Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-06
SEES DEATH, YETLIvEs
Woman Revived by Hypnotic Power
Tells of Weird Experience In the
Spirit Land - Journeys In Another
World = Her Strange Summons.


World - Her Strange Summons.
New York, Feb. 3.-Pronounced dead
by five eminent physicians and then
brought back to life through hypnotic
power exerted by Dr. John ID. Quack-
enbos, a specialist in therapeutic sug-
gestion-this is the curious and unri-
vailed experience related by young
choir singer of this city.
AT recent meeting of the Enter
tainment Club at the Waldorf, DR..
Quackenbos told of the startling out
come of his experiments, but his nara :
tive, as astounding as it is, fades to
ans graphic description Of her own
translation to another world and this
feelings Of which she was conscious
while her soul traversed regions en-
tirely foreign to any known on earth.
The young woman is known only as
Adele. After speaking of her illness
of pneumonia, she said:
Il was given up for dead, my jaws
had fallen, my eyes became set and
and about the bed sat the family
weeping, expecting every moment to
be my last l had repeatedly called for
DR.. Quackenbos, but, thinking it only
trick of delirium, no attention was
paid to it. My temperature was then
lot, pulse $50, respiration 60.
Performs Miracle.
But when the attending physician
had withdrawn from the case us hope
less DR.. Quackenbos was sent Cor. The
case was explained to him. He stood
aghast. He was wanted to perform L
miracle. Personally l had lost all de-
sire to live. 1t seemed to me that no
one cared for me and that there was
no place in the world for me.
DIR. Quackenbos came to me, took
my hand and in a firm, decisive voice
called OUT: Adele, where are you go
ing? Come back; you cannot die
You have work to do on earth. 1t is
not finished yet Come back at once
Il remember distinctly murmuring:
Too late
LIT is not too late,' he said. Come
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head to see who spoke to me and
said: That is fact Then, closing
my eyes, fell asleep to wake with the
crisis past.
In those crucial moments when my
spirit lowered on the borderland the
path l trod was weird and wonderful.
seemed to be in the midst of utter
desolation. There We're Unreasonable
tracts of land spread out before me.
more utterly desolate and barren than
one could possibly imagine. There
were trees, but brown and withered
and with no leaves. The air was filled
with phantom spirits, clothed appar-
emily, but indistinct and ethereal. One
felt rather than saw them.
Search Among Spirits.
country filled with the spirits of the
departed, and always seemed to be
searching for one face-that of DR..
Quackenbos. l didn't know it was his
until l woke to consciousness when he
called me back to life.
But suppose the picture was i'm.
pressed upon my subliminal conscious
ness, and all the time l looked for it,
but it was never out of my reach. 1t
just evaded me. Someone ever stepped
out of the blackness to prevent my
reaching it.
"Then seemed to reach a vast
building, with long, winding corridors
and spacious rooms, in one of which
sat an august court of six judges on
bench, presided over by one super
ior to all present. who looked upon me
in compassion. l seemed to be on trial
for all my misdeeds, and every act Of
my life was imprinted on a massive
scroll that was unrolled before my
eyes. Every unkind word had ever
said, all the sins of omission as we'll
as those of commission stood out be-
fore me and it seemed to me 1 never
could forget. In fact, that seemed to
be part Of the punishment, that you
never were to forget.
'Twixt Earth and Heaven.
zone of the strangest feelings that
1 experienced was the sensation Of
being close, as it We're, 'twixt heaven
and earth. The earth was far bellows
as 1 could see quite plainly, and there
was that tremendous Keeling of dis
lance which was quite overpowering
in it's effect.
SEAS / looked into the heavens I
seemed to be among the stars. Each
one looked like huge ball of fire, but
there was one directly overhead that
seemed bigger and brighter than all
the rest. AS looked it came to me
that this particular star in some way
governed my destiny, and, as watch
ed it, it shot from the heavens as a
falling star, and struck me directly on
the forehead.
81 can feel now the shock I had
when the contact came. 1t was
sensation such as I never experienced
before and hope never to again.
have never been able to state whether
that was the exact psychological mo-
ment when DR.. Quackenbos called to
me or not, but believe it was"
Luckiest Man in Arkansas.
''Im the luckiest man in Arkansas"
writes H. L. Stanley, of Bruno, "since
the restoration of my wife's health af-
ter five years Of continuous coughing
and bleeding from the lungs; and I
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