Neville's July 1959 birth-from-above experience

Date (happened)

c. July 1959 (possible)
biography_mysticism.md — "canonical birth-from-above account Neville dates to July 1959 (often Sea Cliff / 20 minutes)"
between 1934 and 1959 (probable)
"for 25 years", told in The Birth of the Babe (nid 1058)
21 July 1959
"July 21st", told in The Second Vision (nid 1059)
21 July 1959
"July 21st of this year", told in Esau and Jacob (nid 1066)
1959
"Were it l959, as it was in my case", told in In These Last Days by His Son (nid 1090)
July 1959
"July of 1959", told in The Real Man (nid 1181)
July 1959
"July of ’59; Almost thirty years prior to that", told in Twenty-Seven Heavens (nid 1183)
between July 1959 and 22 February 1966
"Since 1959 ... But in July", told in The Eternal Plan (nid 1240)
before 1959
"before 1959", told in A Prophecy (nid 1275)
20 July 1959
"On July 20 of the year 1959", told in One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days (nid 1377)
1905
"In this century I was born, the year 1905.", told in The Promise's Fulfillment in You (nid 1474)
before 1959 (probable)
"long before the experience of the birth from above", told in Jesus Or Barabbas (nid 1750)
1959
"that day, which was in 1959", told in Who Am I July 15 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco (nid 1756)
July 1959
"in July l959", told in I Me God Himself (nid 1766)
19 July 1959
"in 1959 … On Sunday – this was the 19th", told in Signs End July 26 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco (nid 1999)
1959
"here’s the year 1959", told in The World Is A Stage (nid 2181)
~~1905~~ (refuted)
passage 540780 (lecture nid 1474), 'In this century I was born, the year 1905.'
20 July 1959
passage 551215 (lecture nid 1999), 'The morning of July the 20th 1959, this is what happened.'

Told / reported

8 September 1959
The Birth of the Babe (nid 1058), telling 1058-7, told 1959-09-08
11 September 1959 (probable)
The Second Vision (nid 1059), telling 1059-0, told 1959-09-11
13 November 1959
Esau and Jacob (nid 1066), telling 1066-12, told 1959-11-13
19 March 1963
In These Last Days by His Son (nid 1090), telling 1090-1, told 1963-03-19
5 January 1965
The Real Man (nid 1181), telling 1181-10, told 1965-01-05
12 January 1965
Twenty-Seven Heavens (nid 1183), telling 1183-2, told 1965-01-12
22 February 1966
The Eternal Plan (nid 1240), telling 1240-0, told 1966-02-22
22 February 1966
The Eternal Plan (nid 1240), telling 1240-7, told 1966-02-22
~~26 January 1967~~ (refuted)
We Are Witnesses (nid 1257), telling 1257-3, told 1967-01-26
~~15 September 1969~~ (refuted)
A Prophecy (nid 1275), telling 1275-0, told 1969-09-15
21 December 1967 (possible)
Christmas: The Birth That Gives Eternal Life (nid 1316), telling 1316-7, told 1967-12-21
13 September 1968 (probable)
One Thousand Two-Hundred Sixty Days (nid 1377), telling 1377-0, told 1968-09-13
9 October 1968 (doubtful)
The Spirit of Truth (nid 1384), telling 1384-9, told 1968-10-09
11 November 1968
Follow Me (nid 1398), telling 1398-1, told 1968-11-11
~~21 August 1969~~ (refuted)
The Promise's Fulfillment in You (nid 1474), telling 1474-4, told 1969-08-21
17 November 1969
Thy Words Were Found (nid 1502), telling 1502-3, told 1969-11-17
~~27 December 1966~~ (refuted)
Jesus Or Barabbas (nid 1750), telling 1750-7, told 1966-12-27
~~27 December 1966~~ (refuted)
Jesus Or Barabbas (nid 1750), telling 1750-8, told 1966-12-27
between 15 July 1968 and 15 July 1971 (possible)
Who Am I July 15 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco (nid 1756), telling 1756-5, told 1968-07-15/1971-07-15
~~23 February 1965~~ (refuted)
Dreamer 2 (nid 1758), telling 1758-8, told 1965-02-23
18 February 1964
The Last Days Son (nid 1776), telling 1776-2, told 1964-02-18
30 April 1963
The Kingdom (nid 1874), telling 1874-6, told 1963-04-30
12 April 1971
Hidden Secret God (nid 1992), telling 1992-7, told 1971-04-12
1971 (probable)
The World Is A Stage (nid 2181), telling 2181-3, told 1971
1 June 1970
Tloa Lectureself Abadonment (nid 83), telling 83-4, told 1970-06-01
21 December 1967 (possible)
Christmas: The Birth That Gives Eternal Life (nid 1316), telling 1316-7, told 1967-12-21
9 October 1968 (doubtful)
The Spirit of Truth (nid 1384), telling 1384-9, told 1968-10-09
~~27 December 1966~~ (refuted)
Jesus Or Barabbas (nid 1750), telling 1750-7, told 1966-12-27
~~23 February 1965~~ (refuted)
Dreamer 2 (nid 1758), telling 1758-8, told 1965-02-23
17 April 1967 (probable)
nid 1750 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1966-12-27 refuted; 1967-4-17 probable (preferred)
9 December 1966
nid 1257 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1967-1-26 refuted; 1966-12-9 certain (preferred)
16 December 1968
nid 1275 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1967-4-10 refuted; 1969-9-15 refuted; 1968-12-16 certain (preferred)
19 September 1969 (probable)
nid 1758 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1965-2-23 refuted; 1969-9-19 probable (preferred)
16 June 1969 (probable)
delivery claims on lecture nid 1766, 'I Me God Himself'
26 July 1968
delivery claims on lecture nid 1999, 'Signs End July 26 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco'
15 July 1968
printed lecture advertisement dating nid 1756, 'Who Am I, July 15, Marines Memorial Club San Francisco'

Persons

Neville dated his canonical 'birth from above' mystical experience to July 1959, often described as lasting twenty minutes at Sea Cliff, retold in lectures through 1972.
Place: Sea Cliff, New York
Person: Neville Goddard
Ruling: accepted as possible, Rudi 2026-07-23

Every witness in this packet that names a place for the experience puts it at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco (e.g. passage 551215: 'the hotel called the Sir Francis Drake'; passage 536961: 'I was in San Francisco when my birth took place'), matching the event's own attached location terms (San Francisco, Sir Francis Drake Hotel). No witness in this packet names Sea Cliff or gives a twenty-minute duration; both details in the description above trace only to an external, unsourced biography note (claim d0) and are unconfirmed by the corpus's own evidence in this packet.