He describes the exercise his old friend Abdullah taught him in New York City: sitting in his living room chair, assuming he was down the hallway at the telephone he could not see, viewing his own chair as empty, then opening his eyes and feeling himself bounce back — after which he began trying it on more important things and they worked.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1939
unresolved
before 1963
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [529937] belong to telling lecture nids [1091]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1963 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1963 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 22 March 1963
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1963 to before 1963-03-22.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1091 (certain delivery 1963-03-22); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1963`, 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 1963-03-22 on nid 1091 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between 1929 and 1939
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 003)
Reasoning
Taught by 'my old friend Abdullah in New York City' (passage 529937); the chronology places Abdullah's instruction of Neville from 1929-31 to the mid-1930s (events 963, 771, 786, 7842).
Sources
Source
- Is Christ Your Imagination ¶29 (It’s a little trick that my old friend Abdullah taught me in New York City. I had a telephone that I couldn’t possibly see, unless I could see around corners.)