In summer 1959, Neville began experiencing what he called 'The Promise,' a mystical unfolding that he said continued over roughly three and a half years.
Adjudication: Rows 0-2 consistently corroborate that Neville's 'Promise' mystical experience began in summer 1959 (Wikipedia and his own prologue quote), a well-supported certain date. Rows 3-4 describe the 1961 publication of The Law and the Promise, the later book documenting that experience -- a distinct, sequential event rather than a competing date for the same occurrence.
Person: Neville Goddard
Ruling: accepted (all claims kept), Rudi 2026-07-23
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1961
- 1961
- c. 1966
- 14 October 1966
- 14 October 1966
19 January 1967
Source
- Neville Goddard Wikipedia ¶2 (began to experience it and have it unfold within me beginning that summer)
- Neville Goddard Wikipedia ¶7 (Neville undergoes the mystical experience of being reborn from his own skull)
- Neville Goddard In Prologue To William Walker Atkinsons The Arcane Teaching ¶7 (have it unfold within me beginning that summer and continuing during the next three-and-one-half years)
- What Must We Do ¶27 (So I have been experiencing, night after night, all the things concerning the awakening of God in man.)
Attested in 1 lecture
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| 1966-10-14 [exact/certain/final] | What Must We Do | So I have been experiencing, night after night, all the things concerning the awakening of God in man. The awakening of the tree that grows not outside that the gods of the earth and sea are seeking, but grows from the inside in the human brain. And every night is simply another petal, another blossom appears, with another expression of what it represents. If you saw this little thing, one single little cell, a whole tree, and a hundred billion of them? Can you see why Blake said, “All that you behold, though it appears without, it is within, in your Imagination, of which this world of… | 534165 |
| No date on record | Neville Goddard Wikipedia | He later wrote, “I did not know of The Promise until I began to experience it and have it unfold within me beginning that summer and continuing during the next three-and-one-half years. And this is Scriptural; read it in the Book of Daniel where it is referred to as ‘a time, times, and a half. It comes to 1260 days in your experience of it. In the latter part of the 1960s and early 1970s Neville gave more emphasis to The Promise than to The Law. |
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| No date on record | Neville Goddard Wikipedia | Archived 19 January 2011 at WebCite St. Michael, Barbados in the British West Indies Psychological truth of Biblical teaching Joseph Neville Goddard (first marriage), Victoria “Vicky” Goddard (second marriage) —Neville Lancelot Goddard is born on February 19 to a British family in St. Michael, Barbados, the fourth child in a family of nine boys and one girl. —At age seventeen Neville relocates to New York City to study theater. He makes a career as an actor and dancer on stage and silent screen, landing roles on Broadway, silent film, and touring Europe as part of a dance troupe. Neville… |
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| No date on record | Neville Goddard In Prologue To William Walker Atkinsons The Arcane Teaching | Neville once said that if he was stranded on an island and was allowed one book, he would choose, The Bible, without hesitation. If he could squeeze in more, he would add Charles Fillmore’s Metaphysical Dictionary of Bible names, William Blake, (“.. Why stand we here trembling around, Calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells”) and Nicolls Commentaries. These were the books he In his lectures and books, Neville dealt solely with The Law until the year 1959, “For I did not know of The Promise until I began to experience it and have it unfold within me beginning that… |
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