Neville suffers severe pain after returning from an out-of-body journey

On one occasion he travelled some enormous distance out of the body and returned like a falling meteor; imagining a dive to save his neck, he heard a click, told his wife at breakfast, stiffened through the day into excruciating pain, was taken for X-rays at Presbyterian Hospital in New York where the head bone specialist could find nothing, no traction room was available, the pain eased after three days, and the episode cost him about a hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Date (happened)
between February 1942 and April 1957
unresolved
  1. before 19 February 1965 bound · probable
    Source On the Lawdelivery claim d0 on lecture nid 1781, chrome dateline 2/19/65
    Reasoning Neville recounts the out-of-body episode, the hospital visit, and the three days of pain as a completed personal experience, so it precedes the telling; the lecture's confirmed delivery date gives a real upper bound with nothing more specific in the passage to date it further.
  2. between February 1942 and April 1957 estimated · possible
    Source On the Law ¶58
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 010)
    Reasoning Passage 544211: he told his wife at breakfast, she insisted on the hospital, Presbyterian Hospital in New York. The wife is Catherine (person 694), married 1942-02-25; he lived in New York until 1957-04. Nothing gives a year within that span.
Place
Presbyterian Hospital, New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Told / reported
  1. 19 February 1965 estimated · probable
    Source On the Lawdelivery claim d0 on lecture nid 1781, chrome dateline 2/19/65
    Reasoning The telling date is the lecture's own confirmed delivery date, held at probable per the inheritance ceiling since it is derived from the node's delivery claim rather than a direct statement in the passage.
Sources

Source

  • On the Law ¶58 (But that experience cost me one hundred twenty- five dollars. The X-rays were twenty-five dollars; for his interpretation was forty; the taxi back and forth; the room that they couldn’t give me was another twenty-five or thirty because I occupied it for …)