Neville reads shortly before his June 16, 1959 lecture

Neville tells his audience he had just been reading an unnamed scholarly work on psychology that argued the past has ceased to exist as such but still shapes the present through memory. He uses the point as a springboard into his own teaching of revision -- going back over a past incident in imagination and living it as one wishes it had happened, so as to change its ongoing influence on the present.
Date (happened)
before 16 June 1959
unresolved
  1. before 16 June 1959 relative · possible · preferred
    Source The Cup and the Cross ¶16passage 529072 (lecture nid 1057), 'I was just reading this master work on psychology which claims the past has ceased to be'
    Reasoning 'I was just reading' places the reading shortly before the telling, but gives no specific interval, so anchoring only the upper bound (the lecture's own certain, doubly-corroborated date of 1959-06-16) without inventing how many days or weeks earlier the reading happened.
Place
Los Angeles possible
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 16 June 1959 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1959-06-16 (node:1057).
  2. 16 June 1959 estimated
    Source The Cup and the Crossdelivery claims on lecture nid 1057: catalog #102 gives 1959-06-16 (certain, preferred), independently corroborated by a chrome dateline (d1) 'by Neville Goddard 6/16/59'
    Reasoning Both delivery claims on this lecture agree exactly (1959-06-16), one from the catalog and one independently from the transcript's own chrome dateline, with nothing in the processing notes disputing it. Written at certain confidence.
Sources

Source

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
1959-06-16 [exact/certain/final] The Cup and the Cross I was just reading this master work on psychology which claims the past has ceased to be, but influences the present through memory. So it is said in this wonderful work that it has ceased to act save through the gathered experiences stored as memory. It cannot be acted upon. It has not ceased to be at all. The sentient are not now in these states. A man who went through a gas chamber is no longer going through it. The forms remain and the day will come when they will see that he never went through a gas chamber. There are many forms of the remembered past. 529072