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

before 1962
unresolved
Neville visits Aldous Huxley's darkened home and later glass house
King's Road possible
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
1970-05-05 [exact/probable/final] The Secret of God So don’t burn your house down years from now because you want the world to have no meaning. Stop that nonsense. Because when he wanted it more than anything in the world—for I knew his first wife, and I also knew the second wife—and the second wife got him the way those who have been coming to my meetings got many of their mates. She came to my meetings and she set her heart on Aldous. She told me herself and told him in my presence, “This is exactly how I met you, because I went to bed knowing, after your wife died and you were now a widower, that I am going to be your wife.” So she became… 555298
before 1962
unresolved
Neville consults analysts about the sunflower and rat vision
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
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away One of my — dear God does speak to us in signs, but we are past masters at misinterpreting it, and quite often an unpleasant sign is not necessarily an unpleasant message that God is giving you. When I caught that rat, it wasn’t a very pleasant experience — I put it in a cage — and yet that experience came at the same time, the same night, as the flowers with the human faces, anchored and all moving in concert, all moving together in unity. And so it took me years to call to mind, upon the difference between beings that could not, in themselves, initiate a thought, and one that could actually… 555948
before 1962
unresolved
Neville stops and restarts whole worlds from within
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
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away I’ve seen it, I have had glimpses where I came up unseen, and I stopped it and started it, stopped it and started it, and the whole vast world was under my control — and I didn’t do it with the motion of my hand, I did it by control of my head, and so I would arrest an activity in me, and the world stood still. I released it, and it continued in its action, what it intended to do, and when I stopped it, it stopped. I didn’t stop it on the outside — I stopped the activity in me that animated it, the same as with the flowers. 555886
c. 1962
unresolved
Six-Hour / Overnight Radio Marathon
New York City
with Rabbi Silver
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
1963-04-12 [exact/certain/final] The Resurrection “Touch me not as I have not yet ascended.” That statement… I heard it by Wilberforce, who was once Dean of Canterbury. He said the true translation of the phrase is, “Hold me not back by your tears and your sorrow because of my going. That you, by your emotional upheaval because of my exit, are holding me in your sphere.” So do not by your sense of loss of me hold me back because mind communes with mind. So free me. Let me go. For if I do not go, the Holy Spirit cannot come, so let me go. But if by one’s sense of loss you’re always thinking of the departed with a sense of heavy loss, you’re… 530193
1963-12-08 [exact/certain/final] What Is Truth This past month in New York City, I had one of these marathon radio… it ran five hours through the night. I had two of them, really. But this night, my opponent was Rabbi Silver and Kylie [...], the actor, and then, [...] Oursler, the son of Fulton Oursler who wrote The Greatest Story Ever Told. He’s quite a successful writer in his own name. They were my opponents and the moderator was [...] John. Well, the Rabbi said to me, “Don’t you tell your people to give to certain charities, to give to this, to give to that, to give to the other?” I said, “No, I don’t.” “Then what sort of a teacher… 530618
1968-12-02 [exact/certain/final] God's Almighty Power and Wisdom So I say, no matter what you are this night and how you are behind the eight-ball, the nature of that eight-ball, can you actually meet that third test? There are three tests given. The first is the hunger not for earthly things but for the hearing of the word of God, can you become that hungry? Well, that’s his first test. The second test, when “Cast yourself down. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” I was on a marathon one night in New York City, six hours on radio from midnight until six in the morning with a panel of five and a moderator. This professor said to me when I was speaking… 548652
1969-06-06 [exact/probable/final] The Nature of God Is Revealed in Us Then comes the challenge: Well, if that is so, why don’t you command these stones to be made bread? Why don’t you throw yourself down? Is it not written he gives his angels power to support you? Why don’t you get down and worship me and I’ll give you the world? And to all of these, “Get behind me, doubter” . So everyone will put you to the test. You make a statement that imagining creates reality and one fella on radio one night…he’s a professor of psychology in an eastern college…and he said to me, “Turn that yellow pencil into red.” So I said to him quite innocently, “You are fulfilling… 543941
c. 1962
probable
A Beverly Hills bank guard questions Neville on Good Friday
Beverly Hills
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
