Just after the Second World War, Neville traveled to Barbados with his wife and small daughter on a one-way ticket, planning only a short stay with family. When he tried, in April 1946, to book return passage in time for a lecture commitment in New York on 1 May, the steamship company told him hundreds of people across all the islands were on the waiting list and he could not get out until autumn. Rather than accept it, he sat in his hotel room and vividly imagined the entire departure — his brother carrying his daughter up the gangplank, the rail's sea spray on his face, the bittersweet look back at the island — and shortly afterward the steamship agent called to say a cancellation had just opened exactly the passage he needed, landing him in New York on the very date he required.
Date (happened)
April 1946
stated · preferred
Why
The two tellings differ on small details (a 60- vs 125-passenger ship, sister Daphne vs. a sister-in-law in the imagined boat, 'next morning' vs. 'that afternoon' for the callback) — ordinary variation between retellings of the same story, not flagged as a conflict.
Reasoning
Two independent tellings, six years apart (1953 and 1967), agree on the month: nid 1001 states it directly ('this is the month, now, of April') and nid 1284 computes to the same month from a stated arrival ('the last of December') plus a stated interval ('four months later'), matching the event's existing title of April 1946. WWII's end and the scheduled 1 May lecture commitment named in both tellings fix the year at 1946.
April 1946
relative
Why
The corpus's other telling of this same story (event 6841, lecture nid 1001, 1953) gives the quoted earliest-availability month as October rather than September — ordinary variance between two tellings 14 years apart, not treated as a dating conflict since this event witnesses only the September-telling passage.
Reasoning
This is the same conversation dated for event 6841: he arrived in Barbados the last of December (per this same passage) and, four months later, in April 1946, was told the earliest available passage was the end of September. The event here is the act of being offered/quoted that September date, which happened in April 1946, not a separate occurrence in September itself.
between January 1946 and April 1946
estimated · probable
Source
passage 542139 (lecture nid 1534) 'the very earliest September... your commitment is in Milwaukee in the first week of May... you sailed for Barbados five months before', corroborated by passage 544236 (nid 1783, certain 1971-07-19: sailed for Barbados end of Dec 1945) and passage 540176 (nid 1457, certain 1969-05-30: same September-refusal/May-Milwaukee-commitment story)
Why
Title of this event reads 'September 1941 return passage'; no evidence anywhere in the corroborating tellings supports 1941 -- all three witnesses point to the 1945-46 Barbados trip. Not corrected here since retitling is outside this lane's scope.
Reasoning
This event is the shipping agent's refusal (earliest return September) made during his Barbados stay. A separate certain telling (nid 1783) fixes the outbound sailing at the end of December 1945; this passage and its parallel in nid 1457 both tie the refusal to his standing commitment to be in Milwaukee the first week of May, so the call establishing the September-only offer falls within his stay, before that May deadline -- estimated here as the first third of 1946, ahead of the eventual cancellation call that got him out in time.
c. March 1945
stated
Reasoning
This telling gives 'the very end of March' for the imaginal act, and hist_event:17654 already carries a certain, independently-sourced 1945 claim for the same story from a third lecture (nid 1783), whose own witness separately says 'This was then the month of late March' -- the identical month, word for word. Combining the two gives circa March 1945 at certain confidence.
c. 1945
stated · probable
April 1945
stated · probable
Why
Month precision added from the full narrative; existing circa-1945 claim retained.
Reasoning
Passage 527622 explicitly places the request for passage in April, immediately before Neville's imaginal act and the next-morning cancellation call. The telling elsewhere identifies the trip as 1945, but its post-war phrasing is chronologically loose, so the combined month-year is appended at probable rather than certain confidence.
before 1967
bound · possible
Source
qualifying source passages 536311; telling lecture nids 1297
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [536311] belong to telling lecture nids [1297]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1967 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1967 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 30 October 1967
bound
Source
telling lecture nid 1297, certain delivery 1967-10-30
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1967 to before 1967-10-30.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1297 (certain delivery 1967-10-30); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1967`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1967-10-30 on nid 1297 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
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before 1972
bound · possible
Source
qualifying source passages 542139; telling lecture nids 1534
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [542139] belong to telling lecture nids [1534]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1972 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1972 is the MIN across telling lectures.
