Neville says the awakening came unlike any prior vision

He states that he has had many mystical experiences and visions, but that this one came suddenly and unexpectedly and was unlike any of them.
Date (happened)
20 July 1959
probable
  1. 20 July 1959 conclusion · probable
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 3 claims agree on 1959-07-20: passage:542124; node:1533; estimated (no source recorded).
  2. 20 July 1959 estimated · probable · preferred
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 029): its source passage 542124 does not exist on www: left off
    Reasoning Passage 542124: 'you wake to find yourself... in your skull', unlike anything before; this is the 20 July 1959 awakening (chronology 1274, 9147, 16955).
  3. before 1971 bound · possible
    Source His Purpose ¶49qualifying source passages 542124; telling lecture nids 1533
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [542124] belong to telling lecture nids [1533]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  4. before 20 July 1971 bound
    Source His Purposetelling lecture nid 1533, certain delivery 1971-07-20
    Why Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1971 to before 1971-07-20.
    Reasoning L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1533 (certain delivery 1971-07-20); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1971`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1971-07-20 on nid 1533 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Place
Sir Francis Drake Hotel possible
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 20 July 1971 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1971-07-20 (node:1533).
  2. 20 July 1971 stated
    Source His PurposeHis Purpose (nid 1533), telling 1533-7, told 1971-07-20
Sources

Source

  • His Purpose ¶49 (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.)
1 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
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