Awakening to the realization.

When man completely awakens, he dreams his pleasure, and everything responds while he dreams it.

In 1921, at the age of seventeen Neville left home in the Barbados for the mainland, arriving in New York, to seek his fortune.

He found a job as an elevator operator for J.C. Penney Company for a while until one day he was told that his services were no longer needed. Neville secured a job on Macy's shipping dock but this position was short lived as too.

He finally said to himself, "

From this day forward I will not work for another. I will only work for myself.

" And that is what he did.
Believing that if others could dance on the stage, he could too, Neville joined an established dancer and began his professional career. It was during this time he married. This union produced a son.

In 1925 Neville and his dancing partner sailed for England and traveled widely in that country. While there he was introduced to the world of psychical research which interested him greatly. Shortly after his return to America in 1926, his interest in mysticism increased as his interest in the theatre decreased. And when the depression hit in 1929 and the theatres closed, so did Neville's professional life as a dancer.

During this time Neville became interested in the Rosicrucian Society and met a man who was to influence his life.


A man, who while he was studying for the priesthood, his father, a wealthy businessman had died and left an estate of thousands of dollars to his son. Quickly changing his mind about the priesthood, the young man proceeded to spend the money as fast as he could.

Having no respect for such a man, Neville found excuses when asked to attend a class of this young man. But one day Neville ran out of excuses and attended the class of an eccentric Ethiopian rabbi named Abdullah. At the end of the class Abdullah came over and, taking Neville's hand said,

Where have you been? You are three months late!

Taken aback Neville asked,

How did you know I was coming?

to which Abdullah replied,

The brothers told me.
The year was 1929 and Abdullah was in his late eighties.

With Abdullah, Neville studied the Kabala, a Jewish form of mysticism, and obtained illuminating insights into the books of the Bible. He developed a new approach to the problem of man and his relationship with the pulsating world of spirit around him. It was Abdullah who taught Neville how to use the law of consciousness and how to see the Bible psychologically. And as Neville began to see the world as a picture world, projected from within, his faith in himself grew.

When you imagine for a seeming other you are blessed,
for there is no other and
you are giving your imaginal gift to yourself!

In February of 1930 Neville began lecturing in New York City. First meeting in a small room of a public building where only a handful of people attended, as his speaking ability grew and he gained confidence in his message, so did his audience.

His first marriage was short lived and he remained a bachelor for several years.
One day a young woman sat in his audience. As she listened, she said to herself, "

This is the man I am going to marry.

" And when they shook hands at the end of the lecture, Neville held her hand and said to himself, "

This is the woman I am going to marry

," and they did. And from this union a daughter was born.

When the war was over, Neville began to travel, again holding lectures in various large cities as far west as San Francisco. He moved his family to Los Angeles in the 50’s and also had his own television program in that period.

Neville taught the law of consciousness in Los Angeles at the Fox Wilshire Theater on Sunday mornings to crowds so large the people were standing outside just to hear his words. He also spent several weeks each year in San Francisco.

It was in San Francisco, on July 20, 1959 that Neville awoke to find himself sealed in a tomb. Removing a stone placed there, he came out of his skull just like a child comes out of its mother's womb.
Having awakened from the dream of life, Neville's outlook on the world changed.
He devoted the rest of his life telling those who would listen that they were not the little mask they wore,
but a being far greater than they could ever conceive themselves to be.

Nothing in the world is untrue if you want it to be true. You are the truth of everything that you perceive.

Everyone is free to create his world as he wants it - if he knows that the whole thing is responding to him.

The whole vast world is no more than man's imagining pushed out.

Shortly before his death in 1981, Joseph Murphy, in a little-known series of interviews published by a French press in Quebec, described his own encounter with the mysterious Abdullah. Interviewer Bernard Cantin recounted the tale in his 1987 book of dialogues with Murphy [“  Joseph Murphy Talks to Bernard Cantin" ]:

It was in New York that Joseph Murphy also met the professor Abdullah, a Jewish man of black ancestry, a native of Israel, who knew, in every detail, all the symbolism of each of the verses of the Old and the New Testaments. This meeting was one of the most significant in Dr. Murphy’s spiritual evolution. In fact, Abdullah, who had never seen nor known the Murphy family, said flatly that Murphy came from a family of six children, and not five, as Murphy himself had believed. Later on, Murphy, intrigued, questioned his mother and learned that, indeed, he had had another brother who had died a few hours after his birth, and was never spoken of again.