Date (happened)
July 1959
(probable)
passage 532488 (lecture nid 1183): 'it came in 1959... It didn't really come into the mind with understanding until July of '59.'
Told / reported
12 January 1965
lecture nid 1183 'Twenty-Seven Heavens' delivery date 1965-01-12, corroborated independently by catalog #250 and a chrome dateline recovered from the transcript's own header ('1/12/65').
Neville recalls that although he had first stood in the presence of God about thirty years earlier, that experience of being 'embraced by him' did not come to him with real understanding until July of 1959 -- the earlier encounter having been, in his words, 'almost like something too green to be understood.'