Neville imagines Christmas while it is summer

Neville describes sitting at home in April or July and putting himself into Christmas — walking through Saks Fifth Avenue and Best in New York, hearing the carols — then opening his eyes on a hot July day, and finding in December that things happened as he had assumed.
Date (happened)
c. April 1972
unresolved
  1. c. April 1972 estimated · probable · preferred
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 048): its source node 59 does not exist on www: left off
    Reasoning The passage's own text says 'This is now only April', matching the lecture's certain 1972-04-03 delivery; the illustration is set in the same month it was told, tightening the vague 'c. ?' lead and superseding the year-level before-1972 bound.
  2. This is now only April. relative · possible
    Source Justified States ¶16"This is now only April.", told in Justified States (nid 59)
    Said as This is now only April.
    counted from Justified States
  3. before 1972 bound · possible
    Source Justified States ¶16qualifying source passages 526726; telling lecture nids 59
    Reasoning Qualifying passage ids [526726] belong to telling lecture nids [59]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1972 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1972 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Place
New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 3 March 1972 stated · doubtful
    Source Justified StatesJustified States (nid 59), telling 59-2, told 1972-03-03
Sources

Source

  • Justified States ¶16 (I’d walk through Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, go into Best, go into the other, and I would feel all that I would feel if it were true that it’s Christmas, that it’s the month of Christmas.)