Neville decides not to return to his father's Barbados home

At twenty-three, living in New York City, Neville made a decisive vow: whether he starved or not, he would not go back to the comfort of his father's well-provided-for home in Barbados until he had found the cause behind the phenomena of life. That same night he had a vivid dream of being a young ship's captain caught in an unsurvivable storm, who strapped himself to the wheel and went down with his cargo ship rather than abandon it — a vision he reads as scripture's "some went down to the sea in ships" playing out in his own soul at the moment he chose causation over comfort.
Date (happened)
c. 1928
unresolved
  1. c. 1928 relative · probable · preferred
    Source Down to the Sea in Ships ¶9passage 535572 (lecture nid 1276), 'I was twenty-three years old, I was living in New York City, and I made my decision that whether I starved to death or not I would not return to the comforts of my father's home in Barbados...'
    Reasoning He dates the decision by his own age, twenty-three. Neville elsewhere in the corpus states his birth year directly ('he came into the world in 1905', nid 1273 passage 535508), so age 23 computes to circa 1928; no month or day is given, and the exact year depends on how his birthday (unstated here) falls relative to the decision.
Place
New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 14 April 1967 estimated · probable
    Source Down to the Sea in Shipslecture nid 1276's sole delivery claim: 1967-04-14, stated/exact/certain, source legacy catalog #357, state legacy_unreviewed
    Reasoning Only one delivery claim exists for this lecture and nothing in the packet's processing notes contradicts it, so field_told inherits it; confidence capped at probable per the inheritance rule since the underlying claim is an unreviewed legacy catalog backfill rather than an independently verified date.
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