before 1964
(possible)
He spent three months at home in Barbados, returned 1st Class with a sum of cash given him as a gift, and reckons the trip would have cost $3,000 had he paid for it.
23 February 1948
(probable)
He admits he has not always succeeded, and that his many failures would convict him if he claimed to have mastered his attention.
before 1964
(possible)
He says he searched the Bible himself for any time interval longer than three days and found none.
c. 1964
(probable)
Neville recounts that his family, lifelong Republicans, went out and campaigned (time and money) for Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater. Neville states he himself voted for Goldwater.
1964
(possible)
First Sunday talk at 11 a.m. in Women City Club Auditorium, advertised as tomorrow. Filename supplies 1964; the calendar day is not inferred.
1964
(possible)
A newspaper notice reports that Winifred MacCardell Flood will speak on 'Four Hundred Years Is A Long Time' at the weekly meeting of the Orlando Poetry Society at the Broadway Methodist E
A person tells Neville they saw Joseph
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. January 1964
(probable)
c. January 1964
(probable)
Neville describes being one with the Brothers, the infinite body of awakened men, who speak to him humorously; the other night they told him to go and write his own concise, condensed paper.
January 1964
(probable)
c. January 1964
(probable)
Friend's Silence vision of a white pig
Description
A friend present at the lecture wrote Neville a letter describing how he sat in the Silence, heard the predetermined voice confirming his desire (which had since manifested), then saw a panel door open and a white pig come out, and asked Neville what it meant.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. January 1964 (probable)
- before 10 May 1968 (probable)
Told
10 May 1968
Sources
- Source: No Other God ¶2 (A friend who is here tonight wrote me this letter. He said, “While sitting in the Silence here recently I mapped out exactly what I wanted. It would depend upon hearing a certain voice say something to me, which would imply that I had what I desired…I ha…)
Friend dreams Neville leads him to a vast wheat harvest
Description
Neville shares a letter a dear friend sent him a few days ago recounting a dream of being at war in a dilapidated farmhouse, in which his squad turned into Neville, who led him to the back of the house to see a vast harvest of wheat and answered his three questions.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. January 1964
- c. October 1966 (probable)
Told
24 October 1966
Sources
- Source: The Primal Wish ¶1 (Now, let me share with you that which was given to me a few days ago by a dear friend of mine. And you listen carefully to the symbolism in his letter to me.)
Friend dreams his skull is split open
Description
In the same letter the friend told Neville a second dream, in which he felt the top of his head and found his skull split wide open, and woke with an unprecedented feeling of peace and a reversal of his sense of himself.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. January 1964
- c. October 1966 (probable)
Told
- 24 October 1966
- 24 October 1966
Sources
- Source: The Primal Wish ¶12 (Now having received this…first of all, another one in the same letter…he said, “Now this morning (it only came a few days ago), he said, ‘This morning, it was a shock. I was dreaming I was on my bed and I reached up with my hand and I was feeling the top…)
A man sees a speaking multicolored bird at the Hollywood Bowl
Description
A gentleman wrote to Neville describing a vision of attending a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, where a woman beside him asked what was in the sky and, through binoculars, he saw a multicolored parrot-like bird that told him to get out, then came down and touched his face with its wings.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. January 1964
(probable)
Told
17 January 1964(refuted)17 January 1964(refuted)
Sources
- Source: Experience the Mystery of Christ ¶23 (One gentleman found himself attending a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, listening to a long-haired gentleman who - he intuitively knew - would repeat the same performance.)
Bill Donovan nearly drowns off Mexico and is rescued after imagining his boat safe
Description
Neville retells, briefly, Bill Donovan's story of going off to Mexico, imagining the boat safely anchored, nearly drowning, and being rescued by three men in a boat that should not have been in the area — a story he says he told at this same venue the other day.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. January 1964
Told
28 January 1964
Sources
- Source: Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶49 (His story is the one I told here the other day. He went off to Mexico, the boat went off to sea, and he re-enacted the scene as though it were now anchored safely on the beach. And then he plunged in, bravely, into this ocean, and here he is going to dro…)
Eddie fears using the creative power he discovered
Description
Neville says he has spoken over the past year of Eddie, a man he does not know personally but almost regards as a friend, who stumbled on the power and is afraid of using it lest he disturb Nature.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between January 1964 and January 1965
Told
8 January 1965
Sources
- Source: Falsehood Is Prophetic ¶44 (You’ve heard me-—those who have been coming over the last year—-you’ve heard me speak of Eddie, haven’t you?)
