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THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ASTRAL PROJECTION ( A. Natural Out of the Body Experiences Eps. 1 )
A. - Natural Out-of-the-Body Experiences
(I) PEOPLE WHO NEARLY DIED
A. - Natural Out-of-the-Body Experiences
(I) PEOPLE WHO NEARLY DIED
CASE N O . I - Miss Elizabeth Blakeky
MISS BLAKELEY'S
narrative was published in Prediction for
March, 1953. As a child she feared death. Her experience changed
her whole oudook on life. She became certain that, 'The soul exists and is
indestructible'.
Miss Blakeley became seriously ill. One evening she fell into a
deep sleep, awaking to find the room in darkness. She continued, 'This awakening
was not like the usual drowsy wakening from the sleeping state. The
consciousness was strangely calm and clear. I was no longer in pain. ...
Gradually the consciousness, which normally suffuses the whole body,
became condensed in the head. I became all head, and only head. Then it seemed
that 'I' had become condensed into one tiny speck of consciousness, situated
some-where near the centre of my head.... [Cf. Appendix V, Statement No.
13.] Then I became aware that I was beginning to travel further upwards.
There came a momentary blackout [shedding the physical body, see Appendix
V, Statement No. 9] and then T was free; I had left my
body. I had projected
in space somewhere above the bed upon which still lay my inert
body. And I knew - this is what the world calls the state of death.
... Contrary to general belief, there was no loss of consciousness. [There was
no 'sleep' until 'the end of the age' - compare Statement No. 34.]
'Again a timeless pause [shedding the vehicle of vitality = the 'second
death' - cf. Statement No. 23 - and the cases of Miss Peters and Mrs Parker] and
then before my inner sight there flashed a complete series of pictures
embodying the most important events of my life [ = the review of the past
life, the 'Judgment' - cf. Statement No. 34]. It seemed that I became both
actor and witness in these pictures, for I found that with clear reason,
utterly devoid of all prejudice or hazy emotion, I became my own judge of my
own actions, for good or bad, throughout my preceding life. This judgment
being over, there finally appeared to me only those people with whom there
existed a true bond of love [cf. 'Starr Daily's' experience]. And
then I turned willingly and gladly to embark on tins new life which was
beginning for me. Then came the Light. A brilliant, white Light,
blinding in its unearthly radiance. ...It suffused my whole being, lifting me to the
indescribable height of sublime ecstasy; complete at-one-ment with the Divine Essence,
at the all-pervading consciousness of the Cosmic, of God [ = 'mystical',
'cosmic' or spiritual' consciousness in the Spirit-ual Body].
'Slowly began the return to my body and the world. Gradually I
withdrew into my lifeless body. But the light remained, and, intuitively
realizing, during this delicate operation, that it was of the utmost importance
to retain as much as possible of its radiant life-giving vibrations, I
concentrated my whole attention on it.
'Once again my consciousness seemed to be located in that vital
spot in my head. The life-force slowly infused the benumbed limbs. ... I had
come back to life. ... The wonder of this revelation continues to echo and
re-echo down through the years of my life. Its memory lingers undimmed in my
heart and mind, assimilated into the very depths of my being, beyond worldly
scepticism, beyond intellectual doubt and argument, and beyond religious
dogma.'
CASE
N O . 2 - Dr George Kelley
This narrative was first published in The Aquarian Age by
Mrs Kelley, who corroborated those of her husband's statements that were
capable of corroboration. Dr Kelley specifically disclaimed anyknowledge of
psychical matters. He was very ill. He said, "The doctor saw me draw what
he supposed to be my last breath; tests for life were made. He pronounced me
dead. ... There was a momentary darkness [ = while shedding the
Physical Body - cf. Statements No. 3 and 9]. Then I became aware of
another presence in the room: beside me stood my wife's sister who
had passed away several years before [cf. Statement No. 18]. "Come with
me," she said. I followed. I tried to inform my wife of my safety while
absent, and to assure her that I would return. I found communication
impossible. I touched my wife, but she seemed unconscious of my presence [cf.
