Date (happened)
  • c. 1910
    "when I was a little child", told in Your Creative Power (nid 1216)
  • between 1910 and 1915 (probable)
    "when I was a little boy", told in He Stirs in Me (nid 1268)
  • between 1905 and 1921 (probable)
    "as a child", told in Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") (nid 1298)
Told / reported
  • 26 September 1969 (refuted)
    Your Creative Power (nid 1216), telling 1216-7, told 1969-09-26
  • 20 March 1967
    He Stirs in Me (nid 1268), telling 1268-6, told 1967-03-20
  • 30 October 1967 (possible)
    Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") (nid 1298), telling 1298-8, told 1967-10-30
  • 30 October 1967 (possible)
    Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") (nid 1298), telling 1298-8, told 1967-10-30
  • 29 October 1965
    nid 1216 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1965-10-29 certain; 1969-9-26 refuted; 1965-10-29 certain (preferred)
As a small child his father promised him a huge wonderful golden nothing if he would do something; he rushed to do it, heard only the word golden, and was duly given nothing — a lesson that what cannot be discriminated does not exist.