The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-06

but if you liketI will tell you Of an
other man who had a similar expert
ence, which is more satisfactory be-
cause he was intelligent enough to
watch the changes and report them
when he returned to consciousness.
This incident happened to one DR.. War
rem, a physician of Columbus, Ohio,
about 20 years ago. I will give you
the facts as they were related to me
by one of the members of the Society
for Psychical Research. DR.. Warren
when in full possession of his faculties
appeared to come to the moment of
death in the last stage of typhus fever
Before the final lapse into unconscious
ness he discussed with his friends the
question of immortality. His voice
failed and his strength weakened, and,
as last effort, he stiffened his legs.
He lay for hours as dead, the church
bell being rung for his death. A needle
was thrust into various parts of his
body from the feet to the hips without
having any effect. He was pulseless
for long time, and for nearly half an
hour he appeared absolutely dead.
While his body was lying in this death
like trance his soul was disengaging it.
self from its earthly tabernacle, This
is the account he gave of his sensa-
tons:
I woke up out of Inconsistencies
discovered that the soul was in the
body, but not of it. With all the inter-
est of a physician, I beheld the Won
ders of my bodily anatomy, intimately
interviewer with which, even tissue for
tissue, was I, the living soul of that
dead body. I learned that the epider-
mis- was the outside boundary of the
ultimate tissues, so to speak, of the
soul. l realized my condition, and rea-
soned calmly thus: I have died. as
men term death, and yet I am as much
man as ever. I am about to get out
of the body. I watched the interest
ing process of the separation of soul
and body
BY some power, apparently not my
own, the ego was rocked to and fro,
laterally as a cradle is rocked, by which
process its connection with the tissues
of the body was broken up. After a
little time the lateral motion ceased
and along the soles of the feet, begin
ming at the toes, passing rapidly to the
heels, I felt and heard, as it seemed
the swapping of innumerable small
cords. When this was accomplished
began slowly to retreat from the feet
toward the head, as rubber cord
shortens. I remember reaching the
hips and saying to myself, Now there
is no life below the hips I can recall
no memory of passing through the alb.
d0men or chest, but recollect distinctly
when my whole self was collected If
the head when I reflected thus: l an
ali in the head now, and l shall soor
be free, 1 passed around the brain a:
if ! We're hollow. comprising it ant
its membranes slightly on all sides to
ward the center, and peeped out be
tween the sutures of the skull, emery
ing like the hattened edges of bag o
membranes. I recollect distinctly how
I appeared to myself something like {
| iellyfish as regards color and form. A
I emerged from the head | floated III
and down, and latterly like soal
bubble attached to the bowl of pipe
until l at last broke loose from tn
body and fell lightly to the floor, wher
I slowly rose and expanded into tn
full stature of a man. | seemed to b
| translucent, of a blush cast.
I fled toward the partially opene
door, but upon reaching the door
turned and faced the company. AS
did so my left elbow came in contac
with the arm of one of two gentleme'
standing in the door. To my surprise
his arm passed through mine Withou
apparent resistance. the severed part
closing again without pain, as air re
unites. l looked quickly up at his fac
to see if he had noticed the contac