In 1934, a broke dancer living in a basement apartment on 75th Street in New York during the Depression, Neville sat in contemplation and saw golden clouds and a quartz rock about 20 inches across, which fragmented and reassembled into a perfect human figure in the lotus posture that he realised was himself; it glowed to the intensity of the sun and exploded, and he woke in his chair.
Date (happened)
1934
stated · preferred
Source
"back in 1934", told in Mystery Life (nid 2050)
1934
stated
Reasoning
Neville directly states the year of this vision twice in the same sentence ('1934' repeated), tying it to the Depression and his basement apartment on 75th Street. This is a directly stated happening year, not an inference from a relative expression.
before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [537589] belong to telling lecture nids [1340]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 18 March 1968
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-03-18.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1340 (certain delivery 1968-03-18); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, 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 1968-03-18 on nid 1340 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
c. 1934
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 018)
Reasoning
He wakes 'in my apartment on 75th Street' (passage 537589); he lived in the West 75th Street basement 1933-1936 (766). The chronology has the rock/quartz fragmenting into his lotus-seated body at 1934 (1576 at 75th Street, 7329, 7264, 18945).
Told / reported
12 December 1969
stated
Source
Mystery Life (nid 2050), telling 2050-1, told 1969-12-12
12 December 1969
estimated · probable
Why
Flag: lecture 1408's legacy catalog claim (1968-12-09) conflicts with its own transcript dateline (1969-12-12); this told claim deliberately does not use the catalog date.
Reasoning
The witness passage is in lecture nid 1408. That lecture carries two conflicting delivery claims: a legacy 'Neville lectures catalog #501' claim of 1968-12-09 (certain, preferred=1, state=legacy_unreviewed) and a transcript/chrome-dateline claim of 1969-12-12 (probable, state=agent_asserted). Per lane guidance, a catalogue-sourced claim from the under-review #49-#76 block is subordinate to a transcript-sourced one, so the told claim inherits 1969-12-12 at the transcript claim's own precision and confidence (estimated/probable), not the catalog's certain/exact.
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18 March 1968
estimated
Reasoning
The vision is narrated in node 1340, whose independently corroborated delivery date is 1968-03-18.
Sources
Source
- The Mystery of Christmas ¶14 (As I contemplated this golden, liquid light, a quartz approximately 20″ in diameter suddenly appeared, then fragmented itself into numberless parts. As I watched, they gathered themselves together into a human form seated in the lotus posture.)
- Persistent Assumption ¶22 (It was first a rock and then the rock became fragmented. Then the rock was gathered together, but instead of being a rock it’s now a being, human being, sitting in the lotus posture meditating, and this glorious, beautiful being. I can’t describe the bea…)