Man in Barbados questions Neville about his mystical experience

During a visit to Barbados about two years before this lecture, a man challenged Neville, asking how his mystical experience of grace could have happened to him -- 'You are a Goddard,' from a prominent, thoroughly business-minded family with no ministers, artists, or intellectuals in its background. Neville answered that God's grace cannot be earned by piety or pedigree; it is an unmerited gift, and Jesus himself kept company not with the pious and prominent but with tax collectors, harlots, and sinners.
Date (happened)
c. 1961
probable
  1. c. 1961 conclusion · probable
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: c. 1961 (passage:530736).
  2. c. 1961 estimated · probable · preferred
    Source What Shall You Ask of Me ¶43passage 530736 (lecture nid 1119): 'A man said to me in Barbados two years ago, But, Neville, how could this have happened to you? You are a Goddard.'
    Reasoning 'Two years ago' relative to a lecture certainly dated 1963-12-17 places the Barbados conversation around 1961; only year-level precision is supportable.
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 17 December 1963 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1963-12-17 (node:1119).
  2. 17 December 1963 estimated
    Source What Shall You Ask of Melecture nid 1119 'What Shall You Ask of Me' delivery date 1963-12-17, corroborated independently by catalog #169 and a chrome dateline recovered from the pre-strip transcript header ('By Neville Goddard December 17, 1963').
    Reasoning Two independent certain sources agree exactly, and no competing claim exists.
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
1963-12-17 [exact/certain/final] What Shall You Ask of Me My dear, as far as the great mystery of the Bible goes, I feel that comes in its own good time, I really do. I firmly believe, as you’re told in Habakkuk: “The vision has its own appointed hour; it ripens, it will flower. If it be long, then wait; for it is sure and it will not be late.” So God’s vision for us has its own appointed hour and it will not be late. It may seem late to us. Because others will say of me, I am from a very, well, business-like family. We have no ministers in our background, we have no artists in the background, no intellectuals in my background; we’re sheer down-to… 530736