Neville recounts saying goodbye to his parents in New York in November 1933 as they sailed back to Barbados, marking twelve years since his own arrival in America. He describes feeling like a failure by his own and his family's standards after those twelve years -- working in the theatre, making money one year and losing it the next -- too ashamed of his lack of success to return home himself. A sudden, inexplicable urge to go to Barbados, felt right after the ship pulled out, leads him to consult his teacher Abdullah about the trip.
Date (happened)
between 1921 and November 1933
unresolved
between 1921 and November 1933
relative · preferred
Why
Matches the event's own title ('first twelve years in the United States').
Reasoning
The passage states directly that in November 1933 he had 'been in this country 12 years'; November 1933 is a stated date, and subtracting the stated 12-year span points to an arrival around 1921. This is independently and repeatedly corroborated elsewhere in the corpus -- hist_event:728 'Neville arrives in New York City', and multiple biographical source documents (e.g. passages 96834, 141372, 552129) all giving 1921 as his arrival year at age seventeen -- so this is written certain despite resting on a rounded '12 years'. No specific arrival month is asserted, to avoid over-precision the rounded figure does not support.
Told / reported
23 February 1948
estimated
Why
Three delivery claims present, two of them mutually exclusive and both marked preferred=1 -- neither preferred flag nor rendering order was used; took [d0]/[d2]'s corroborated 1948 over the uncorroborated [d1] 1964.
Reasoning
Lecture nid 989 carries 3 delivery claims, including two MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE preferred=1 catalog claims: [d0] 1948-02-23 (catalog #4, preferred=1) and [d1] 1964-02-03 (catalog #189, preferred=1) -- sixteen years apart, both stated/certain. A third claim, [d2], is independent of both catalog entries: the lecture's own site chrome header, reading 'Neville Goddard - 1948 Lesson 3 - Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally', which corroborates [d0]'s year and is consistent with the lecture text describing itself as part of a five-day course given in Los Angeles. With one catalog claim independently corroborated by site evidence and the other catalog claim ([d1]) uncorroborated by anything else in the text, 1948-02-23 is taken. The weekday test does not discriminate (both 1948-02-23 and 1964-02-03 fall on a Monday, one of Neville's usual nights), so the decision rests on corroboration, not weekday.