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c. March 1946
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 544236 fixes the outbound departure at New Year's Eve at the end of 1945. Passage 544237 says the return-ticket discussion came at the end of about three months, passage 544239 explicitly calls the moment 'late March', and passage 544240 places the Alcoa offer the next day. This chain yields late March 1946, but the rounded 'about three months' and next-day boundary cap the month-level estimate at probable.
before 1967
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [547982] belong to telling lecture nids [1889]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1967 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1967 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 30 October 1967
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1967 to before 1967-10-30.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1889 (certain delivery 1967-10-30); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1967`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1967-10-30 on nid 1889 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
you enjoyed four months away almost five months
relative · probable
Source
"you enjoyed four months away almost five months", told in Repentence A Gift Of God (nid 2163)
after March 1943
bound · probable
Reasoning
The passage places this boat/island episode 'years later' than the preceding army-discharge story with no specific interval given, so only a bound is supportable. Bounding to after the discharge (March 1943); per the brief's Army-anchor rule this is capped at probable because the discharge date is Neville's own recollection, not a record.
c. April 1946
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 031)
Reasoning
He got out of Barbados by imagining a boat, having an agreement to be in Milwaukee (passage 548660), 'years later' than the 1943 army discharge; the postwar trip is January to May 1946 (architect notes) and the return passage was arranged in April 1946 (6841).
No date
relative · probable
Reasoning
Passage 552626 (lecture 2061, 'God's Almighty Power'): 'Remembering what I had done to get out of the army, when I was confronted with a similar problem a few years later, I applied the same principle to get out of the island of Barbados.' 'A few years later' than the army discharge narrated in the immediately preceding passage (552625). That discharge is not itself dated anywhere in this packet, so recorded as relative (after that undated anchor) rather than resolved to an absolute year.
c. April 1946
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 031)
Reasoning
Passage 552626: told he could not leave Barbados for months, he slept in the assumption and had confirmation within hours; a few years after the 1943 discharge; the return passage of April 1946 (6841) is the only such episode in the postwar trip.
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [541881] belong to telling lecture nids [1526]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 2 April 1971
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1971 to before 1971-04-02.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1526 (certain delivery 1971-04-02); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1971`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1971-04-02 on nid 1526 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
April 1946
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 028)
Reasoning
Passage 541881: in a hotel chair he imagined climbing the gangplank, and 'the next day Alcoa calls me and gives me my passage for my wife and my little girl and myself'; 'before we had a deep-water harbor'. The chronology has 'Neville arranges return passage from Barbados in April 1946' (6841) and 'imagines and secures passage home from Barbados' (19305, 1945-46). Victoria (b. 1942) was a small child in 1946. This is the postwar trip of January-May 1946 (architect's note).
before 28 February 1972
bound · probable
Source
current preferred 1972-02-28/probable delivery claim on nid 1534
Reasoning
Passage 542139 recalls the departure as completed. At review the node's written-out dateline 1972-02-28 is preferred/probable and the old 1972-02-27 claim is doubtful, so only a before-delivery bound is warranted.
c. 1946
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 030)
Reasoning
Passage 554295 (lecture 2163) describes imagining, in a hotel-room chair, boarding the ship before the deep-water harbour, 'happy that I'm sailing for America, sad I'm leaving behind a very large wonderful family'. This is the story of event 19305 (imagines and secures passage home from Barbados, 1945-46); the architect's notes place that visit January-May 1946. He left at seventeen in 1922, but the hotel room and the ship-passage exercise fit 1946 better.
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [544249] belong to telling lecture nids [1783]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 19 July 1971
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1971 to before 1971-07-19.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1783 (certain delivery 1971-07-19); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1971`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1971-07-19 on nid 1783 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
between April 1946 and May 1946
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 029)
Reasoning
Passage 544249 has him imagining boarding the ship, with Victor carrying Victoria (born 1942, so aged three or four) up the gangplank from the little tender at Barbados; 6841 has return passage arranged April 1946 and the postwar trip ended May 1946. Only 1946 fits Victoria's age and a Barbados departure.
between 1945 and 1946
stated
c. 1946
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 043)
Reasoning
The 'could not get out of Barbados... felt the ticket... sailed as imagined' story matches the notes' established 1946 postwar Barbados return (events 8683/19305), which Neville is known to retell across lectures.
