Across several lectures in the mid-to-late 1960s, Neville repeats that he has been teaching this principle for 'almost thirty years' or 'these thirty-odd years' from the platform, dating his start to the 1930s. He recalls that when he first began, unknown and at times destitute, he faced regular challengers in his audiences; over the following decades, he says, many who first opposed him bitterly, even violently, came around to become some of his finest students.
Date (happened)
between 1935 and 1938
unresolved
between 1935 and 1938
estimated · probable · preferred
Reasoning
Reverse-computing 'almost/my thirty years' from four independently and certainly dated lectures gives starting years within a tight 1935-1938 band, corroborating each other; written as a between range spanning that convergence rather than a single invented year.
Told / reported
18 June 1965
estimated
Reasoning
Two independent certain sources agree exactly, and no competing claim exists.
18 September 1967
estimated
Reasoning
Two independent certain sources agree exactly, and no competing claim exists.
28 June 1968
estimated
Source
lecture nid 2051 'He Is My Resurrection' delivery date 1968-06-28, corroborated independently by catalog #458 and a chrome site-nav header ('Neville Goddard 06-28-1968').
Reasoning
Two independent certain sources agree exactly, and no competing claim exists.
28 June 1968
estimated
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1362 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1362 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1968-6-28 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1968-6-2 refuted; 1968-6-28 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 2: 1968-06-02 at `certain` (run `v1.1/l4/w1/B2`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
2 June 1968
estimated · refuted
Reasoning
Single, uncontested certain claim inherited unchanged. || v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1362, 1968-6-2) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1968-6-28. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.