Neville stops and restarts the sea in New York

In New York City, some years before his birth from above, he had the experience of the sea and everything living standing still because he arrested in his head the activity that animated them, an event he compares to the world standing still in the Protoevangelium of James.
Date (happened)
before 1959
unresolved
  1. before 1959 estimated · possible · preferred
    Source Unless I Go Away ¶15passage 555888 (lecture nid 2271), 'several years prior to that experience [of being born from above, 20 July 1959] ... I had the experience of having the sea stand still'
    Why 'Several years' is not given a number, so no lower bound or exact year is asserted, only the tightened upper bound.
    Reasoning The passage itself places the sea-stopping event several years before Neville's well-established 20 July 1959 birth-from-above experience, which is a materially earlier and better-grounded bound than the generic phase4 L6a envelope claim ('before 1962', based only on this telling lecture's year). The internal chronology tightens the safe upper bound to before-1959.
  2. before 1962 bound · possible
    Source Unless I Go Away ¶15qualifying source passages 555888; telling lecture nids 2271
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [555888] belong to telling lecture nids [2271]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1962 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1962 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Place
New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 1962 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1962 (node:2271).
  2. 1962 estimated
    Source Unless I Go Awaydelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 2271 (Unless I Go Away), 1962 exact-year/certain, derived from the passage's own 'three years ago, 20 July' placing the birth-from-above (1959) three years before this lecture
    Reasoning Passage 555888 is Neville narrating, in the lecture itself, the New York sea-stopping vision; the lecture's best-evidenced delivery claim is a certain year (1962, no month/day given), so the telling date inherits that same year-only precision and confidence.
Sources

Source

  • Unless I Go Away ¶15 (in New York City, I had the experience of having the sea stand still, because I arrested in my head an activity which animated it, and when I released that activity, the things moved on.)
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
Date Lecture or book Telling Passage
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away On the 20th of July, three years ago, in this very city, I had the experience of being born from above, and yet several years prior to that experience, in New York City, I had the experience of having the sea stand still, because I arrested in my head an activity which animated it, and when I released that activity, the things moved on. Whether it’s beast or fowl, when I stopped them — please imagine calling “stop!” and then look up after I release it — the waters, and the dinosaurs — I stopped them, they couldn’t move, and everything was done not “there,” but done in me. 555888