1965-04-13 [exact/certain/final] The Marks of Jesus So here, we will take for this coming Friday, which I will not touch on Good Friday, the story of, speaking on an entirely different subject, “Inner Talking.” But, this coming Friday it will be three hours. I recall a few years ago, I went to the bank between the hours of twelve to three in Beverly Hills. I go there once a week and twice a week, and I knew the guard well; so when I got in there at one he said to me, “Why aren’t you in church?” And he meant it! He was serious about it…he was being a very holy, holy person. Coming to a bank…yet the employee too, and every one in the bank, they… 527070
between 1962 and 1965
probable
Neville meets Blake and sees humanity in one being
Los Angeles possible
with William Blake
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
1966-11-22 [exact/certain/preferred] Occupant or Inmate That’s exactly what Blake told me. He said, “Let yourself go, Nev, fall backwards, just fall backwards and you will see what I have told you, the infinite man, one man, and you will see it contains the whole vast world of humanity. Now, let yourself fall.” I turned backwards and fell, as though I’m taking a deep dive as I have done from a high-diving board, backwards. This time I am falling through interstellar space. I’m not just diving into a pool, I am falling backwards into interstellar space, and when I came to a rest and looked, here is a heavenly being in the distance, one man. Then on… 534721
before 1959
unresolved
Neville stops and restarts the sea in New York
New York City
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
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away On the 20th of July, three years ago, in this very city, I had the experience of being born from above, and yet several years prior to that experience, in New York City, I had the experience of having the sea stand still, because I arrested in my head an activity which animated it, and when I released that activity, the things moved on. Whether it’s beast or fowl, when I stopped them — please imagine calling “stop!” and then look up after I release it — the waters, and the dinosaurs — I stopped them, they couldn’t move, and everything was done not “there,” but done in me. 555888
between 1962 and 1965
probable
Blake sends Neville to see all humanity within one man
Los Angeles possible
with William Blake
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
1967-04-07 [exact/certain/final] Put On the Lord Jesus Christ Now, the second part—“Leave by the rear curtain.” Now, this is also in scripture. The curtain behind the curtain hides the Holy of Holies. You are told that’s the curtain that is torn. But may I tell you from experience the advice is perfect, “Fall to me” and then you also fall through [...]. But I can tell you that a few years ago William Blake, that great, wonderful, awakened giant in this world, he said to me—we’re separated in time by a hundred and fifty years, but we’re so tightly woven in the tapestry of thought we are together in the tapestry of thought. But in time and space he came… 535508
before 1962
unresolved
Neville keeps and consults concordances at home
Los Angeles
with James Strong
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
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away I have Strong’s Concordance, I have Prudential concordance, I have many concordances at home, but James Strong’s Concordance is exhaustive, and it is really the guide for most people who are Bible students, and James Strong defines the word which our scholars translate “eternity” — “and the Lord God has put eternity into the mind of man” — the word is Alom, a-l-o-m — and yet Strong defines that word as, strictly, a youth. Eternity is — is that what God created in the beginning of his own life? Is that the little child that stood beside him, that was his daily delight? Is it that he put into… 555901
c. 1962
probable
Neville hears the young man's story in Sausalito
Sausalito
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
1965-12-07 [exact/probable/preferred] The State of Paul Well, that throws a great deal of light on two things that have happened in my life to two of my friends. One is here tonight, one I haven’t seen. He’s a lad now twenty-one, haven’t seen him since he told me the story three years ago. I pass this on not as a vision. I share it with you as an opinion. This state called Paul tells us in the 7th chapter of 1st Corinthians, “This is not from man, it’s not a revelation, but it is my opinion”…and he gives it as his opinion because it suited him. 533874
between 1962 and 1963
probable
Neville recalls meeting Father Divine
New York City
with Father Divine
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
1965-12-17 [exact/certain/final] Christmas His first name was Saul and his transformation turned it from Saul to Paul. “Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou me?” He’s called Saul…as Jacob was the one wrestling with the Lord through the night and then he was transformed into Israel…so his name became Israel. You find these strange changing of names in scripture. A change of name is a change of identity. We had in New York City a man that died this past year, he was known as Father Divine, and I think really the man was completely misunderstood. I met him twice. Little fella, wasn’t any bigger than that. Hair, not a hair on his head, just… 530791
c. 1962
probable
Neville receives Memories, Dreams, Reflections for Father's Day
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