1955
stated · refuted
Source
derived from the event's own title: "Neville sails from Barbados to New York in 1955"
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 010): Same systemic 1955/1946 catalogue mislabeling as events 8683 and 19305 (architect note, 531/PM 8098); the story itself (postwar, WWII just ended, May 1 lecture commitment) is the 1946 return.
Reasoning
The event held NO date claim of any kind; its own title states 1955 (year precision, parsed as "year only"). ⚠ A title in this corpus is a DERIVED artefact — an earlier pass wrote it from the passage text — so this claim is title-derived and is marked as such rather than cited as a source document; the underlying text remains the real evidence and would supersede it. Confidence `probable`, never `certain`, for that reason. Precision is never inflated beyond the title's own wording. CALIBRATION (run v1.1/l1.4/titledate, against the 489 events that already hold an independent preferred date): day 96.1%, month 94.1% agreement. Titles naming a REFERENCE event rather than the event itself ("before", "after", "during the week of", "per ... lecture") are refused outright and never reach this write — reading an anchor as the date is the same laundering phase3b committed when it wrote telling dates onto events.
30 January 1955
stated · refuted
Why
pm-actor-525: 1955 is the year Neville TOLD this (passage 551917/554682, lectures of 1955); the arrival itself was 30 January 1946, on the postwar trip (trip record 20589; 531, PM 8125).
Told / reported
13 March 1953
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Only one delivery claim exists for this lecture ('Catch the Mood') 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.
22 September 1967
estimated
Reasoning
This is the second telling ('The New Christology'). No conflict here: both delivery claims independently agree on the same date, so field_told inherits 1967-09-22 at high confidence.
28 February 1972
stated · probable
Source
lecture nid 1534's own chrome dateline (d1, probable), overriding the doubtful catalogue claim (d0, questioned_by_stronger_source)
Reasoning
He tells this story from the platform in the lecture whose own transcript dateline reads 'February 28, 1972' (d1); that claim is graded only probable, not certain, so per the inheritance rule the told claim is capped at probable rather than inheriting the doubtful catalogue date (1972-02-27, d0).
1955
estimated
Reasoning
The lecture has a single delivery claim, 1955 at certain confidence (catalog #983), year-level only.
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30 October 1967
stated
Source
What Are You Doing (nid 1297), telling 1297-2, told 1967-10-30
27 February 1972
stated · doubtful
Source
Repentance, A Gift From God (nid 1534), telling 1534-0, told 1972-02-27
20 February 1964
estimated · probable
Why
Same telling lecture as sibling events 17573 and 17575.
Reasoning
Witness passage:543708 (the gangplank/passage-secured story) sits in lecture nid=1768 'Eternal States', dated 1964-02-20 by its sole, unconflicted delivery claim (chrome-dateline harvest, agent_asserted, probable confidence). The told claim inherits that date and confidence exactly, no tighter.
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2 December 1968
estimated
Reasoning
The episode is recounted during this lecture, whose delivery date is certain from the chrome dateline, itself independently corroborated by a raw-text-file dateline and weekday-consistency reasoning.
2 December 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 552626 is Neville's own first-person narration of applying his army-discharge principle to leave Barbados — a direct told instance of this event, delivered within lecture node 2061 ('God's Almighty Power'). Unlike a single unreviewed legacy row, the lecture's 1968-12-02 delivery date is corroborated by two independent sources: legacy catalog #499 and a separately-harvested site chrome-nav-header dateline ('12-02-1968') that agrees exactly, so certain is warranted here. || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor417/8000-9999-b15, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 2061, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).
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2 April 1971
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 541881 belongs to nid 1526, whose catalog and transcript chrome currently agree exactly on 1971-04-02; the inherited telling date is estimated.
