Neville's "resurrection"/awakening experience in San Francisco

On July 20, 1959 in San Francisco, Neville experienced what he described as awakening from a tomb within his own skull, an event that marked a turning point in his lectures.

Place: San Francisco, CA

Person: Neville Goddard

Date (happened)
20 July 1959
unresolved
  1. 20 July 1959 stated · preferred
    Source Imagination's Power ¶39"ten years ago last July 20th", told in Imaginations Power Biblethroughneville (nid 1793)
  2. 20 July 1959 stated
    Source Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was God ¶16"It was in San Francisco, on July 20, 1959 that Neville awoke to find himself sealed in a tomb"
  3. c. 1959 stated
    Source stated by Neville: 1959 (2 statements, told 1965-1971)
  4. c. 1959 stated
    Source Advent: The Four Tears ¶12"four years ago", told in Advent: The Four Tears (nid 2239)
  5. c. 1959 stated · probable
    Source Christ Unveiled ¶37"in my mature years", told in Christ Unveiled (nid 1089)
  6. between 1905 and 1965 stated · probable
    Source Advent ¶43"in my sixty years", told in Advent (nid 1809)
  7. c. 1910 stated · refuted
    Source Everyone Has the Plan in Him ¶15"For fifty-odd years you woke at least once a day", told in Everyone Has the Plan in Him (nid 1234)
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 017): The 'fifty-odd years you woke' passage is a generic teaching illustration about ordinary daily waking, not evidence dating this specific 1959 event.
  8. 24 January 1956 stated · refuted
    Source Imagining Creates Reality (revised) ¶46"it came in the wee hours of the morning, a little after four", told in Imagining Creates Reality (revised) (nid 1912)
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 017): Matches neither of node 1912's own established delivery estimates (1967-02-21 probable, 1971-03-03 refuted); the passage gives a time of night, not a date, and appears mis-extracted.
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  1. 6 December 1959 stated · refuted
    Source The Word Of God ¶23"a hundred and thirty-nine days after", told in The Word Of God (nid 3956)
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 017): 'A hundred and thirty-nine days after' dates David's appearance, five months after the July 20 awakening — a separate event, not this one.
Place
San Francisco
Persons
Neville Goddard
Christine
Bob
Benny
Ben
Wilhelmina Goddard
David
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Told / reported
  1. 12 April 1963 stated
    Source The ResurrectionThe Resurrection (nid 1097), telling 1097-0, told 1963-04-12
  2. 26 May 1964 stated
    Source Call the Next WitnessCall the Next Witness (nid 1169), telling 1169-5, told 1964-05-26
  3. 25 June 1965 stated
    Source The Fundamental SinThe Fundamental Sin (nid 1214), telling 1214-1, told 1965-06-25
  4. 24 January 1966 stated
    Source Everyone Has the Plan in HimEveryone Has the Plan in Him (nid 1234), telling 1234-3, told 1966-01-24
  5. 8 April 1968 stated
    Source Suffering Is Like That of DavidSuffering Is Like That of David (nid 1349), telling 1349-1, told 1968-04-08
  6. 11 April 1969 stated
    Source The Perfect ImageThe Perfect Image (nid 1438), telling 1438-2, told 1969-04-11
  7. 28 September 1969 stated · doubtful
    Source Biblical LanguageBiblical Language (nid 1481), telling 1481-3, told 1969-09-28
  8. 17 November 1969 stated
    Source Thy Words Were FoundThy Words Were Found (nid 1502), telling 1502-9, told 1969-11-17
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  1. 1 December 1969 stated
    Source The Heart of the DreamerThe Heart of the Dreamer (nid 1506), telling 1506-7, told 1969-12-01
  2. 30 April 1965 stated
    Source My HusbandMy Husband (nid 1931), telling 1931-0, told 1965-04-30
  3. 1971 stated · probable
    Source Nothing But GodNothing But God (nid 2149), telling 2149-7, told 1971
  4. 1966 stated · probable
    Source My Husband (tape)My Husband (tape) (nid 2206), telling 2206-0, told 1966
  5. 24 November 1963 stated · doubtful
    Source Advent: The Four TearsAdvent: The Four Tears (nid 2239), telling 2239-1, told 1963-11-24
  6. 24 November 1963 stated · doubtful
    Source Advent: The Four TearsAdvent: The Four Tears (nid 2239), telling 2239-2, told 1963-11-24
  7. 22 May 1964 estimated
