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of my spiritual will.
"Then I thought of my mother who was sleeping in the next room. I saw her clearly through the dividing partition, quietly asleep in her bed; but her body, unlike mine, seemed to emanate a luminosity, a radiant phosphorescence. It seemed to me that no effort of any kind was needed to cause her to approach my body. I saw her get hurriedly out of bed, run to the window and open it, as if carrying out my last thought before calling her; then leave her room, walk along the corridor, enter my room, and approach my body gropingly and with staring eyes. It seemed as though her contact possessed the faculty of causing my spiritual self to re-enter my body; and I found myself awake, with parched throat, throbbing temples, and difficult breathing, while my heart seemed to be bursting in my chest.
"I can assure the reader," he adds, "that until that moment I had neither read nor heard of spiritualistic subjects, phenomena of bilocation, or the separation of soul and body, and was entirely ignorant of mediumistic experiments and spiritualist seances, so I can absolutely exclude the possibility of a phenomenon of suggestion. Neither," he continues, "could it have been a dream because never had I so vivid a sensation of existing in reality as in the moment when I felt myself separated from the body.
"My mother, questioned by me soon after the event, confirmed the fact that she had first opened her window, as if she felt herself suffocating, before coming to my aid. Now the fact of my having seen this act of hers through the wall while lying inanimate on the bed entirely excludes the hypothesis of hallucination and nightmare during sleep in normal physiological circumstances." Very interesting is this record from a man whose
"Then I thought of my mother who was sleeping in the next room. I saw her clearly through the dividing partition, quietly asleep in her bed; but her body, unlike mine, seemed to emanate a luminosity, a radiant phosphorescence. It seemed to me that no effort of any kind was needed to cause her to approach my body. I saw her get hurriedly out of bed, run to the window and open it, as if carrying out my last thought before calling her; then leave her room, walk along the corridor, enter my room, and approach my body gropingly and with staring eyes. It seemed as though her contact possessed the faculty of causing my spiritual self to re-enter my body; and I found myself awake, with parched throat, throbbing temples, and difficult breathing, while my heart seemed to be bursting in my chest.
"I can assure the reader," he adds, "that until that moment I had neither read nor heard of spiritualistic subjects, phenomena of bilocation, or the separation of soul and body, and was entirely ignorant of mediumistic experiments and spiritualist seances, so I can absolutely exclude the possibility of a phenomenon of suggestion. Neither," he continues, "could it have been a dream because never had I so vivid a sensation of existing in reality as in the moment when I felt myself separated from the body.
"My mother, questioned by me soon after the event, confirmed the fact that she had first opened her window, as if she felt herself suffocating, before coming to my aid. Now the fact of my having seen this act of hers through the wall while lying inanimate on the bed entirely excludes the hypothesis of hallucination and nightmare during sleep in normal physiological circumstances." Very interesting is this record from a man whose
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