Neville freezes and releases a man lighting a cigarette in MacArthur Park

Sitting one evening in MacArthur Park, Neville arrested the power in himself and a passing man lighting a cigarette froze with the match still lit, until he released the power and the man blew out the match and walked on.
Date (happened)
One evening
unresolved
  1. One evening relative · possible
    Source Power and Wisdom ¶20"One evening", told in Freeneville Power Wisdom Pdf (nid 2083)
    Said as One evening
    counted from Power and Wisdom
Place
MacArthur Park
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 4 October 1968 estimated
    Source Power and Wisdomdelivery claims d0/d1 on lecture nid 2083 (Power and Wisdom), 1968-10-04 exact/certain, source-header dateline confirmed by an independent chrome site-nav dateline
    Why 'One evening' does not resolve to a deterministic calendar date, so no field_date improvement is made beyond the existing relative claim.
    Reasoning Passage 552876 is Neville narrating, in the lecture itself, the MacArthur Park vision; the lecture is dated 1968-10-04 by an exact, certain delivery claim (two independent sources agree), so the telling date inherits that precision.
Sources

Source

  • Power and Wisdom ¶20 (One evening, while sitting in MacArthur Park, I watched a man walk by, stand on a corner, and light a cigarette. Then I arrested that power in me and the match remained lit, yet did not burn beyond the place it was only a moment before.)