Neville's "Birth from Above" vision, per his own Bible annotation

Freedom Barry says Neville marked his "Birth from Above" experience in the margin of his own Bible with the date 7-16-59, i.e. July 16, 1959, during a San Francisco lecture stay when audience numbers collapsed after he told the story.

Place: San Francisco

Person: Neville Goddard

Date (happened)
20 July 1959
unresolved
  1. 20 July 1959 stated · preferred
    Source One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days ¶5"On July 20 of the year 1959", told in One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days (nid 1377)
  2. before 13 September 1968 bound
    Source One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days ¶5bound from passage 538636 / telling lecture nid 1377
    Reasoning P538636 is retrospective personal testimony; non-preferred before-bound from lecture nid 1377.
  3. 20 July 1959 stated
    Source passage 551010 (lecture nid 1992), 'mine was on the 20th of July of '59'
    Reasoning Neville states the date of his own resurrection directly and unambiguously. This independently corroborates hist_event:874's own certain claim of the same date (1959-07-20), sourced there from a different witnessing lecture (passage 538636, 'On July 20 of the year 1959').
  4. between 20 July 1959 and 8 April 1960 stated
    Source "the 20th of July of ’59 ... the 8th day of April of 1960", told in Hidden Secret God (nid 1992)
  5. 16 July 1959 stated · refuted
    Source Freedom Barry Neville Goddard ¶231"the experiences like being born from Above with 7-16-59"
    Why pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 017): Every primary-source telling by Neville himself (7+ elsewhere in this packet) gives July 20, 1959; Barry's secondhand paraphrase of a Bible margin note is the weakest witness and likely misread the day.
Place
San Francisco
Persons
Neville Goddard
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Told / reported
  1. 14 September 1996 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Freedom Barry Neville Goddard
  2. 13 September 1968 stated · probable
    Source One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty DaysOne Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days (nid 1377), telling 1377-1, told 1968-09-13
  3. 12 April 1971 estimated
    Source delivery claim on lecture nid 1992 'Hidden Secret God' (catalog #945)
    Reasoning The lecture has 2 delivery claims and both agree on 1971-04-12 at certain confidence: d0 (catalog #945, preferred=1) and d1 (transcriber-sourced from the recovered bare dateline token '4/12/1971'), the latter explicitly noted as independent corroboration since it comes from a different source class (site chrome) than the catalogue claim. No disagreement, no tiebreak required.
  4. 12 April 1971 stated
    Source Hidden Secret God (nid 1992), telling 1992-5, told 1971-04-12
Sources

Source

  • Freedom Barry Neville Goddard ¶231 (the experiences like being born from Above with 7-16-59)
  • One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days ¶5 (Calling my wife around 9:00 P.M., I read the Bible and a bit of Blake and retired about 11:00 P.M., expecting nothing other than a normal, restful sleep.)
  • The True Exodus ¶21 (It’s between—mine was on the 20th of July of ’59, and, the Ascent took place on the 8th day of April of 1960, and that’s when one ascends—ascends into Heaven.)