Neville Goddard

Confirmed NOT the same as
Other names
Neville Lancelot Goddard
Birth date
Death date
Spouse
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Mildred Mary Hughes
Children
Victoria Goddard
Joseph Neville Goddard
Relatives
Cecil Goddard
Victor Goddard
Lawrence Goddard
Fred Goddard
Collin Goddard
Art Goddard
Carl Goddard
Bruce Goddard
Daphne Batterson (Neville's sister)
Joseph "Joe" Goddard (Neville's father)
Wilhelmina Goddard
Wikidata QID
Q343517
Wikipedia URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Goddard
Summary

Barbadian writer (1905–1972)

Events involving this person

between 8 January 1968 and 15 January 1968
unresolved
Neville receives a listener's letter in the week before his 15 January 1968 lecture
Los Angeles
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1968-01-15 [exact/certain/final] Live the Answer Now Here is a letter given me this past week. She said, “A friend of mine who is a Mormon has said to me time and again, ‘You’re always reading the Bible, but you never go to church.’” And she explained to her friend that she doesn’t feel the need for a church. She likes reading the Bible and coming to her own conclusions or looking for parallels in scripture that would parallel her own experiences. Well, one day the doorbell rang and here is her friend with a group of missionaries from the Mormon Church. They’ve come to convert her. So she said, “For a moment I wanted to say I’m busy, but I… 528790
15 January 1968
unresolved
Neville describes returning to a cataleptic body from other worlds
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1968-01-15 [exact/certain/final] Live the Answer Now May I tell you, it’s the most interesting experience…don’t get panicky…you’ll come back. I have been shut out, oh, many times, and returned to this body that is cataleptic. I’ve been so completely shut out in these worlds that this which I left on a bed or on a chair or on a couch is cataleptic when I return. Can’t move it for a while, maybe twenty, twenty-five seconds, and then suddenly I can animate it again. If I didn’t get back, they’d cut it up to see why I died, and they’ll come to some conclusion. But if they were honest with themselves, they’ll see no physical reason, I just didn’t… 528820
9 October 1967
unresolved
Neville looks up the word light
Los Angeles
2 sources
2 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1967-10-09 [exact/probable/preferred] A Spiritual Feast Leave the book just as it is, don’t try to change it. I stand amazed, yet I cannot be disturbed about it when I read all the great scholars on this book. Today, I took the word light and went through my book on the word light. It’s amazing that the great scholars they cannot see it. They think it is a figure of speech, it can’t be true. It couldn’t be taken in a literal sense and so they try to give it every kind of interpretation. And these are the great minds of the day, men who are masters of the ancient tongue, but they know nothing because they haven’t had the experience. But I tell you… 550594
1967-10-09 [exact/certain/final] God Is Light Don’t try to change the Bible – leave it just as it is. I stand amazed, yet I cannot be disturbed when I read how the great scholars interpret it. Today I took the word “light” and was amazed how the scholars interpreted it as a figure of speech. They could not believe the word could be taken in a literal sense, so they gave it every kind of interpretation. 528877
1959
unresolved
Neville Goddard begins experiencing 'The Promise'
San Francisco
4 sources
4 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
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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before 1959
unresolved
Neville takes a year off work and spends a fortune
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1971-04-26 [exact/probable/final] Control Your Inner Conversations I tell you from my own experience, before the Promise was realized in me, seemingly I had this conversation with my brother. Formerly I would argue mentally, — we were five thousand miles apart, — and I needed money at that time; and when I found myself arguing with him, I broke it — tore that entire record up. And whether he sent me a nickel or not, I loved him and praised him and thanked him, and went about my business, not knowing where the next was coming from, for I had spent a fortune by taking off one solid year and living at the same level that I had lived in previous years, and spent… 550278
before 1959
unresolved
Neville practices identifying with objects and animals
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-13 [exact/certain/final] Esau and Jacob Luckily for me when this began to appear when I was seven, there were no psychoanalysts in the little island of Barbados, and if there had been, my father could not have afforded them. They would not have known what was happening to me. Luckily for the work I was to do, I was born there on this little island that had no importance in the world - and no psychoanalysts! So no one could disturb what my Father was doing to bring about this separation. It went on for five years, from seven to twelve, and then I was torn apart, but I did not lift that being out until I was twenty-one and saw it… 529329
13 November 1959
unresolved
Neville delivers lecture "Esau and Jacob"
Baptist Church on 48th Street, New York City
4 sources
4 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1965-10-29 [exact/certain/final] Your Creative Power So in my audience in New York City…I spoke at a little old church called the Baptist Church on 48th Street, right off Times Square, and there we held forth three times a week, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday nights. So I told them what I had done, I told them the story just as I’ve told you, and told them how to do it, just as you just heard. 533431
1971-03-22 [exact/certain/final] The Law: Your Choice and Risk Then you will be able to understand Scripture. Here’s the one who said, “I AM from above, and you are from below. I AM not of this world; you are of this world.” Do you think one man is talking to men? No; it is one Being speaking to Himself. Here is the “outer man” called Neville who came into the world first. This is the “Esau” of Scripture. And then after that, comes another one, . . my own wonderful human imagination; and that’s the “Jacob.” This is the “twin” that comes into the world. They aren’t two separate little boys. This is the story; this is an adumbration of that which comes… 530892
No date on record Neville Goddard Edward Douglas Fawcett In Fawcetts Letter