Friend sees a tree growing from Neville's skull
Description
In the same letter, the friend described a vision in which Neville stood looking above his head at a perfectly straight tree, three or four years old, growing out of the top of his skull; Neville says he had told him about a week ago that he was born from above without remembering it.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 3 January 1964
(probable)
Told
10 May 1968
Sources
- Source: No Other God ¶10 (In the same letter he wrote this. He said, “You, in my vision, you were looking above my head at the branches of a perfectly straight tree.)
A correspondent imagines his blocked hillside view restored and the neighbor cuts the bamboo
Description
The same correspondent, whose neighbour's bamboo had blocked a landscaped hillside view from his dining room, sat at his dining table and imagined seeing the old view; ten days later the neighbour cut down exactly the bamboo that blocked it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
4 January 1964
(probable)
Told
10 April 1964
Sources
- Source: Be Master of the Mood ¶10 (I saw it clearly in my mind’s eye, because I closed eyes to the obvious, and in my Imagination I recalled the scene of the past and felt satisfied in seeing that same wonderful, beautiful scene of the past.)
27 September 1964
Neville lectured extensively throughout 1964, including a September San Francisco series at the Women's City Club Auditorium (What Is Truth?, Hold God Trustworthy, Assume the Wish Fulfilled).<
7 January 1964
(probable)
8 January 1964
(probable)
before 9 January 1964
After Abdullah instructed him to assume he was already in Barbados, Neville persisted in that assumption from late October through November 1933.
before 9 January 1964
Neville said he married at eighteen, became a father at nineteen, and separated at twenty, leading to a period of disillusionment and asceticism.
10 May 1968
Neville's vision of prominent men in the village government, one of them third in the Labor government, trying to stick a tree on his head to take off and falling flat each time; he then saw the awake
Friend writes that he can no longer imagine hurting anyone
Description
Neville reports what the friend has told him in his letters: that at forty he cannot conceive of hurting anyone, and that he came to a conclusion about who he is.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 10 January 1964 (doubtful)
- 10 May 1968
Told
10 May 1968
Sources
- Source: No Other God ¶46 (Today, as he tells me in his letters, he can’t conceive of hurting anyone.)
between 22 March 1971 and 22 March 1971
(probable)
Neville describes a telephone call he received that same morning from a female friend, deeply upset over what she had done.
13 January 1964
(probable)
Woman fears an imaginal act caused neighbours' deaths
Description
A woman friend telephoned Neville in distress on the morning of the lecture: a male neighbour had asked her to "play back his record" — to hear him affirm that a disturbing neighbouring family was gone — and within days that couple were killed on the highway, leaving three children; Neville told her she had done nothing wrong, only exercised the principle.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 13 January 1964 (doubtful)
- 1971
Told
10 February 1967(refuted)- 1971
- 22 March 1971 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The Law: Your Choice and Risk ¶1 (She said, “Neville, what have I done? Have I done something that is wrong? A neighbor of mine . . a male neighbor . . asked me if I would play back his record for him.”)
Neville's friend serves in the Navy during World War II
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 14 January 1964
Told
14 January 1964
Friend sees Joseph and confirms Neville's visions
Description
Someone in his circle told him during the past week that they had seen Joseph, which he takes as the confirmation he had been waiting for of the biblical characters he himself has seen.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 17 January 1964 and 23 January 1964
- between 17 January 1964 and 23 January 1964
Told
23 January 1964
Sources
- Source: No Other Foundation ¶24 (May I tell you the day will come…and I know, tonight, one. I have been waiting for someone to meet him, for confirmation of those that I have seen. And one could tell me this past week, “I saw Joseph.”)
On waking that morning Neville met his dead friend Al - who had died at 64 and who used to enjoy his company but not his teaching, preferring to play old hymns at his piano on Sunday mornings - at a r
Having received a notice from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Neville went that day expecting questions about his health and instead was asked for proof he would be 65 in February; h
19 January 1964
(probable)
On Sunday morning Neville found himself, in an inner experience, lecturing intimately on the Word of God; he looked at his watch (the same one he now wears) and it read four ten, and after what seemed
Woman closes a $50,000 contract
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 21 January 1964 and 28 January 1964
(probable)
Told
28 January 1964
before 21 January 1964
Neville describes a vision in which he found himself teaching intimately among friends, rather than from a platform, on a Sunday morning.
Two women share visions with Neville during the week
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 23 January 1964 and 30 January 1964
(probable)