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

20 July 1959
probable
Neville says the awakening came unlike any prior vision
Sir Francis Drake Hotel 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
1971-07-20 [exact/certain/final] His Purpose My dear, this is something so unlike anything I had ever experienced before . . I have had many mystical experiences and many wonderful visions, but this came so suddenly, so unexpectedly. Certainly, I did not expect it. But I did not realize how literally true, on a higher level, the Gospel story is! Your head is simply like an earthquake. I’ve gone through two very severe earthquakes in Southern California: the one in ’52 that registered 7.5, and the recent one registering 6.2. The whole house just kept shaking; we had hundreds of aftershocks. That was an intense one. But this all takes… 542124
between 20 July 1959 and 6 December 1959
certain
Neville measures 139 days between two mystical experiences
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 [exact/probable/final] My Glory Now here is the promise made real: the child, a laughing thing, come to discover, a thousand years later, if you read the play, and it would be a repetitive display, over and over, with no escape. And suddenly now the son is going to appear, and you escape. The son of prayer, and you know exactly who he is, yet between that son of hearing and the child’s birth is a thousand years, if you read the story correctly, yet in your own experience it’s only a matter of months between the appearance of the son and the birth of the child — exactly one hundred and thirty-nine days. 554014
between 20 July 1959 and 1 January 1963
probable
Neville declares the complete drama of salvation fulfilled in him
with David
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
1968-02-23 [exact/certain/final] Jesus Christ No man can set you free. This man called Neville is simply an agent expressing truth. It is not good enough for you to just understand it. You must believe - not in Neville - but in the truth he is expressing from this platform and his books. If I lie and you believe what I say then you can’t prove it and will remain a slave. And oh, the pain that is promised to the teacher who dares to lie and mislead those who trust him. I am telling you what I have experienced, so I can’t lie. Jesus Christ, God’s story of salvation, has been fulfilled in me. I have experienced the birth; the discovery of… 537352
1968-02-23 [exact/certain/final] Did a Man Called Jesus Christ Walk the Earth? I know I am telling you what I have experienced so it can’t be a lie. I have actually experienced it. In the audience tonight many have experienced it: The birth; the discovery of the Son of God who is David; the splitting of the temple which is one’s body; the ascent of the Son of man into heaven; and then the descent of the dove upon that individual who has gone through Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ is simply the story of salvation. 550667
20 July 1959
probable
Neville describes the night of his mystical experience as an entirely ordinary day - his usual two or three martinis bef
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
1968-10-21 [exact/certain/final] Fall in Love with Christ The night that it happened to me, I lived a very normal day, had my usual two or three martinis before dinner, had a lovely roast beef dinner and a baked potato; and didn’t turn in for several hours after. So it was not the result of some undigested piece of beef, for I had my dinner at five and it was eleven when I doused the lights. Well, certainly anything in my stomach at five should have been a way down by eleven, so it was not any undigested food in my stomach that prompted this miraculous experience. Yet, here is a perfectly normal, natural man in the world of Caesar. 545950
c. 20 July 1959
unresolved
Neville says the scriptural Word unveiled itself in him
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
1968-04-22 [exact/certain/final] My Word Shall Accomplish My Purpose The whole thing is God, for the Word is God: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” The word translated “word,” the word logos, means “a pattern, it’s meaning, it’s a plan.” So here is a plan…there’s a purpose behind the whole vast creation, and that is the forming of Christ in man. For it’s called in the scripture, “And his name shall be called The Word of God” and they’re speaking of Christ Jesus. So forget Christ Jesus as a man that you call a being on the outside that you worship, and think of him as this Word, this plan, this pattern man, that… 551751
20 July 1959
probable
Neville says God brought forth the child in him
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
1965-02-12 [exact/probable/preferred] The Law Everyone can grow into their vision if they will only actually believe the story. God told me a story in the beginning of time, and that story was he would so become me that I would become God. But he didn’t impose it upon me that I had to believe it, he swore it unto himself. I didn’t have to believe it—that’s unconditioned. But while I am passing through the horrors of the world, I must imitate God as a dear child and impose upon myself the same kind of a story, and believe it. Not take anyone into my confidence, simply take myself and believe it. So I must imagine that I am the man that I… 546833
