Neville runs school obstacle races in Barbados

Neville recalls the obstacle races his teachers set up as part of school life in Barbados: crawling through a length of canvas stretched tight and anchored on both sides, scrambling through barrels, jumping obstructions, and climbing a greased pole. He turns the ordeal into an allegory for life's own obstacle course, in which God plays both the hero and the opponent of the drama.
Date (happened)
between 1912 and 1917
unresolved
  1. between 1912 and 1917 estimated · possible · preferred
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 003): bound with no source: written as estimated with the reader's reasoning
    Reasoning Overlap of the two independent childhood-obstacle-race tellings (passage 530445's 1912-1922 and passage 530491's 1910-1917).
  2. between 1912 and 1922 estimated · possible
    Source On the Book of Revelation ¶5passage 530445 (lecture nid 1110): 'Did you ever run, as child, an obstacle race? Well, in little Barbados we had those.'
    Reasoning Only 'as child' is given, no specific age; bounded on the early side by a plausible school-starting age (person 6, born 1905-02-19) and on the late side by the corpus's own existing event for his leaving Barbados for America at seventeen (hist_event 5937, c.1922), giving a coarse between range rather than a precise year.
  3. between 1910 and 1917 relative · possible
    Source On the Book of Revelation ¶51passage 530491 (lecture nid 1110), 'When I was a child going through these things... we were only little tots'
    Reasoning Neville describes this obstacle race as a memory of being 'a child' and 'little tots'. The corpus's own accepted birth date for him is 19 February 1905 (hist_event:950), so a rough childhood window of about ages 5-12 is written as a wide between range; no more specific evidence narrows it further.
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 31 May 1963 estimated
    Source On the Book of Revelationlecture nid 1110 'On the Book of Revelation' delivery date 1963-05-31, corroborated independently by catalog #160 and a chrome dateline recovered from the pre-strip transcript header ('By Neville Goddard May 31, 1963'); the node's other claim (1968-10-04) reflects a separate re-delivery of the same-titled talk per this lecture's own processing notes, not this transcript's own text.
    Reasoning Two independent certain sources agree exactly on this transcript's own delivery date; the other claim on the node is explicitly attributed to a different occasion.