A Black man asks Neville for help overcoming racial limitation

A few years earlier, while lecturing at Parkview Manor near a lake in this city, a coloured gentleman asked to see him beforehand and, in the little park across the street, told Neville his insoluble problem was the pigment of his skin; Neville answered that no cause lies outside the arrangement of a man's own mind.
Date (happened)
c. 1950
probable
  1. c. 1950 conclusion · probable
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning All 2 claims agree on c. 1950: passage:551861; node:2027.
  2. c. 1950 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Changing the Feeling of I ¶9"A few years ago", told in Changing the Feeling of I (nid 2027)
  3. before 1953 bound · possible
    Source Changing the Feeling of Ifield_told claim on this event (source node:2027, 'told 1953'), itself resting on a legacy catalog backfill for the lecture's delivery date
    Reasoning The existing field_date claim states a range of 1950-1959 for 'a few years ago', but the lecture in which this is told is dated 1953 by the corpus, so the story cannot extend to 1959 without post-dating its own telling. A logically sound bound is that the encounter happened before the telling year, 1953. Confidence is capped at possible because the 1953 telling date itself is a legacy catalog backfill (note: 'Neville lectures catalog #18', state legacy_unreviewed) rather than an independently witnessed date.
Place
Parkview Manor
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told
  1. 1953 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1953 (node:2027).
  2. 1953 stated
    Source Changing the Feeling of IChanging the Feeling of I (nid 2027), telling 2027-0, told 1953
Sources

Source

  • Changing the Feeling of I ¶9 (A few years ago in this city I was giving a series of lectures down near that lake – I can’t even recall the name of the lake but it was some Parkview Manor was the place where I spoke, and in that audience was a gentleman who sought an audience before t…)