Neville mistakes the awakening vibration for a cerebral stroke

During the vibration he thought it was a massive cerebral stroke and that he was about to leave the world, but instead he began to awake.
Date (happened)
c. 20 July 1959
probable
  1. c. 20 July 1959 conclusion · probable
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 5 claims agree on c. 1959-07-20: passage:542082; passage:542124; passage:542499; node:1553; passage:542499.
  2. 1959 stated · preferred
    Source His Purpose ¶7"Now this was 1959, twelve years ago.", told in His Purpose (nid 1533)
  3. between 1952 and 1971 stated · probable
    Source His Purpose ¶49"the one in ’52 . . and the recent one", told in His Purpose (nid 1533)
  4. before 1968 bound · possible
    Source The Signs of the End ¶29qualifying source passages 542499; telling lecture nids 1553
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [542499] belong to telling lecture nids [1553]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  5. before 20 October 1967 bound
    Source The Signs of the Endsurviving (non-refuted) delivery claim on node 1553, 1967-10-20 certain
    Why Corrects the stale d0 (before 1968, possible); d0 is left standing per append-only.
    Reasoning Passage 542499 ('if it happens to you as it did to me') names no date for the vibration episode itself, only a bound from the telling lecture. The prior L4.5 pass (npr 70626) declined to tighten this bound because the then-relevant 1968-07-26 delivery claim was only doubtful; L7 has since refuted that claim entirely (the lecture's own chrome dateline 'Oct 20, 1967' contradicts it and matches the surviving catalog #376 claim exactly), leaving 1967-10-20 at certain as node 1553's only surviving delivery date. The safe-envelope bound recomputes to before that date.
  6. c. 20 July 1959 estimated · probable
    Source The Signs of the End ¶29
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 016)
    Reasoning 'If it happens to you as it did to me, you will think, This is it, tomorrow they will find the body dead' (passage 542499) describes the overwhelming vibration that came before he awoke in his skull; that is the 20 July 1959 awakening (chronology 17300, 877, 1274). Nothing in the passage itself gives a date.
Place
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 20 July 1971 stated
    Source His PurposeHis Purpose (nid 1533), telling 1533-2, told 1971-07-20
  2. 20 July 1971 stated
    Source His PurposeHis Purpose (nid 1533), telling 1533-6, told 1971-07-20
  3. 20 October 1967 estimated
    Source The Signs of the Endnid 1553 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1967-10-20 certain; 1968-7-26 refuted; 1967-10-20 certain (preferred)
    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 1553 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 1553 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1967-10-20 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1967-10-20 certain; 1968-7-26 refuted; 1967-10-20 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1968-07-26 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.
  4. 26 July 1968 stated · refuted
    Source The Signs of the EndThe Signs of the End (nid 1553), telling 1553-6, told 1968-07-26
    Reasoning || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1553, 1968-7-26) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1967-10-20. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources

Source

  • His Purpose ¶7 (I am not a doctor, so I knew nothing of what a cerebral hemorrhage would be, but I thought for a moment, “This must be it. It must be a massive cerebral stroke, and maybe this is my departure from this world.”)
  • His Purpose ¶49 (I’ve gone through two very severe earthquakes in Southern California: the one in ’52 that registered 7.5, and the recent one registering 6.2. The whole house just kept shaking; we had hundreds of aftershocks.)
  • The Signs of the End ¶29 (if it happens to you as it did to me, you will think, “This is it.” Meaning tomorrow they will find the body dead because you can’t see how you can survive it.)
3 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1967-10-20 [exact/certain/final] The Signs of the End So, these are the signs of the end. The sign may come this night to you, I do not know. As you are told, “When?” He said, “No one knows the hour or the day; only the Father.” So let no one tell you that he can – from your horoscope or teacup leaves or your aura, or anything else, – tell you anything about the great mysteries of being. He can’t – that’s all nonsense. And so, tonight it may be that He will come to you; and when He comes, you can’t stop it. You’ll begin to vibrate; and may I tell you? If it happens to you as it did to me, you will think, “This is it.” Meaning tomorrow they will… 542499
1971-07-20 [exact/certain/final] His Purpose I entertained the thought, not knowing anything of the human form . . I am not a doctor, so I knew nothing of what a cerebral hemorrhage would be, but I thought for a moment, “This must be it. It must be a massive cerebral stroke, and maybe this is my departure from this world.” That was the feeling I had . . the thing was so intense! But this is what happened: instead of being one who departed the world, I began to awake. At the moment, I thought I would awake as I had awakened for 50-odd years of my life. Now this was 1959, twelve years ago. 542082
1971-07-20 [exact/certain/final] His Purpose My dear, this is something so unlike anything I had ever experienced before . . I have had many mystical experiences and many wonderful visions, but this came so suddenly, so unexpectedly. Certainly, I did not expect it. But I did not realize how literally true, on a higher level, the Gospel story is! Your head is simply like an earthquake. I’ve gone through two very severe earthquakes in Southern California: the one in ’52 that registered 7.5, and the recent one registering 6.2. The whole house just kept shaking; we had hundreds of aftershocks. That was an intense one. But this all takes… 542124