FLIGHT OF A SOUL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 39, 6 July 1914, Page 6

FLIGHT OF A SOUL.

GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE. DEAD WOMAN WHO CAME BACK.

Mrs. Lee, the wife of the Rev. "Baker P. Lee, rector of Christchurch, Los Angelos, who suddenly revived two hours after having been pronounced dead by a doctor, emphatically declares that her spirit, after taking flight, returned to lier body. She thus describes her sensations:—

''They left me alone, and then my dead father stepped into the room, just an he used to he in life. He and f were obums. I said, 'I am not dead.' He replied, 'Xo, not yet, not yet.' Then he, too, went out.

"Suddenly I felt my spirit leave my body. It was done in an instant. It seemed a leaping out, a joyous, light, and exhilarating release of the very essense of life into spaee. "My form remained the same, but its substance had utterly changed. It was now a translucent vapour, capable, at my will, of going immediately to any place.

I HOVERING OVER THE CITY."I retained all my faculties—memory, imagination, and will. I was among the clouds, knowing the joy of llight. Then I came down and moved over the city, saw the people along the. main street, and wished with all my strength to be able to reveal myself to some of them in order to let them know that life after deatii was beautiful. "Hut all the time 1 knew I was not dead, and so at the end of a period of the duration of which 1 cannot form an idea, and after experiencing unimaginable joys, I went back into my body with that instantaneous possession which had characterised my departure. "The entire experience was too real for a dream, and since liaving it I have >. been firmly convinced that I dwelt for I a time upon the edge of eternity, and | knew in part, at least, what the future life it. The knowledge, lias comforted me, because it revealed to ine an existence beyond the grave immeasurably more delightful than I had ever dreamed. If my story has any value at all, I hope it will be in impressing others witli the truth that the release of the spirit from the bodv at the. moment of deatii need have no" terror, but the reverse." A detailed report of Mrs. Lee's experience, which is regarded in scientific circles as a valuable contribution to the. study of eseliatology. is being prepared for presentation to Sir Oliver Lorge.