Category: Being(s) of Light
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Ms. K. E. Dodd’s Sister
Date: Undetermined, (Prior to 1928.) Location: King’s Heath, Birmingham. The following is a record of a vision experienced by a lady a few hours before her death. It is sent us by Miss K. E. Dodd of King’s Heath, Birmingham, who says that her sister, the lady in question, was so impressed with her experience…
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The “Material Envelope”
Date: January 31, 1920 Location: St. Martin, Guernsey (Channel Islands, U.K.) H.I.M., who (with the concurrence of Miss Dallas) sends us the following striking narrative of the experience of a dying person, has furnished us with her name and address, but does not wish them published:— My sister, who was all her life a seeker…
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Ms. A.B.C.’s Experience
Date: Undetermined (Prior to 1914) Location: Undetermined (Probably England) 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…
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Mrs. Keller’s Brother
Date: Prior to 1907. Location: Undetermined, USA. April 14th, 1907. I have another incident which may or may not have an interest for you. A cousin of mine has just died, and a sister who watched by his side the night previous to his death, said that all night he spoke of the woman in…
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M. Constant Savy
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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Mrs. Alexander Taylor
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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Did You See?
Date: 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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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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Oh, Dear Mamma, There is Minnie!
Date: Prior to 1879Location: London In the case here abridged, the singing and voice of the unseen visitant were heard by the mother as well as by her dying child; and a cousin of the deceased child appears to have had a vision of the child and heard a premonitory intimation of her death. “Mrs.…
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John (Jack) Britton
Date: Circa. 1872.Location: Leeds, UK. The following case appears to point to a hallucinatory origin of the music heard. It is an interesting case and worth quoting in an abbreviated form. It is printed in the “S.P.R. Journal,” Vol. IV, p. 181. Here the subject was a deaf mute, John Britton, who was taken dangerously…
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Daisy Irene Dryden
Date: October 8th, 1864Location: San José, California The following account of the last days of a little child was published in the “Journal of the American S.P.R.,” edited by Dr. James H. Hyslop (Vol. XII, No. 6), and a considerably abridged report was compiled by Miss H. A. Dallas, a summary of which is given…
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Mr. F. W. Thurstan: An Anglo-Indian’s Experience
Date: Circa. Early 1860s.Location: Near Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka It was, perhaps, only a dream, but [I] felt it was more than that, and while all other dreams of [my] childhood have vanished, this one forever remained as a real vision of another world to influence [my] career in this one. It came about in…
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The Passing of Minna
Date: Prior to April 11, 1857. Location: Unknown, probably USA. After a bounteous repast I was led into a little room where lay Minna. She smiled sweetly as my gaze met her own, and I at once felt myself in the presenece of a purely spiritual being. And yet I experienced no restraint; for, if…
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Edward Young
Date: Prior to Dec. 25, 1852 Location: USA? My Dear Friends:— In accordance with my promise to you, the other evening, I now proceed to give you an account of my, while laying on the bed of death. I felt an internal consciousness, from my first being taken sick, that that was my last sickness:…
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Margaret Hangley
Date: September 20, 1849 Location: Bangor, Maine. The following communication refer to a palpable case of spiritual transit to the other world, and the prophetic announcements are among the facts which forever remain to puzzle and rebuke the skepticism of unbelieving men. [Ed.] To Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir: During the summer of 1849,…
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Christiane
Date: Circa, 1816. Location: Weinsberg, Germany In September 1820, my daughter Christiane, who was still overwhelmed by an unrelenting longing for her deceased brother, experienced a sudden episode while sitting quietly in the living room. She fell into a deep sleep. During this state, she later described the following vision: ‘I found myself walking along…
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Old Man Westburn
Date: Circa 1757-1758 Location: Undetermined (Most likely near Edinburgh) Sir Bernard Burke, in his book entitled Family Romance, thus describes the dream and death of Westburn, about 1757 or 1758. Westburn, who was an elderly man, and not in very strong health, was in the habit of reposing during an hour after dinner, and his…
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Thomas Say
Date: Circa, 1725. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Vision During A State of Coma This case has a resemblance to this vision of Dr. Wiltse, in Proceedings, Vol. VIII. p. 180 (quoted in Human Personality, Vol. II. p. 315), and is still more interesting in that, if the statements given are to be implicitly trusted, the patient…
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Monk of Evesham’s Vision
Date: Circa, 1196. Location: Evesham Abbey, Worcestershire England In those days a monk belonging to the convent of Evesham fell ill, and for fifteen months he was terribly afflicted with bodily pain. Food and drink made him so nauseous that sometimes he would take nothing but the smallest drop of cold water for nine days…
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Vision of Tundale
Date: Circa, 1149. Location: Cork, Ireland. As many inhabitants of the city of Cork, who were present then, may testify, he lay dead for three days and three nights; and later he spoke bitterly of all that he suffered during this period because of his previous easy carelessness, as his present life bore witness. For…
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Tortgyth’s Vision
Date: Prior to 731 A.D. Location: England, perhaps near Barking. When Ethelburga, the devout Mother of this God-fearing Community, was herself about to be taken out of this world, one of the sisters whose name was Tortgyth saw a wonderful vision. This nun had lived many years in the convent, humbly and sincerly striving to…
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The Vision of Drythelm
Date: Circa 696 – 699 A.D. Location: Cunningham, Northumbria (Modern day Northern England and Sourthern Scotland) About this time, a noteworthy miracle, like those of olden days, occurred in Britian. For, in order to arouse the living from spiritual death, a man already dead returned to bodily life and related many noteable things that he…
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The Soldier (via Gregory the Great)
Date: Prior to 590 A.D. Location: Undetermined. Most likely in the Middle East. Continued from Stephen At that time a certain soldier was also brought to the point of death. In a similar way his soul was carried out of his body, so that he lay void of any sense of feeling. But he quickly…
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Peter the Monk (via Gregory the Great)
Date: Prior to 590 A.D. Location: Perhaps Spain? A certain Slav was a monk and lived with me here in this city in my monastery. He used to tell me that when he lived in the wilderness he knew a monk named Peter, who was born in Spain. He lived with him in the vast…
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Vision of St. Peter (St. Peter’s Apocalypse)
Date: Circa, 2nd Century A.D. Location: Undetermined, possibly Egypt or Palestine. And my Lord Jesus Christ our king said to me, “Let us go to the holy mountain.” And his disciples went with him praying. There were two men there, and we could not look on their faces, for a light came from them shining…
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Er of Pamphylia
Date: Prior to 375 BCE.Location: Pamphylia (Modern-day Southern Turkey) Well, I said, I will tell you a tale; not one of the tales which Odysseus tells to the hero Alcinous, yet this too is a tale of a hero, Er the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth. He was slain in battle, and ten…
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Thespesius of Soli
Date: During or before 1st century A.D. Location: Soli—Modern day Mezitli, Turkey. Then I spoke as follows:—The Solian, Thespesius, an associate and friend of that Protogenes who was here with us, having led a very dissipated life in his youth, and in a short time squandering his property, for a while on account of his impoverished condition…
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