Neville's father conducts successful inner business conversations

Neville's father, born a poor white man in Barbados, heard him speak in New York City for the first time and afterwards told him he need not close his eyes, explaining that his own morning 'nap' after breakfast was really him conducting controlled inner conversations with the men he meant to do business with that day.
Date (happened)
c. 1948
unresolved
  1. c. 1948 estimated · probable · preferred
    Source Order Your Conversations Aright ¶5
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 011)
    Reasoning Passage 528288: 'the first time he heard me speak in New York City was a Sunday morning' and the talk afterwards; chronology 9046 dates his father hearing him lecture in New York to 1948; his father died in 1959.
  2. before 1965 bound · possible
    Source Order Your Conversations Aright ¶5qualifying source passages 528288; telling lecture nids 1034
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [528288] belong to telling lecture nids [1034]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1965 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1965 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  3. before 4 September 1965 bound
    Source Order Your Conversations Arighttelling lecture nid 1034, certain delivery 1965-09-04
    Why Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1965 to before 1965-09-04.
    Reasoning L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1034 (certain delivery 1965-09-04); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1965`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1965-09-04 on nid 1034 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
  4. before 4 September 1965 bound · doubtful
    Source Order Your Conversations Aright ¶5The father's practice and conversation are recounted as past in passage 528288; the carrier node's surviving 1965-09-04 delivery is itself doubtful.
    Reasoning The event is necessarily earlier than its telling, but the only usable carrier delivery claim is 1965-09-04 at doubtful confidence. This bound therefore retains that uncertainty and does not rely on the stale certain envelope.
Place
New York City
Persons
Wilhelmina Goddard
Joseph "Joe" Goddard (Neville's father)
Neville Goddard
Told
  1. 4 September 1965 stated · doubtful
    Source Order Your Conversations ArightOrder Your Conversations Aright (nid 1034), telling 1034-0, told 1965-09-04
  2. 4 September 1965 estimated · doubtful
    Source Order Your Conversations ArightNode 1034 carries 1965-09-04 as its surviving but doubtful delivery claim.
    Reasoning Passage 528288 belongs to node 1034. Its delivery claim supplies the told date, but because that carrier date is doubtful and node-derived, this claim is estimated and doubtful rather than stated or certain.
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  • Order Your Conversations Aright ¶5 (But now let me share with you a story I know well, the story of my father. He was born a very poor white man in the Island of Barbados. My mother was born poor. She had nothing; he had nothing. And they proceeded to have children. Twelve children were bo…)