Neville rides a donkey to his grandmother's home on Sundays

Neville recalls that as a boy in Barbados, he and three other boys would ride a large male donkey -- kept on the farm to sire mules -- every Sunday down to his grandmother's house, where she gave each of them a coin. He remembers receiving a penny for himself.
Date (happened)
between 1905 and 1922
unresolved
  1. between 1905 and 1922 estimated · probable · preferred
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 001): its source passage 539710 does not exist on www: left off
    Reasoning Both endpoints (birth 1905-02-19; departure from Barbados 1922) are certain corpus anchors, so the range containing this habitual childhood practice is solid.
  2. between 1905 and 1922 relative · possible
    Source passage 539710 (lecture nid 1439), 'When I was a little boy in the island of Barbados...every Sunday four of us boys would ride a big male donkey...down to my grandmother's house'; same recollection retold at passage 543309 (lecture nid 1758)
    Why Told twice, in near-identical wording, at passages 539710 (nid 1439) and 543309 (nid 1758); only one field_date claim is written to avoid an inflated duplicate.
    Reasoning 'When I was a little boy' gives no year on its own. It is bounded here between his birth (19 February 1905, per the corpus's own military-service record and birth-place event) and his departure from Barbados for America at seventeen (1922, already established elsewhere in the corpus) -- the widest defensible window for a habitual childhood practice in Barbados, since no finer anchor is available from either telling.
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. between 14 April 1969 and 19 September 1969 estimated · possible
    Source delivery claims on lecture nid 1439: legacy catalog #537 (1969-04-14, probable) vs transcript byline '9/19/69' (1969-09-19, probable) -- a five-month disagreement, neither claim certain, no third witness
    Reasoning nid=1439's own delivery claims disagree by five months and neither is certain (the catalog claim was already lowered from certain to probable by lane L2 on account of this exact conflict, and no third witness exists to break the tie). Per lane rule, an unresolved disagreement between a lecture's own delivery claims is written as a between range at possible confidence rather than silently picking one.
  2. 19 September 1969 estimated · probable
    Source Dreamer 2delivery claims on lecture nid 1758: legacy catalog #263 (1965-02-23, certain) vs transcript byline '9/19/69' (1969-09-19, probable); the SAME lecture's body, at passage 543310, has Neville say of a dream 'I knew...what century it was, and the century was '69'
    Why FOR ANOTHER LANE: nid=1758's catalog delivery claim (1965-02-23, certain, catalog #263) is contradicted by its own lecture content ('the century was '69' spoken live in the same talk) -- this catalog claim looks simply wrong and the lecture is very likely a 1969 talk misfiled as 1965.
    Reasoning The catalog claims this lecture ('Dreamer 2') was delivered 1965-02-23, at certain confidence. But the lecture's own transcript byline reads 9/19/69, and -- decisively -- the lecture's own body has Neville say, of a dream he is relating live, 'the century was '69', which is flatly impossible if the lecture were actually given in February 1965. Internal content and the byline agree and both contradict the catalog; the catalog claim here is treated as the error (per lane guidance to prefer transcript/internal evidence over a catalog claim when they conflict), so the told date is set to 1969-09-19. Written probable rather than certain since this overrides a 'certain'-labelled catalog claim without an independent third source beyond the byline and the internal remark.