20 July 1959
probable
Neville rises alone within the tomb after union with God
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
1965-04-30 [exact/certain/final] My Husband For if you have died…now this is the letter…someone writes me a letter, I open the letter and I’m reading it, and it begins, “You have died.” Well, I’m alive, I think I am. So I read the words “You have died and your life is hid with Christ.” I died. Here I am alive, I’m reading a letter, for this is the letter. I don’t understand how could I be dead? For I walk, I eat, I dress, I do all these things and yet I am told I’ve died. And then comes this experience suddenly. You must have died, but you never knew it in what is called the day of the Lord which is all darkness. You had no knowledge… 549364
14 August 1959
certain
Neville sees his body die twenty-four days after the first vision
Los Angeles 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
1959-09-11 [exact/certain/final] The Second Vision So the second vision came. Twenty-four days later, I am seated at a table with friends, and as I rose, my body dropped dead. And then came a manservant and tied it up with a rope as you tie up a piece of beef for the oven. You could see the flesh jump as the cord drew tight. And he said, “You were not sick; why did you die?” And I said, “There is a time to be born and a time to die; and a time to plant and a time to reap, and the time has come.” 529142
c. September 1959
probable
Hearers regard Neville as dangerous after his first series 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
1959-09-22 [exact/certain/final] Fawcett's Letter (Imaginism) My whole purpose is to tell you how wonderful you are, and if after the first night of this series you thought I was a dangerous man because I meant what I said, that God and man are one – well, it is what I have been sent to tell you. And may I also tell you that everyone who is sent is called a devil, and God loves every one of them. Now let us go into the silence. 552775
c. September 1959
unresolved
Bob Keeler shows Neville Douglas Fawcett's letter
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
1959-09-22 [exact/certain/final] Fawcett's Letter (Imaginism) The other day my friend, Bob Keeler, showed me a wonderful letter. A month or so ago he wrote a letter to Douglas Fawcett, whose concepts I have discussed here. He is now ninety-three years old and is a great philosopher. His name is mentioned on all suggested lists of required reading, though he is not always taken seriously. He was a former Don of Oxford. In answer to Bob’s letter, this is the gist of what he said: He told Bob he was very interested and then he said: “l have been fighting for Imaginism since 1916, and all my experiments prior to 1916 I have abandoned as valueless, but since… 552749
22 September 1959
certain
Neville resolves to revise a distressing letter
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
1959-09-22 [exact/certain/final] Fawcett's Letter (Imaginism) Well, today did I take something that was spoiled and rework it? Did I take some distressing word and rewrite it? I could not stop the image forming when I read the letter today, so I hold in my hand that which is spoiled. But I can rework it and fashion it into another vessel. I can read the letter I wish I had received. Everyone has to do that, so if I did not do it he is not speaking of me, for I am not being the potter as I should. He is speaking of the one who, as in Jeremiah 18, is trying to awaken. 552768
22 September 1959
probable
Neville reads and revises a distressing letter
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
1959-09-22 [exact/certain/final] Fawcett's Letter (Imaginism) Well, today did I take something that was spoiled and rework it? Did I take some distressing word and rewrite it? I could not stop the image forming when I read the letter today, so I hold in my hand that which is spoiled. But I can rework it and fashion it into another vessel. I can read the letter I wish I had received. Everyone has to do that, so if I did not do it he is not speaking of me, for I am not being the potter as I should. He is speaking of the one who, as in Jeremiah 18, is trying to awaken. 552768
24 September 1959
certain
Long-distance call from a wealthy woman in New York
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
1959-09-25 [exact/certain/final] The Bread and the Wine I had a long distance call yesterday from New York. The lady who called me is very, very rich by the standards of diamonds and money. She has not fingers enough for all her diamonds. She has everything she wants – except one thing: she wants to be happily married to someone in the social register who has more money than she has, and is at least twenty years younger. She is seventy-five, but she wants more money and bigger diamonds. She said to me: “Look what I have done for my son by using this law. He can now send his four girls to private school. I did this for him when I persisted. But I… 527917