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 1963
unresolved
Neville cannot explain mystical experiences in naturalistic terms
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
1963-03-19 [exact/certain/final] In These Last Days by His Son I know from my own personal experience across this country that scientists and philosophers that I meet or are introduced to me as brilliant minds are unwilling to accept as explanation anything beyond and above this world of nature. I begin to discuss with them my personal mystical experiences; they want me to bring it down to this world—I’m not a physicist, I’m not a scientist, and I’m not a philosopher—but bring it down and explain to them in terms of the structure of this world. So I can’t do it. I can only tell what has happened to me. 529839
before 1963
unresolved
Neville devotes his remaining years to telling revealed salvation
with Paul
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
1963-05-24 [exact/probable/preferred] The Story of Salvation So the story of salvation, although difficult to grasp, I am not repeating it because I heard it. I am like Paul. It was revealed to Paul, in the sense that he experienced it; it was revealed to me in the sense that I experienced it. And although these events are separated in time, they form a single complex, and they start with resurrection. You can completely forget the crucifixion. You were crucified with God in the beginning of time. That’s behind us. Forget that, you aren’t facing that; that’s behind you. But what is ahead of you, and the first event in the series that awakens the entire… 530213
before 1963
unresolved
Neville turns away from holy men after finding Christ
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
1963-11-12 [exact/certain/final] We Have Found Him So let no one tell you that they know a man and then take you to meet a man, a holy man. Run in the opposite direction. Let no one fool you that they have found him in the form of some man that they have met. I meet them everywhere I go, these so-called holy men. And so, having gone through the furnaces myself, I invariably turn in the opposite direction. I have found him, so I am not looking for him. 530535
before 1963
unresolved
Neville sits on interfaith panels
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
1963-12-17 [exact/certain/final] What Shall You Ask of Me Now what I’m telling you this night I’m telling you from experience, I am not theorizing. I’ve gone on panels with priests, with rabbis, with Protestant ministers, with great educators, and they stand aghast, because it’s not what they ever conceived. I can’t blame them. It has not been revealed to them. They’re speculating and I am not speculating. I’m not trying to set up some workable philosophy of life. I’m telling you what happened to me. It happened to me as naturally as a natural physical birth happens to another. So I think it, at the moment, disturbing, and then you go back into… 530719
between 1963 and 1964
certain
Neville reads of a Russo-Chinese map dispute
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
1965-11-05 [exact/certain/final] The Name of God Here, I think a year or two years ago, I read in the New York Times when we were there, that Russia is up in arms against China for drawing a map that is called the map of China, and they include in this map vast areas of Russia. Huge, enormous areas of Russia they have put into the present map of China. In 1938 Russia drew a Russian map and they included all the Baltic states, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, as part of the structure of Russia. In 1940 the Red army moved in and took over the whole vast area. Could they move in before they first went in Imagination? So they plotted the whole thing… 533554
before 1963
unresolved
Neville reads unsuccessful interpretations of David's water shaft
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
1963-05-05 [exact/probable/preferred] I AM the Vine Then said David, “Whoever would take the Jebusites let him go up the shaft, the water shaft.” The water shaft was a perpendicular shaft that led from the rock below to the rock above on which Zion was built. I have read unnumbered attempted interpretations of this, and they all conclude it doesn’t make sense. Maybe the script is distorted, maybe someone changed it, but it doesn’t make sense. For, said they, David is attempting to build a circular city at the same time he is building an inward city. So they conclude that no man can build in a circle and inward at one and the same time, unless… 548537
between 19 February 1905 and September 1922
unresolved
Neville describes his British birth and ancestry
Barbados
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
1963-01-29 [exact/certain/final] A Summing Up Now today if you read in the headlines: “England denies union with Europe,” and you may be inclined to resent De Gaulle - restrain your resentment. I was born and raised a Britisher, born under the Union Jack. All my family are still living under the Union Jack. I am very proud I was born with that background, a rugged, rugged background of Scotch, English, and Irish. My forefathers were from Cornwall, that rugged English setup. I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. They were adventurers when they ventured and re-adventured across all the seas of the world. Nothing could be more… 551954
before 1963
unresolved
Neville offers his salvation experience despite his past faults
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
