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THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ASTRAL PROJECTION-PEOPLE WHO WERE EXHAUSTED, ETC.
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1.
CASE N O . 31 - Mr
Oliver Fox
FOX declared that he originally
had no knowledge whatever of experiences such as he described. He was delicate and had
many illnesses. His experiences, which were described in Astral Projection,
Rider & Co. Ltd., resembled those of Gerhardi by starting as dreams, and it
was from a dream that he first 'woke' to full out-of-the-body consciousness:
his awakening was accompanied by the use of his critical faculties, since he
observed that his 'dream environment' differed from the physical world in
certain respects - the paving-stones were not normally aligned. He thus found
that if, during a dream, he could observe some incongruity, that is, if he
could begin to exercise his critical faculties, he would become 'awake' to
a non-physical environment. For example, in a subsequent dream, seeing a parrot
fly through a wall, and realizing the physical impossibility of the feat, he
'awoke' to 'astral' conditions.
Like Muldoon and Turvey, Fox said
that, when out of the Physical Body, he could 'do some intriguing little tricks
at will, such as moving objects without visible contact [telekinesis] and moulding the plastic matter into new
forms' [cf. Statement No. 10]. Like Muldoon, van Eeden and others, when
outside, yet near, his Physical Body (within what Muldoon called 'the
range of cord-activity') he experienced 'dual' or 'alternate' consciousness,
being aware of both physical and non-physical environments. He said, 'I could
feel myself standing in the dream and see the scenery; but at the same time I
could feel myself lying in bed, and see my bedroom' [cf. Statement No. 18].
Like Gerhardi and Muldoon, Fox decided to get further
away from his Physical Body and see what happened. Then something seemed to
'click' in his brain, his Physical Body ceased to have a strong attraction for
his Psychical body, and he was 'free' (cf. Muldoon and Ouspensky).
Walking along and seeing a man, he asked what time it
was. But he was unseen and unheard [cf. Statement No. 28]. This made him feel lonely; he
willed to awake in his Physical Body, and did so.
Fox made an experiment with chloroform. 'It seemed
to me,' he said, 'that I shot up to the stars, and that a shining silver
thread [= the 'silver cord' - cf. Statement No. 19] connected my
celestial self with my Physical Body.' He only once saw (though
often feeling) his Physical Body though he saw that of his wife. Muldoon
commented, 'There are many reasons why this could be true'.
Fox cited one adventure in which he 'seemed to be
earthbound' and then one (of a 'vast dream-London') which he considered was 'on
some level of the astral plane' [here = 'Denser Between Worlds', 'earth-veil'
or 'Hades']. He added, 'In the course of my various explorations of this place
I have found that the astral counterpart (if such it be) of a city appears much
larger than the earthly one; for in addition to its present
structures and features are to be found buildings, monu-ments, etc., which have
no present existence on the earth. Some of these may have existed in the past;
and others I suspect to be powerful thought-forms [cf. Statement No. 10]
... or perhaps the astral foreshadowings of earthly buildings yet to
come. ... If you can become connected up with the psychic trail of
the forces governing Xtown Technical College, you may get a vision of the new
buildings to be occupied by that institution in 1960 - which is what a psychometrist
actually does. ... To the astral explorer, then, Xtown will seem at
once both familiar and strange, a curious blend of the known and unknown ...
and the general effect will be that the astral Xtown is much larger than the
earthly one. And as far as my experi-ences go, the investigator who makes
his nth trip to the astral Xtown will still find the same features
(non-existent on earth) that puzzled him on his first adventure.' (The
fact that he was 'puzzled' indicates that his critical faculties were alert and
that the experience was no mere dream. All the above is very similar to
'communications from supposed dis-carnates' - e.g. Life Beyond the Grave.)
Fox acquired the ability to leave his Physical Body
through the head - through the 'door in the pineal gland [cf. Statement No.
