While sailing through the Caribbean Sea, Neville describes feeling himself lifted up to see an enormous seated crowd, larger than the biblical five thousand but gathered just as scripture describes them. He identifies the vision with John 6's feeding of the multitude, noting that he did nothing himself to feed them, yet reads the experience as scripture's 'eternal drama' playing out literally in his own life -- one of several mystical experiences he says preceded his water-walking vision, his birth from above, and his finding of David.
Date (happened)
c. May 1946
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: c. 1946-05 (passage:532837).
c. May 1946
stated · probable · preferred
Why
This lecture's own processing notes already flag the 1945/46 inconsistency as 'reported as spoken, not reconciled' -- I have reconciled it here for the happening date only, favouring 1946; the corpus's underlying passage text is untouched and still shows both years as spoken.
Reasoning
This same lecture dates the Caribbean vision three times, inconsistently: once as '1945, two years before' his 1948 water-walking experience (passage 532836) -- which is itself arithmetically wrong, since two years before 1948 is 1946, not 1945 -- and twice, independently, as '46' (passages 532837 and 532850). The twice-repeated, arithmetically-consistent 1946 is preferred over the single, self-contradicting 1945 mention; 'late spring' gives the season, written here as May. Kept at probable given this is decades-old personal recollection with an acknowledged internal slip.
Told / reported
30 March 1965
conclusion
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1965-03-30 (node:1198).
30 March 1965
estimated
Reasoning
Both delivery claims on this lecture agree exactly and independently (catalog plus transcript chrome dateline), with no conflicting rows. Written at certain confidence.