Woman confesses bargaining with God before her daughter's suicide

At dinner the night before with a couple who are friends of his and his wife, the woman confessed for the first time that as a girl she had troubled her mother, and when her mother developed cancer had bargained with God to take the child she loved most in exchange; years later her third daughter, a successful dancer earning $500 a week, killed herself, and Neville kept silent rather than tell her the connection.
Date (happened)
23 October 1969
unresolved
  1. 23 October 1969 stated · preferred
    Source We Are God Himself ¶60"last night", told in We Are God Himself (nid 1493)
  2. 23 October 1969 estimated · probable
    Source We Are God Himself ¶60passage 541105 (lecture nid 1493), 'I was in the company last night of a very wonderful, dear couple... she told me for the first time last night at dinner...'
    Reasoning Lecture nid 1493 was delivered 1969-10-24 by a certain claim, corroborated independently by both the catalogue and the transcript's own chrome dateline (the latter matching Neville's stated Monday/Friday meeting schedule). He places the dinner and the confession 'last night', which dates the underlying event to 1969-10-23, the evening before. This is a derived one-day-back inference, so probable rather than certain despite the strong sourcing of the delivery date itself.
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Told
  1. 24 October 1969 stated
    Source We Are God HimselfWe Are God Himself (nid 1493), telling 1493-5, told 1969-10-24
  2. 24 October 1969 estimated
    Source We Are God Himselfdelivery claims on lecture nid 1493 (catalog #612 and independent chrome dateline, both certain, 1969-10-24)
    Reasoning Neville recounts the mother's bargain to the audience within lecture nid 1493, whose delivery date is certain and independently double-corroborated at 1969-10-24; the telling date is that delivery date.
Sources

Source

  • We Are God Himself ¶60 (I was in the company last night of a very wonderful, dear couple, friends of ours who have gone through a great tragic thing in the last few years, and she told me for the first time last night at dinner that she gave her mother a great deal of trouble w…)