Neville's father builds a fortune through disciplined daydreaming

Neville describes his father: no education and no money, who sat every day in the Silence in a Burmese chair after his 10:30 breakfast in Barbados with his eyes partly shut seeing the day's business as he wanted it, knew his Bible better than any minister on the island, and died at eighty-five leaving his ten children a fortune of over twenty-five million dollars.
Date (happened)
when he died at the age of eighty-five
unresolved
  1. when he died at the age of eighty-five relative · probable
    Source The Dreamer ¶19"when he died at the age of eighty-five", told in The Dreamer (nid 1895)
    Said as when he died at the age of eighty-five
    counted from The Dreamer
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told
  1. 23 February 1965 estimated · probable
    Source The Dreamerdelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 1895 ("The Dreamer"), 1965-02-23, exact/probable (confirmed chrome dateline, agreeing across two independent carriers), consistent with the weaker after-1948 d0 bound
    Reasoning Passage 548115 in lecture nid 1895 is Neville himself describing his father's disciplined daydreaming practice and the fortune it built. The lecture's best-evidenced delivery claim dates it 1965-02-23, so the telling inherits that precision and confidence.
  2. 23 February 1965 estimated · probable
    Source delivery claim d0 on lecture nid 2201, inherited via node 1895 identification, probable
    Why No date or age is given for the childhood memory itself, only for the lecture in which he recounts it.
    Reasoning The recollection of his father's Berbice-chair routine (passage 555544) is told within lecture nid 2201, whose only delivery claim dates it to 1965-02-23 at probable confidence via a three-way identification with nodes 1895 and 3960; the telling cannot exceed that ceiling.
Sources

Source

  • The Dreamer ¶19 (He would sit in the Silence…I can see him now…in what I call in Barbados a Burmese chair, it comes from Demerara, it’s a chair with elevated, extended arms.)
  • The Dreamer ¶19 (I can see him now in what I call, in Barbados, a Berbice chair — it comes from British Guiana. It’s a chair with elevated, extended arms.)