Neville awakens within a dream beside a primitive island

Years ago Neville became aware he was dreaming while swimming toward a primitive island, took hold of a decaying piling in the water, forced himself awake while holding it, and awoke in that water and waded ashore.
Date (happened)
before 1959
unresolved
  1. before 1959 bound · possible
    Source The Seven Eyes of God ¶15qualifying source passages 529035; telling lecture nids 1056
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [529035] belong to telling lecture nids [1056]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1959 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1959 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  2. before 11 June 1959 bound
    Source The Seven Eyes of Godtelling lecture nid 1056, certain delivery 1959-06-11
    Why Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1959 to before 1959-06-11.
    Reasoning L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1056 (certain delivery 1959-06-11); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1959`, 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 1959-06-11 on nid 1056 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
  3. before 1959 bound
    Source The Seven Eyes of God ¶15passage 529035 (lecture node 1056 delivery d1 1959-06-11 certain)
    Why Non-preferred bound derived from the telling relationship; preferred is derived separately.
    Reasoning “Years ago” directly places the dream before the certain 1959 lecture delivery.
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 11 June 1959 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 2 claims agree on 1959-06-11: node:1056; node:1056.
  2. 11 June 1959 stated
    Source The Seven Eyes of GodThe Seven Eyes of God (nid 1056), telling 1056-0, told 1959-06-11
  3. 11 June 1959 estimated
    Source The Seven Eyes of Goddelivery claim on lecture nid 1056 ('The Seven Eyes of God'): legacy catalog claim (#101, hist_event 99) and independently chrome-dateline-harvested claim (v1.1/l2/w1) both agree exactly on 1959-06-11
    Reasoning Two independently-sourced claims on this lecture -- the legacy catalog entry and a chrome dateline harvested directly from the pre-strip transcript body ('By Neville Goddard - 06-11-1959') -- agree exactly, with no conflicting claim on the node. Told date is written at full certainty.
Sources

Source

  • The Seven Eyes of God ¶15 (I felt it and it was solidly real, just as it would feel here, and my hand did not go through it, and I held on to it and made myself awake; and I awoke in that water on that beach and then I waded ashore.)
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
1959-06-11 [exact/certain/final] The Seven Eyes of God Years ago I felt myself dreaming and I was swimming. I knew it was a dream. I looked up and saw the shore of a primitive island, not the little island where I was born, for that is well cultivated and in no way primitive, but this was primitive. I saw it was an island and I knew I was dreaming, and I saw these strange things like cement posts driven down through the water but they were in a state of decay. They could have been at one time part of a jetty. I could see this peculiar primitive beach and I prolonged the dream, for if you know you are dreaming you need not wake. Something in me… 529035