THE SOUL DURING UNCONSCIOUSNESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1558, 1 June 1916, Page 4

THE SOUL DURING UNCONSCIOUSNESS.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has a letter in “Light” on the question, “Where is the Soul During Unconsciousness ?” and relates an experience which occurred to him a fortnight lief or® at the- dentist’s. He was taken there inside a cab, his wile and two little boys being with him. \\ hilst he was under gas the cab drove on, and he Avas intensely conscious that he had returned to the moving cab, and that he could very vividly see the occupants while they could not see him. “This might be subjective entirely,” he says, “but the impression was very clear.” A second incident Avhich he relates is that of his son Adrian, aged pneumonia, was lying half comatose Avith a temperature of 105 deg. Lady Conan Doyle, who was nursing him, left him for a moment to go the nursery, Aavo rooms aAvay. Ifj the nursery the elder boy, Denis, was

standing on a chair, and on getting down trod upon some tin soldiers on the ground. When Lady Conan Doyle returned to the sick room, Adrian, who had never spoken of his soldiers during the live days of illness, opened his eyes and said, “Naughty Denis, breaking my soldiers.” “I can only explain it,” Sir Arthur says, “by the supposition, which can be supported by a volume of evidence, the coul can be, and probably is always, out of the body at such times, and that occasionally under rare conditions, which we have not yet been able to define, it can convey to the body the observations which it has made during its independent flight !”