Neville Goddard's mentorship under Abdullah

Neville studied under Abdullah for roughly seven years, per this timeline reconstruction.

Place: New York City

Person: Neville Goddard

Attested in print by Neville himself in April 1955: 'I really learned the most about it from Abdullah, one of the greatest mystics of all time. He changed my life. I have had no obstacles in my life since then.' (TV-Radio Life, 15-22 April 1955, p.31.)

This copy quotes Neville directly: 'I really learned the most about it from Abdullah, one of the greatest mystics of all time. He changed my life. I have had no obstacles in my life since then.'

Broome says Abdullah taught Neville Qabalah, psychological scripture, and the law of consciousness, changing how Neville understood the Bible and the projected world.

Date (happened)
1929
unresolved
  1. 1929 stated · probable · preferred
    Source The Abdullah Investigation The Hidden Teacher Of Neville Goddard Part 3 Mokomba Mahalla The Names That Vanish"Teaching Neville, 1929-1936, seven years of mentorship"
  2. 1925 stated · doubtful
    Source this copy's OCR: 'aroused interest in the...mind -- in 1925. At the time he was a successful dancer. After eleven years [on] the stage he quit.'
    Why OCR string as captured: '1925'. Conflicts with the existing 1929 claim from the same clipping (node 4375) -- likely a 5/9 digit misread on one copy or the other.
    Reasoning This event's existing claim (from node 4375, a duplicate scrape of the same clipping) reads 1929. The two years differ by a single OCR-confusable digit (5/9) on what is otherwise the same sentence in the same article; not silently resolving it either way, kept at low confidence with the literal OCR string preserved for a re-read of the scan to settle.
Place
New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Abdullah
Told / reported
  1. between 15 April 1955 and 22 April 1955 stated
    Source 'I really learned the most about it from Abdullah, one of the greatest mystics of all time. He changed my life. I have had no obstacles in my life since then.'
    Why Quoted directly, not paraphrased.
    Reasoning Neville names Abdullah, in his own words, in a signed trade-press interview printed in the issue of 15-22 April 1955. This is a telling of the mentorship, dated by the issue, and it is the earliest printed attestation of Abdullah from Neville himself that this corpus holds — every other witness on this event is a lecture passage from the 1960s.
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Neville Goddard Lecture Series: Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 19
Neville Goddard Lecture Series: Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 19
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