Neville recalls practising double vision morning, noon and night with his teacher Abdullah, who told him to look at a lampshade, a carpet or a wall and report not what he saw but what lay beyond it, until faces and living things appeared.
Date (happened)
c. 1931
stated · probable · preferred
Source
"When I first began to do this", told in Follow the Pattern (nid 1342)
before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [537672] belong to telling lecture nids [1343]. 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 25 March 1968
bound
Why
Existing 'before 1968/possible' L6a bound left standing; this is a tighter bound from a different, more specific source.
Reasoning
The practice with Abdullah is recounted in the past tense ('I used to practice that morning, noon and night') in the lecture now datable to 1968-03-25 at certain confidence via its own chrome dateline; a habit described as past necessarily predates the telling, so this refines the existing 'before 1968' bound to day precision.
before 1965
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [543394] belong to telling lecture nids [1759]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1965 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1965 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1966
bound · possible
Why
Corrects the phase4 L6a envelope on this event from before 1965 to before 1966.
Reasoning
Envelope recompute, arithmetic only. The phase4 L6a row on this event states its own rule: each telling lecture contributes MAX of its non-refuted delivery years, and the envelope is the MIN across telling lectures. Recomputed live over lecture nid(s) 1759 that row cites, MAX(non-refuted field_delivery_year) gives 1966, not the 1965 the row carries — the bound was below its own stated rule and therefore UNSAFE: it asserted the event did not happen in 1 year(s) where it may sit. Same premise, same evidence, no re-reading and no re-judgement; only the maximum was taken correctly. The L6a row stands beside this one (append-only). Ruling: #2235 delta 1, architect 378.
Told / reported
-
25 March 1968
estimated
Why
Existing 'told 1968/certain' (year only) left standing per append-only; this adds the day.
Reasoning
The lecture's own chrome dateline independently refines the bare-year catalogue delivery claim to 1968-03-25 at certain confidence; the passage recounting Abdullah's training is told at this delivery, so the told date inherits the same day precision.
25 March 1968
stated
Source
Follow the Pattern (nid 1342), telling 1342-3, told 1968-03-25
6 December 1966
estimated
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1759 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1759 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1966-12-6 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1965-2-2 refuted; 1966-11-30 refuted; 1966-12-1 refuted; 1966-12-6 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1965-02-02 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
2 February 1965
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1759, 1965-2-2) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1966-12-6. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- The Serpent ¶29 (I used to practice that morning, noon and night with my old friend Abdullah. He would say, “Look and tell me what you see.”)
- The Serpent ¶29 (Every day, with my old friend Abdullah I would practice this art. At dinner he would ask me to look at the lampshade.)
- Word 2 ¶38 (But what he would make me do is skry, and he would say, “I want you to skry for me.” Well then, I would skry and then tell him what I am seeing.)