A woman in the audience gave Neville a written account of an inner mystical experience: she woke with the words "Now I understand," realized they had not been spoken by her own voice but by her friend Jan's, then heard a further voice say "I am in you and you in me," which brought her to a felt understanding of the oneness of being. Neville read her account aloud in the lecture "Suffering Is Like That of David" (1968-04-08), using it to illustrate that the same fatherhood (the imaginal "David" in everyone) unites people who otherwise look nothing alike.
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8 April 1968
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- 8 April 1968
- 8 April 1968
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- 8 April 1968
- 8 April 1968
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- Suffering Is Like That of David ¶14 (So, a lady tonight, she writes a story. She said, “I heard a voice and the voice within me. At first I woke with these words, ‘Now I understand’ and as I pondered these words, I discovered the words were not uttered by me, they were uttered by my friend …)