The Power of Awareness

Lecture catalog #17 — text: HAVE

Date (happened)
21 June 1953
unresolved
  1. 21 June 1953 estimated · possible · preferred
    Reasoning transcript node 1002 is the opening of the Los Angeles engagement on Dr. Bailes's platform, and 849 names 'The Power of Awareness' as its first subject; the engagement is dated 1953 by its clippings (CWB file names of 483, 749, 809 and 890); 849 (undated) prints the Wilshire Ebell class 'Monday through Friday, for the three consecutive weeks beginning June 29' (a Monday in 1953) and 'The Power of Awareness' as tomorrow's subject at the Fox-Wilshire; the San Francisco season opened Sunday 19 July 1953 (750), so the four Fox-Wilshire Sundays fell before it, 21 June to 12 July, with 849 printed Saturday 20 June, and the class ended Friday 17 July; an inference, graded down (525, PM 7864)
  2. 20 January 1958 stated · doubtful
    Source Neville lectures catalog #78
    Reasoning Lowered to `doubtful` under the #2461 §1(b) extension of the #2435 standing rule. The fenced lecture that carried this date, nid 1002 "The Power of Awareness", has had its claim at 1958-01-20 REFUTED, and no fenced lecture holds the date, so the assertion retains no support. This event cites that same node in field_sources (1002), so its support is circular: its only witness is a claim the corpus has withdrawn. ⛔ NOT `refuted`, deliberately: what was disproved is that THIS LECTURE was delivered on this day, NOT that Neville lectured that day at all — he spoke far more often than the surviving transcripts record. Refuting would assert the day did not happen, which nobody showed. Lowering withdraws the false confidence and keeps the day visible as calendar supply. || v1.1/l7/event-preferred/c1: this event claim cannot remain preferred or above doubtful because every actual source lecture carrying this exact date has refuted that delivery and no source lecture independently supports it. The event occurrence is retained, not refuted; only unsupported confidence/preference is withdrawn.
  3. 19 July 1953 estimated
    Why was the final of merged event 20266.
    Reasoning Three independent clippings (media 892, 750, 466) corroborate the seventh annual series opening as 19 July 1953.
  4. 1953 stated · possible
    Source Lecture notice, 1953
    Reasoning Filename supplies year; calendar day unavailable.
  5. 19 July 1953 stated · probable
    Source Lecture notice, 1953
    Why pm-actor-529: M6 (529): 892 prints 'July 19' without a year; 1953 is the paper date (CWB file names), weekday checked (PM 7663)
    Reasoning Advertisement explicitly says the seventh annual series opens Sunday, July 19.
  6. 19 July 1953 stated · probable
    Source Media 750: seventh annual series opens July 19; scan filename 1953lectures.jpg.
    Why Corroborating source occurrence; no prior claim deleted or promoted.
    Reasoning The notice names July 19 as the series opening and says public lectures occur Sunday mornings. The scan filename identifies 1953, when July 19 was Sunday; node 1002 independently carries catalogue #17 date 1953-07-19. The older 1944 event claim is already doubtful and remains as provenance.
  7. 19 July 1953 stated
    Source Lecture notice, 1953Printed July 19 opening; scan filename and preferred clip year identify 1953
    Reasoning The report explicitly states the July 19 opening, venue, and series title; the recovered 1953 year matches the seventh annual series and Sunday schedule.
  8. 19 July 1953 stated · refuted
    Source Neville lectures catalog #17
    Why pm-actor-529: refuted by M6 (529): transcript 1002 is the Bailes/Fox-Wilshire opening; SF's opening is 20266 (PM 7856, 7864)
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  1. 19 July 1944 stated · refuted
    Source Clipping-curation pass 2026-08-17 (agent conf=low): media:892
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 013): Low-confidence OCR/curation-pass artifact (agent conf=low), contradicted by three corroborating 1953 clippings.
Place
Scottish Rite Auditorium
Persons
Neville Goddard
Series / group
Neville's lectures in Los Angeles, June–July 1953
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Source

Media
Lecture notice, undated
Lecture notice, undated
Article
Lecture notice, 1953
Lecture notice, 1953
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Lecture notice, 1953
Lecture notice, 1953
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Lecture notice, 1953
Lecture notice, 1953
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Transcripts
The Power of Awareness