Tag: Scholarly
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Mrs. L. E. Bates’s Daughter
Date: March 16, 1907. Location: Undetermined [Perhaps New York State], USA. Note: This case is only included due to the reported incidents of the Mrs. Bates’s daughter at the time of death rather than the general focus of the letters on Mrs. Bates herself and her claimed “premonitory” dream. The following case is interesting as…
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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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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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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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Mr. J. A. F. “In Articulo Mortis”
Date: May 16th, 1896Location: Undetermined Light, (November 24, 1900), p. 558-560.
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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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“Aunt” Louisa Browning
Date: October 28, 1883. Location: Bracknell [Berkshire], England. The following letters came into my [Editor, Journal of A.S.P.R.] possession as I shall describe. The letter to Capt. Ericsson, the inventor of the [U.S.S.] Monitor, was sent to the editor of The Open Court and by him to Mr. David P. Abbott, the author of “Behind…
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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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To See Her Children
Date: Circa. 1854 Location: Egypt A lady and her husband (who held a position of some distinction in India) were returning home (A.D. 1854) after an absence of four years, to join a family of young children, when the former was seized in Egypt with an illness of a most alarming character, and, though carefully…
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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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Mrs. Birbeck of Cockermouth
Date: 1739 Location: Cockermouth, UK. In 1739 Mrs. Birbeck, the wife of William Birbeck, banker, of Settle, and a member of the Society of Friends, was taken ill and died at Cockermouth, while returning from a journey to Scotland, which she had undertaken alone—her husband and three children, aged seven, five, and four years respectively,…
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Johann Schwerzeger
Date: 1733Location: Undetermined. UK? In the year 1733 Johann Schwerzeger fell into a state of trance, after an illness, but revived. He said he had seen his whole life, and every sin he had committed, even those he had quite forgotten—everything had been as present to him as when it had happened. He also lamented…
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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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