Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 3 + birth 1905 = 1908. Told 3 times (1964-1967). Judged his own (not a retold third-party story) by the whose_age adjudication.
Date (happened)
c. 1908
stated · probable · preferred
Source
age 3 + birth 1905 = 1908 (3 statements, told 1964-1967)
between 19 February 1908 and 18 February 1909
estimated · possible
Why
Not more precise than 'age three' already gives; the gain is the exact day bounds, not a narrower age.
Reasoning
Passage 546659 places the memory at 'maybe three or maybe not quite four', i.e. somewhere in his fourth year of life. Using the corpus's certain birth anchor (hist_event 950, 1905-02-19), that spans 1908-02-19 to 1909-02-18. This refines the existing circa-1908 (year-only) claim to a day-bounded range without re-asserting it; confidence stays possible because the witness's own phrasing is deliberately uncertain.
c. 1909
stated · probable
Source
age 4 + birth 1905 = 1909 (2 statements, told 1967)
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c. 1909
stated
Source
"when I was four (or not quite four)", told in Grace Verses Law Com (nid 2007)
Told / reported
11 February 1964
estimated
Why
Description says told 3 times 1964-1967, but only this one witness passage exists; the other two are dangling and unverifiable.
Reasoning
The event had no field_told claim. Its sole readable witness (passage 546659) is part of lecture 1847, whose delivery date is certain from the lecture's own chrome byline, matching the separate legacy catalogue claim (#195) and contradicting the demoted catalogue claim (#136, 1963-03-12) per that lecture's own WHY note. Since this claim rests on a certain, non-catalogue-backfill delivery date, the derived telling date can stand at certain.
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12 March 1963
estimated
Source
delivery claims on lecture nid 2007 'Grace Verses Law Com': source-header dateline 'Neville 03-12-1963' (probable) and an independently matching site chrome byline (certain)
Why
Second telling of the same 'when I was four (or not quite four)' passage, in the companion lecture 'Grace Verses Law Com'.
Reasoning
Passage 551374, already cited as a field_date witness for this event, sits in nid 2007, a second and separately-dated telling of the childhood-memory story. The event's only recorded field_told claim covers the nid 1847 telling (1964-02-11); nid 2007's own confirmed delivery date (1963-03-12) is a genuinely new telling, not a restatement of the one already on file.
Sources
Source
- Grace versus Law ¶7 ("maybe three or maybe not quite four" (lecture, 1964))
- God Is Light ¶23 ("age of three" (lecture, 1967))
- God Is Light ¶23 ("three" (lecture, 1967))
- Spiritual Feast ¶21 ("four" (lecture, 1967))
- Grace versus Law ¶7 (I was born on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year in a certain little island in the West Indies. I was born; I had no knowledge of it, and then gradually consciousness possessed me. Then when I was maybe three or maybe not quite four, I be…)