30 April 1965

Lecture catalog #276 — text: HAVE

Tom C.'s vision of April 30, 1965
Description
Neville reads a letter received that morning from Tom C., a young man in his late twenties who had been attending his meetings for two or three years. Tom described waking about 5:30 a.m. on 30 April completely cataleptic, unable to move; once the paralysis eased, he found himself standing behind a large bar as its owner. His brother Jerry told him someone had just died, and other figures appeared in turn -- a stranger, then a skeptical cousin who produced a book to argue against him -- each time Tom insisting the whole scene was a dream and that God alone, as the Dreamer, was the only reality within it.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
30 April 1965
Told
7 May 1965 (probable)
A saleswoman imagines and sells a Spanish house
Description
A real-estate saleswoman who had attended five of his lectures since December wrote him a letter describing how she imagined herself inside a large Spanish house with her clients for six consecutive nights, after which her client phoned about exactly that house, which they bought at their price.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 30 April 1965
  • between 1 December 1964 and 30 April 1965 (probable)
Told
4 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: The Witness of the Spirit ¶1 (She gave me a letter last Friday night; in it she said, “I was brought to your meeting last December and I attended five of your lectures. I read four of your books over and over.”)
Tom wakes within a bar dream
Description
Neville reads out a letter received that morning from Tom C., a young former student now in New York, who woke cataleptic, found himself dreaming behind a bar with his brother Jerry, applied Neville's technique of holding a solid object to wake within the dream, and then told a lady and his cousin that the world is a dream, showing his cousin page thirty-six of her own book.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
30 April 1965
Told
  • 22 November 1965 (doubtful)
  • 22 November 1965 (doubtful)
  • 7 May 1965 (probable)
Sources
  • Source: This World Is a Dream ¶3 (This morning’s mail brought a letter from a friend of mine who came here over a period of two or three years, Tom C., a young lad, maybe in his late twenties.)
Woman correspondent's out-of-body experience in May 1965
Description
A woman wrote Neville describing an out-of-body experience one afternoon in May 1965: lying on the floor, she affirmed she could leave her body if she wished, and instantly found herself viewing a vivid, silent country scene — a horse-drawn carriage on an unpaved road, and people in old-fashioned dress standing perfectly still though poised as if in motion. Sensing that her own presence was what held the scene frozen, and that it would come alive once she withdrew, she found herself back on the floor and heard an inner voice answer her question of where she had been: "Paris, 1778." Neville offers it as a taste of a coming age in which people will directly perceive that every moment in history persists, being endlessly reenacted like a play that never truly ends.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
May 1965
Told
  • 2 October 1967
  • 2 October 1967
Woman enters a 1778 Paris scene in vision
Description
He reads out a letter from a woman who, lying on the floor in May 1965, left her body and viewed an eighteenth-century country scene with a horse-drawn carriage and people frozen in the act of motion, knowing her presence held them still, and a voice told her 'Paris 1778'.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • May 1965
  • May 1965
Told
  • 2 October 1967
  • 2 October 1967
Sources
  • Source: The Name of Judah ¶12 (Here, a lady writes me a story—and these are simply touching on the power that will be exercised tomorrow by everyone in the world.)
Friend dreams two beautiful men welcome him as an actor
Description
A friend told Neville, at last Friday night's meeting, of a dream a couple of weeks earlier in which he arrived by train at night in a city he could not name, knowing only that he was an actor, and was taken across a square lit with clusters of lights to a theatrical agency, where the receptionist did not recognise him and two overwhelmingly beautiful men burst out to welcome him — he woke before they could tell him who he was.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. May 1965 (probable)
Told
25 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: The Unknown Actor ¶3 (Now, here is a story given me this past week; it happened a couple of weeks ago. This friend of mine found himself in dream.)
A playwright manifests a car but is trapped by loveless imagining
Description
Neville's friend, a writer present in the audience, was told in a vision to help another by playing all the parts as in writing a play; he tried it for a woman who needed a car and she received the identical make, colour and convertible top he had imagined, but when he later tried without love to remove a man from her life he was locked in her body for six hours and slept twelve hours afterwards, and wrote Neville a second letter warning the audience to do it only in love.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. May 1965 (probable)
Told
14 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: Greatest of All Blessings ¶22 (Now, this other aspect of this great secret of imagining was given to us by my friend, who is here tonight. He went home and in a vision he was told quite vividly—he being a writer, he was the perfect medium through which it could come—that when you woul…)
3 May 1965
A woman came to Neville's home the day before this lecture, unable to wait to write out an account of her vision: having taken his suggestion to fall asleep affirming 'I am Jesus Christ,' she first he
A woman reports visions after assuming she is Jesus Christ
Description
A woman who acted on his instruction of the previous Friday to fall asleep in the assumption "I am Jesus Christ" called on him at home the day before the lecture, bubbling over, to tell him that on one night she heard an entire audible lecture on Peter, James and John as faith, hope and love, on another felt Blake's presence saying "You become what you behold", and on another saw herself in a full-length mirror as a being of impossible beauty.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 3 May 1965
  • before 4 May 1965
Told
4 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: The Witness of the Spirit ¶27 (Well, a lady called on me yesterday who took me at my word and took it to bed. She said, “I am Jesus Christ.”)
4 May 1965