13]. Some of the 'places' he visited were on earth, others on the
'astral plane' [here = 'Denser Between Worlds' or 'Hades'] and he said, 'People
who cannot forget or forgive poor Raymond's cigar will get very cross with me
when I say that there are electric trams on the astral plane; but there are
...' He said, 'I have seen the body I travel in (etheric, astral, or perhaps
mental) ... Occasionally I have not been able to see any astral body when
I looked for it - no legs, no arms, no body - an extraordinary
sensation - just a consciousness, a man invisible even to himself,
passing through busy streets. ...' (We suggest that these were 'partial' or
'preliminary' awakenings - cf. Statement No. 25.)
Fox said, ' The experience is so extremely real
that one who undergoes it may wonder if he is still walking in his sleep
- if he cannot see his body upon the bed. His doubts will speedily be
set at rest when he finds he can walk through the wall' [cf. Statement No.
31]. Like Muldoon and Bulford, he gave directions as to how
out-of-the-body experiences may be obtained. Like them, Fox asserted that
even a sceptic who persevered with the directions could satisfy himself
that these are genuine experiences, demonstrat-ing the existence of a soul able
to function independently of the Physical Body.
2.
CASE N O . 32 - Mr Wm.
Gerhardi, M.A., B.LITT.
Gerhardi had no previous knowledge of out-of-the-body
experiences. In a prefatory note to his book, Resurrection,
published in 1934 by Cassell & Co. Ltd., he insisted that, 'incredible as
it may seem', what he des-cribed was 'a true experience'. He also published in Prediction,
1936 and 1939
Gerhardi intended to write a book on the subject of
immortality and went to bed in a state of nervous exhaustion. He dreamed that
he had broken a tooth but that when he tried to pull it out, 'It came out
easily, in a long sticky strand, like molten toffee'. This awakening of the
critical faculties during a dream (as
with Oliver Fox) caused a real (yet not a physical) awakening: that is, it caused an out-of-the-body experience. 'I was
awake,' says Gerhardi, 'I knew, because I knew I was dreaming about that tooth.
Therefore, dreaming though I still was, I had but to wake to ascertain that my
tooth was sound. "Now wake," I said, "and find there is no need
to worry about going to the dentist." And I woke. But
I woke with a start. I had stretched out my hand to
press the switch of the lamp on the bookshelf over my bed, and instead
found myself grasping the void, and myself suspended in mid-air, on a level
with the bookcase. The room, except for the glow from the electric stove, was
in darkness, but all around me was a milky pellucid light. I was that
moment fully awake, and so fully conscious that I could not doubt my
senses. Astonished, I said to myself, "Fancy that! Now would you
have believed it! Now this is something to tell. And this is not
a dream." ... The suspension in mid-air lasted only a few minutes, during
which I felt as if I were being suspended by a steel arm which held me rigid.
[Others use this symbol of a 'steel arm'; it is clearly related to the
cataleptic condition which is fairly common.] Then I was seized, pushed out
horizontally, placed on my feet, and thrust forward with the gentle-firm hand
of the monitor - "There you are, now proceed on your own" [cf. Muldoon,
Bulford, 'Mr H.' and Hout]. I stood there, the same living being, but rather
less stable, as if defying gravity. If the whole world united in telling me
that it was a dream, I would remain unconvinced. ...
'I was in the body of my resurrection. "So that's
what it's like? How utterly unforeseen." I staggered to the door. I
felt the handle but could not turn it [cf. Statement No. 31].
Then, turning, I became aware of a strange appendage. At the back of me was a
coil of light [the 'silver cord' - cf. Statement No. 19]. It was
like a luminous garden-hose resembling the strong broad ray of dusty
light at the back of a dark cinema projecting on the screen in front. To my
utter astonishment, that broad cable of light at the back of me illuminated the
face on the pillow, as if attached to the brow of the sleeper [cf. Gibier's
engraver, Brunton, Mrs Joy and Mrs Larsen]. The sleeper was myself [cf.
