Freedom Barry

Events involving this person

Wednesday of last week

unresolved

Freedom Barry's stolen piano returns after Neville imagines hearing it

Cambria, CA

with Freedom Barry, Catherine Willa Van Schmus

1 source

between 1958 and 1 October 1972

unresolved

Illustrating Neville's brevity, Barry recalls him describing a long-winded person as 'a woman of a few million words.'

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between 1958 and 1 October 1972

unresolved

Neville told Barry he was the only person he had ever authorized to speak his work — while insisting Barry not repeat him: 'I don't want you to say what I say. This thing must unfold.'

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between 1958 and 1 October 1972

unresolved

Barry recalls Neville teaching that imaginal work is 'all a matter of intensity,' with his characteristic example contrasting the vehemence of hatred with the flatness of praise.

with Freedom Barry

1 source

c. 1958

unresolved

A former Christian Science patient lent Barry a jacketless library copy of a Neville book (Your Faith Is Your Fortune), dismissing it as 'manipulation and hypnotism'; Barry read it through the night and by 4 a.m. was walking his dog in Van Nuys seein

Vespers Avenue

with Freedom Barry

1 source

c. 1958

unresolved

Phoning Neville's publisher G.&J. (Grace and Jack Weeks), Barry learned Neville had left New York, was living in Los Angeles, and was lecturing twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays, at the Wilshire.

Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between March 1958 and June 1958

unresolved

For weeks Barry went to Neville's lecture venue, heard his voice over the loudspeaker but deliberately would not go in, buying one book per visit until he owned and had critically read them all — unable to catch Neville contradicting himself — before

Fine Arts Auditorium, Wilshire, Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between June 1958 and 1963

unresolved

A woman in the audience asked Neville point-blank whether he drank; he answered 'Do I drink?! Of course, I drink... I do nothing in moderation,' adding that his father finished a fifth of gin every morning before ten o'clock — Barry was present that

Fine Arts Auditorium, Wilshire, Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

c. June 1958

unresolved

Freedom Barry begins attending Neville's Wilshire lectures

Fine Arts Auditorium, Wilshire, Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

c. June 1958

unresolved

After Barry's first lecture he asked Neville whether he taught privately; Neville answered with a flat 'No,' telling him 'You are the operant Power' and that he no longer took individual students.

Fine Arts Auditorium, Wilshire, Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between June 1958 and July 1959

unresolved

Barry heard Neville five or six times before his annual two-week San Francisco engagement; on Neville's return Barry gave him two written case histories of the teaching applied, and Neville was delighted — Barry then never missed a lecture for a year

Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between 1959 and 1963

unresolved

At his home Neville fixed Barry a potent double scotch; Barry saw Neville finish a pitcher of martinis and go straight onto the platform, never appearing under the influence — 'I just like the lift it gives me.'

Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between 20 July 1959 and 27 July 1959

unresolved

Returning from San Francisco where he had the 'Birth from Above' experience, Neville told the story in shockingly literal terms — being born through the skull of his head as a womb opens — to a full 300-seat hall, and the audience collapsed to thirty

Fine Arts Auditorium, Wilshire, Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

after December 1959

unresolved

Freedom Barry gives weekly Awakened Imagination talks at the Bellevue Hotel

Bellevue Hotel, San Francisco

with Freedom Barry

5 sources

c. 1960

unresolved

When a network of Neville's San Francisco students branded Barry a fraud ('Neville never sent him'), Barry wrote to Neville and received back a letter — dictated to his wife, who always wrote the letters — 'Let no one dissuade you. My vision has neve

San Francisco

with Freedom Barry

1 source

1 January 1960

unresolved

Barry moved to San Francisco on New Year's Day 1960, encouraged by Neville's confident vision that the audiences who had filled the Scottish Rite Auditorium for Neville would all come to Barry.

San Francisco

with Freedom Barry

1 source

1 January 1960

unresolved

Neville sends Freedom Barry to teach in San Francisco

San Francisco

with Freedom Barry

3 sources

before August 1962

unresolved

Neville personally encouraged Freedom Barry to conduct his own spiritual investigation and to speak only from conclusions his own personal experience would yield.

Laguna Beach possible

with Freedom Barry

1 source

before 1963

unresolved

Freedom Barry dedicates his book to Neville, calling him 'The Mystic Genius' and crediting him personally with opening the gate of spiritual awakening and coaxing Barry through it — attesting a direct teacher-student relationship.

with Freedom Barry

1 source

c. 1963

unresolved

Barry says Neville returned from a Barbados stay in terrible shape, having 'gone home to die,' asked Barry to take over his Los Angeles audience, and introduced him to a packed Women's University Club before leaving with wife 'Bill' and daughter for

Woman's University Club

with Freedom Barry

1 source

between 1963 and 1964

unresolved

Years after reading Neville's book instruction to lie flat with head level (no pillow) to release the sense of personhood, Barry asked him about it and Neville laughed it off: 'Well, I never do it that way anymore.'

with Freedom Barry

1 source

28 January 1964

unresolved

Neville endorses his and Freedom Barry's books at the lecture book table

Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

after January 1960

unresolved

Neville gives Freedom Berry The Candle of Vision

San Francisco

with Freedom Barry

1 source

6 February 1964

unresolved

Freedom Barry's book has not arrived for Neville's book table

Los Angeles

with Freedom Barry

1 source

c. June 1964

unresolved

Freedom Barry imagines finding a rare Flagstad record

Ebell Theatre

with Freedom Barry

1 source