Neville Goddard & Edward Douglas Fawcett in “Fawcett’s Letter” That’s why the great old man Fawcett, whom I quoted in my latest book, he said, “The greatest of all secrets is this great secret of imagining. If one could only unravel that secret! – Neville Goddard Neville Goddard mentions a quote from philosopher Edward Douglas Fawcett in at least six of his lectures There is also a Neville lecture called “Fawcett’s Letter” (1959) which is very interesting: “This platform is concerned only with Imaginism. We believe the Supreme Power that created the universe is all Imagination. We…

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No date on record Ancient Tantra Sir John Woodroffe The Translator Abdullah The Synthesizer Neville Goddard The Applier

Neville Goddard, “God’s Law,” April 9, 1965 – Quotes the “sesamum was sesamum” stanza from to illustrate the Law of identical harvest. https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-gods-law/. Neville Goddard, “The Maker and the Maker of Things,” February 7, 1969 – Recalls meeting the old Scotsman in 1925 who gave him https://coolwisdombooks.com/neville/neville-goddard-lectures-the-maker-…

98066
before 1959
unresolved
Neville says he lived fully and to excess
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-09-08 [exact/certain/final] The Birth of the Babe I know the story is truer than I ever knew it to be (the story of the birth of Christ Jesus), but it is not something that took place; but it is taking place. I can make no pretense of holiness. I have done everything; I have lived life fully, and I think, richly. Everything I have done I have done to excess; that is the way I am. So I cannot be proud that I gave birth to that son, nor can I be ashamed, but when I see as I have seen, then I know the story is truer than the priesthoods of the world tell us. 529104
before 1959
unresolved
Neville experiences worlds within worlds
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-13 [exact/certain/final] Esau and Jacob I sit quietly and turn my eyes inward as if I am looking into my skull. In a moment a golden light begins to glow. Light begins to appear and it looks like golden liquid light and it comes before my eyes and then it goes out in circle after circle, like smoke rings, and these increase in rate and then they become like a funnel with the big end at my face. Another exercise I practice: I take a table or a rug. I do not look at it, but focus my attention beyond it, and with my eyes partially open; I try to look below its surface. Suddenly the whole thing will become alive. There is nothing dead… 529350
c. 1959
certain
Reflected on his early twenties
New York City possible
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1963-05-17 [exact/certain/final] The Cross The question is, I speak so often of the fullness of time—this is taken from the Book of Galatians, the 4th chapter: “When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were born under the law.” Everything has its own appointed hour, all pregnancies in the world. At what moment in time after the nailing of the cross within you he impregnated you with himself to beget you in his own likeness, I do not know at what moment in time. But at that fullness of time no one can stop it. What is that fullness of time? No one could be… 530401
1959
certain
Neville's visionary experiences begin in 1959
San Francisco
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1965-01-29 [exact/certain/final] The Womb of the Universe Now let me tell you a story as told me in a letter last Tuesday night. When I got home I had the letter with me and before I retired I read it. I can’t tell you my thrill! I know that he, the one who had the experience, is now in spiritual shock, just as I was in spiritual shock and remain there since 1959. For when these things happen to you you’re not the same person. You’re not the being that your friends think you are; something entirely different has happened. You walk as though you were the same person, but you’re not the same person. You can’t be the same person. So I know that he is… 532631
1959
probable
Neville's ministry begins in 1959
2 sources
2 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1969-03-14 [exact/certain/final] The Bible's Mystery While in this world I was incorporated into the body of love and sent. Paul mentioned fourteen years. I go back forty. It was 1929 when I was called and sent, but it was not until 1959 (thirty years later) that my ministry began in the true sense of the word. 552605
1969-03-14 [exact/certain/final] The Bible's Mystery Prior to that I spoke only of the law. You know what you want, believe that you have it. Persist in that assumption and it will harden into fact. So I was only talking about the law, as I knew nothing of the promise until 1959, when all the promises of God found their “yes” in me. 552606
before 1959
unresolved
Neville identifies God as believing himself to be Neville
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-03-23 [exact/certain/final] The Art of Dying I will crucify myself, for God crucified himself in me that I might live. But now I must nail myself upon the thing I desire and, remaining faithful to it, lift it up as God nailed himself upon me. (The present body) is believing himself a man called Neville, giving Neville the same power that is his (but keyed low) in the hope that I will lift up the power to bigger things in my world to which I can nail myself, and so lift them up. 528956
before 1959
unresolved
Neville mystically freezes and restarts outward activity
1 source
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1959-11-24 [exact/certain/final] North of the Strip It is all created and what we call the animal world (which we say preceded us) is man himself pushed out, and as man is changing, so do the animals of the world change. The whole vast world on the outside is dead, and man makes it alive. I know from my mystical experiences. I know that when I freeze an activity within me, it freezes outwardly, and when I started it again within me, it started. 529360