Statement No. 17]. ... Who would have thought that I had a spare body at my
disposal adapted to the new conditions? But I was not dead; my
Physical Body was sleeping peacefully, while I was apparently on my feet and as
good as before. Yet it wasn't my accustomed self It was as if my
mould were walking through a murky, heavy space which however, gave way easily
before my emptiness. [The 'murky heavy space' symbolized
'earth-veil' or 'Hades' conditions; compare 'the dark river' of Dr Enid Smith,
the 'dark flood' of Sir Alex. Ogston, the 'River Styx' of mythology, etc. See
also the accounts of Mrs Joy, Walter de la Mare, Miss Roos, etc. and Statement
No. 41.]
Q.
"Now, how will I get out?" I thought. ... At the same
moment I was pushed forward. The door passed through me, or I through the
door [cf. Statement No. 31]. I was in the corridor, dark, but illumined by
a subdued light which seemed to emanate from my own body [cf. Statement No.
17], and the next instant I had entered my bathroom, affecting from habit to switch
on the light, but unable to press it down [cf. Mrs Griggs, Mrs Larsen and
Statement No. 31].
R.
There was this uncanny tape of light between us, like the
umbilical cord, by means of which the body on the bed was kept breathing [this function, assigned
to the 'cord', agrees with that given by discarnates; Statement No. 20], while I
seemed to be not walking but wading through an unsteady sea [=
'earth-veil' or 'Hades' conditions - his Psychical Body was much
enshrouded by the 'body-veil' or vehicle of vitality], ... "Now to
be scientific," I said, "this is one chance in a million. You must
convince
yourself so that nothing later will make you think it was merely a
dream."
[These critical observations indicate that he was not
merely dreaming - cf. Statement No. 12.] All this I said to myself while going
round and collecting such evidence as: that window is open; that curtain is
drawn; this is the new towel-heater. It did not occur to me to cast a glance at
myself, but I noticed a familiar outline of myself in the looking-glass'...
[cf. Miss Peters. Whether the 'double' is, or is not,
seen in a mirror might depend on its relative density. This feature in the
accounts is significant. We have already noted that Gerhardi's Psychical Body
was accompanied by much of the vehicle of vitality or 'body-veil', i.e. it was
relatively 'objective'. The same applied to Miss Peters (who, after seeing her
'double' in a mirror, described the act of shedding the (exteriorized) vehicle
of vitality). On the other hand, Gibier's engraver, who did not see his
'double' in a mirror, gave no indication that it was impregnated with the
vehicle of vitality. In Gerhardi and Miss Peters the latter was relatively
loosely associated with the Physical Body].
' "What evidence? What more evidence?" I
kept asking myself, as I passed from room to room. Here I noted which windows
were shut, then I tried, and failed, to open the linen cupboard [cf. Statement
No. 31]. Then I noted the time. I could think of no other way of collecting
evidence to convince myself later, for my consciousness flared up full and then
grew so dim again that I was near to sinking back into my dream [cf. Kelley,
who realized that his condition approached, but did not equal that of the dead
and Mrs Leonard, who suggested that con-sciousness is reduced by the amount of
vitality that passes along the 'cord']. And suddenly this strange power resumed
its lead and began to play pranks with me. I was being pushed along like a
half-filled balloon [cf. Bertrand, Lind, Helen Brooks and Mrs 'Prothero']. Out
I flew through the front door and hovered in the air, feeling an extraordinary
lightness of heart. Now I could fly anywhere, to New York, etc., visit a
friend, if I liked, and it wouldn't take me a moment. But I feared that something
might happen to sever the link with my sleeping body. But when my body obeyed
and flew back and I felt it hovering over my old body on the bed, drab
disappointment came back to me (cf. Statement No. 8]. "Not
yet," I said. And again I flew off. When I flew thus swiftly, my
consciousness seemed to blot out and only returned when again I walked or moved
at a reasonable speed. [Cf. Turvey's and Muldoon's accounts regarding the
effect on consciousness of speedy travel.] What was I going to do now? Proof, I
said. I wanted irrefutable proof which would convince me and others when I came
back into my body. ... Whom could I visit? And that moment the thought occurred
to me: let me visit my friend Max Fisher at Hastings. ... My conscious-will
flew out through a window. But no sooner than the thought had occurred, doubt
at something too good to be true set in on its heels, and an instant later
back
I came. But it can be done! I reassured myself, I am sure it can!