    Source God Has a Purposenid 1399 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1968-11-13 refuted; 1964-5-22 certain (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1399 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1399 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1964-5-22 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1968-11-13 refuted; 1964-5-22 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 5: 1968-11-13 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  8. 5 February 1963 estimated
    Source The Bible: Your Spiritual Biographynid 1710 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1952-7-7 refuted; 1963-2-5 certain; 1969-8-8 refuted; 1963-2-5 certain (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1710 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1710 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1963-2-5 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1952-7-7 refuted; 1963-2-5 certain; 1969-8-8 refuted; 1963-2-5 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 10: 1969-08-08 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  9. 1 March 1968 estimated
    Source They Related Their Own Experiencesnid 1890 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1968-3-1 certain; 1968-1-3 refuted; 1968-3-1 certain (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1890 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1890 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1968-3-1 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1968-3-1 certain; 1968-1-3 refuted; 1968-3-1 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 11: 1968-01-03 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  10. 21 February 1967 estimated · probable
    Source Imagining Creates Reality (revised)nid 1912 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1955-??-?? refuted; 1971-3-3 refuted; 1967-2-21 probable (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1912 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1912 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1967-2-21 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1955-??-?? refuted; 1971-3-3 refuted; 1967-2-21 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 12: 1971-03-03 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  11. 15 March 1963 stated
    Source Christ UnveiledChrist Unveiled (nid 1089), telling 1089-2, told 1963-03-15
  12. November 1965 estimated · possible
    Source Advent ¶43passage 545147 (lecture nid 1809, 'Advent'); sole delivery claim, estimated/exact/possible, November 1965, from his stated age of sixty plus the imminent first Sunday of Advent (skeptic verdict: weak)
    Reasoning Passage 545147 is Neville answering an audience question by recounting, in his own voice, his own unexpected awakening. The owning lecture nid 1809 has a single delivery claim, November 1965, at possible confidence per its own weak skeptic verdict (it depends on an unsupplied birth date). No conflicting or corroborating claim exists, so the telling inherits that same month-level precision and possible confidence unchanged.
  13. 13 November 1968 stated · refuted
    Source God Has a PurposeGod Has a Purpose (nid 1399), telling 1399-4, told 1968-11-13
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1399, 1968-11-13) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1964-5-22. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  14. 8 August 1969 stated · refuted
    Source The Bible: Your Spiritual BiographyThe Bible: Your Spiritual Biography (nid 1710), telling 1710-8, told 1969-08-08
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1710, 1969-8-8) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1963-2-5. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  15. 3 January 1968 stated · refuted
    Source They Related Their Own ExperiencesThey Related Their Own Experiences (nid 1890), telling 1890-5, told 1968-01-03
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1890, 1968-1-3) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1968-3-1. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  16. 3 March 1971 stated · refuted
    Source Imagining Creates Reality (revised)Imagining Creates Reality (revised) (nid 1912), telling 1912-6, told 1971-03-03
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1912, 1971-3-3) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1967-2-21. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources

