before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he watched television before coming out to the lecture, and every channel repeated the same holdups and murders.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he knows from his own experience the end of the drama, when the crown appears as a pulsing halo of living golden light all over the head.
Adopted Sausalito youth excels, runs away, and disappears
Description
Neville recounts the life of the Sausalito lad: an adopted child fiercely wanted by his adoptive parents, told by a malicious neighbour that he was being sent east to Phillips Exeter to be got rid of; he made straight As for two years, refused to return, ran away from home and has not been heard from since.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 7 December 1965 (probable)
Told
- 4 December 1965 (doubtful)
- 4 December 1965 (doubtful)
- 7 December 1965 (probable)
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul ¶22 (The lad up north unfortunately…he was an adopted son, wanted more than children who are normally brought into this world by married parents are wanted. He really was wanted and his adoptive parents put in their bid for him before he was born.)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville states that from his own experiences he knows this is his last time in this age.
Australian professor refuses to read Your Faith Is Your Fortune
Description
A friend sent Neville's book Your Faith Is Your Fortune to a professor of physics in Australia, who wrote back at once refusing to read it, offended by the title and by the chapter treating the disciples as psychological states rather than persons.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 7 December 1965 (probable)
Told
- 4 December 1965 (doubtful)
- 4 December 1965 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul ¶51 (A friend of mine sent Your Faith is Your Fortune, my book, to this professor of physics in Australia. He wrote back immediately he wouldn’t read the book.)
Two men named Tom quote Paul in visions
Description
Neville tells Tom in the audience that he has both Tom's letter and that of Tom C. of New York City at home, and that in their visions each quoted Paul — Tom the 13th of 1st Corinthians, Tom C. Galatians 2:20.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 7 December 1965 (probable)
Told
- 4 December 1965 (doubtful)
- 4 December 1965 (doubtful)
Sources
- Source: The State of Paul ¶68 (Now, Tom, in your own case, and in the other Tom back in New York City, Tom C., I have your letter at home, I have Tom C.’s letter at home, and in the vision of both of you, you were quoting Paul, the 13th chapter of Corinthians.)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says that when he himself stood in the presence of the risen Christ he quoted the last verse of 1 Corinthians 13, 'Faith, hope and love, these three abide; but the greatest of these is love.'
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he has discussed with rabbis, priests, ministers and all kinds of clergy the claim that Jesus Christ is the Father, and none of them has ever seen it in the same Bible he reads.
before 1965
(possible)
He says from his own experience he could never have devised the means by which his imagined ends came to pass, and that his own visions let him claim Imagination is God.
before 1965
(possible)
He describes moving into the world of the dead, which is as solid and troubled as this one, where people suffer, worry and fear dying.
before 1965
(possible)
Sitting in a chair, on a bed or a couch, he has many times suddenly seen another world as real as this one, stepped into it, walked among clothed people there, and used feeling to bring himself back i
before 1965
(possible)
He describes finding himself awake inside his own skull, which is sealed like an egg with no openings.
before 1965
(possible)
He says he saw Margot Fonteyn dance in New York and has never seen anything like her, though he has not seen the Russian dancer performing with her.
before 1965
(possible)
He recounts having stood in the presence of infinite love — a human form that embraced him and with which he mingled — and says he has no words for the ecstasy of it.
c. 1965
(probable)
He recalls a New York City headline about a year earlier reading 'Peace Scare' when a rumour of possible peace sent the market down.
1965
Last year Neville returned to Barbados for a few months and made out his will, naming his brother and two nephews, whom he trusts implicitly, as co-trustees.
Writer's dream of a transforming lecturer
Description
Neville shares a letter written to him a year or more ago by a successful humorous writer in the audience, describing a dream of a tiny homely lecturer who spoke on transforming oneself by Imagination and then grew in stature and beauty as he left the stage.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 1965 and 1966 (probable)
- before November 1965 (possible)
Told
7 November 1966
Sources
- Source: Life Is for Acting ¶9 (Quite a while ago, I’m going back quite awhile, a year or more, he wrote me a letter and he said it’s not for publication. But that’s a year ago and he’ll forgive me, because I’m not going to reveal the entire letter.)
Victor's assumption leads to full ownership of a supermarket
Description
Three years before, in Barbados, Neville jokingly asked his brother Victor how the supermarket business went; Victor, who lives the law, answered “it’s our business” though they owned only a third — and six months ago the man holding two-thirds voluntarily asked to be bought out so he could go into construction.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1965
Told
10 April 1968
Sources
- Source: I Remember When ¶12 (Three years ago in Barbados I said to my brother quite innocently and kiddingly, I said, “How is that business doing?” We own a third of it.)
A San Francisco woman's imprisoned brother is honorably discharged after imaginal prayer
Description
A woman in his San Francisco audience asked help for her brother, sentenced to six months' hard labour in the army; Neville had her imagine him free at her door, and a week later he arrived honorably discharged.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 1965
(probable)
Told
7 January 1969
Sources
- Source: Maker Maker Things ¶5 (A few years ago, a lady in my San Francisco audience rose and said: “My brother is in the army. I do not know what he did to cause his punishment, but he has been sentenced to six months of hard labor, and I want him set free.”)
