Historical Near-Death Experiences
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Professor A. Pastore
Contradictory Experience, Dead Acquaintances, Expanded Perception (Field of View), Life Review, Near Death Experience, Paradoxical LucidityDate: Prior to 1887Location: Genoa, Italy. I have been through a very severe illness. At the crisis, when I had entirely lost consciousness of physical pain, the power of my imagination was increased by an extraordinary degree, and I saw clearly in a most distinct confusion (two words which do not accord, but which, in…
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She Knows Who I Am
Date: Circa. 1887Location: California, USA. The following case was given by Dr. Paul Edwards, and was published in the Journal “Light” for April, 1906: “While living in a country town in California (U.S.A.) about the year 1887, I was called upon to visit a very dear lady friend who was very low and weak from…
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Jennie and Edith
Date: June 8, 1889. Location: Near Boston, MA, USA. [Most Likely] I quote next a well authenticated instance on the authority of Dr. Minot J. Savage. He records it in his Psychic Facts and Theories. He also told me personally of the facts and gave me the names and addresses of the persons on whose…
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Dr. Wiltse’s Account
Bliss, Expanded Perception (Field of View), Impasse, Ineffability, Mental Communication, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience), Paradoxical Lucidity, SilenceDate: June 22, 1889Location: Wartburg, Tenn. The following, at time rather humerous, account of Dr. Wiltse is broken up into two parts and read before the Tri-state Medical Society of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, held at Chattanooga, on October 15th – 17th, 1889. The account was originally broken up into two parts and in two separate…
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Did You See?
Being(s) of Light, Bliss, Expanded Perception (Field of View), Impasse, Ineffability, Music, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience), Silence, Transformative ExperienceDate: Prior to 1896. Location: Iowa, USA. Several years ago I too had a similar experience and have long wanted some one of sense to see the same things I did that we might compare notes. I am not timid, yet I had not the strength to go over and over the story as I…
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S.P.R. Journal (January, 1891)
Mr. Pearsall Smith gave an account of a young man dying of consumption, sent to sea for the benefit of his health. In the excitement of a storm the invalid was forgotten, and seemed to die. He then perceived how the officer responsible for him began to be worried about him, and came down and…
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The Funerary Card
Date: June 24, 1894Location: Caracas, Venezuela “I am indebted to Mr. C. J. Hans Hamilton for the following case, which he translated from the Review “Psychica” of 1921. It was contributed by M. Warcollier, of the Institut Metapsychique, Paris, who says: My uncle, M. Paul Durocq, left Paris in 1893 for a trip to America,…
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Infinite
Bliss, Contradictory Experience, Dead Acquaintances, Home, Ineffability, Irrelevance of Time, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience), Paradoxical Lucidity, Transformative ExperienceDate: Undetermined, Prior to 1896. Location: Undetermined, Probably East Coast USA. When I read the words of that minister [Gail Hamilton] and others, I recalled my strange journeyings into infinite space, with the vividness of yesterday, though it is now twenty-three years since. I was well, I was in the world and in the body,—suddenly…
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Valley of the Shadow of Death
Bliss, Contradictory Experience, Ineffability, Near Death Experience, Paradoxical Lucidity, Transformative ExperienceDate: Prior to 1896. Location: Massachusetts, USA [Likely] A man, a clergyman, occupying his pulpit with great acceptance, fell severly ill. Tho’ a clergyman, he had been a man of the world also, strong, alert, fond of mountain and stream, loving the interests, the activities, even the bustle and hustle, the fun and frolic of…
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Mr. J. A. F. “In Articulo Mortis”
Bliss, Expanded Perception (Field of View), Following Path, Ineffability, Irrelevance of Time, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience), Paradoxical Lucidity, SilenceDate: May 16th, 1896Location: Undetermined Light, (November 24, 1900), p. 558-560.
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Mrs. Alexander Taylor
Being(s) of Light, Bliss, Dead Acquaintances, Following Path, Impasse, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience)Date: August 9, 1899.Location: Near Wheeling, West Virginia. News from Wheeling, W. Va., tells of a Mrs. Alexander Taylor, a widow, thirty-five years old, residing at Toronto, near Wheeling, who has been slowly dying of consumption. On the 9th inst. she became unconscious. A doctor pronounced her dead and funeral preparations were begun. About midnight…
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Rev. Dwight L. Moody
Date: December 26, 1899. Location: Northfield, Massachusetts, USA Professor Bozzano, in the Annals of Psychical Science, gives twenty-two cases in all, three of which are found in this discussion… [James H. Hyslop] The first instance is taken from the life of the Rev. Dwight L. Moody, the celebrated evangelical preacher of the United States, written…
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M. Constant Savy
Being(s) of Light, Bliss, Contradictory Experience, Dead Acquaintances, Expanded Perception (Field of View), Ineffability, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience)Date: Cirac Early/Mid 19th Century.Location: Undetermined A modern writer, M. Constant Savy, relates an extraordinary dream which he had when he was apparently at the point of death. “I felt very ill,” writes Constant Savy, “I had no strength, it seemed to me that my life was making efforts to resist death, but in vain,…
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James Moore
Date: Circa 1903.Location: Detroit, Michigan It was about four o’clock, and the dawn for which he had been watching was creeping in through the shutters, when, as I bent over the bed, I noticed that his face was quite calm and his eyes clear. The poor fellow looked up into my face, and taking my…
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A “Life Experience”
Bliss, Expanded Perception (Field of View), Impossible Knowledge, Mental Communication, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience), Paradoxical Lucidity, Silence, Transformative ExperienceDate: Undetermined,(Prior to April, 1906) Location: Undetermined The “Progressive Thinker” lately reproduced from the “Sunday School Times” a “life experience” written by a valued contributor who, in a letter to the Editor of that journal, said:— “I am dubious about offering this, even as my own enlightening and comforting experience, and yet, because we know…
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John Huntley
Bliss, Contradictory Experience, Cord, Expanded Perception (Field of View), Ineffability, Music, Near Death Experience, OBE (Out-of-Body Experience), Paradoxical Lucidity, Transformative ExperienceDate: Circa, 1906. Location: Undetermined. About five years ago I woke from sleep to find “myself” clean out of the body, as the kernel of a nut comes out of its shell. I was conscious in two places—in a feeble degree, in the body which was lying in bed on its left side; and to…
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Death of a Nine Year Old Boy
Date: May 14, 1906. Location: Undetermined, US. [Below: Comments by Dr. James H. Hyslop (1907, A.S.P.R. Psychologist & not the doctor attending the boy.)] The mother confirms this narrative and inquiry brings out the following facts. The boy had never known his grandmother who had died twenty years ago. His sister had died four years…
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Clifford Jenks
Date: October 19th, 1906. Location: Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The following case is more complex than the others. It is less evidential. The pastor who first reported the facts asserts that the young man was not under the influence of opiates or anaesthetics [sp.]. One would infer from this statement, tho he does not directly assert, that…
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