The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-07-22
SpOOKS AND SPIRITS.
q WRITER RELATES A STRANGE AND
INTERESTING EXPERIENCE.

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INTERESTING EXPERIENCE.
Living Persons Astral Body Makes n
Journey From New York to Philadelphia
aud Rack Again-was II u Dream. avis
Ton or Really a Nrigration9
So much has been said and written Of
the "astral body that | am led to give
one Of my own strange experiences.
IL happened In the summer of $50.
mild epidemic Of cholera was prevailing
at the time. My cook had died OF 1t, and
member Of my family had recovered
from Il. was next attacked and had re-
covered from II, but was left in SO weak
a condition that was unable to turn in
my bed without help. A young friend,
Miss II. NJ. of Washington, was staying
with me to nurse me.
II was night, and was very weak The
Rev Father A. and other friends had
called to see me, and these visits had so
FRUSTRATED me that could not move with
out help or speak above n whisper. My
friend H. sat beside my bed. 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. II 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
ensily and naturally, and for n few mo-
ments floated above It.
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 IL it had been shadow and my
spirit form n substance Indeed the laws
of nature seemed reversed to my appre-
hension. All substantial things seemed
to be shadows, offering no resistance &c
my passage, and my spirit form seemed
to be substance. Above the roof | threw
myself upon the fresh night air ms II swim
mer does upon the water, only instead o.
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 1T
ease, freedom and rapidity. | rose fa
. above the roofs of the houses, above tn
smoking chimneys, yet in sight of then
and the streets, and floated toward tn
city, then on n line above the avenue, OIL
]
above the line of Che railroad.
took my way back to Philadelphia an,
thence to New York city The sensation
. Of ease. the freedom and delight of thi
, floating far above fields and farms, vii
- lagos and cities, is indescribable.
Ihovered for moment and then dive
down into the pretty sitting room of Mrs
B., where, late as it was, she sat at suppe
y with some people whom l recognized.
saw them distinctly and heard them tall
It seemed from their conversation tha
they were a theater party who had take
t. a box and after the performance had CON
home to "a little supper" Hearing m
name mentioned, discovered that the
were talking of me. They were not onl
IS. critlcising my novels, but abusing thei
= in the most cruel manner. That my frien
should do this-my bosom friend up
that time, one in whom | trusted, whol
had loved and even benefited, should d
~ this-cut me to the soul. In great eXcit
- ment, went up to her and confronted hi
and yehemently denied her assertion
But, to my amaZement and infinite di
tress, found that could not even NAL
90 my presence felt by any of them. press,
between Mrs. b. and Colonel G., with N
right hand on her shoulder and my lie
on his, and said, vehemently: Mrs. i
st. you know this is not truel Colonel G.,
you believe this?" But could not nal
81 the slightest impression upon them. TIT
went on talking calmly.
Suddenly, with an excruciating pang
horror, anguish and alarm, l realized tn
la could not impress them without my m
terial body, and l had left it behind Al
in one instant, ''in the twinklng of 1
eye, ;" flashed back into that body, stretc
G. ed PROSTATE on the bed in my room
. home, where it lay, too weak to lift
hand and where the reunion took place
easily as two streams brought into conta
- flow into one. My return journey had n
vi been the delightful, luxurious floating
the upper air that my outward journ
had been 1t was swift as lightningl Il
reunion accomplished, / came to my nj
At NAL condition.
Call this a dream II you will, but tn,
. is no occurrence in my actual life so lit
like dream as was this experience. A
erward / partly verified the truth of
scene that | had witnessed and that Ii
\ distressed me so much Without mentit
Ju ing my dream or vision or migrate
whichever you please to call it, questiC
ed mutual friend of Mrs. b., Colonel
and myself, and learned that about I
same time just such scene had tax
place in Mrs b. IS house, and my infor
ant added that the gentleman to wh'
Mrs. b. had spoken warmly defended Il
II he did so, it must have been after | h
fed. Perhaps my vehement denial m
in some fine occult manner have reach
his spirit and inspired him. But | col
not identify the night of my strange exI
rience with the night of the conversati
my friend related. She did not rememl
the precise time, and then | was too we
and i'll to have noted the date of even
remarkable an experience.
| do not believe that such experien
are peculiar to myself or that they are
culiar to only few abnormal tempe
ments. l believe every body must have
may have had experiences of what we C
the supernatural, " but have with tn
the almost universal reluctance to
knowledge them, for the fear of bel
called cranky or eccentric or mendaciC
z. seals their lips. This l am led to bell,
from many confidential conversations W
friends whom have drawn out and W
have told me strange experiences VIII
they have declared they would not like
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