Learned the Imagination Technique (1933, New York City)

Date (happened)
1933
unresolved
  1. 1933 stated · preferred
    Source "It was in 1933 in New York City.", told in How to Use Your Imagination (nid 1045)
  2. 1933 stated · probable
    Source phase-2 canonical event (fingerprint references)
  3. about a week ago relative
    Source The Secret of the Sperm ¶27"about a week ago", told in Secret Sperm (nid 1913)
    Said as about a week ago
    counted from The Secret of the Sperm
  4. between 1929 and 1933 stated
    Source "in 1933 (I met him in ’29)", told in Drugs Dope Marijuana Lsd Alcohol Vegetarianism Etc (nid 2001)
  5. 1933 stated
    Source Mental Diets ¶17"It was in 1933 in New York City.", told in Mental Diets (nid 2143)
  6. 1933 stated
    Source Passage 528617: 'It was in 1933 in New York City.'
    Reasoning Neville explicitly says first hearing the imagination technique happened in 1933; this dates the event itself.
  7. 1933 stated
    Source Mental Diets ¶16
    Reasoning Passage 553884, in lecture nid 2143 ('Mental Diets'), has Neville say explicitly: 'Let me tell you when I first heard of this strange and wonderful power of the imagination. It was in 1933 in New York City. An old friend of mine taught it to me.' This is a direct, unambiguous first-person year statement, independent of the lecture's own much-later delivery date.
Place
72nd Street, New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Abdullah
Told / reported
  1. 19 March 1963 stated
    Source In These Last Days by His SonIn These Last Days by His Son (nid 1090), telling 1090-6, told 1963-03-19
  2. 1955 stated · probable
    Source Mental DietsMental Diets (nid 2143), telling 2143-2, told 1955
  3. 1955 estimated · probable
    Source nid 1045 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1958-3-10 refuted; 1955-??-?? probable (preferred)
    Why Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
    Reasoning Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1045 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1045 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1955-??-?? at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1958-3-10 refuted; 1955-??-?? probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1958-03-10 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`) | delta 3: 1958-03-10 at `probable` (run `v1.1/l4/ceiling/c2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
  4. 1955 estimated · probable
    Source Mental Diets
    Reasoning This account is recounted within lecture nid 2143 ('Mental Diets'). Two unreviewed legacy delivery claims (1955-12-07, certain, catalog #29; 1955, probable, catalog #1098 - different linked historical events) agree at year level but neither has been reviewed and only one gives a day, so the telling is recorded at year precision only: 1955, probable. || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor417/8000-9999-b17, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 2143, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).
  5. 10 March 1958 stated · refuted
    Source How to Use Your Imagination (nid 1045), telling 1045-2, told 1958-03-10
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1045, 1958-3-10) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1955-?-?. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
  6. 10 March 1958 stated · refuted
    Source How to Use Your Imagination (nid 1045), telling 1045-2, told 1958-03-10
    Why Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
    Reasoning Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1045 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1045 delivery claims: 1958-3-10 doubtful; 1955-??-?? probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node. || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1045, 1958-3-10) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1955-?-?. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources

Source

  • In These Last Days by His Son ¶56 (And now, seeing it naturally where I’m shaking the hand of a friend who lives on, say Fifty-seventh Street, I’m embracing her; I know her so well and am talking to her.)
  • The Secret of the Sperm ¶27 (Now about a week ago I suggested a certain technique that I learned from my old friend Abdullah. Sitting physically in one place and assuming that I am physically seated in another place.)
  • The One Greater Than John ¶5 (He said, “Well then, you are now in Barbados.” I said, “I’m in Barbados?” This is on 72nd Street in New York City, where the buildings can go thirty and forty stories high.)
  • Mental Diets ¶17 (For one month, night after night as I fell asleep I assumed I was sleeping in my father’s home in Barbados. At the end of my month an invitation from my family came inviting me to spend the winter in Barbados.)