Neville sees shattered quartz form his radiant lotus-seated body

While meditating in the Silence he saw a piece of quartz break into countless fragments, reassemble as a living human figure seated in the lotus posture which he recognised as himself, and then glow ever brighter until it exploded.
Date (happened)
between 1930 and 1939
unresolved
  1. between 1930 and 1939 stated · preferred
    Source Rock Water Wine ¶1"It was in the thirties.", told in Rock Water Wine (nid 1868)
Place
New York City possible
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 18 February 1966 estimated · probable
    Source Rock Water Wine ¶1passage 547366 (lecture nid 1868, "Rock Water Wine"); lecture's confirmed, most precise delivery claim d1 is 1966-02-18 exact/probable, from a chrome dateline ('2/18/66') cross-checked by day-of-week arithmetic against the lecture's own 'this coming Sunday, on the 20th' statement -- corrects d0's circa-March-1966 guess
    Why This lecture's dating pass also flagged (but left untouched) a conflicting field_date on a different hist_event (302, 'The Rock'), which carries a bare catalog-attributed 1965-12-07 with no reasoning -- worth a look by whichever lane owns hist_event 302.
    Reasoning Passage 547366 is Neville sharing in the first person the vision he had while meditating -- the quartz shattering, reassembling into his own lotus-seated form, glowing until it exploded -- this is the telling. The owning lecture nid 1868 carries two delivery claims that converge on February 1966, with the chrome-dateline claim d1 correcting d0's guessed month via day-of-week cross-validation. The telling uses the corrected, more precise claim and its precision/confidence (exact/probable) is copied across unchanged.
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  • Rock Water Wine ¶1 (Well, honestly, I was thinking of nothing in particular, but suddenly before me came a quartz…I would say about that big. As I looked at it, it broke, became fragmented into numberless pieces; and then quickly it was assembled into a human form and seate…)