And again I flew off, this time
again through the front door, so swiftly that my consciousness was blotted out.
'Consciousness returned suddenly. I was stepping
lightly over an open patch of grass. ... The thought occurred to me: how do I
know I am not dreaming this? and the answer: look for the lighted cord behind
you. I looked round. It was there, but it was very thin. [Cf. Muldoon, Bulford, etc.]
That satisfied me that I was not dreaming, but so pale was my consciousness
that it never occurred to me to ask myself where I was or why I had come. And
my consciousness went out again like a lamp. When it returned it was so weak
that I asked myself no questions, no more than you would in a dream. ... I was
apparently hanging on to a thick brown beam on a white ceiling, effortlessly,
like a bat, and in my enfeebled state of consciousness and the balloon-like
lightness of my new body this seemed as unquestionable to the mind as it seemed
natural to the body.
'Then, with a jerk which shook me [the 'repercussion' - cf.
Muldoon, etc.], ... I opened my eyes. I was in my bedroom. ... Not a
detail of my experience had been lost to my mind and there was quite
another quality about it all, that of reality, which removed it from the mere
memory of a dream [cf. Statement No . 26]. ... We had a duplicate body all
there and ready for use, the almost indistinguishable double of our
natural body. ...It seemed that, jor the first stage of survival at any rate,
we already had a body, stored away, it is true, like a diver s suit, but
nevertheless neatly folded in our own every-day bodies, always at hand in case
of death or for special use. ...
'I got up, and went through the rooms, checking the
mental notes I had made about which windows were closed or open, which curtains
drawn; and the evidence in all cases proved correct.'
Gerhardi cogitated as follows. 'I have always
considered that, intellectually, the case for and against survival was pretty
equally balanced. Now, after having surprised myself, with my senses and
consciousness unimpaired, in a duplicate body, the scale went down heavily for
survival. ... For if my body of flesh could project this other more tenuous
and shadowy body, while I could still behold my flesh stretched out as if in
death and of no more account to me than if it were my coat, then this subtler
body, adapted to the subtler uses of another plane, was also but a suit or
vehicle, to be in turn perhaps discarded for another ...
'All experience,' continued Gerhardi, 'goes to prove a
progressive discarding of so-called essentials. The essential to man has many
embodiments; on each plane of life these embodiments are retained as hostages
and slain: but the man behind the scenes does not appear till the end, and we
do not know in what guise' [cf. the conception invari-ably given by supposed
discarnates that death is a progressive un-veiling]. Philosophizing further, he
says, 'Gone, I reflected ... was the notion that death was eternal rest....
Gone was the notion that the soul was hke a little fleecy cloud. That twin body
was real enough [cf. Statement No. 26]. Perhaps it was rash to think that
conditions beyond the grave were entirely different from ours. The surprise
might be that they were the same. ...' [Cf. Statements No. 10, 32, 33.]
On the second occasion that Gerhardi found himself out
of his Physical Body, he was conscious of whirling blindly through his rooms
and he 'felt too dim to realize what was happening'. He continued, 'Only when
my own physical face looked back at me in dull but recog-nizable reflection was
I sufficiently startled to say to myself: "But I am hanging on to the
stained-glass fanlight over my dining-room door." ...
How was it then that I managed to hold on by the
finger-tips? The answer flashed across my mind: it was another astral
projection. And the proof was to see my body in bed [cf.
