A small New York grocer told Neville that his multi-millionaire customers questioned every price and paid only once a year, so his ordinary cash customers had to pay higher prices to carry them.

Neville reports that other teachers and groups tell people who used to attend his lectures not to hear him any more, and that those people write to him saying they cannot come; he answers by asking whether they are paralyzed.

A very successful New York businessman who came to Neville's meetings collects overdue debts by imagining writing a reminder letter and then a letter of thanks, never posting either; the checks arrive within a few days.

Neville describes Louise, who started with nothing in Los Angeles and is now a multimillionaire, keeping his book The Law and the Promise at her bedside and doing nightly 'homework' - imagining objectives for her husband, children and herself until they are objectively real, then sleeping.

Neville recounts being in Louise's Huntington Palisades home, where she had imagined herself conducting a dinner party in its dining room with Neville at her right and his wife at her husband's right, before the house was offered to her; she beat the price down from $117,500 to $75,000, and Neville was present when the $7,500 deposit was put down.

He told his niece in New York City to assume marriage; she met a Duke graduate on a blind date, then her sister came for the same advice and met a Dartmouth graduate on a blind date, and both married in no time.

Neville describes his brother Victor's religion — generous to churches and fond of sitting alone in an empty church at vespers or in the summer light — but wholly uninterested in the experience of God Neville describes in his pamphlet and in the last chapter of The Promise.

Neville retells a friend's vision: from above the friend remembered his exalted position, but stepping down through an invisible curtain he forgot it and was haunted by the sense of something to remember; when he remembered and turned back, all the people of the world stood frozen, animated only by his own motion.

Neville describes a lady he knows well — Holly, a telephone company superintendent who trained herself to hear voices inwardly — who gave him eleven stories based on her technique, which he retells through the lecture.

Neville received a letter from Holly saying the practice is the easiest thing in the world if one will only listen until they hear it.

Neville recalls that his mother, sitting alone darning her sons' socks, would talk to herself and build in her mind's eye the future she wanted for the son who wore that sock — and all her sons became successful; she never compared them to neighbors or found them wanting.

Neville relates the vision of a friend who is present in the audience: looking down on a prone man that contained every conceivable thing man could do, and his desire to come down and identify with a man in that vast world of men.