Neville receives Clare's letter in the week of December 28, 1967

Neville reads aloud a letter from a correspondent named Clare, a factory worker, recounting how a co-worker named Randy began asking him about Neville's teaching on imagination as God in action and kept returning over the following two years to ask what Neville had said in his lectures. After Randy died suddenly during an operation, Clare reports that three months later he heard what he experienced as Randy's own voice speaking from within him, repeating, 'Clare, you are right.' Neville takes the account as evidence that consciousness survives death along with the memory of this life.
Date (happened)
between 1958 and 1963
unresolved
  1. between 1958 and 1963 estimated · possible · preferred
    Source Closing Summary ¶2passage 536964 (lecture nid 1317): 'this goes back now quite a few years...but I only got the letter this week', recounting an internal arc of about a year before Randy first asked about Neville's teaching, two more years of ongoing conversations, Randy's death, and a voice heard three months after that.
    Why The correspondent is Clare, a co-worker of Randy's at 'the plant'; Randy died during an operation, and three months later Clare heard what he took to be Randy's voice from within, affirming Clare's belief in Neville's teaching.
    Reasoning 'Quite a few years' before the letter (received 1967, exact month disputed) is a genuinely vague bound; the story's own internal arc runs roughly three years end to end. A wide between range at possible confidence keeps the uncertainty honest rather than inventing false precision; no attempt is made to resolve it to a single year.
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. between 28 April 1967 and 28 December 1967 estimated · possible
    Source Closing SummaryLecture nid 1317 carries two disagreeing delivery claims: [d0] legacy catalog #400 = 1967-12-28 (confidence doubtful, downgraded by the conflict) and [d1] transcript chrome dateline = 1967-04-28 (confidence probable, but flagged by the prior pass as in tension with the lecture's own title 'Closing Summary 1967' and its year-end content).
    Why Flagging for another lane: this lecture's delivery date is a live, unresolved April-vs-December 1967 conflict; content evidence favors December but has not been used here to override the standing disagreement.
    Reasoning The two delivery claims on this lecture genuinely disagree on month (April vs December) while agreeing on day (28) and year (1967); the prior pass explicitly left both standing, unresolved. Per lane policy for a real, unresolved conflict between delivery claims, a between range at possible confidence is written rather than silently preferring one side, even though the lecture's own 'Closing Summary 1967' title and content (closing for the year, resuming in September, letters arriving 'this week' around what reads as a year-end/holiday close) lean toward December.
Sources

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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
1967-04-28 [exact/probable/preferred] Closing Summary Here is why I told you nothing dies in this world, but nothing dies, not even a little flower dies. My friend writes me this story…this goes back now quite a few years…but I only got the letter this week. He said, “This man who was really the porter in our plant, he cleaned out the offices and the plant, and this man works at a bench at a lathe, and, he said, one year after I met him he stopped at my bench one day, called me by name, my name is Clare, and he said, ‘Clare, do you have any religion?’ And Clare said to him, yes, I was raised in brimstone, fire and brimstone, but I no longer… 536964