Statement No. 31]. No sooner thought than complied with. But how queer! I
saw myself in bed. ... And suddenly I awoke. I was standing by the
door in my bedroom facing the large mirror reflecting the bed with my sleeping
body. I turned from the mirror and faced the bed: so it was. ... I walked round
the flat, looked into the dining-room and noted the time. ... I went to my
study, and sat in the chair at my writing-table. Here I sat, my own ghost, who
could touch and feel his writing materials, but could not as much as lift a
pencil. ... I suddenly saw Bonzo enter the room [cf. Statement No. 18].
"But how did you come in?" I exclaimed. "I heard the lift, but
whoever opened the door to you?" "I don't use lifts," he
said.... Bonzo stood there, rather more smiling, more golden than ruddy, his
face more transparent and frail than I had seen him before. "Well?"
he said, "You're at it again, I see." "Yes," I replied.
"Now you believe it, don't you?" "Well, yes, there's something
in it," he smiled....'
Gerhardi next found himself in a field and again met
Bonzo who said, ' "Whither, homing bird?" "Why 'homing
bird'?" "Because," he said, "you are tied [cf.
Statement No. 19] and we are free" [cf. Statement No. 20].
... We had each projected ourselves from our natural bodies. ... Only,
when turning a corner, I noticed the thin ray of light which extended from me,
fading away into bright daylight. I also noticed that Bonzo had no such little
tail of light. ... Thus we came to Bonzo's
house. ... We walked up the steps to Bonzo's bedroom, and there we
stood. There I stood by his side and together we looked down at Bonzo's body on
the bed. The man on the bed was not breathing. ... The Bonzo at my side, who
looked at his double with an air of fastidious, almost quizzical dismay, was
the living Bonzo....'
Gerhardi now had a review of his past earth-life [cf. Statement No. 5]. 'I,'
he said, 'who had left my natural body on the bed, could now over-take the
millions of untenanted bodies once mine, and tune-in with them. ... I took
possession of one or the other of the milliard forms I had been at this or that
instant of my past. I was re-living the authentic moment, not merely recalling
it. ... I get up. I go out. Inconceivable happiness. I notice my extreme
exhilaration and wonder whether I may not have really died unawares. I stopped,
turned round. But the silver cord, faint and thin, was still there.'
Like so many who have had out-of-the-body experiences
(and like those supposed discarnates who were brought back to life by
injections etc.), Gerhardi was reluctant to return to the physical body: he
said, 'My heart quailed [cf. Statement No. 8]. The return was with a
jerk which shook me as if the machinery dropped into my bowels weighed a
ton!
'After breakfast,' he said, 'I rang up Woburn Square.
... It was as I thought. A terrible thing had happened. The butler's voice
broke into a sob. Bonzo had had his wrist smashed to be re-set. But he hadn't
come round from the anaesthetic. ... At the grave everyone cried because they
loved and missed Bonzo. But I did not weep, for I had stood with him and seen
the almost quizzical look with which he beheld the prostrate companion of his
earthly exploits ..."
3.
CASE N O . 33 - Mrs
Eileen J. Garrett's nurse
In her book Telepathy (Creative Age Press,
Inc., N.Y., 1941), Mrs Garrett mentions that astral projection very often
occurs in telepathic experiments. 'This projection,' she continued, 'should be
more fully understood, for I am always coming into contact with people who have
experienced it, and have been afraid to accept its significance.
I believe that projection takes place more often than
any of us realize, and that it happens very easily when we are emotionally
distressed, or when we are ill and the physical hold upon ourselves is less
tenacious.' (Muldoon, Bulford and others make similar statements. The
present writer suggests that exteriorization may occur in illness because,
although the 'double', or Psychical Body, may be 'vibrating' at or near its
normal (relatively high) rate, the Physical Body is unusually sluggish and the
two cannot remain 'in gear'. Exteriorizations that are due to drugs are
similarly explained.)