Statement No. 28]. Suddenly I realized that she thought
I still occupied that inert body which was lying on the bed ... I
became aware of a sudden swift movement. I knew then, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
that my soul, free from the Physical Body, was about to enter another
existence, entirely different from that of earth. I was experienc-ing
death and realized that it is not a thing to fear. ... We entered a park [cf.
Statement No. 32]. Men and women stood about singly and in groups. They were
beautiful in their glistening soul-bodies. I found myself face to face with
strange people. / was one of them, yet quite apart from them. [The
intensity of his consciousness and the brightness of his Psychical Body
were diminished by the vitality that passed from the Psychical Body, via the
'silver cord', to the Physical Body - cf. accounts of Gerhardi and Mrs Leonard,
also Statement No. 1b]. I cannot describe that bright, yet ethereal
light - intense, yet without the glare or the heat of the sun [cf. Rev. xxii,
5, and Wordsworth, 'The light that never was, on sea or land'].
'As we entered the room where my body lay, darkness and oblivion
claimed me once more [= re-entering the body]. I awoke in bed and related
my experience. ... The knowledge I gained at that time assured me of
a future life.'
CASE N O . 3 - Dr
A. S. Wiltse
The experience of Dr A. S. Wiltse, of Skiddy, Kansas, first
published in The St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1889), is
also given in
Proc. S.P.R. viii, p. 180. Like Kelley, Wiltse was thought to
be dead. When, however, he recovered, he said that he had been fully
con-scious.
'I looked,' said Dr Wiltse, 'in astonishment for the first time
upon myself, the Me, while the not-Me closed in upon all sides like a sepulchre
of clay. With all the interest of a physician, I beheld the wonders of my
bodily anatomy, intimately interwoven with which, even tissue for tissue, was I,
the living soul of the dead body.'
Wiltse heard and felt,'the snapping of innumerable cords' [cf.
Statement No. 19], began to retreat from the feet towards the head of
his Physical Body and finally emerged from the head [cf. Statement
No. 13]. 'Then,' he said, 'I floated up and down laterally, like a soap
bubble attached to the bowl of a pipe, until at last I broke free from the body
and fell lightly on the floor ...'
[cf.
Bertrand, Case No. 4].
There were two men near the door of the room and one of them,
without realizing it, passed his arm through the 'dead' doctor's Psy-chical
Body. Wiltse saw his own Physical Body [cf. Statement No. 17] and was
surprised at its paleness. He tried to attract the attention of his wife, but
failed [cf. Statement No. 28]. He realized, 'That [Physical Body] is
not I; this is I, and I am as much alive as ever.'
Passing out through the door and looking back, he saw 'a small
cord like a spider's web' connecting his Physical and Psychical Bodies [cf.
Statement No. 19].
During the period that he was 'dead', Wiltse saw much that went on
in the room. Statements corroborating his were obtained from those present.
CASE No. The Revd L.J. Bertrand
The experience of being almost dead also occurred to the Revd L.
J. Bertrand who gave Dr Hodgson an oral, and Prof. Wm. James a written account:
details were published in Proc. S.R., viii, p. 194.
Bertrand was climbing in the Alps with a guide and a group of
students; they were ascending the Tidis. Feeling tired, he allowed his companions to continue
on two conditions, first that the guide took the students up by the left-hand
track and returned by the right-hand track, and secondly that the strongest
student should remain at the rear end of the rope. He then sat down. After a
time, trying to light a cigar, he found that he could not discard the match; he
was numb with cold, freezing to death. 'This is the sleep of the snow,' he said
to himself. 'If I move, I'll roll down the abyss; if I don't, I'll be dead in
thirty minutes.'
The first parts to freeze were the hands and feet. Then the head
became unbearably cold and Bertrand found himself outside his body. ' Well,'
he said to himself, 'here I am, what they call a dead man - a
"hall of air" in the air, a captive balloon still attached to the
earth by a kind of elastic string [= the 'silver cord' cf. Statement No.