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  • Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was God ¶16 (It was in San Francisco, on July 20, 1959 that Neville awoke to find himself sealed in a tomb)
  • Spiritual States ¶31 ("fifty‑four years" (lecture, 1965))
  • Invisible ¶30 ("when I was 54 years of age" (lecture, 1971))
  • The Resurrection ¶31 (After one moment of panic, you push and something gives at the base of your skull and out you come, just like a birth.)
  • Call the Next Witness ¶14 (I only know it was applied to my head—and I who thought up to that very moment I was always awake found myself waking. I’m waking and I thought this is a normal waking, and it isn’t a normal waking; I’m awaking in my skull.)
  • The Fundamental Sin ¶16 (And then I tell you from experience—I am not theorizing, I am not speculating, I’m telling you what I have experienced—that every person in this world will be resurrected and incorporated into the body of God, without loss of their specific identity, tha…)
  • Everyone Has the Plan in Him ¶15 (He lifts this little infant wrapped in cloth and just puts it on the bed. Then you will bend over and take up that little body; and when you raise it, you will look into its face and speak in the most endearing manner to it. I said, “How is my sweetheart…)
  • Suffering Is Like That of David ¶5 (I know in my own case I felt myself waking and waking and waking, and then when I’m completely awake, here I am in a tomb. I am in an actual tomb and where was the tomb? Not in a cemetery; I was the tomb, this body here was the tomb. It was all in my sku…)
  • God Has a Purpose ¶35 (Well, I can tell you from experience it has happened to me. So I know the joy of the union in my crucifixion with him, and I now experience the joy in my resurrection with him.)
  • The Perfect Image ¶11 (Having purposely imposed this limitation upon myself, I felt as though I were speaking to another, making requests of him and thanking him for their fulfillment. Now I have no sense of another. I feel only as the one who formed me into his likeness; for …)
  • Biblical Language ¶14 (I awoke in Golgotha – my own skull – and I came forth from that skull, as it is said that Bethlehem will bring forth someone for me, one who will rule as God.)
  • Thy Words Were Found ¶43 (When I heard the heavenly chorus sing my praises when I was risen they called me by my name Neville. They said, “Neville is risen.” They didn’t say the Lord, God of hosts or God of hosts; they said Neville.)
  • The Heart of the Dreamer ¶26 (I know that the sensation of resurrection is one of waking. I actually awoke and wondered how long I had been there and who put me there.)
  • The Bible: Your Spiritual Biography ¶33 (And may I tell you from experience: it is true. God’s mightiest act is the resurrection, and each individual will be resurrected, and the day that you are, you will be the most startled being in the world, because until that moment you had no idea that y…)
  • Imagination's Power ¶39 (This last 20th of July was quite an anniversary for me, for it was the day when we landed on the moon. That was my tenth anniversary, for ten years ago last July 20th it happened to me in San Francisco…the first one.)
  • They Related Their Own Experiences ¶38 (I was five hundred miles away from where I lived. I was in San Francisco when I lived in Beverly Hills.)
  • Imagining Creates Reality (revised) ¶46 (I felt vibrations that I have never experienced before centered at the base of my skull that increased in intensity. When I thought that I personally could take no more, that there would be an explosion, a massive cerebral hemorrhage, I thought that this…)
  • The Riddle ¶35 (Well, that last chapter, which I have titled Resurrection, is the true story, not based upon hearsay, but on my own personal experience of the resurrection and all that goes with it.)
  • My Husband ¶7 (The story was told me by my mother first, and then my Sunday school teacher; and then as I read the book, I always thought, until it happened to me, that it happened 2,000 years ago.)
  • Nothing But God ¶29 (I am telling you what I know from experience. I am not theorizing, I am not speculating.)
  • My Husband (tape) ¶30 (I know myself, I could never have envisioned what would happen before it did happen.)
  • Advent: The Four Tears ¶12 (I awoke one night four years ago; I awoke in a sepulcher to discover the sepulcher was my own wonderful skull.)
  • Advent: The Four Tears ¶8 (It never occurred to me, raised as I was in the Christian faith, that when it happened to me it was the resurrection of Jesus Christ, for the simple fact I was resurrected.)
  • The Word Of God ¶23 (and his son comes a hundred and thirty-nine days after the father resurrects, awakens within the tomb, which is really the holy womb, and that is the skull of man)
  • Christ Unveiled ¶37 (God in his infinite mercy looked upon me and found me ripe at that moment, and he awoke me. As he awoke me, I awoke for the first time in eternity, and I was sealed in a tomb, and the tomb was my skull. I was completely sealed in a tomb, and the tomb was…)
  • Advent ¶43 (I was born and raised in a Christian home, raised in the Christian tradition, and I wasn’t taught it this way.)