Mrs Garrett cited the act of dying and extreme
illness, in this con-nexion. She said, 'We have all heard of, and some of us
have experi-enced, the apparition of someone at a time preceding his death,
when the bodily-hold no longer controls the senses. Dancers, especially, are
aware of this control, and I have heard Anna Pavlova say that she achieved her
great spiritual beauty in the dance, and her phenomenal lightness, by the
ability which she herself possessed of getting outside of herself, and
demanding that her body portray perfectly the spiritual significance
of the dance. ... Desire plays an important role in my own projection [cf.
Muldoon, etc.], and I feel that this is true for everyone who is working
creatively, and who wishes to relate an interpretation of a spiritual
understanding to his work. ...'
She gave an example, from her own experience, of a
projection caused by desire (and habit). It is as follows: (italics by present
writer). 'While recuperating from an illness in the South of England, I was
accompanied by a friend who desired to look after me through the nights. One
particular evening she seemed unusually tired, and as soon as dinner was
over and we had reached our room, she expressed a strong desire to go to bed. This
we did, and she quickly fell into what seemed like a very heavy sleep. I
was lying quietly in my own bed in the semi-darkness, when I became aware that
my friend had risen and was moving with extreme care towards the dressing-table
by the window. As she approached the table, she seemed to be bending low,
searching for something.
'I addressed her quietly, telling her that she could
put the light on, as I was still awake; but even as I spoke to her, I heard a
moan coming from the direction of her bed. I sat up quickly, intending to put
all the lights on. As I did so, I saw the figure by the dressing-table slide
quiedy toward the bed, while at the same time, I saw that my friend had not
stirred, but was still sleeping. As the light flooded the room, she sat up very
quickly, and seemed distressed. She looked in my direction, and breathed a sigh
of relief to see me so close to her. Rubbing her eyes, she remarked that she
had been dreaming that in the dream it was necessary for her to reach me, but
something that she could not see [her Physical Body] held her back from being
able to see or touch me. Still talking about her dream, she got out of bed and
approached the dressing-table. She poured out a dose of the cough-mixture
that she had been in the habit of leaving by my bedside before she
slept, and without further word to me, she went back to bed, and quickly fell
asleep ... [cf. the Grenside case].
'Next morning, on awakening, she retained no
recollection of the incident of the night before, and neither could she recall
the dream material that had obviously awakened her in the night.' Mrs Garrett
said that the 'double', as seen in the dim light of the room, was by no means
ethereal but apparently solid and real.
(The explanation of the above is as follows. Using
Muldoon's terminology, the lady had a strong desire to perform that habitual
act: as she was unusually tired, her 'double' was considerably detached from, or
'out of gear' with, its physical counterpart; the physical counterpart being
'incapacitated' so far as the desired movement was concerned, the 'double'
[which was not incapacitated] went through the movements and was observed to do
so by Mrs Garrett.)
4.
CASE N O . 34 - Mr D.
D. Home
D. D. Home (Incidents of my Life, Pitman, 1864)
described the following experience. 'I remember,' he says, 'with vivid
distinctness asking myself whether I was asleep or not, when, to my
amazement, I heard the voice of one who, while on earth, was far too pure for
such a world as ours.' Home was told that he was about to have a foretaste of
death [cf. Statement No. 3 regarding 'deliverers']. He saw 'the
whole of his nervous system, as it were, composed of thousands cf
electrical scintillations'. [cf. the account of G. Costa and note
that A. J. Davis reported a similar clair-voyant vision]. 'Gradually,' Home
continued, 'I saw that the extremities were less luminous [cf.
Bertrand, Miss Yeoman, Miss Blakeley, etc.] and the finer membranes
surrounding the brain became, as it were, glowing, and I felt that they were in
a spirit body in every respect similar to the body which I saw lying motionless
before me on the bed [cf. Statement No. 17]. The only link which held
the two forms together seemed to be a silvery-like light which proceeded from
the brain [= the 'silver cord' - cf. Statement No. 19]. The voice
said, "Death is but a second birth, corresponding in every respect
to the natural birth: should the uniting link be severed, you could never again
enter the body" ' [cf. Statement No. 20]. During this experience,
Home had a review of his past life [cf. Statement No. 5]. Later, he saw
friends who had permanently left their Physical Bodies [cf. Statement No.