19], and,going up, always up.' Below him he could see his Physical Body. He
thought, 'There is the corpse in which I lived. If only I had a hand and
scissors to cut the thread which ties me still to it... I was never as
alive as I am now' [cf. Statement No. 26]. Bertrand now became
clairvoyant and saw that the guide had dis-obeyed his orders; he had taken
the students up by the right-hand path, and the strong student no longer
brought up the rear of the party. Then Bertrand saw the guide secretly drinking
Bertrand's own bottle of wine and eating the chicken reserved for his lunch.
Rising still higher, he saw his wife (who was not due to arrive until next day)
and four other persons in a carriage on their way to Lucerne, stopping at an
hotel in Lungren. Then he felt as though someone were hauling down the
'balloon'. [This symbol for the exteriorized psychical body, that of a balloon,
was used independently by several others who claimed to have left their bodies:
they include Gerhardi, Helen Brooks, Frank Lind and Mrs R. Ivy 'Prothero'.] He
awoke to physical consciousness to find the guide rubbing snow into his stiffened
limbs.
'When I reached my body
again,' he said, 'I had a last hope: the "balloon" seemed much
too big for the mouth. [He was reluctant to return to physical life:
cf. Statement No. 8.] Suddenly ... the corpse swallowed the
"balloon", and Bertrand was Bertrand again.' 'The guide told
Bertrand that he had almost frozen to death, but he replied, "I was less
dead than you are now [cf. Statement No. 26]. The proof is that I saw
you going up the Titlis by
the right path when you promised to go by the left. Now show me my
bottle of wine and we will see if it is full".' He also accused the guide
of eating part of his chicken. Later, when they got back to Lucerne and found
Mme Bertrand already there, he asked her, 'Were there five of you in the
carriage, and did you stop at the Lungren Hotel?' 'Yes,' answered his wife,
'but who told you?'
CASE N O . 5 - Miss Gail Hamilton
Miss Hamilton, the well-known American
writer, told of her experiences during apparent death. The account
was first published in Gail Hamilton's Life in Letters, edited by H.
Augusta Dodge (Boston, 1901) and later in Muldoon's The Case for
Astral Projection (Aries Press, Chicago). She said, 'I felt myself
sinking [cf. Statement No. 9]. There was no pain, no alarm, no
fear [cf. Statement No. 7]. I had hut one thought - that it
would be a shock to the family to find me on the floor. ... So many friends
were around me who had gone out of this world [cf. Statements No. 3
and 18] that it suddenly occurred to me whether I myself might not be already
gone ... [cf. Statement No. 31]. It seemed, and it seems still, as if
my spirit were partially detached from my body ... not absolutely free from it [because
of the 'silver cord' - Statements No. 19 and 20], but floating
about..."
CASE NO . 6 - A
Colonel
Another experience due to serious illness (given in Journ.
S.P.R., xxxiv, 1948) concerns a colonel who had pneumonia. He heard the
doctor say that he could do nothing for him and that he must fight it out for
himself. He says, 'With what strength I had, I said, "You shall get
better!" Now this was the crisis. I left my body. I felt it getting
heavier and heavier and sinking into the bed [cf. Statement No. 9]. I was
sitting on top of a high wardrobe, looking down on myself in bed [cf.
Statement No.
17] and the nurse sitting by me. I was disgusted at my
unshaven appearance. I saw everything in the room. Fear was absent
entirely' [cf. Statement No. 7]. When told of his experience, the
nurse said it was the effect of delirium. The colonel replied, 'No, I was dead
for that time. I made myself go back.'
