Before Neville's Barbados trip, Abdullah told him he would 'have died' by the time he returned. After three ascetic months with his family over Christmas, on the ten-day voyage north he broke seven years of vegetarianism, sobriety and celibacy in a single dinner aboard ship, understanding afterward that a state of consciousness, not himself, had died.
Date (happened)
between March 1934 and March 1934
unresolved
between March 1934 and March 1934
estimated · probable · preferred
Reasoning
This event's own witness gives only the ten-day duration of the return voyage, no calendar date. Combining two independent tellings of the same underlying trip: the outbound sailing is anchored to 6 December 1933 (explicit '1933... seventeen and a half million unemployed' in passage 549258), and the Barbados stay is given elsewhere as a full three months over Christmas/New Year (passage 528245). That places the ten/twelve-day return voyage north around March 1934. Held probable/estimated given the chain of approximations (a 'solid three months' is itself not exact).
Told / reported
3 April 1972
stated
Reasoning
The lecture 'Justified States' is dated 1972-04-03 by two independent, agreeing pieces of evidence (the transcript's own chrome dateline and Neville's internal statement that it is now April), against a doubtful catalog claim that duplicates a different lecture's date.