A man who was not present that evening had told Neville, the previous Friday night, that his brother had urged him to stop attending the lectures: he had originally come for an increase in business, but now had so much business he couldn't keep up with it, so his brother told him to stay away for a while. Neville offers the remark, given without any intention of proving anything, as an unwitting testimony that imagining creates reality.

A gentleman who normally attends told Neville that his brother said he should stop coming to Neville because their business had grown beyond what they could handle, which the man offered as a verbal testimony.

Neville told a beauty-parlour receptionist to read the 'Moods' chapter of The Law and the Promise; she bathed each morning in the feeling of financial security for five mornings, and that Saturday a friend who had always said he would never give her a nickel settled a tax-free $540 a month on her for life, plus two months in Barbados — from where she phoned Neville with news of his family.

A woman present that night, together with her husband, had told Neville three weeks earlier, on a Friday, that her father had died. He taught her the technique of revision he had once used, twenty years before, with a woman in his Bible class: to return in imagination to that same Friday night one week forward and feel in advance the relief of knowing, beyond doubt and from direct experience, that her father had not truly died.

A woman present at the lecture told Neville three weeks earlier that her father had died; he gave her the same revision exercise as the 1944 Bible-class lady and within a week she met her father in vision and knew he had survived.

A friend named Tom wrote to Neville describing how, after his snobbish in-law slighted the family, he imagined his sister-in-law wearing a Don Loper dress to her son's wedding, and she later wore one believing the idea was her own.

A correspondent who works at the airport wrote that, having no authority to promote anyone, he imagined two fellow workers being congratulated on promotions and raises, and both were promoted with increased salaries.

A gentleman had imagined, about a month in advance, three vivid scenes of an outing with his family: leaving home with his wife -- who would peel off to the beauty parlor -- and his daughter Lynn, then arriving excited at the terminal, and continuing the trip with just his daughter. The very thing he had imagined played out in fact, and by then he had completely forgotten ever having imagined it, living through the fulfillment as naturally as an actor lost in a part he had authored, directed, and played himself.

A woman told Neville a vision in which a crowd screamed that a man she loved was crazy and mad, she ran to him professing love, he pressed his thumbs into her throat until she felt she would die, and then raised his hands, which became two white wings that caressed her.

Neville's wife woke too early that morning, dwelt on wanting her husband and daughter blissfully happy, and dreamed of Neville saying he was not comfortable and would rather sleep above, and of putting a puzzle together with their daughter Vicki, who laughed as a piece fell perfectly into place and looked prettier and happier than she had ever seen her.

A woman who had heard him took thirteen goals and realised every one; then, sitting in the Silence, she saw Neville appear lifelike in her skull and tell her she was looking at her problem instead of the wish fulfilled — a story she sent him in a letter asking him not to tell it from the platform, and she is present in the audience.

The morning's mail brought Neville two letters; one, four long typewritten pages, was from a woman who described a vision of the Bible bound in maroon, first bearing three titles and later the single title 'Adventures of Me'.

The second letter, from a gentleman and creative artist, told Neville it had suddenly come to him that the purpose of life is to learn how to create, and drew a distinction between using creative power to achieve goals and using goals to develop creative power — an idea Neville returns to all evening and passes on to the audience.