1963-11-14 [exact/certain/final] He Is Meditating Me: The Rock Now, last year a book was given to me. I read the review and my daughter and my wife said, “What do you want for Father’s Day?” Well, we don’t share presents for Father’s Day and Mother’s Day and all these things. But they said it to me in a kidding manner and I answered in the same manner, I said, “I have just read a review of a book. It’s Carl Jung’s latest work and so I would like to have it.” So I gave them the title Memories, Dreams and Reflections. He died in 1961 and the book came out in 1961. So it’s not only his latest, it’s his last work. It is really an autobiography; although it… 530559
before 1962
unresolved
Neville receives atheists and agnostics who protest difference
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
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away And Abraham believed, but if Abraham believed, I was in his loins — that’s collective humanity; therefore I believe, you believe, even though at the moment you may disbelieve — in the beginning you believed, “and it was counted unto him for righteousness.” So even though you go through all the disbelief of the world, and you were accused of being an agnostic or even an atheist, I still know, in the beginning, because you were in the one being who believed, you believe. You are the offspring of Abraham. I don’t care what name they will call me — I’ve had atheists, I’ve had agnostics, all kinds… 555884
c. 1962
probable
Neville visits a friend offering treatments in New York
New York City
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
1964-02-13 [exact/probable/preferred] The Power of Faith I went to New York City two years ago, as I go year after year. I called a friend I hadn’t seen in quite a while. And so I went up and I said, “Is Mr. so-and-so in, Mr. x?” and she corrected me, “Oh, you mean Dr. so-and-so.” Alright, Dr. so-and-so. When I knew him he was not Dr. so-and-so, but now he has a little degree, not a medical doctor. She said, “He’s busy.” I said, “Well, I’ll wait.” “Well, he’s giving a treatment and there are others waiting for treatments when he’s through.” Alright, I’ll wait. Then I heard a voice coming through the door, “Infinite Mind is healthy, Infinite Mind is… 531332
c. 1962
certain
Neville answers a radio caller with 1 John 3:2
New York City
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
1963-04-12 [exact/certain/final] The Resurrection “Touch me not as I have not yet ascended.” That statement… I heard it by Wilberforce, who was once Dean of Canterbury. He said the true translation of the phrase is, “Hold me not back by your tears and your sorrow because of my going. That you, by your emotional upheaval because of my exit, are holding me in your sphere.” So do not by your sense of loss of me hold me back because mind communes with mind. So free me. Let me go. For if I do not go, the Holy Spirit cannot come, so let me go. But if by one’s sense of loss you’re always thinking of the departed with a sense of heavy loss, you’re… 530193
between September 1922 and April 1957
unresolved
Neville hears a voice explain movement in waking and sleep
New York City
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
1964-03-27 [exact/certain/final] Life Through Death So when I was told, many years ago, you do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed in sleep—it’s all a movement in mind. You only believe you moved in waking as you believe you move in sleep. Well, then I woke, and how could I understand when that very day I had dates that would take me out of my apartment in New York City? I was on the road traveling around, and yet here is the voice telling me, “You do not move in waking any more than you move on your bed in sleep.” That I do not move on my bed in sleep that’s obvious. I get up in the morning, I’m still in the bed after an… 546304
c. 1962
certain
Neville overhears an old friend giving paid treatments
New York City
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
1964-02-13 [exact/probable/preferred] The Power of Faith I went to New York City two years ago, as I go year after year. I called a friend I hadn’t seen in quite a while. And so I went up and I said, “Is Mr. so-and-so in, Mr. x?” and she corrected me, “Oh, you mean Dr. so-and-so.” Alright, Dr. so-and-so. When I knew him he was not Dr. so-and-so, but now he has a little degree, not a medical doctor. She said, “He’s busy.” I said, “Well, I’ll wait.” “Well, he’s giving a treatment and there are others waiting for treatments when he’s through.” Alright, I’ll wait. Then I heard a voice coming through the door, “Infinite Mind is healthy, Infinite Mind is… 531332
1962
certain
Neville asks for Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Los Angeles possible
with Catherine Willa Van Schmus, Carl Jung
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
1963-11-14 [exact/certain/final] He Is Meditating Me: The Rock Now, last year a book was given to me. I read the review and my daughter and my wife said, “What do you want for Father’s Day?” Well, we don’t share presents for Father’s Day and Mother’s Day and all these things. But they said it to me in a kidding manner and I answered in the same manner, I said, “I have just read a review of a book. It’s Carl Jung’s latest work and so I would like to have it.” So I gave them the title Memories, Dreams and Reflections. He died in 1961 and the book came out in 1961. So it’s not only his latest, it’s his last work. It is really an autobiography; although it… 530559