Date (happened)
between 1958 and 1963
(possible)
passage 536964 (lecture nid 1317): 'this goes back now quite a few years...but I only got the letter this week', recounting an internal arc of about a year before Randy first asked about Neville's teaching, two more years of ongoing conversations, Randy's death, and a voice heard three months after that.
Told / reported
between 28 April 1967 and 28 December 1967
(possible)
Lecture nid 1317 carries two disagreeing delivery claims: [d0] legacy catalog #400 = 1967-12-28 (confidence doubtful, downgraded by the conflict) and [d1] transcript chrome dateline = 1967-04-28 (confidence probable, but flagged by the prior pass as in tension with the lecture's own title 'Closing Summary 1967' and its year-end content).
Neville reads aloud a letter from a correspondent named Clare, a factory worker, recounting how a co-worker named Randy began asking him about Neville's teaching on imagination as God in action and kept returning over the following two years to ask what Neville had said in his lectures. After Randy died suddenly during an operation, Clare reports that three months later he heard what he experienced as Randy's own voice speaking from within him, repeating, 'Clare, you are right.' Neville takes the account as evidence that consciousness survives death along with the memory of this life.