Lecture catalog #277 — text: HAVE

4 May 1965 (probable)
A woman wrote to Neville noting that his lecture series would be closing at the end of June, and asked that the Tuesday night talks be devoted specifically to teaching on 'the law,' since she could no
4 May 1965
A lady wrote asking Neville, since he closes at the end of June, to speak on the law on Tuesday nights because she cannot come on Fridays; he took the letter home and read it a week ago tonight, menti
A woman's husband goes onto a new employer's payroll
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
6 May 1965 (probable)
Sources
A woman calls Neville twice about being forbidden to attend his meetings
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 6 May 1965 and 7 May 1965 (probable)
7 May 1965 (probable)
8 May 1965 (probable)
At a dinner party the Saturday night before this lecture, a friend with a PhD asked Neville why so few people attended his lectures given how remarkable his teaching was; Neville pointed out that PhDs
8 May 1965
At a dinner party last Saturday night a friend with a PhD asked Neville why so few people come to hear him, and Neville answered by asking how many of the three and a half billion people in the world
9 May 1965
On Sunday night, 9 May 1965, Neville had Bob and another RCA employee to dinner at his Los Angeles home.
A commuter's daydream leads from RCA dismissal to a better job
Description
Two friends who live together in Eagle Rock and both worked at RCA were at Neville's home for dinner last Sunday night, and one of them, who had been unexpectedly fired from RCA and afterwards found a better job at Unico downtown, realised while asking Neville a question that he had caused it himself by daydreaming, as they commuted the Santa Ana Freeway, of turning off towards downtown L.A.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 9 May 1965
  • between 1 January 1965 and 9 May 1965
Told
11 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: The Art of Imagining ¶2 (Last Sunday night, a couple of friends were home for dinner. I must tell you the story that you may appreciate how this thing works. They both worked at RCA, that is, the show room that RCA had in L.A.)
10 May 1965
Neville mentions reading, in the previous morning's newspaper, about television personalities who had been the biggest names in the business just two years before but could no longer be booked or sold
A woman's husband officially begins his new job
Description
Just before taking the platform for this lecture, a woman told Neville that her husband, fifty-five and unable to find work after being let go, had at last landed a new job -- through the secret, ongoing effort of Neville's wife and a friend of the family, who had privately agreed to hold him in mind as gainfully and genuinely affluent. He had started on the payroll the day before this lecture, though his position would not officially begin until the coming Monday.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
10 May 1965 (possible)
Told
7 May 1965 (probable)
10 May 1965
Neville read in yesterday morning's family section of the L.A. Times a list of the big television names of two years ago, none of whom can be sold today.
11 May 1965

Lecture catalog #278 — text: HAVE

A friend dreams he is an actor whose identity he cannot remember
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 11 May 1965 (probable)
A friend dreams he is an unknown actor nearing spiritual awakening
Description
A friend wrote Neville describing a dream from two weeks earlier: he found himself as an actor arriving by train at night in an unnamed city he could only recall being called 'the City of Lights,' unable to remember his own name or the part he was to play. In the dream, two radiant, powerful men rushed to greet him and reveal his identity, but he woke just before they could tell him who he was -- a vision Neville reads as being on the verge of the deeper discovery of one's true, divine identity through 'the Son.'
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 11 May 1965 (possible)
Told
25 May 1965
Neville's friend has the actor dream
Description
Around mid-May 1965, Neville's friend dreamed he arrived by train at night in a brilliantly lit but unnamed city. He knew he was an actor yet could remember neither his identity nor his play; two radiant men rushed to welcome him before he awoke.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 11 May 1965 (probable)
Told
25 May 1965
11 May 1965 (probable)
12 May 1965 (probable)
Five years earlier, a friend of Neville's had fallen on hard times and could not repay money he owed; rather than ever raising the debt, Neville periodically imagined his friend restored and able to p
A golfer imagines his opponent's praise and wins by ten strokes
Description
A friend present in the audience wrote Neville a letter describing how, the night before a golf game, he assumed he was his opponent and complimented himself on every stroke; the next day he won by ten strokes while his friend complimented him at every hole.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
13 May 1965
Told
14 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: Greatest of All Blessings ¶3 (But he said, “Neville, I didn’t intend to beat him, that was not the purpose, but I tell you this to show you how the law works. I wonder if Arnold Palmer knows about it?”)
14 May 1965

