The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-02
SOUL LEFT HER BODY
Lores Damon Bosper, Of Chelsea ass lay in Trance for
Three Days. While She Felt That Her Spirit Visited the World
Beyosd-Enct 11omept Of Her Return to Consciousness
Was Foretoh BY strange voics Speaking Through
Her Lips 90 The Second Hight Of Her Trance.

! That afternoon Dr. Hall called again
He then decided that the case was one
OF true trance. There had been no change
since his other visit. but the patient had
been conscious twice during the day, and
had talked with her mother. The first re-
turn OF consciousness had been about SD.
II was very brief. The mother was re-
iIevsd and delighted 10 see her daughter
come out of the almost deathiike trance.
bu, was hardly treasured when the girl
began 10 speak.
learn things 1t Is necessary for me 20
know. Two guardian angels came and
took me-Jacks cher husband's) and mine
and they are waiting for me now
have only a minute to stay, but felt that
must come back and tell you not to be
frightened about me. They are holding
me now, and must return with them"
The mother. thoughtful OF her daugh-
ter's health. asked her II she would not
take drink of something nourishing.
II am afraid there Is not time was
the reply OF the girl.
Some nourishment being hastily brought,
Miss Damon drank little of II and re-
iapsed into the trance state, the interval
of consciousness having been only few
minutes.
The second interval of consciousness
that day was In the afternoon, when she
told her mother of her feelings on being
taken up by the angelic messengers.
They made a litter OF their hands" she
said. land lifted me gently between them.
thought that was death, and wanted
to stay and say goodby. but there was
not time. Presently / looked back into
the room from above, and saw my body
lying In the bed. Then / started through
space and visited many places In this
world that ! wanted to see. Then we
l IT, - >~fA
ered that there were seven circles In IT.
! was In the first circle when I felt you
calling me to come back, and I had TO
come. though under protest from my
guardians
THIS was said slowly, but naturally. The
girl did not seem to be specially exalted.
nor was her manner excited. The recital
made a profound impression on her mo-
Their. however. to whom there was some
thing unreal in her daughters recital
After taking little nourfshment Miss
Damon again reiapsed into unconscious
ness On the second day OF the trance,
Tuesday. June g. she returned to con-
seriousness again and remained conscious
nearly an hour. During that time she
told her mother she had reached the
fourth circle OF the celestial regions, and
would have TO return there to complete
the Journey. She could not tell then
, or not.
/ DR. Hall called during this interval of
! consciousness. and talked with the pa
1 tient- After leaving he made notes of
| the visit as he did on all phases OF the
| case The patient complained to him OF
| slight pain In the head like a head
| ache. The doctor asked her If she did not
I think they all ought TO make a combined
| effort OF the will. with her assistance. to
| keep her from lapsing again into an I'M
conscious state. The girl gave no decisive
| answer to this. but said II all rested with
/ divine influence as TO whether she came
back not. She could not tell until the
| end but what her soul might go else
| where.
| The doctor made an entry in his notes Of
/! this visit that he did not think 1. would
{ have awaited much 10 try 20 keep her from
| again entering the trance state" III. noted
| IL as an instance Of the domination of the
| spiritual over the physical being" and
| wrote that she could ''reunite herself under
protes. from the other influence" She was
seeing. he believed. through spiritual. not
| physical senses
| During her interview with tbs doctor. as
| well ss with her mother. or this occasion
/ Miss Damon said she would tell them all
| about hee Journey when she came back. II
/ she did coma back The doctor suggested
/ that in case OF trance very little remem-
/ brance of whs, passed in the mind was re-
i tanned after coming out of the trance state
Perhaps YOU won't remember when you
/ Come back" said her mother.
/ mo fear o: my forgetting" replied the
| girl. positively. ''fI tell you all when
! l GENE hack"
After this period of consciousness the
| last one in the trance. "A peculiar feature
/ 81 the case became manifest That night
/ the girls husband watched by her alone
ftr. sySfx ,kA-
/ bedroom and heard voice tina, she dii
/ not recognize 1t eame from her daughters
| li~. but Il was not her dsughter's voice
| II was altogether different and yet a pleas
| ing and musical voice As the mother en-
| tered the room the voice stopped eoeaksng
| for second. and then said: 1T does not
matter: she Ia so near"
Puzzled. and still further alarmed over
| the case. the mother learned from the hus~
/ hand that he had received several com
/ nannica;ions such AZ The one she had inter
rapted from one - the spirit guardians with
i his wite. who spoke through her HIPS When
these messages came the HIPS moved but
/ slightly. there Was mo- expression on the
| face and IL evident from the appear
! snee % the sleeper that no change had
| taken place In her mental condition Her
| vocal organs seemed to he rsed without her
| knowledge for the enunctation Of the mes
/ sssFes nh OF which referred to the xlri In
| the third person
/ Among these messages WAS one which
said she would return st midnight We'd
. nes,lsy. the husband told the girls mo-
| Their So impressed Was the young man
] hy the words spoken Ia him through the
! Hrs Of his wife that he firmly believed she
would become unconscious at the time
stated.
| II may he uotes here tha. while Miss
| panscn clearly remembered. after finally
| coming 0Sis 4 she trance. al that happenoa
/ II her hrisf intervals az Consciousness. she
| Aai no remembrance whAtever or the rYes-
sagss gwen ~ heg husband In the strange
| vetee or the one given in tNe presence NJ
/ her doctor sGt others. watch - mentioned
/ later.
TIA; asy lsv. Hall wa@ told ~ TIRE mes
/ ssges Of the Night arsore irt-ufsng thst
sssssss; the srsurn % coasc tnnsness al fgsts-
right He WAS deeply sagersstta anf sa4g
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