The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-07

ued for two years. and at the
end of that time the mental faculties
had frightened so rapidly that the
young man passed all competitors in
the public school in which he was a
pupil. He had not the faintest remem-
brance of his other or previous life. Al
the age of nine teen. in his second life,
Dr. thirty-six in actual years of living,
his father obtained place for him in a
telegraph office to learn the business of
an operator He sat down in front of
the instrument and his fingers were on
the key when metamorphosis took
place, which Jameson describes so
graphically that / reproduce his exact
language. 1t is as follows:
Instantly. / was seized with
an irresistible impulse TO bound up
ward, and in another moment l felt as
# relieved of all physical membranes.
and like an eagle escaping from impris-
pnment, WIS darling upward and out
ward into immensely. The fact was
| that l had, though unconsciouslv.
passed into another mental condition
. akin to that occurring eighteen years
previously, though accompanied by
gerry different sensations and phenom-
ena.
I My father, who was present, stated
that the moment my fingers touched
the instrument + uttered sharp excla-
I nation as if from an attack of sudden
: pain, and then springing upward. 1 fell
backward insensible. ] was at once
removed to private residence, but, as
on the former similar occasion, l could
not be aroused by any of the means en-
oloyed in the hands of physicians or
others, until the afternoon of the third
day.
Nv mother. who had been summoned,
arrived just in time TO witness my re-
turn to consciousness; and to her sur
prise and great JOY, | awoke in posses
sion Of my first mental endowments,
which, apparently, had been dormant
for eighteen years.
Ny first expression astonished my
mother, it being a repetition of the
same question asked on the evening of
my first transition, eighteen years be-
fore, viz: docs my father know thai
[ have come home?" She replied, point
ing to my bewildered parent standing
near. Your father is here-Iny dear
child, what has come over you?"
could not explain-I was confused, but
soon ventured TO ask where we were,
how we came there and If anything
special had occurred in our family. |
could not realize that l was far from
home, or even out of my native town
ship. We Immediately returned to our
western home, and my whole CONVEX
sation, by the way, was upon matters
pertaining to my studies in chemistry,
and the kind Of treatment received
from my employer! My parents were
silent as to what had transpired during
the long interval since 1 had aban-
doned the study OF chemistry; but oc-
casionally l would inquire, where
have you been?" and, Mother, have
you and father been sick? You both
look as If you had been long ill-or are
you getting prematurely old?"
When safely at home 1 was much
surprised at the changed appearance
of everything. My only sister, whom
| had known as a child of seven years,
eow appeared SO very much changed
that no amount of argument could
convince me of her identity. In con-
sequence of this 1 became quite mel
ancholy, imagining that she must have
died suddenly, and that this fact my
parents considered prudent to conceal !
from me.
That is merely one onehundredth |
part of the experience of this strangely |
man. At the time of his
death-he was fifty Or therea bouts-he
was as he had been from ba byh hood to !
the time when his mentality changed
so suddenly. The long period follow
ing this change was a complete blank. |
Jamieson's case is one of the most in /
teresting cases of double conscious !
ness" on record and it is not gen orally /
known.