One night Neville spent the night with Blake, who showed him how to fall backwards and look; he fell like a meteor through space, came to stillness, looked, and saw one man whose heart glowed like a living ruby — contracting his senses he saw multitudes of nations, expanding them he saw the one man was himself containing all humanity.
Date (happened)
between 1961 and 1965
unresolved
before 1964
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [532081] belong to telling lecture nids [1172]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1964 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1964 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 17 November 1964
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1964 to before 1964-11-17.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1172 (certain delivery 1964-11-17); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1964`, 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 1964-11-17 on nid 1172 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 17 November 1964
bound · probable
Reasoning
The experience is completed before Neville tells it. The only delivery support on node 1172 is a lone uncorroborated legacy claim for 1964-11-17, so the before bound is probable.
before 1966
bound · probable
Reasoning
“a few years ago when I met Blake” places the vision before its 1966 telling.
between 1961 and 1965
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 014)
Reasoning
'I told you a few years ago when I met Blake' (passage 534719, delivered 1966-11-22). Read as three-ish years before, that is about 1963, allowing 1961-65. The phrase could refer to when he told it rather than when he met Blake, hence possible.
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [527895] belong to telling lecture nids [1021]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1 March 1971
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1971 to before 1971-03-01.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1021 (certain delivery 1971-03-01); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1971`, 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 1971-03-01 on nid 1021 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 15 June 1965
bound · probable
Why
Existing before-1971-03-01/certain bound rests only on catalogue #648 (unreviewed); left untouched, this is appended beside it.
Reasoning
The event's existing before-1971-03-01 bound derives from delivery claim d1, a legacy catalogue backfill (catalogue #648) with no internal verification. Node 1021 carries its own internal chrome dateline of 1965-06-15, already trusted by an earlier pass to refute a competing 1956 catalogue claim; per the evidence hierarchy an internal dateline outranks a catalogue row, so the safer upper bound for this vision (told in this same lecture) is before 1965-06-15, not before the unverified 1971-03-01.
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before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [538447] belong to telling lecture nids [1370]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 21 June 1968
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-06-21.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1370 (certain delivery 1968-06-21); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, 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 1968-06-21 on nid 1370 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
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20 June 1969
stated · probable
Reasoning
The whole witness identifies the vision as occurring 'this night'; at packet-read time the lecture's preferred document-native delivery is 1969-06-20 at probable confidence, so the event inherits that exact day without exceeding the source confidence.
Told / reported
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between 14 November 1966 and 22 November 1966
estimated · possible
Why
Both catalogue claims agree on November 1966, so that much is solid regardless of which day is correct.
Reasoning
The two existing delivery claims for lecture nid 1248 disagree only on the day (14th vs 22nd November 1966) and neither has an independent site witness. A weekday check places 14 Nov 1966 on a Monday and 22 Nov 1966 on a Tuesday; the Tuesday date fits the Tuesday/Friday lecture-night pattern established elsewhere in this batch, weakly favouring the 22nd, but this is not strong enough to collapse the range to a single day.
1 March 1971
stated · doubtful
15 June 1965
estimated · probable
Why
Existing told claim of 1971-03-01/certain rests only on catalogue #648 (unreviewed); left untouched, this is appended beside it.
Reasoning
The vision is recounted in lecture nid 1021, whose own internal chrome dateline reads 1965-06-15. The existing certain told claim of 1971-03-01 rests solely on catalogue #648, an unreviewed backfill row with no independent verification, and should not outrank the node's own dateline evidence.
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21 June 1969
stated · possible
20 June 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The telling occurs in nid 1464 and inherits its current preferred 1969-06-20 delivery day at the same probable confidence; the prior 1969-06-21 told claims remain append-only.
Sources
Source
- Gathered One-by-One ¶31 (I saw it one night with Blake. Blake tells you he dined with Isaiah and Ezekiel. May I tell you, I didn’t dine with him, but I certainly spent the night with him…yet he died a hundred-odd years before I was born, seemingly.)
- God's Law and His Promise ¶50 (One night I saw it so clearly. I was with Blake and he showed me the kind of a fall that I should take. Taking this fall, when I steadied myself, I came like a meteor through space.)
- Imagination, the Real Man ¶35 (I know in my own case, when Blake told me to fall backwards I fell in utter faith when he said fall backwards [...]. We were discussing the unity of being, and then I fell like a meteor through infinite space, and when my motion was arrested, in the dist…)
- Personifications, Not Persons ¶4 (I met Blake this night, and after discussion of the usual theme “the mystery of God”…what else to discuss…he said to me, “Fall backwards…a complete abandonment of self, no restraint at all. It doesn’t matter if you smash yourself into nothingness…just fa…)