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 30 October 1959 and 6 November 1959
unresolved
Neville experiences a week of dreams involving his deceased father
Los Angeles possible
2 sources
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
1959-11-06 [exact/certain/final] The Value of Dreams In this past week I have had one heavenly experience after another with my father, for I have thought so much about him; he is part of the drama of the night and I can take any of these parts and find their meaning for my instruction. Here, the other night I was with my father. I knew he was gone and he knew it, but he knew the boys could not see it. But my brother Collin went out in the rain and got some flying fish. Now he employs two to three thousand people, anyone of whom could have done this for him, but he went out – in the dream – and got these flying fish himself and brought them in.… 529269
between 2 November 1959 and 6 November 1959
certain
Neville dreams of his dead father praising Collin
the Islands (Barbados)
with Joseph "Joe" Goddard (Neville's father)
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
1959-11-06 [exact/certain/final] The Value of Dreams In this past week I have had one heavenly experience after another with my father, for I have thought so much about him; he is part of the drama of the night and I can take any of these parts and find their meaning for my instruction. Here, the other night I was with my father. I knew he was gone and he knew it, but he knew the boys could not see it. But my brother Collin went out in the rain and got some flying fish. Now he employs two to three thousand people, anyone of whom could have done this for him, but he went out – in the dream – and got these flying fish himself and brought them in.… 529269
17 November 1959
certain
Neville receives three case histories on November 17, 1959
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
1959-11-20 [exact/certain/final] The Law Three wonderful case histories were given to me last Tuesday and I can best describe what I mean by telling you of one of them. Here is this lady driving east on Sunset and she comes to a stop at Laurel Canyon. A bus is to her right, and then she sees this little elderly lady in grey who is running diagonally across the street through traffic, trying to catch that bus. The bus driver sees her but he pulls out leaving her on the street. The lady, who gave me this story, told me that she felt compassion for this elderly lady, but she was not in a lane where she could give her a lift; she had to… 552705
20 November 1959
certain
Neville tends his audience as a tree each week
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
1959-11-20 [exact/certain/final] The Law It is told us in the story of the fig tree. It did not bear for three years. One said, ‘Cut it down, and throw it away.’ But the keeper of the vineyard pleaded, ‘NO!’ Who is the tree? I am the tree; you are the tree. We bear or we do not. But the Keeper said he would dig around the tree and feed it ‘ or manure it, as we would say today ’ and see if it will not bear. Well I do that here every week and try to get the tree ‘ you ’ me to bear. 552736
20 November 1959
unresolved
The Law
Ebell Theatre
3 sources
24 November 1959
certain
Neville receives a request for help for a New York doctor
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
1959-11-24 [exact/certain/final] North of the Strip Today brought me a letter asking for help. I do not need to be next door to help another. There is no separation or time without consent. You make this work for another, no matter where they are. This letter was from New York, telling me about a fine doctor there. He got these growths on his face and feared they might be malignant, and then it was found that he had Parkinson’s disease. This friend wrote me to tell me about it, and he said: ‘Can you do anything when you are so far away?’ I am not 3,000 miles away, for everything is within me. 529363
c. December 1959
probable
Neville distinguishes daughter Vicki from his revealed Son
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
1964-04-03 [exact/certain/final] His Own Credentials The fatherhood of God is revealed through his Son, and only through his Son, only through his Son. He said, “I go to my Father and to your Father, to my God and to your God.” He establishes this point: Don’t think for one moment he’s telling the world that I differ from you. I have found the fatherhood of God. “I and my Father are one.” “When you see me you see the Father.” And what revealed me as Father? God’s Son revealed me as Father, for I saw him, and he called me Lord, called me Father. And I knew it. There was no uncertainty in me when he called me Father. I knew he was my son. It… 545323
c. December 1959
probable
Neville says David called him Father through revelation
with David
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
1964-03-17 [exact/certain/final] I Am Called by Thy Name, O Lord I am telling you what I know from experience. I’m not speculating, I’m not theorizing, these are not opinions. I never heard it from a man. I was never taught it. It came by the revelation of Jesus Christ. When I least expected it, it happened to me, and it happened in such a marvelous manner. I can say to everyone: Do not despair. I don’t care what you have ever done, the love of God is so intense and so great he isn’t going to leave you. He has made a pledge to cleave to you and he is not going to let go until he has transformed you into himself, and you are he. And so when it is done, you… 543431
c. December 1959
probable
Neville describes the birth and David revelations
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
1963-02-19 [exact/certain/final] The Sin Against the Holy Spirit It is Christ breathing upon himself in us, for Christ – being divine history – he simply awakens and unveils it in us, and we suddenly become aware and we awaken and we are he. Then we look into our scripture and read the story in Matthew and in Luke, and everything said of his birth we experience, even to the three who were present, even to the swaddling clothes – and then you stand confounded and bewildered. Then a few months later something equally as fantastic happens. 529609
c. December 1959
probable
Neville sees the Son five months after oneness
Beverly Hills possible
with David
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
1969-10-03 [exact/certain/preferred] The J, E, and P Manuscripts So he said, “Believe me, I and the Father are one.” I and the Father are one. Can I be one with my Father? If I am really one with him and if he’s a father then he has a son. And therefore I can’t then be his son if I am one with the Father. So then who is the son? I and my Father are one; I have become the Father. But he still is a father and therefore show me the son…and that comes five months after this experience. But I am one with the Father. Now how on earth can a man be his father? How on earth can he be not only his father, but his earthly father’s father? Doesn’t make sense, does it?… 540877
between December 1959 and 22 November 1963
probable
Aldous Huxley refuses Neville's mystical accounts
with Aldous Huxley
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
1969-11-21 [exact/certain/final] Enter the Dream This is the same Huxley who showed no interest when I tried to tell him of my birth from above, of David and the visions I have shared with you. He liked me as a friend but he had his own limitations, as everyone does. In a certain social world, if you pronounce a certain word differently you are cataloged as one who is not “in,” as it were, and Huxley would not listen to my visions because I did not speak as he thought everyone should. I could have told him things beyond the wildest dreams of his friend D. H. Lawrence, but because of his little stumbling block Aldous could not hear my words. 541344