CASE N O . 7 - Dr O. Rose
Arthur J. Wills," Ph.D. (Life Now and Forever, Rider
& Co., 1942) and E. H. Hunt (Why We Survive, Rider) cited the
experience of Dr O. Rose, of Cheltenham, as follows. After being thrown from a
horse and badly injured, he was 'picked up for dead' by two men who witnessed
the accident. After five hours he regained consciousness. 'Although I was
insensible,' he writes, 'I could see my body, lying there on the
ground [cf. Statement No. 17]. I could see the men pick me up, heard
them say I was dead and saw them carry me into the house. I was able to see the
doctors trying to bring me to, and all the time I was able to see myself lying
there. I seemed to be floating on a summer sea. I cannot describe the
sensation of peace and happiness [cf. Statement No. 26]. Yet someone
seemed to tell me I had to go back.' He commented thus: 'Now, the points I wish
to make are: First, I had never seen the men who picked me up, and have never
seen them since, as they were strangers to the district, just passing through,
yet I was able to describe them, their dress and also their horses. Secondly, although I was
totally unconscious, I was able to tell the doctors everything that had taken
place, and what my injuries were. I am convinced that I was outside of my body,
yet I was able to see and hear. It makes me certain that there is a life after
death, which does not require a material body for us to be able to see and
hear, and that we shall retain our personality.'
CASE
N O . 8 - Leonora Countess of Tankerville
The Countess published her out-of-the-body experience in Prediction for
June, 1952, under the title, 'Can we die twice?' She became un-conscious and
was expected to die. It was during the Boer War and she found herself out of
her Physical Body and on a battlefield. She gave help to a newly-dead officer,
encouraging and comforting him until 'strong and bright' discarnate helpers
appeared and took him away. (This is an example of 'co-operation' between the
'living' and the 'dead' - see Statement No. 30, and compare the accounts of
experi-ences by Jeffrey H. Brown and Wm. E. Edwards.)
'Only then,' said the Countess, 'did I realize that I too had
crossed the "Great Divide" ' [cf. Statement No. 31]. She continued,
'At first the environment [= 'Paradise' conditions] proved so attractive that I
thought of nothing else. That marvellous atmosphere, the loveliness of green
fields, the calm, the sense of freedom and the buoyancy of perfect health, all
made for contentment. ... Someone at my side confirmed the fact that
I was indeed in the Spiritual World. "I must go back to my
husband," I exclaimed. He replied, "You may return. You will live as
long as the pneumogastric nerve [= the "silver cord": cf. Statement
No. 20] holds out...".'
CASE
N O . 9 - Mrs Frances Leslie
This experience was told by K. Frank Feldman in Prediction for
December, 1952. Frances Leslie almost died. She was pronounced dead, but was
revived by an injection. The account she gave is as follows.
'I seemed to float in a long tunnel [cf. Statement No. 9]. It
appeared very narrow at first, but gradually expanded into unlimited space [= shedding
the Physical Body - cf. Mrs Tarsikes and Miss Peters]. There was some
sort of
a body [cf. Statement No. 17]. It seemed to defy all
laws of gravity, simply floating onwards. Then a voice called. It belonged
to a man who had died years before. ... Then the colours blended and I was
suffused with ecstasy. ... The brilliant shades gave one last glimmer and ... I
felt as if my whole self were being split in two [= repercussion on rapid
return - cf. Muldoon, Gerhardi, etc.]. An expression of sadness escaped from me
[reluctance to return - Statement No. 8]. An iron hand had brought me back.' How
near Mrs Leslie was to death during this experience is shown by the fact that
she did die twelve hours later.
CASE N O . IO - A patient with dysentery
A case given in Journ. S.P.R. concerns a man who had
dysentery. From instructions which he heard the medical officer give to the
orderlies, he knew that they expected him to collapse, in which case they had
to administer a saline injection. He gave the following account of his experience.
'Shordy
after hearing these instructions, I found myself lying parallel
to the bed, about three or four feet above it and face downwards [cf.
Statement No. 16]. Below me I saw my body and witnessed them giving
the injection
[cf. Statement No. 17]. I listened to the conversation between two
orderlies and a strange M.O., who was directing affairs. I found myself next
back in bed. I told my story to the orderlies, who were sceptical. They said I
couldn't possibly know of that matter as I was unconscious. I enquired about
the strange M.O. ... There had been one. I never saw him again.
'I have always been convinced that my soul had actually left my
body, but returned as a result of the injection.'
source byTHE CITADEL PRESS
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