Sixteen years ago Neville slipped back in time some two hundred years into a New England dining room and, by arresting an activity within himself, froze the entire scene — diners, waitress, a bird in flight, falling leaves — until he released the power again and everything resumed its course.
Date (happened)
c. 1948
conclusion
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
All 13 claims agree on c. 1948: passage:546704; passage:529803; passage:529803; passage:531498; node:1148; passage:531498; passage:544278; node:1783; estimated (no source recorded); passage:543011; estimated (no source recorded); passage:543760; passage:546703.
c. 1948
stated · preferred
before 1959
bound · probable
Reasoning
v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1: type stated -> bound. The 1959 boundary enters through the description's own reference to Neville's awakening ('some years before his awakening'); the source doesn't date this vision directly, it bounds it via a mention of the awakening, so this is a bound, not a stated date.
c. 1948
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 002)
Reasoning
Passage 529803 (Christ Unveiled, 1963-03-15): taken into a world like this one, he arrested a rhythm within himself, people and things stood still, and on release 'moved on and completed their intentions'. Chronology 18056 (c. 1948) has him slipping into a New England scene and freezing time. The description also places it years before the 1959 awakening. Later repeated occasions (bird, leaf) are not this event.
before 1964
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [531498] belong to telling lecture nids [1148]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1964 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1964 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 10 March 1964
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1964 to before 1964-03-10.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1148 (certain delivery 1964-03-10); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1964`, 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 1964-03-10 on nid 1148 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
c. 1948
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 007)
Reasoning
Same freezing-of-the-world vision as chronology 18056 (New England scene, c. 1948); passage 546705 pairs the frozen diners with the bird that should have fallen.
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [544278] belong to telling lecture nids [1783]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
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before 19 July 1971
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1971 to before 1971-07-19.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1783 (certain delivery 1971-07-19); 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 1971-07-19 on nid 1783 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
c. 1948
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 029): its source passage 544278 does not exist on www: left off
Reasoning
Passage 544278 (a bird in flight, waitress, diners all stand still) may match chronology 18056 (c. 1948, freezes time in a New England scene); the match is unverified.
before 1969
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [543011] belong to telling lecture nids [1754]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 9 June 1969
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 044): its source node 1754 does not exist on www: left off; bound with no source: written as estimated with the reader's reasoning
Reasoning
Telling lecture nid 1754 probable delivery 1969-06-09.
before 9 April 1965
bound
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 037)
Reasoning
Recounted as an already-had experience at the certain 1965-04-09 telling.
c. 1948
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Lecture nid 1850 has a certain delivery date of 1964-05-05 (independent catalogue and chrome-dateline corroboration). Neville dates the frozen-dining-room vision to 'sixteen years ago' from that platform, i.e. circa 1948 (1964 minus 16). Only year precision is claimed since no month or day is given; probable rather than certain because 'sixteen years ago' is a recalled interval, not a stated calendar date.
Told / reported
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9 June 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 543011 is Neville narrating the frozen-restaurant / 'I am the life' experience firsthand ('I found myself moved in Spirit into an environment... if I could arrest what I am feeling within me, everything that I am seeing would stand still'), per the lecture's own processing notes this is one of three restatements of the same telling within this single lecture. The owning lecture nid 1754 has three converging delivery claims: a year-only circa/probable (1969), a Belmont-Stakes-anchored bound 1969-06-08..06-14 (probable), and an exact 1969-06-09 stated/probable recovered chrome dateline that confirms and sharpens the bound. The telling is dated to that most-precise converging claim at its own confidence (probable, not upgraded to certain).
9 April 1965
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 543760 is Neville himself narrating, in first person, arresting a bird in mid-flight; this is the telling. The lecture containing it, nid 1769, is dated 1965-04-09 by its sole delivery claim (exact/certain, chrome dateline), so the telling inherits that same precision and confidence.
5 May 1964
estimated
Reasoning
Neville tells the story of his vision from the platform in lecture nid 1850, whose delivery date 1964-05-05 is corroborated by two independent sources, both certain.
Sources
Source
- The Clever Rascal (The Unjust Steward) ¶6 (Then, at that moment, I knew that if I could arrest within me an activity which I felt, that all that I now perceived within the focus of my vision would stand still, it would all freeze. And so, at that moment, I arrested it, and my head jelled, it beca…)
- Christ Unveiled ¶42 (As I saw them, I [...] within myself arrested a rhythm, an action. As I did it, the people that I observed stood still. They couldn’t move and nothing moved. Things that were in space stood still; everything stood still.)
- Who Are the Condemned ¶25 (Not a man could move, not a bird could fly though they were in flight when I stopped it, not a leaf could continue falling though it was falling when I stopped it, and looked at it and it was all dead, but I mean dead.)
- Imagination Plus Faith ¶51 (The bird stood still in space, and she stood still, and the diners dining – everything stood still. As I released within me the activity that I had arrested, everything continued to fulfill its purpose.)
- Pursue Truth with Ceaseless Questioning ¶4 (I arrested the activity within me and everything stood still…not only the animate, say, men and women, but the so-called inanimate.)
- God's Law ¶41 (That the bird in flight didn’t fall when I arrested something not there but in myself. So, when I arrested the activity in me that was the cause of the motion of the bird, the bird was arrested, and arrested in space, it didn’t fall.)
- The Clever Rascal (The Unjust Steward) ¶5