Neville Goddard meets Abdullah (1931 dating)

The Wikipedia chronology dates Neville's meeting with his teacher Abdullah, a turbaned Black man of Jewish descent, to 1931, with the pair working together for five years.

Adjudication: Neville himself gave conflicting years (1929, 1930, 1931) across different lectures, which the source material itself flags as inconsistent - this is a genuine, unresolved contradiction in the primary testimony. The Wikipedia chronology's 1931 dating (with a five-year study period matching the commonly cited 1931-1936 span) is the best-corroborated single value, but given Neville's own inconsistency this needs a human historian's judgment rather than a confident algorithmic pick.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
Ruling: accepted (all claims kept), Rudi 2026-07-23

Date (happened)
1931
unresolved
  1. 1931 stated · preferred
    Source "back in 1931", told in A Lesson in Scripture (nid 1294)
  2. between 1929 and 1929 stated · doubtful
    Source The Abdullah Investigation The Hidden Teacher Of Neville Goddard Part 4 Abdullah Identified The Baritone Mystic Of Atlantic City And 30 West 72Nd Street ¶37"who studied with Abdullah between 1929 and 1936, cast him as a Kabbalist"
  3. 1929 stated · doubtful
    Source The Abdullah Investigation The Hidden Teacher Of Neville Goddard Part 3 Mokomba Mahalla The Names That Vanish ¶30"Conflicting dates in Neville's lectures (1929, 1930, 1931); all place Abdullah in his 80s"
  4. 1930 stated · doubtful
    Source The Abdullah Investigation The Hidden Teacher Of Neville Goddard Part 3 Mokomba Mahalla The Names That Vanish ¶30"Conflicting dates in Neville's lectures (1929, 1930, 1931); all place Abdullah in his 80s"
  5. 1931 stated · possible
    Source Neville Goddard Wikipedia"Neville meets his teacher Abdullah... The pair work together for five years"
  6. 1931 stated · doubtful
    Source The Abdullah Investigation The Hidden Teacher Of Neville Goddard Part 3 Mokomba Mahalla The Names That Vanish ¶30"Conflicting dates in Neville's lectures (1929, 1930, 1931); all place Abdullah in his 80s"
  7. between 1929 and 1931 estimated · possible
    Source passage 528241 (nid 1033): 'I met him in '29'; passage 536247 (nid 1294): 'back in 1931'; passage 543269 (nid 1757): 'back in 1930, 1931'; passage 536251 (nid 1294): Abdullah's China remark also dated 1931 by Neville.
    Why A fifth witness (passage 552884, nid 2083) retells the meeting in detail but names no year.
    Reasoning Neville himself gives conflicting years for this same first meeting across separate tellings — '29 in one lecture, 1930/1931 in two later ones. No basis to prefer one telling's memory over another's, so the happening date is written as a between range across the full spread rather than picking a single year.
Place
New York City
Persons
Neville Goddard
Abdullah
Told / reported
  1. 23 October 1967 stated
    Source A Lesson in Scripture (nid 1294), telling 1294-3, told 1967-10-23
  2. between 1957 and 30 January 1969 estimated · possible
    Source The One Greater Than Johnlecture nid 1033 'The One Greater Than John' carries three mutually-exclusive certain/preferred legacy_event_claim delivery dates (1957 catalog #71, 1964-01-09 catalog #174, 1969-01-30 catalog #511), all legacy_unreviewed with no transcript or chrome corroboration.
    Why Flag for another lane: lecture 1033's three catalogue delivery claims need adjudication.
    Reasoning None of the three conflicting certain delivery claims on lecture 1033 is transcript- or chrome-sourced, so there is no basis to prefer one; written as a between range spanning the conflict at possible confidence per the inheritance rule.
  3. 23 October 1967 estimated
    Source lecture nid 1294 'A Lesson in Scripture' delivery date 1967-10-23, corroborated by both catalog #377 and the chrome dateline recovered from the pre-strip transcript byline ('10/23/67').
    Why This lecture's telling (passage 536247) and nid 1757's telling (passage 543269) are near-identical text and share the same delivery date — possibly two transcriptions of one recording; flagged for another lane.
    Reasoning Two independent certain sources agree exactly on 1967-10-23, so the told claim inherits certain/exact unchanged.
  4. 23 October 1967 estimated
    Source A Lesson in Scripture (Second Version)lecture nid 1757 'A Lesson in Scripture (Second Version)' delivery date 1967-10-23: the chrome dateline recovered from the pre-strip byline ('10/23/67'), corroborated internally by the Benny-vision Friday/Monday chronology, explicitly supersedes this lecture's own earlier estimated 1967-11 (probable) claim per its processing notes.
    Why See note on the nid 1294 claim above — likely a second transcription of the same lecture.
    Reasoning The lecture's own dating trail names the certain, transcript-sourced 1967-10-23 claim as superseding the estimated 1967-11 one, so the told claim inherits the certain/exact value.
  5. 4 October 1968 estimated
    Source Power and Wisdomlecture nid 2083 'Power and Wisdom' delivery date 1968-10-04, corroborated by both the source document's own printed dateline and the chrome site-nav header recovered in Pass 0.
    Reasoning Two independently-sourced dateline readings agree exactly on 1968-10-04, so the told claim is certain/exact.
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