Date (happened)
1926
"back in 1926 when I was twenty-one, it was a Saturday night", told in Spiritual Feast (nid 1974)
Told / reported
  • 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
    Spiritual Feast (nid 1974), telling 1974-0, told 1967-09-10
  • 10 September 1967 (doubtful)
    Spiritual Feast (nid 1974), telling 1974-0, told 1967-09-10
  • 9 October 1967 (probable)
    Authoritative NPR 59897 resolves the carrier's 10/9/67 dateline as 1967-10-09; the catalog's 1967-09-10 is a transposition.
Persons
In 1926, aged twenty-one, staying as the manager's guest at a club in Larchmont, New York on a Saturday night, he went to bed early reading a book, fell into a deep trance for ten or twelve hours, and woke cataleptic having become an infinite shoreless sea of vibrant living light, the light of the universe.