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the State of New Hampshire, has had many out-of-the-body
experiences, which usually start from a half-awake state in the
early hours of the morning. When about to leave her body she
feels as if being caught up by a powerful current of force, on
which she sails along without conscious direction, with, for a
few seconds, a snapping pain in her head, followed by a painful
tightness of the throat, which sometimes forces her back into
her body.
On one occasion she found herself projected and standing
in the parlour of a strange and palatial house, from which she
soared up a great stairway, and down a hall into a room where
lay an old lady. "I approached her bed with some hesitation,"
she says, "although I felt sure of being invisible. Suddenly she
awakened and acted as if she could see me, for she sat up on
her elbow and looked straight at me."
Mrs. Brewster beat a hasty retreat, and a few minutes
later was sitting up breathless in her own body and in her own
bed.
She had been very much impressed by the elaborate
furnishings of the house, and her recollection of them was still
keen when, two years later, she went to Concord, forty miles
distant from the town in which she lived, to visit her cousin
who had just bought a house, as it stood, from the estate of an
old lady, a Miss M., who had died there some time before.
The moment Mrs. Brewster entered the hall she
recognized the house of her etheric adventure, and was able to
demonstrate her acquaintance with it. She was only puzzled by
finding that the old lady's room was set apparently the wrong
way round.
"It was as if," she says, "I had been looking at it in a
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mirror when in my astral body." The old lady, it appeared, had
died shortly after her visit, but there was a far more interesting
aftermath, though being of too personal a nature it cannot
unfortunately be included.
One reflection on these and similar visits, some
remembered and some, for the moment, forgotten, may occur
to many. One of the arguments in support of reincarnation has
been the sense of "having been there before" when paying a
visit somewhere for the first time. It would seem possible,
seeing what flighty creatures our Doubles are, that preliminary
visits, all unknown to us, have been paid in our etheric
garment, and filed for future reference in that uncertain safe,
the memory.
Mrs. Butler remembered her dream, Mrs. Brewster was
flight-conscious; but more often the dream fades, and the
Double's secrets are not unloaded on its sleeping partner.
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CHAPTER VI
PATHOLOGICAL PROJECTION
THE Etheric Double, even when it has had no experience
of projection, may be hustled out of the body by shock, as well
as by the means an anaesthetic by which shock is
avoided. Men have left their bodies in the trenches, on the
operating table, and in the dentist's chair, and they have been
seen by themselves and by others when set free under the two
latter conditions; and Major Arthur Powell has explained how
the Double may be separated from the dense physical body by
accident, death, anaesthetics, such as ether, gas, or mesmerism,
the connection between the dense physical body and the astral
body being broken when the etheric matter is removed, all
sensation being thus suspended.
Here is a case, furnished by Signor Ernesto Bozzano,
which comes into this section, since the narrator's exit seems to
have been the result of an accident. It is told by Giuseppe
Costa, the distinguished engineer, in his book Di Id, delta Vita.
"It was an airless night of torrid June, when I was very
hard at work on my examinations.... Although I was sustained
by an indomitable determination to resist the overwhelming
fatigue that oppressed me, I had been obliged to yield,
completely exhausted, to an imperative need of repose, and had
thrown myself on the bed, fainting rather than asleep, without
extinguishing the paraffin lamp which continued to burn on the
night table. An unconscious movement of my arm, probably,
overturned the lamp between the table and the bed, and instead
of going out, it gave off a dense smoke which filled the room
with a black cloud of heavy, acrid gas. The atmosphere became
more and more unbreathable, and probably my dead body
would have been found in the morning had not a strange
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phenomenon occurred.
"I had the clear and precise sensation of finding myself,
with only my thinking personality, in the middle of the room,
completely separated from my body, which continued to lie on
the bed. I saw if I may call by that name the sensation I
experienced the objects around me as though a visual
radiation penetrated the molecules of the objects on which my
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