The Monmouth inquirer., 1894-04-12

come home to little supper Hear
ing nv name mentioned, l discovered
that they were talking of me. They
were not only crftielsing my novels,
but abusing them in the most cruel
manner. That MY friend should do
this-nly bosom friend up to that time.
one in whom l trusted whom l had
loved and even benefited, should do
this-cut me to the soul In great eX
citement l went up to her and con
fronted her vehemently denied her as.
sertions But to my amazement and
infinite distress I found that | coulG
not even make my presence feit py
my Of them. / pressed between Mrs.
3. and Col. g.. with my right hand OF
her shoulder and my left on his. ana
said vehenently: Mrs. B., you know
that This is not true! Col. G., do you
believe this?' But | could not make
the slightest impression upon them
They went on talking calmly.
Suddenly with an excruciating pang
Of horror, anguish and alarm, re-
realized that l could not impress them
without my material body, and that
had left it behind And in an instant
lin the twinkIing of an eye, fiaShed
back into that body. stretched pros
trlte on the bed in my room at home,
where it lay too weak to lift its
hand, and where the reunion took
place as easily as two flames brought
into contact flow into one. My re-
turn Journey had not been the deight-
full. luxurious floating in the upper air
that my outward journey had been. IL
was swift as lightning! The reunion
accomplished. l came to my normal
condition.
Call this a dream if you viii. but
there is no occurrence il my actual
life so little like dream as was this
experience. Afterwards | partly veri-
fled the truth of the scene that had
witnessed and that had distressed me
SO much Without mentioning my
dream or vision or migration. which
ever YOU please to call it, ! questioned
/ mutual friend of Mrs. B., Col. Ga.
and myself. and learned that at about
the same time just such scene had
raken place in Mrs BIS house, and
nv informant added that the gentle
man to whom Mrs. B. had spoken
warmly defended me. If he did so 1t
must have been after | had fed. Per
aaps my vehement denial may in some
line occult manner have reached his
spirit and inspired him. But l could
not identify the night Of the conyer-
sation my friend related. She did not
remember the precise time, and then
was to weak and i'll to have noted the
date Of even so remarkable an expert
ence.
/ do not believe that such experiences
are peculiar to myself or that they are
peculiar to only a few abnormal tenn
peraments / believe almost every
body must have or may have had eA-
periences of what we call the super
natural but have with them the al
most universal reluctance to acknowl-
edge them. For the fear of being
called cranky" or eccentric, or men
dacious. seals their lips. This / am
led to believe from many confidential
conversations with friends whom
have drawn out and who have told mt
strange experiences which they have
declared they would not like to tell
others. This peculiar reticence on one
of the most mysterious and interest
ing subjects that can engage our at
tention certainly renders ''psychical
research the most difficult of all pur-
suits of knowledge.
While neither affirming nor denying
a belief in the existence of the astral
body" l leave this experience to the
judgment of psychologists Chicago
News.