Jen receives an all-expenses-paid journey to Egypt
Description
A nurse named Jen, who seven years earlier had imagined going to Egypt despite having no money and was mocked by her friends for it, telephoned Neville this past week to say a friend had handed her a first-class all-expenses-paid thirty-day door-prize trip to the Near East including Egypt.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- c. 1965
- between 1957 and 1961 (probable)
- c. 1957 (probable)
Told
6 March 1972(refuted)6 March 1972(refuted)- 6 March 1964 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Know What You Want (Our Real Belief) ¶6 (Seven years ago, a lady, she’s not here tonight, she’s now on a new job and is taken away for a while. But when she heard it, that imagining creates reality, she said to herself, “Well, if that is so, I would like to go to Egypt.”)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he has repeatedly sat in a chair, slipped into what he was seeing, and found himself in another terrestrial world as solid as this one, in a different section of time, with no road back.
c. 1965
(probable)
In another section of time he was given an instruction, and before about a dozen men he held up a wraith, a shadow of a man, and told it to go and love, since only by loving would it acquire substance
c. 1965
(probable)
Recently, in a waking dream, knowing his body lay in California in the century '69, he held an enormous squeezed pile of banknotes; a fat-faced woman of about forty stole a handful and raged when pass
before 1965
(possible)
He recalls entering the body his mother wove for him, being named Neville by his mother and taught to say 'I am Neville', until the two names coalesced and God awoke within him.
before 1965
(possible)
He recounts saying in San Francisco that Billy Graham's real subject is Billy Graham, whereupon an incensed lady rose to rebuke him for speaking so of 'Dr.
before 1965
(possible)
He describes his own habit of sitting in a chair or lying on his bed and suddenly seeing a world he ought not to see, then stepping into it and exploring it, and says the world tolerates him as sane o
before 1965
(possible)
Neville tells of coming upon an ordinary scene, arresting the activity within himself, and finding the whole world stopped dead — a man drinking his soup, a waitress walking, a bird in flight, a falli
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes his own practice of bringing two friends before his mind's eye, seeing them embrace and congratulate one another on good fortune, and then being confronted with the news of it in fac
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes the one bone of contention between him and his brother: the brother hated their father's heavy drinking and questions how a man of the Spirit can drink, to which Neville answers that
before 1965
(possible)
Neville tells his brother that although he earns no money from his work he has as much as any member of the family through his stock in the business, and says he was shown all the parts he could play
before 1965
(possible)
Neville recounts that when his father made his Will he was a thousand miles away, yet each child shared equally with no discrimination; and that his father would slap anyone, even his grown sons, who
before 1965
(possible)
Neville speaks from his own experience of the one body, and of the sweetness of holding and smelling a baby and touching the flesh of the woman he loves — all of which, he says, are like standing at a
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says no one — not his mother, his father or his minister — ever told him he was destined to be God; like Paul it came to him through revelation, and he simply tried it and it worked.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville remarks that he has been called mad for years and does not mind.
before 1965
(possible)
Asked about Abdullah's teaching on symbolism, Neville recalls that to Abdullah everything in the world was a symbol, and that Abdullah would make him skry — look through a lampshade rather than at it
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he has himself seen the vision Blake described: one man in radiant light with a heart glowing like a living ruby, who on approach turned out to contain an infinite number of men.
before 1965
(possible)
Describing the third experience, he recalls ascending his split spine in liquid, serpentine form and getting stuck at a particular point in his skull where he tried with all his force to get through a
before 1965
(possible)
He insists he speaks only from his own experience and not from theory when he takes the platform, and that the horror imposed on him was justified by its end — God giving him himself.
Neville's daughter reaches the Dean's list after his imaginal hearing
Description
He describes refusing to hear his daughter's anxious letters home about a tough exam and whether she would graduate, hearing only good news for her instead — and her last report card came in with B+s and A-s and placed her on the Dean's list.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
before 1965
(possible)
Told
14 July 1962(refuted)14 July 1962(refuted)- after 25 February 1964 (probable)
Sources
- Source: His Eternal Play ¶58 (I don’t ask my child’s permission to hear good news for her. I love her and I hear good news for her.)
c. 1965
Three years ago in Barbados Neville and his wife gave a small dinner party with his son and daughter-in-law and two ministers and their wives, and he argued with the Episcopalian minister, who would n
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he owns at least forty Bibles at home along with many commentaries and works of exegesis by learned scholars.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville states that he has two children of his own, a boy and a girl, born normally from the womb of a woman - contrasting them with the two visionary children.
before 1965
(possible)
During the past week Neville practised the technique on his wife, his daughter and people of the other sex, and found it not at all strange to wear their forms.
Neville repeatedly tries to lift Walter from his habitual gloom
Description
Over years of Walter's weekly visits Neville repeatedly tried and failed to pull him out of his gloom by insisting that imagining creates reality.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 5 February 1965
Told
- 5 February 1965
- 5 February 1965
Sources
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Sower ¶4 (I would say, “Walter, what are you doing? Don’t you believe what I’m talking about? Imagining creates reality! That’s my premise, and every time you come home you talk about Hitler, you talk about this, you talk about the other. I don’t care what he has …)
before 1965
(possible)
Neville testifies from his own experience that living by the law carries into dreams, where he became master rather than victim of his imagination and looked forward to sleep for the experience.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville compares the labor of the spiritual birth to his two sisters-in-law - one who labored two days, one who yawned and the child came out - and says his own experience was like the second.
before 1965
(possible)
Neville describes his own sequence of mystical experiences: the wind in the head like a hurricane, waking from the sleep of death and bringing forth the child, then five months later an explosion of t
5 February 1965
Neville refuses to make his own pattern the criterion, citing his niece whose three children were all Caesarean against his own two children born normally, and points to his book The Law and the Promi
before 1965
(possible)
Neville says he watched the Early Bird satellite demonstration, in which the capitals of the Western world were heard together as if in concert.
1965
Neville recounts overhearing people at dinner and cocktail parties mock him as naive for saying he stood in the presence of the risen Christ.