18]. He was most reluctant to return to his Physical Body [cf.
Statement No. 8].
5.
CASE No. 35 - Mr Edward
Morrell
A man may leave his Physical Body not only because he
is more or less ill and physically exhausted but also because of either extreme
mental or physical pain (or because of both, since physical pain usually causes
mental pain). Mrs Eileen Garrett's out-of-the-body experiences, which began in
girlhood, resulted from attempts to avoid mental pain caused by an
unsympathetic aunt. The experience of 'Starr Daily' (Release, Arthur
James, 1941), was due to physical, accompanied by mental, pain. It would
appear that when pain gets beyond endurance there is a tendency for the
sufferer to escape it by the simple expedient of quitting his Physical Body.
(This agrees with the statements of supposed discarnates - cf. Statement No. 6
- that about an hour before death a man may have left his Physical Body and
stand, observing, beside it. This statement, in turn, agrees with No. 7 (that
no physical pain is felt in the natural act of dying), No. 17 (that the
Physical Body is often seen, from without, by the dying man, and No. 18 (that
'departed' friends are often seen before death actually takes place). Accounts
of their experiences by men who have nearly been drowned, hanged, suffocated,
electrocuted, etc., and yet recovered, support the above,
since they include the statement that a point was soon reached when all pain
ceased and, indeed, the sufferer became happy and free (cf. the cases of
Georginus, No. 38, and Ellison, No. 36). It is probable that some people
naturally escape from the body more quickly and more readily than others. The
facility would be increased by age, ill-health, sedative drugs, etc.
Morrell's account was published in his book, The
Twenty-Fifth Man. His statements were verified by the Governor of
the State of Arizona. Morrell, in the State prison, was subjected to
excruciating tortures. But as soon as the pain reached a certain intensity he
ceased to feel it. He felt as though his mind left his body in a 'mind-body'
and, before long, was free of the prison. Morrell then saw, and later
described, not only the Physical Body he had left (cf. Statement No. 17)
but many things that he could not possibly have seen physically and that were
actually happening at the time. His Physical Body was in a windowless
underground cell, but
he was able to give accurate descriptions of people
and events outside. He could not, however, leave his Physical Body at will -
only involun-tarily when pain became unbearable. Those statements of Morrell
which were verified by others may be accepted, but other statements made by him
appear to belong to a dream-consciousness.
6.
CASE N O . 36 - Mr N.
F. Ellison
The case of N. F. Ellison is given in fourn.
S.P.R., xxv, p. 126. He said, ' "H" and I were in the worst
trenches we had ever been in. We were exhausted. Several hours of this
misery passed and then an amazing change came over me. I became acutely
conscious that I was outside myself; that the real "me" - the
Ego or Spirit - was entirely separate and outside my fleshly body. I was
looking in a wholly detached and impersonal way, upon the discomforts of a
khaki-clad body [cf. Statement No. 17], which, whilst I realized that it
was my own, might easily have belonged to somebody else, for all the direct
connexion I seemed to have with it (cf. Statement No. 17].
I knew that my body must be feeling acutely cold and
miserable, but I, my spirit part, felt nothing [cf. Statement No. 7].
'At the same time, it seemed a very natural happening
... and it was only afterwards that I realized that I had been through one of
the most wonderful experiences of my life. ... Nothing will shake my inward
belief that my soul and body were entirely separated from each other.'
7.
CASE No. 37 - Anon.
An anonymous contributor to Fate for Feb. 1953
gave the following narrative. ' That particular night I was especially
tired. ... I sat staring blankly ahead, thinking of nothing. Then
something made me look towards the door to the dining-room. As I turned my
head, I felt as if a great weight were leaving me [= shedding the Physical Body: the temporarily exteriorized
Miss Kaeyer as well as several supposed discamates gave this description.
