For weeks Barry went to Neville's lecture venue, heard his voice over the loudspeaker but deliberately would not go in, buying one book per visit until he owned and had critically read them all — unable to catch Neville contradicting himself — before

For weeks Barry went to Neville's lecture venue, heard his voice over the loudspeaker but deliberately would not go in, buying one book per visit until he owned and had critically read them all — unable to catch Neville contradicting himself — before finally attending a lecture. [Date evidence: spring-June, c. 1958 (Barry: 'this was then in June until he closed')] [Place: Fine Arts Auditorium at the Wilshire, Los Angeles]

The first-hand account places these repeated visits at the Fine Arts Auditorium on Wilshire, ending when Barry finally attended a Monday lecture during the June 1958 series.

Date (happened)
between March 1958 and June 1958
unresolved
  1. between March 1958 and June 1958 estimated · probable · preferred
    Source Freedom Barry Neville GoddardFreedom Barry first-hand source document node 1575: he began visiting on the next Thursday, continued for weeks, and finally attended during the June series.
    Why He heard Neville over the loudspeaker, bought one book per visit, and entered only after reading the available books.
    Reasoning Barry gives a sequence rather than exact dates. It begins after the spring 1958 book discovery and ends with his first attendance in June, supporting only a March-June 1958 interval.
Place
Fine Arts Auditorium, Wilshire, Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Freedom Barry
Verbatim (witness's words)

Well, the very next Thursday, I went the first chance I could, and I could hear his voice coming over the loud speaker, but I would not go in. I bought one book because that’s all I could afford to pay for it. [...] I was reading all of Neville’s books seeing where he was going to trip himself up. And I couldn’t find a place that he did. So, when I had read them all, the next Monday, I went to the lecture, and there I began kicking myself up and down all the hills that I wasted the opportunity, because this began to unfold.

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