Neville abandons seven years of abstinence after returning from Barbados

Abdullah told Neville that when he returned from Barbados he would have died; Neville went to Barbados still a strict vegetarian, celibate and abstinent as he had been for seven years, to his grocer family's annoyance, and on the way north broke every abstinence, so that the state he had lived in died.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1933
unresolved
  1. between 1929 and 1933 stated · preferred
    Source "in 1933 (I met him in ’29)", told in Drugs Dope Marijuana Lsd Alcohol Vegetarianism Etc (nid 2001)
  2. c. February 1934 relative · probable
    Source Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally ¶51passage 527395 (lecture nid 989), 'When I came back to New York in 1934, after three heavenly months in Barbados'
    Why Matches the event's own title ('February 1934').
    Reasoning The passage states the return year directly: 1934. The preceding passages in the same lecture (527379/527380) date his departure for Barbados to shortly after saying goodbye to his parents in November 1933; adding the stated three-month stay gives circa February 1934, which matches the event's own title. The year 1934 is stated and certain; the specific month is a computed approximation from a rounded 'three heavenly months', so the whole claim is written circa/probable rather than exact/certain.
  3. before 1969 bound · possible
    Source The One Greater Than John ¶10qualifying source passages 528246; telling lecture nids 1033
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [528246] belong to telling lecture nids [1033]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
  4. before 30 January 1969 bound
    Source The One Greater Than Johntelling lecture nid 1033, certain delivery 1969-01-30
    Why Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1969 to before 1969-01-30.
    Reasoning L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1033 (certain delivery 1969-01-30); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1969`, 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 1969-01-30 on nid 1033 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
  5. before 9 January 1964 bound
    Source The One Greater Than John ¶10The passage recounts the completed voyage; its containing lecture node 1033 is adjudicated delivered 1964-01-09.
    Reasoning The voyage was already past when recounted in passage 528246. The containing lecture's standing delivery date is 1964-01-09, making before that day the tightest safe bound supplied by this witness.
  6. in seven years relative · possible
    Source Justified States ¶67"in seven years", told in Justified States (nid 59)
    Said as in seven years
    counted from Justified States
  7. before 1972 bound · possible
    Source Justified States ¶67qualifying source passages 526777; telling lecture nids 59
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [526777] belong to telling lecture nids [59]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1972 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1972 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Place
No place
from Barbados
to New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Abdullah
Wilhelmina Goddard
Series / group
Neville's visit to Barbados, December 1933 – early 1934
Told / reported
  1. after 1965 estimated · possible
    Source delivery claim d0 on lecture nid 2001 (On Drugs, Dope, Marijuana, LSD, Alcohol, Vegetarianism, Etc.), 1965-??-?? bound/after/probable, from Churchill's January 1965 death spoken of as past
    Why Only one delivery claim exists on this lecture and it is an open floor, not an estimate of the actual date; confidence is deliberately lower than the source claim's own 'probable' to reflect that.
    Reasoning Passage 551257 is Neville narrating the Abdullah/Barbados abstinence story as a fresh telling in this lecture. The lecture's only delivery evidence is an open-ended 'after 1965' floor (no upper bound beyond Neville's 1972 death); the telling date can only inherit that same bound, at reduced (possible) confidence since a floor alone does not fix an actual telling date the way an exact or narrow-range claim would.
  2. 23 February 1948 estimated
    Source Thinking Fourth-Dimensionallydelivery claim [d0] on lecture nid 989, corroborated at year-precision by [d2]'s independent site chrome header
    Why Same lecture and same mutually-exclusive preferred=1 conflict as hist_event:9261; resolved the same way here for consistency.
    Reasoning Lecture nid 989 carries 3 delivery claims, including two MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE preferred=1 catalog claims: [d0] 1948-02-23 (catalog #4, preferred=1) and [d1] 1964-02-03 (catalog #189, preferred=1). A third claim, [d2], is independent of both catalog entries: the lecture's own site chrome header, 'Neville Goddard - 1948 Lesson 3 - Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally', corroborating [d0]'s year and consistent with the text describing itself as part of a five-day Los Angeles course. As with the other event witnessed by this same lecture (hist_event:9261), 1948-02-23 is taken over the uncorroborated [d1] 1964 date; the weekday test does not discriminate (both fall on a Monday).
  3. 9 January 1964 estimated
    Source The One Greater Than JohnTelling date inherited from the standing delivery adjudication for lecture node 1033.
    Reasoning Passage 528246 belongs to node 1033, whose supported delivery date is 1964-01-09. Because this date is inherited from the node rather than stated in the passage, the told claim is estimated.
  4. 3 March 1972 stated · doubtful
    Source Justified StatesJustified States (nid 59), telling 59-9, told 1972-03-03
  5. 30 January 1969 stated · refuted
    Source The One Greater Than JohnThe One Greater Than John (nid 1033), telling 1033-10, told 1969-01-30
Sources

Source

  • I AM the Reality Called Imagination ¶8 (Abdullah said to me, “You know, Neville, when you return from Barbados, you will have died!” He never explained a statement of that nature.)
  • The One Greater Than John ¶10 (Every thing that I had not done in seven years I did that night, and then from then on for the ten or twelve days at sea till I got off the ship in New York City.)
  • Justified States ¶67 (In Barbados, I lived for three months in my mother’s home and still lived as I did in New York City. And on my trip north, in ten days, I was doing everything I hadn’t done in seven years.)