Conversely, Mrs 'X's body was 'heavy' when she re-entered it]. There in the
open doorway stood a perfect double of myself [cf. Statement No. 17]. ... My
image stood smiling at me, and in an instant I was up in a corner of the room and could see both myself
and the image in the doorway. [This
suggests a series of three bodies - see below.] In another instant I was
back in my body and the image was gone. There ensued only a feeling of
lightness: no fear. At that time I knew nothing of spiritual-ism or of
astral theories. But years later I learned that, according to the Yogin
teaching, each person has a corporeal body, an astral body, and a soul. Still I have never heard otherwise of a double
projection.' [A number of others are given in these pages, e.g. Mrs Joy, Mrs
Jeffrey, Miss Stables, Messrs Scunthorp, Turvey, Lind and Yram.]
8.
CASE N O . 38 - Georginus
This early case, one of exteriorization caused by
pain, was given in Dr Kerner's The Seeress of Prevorst (printed in
Germany in 1829, trans-lated into English by Catherine Crowe and published by
J. C. Moore in 1845). Georginus, persecuted for religion, was stretched on the
rack at Prague. He 'became insensible to pain and appeared so lifeless that the
executioners took him down and flung him on the earth for dead. After the lapse
of some hours, however, Georgina returned to con-sciousness'.
Georginus said that, during the torture, he had had a
'dream'. He had been in a 'green and beautiful meadow' [= 'Paradise' conditions
- cf. Statement No. 26] where there was a tree with 'a great deal of fine fruit
and many birds.' Three men kept watch over it. Kerner said, 'He described these
men and it is a remarkable fact that, six years afterwards three men, answering
his description, were appointed to rule over the Church.' [According to the
supposed discarnate Philip, communicating to his mother - Philip in the
Spheres, Aquarian Press, 1952 - the latter, during periods of deep sleep,
used to 'visit' her son, though memories of such visits rarely 'came through'
into 'normal consciousness': how-ever, 'vague memories of green meadows' [=
'Paradise' conditions] were among the 'true ones. 'Philip' said, 'vague as they
are, they are not ordinary dreams ... this is the real beginning of true
sleep-life-memory'].
The Seeress of Prevorst (Frau Hauffe) clearly had a
loose vehicle of vitality or 'body-veil' - she was barely alive over a
considerable period of time. She said 'It often appears to me that I am out
of my body, and then I hover over it. This is not pleasant because I
recognize my body. ... The bonds of my nerve-spirit [= 'body-veil']
are becoming daily weaker.'
9.
CASE N O . 39 - Mr F.
Huntley
This case was given by J. Arthur Hill (Man is a
Spirit, Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1918). Mr Huntley said, 'I had been under
great mental stress. I had not been indulging in psychism, had never
attended a seance, nor had I been reading anything that might act as
suggestion.
'I woke from sleep to find myself out of the body. I
was conscious in two places [= 'dual consciousness'] - in a feeble degree in
the body in bed, and in a great degree away from the body [cf. Statement No.
18]. I was surrounded by a white opaque light [cf. Geddes, Gerhardi, Oxenham,
etc. - and Statement No. 26]. I felt absolutely happy and secure.
'The whole of my personality lay "out
there", even to the replica of the body [cf. Statement No. 17]. I was not
conscious of leaving the body, but woke up out of it. It was not a
dream, for the consciousness was an enhanced one, as superior to the
ordinary waking state as that is to the dream state. Indeed, I thought to
myself, "This cannot be a dream", so I willed "out
there!" As my spirit-self moved, so the body in bed moved. I was too happy
to shorten the experience by moving further. It was very vivid. / am sure
that had a feeble thread [= the 'silver cord' - cf. State-ment No. 19] between
soul and body been severed, I should have remained intact [cf.
Statement No. 20]. The grosser Physical Body is sloughed off for a finer
one. ...'
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