Tag: OBE
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Tales of Mrs. L. Hemingway
Date: Undetermined, (Prior to 1935) Location: India. Your recent article in Light regarding Mr. Puckering, who “died” and recovered, and who, during that period, visited, he thought, the spirit-world, recalls a similar experience of mine. I was not “dead,” but all hope of life had gone, and during unconscious state I visited what I thought…
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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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W. Martin
Date: Circa, 1911. Location: Liverpool, UK. Graphic and unusual details of an out-of-body experience are given by W. Martin of 107 Grove Street, Liverpool, in a letter published in the Sunday Express of May 26th, as one of an interesting series dealing with Reincarnation. “In 1911 at the age of sixteen,” Mr. Martin writes, “I…
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Mrs. S. B. L.
Date: January 19, 1909Location: New Smyrna, Florida Prof. James, Dear Sir:— Seven years ago in the Castle grounds at Marburg an old student of yours, during conversation, remarked, “I don’t want to die, I want to be alive.” I looked at him in amazement (he was studying theology) and replied: “Why, don’t you know that…
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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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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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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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Seeing George Hanley
“The next case was communicated to the S.P.R. by the Rev. J. A. Macdonald, who has for some years been a useful helper to the Society in the careful collection of evidence. Mr. Macdonald received it at first hand from Miss Ogle, who was the sister of the percipient. She writes as follows: My brother,…
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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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The Parish Visitor
Date: Circa. 1869.Location: Yorkshire, England From Canon —, who does not wish his name to be given:— October 6th, 1888 Sir—At your request I send you the following account of a curious occurence which came under my experience nearly 20 years ago. In the year 1869 I had the care of a small country parish on…
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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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U.S. Civil War Artilleryman
Date: Circa, 1861-1865 [U.S. Civil War] Location: Undetermined, USA. Some years ago I became acquainted with a stalwart ex-soldier of our Civil War. He was an artilleryman, and was sitting on the ammunition chest of his gun when it was hit by a shell from the enemy’s gun and exploded. The man was thrown into…
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Meanwhile in India
Date: Circa. 1830 – 1840. Location: United Kingdom, India The following incident was sent to the “Spectator” by “H. Wedgwood” in 1882. He says: Between forty and fifty years ago a young girl, a near connexion of mine, was dying of consumption. She had lain for some days in a prostrate condition taking no notice…
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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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