shoreline stopped it.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964
- before 1964 (possible)
- c. 0 (probable)
- before 14 January 1964
- before 14 January 1964
Told
14 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Binding and Loosing ¶58 (He said, “I had the strangest experience today. I didn’t realize it but I was down on the water’s edge, but flying above the water, I saw this little tiny small little ship moving off, and it was leaving a wake behind it.)
before 1964
(possible)
In answering a question Neville refers to his own vision of the son David, saying that every person he speaks to is the father of that Son and that he has already proven the other is not another.
Bill Donovan tells Neville that he and Becky met in AA and abstain from alcohol
Description
Bill Donovan took Neville out to dinner and, knowing Neville drinks, told him that he and his wife, both from AA, never touch a drop.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1964 (possible)
- before 28 January 1964
Told
- 28 January 1964
- 28 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶7 (Took me out to dinner, he knows I take a drink, he said, “Neville, you have all you want, but Becky and I (his wife) we never touch a drop. We both were AA and met in AA because of our problem.”)
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says from his own experience that man in the resurrection is above the organization of sex, describing looking into the face that was unveiled before him.
28 January 1964
Neville says his mother, his wife and his daughter, like all women, will one day confront David as David's father.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville points the audience to the book table, saying his own books and his friend Freedom Barry's book are there and every book on it carries his endorsement.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recounts that while he lived in Beverly Hills for ten months a little thrush brought him a sprig as a gift every single day, following his steps and dropping it before him, and once asked to b
before 1964
(possible)
Neville asks the audience to keep sending him written case histories by the hundreds, saying he has only a few more weeks left here and will hold the remaining stories for next time.
before 1964
(possible)
Neville says he himself taught the orthodox story of God dying to save man, year after year, and that the fixed interpretation was hard to dislodge in his own mind until revelation did it.