THE SOUL IN UNCONSCIOUSNESS.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2793, 10 June 1916, Page 13

THE SOUL IN UNCONSCIOUSNESS.

• Con aii Doyle iias a. letter 1? the question, ''"Where is the Soul During Unconsciousness?" and relates aji experience vliicli occurred to him recently at the dentist's. He was taken there. inside a cab, his wife imd two little boys being with liim. Whilst no was under gas the cab drove on, and he was intensely conscious that' ho had returned to the moving cab, and that he °t?'i 7t vivicU y see the occupants while they could > not see him. "This might be subjective entirely," he says, 'but the mipression was very clear." A seconu ineident which he relates is that of his son Adrian, aged 5, who, whilst grievously ill of pneumonia, was Iymg_ half comatose, with a temperature of lOodeg. Lady Conan Doyle, who wis nursing him, left him for a moment to go to the nursery two rooms away. In the nursory the elder boy, Denis, was standing on a chair, and on getting down trod upon sorno tin soldiers on the pound. When Lady Conan Doyle returned to the sick room Adrian, who had. never spoken of his soldiers during the five days of .illness, opened his eyes, and said, "Naughty Denis, breaking my soldiers."

"I coji only explain it," Sir Arthur says, "by the supposition, whicli can be supported by a volume of evidence, that the soul can be, and probably is; always, out of the body at such times, and that occasionally under rare conditions, which we nave not yet been able to define, it can convey, to the body the observations which it has mndo during Its independent night!