Neville says he was not educated and had not heard of Blake when he wrote the opening of his first book, 'Your Faith is Your Fortune' — 'In the beginning was unconditioned awareness of being ...' — and that he discovered Blake only about six years before this talk, at which point he found confirmation of what he had already experienced, and understood Blake's 'The true method of acquiring knowledge is by experiment, and true knowing is by experience.'
Date (happened)
between 1947 and 1948
unresolved
between 1947 and 1948
bound · possible
Source
'I discovered Blake only about six years ago' — spoken in the 1953 or 1954 talks
Why
Tightens to a single year if Broome's notes are ever separated into the 1953 and 1954 occasions.
Reasoning
Six years before a talk given in 1953 or 1954 lands on 1947 or 1948. Both ends of the arithmetic are soft — the talk's own year is bounded across two years, and 'about six' is Neville's own approximation — so this is bounded and possible, not stated. It is nonetheless a useful bound: it places his reading of Blake AFTER 'Your Faith is Your Fortune' (1941), which is the point he is making, and any claim that Blake shaped that book contradicts him.
Told / reported
between 1953 and 1954
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1953–1954 (node:1009).
between 1953 and 1954
stated · probable
Source
Broome's notes: the San Francisco talks of 1953 or the Science of Mind Church talks of 1954
Reasoning
The source names two possible occasions for the telling and does not choose between them.