Kentucky oilman listens to the earth and finds oil

At the Turf Club last Saturday, where he had been taken with his wife, Neville was introduced to a small odd man from Kentucky who had bought land in Ventura County and slept on the ground with his head to the earth listening for and smelling oil until he brought it in; he is now worth over six million but bored, unwell, and has forgotten the name of God.
Date (happened)
22 February 1958
unresolved
  1. 22 February 1958 stated · preferred
    Source His Name ¶11"this last Saturday", told in His Name (nid 2018)
  2. 23 February 1963 estimated · probable
    Source His Name ¶11passage 551637 ('this last Saturday'), recomputed against lecture nid 2018's standing delivery date 1963-02-26 rather than its refuted 1958-02-24 claim
    Reasoning The witness dates the Turf Club story to 'this last Saturday' before the telling. Lecture nid 2018's delivery claim of 1958-02-24 (catalog #82) has been refuted -- the transcript's own present-tense 'Today, 1963, you and I are witnesses to the most fantastic things...' plus three independent catalogue claims (#132, #971, #1130) place the delivery on 1963-02-26, which L7 adjudication holds as the date that stands. 26 February 1963 was a Tuesday, so the Saturday immediately before it is 23 February 1963. Confidence held to probable, matching the corpus's own existing told claim for this same lecture, because the year rests partly on catalogue-sourced delivery claims even though corroborated by the lecture's own internal date statement.
Place
Ventura County
Persons
Neville Goddard
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Told
  1. 26 February 1963 stated · probable
    Source His NameHis Name (nid 2018), telling 2018-0, told 1963-02-26
Sources

Source

  • His Name ¶11 (Now here is a true story which I heard this last Saturday. I am not a member of the Turf Club, but I go occasionally when I am invited and someone takes me. So last Saturday I and my wife were taken to the Turf Club. I was introduced to this little man w…)