1963-05-24 [exact/probable/preferred] The Story of Salvation So to come back to the first statement, the little pupils did not believe it, and they could not understand it without the experience whether that experience is first vicarious or actual. And so a vicarious experience is all I can give you. I ask you to share with me my experience, and to you, before you experience it, it’s vicarious. After you’ve experienced what I tell you, you will know how true it is, and then, it is something that is real in your life. And you will not look upon this as blood and thunder. For the story of Jesus is really blood and thunder, for that’s the story of life.… 530212
before 1963
unresolved
Neville says verbal description is his only artistic means
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
1963-11-12 [exact/certain/final] We Have Found Him Until then, play the part well, play it lovingly and tell everyone in the world who will listen to you that you found him. And try to the best of your ability by verbal description to describe who Christ Jesus really is. I love engraving… I can’t do it by engraving, I can’t paint, I can’t draw, and I’m not a playwright to write the play, but I can to the best of my ability by verbal description share with others my discoveries of Christ Jesus. And so I hope this night that you will exercise your own powers of perception to come with me and actually try to test what I’ve tried to tell you. 530537
before 1963
unresolved
Neville experiences the wind and three appearing men
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
1963-12-17 [exact/certain/final] What Shall You Ask of Me May I tell you, when this thing happens that was foretold in the beginning: I’ll give you a son, when you’re a hundred years old, and [...] to the back of your head, that’s where you’ll come from, and I fall on my face and laugh, it’s ridiculous. It’s the most unnatural thing in the world. Or, maybe I rejoice because I saw it and was glad. But then the journey starts and, oh, what horrible nights and misty days when the sun shone in vain. But I didn’t quite understand until the very end. The story is “But I learned how the wind would sound after these things should be.” And when it happens,… 530721
between 23 November 1963 and 13 December 1963
unresolved
A friend recognizes and believes the Kennedy vision writer
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
1963-12-13 [exact/certain/final] Where Are You From But what I told you earlier doesn’t make sense. The lady is here and I must tell her that one of my friends who read the letter knows her quite well, and she said: You know, having seen the name of the one who signed it, I believe every word of it. Were it not that she wrote it, I would question it. So the questioning mind already was there, but she read the one who sent it and - trusting her implicitly - she said, I believe every word of this letter. But still, only three or four seconds, right away she is discussing the possibilities of changing God’s play and changing it radically so that… 544770
before 1963
unresolved
Neville discovers and prunes the wild tree of his perceived world
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
1963-05-05 [exact/probable/preferred] I AM the Vine And when I tell you the story, you may at this moment find this vine a wild tree. I found it a wild tree. Whenever I heard the story—whenever you hear it—at that moment it’s a wild tree. And so the poet said, “I found it a wild tree, whose wanton strength had swollen into irregular twigs. But I pruned the plant and then it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted as you see into these full clean clusters to repay the hand that wisely wounded it.” And so, if you look, it’s a wild, wild tree. I had brought in everything in this world based upon the blind and the lame on… 548545
before 1963
unresolved
Neville describes becoming American while retaining love of England
No place
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
1963-01-29 [exact/certain/final] A Summing Up I am an American by adoption, but I cannot rub out my love of England. All the physical blood that flows through me comes from Scotland, England, and Ireland. A little bit of Holland Dutch got in from my mother’s side, for they were rugged individualists too, living on dykes (living on water, really). But though physically I would like to resent it, I am happy I saw it. I knew that somewhere the seed had been planted, for you can’t have something grow in this world and not have a root from which it springs. 551960
c. 1949
unresolved
Neville visits the Allis-Chalmers plant during World War II
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
1963-03-22 [exact/certain/final] Is Christ Your Imagination So you try this tonight. I told a friend of mine before taking the platform that many years ago, in the war, I was invited to go through this huge plant, Alyce Chalmers. The man who was the head of the chemical department, Professor Inmar, came to my lectures. And in my lecture, I spoke of a certain motion in time that produced physical results. If I could move forward in time and imagine something taking place at that moment in time, and open my eyes upon this world to find that it was not that time at all, I came back here. But, strangely enough, I would then be led across a series of… 529931
between 1963 and 1964
unresolved
Neville reads the New York Times item about a Chinese map
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
1965-11-05 [exact/certain/final] The Name of God Here, I think a year or two years ago, I read in the New York Times when we were there, that Russia is up in arms against China for drawing a map that is called the map of China, and they include in this map vast areas of Russia. Huge, enormous areas of Russia they have put into the present map of China. In 1938 Russia drew a Russian map and they included all the Baltic states, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, as part of the structure of Russia. In 1940 the Red army moved in and took over the whole vast area. Could they move in before they first went in Imagination? So they plotted the whole thing… 533554