Lecture catalog #279 — text: HAVE

14 May 1965 (probable)
In the course of illustrating how imagining a friend able and willing to repay a debt brought that friend to visit with his wife, Neville mentions in passing that the chair the friend's wife first sat
14 May 1965 (probable)
between 16 May 1965 and 21 May 1965 (probable)
A friend wrote to Neville that same week describing an experience of his own.
Friend dreams an earthquake after blessing a woman
Description
A friend wrote to Neville this week describing how, feeling that he was about to depart this world, he went to sleep saying “I am Christ, I am God” and granting a blessing to a woman friend, then dreamt of a violent earthquake that blew his house apart, heard his own voice proclaiming her free, woke in a pool of golden light and wrote out “Feeling is the one and only reality” and “Don’t think, feel,” afterwards finding the Bible fall open at the earthquake at the death of Jesus in Matthew.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • between 17 May 1965 and 21 May 1965
  • before 21 May 1965
Told
21 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: Your Mood Decides Your Future ¶22 (As my friend said to me in his letter to me, which thrilled me beyond measure, “Having done it for my friend, not knowing whether this is the night that I depart from this world, I was completely indifferent as to the results.”)
18 May 1965

Lecture catalog #280 — text: HAVE

A woman attends Neville's meeting on May 20, 1965
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 20 May 1965 (probable)
  • 20 February 1964 (possible)
Told
after 25 February 1964 (probable)
21 May 1965

Lecture catalog #281 — text: HAVE

Neville repeatedly insisted from the platform that he was not theorizing or speculating but had experienced the whole book of Scripture.
Description

Neville repeatedly insisted from the platform that he was not theorizing or speculating but had experienced the whole book of Scripture.

Verbatim (witness's words)

Neville repeatedly said, I'm not theorizing, I'm not speculating, I've experienced the whole book.

Neville (as quoted): "I'm not theorizing, I'm not speculating, I've experienced the whole book."

Authored by
architect
Date (happened)
  • 21 May 1965
  • c. 0
Told
  • 13 June 1976
  • 21 May 1965
  • 14 April 1967
  • 18 October 1969 (refuted)
  • 25 March 1968
  • 28 November 1969
  • 16 May 1969
  • 1971 (probable)
  • 27 October 1967
Sources
  • Source: Neville Goddard The Frank Carter Lectures (ngr32__carter — Frank Carter, first-hand)
  • Source: Your Mood Decides Your Future ¶19 (Standing before you this night—most of you here know it from my own confession—everything recorded in scripture in the New Testament from the birth of Jesus Christ to his resurrection I have experienced. His ascension I have experienced.)
  • Source: Down to the Sea in Ships ¶34 (For I tell you, my drama is over, it’s completely over. All these things that I’m talking about I have experienced. I’ve experienced scripture in its fullness.)
  • Source: Love Divided From Imagination (expanded "The Cup of Experience") ¶25 (I feel the work is done. But, for unknown reasons I must continue to tell it over and over and over.)
  • Source: The Serpent ¶13 (It is the same pattern as recorded by Paul, as the same God who revealed his Son in Paul revealed his Son in me, revealing me as the Father.)
  • Source: Christian Mystery Experienced Biblethroughneville ¶44 (I have personally experienced the story of Jesus Christ in detail, so I know what I am talking about. I am not theorising.)
  • Source: The Lord's Anointed ¶19 (Here I am a simple man, telling all who are born as I was born, that the Bible is written – not about the garment I am wearing, called Neville, but the Being within me.)
  • Source: The World Is A Stage ¶16 (And then, when you come back to this level of consciousness, you read Scripture, and your mind, for one moment, is just simply stunned.)
  • Source: The Eternal Father ¶31 (So I tell you, what I’ve told you this night is true. I’ve experienced it. I’ve experienced every bit of scripture. The whole thing has unfolded right within me, just like a tree.)
between 21 May 1965 and 28 May 1965 (probable)
Man bans negative television news from his home
Description
A man down from San Francisco told Neville today how he finally confronted his aunt, visiting from Maine for five months, and forbade the Huntley-Brinkley news on his television between six and seven, saying he was allergic to negativity after a whole day of hearing people's problems.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
  • 21 May 1965
  • before 21 May 1965
Told
21 May 1965
Sources
  • Source: Your Mood Decides Your Future ¶44 (So I said to her—and I’ve never been able to speak to this lady before—I said, ‘From now on when I come home at six, there will be no Huntley-Brinkley on that TV.’ She said, ‘You have an allergy.’ I said, ‘Yes, I have an allergy to all that is negative, …)
25 May 1965

Lecture catalog #282 — text: HAVE

25 May 1965 (probable)
25 May 1965
A woman in Neville's audience that night -- unexpected by him, since she was minding her grandchildren while her daughter and son-in-law were on vacation -- had sent him a letter by special delivery t