Neville's early Rosicrucian asceticism breaks his nervous system

Israel Regardie's 1945 biography states that in his early twenties Neville's extreme Rosicrucian asceticism (fasting, vegetarianism, continence) caused fainting fits and nervous breakdown, dropping his weight to 135 lbs.
Person: Neville Goddard
Ruling: accepted as possible, Rudi 2026-07-23

Source document 2216 quotes Regardie’s account that a Rosicrucian regimen of abstinence, continence, and vegetarianism reduced Neville from 176 pounds to about 135 and was accompanied by weakness and psychic experiences. It supplies no precise date for that regimen.

Date (happened)
between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1927
unresolved
  1. between 19 February 1925 and 18 February 1927 estimated · possible · preferred
    Source The One Greater Than John ¶3passage 528239 (lecture nid 1033, 'The One Greater Than John'), 'at the age of twenty, a little after twenty, say, twenty-one', combined with birth anchor hist_event 950 (1905-02-19)
    Why Does not supersede d0/d1 (both left standing, append-only); offered as a wider but more accurate bound on the same underlying self-report.
    Reasoning Neville's own phrasing hedges between age twenty and twenty-one rather than naming one age outright; by the birth anchor that hedge spans 1925-02-19 (turning 20) to 1927-02-18 (end of being 21). The existing d0/d1 claims collapse this to a single year (1926); a between-range is the more honest reading of an age given as a hedge rather than an exact number, per the standing rule that a whole-number age spans a year and a hedge between two ages spans two.
  2. c. 1926 stated · possible
    Source Ancient Tantra Sir John Woodroffe The Translator Abdullah The Synthesizer Neville Goddard The Applier ¶18""resulted in him losing so much weight that he weighed 135 pounds""
  3. c. 1926 stated · possible
    Source age 21 + birth 1905 = 1926 (1 statement, told 1964)
Place
New York City possible
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 1945 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Ancient Tantra Sir John Woodroffe The Translator Abdullah The Synthesizer Neville Goddard The Applier
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