Neville pays Depression-era rent by painting his landlady's house

During the Depression in New York, living on 4th Street in Greenwich Village, Neville sat in the Silence all day seeking God instead of finding work; his landlady, owed sixty-five dollars a month for two or three months, bawled him out, and he settled the debt by painting her house instead of paying the rent.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1939
unresolved
  1. between 1929 and 1939 stated · preferred
    Source Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶16"in the days of the Depression in New York City", told in Twenty-Seven Heavens (nid 1183)
  2. c. 1929 estimated · probable
    Source Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶17passage 532488 (same lecture, nid 1183), 'it came in 1959... it didn't really come into the mind with understanding until July of '59. Almost thirty years prior to that, yes, I met and stood in the presence of God'
    Why The link between the two passages is inferential -- 'it' in 532488 is not unambiguously the rent episode -- so this is offered alongside the existing between-range, not in place of it.
    Reasoning Passage 532488, immediately following the witness, dates a mystical 'meeting God' experience to 'almost thirty years prior to' 1959, i.e. circa 1929. That experience -- described as something 'too green to be understood' at the time -- matches the meditative Silence-sitting described in the witness passage 532487 ('imagining myself on the ceiling and feeling myself up there looking down at the body below'), the same episode framed by the landlady/rent story. This narrows the existing 1929-1939 between-range to circa 1929, near the Depression's actual onset (October 1929).
Place
4th Street
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 12 January 1965 stated
    Source Twenty-Seven HeavensTwenty-Seven Heavens (nid 1183), telling 1183-1, told 1965-01-12
Sources

Source

  • Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶16 (But may I tell you, in the days of the Depression in New York City, I can see it now: I didn’t pay rent. I was sitting in the Silence all day long, just meditating, imagining myself on the ceiling and feeling myself up there looking down at the body belo…)

Temporal reference

  • Twenty-Seven Heavens ¶17 ('Almost thirty years prior to' 1959 = circa 1929, dating the meeting-God experience framed by the rent/landlady story)