Neville's mystical "awakening" at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel

Neville experienced a mystical awakening that he later marked as his spiritual "birthday", said to have occurred at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco.

Place: San Francisco - Sir Francis Drake Hotel

Person: Neville Goddard

A CWB web article (node 2070) reproduces this same account, adding that Neville had 'read a bit of the Bible, a bit of William Blake' before retiring that night, and closes on a Blake couplet ('At length, for hatching ripe, he breaks the shell').

Date (happened)
20 July 1959
unresolved
  1. 20 July 1959 stated · preferred
    Source The Secret of Imagining ¶48"on the 20th day of July 1959", told in The Secret of Imagining (nid 1047)
  2. 20 July 1959 stated · probable
    Source Neville Lectures Index ¶8"Neville's Awakening "Birthday" at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel San Francisco (July 20, 1959)"
  3. 20 July 1959 stated
    Source The Birth of the Babe ¶7"the morning of July 20", told in The Birth of the Babe (nid 1058)
  4. 20 July 1959 stated
    Source His Purpose ¶6"Twelve years ago today", told in His Purpose (nid 1533)
  5. 8 April 1960 stated · probable
    Source Experience Scripture ¶19"At 4:00 in the morning", told in Experience Scripture (nid 1904)
  6. July 1959 stated
    Source All Dreams Proceed From God ¶7"July 1959", told in All Dreams Proceed From God (nid 2013)
  7. before 8 September 1959 bound
    Source The Birth of the Babe ¶7bound from passage 529103 / telling lecture nid 1058
    Reasoning P529103 is retrospective personal testimony; non-preferred before-bound from lecture nid 1058.
  8. 8 April 1960 stated · refuted
    Source Experience Scripture ¶19passage 548354 in Experience Scripture (nid 1904)
    Why Append-only correction; existing 1959-07-20 claims remain untouched.
    Reasoning Passage 548354 states only that the vibration began at 4:00 in the morning; it supplies no 1960-04-08 calendar date. Multiple independent direct passages identify the same awakening as 1959-07-20.
Place
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
Persons
Neville Goddard
William Blake
Told / reported
  1. 8 September 1959 stated
    Source The Birth of the BabeThe Birth of the Babe (nid 1058), telling 1058-1, told 1959-09-08
  2. 16 July 1969 stated · probable
    Source Pre-ExistencePre-Existence (nid 1470), telling 1470-7, told 1969-07-16
  3. 20 July 1971 stated
    Source His PurposeHis Purpose (nid 1533), telling 1533-0, told 1971-07-20
  4. 28 May 1971 stated
    Source Experience ScriptureExperience Scripture (nid 1904), telling 1904-4, told 1971-05-28
  5. 6 March 1972 stated
    Source John The Crown of ScriptureJohn The Crown of Scripture (nid 58), telling 58-6, told 1972-03-06
  6. 12 March 1971 stated · refuted
    Source The Secret of ImaginingThe Secret of Imagining (nid 1047), telling 1047-3, told 1971-03-12
Sources

Source

  • Neville Lectures Index ¶8 (Neville's Awakening "Birthday" at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel San Francisco (July 20, 1959))
  • The Secret of Imagining ¶48 (But instead of departing this world, I awoke to find myself within my own skull; and I knew that I was entombed completely within my own skull. I was fully awake, as I’ve never been awake before, and here I am sealed . . the skull is sealed, and I AM in …)
  • The Birth of the Babe ¶7 (He went over to the window and then he stood looking down and I saw something on the floor, and he said, “It’s Neville’s baby!” and the others said, “How could he have a baby?” But I lifted a baby from the floor, wrapped it in swaddling clothes and I hel…)
  • Pre-Existence ¶56 (It was right here in this City . . in that hotel, . . it was there that mine began, and then when I went back to my home in Southern California, the other three major events took place over a period of three and a half years, or one thousand two hundred …)
  • His Purpose ¶6 (Twelve years ago today in this City, across the way at the Hotel Sir Francis Drake, that mystery began to unfold in me. I retired quite early, having read a bit of the Bible, a bit of William Blake, and then retired. I made a call to my wife and daughter…)
  • Experience Scripture ¶19 (At 4:00 in the morning, this strange, peculiar vibration began in my head . . something I had never felt before. And my interpretation of what I felt was, “This must be a massive hemorrhage.”)
  • All Dreams Proceed From God ¶7 (July 1959 in the city of San Francisco I had the experience of waking from a profound sleep all within my skull.)
  • David Christ ¶42 (When I was sung to sleep in my hotel room in San Francisco, no one could have told me that night, when I went to bed, that such things were even possible. I only knew the law, and I taught the law. I knew nothing of the promise.)
  • John The Crown of Scripture ¶32 (When it happened to me, here I am, in a strange room, in a hotel in San Francisco. Room 725. Here I am a normal person sleeping, living a normal life.)
  • His Purpose ¶6 (CWB web article reproducing the 'twelve years ago today...Hotel Sir Francis Drake' lecture passage (= passage 542081, lecture node 1533))