Ms. A.B.C.’s Experience

One morning, about 11 a.m., after seeing my child off for a walk with its nurse, I lay on the sofa resting and reading, when suddenly, without any warning, a heart attack came on. As on many previous occasions, the pain, which was negligible, gave way to great faintness.

It was greater, indeed, than I had ever before experienced, and presently I felt myself most smoothly sliding from my earthly body.

When I had slid out entirely the walls of the room vanished and a most beautiful wide world opened before my wondering eyes. It was bathed in an exquisite light, like a golden twilight. Here and there in space were spirit forms, their happy faces turned towards me. I looked at them, their eyes met my eyes, and I felt as eager as a child to join them. But I was not a child, the earthly body from which I had slid was in the early forties, but the spirit body with which I entered the spirit world was the body of a young girl, in the early twenties I should say, and was clothed in a simple and exquisite white garment from shoulders to ankles. The lines of the garment were an artist’s realised [sp.] dream, but the folds clung closely to me. I experienced a delightful feeling of great freedom and great strength. A strange new power thrilled through me—the power of moving swiftly through space at will. Then I felt myself drawn back again into my earthly body. The golden world vanished and my room reappeared.

—A. B. C.

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Light, (August 7, 1920), p. 254.