28 February 1972
estimated · probable
Source
current preferred written-out delivery claim on nid 1534
Why
Corrects reliance on the older 1972-02-27/doubtful delivery without altering prior rows.
Reasoning
Passage 542139 belongs to nid 1534; at review its preferred non-refuted delivery is 1972-02-28/probable, so the inherited telling date is estimated/probable.
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24 March 1969
estimated
Why
Not a genuine conflict requiring possible-confidence splitting: d1 falls inside d0's range and d0 is already marked doubtful on the node.
Reasoning
Passage 552536 is Neville telling on the platform how he imagined and obtained his passage off Barbados; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 2055) has a doubtful, wider first-half-1969 bound (d0) and a certain, exact chrome dateline (d1) that falls within that window and that the node's own reasoning treats as the stronger claim, so the telling follows the certain dateline.
2 December 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Neville recounts this personal episode within the lecture; the telling date equals the lecture's own delivery date, which is certain here because two independent witnesses agree (the raw source-file dateline at probable, and the transcript's own chrome-header dateline at certain), neither derived from a catalogue row.
Sources
Source
- Feel Deeply ¶9 (Feel Deeply (nid 1457, delivered 1969-05-30, certain) — a second, independent telling naming the same September-only refusal and the Milwaukee-May commitment)
- Catch the Mood ¶29 (I sat in my hotel room in Barbados and got comfortable, and then I assumed that I was in a little boat . . a little tender, taking me off to the waiting ship in the bay. I could feel the rock of the little boat.)
- Catch the Mood ¶28 (The steamship company says no passage is available until October; Neville states that it is then April.)
- Catch the Mood ¶30 (The next morning Alcoa calls with a cancellation for Neville, his wife, and daughter, reaching New York May 1.)
- Imaging Creates Reality ¶23 (When I wanted to get out of Barbados, I didn’t think of influencing anyone. I simply used clarity of form and walked up the gangplank in my imagination. That act caused someone five thousand miles away to cancel their passage.)
- Repentance: A Gift of God ¶15 (So, I simply stepped up on the gangplank and walked up that gangplank in my mind’s eye. If my mind wandered, which it did, I brought it right back to that first step and walked up again. It wandered before I got to the top; I brought it back again, and I…)
- Eternal States ¶25 (But I walked up the gangplank, not alone, taking my wife and my daughter with me, and so we all sailed on that ship. So I went beyond my Jordan.)
- Imagination Plus Faith ¶11 (I simply assumed now: My hand is on the rail. I could feel the salt of the sea on the rail. I could feel the salt of the sea in the air, and then I looked towards the Island of Barbados with a mixed feeling: one of sadness because I was leaving the famil…)
- Imaging Creates Reality ¶23 (When I wanted to get out of Barbados when there were no ships…only two little ships and thousands trying to get out…I didn’t think of influencing anyone. I asked my brother who apparently had an influence. He had none, no one had influence. I simply walk…)
- Repentance: A Gift of God ¶15 (so I simply stepped up on the gangplank and worked up that game plan in my mind’s eye if my mind wandered which indeed I brought it right back to that first step)
- The Perfect Law of Liberty ¶30 (I sat in a chair in my hotel room, and there I sat in the chair and assumed I am next to the boat. I am climbing up the gangplank.)
- Imagination Plus Faith ¶22 (And strangely enough, in my imagination I allowed my brother Victor to carry my daughter Victoria up the gangplank, and to justify his action when we got off the little tender onto the gangplank, he said, “Come, your father’s arms aren’t strong enough to…)
- Tv Talk ¶9 (I felt that if I woke up, and then on the top of that ship, holding the rail, I could look back at the little town of Bridgetown, and have that feeling of sadness and yet joy, because I was happy — that I would say.)
- The New Christology ¶11 (That afternoon I went to my hotel room, and sitting in an easy chair I allowed it to become a little boat.)
- God's Plan of Redemption 1 ¶34 (When I was told I could not get out of the island of Barbados, I said to myself: “All things are possible to Christ who became me and dwells in me, so right now I believe I have the passage.” Feeling the ticket in my hand, I walked up the gangplank and o…)