Date (happened)
19 February 1905
passage 528454 (nid 1036): '9:15 on Sunday night in 1905 the 19th of February' -- Neville's own recounting of what his mother told him about his birth. Corroborated by nine further passages across as many lectures naming 1905 as his birth year (533619, 540616, 540780, 545580, 548621, 551238, 553125, 555823) and by an independent secondhand account naming the same exact date, 'February 19, 1905' (passage 552122, nid 2039, Margaret Ruth Broome's tribute).
Told / reported
- 1970lecture nid 1036 'The Divine Body': internal evidence (text twice names 1970 as the present year, discusses Bertrand Russell's death as recent -- Russell died 1970) overrides the file's two doubtful legacy claims (1957 catalog #74, 1968-05-10 catalog #443).
- 9 November 1965lecture nid 1219 'The New Man' delivery date 1965-11-09, corroborated by a chrome dateline ('11/9/65') and the internal reference to the East Coast blackout beginning 5:20pm that evening (the Great Northeast Blackout of 9 Nov 1965); the alternate 1966-10-18 and 1967-01-20 catalog claims are explicitly demoted to possible in this lecture's own processing notes as not witnessed by this text.
- 18 July 1969 (doubtful)lecture nid 1470 'Pre-Existence' carries a certain/preferred catalog claim of 1969-07-18 (catalog #576) against a weaker probable/provisional 1969-07-16 (catalog #1112, 'provisional source').
- between 25 October 1968 and 21 August 1969 (doubtful)lecture nid 1474 'The Promise's Fulfillment in You' carries two conflicting certain/preferred legacy catalog claims (1968-10-25 catalog #483, 1969-08-21 catalog #581); this lecture's own processing notes flag that the Holy Week internal evidence sits oddly with both and leave the conflict unresolved.
- 19 May 1964lecture nid 1821 'Jesus, God's Plan of Salvation' carries a single uncontested certain delivery claim, 1964-05-19 (catalog #233).
- 5 May 1969 (probable)lecture nid 1858 'The Wisdom, Power, and Glory Buried in Us' delivery date 1969-05-05 read verbatim from the source document's own printed dateline ('5/5/69'); no second corroborating source.
- 9 April 1963lecture nid 1908 'The Crucifixion' carries two certain catalog claims that agree exactly, 1963-04-09 (catalog #144, and a merged duplicate catalog #861 from the same underlying source event).
- 24 January 1969 (probable)lecture nid 1910 'Mystery Election': chrome dateline '1/24/69' explicitly supersedes this lecture's own weaker 1963-1964 internal-evidence inference per its processing notes (the Estes/Baker corruption references cited for that inference in fact stayed current news for years, not tight contemporary anchors).
- 26 July 1968lecture nid 1999 'Signs End July 26 Marines Memorial Club San Francisco' carries two agreeing certain sources: an explicit opening dateline ('26-Jul-1968 San Francisco') and a dated lecture advertisement (media:170).
- between 1 January 1971 and 30 June 1971lecture nid 2108 'Amnesia, The Sleep Of Death': Neville explicitly says 'this is 1971' and, before the anniversary, calls his July 1959 awakening 'almost twelve years ago this coming July', bounding delivery to before that July.
- after 1965 (possible)lecture nid 2270 'The Rock' dated only by inference: it postdates the Stork Club's October 1965 closure (referenced as recent, garbled by ASR as 'salt couch'/'store club'); no further internal evidence fixes month, day, or a tighter year.
Persons
Neville Goddard was born on Sunday, February 19, 1905, at 9:15 at night, on the island of Barbados -- the fourth of nine boys (and one girl) born to the Goddard family. He recounts the exact hour as his mother told it to him; in a tribute written by his student Margaret Ruth Broome, a relative climbing the stairs of the family's wooden-frame house on the day of the birth is said to have heard a voice announce 'His name is Neville' before the boy had been named. Across dozens of lectures he refers to 1905 as his birth year in passing, always consistently.