Neville begins voluntary out-of-body experiences

In a Q&A exchange, Neville distinguishes true vision from astral projection and says he has had voluntary (and involuntary) out-of-body experiences from the time he had just turned twenty.
Date (happened)
c. 1925
unresolved
  1. c. 1925 relative · probable · preferred
    Source The J, E, and P Manuscripts ¶62passage 540919 (lecture nid 1483): 'I've had it voluntary from the time I was, well, just turned twenty, and involuntary.'
    Reasoning Neville dates the onset of his voluntary out-of-body experiences to just after turning twenty. His birth date, 1905-02-19, is independently corroborated elsewhere in the corpus (a Wikipedia bio passage and a genealogy research note both agree), putting his twentieth birthday in February 1925. Held to circa/probable since 'just turned twenty' is an imprecise, decades-later recollection with no month or day given.
  2. between 1925 and 1969 stated
    Source The J, E, and P Manuscripts ¶62"from the time I was, well, just turned twenty", told in The J, E, and P Manuscripts (nid 1483)
  3. between 19 February 1925 and 3 October 1969 estimated · probable
    Source The J, E, and P Manuscripts ¶62passage 540919 (lecture nid 1483), "I've had it voluntary from the time I was, well, just turned twenty"
    Why Lower bound is exact-day via the birth anchor; the true first instance may be some weeks or months after 1925-02-19.
    Reasoning Anchoring on Neville's established birth date (hist_event 950, 1905-02-19), 'just turned twenty' cannot be earlier than 1925-02-19; this tightens the previously recorded bare-year start (1925) to an exact-day lower bound. The end of the range is set to the corrected telling date 1969-10-03 (see the told claim appended alongside), the latest point at which the ongoing ('time and time again') practice is attested. Confidence held at probable because 'just turned' is an approximate phrase, not an exact date statement.
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 3 October 1969 stated
    Source The J, E, and P Manuscriptsdelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 1483: chrome header trailing dateline '10/3/69', certain; the catalog's d0 (1969-10-02) is already demoted to doubtful as contradicted by this same chrome.
    Reasoning The lecture's own removed chrome dateline gives October 3, 1969 and is marked certain; it directly contradicts and outweighs the catalog claim's October 2, which has already been demoted to doubtful for that reason at the lecture level. The processing note's summary line ('delivered 1969-10-02') is the older, superseded reading.
  2. 2 October 1969 stated · doubtful
    Source The J, E, and P ManuscriptsThe J, E, and P Manuscripts (nid 1483), telling 1483-6, told 1969-10-02
  3. 3 October 1969 estimated
    Source The J, E, and P ManuscriptsThe J, E, and P Manuscripts (nid 1483), telling 1483-6; delivery claim d1 (transcriber chrome header, certain, preferred)
    Why Appended beside the standing 1969-10-02 certain claim per append-only; that claim rested on the demoted catalogue date.
    Reasoning The existing told claim (1969-10-02, certain) matches only the lecture's doubtful catalogue delivery date (#595, itself flagged as contradicted by one day by the lecture's own chrome dateline). Node 1483's certain, preferred delivery claim, read from the chrome dateline '10/3/69', is 1969-10-03. The telling date is corrected here to match the certain evidence.
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