Category: Paradoxical Lucidity
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Mrs. F. Shepherd
Date: Undetermined. (Prior to 1934). Location: Undetermined. A correspondent, Mrs. F. Shepherd, sends un an account of the following out-of-the-body experience. “I had had a severe shock,” she writes, “when I suddenly noticed that I was breathing in a strange way, and with the last conscious breath I found myself slipping out of the top…
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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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Mr. William Crowell Edgar
Date: Circa 1923. Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA. This is the true story of an operation for cancer. The writer, Mr. W. C. Edgar, of 1208 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, is a well-known journalist. The incident described took place five years ago: since then he has had no return of the symptoms, and may be considered…
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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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Captain Gilbert Nobbs – Left on the Battlefield
Date: July, 1916 (Battle of the Somme) Location: Trônes Wood, Somme, France I was wounded! I was blind! But the moments that followed are clear in my memory. The brain shocked by a blow works quickly and actively in its excited effort to hold its own. I was quite conscious and thinking clearly: I knew…
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John Huntley
Date: 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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A “Life Experience”
Date: 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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Mr. J. A. F. “In Articulo Mortis”
Date: May 16th, 1896Location: Undetermined Light, (November 24, 1900), p. 558-560.
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Valley of the Shadow of Death
Date: 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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Infinite
Date: 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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Dr. Wiltse’s Account
Date: 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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Professor A. Pastore
Date: 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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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. James J. Kane of the U.S. Navy
Date: Most Likely Summer of 1864Location: Gulf of Mexico The “Daily Mail,” for October 1st, published a remarkable narrative of an experience of passing out of, and return to, the physical body. Mr. James J. Kane, for thirty years chaplain in the United States Navy, says that he had been eight times at the point…
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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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Dr. Passavant’s Account of a Peasant Boy
Date: Undetermined (Probably mid-19th Century [~1850])Location: Undetermined (Probably in Pennsylvania, US) Dr. Passavant relates the case of a peasant boy, who after a short but painful illness, apparently died, his body being perfectly stiff. He, however, revived, complaining bitterly of being called back to life. He said he had been in a delightful place, and…
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Admiral Francis Beaufort
Date: Circa. 1825Location: Portsmouth Harbour, England The following letter, addressed by Admiral Beaufort to Dr. W. H. Wollaston, giving an account of the feelings of the former when apparently on the very point of death from drowning, was originally published in the Life of the late Sir John Barrow. It will well repay perusal: The…
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