Neville's childhood visions begin
Freedom Barry recounts that Neville began having recurring visions in childhood, from around age seven, which frightened him at the time.
Place: Barbados
Person: Neville Goddard
Date (happened)
between 1910 and 1970
unresolved
between 1910 and 1970
stated · probable · preferred
c. 1912
stated · probable
c. 1910
stated · probable
No date
relative · probable
Reasoning
Passage 97352 explicitly states Neville had been having visions since the time he was seven years old. No calendar year is given, so this is recorded as a relative date anchored to Neville's age, not a computed calendar date. This is weaker than the existing unsourced 1912 claim but directly witnessed by a cited passage.
Told / reported
14 September 1996
stated · probable · preferred
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12 August 1969
stated · doubtful
18 July 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Reverse-witness passage 542771 in lecture node 1744 says 'when I was just a boy and the visions began'. The lecture's delivery date is 1968-07-18, corroborated by multiple certain claims. Node-sourced told claim is type estimated by rule.
17 March 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Reverse-witness passage 545980 in lecture node 1830 says 'from the time I was a boy I had visions'. The lecture's listed standing delivery date is 1969-03-17 at probable (adjudication says certain but claim row remains probable; capped at listed confidence). Node-sourced told claim is type estimated.
17 March 1969
estimated
Reasoning
Witness passage 552280 in lecture node 2047 says 'As a boy I had visions...'. The node's current standing delivery claim is 1969-03-17 certain (chrome dateline), superseding the old 1969-08-12 doubtful. Appending corrected told claim per append-only rule. Node-sourced told claim is type estimated.
Sources
Source
- Freedom Barry Neville Goddard ¶217 (Neville had been having visions since the time he was seven years old)
- If You Can Really Believe ¶23 (And I’ve been accounted a mad man since a child, because I’ve been seeing things that I could not explain. I didn’t have the education to explain these things that I have seen, but I knew they worked.)
- Bear Ye One Another's Burdens ¶19 (As a boy I had visions and knew the priests did not know what they were talking about; but mother could not understand how her little, uneducated boy could challenge that which she considered the wise men, because they could speak Latin and read Greek.)