1963
probable
Robert Cummings attends two Neville meetings in 1963
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
1964-01-30 [exact/certain/final] Now My Eye Sees Thee Another friend of mine who came here twice last year—-I knew him back in the days of Abdullah—-and he came here, Robert Cummings, a very, very healthy person, a nice chap. But Bob doesn’t come because this is not his cup of tea. It’s something a little bit outside of what he would expect. But Bob and I knew each other well in New York City years ago. He is my junior but not by many years I assure you, in spite of his press agent. I’ll be fifty-nine in a matter of days and Bob cannot be less than fifty-eight, in spite of what others will tell you. But at that age you would think that reason… 555736
before 1963
unresolved
Neville contrasts private inner events with worldly results of his teaching
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
1963-05-24 [exact/probable/preferred] The Story of Salvation When he’s quoted in that 10th chapter—the words are set aside, “scripture cannot be broken,” the 10th of John—and calls you gods ; and yet he tells you you’ll die like men and fall as any prince? And the one that he’s consecrated and he’s sent into the world and you tell me he blasphemes because he said, “I am the Son of God”? Well, “Don’t believe me now, believe the works.” “Have you seen the many things that I have done?” said he. Well, believe the things that I have done if you don’t believe me. Well, the things that happened to me I can’t share them with you, but I can share, the eyes… 530211
12 November 1963
unresolved
Neville tells Ina her departure has come
Los Angeles
with Ina
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
1963-11-12 [exact/certain/final] We Have Found Him So, Ina, the time has come for your departure. 530546
before 1963
unresolved
Neville gives the messianic banquet in his primal body
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
1963-12-10 [exact/probable/preferred] Repent and Believe in the Gospel So, all of the stories of perfection as told in scripture are true. And so, as I stand before you I can confess I have given the banquet. I call all that I have played in this world, all the blind, all the lame, the poor, and the maimed, and they’re all waiting for me, seated on the ground waiting for me to come. Then came that wonderful final motion, as David took Zion, and so, I found myself clothed in my primal form, a being of fire in a body of air, and walked by and fed them by letting them behold me. As they beheld me they were completely restored to their wholeness and everyone was… 550356
before 1963
unresolved
Neville revisits his vision of the poorly fed pig
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
1963-01-29 [exact/certain/final] A Summing Up So I ask you: knowing this law (for those who did it, know nothing of this law which you know, which is the law of falsification of the record) - had they known the scriptures as you know them: the story of the unjust steward, keeper of the pigs, and the pig is the symbol of Christ. I have told you my vision of the pig. I found him and then came the growing of the pig, but I hadn’t fed it as well as I should have fed him in the interval of discovery, and when I saw the same pig years later I found it . . . What did I find? I found that imagination creates reality, and in the interval of that… 551961
before 1963
unresolved
Neville says he has seen God's power and wisdom
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
1963-03-22 [exact/certain/final] Is Christ Your Imagination If I take that now and analyze myself with another word from Paul, this time he goes to the end of his second letter to the Corinthians, and he calls upon all of us who would read that letter: “Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in thee?” Now here I’m told all things were made by him; he is the power and the wisdom, he is the power of God and the wisdom of God. But every attribute of God is personified, every attribute. And so his power is personified; and may I confess that I have seen that power, and it is a man. I have seen that wisdom, and it is a man. And when you… 529911
before 1963
unresolved
Neville imaginatively visits Barbados when unable to travel
Barbados
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
1969-02-03 [exact/certain/final] Wonder Working Power If I desire to visit my island home in Barbados, but do not have the means or the time to go there, I can enter its image in my imagination by approaching it on the fiery chariot of my contemplative thought. I have done it. I do not use this wonder working power lightly anymore, because I know that after imagining, my desire fulfilled (although I may forget it) I will be compelled to experience it in this world of shadows. 530232
before 1963
unresolved
Neville attributes his salvation and faith to God's grace
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
1963-11-12 [exact/certain/final] We Have Found Him [...] I understand correctly as I told you that the individual’s faith is also the gift of God. [...] I once confessed that having received the grace of God I not only found myself ascribing the process of my salvation to God’s actions, I also found myself thoroughly convinced that my own faith was the gift of God. Any other questions, please? 530551