The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-20

4 Living Persons Astral Body Makes n
Journey From New York TO Philadelphia
and Back Again-was It Dream, u Wis
ion or Really Migration?
So much has been said and written OF
the "astral body" that / am led to give
one of my own strange experiences.
it happened in the summer of ls5--. A
mild epidemic of cholera was prevailing
at the time. My cook had died Of it, and
a member Of my family had recovered
from 1t. | was next attacked and had re
covered from it, but was left in so weak
a condition that / was unable to turn in
my bed without help. A young friend,
Miss H. NJ. of Washington, was staying
with me to nurse me.
1t was night, and was very weak The
Rev. Father A. and other friends had
called to see me, and these visits had so
| prostrated me that could not move with
| out help or speak above a whisper. My
| friend II. sat beside my bed l knew she
| was there, for | could hear her breathing
but the room was dark as pitch and silent
as death. 1t might have been about 10
O'Clock. 1t was at this hour and under
these circumstances that the strangest,
the most ineXplicable Of my experience oc-
CURED. do not know for what reason
or with what object In view left my body.
| The movement seemed involuntary, al
most automatic. / slipped out of my body
easily and naturally, and for few mo-
ments l floated above 1t.
The air did not seem to bear me up; but,
| impelled by some strange force, | rose to-
ward the ceiling and passed through the
roof as II it had been shadow and my
spirit form a substance. Indeed the laws
| of nature seemed reversed to my appre-
hension. All substantial things seemed
to be shadows, Offering no resistance to
my passage, and my spirit form seemed
| to be substance. Above the roof threw
myself upon the fresh night air as swim
mer does upon the water, only instead Of
throwing my arms out upon the air fold
| ed them upon my bosom, while move
ment within my chest carried me forward
| without any conscious effort OF my own.
The motion was perfectly delightful in its
ease, freedom and rapidity. / rose far
| above the roofs Of the houses, above the
smoking chimneys, yet In sight of them
and the streets, and fioated toward the
| city, then on line above the avenue, on
to the railroad depot, thence along and
above the line Of the railroad
took my way back to Philadelphia and
thence to New York city. The sensation
eootino for ahoyo saida .,a -, o -,
Iaooe and citios = ;ndasnr,haI1,, va
bo,,arod J't, Co. ~ ,,. 'paa'e, ,,,
do,,r 49,, ~ - pi,.i,, ",'u NJ.
49, ~ ,at 80 aa a. ,,,a sss ah ,o.n s.
n,itb so,,,a ,,ao,,Ia ,,,o,,' @s
saw them distinctly and heard them talk.
1t seemed from their conversation that
they We're theater party who had taken
q box and after the performance had come
@ .,s pppt., ny
were tailina of mo Tbov ,ror. not onIy
crit;cis;na nv royo,s hn; oh,,s,ns. ,a,:, Ia,s
In the most cruel manner That ,,,S tr;snd
shonId 40 ,h;s ,a,, hoso, SN,a5 n,5 @ =.
that time ono IN rrhon, t,,,stad -,
had loved aud even haneetsd should a,
tbis-cut me tn the soni In ereat exc,te
ment. 7 went nm IN her and confronted he,
and yeb.m.ntIy dor;ad hor .s.artion.
ant tn INV amazement md ;nanite dis'
tress 7 fonnd that I couId not a,an ,,aLs
INV nresence felt bv anv Of them nressed
between Nrs. "a and Colonel n uith n, y
right hand on her sbonlder and NV leit
on his. and said yebementIv, uMrs "a
Won know this Ia not tne, ColoneI "a do
Won believe tbis,I Rut 7 conld not make
the slightest impression upon them They
went on talking calmly.
Suddenly. with nm excrnciat,ng nsno NJ
horror. anguish and alarm realized n At
could not impress them witbont INV ma.
terial body, and had left II behind And
In one instant. .'in the twinkIino OF an
eve. - flashed back into that body stretch.
ed PROSTATE on the bed in INV room M
home. where II Law. too weak 70 ift its
hand, and where the reunion took nlace as
easily as two streams brougbt into oontact
| a., ,,,.o -. NJ.