Neville's vision of making the sea stand still

Neville recounts an earlier vision in New York City in which he made the sea stand still: by arresting an activity within his own head, he stopped the sea's motion (and, in the same telling, other moving things -- beasts, birds, even dinosaurs), then released it to let everything move on again. He places this vision several years before his well-known 20 July 1959 experience of being 'born from above,' which he also refers to in the same breath.
Date (happened)
before 1959
unresolved
  1. before 1959 relative · possible · preferred
    Source Unless I Go Away ¶15passage 555888 (lecture nid 2271), 'several years prior to that experience'
    Reasoning The witness passage itself places this sea-standing-still vision 'several years prior to' Neville's well-established 20 July 1959 birth-from-above experience, which it names two clauses earlier in the same sentence. This only bounds the vision to some point before 1959; 'several years' is too vague to resolve a specific year or a lower bound, so none is asserted.
Place
New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 1962 conclusion
    Why dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
    Reasoning 1 claim, no conflict: 1962 (node:2271).
  2. 1962 estimated
    Source Unless I Go Awaydelivery claim [d1] on lecture nid 2271, derived from this same witness passage
    Why Two delivery claims present, both giving 1962; took the certain/exact one ([d1]) as it is sourced directly to this passage rather than a general extraction note.
    Reasoning Lecture nid 2271 carries 2 delivery claims, both landing on 1962 with no month/day: [d0] circa/probable from a phase3b extraction note reasoning the lecture is roughly three years after the July 1959 experience, and [d1] exact/certain derived directly from this witness passage's own '20th of July, three years ago' reference to the same well-corroborated 1959 event. Taking [d1]: it is both the more confident claim and the more precisely reasoned one, and [d0] independently agrees on the year, so there is no real disagreement to resolve.
Sources

Source

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
1962 [circa/certain/final] Unless I Go Away On the 20th of July, three years ago, in this very city, I had the experience of being born from above, and yet several years prior to that experience, in New York City, I had the experience of having the sea stand still, because I arrested in my head an activity which animated it, and when I released that activity, the things moved on. Whether it’s beast or fowl, when I stopped them — please imagine calling “stop!” and then look up after I release it — the waters, and the dinosaurs — I stopped them, they couldn’t move, and everything was done not “there,” but done in me. 555888