FLIGHT OF A SOUL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 115, 20 June 1914, Page 3

FLIGHT OF A SOUL.

GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE.

DEAD WOMAN WHO CAME BACK. Mrs Lee, the wife of the Kev. Baker P. Lee, rector of Christchurch, Los Angeles, who suddenly revived two hours after having been pronounced dead by a doctor, emphatically declares that her spirit, after taking flight, returned to her body. She thus describes her sensations: — t

"They left me alone, and then my dead father stepped into the room, just as he used to be in life. He and I were chums. I said, 'I am not dead.' He replied, 'Not yet, not yet.' Then he, too, went out.

"Suddenly I felt my spirit leave my body. It was done in an instant. It seemed a leaping out, a joyous, light, and exhilarating release of the very essence of life into space. "My form remained tile same, but its substance had utterly changed. It was now a translucent, vapour, capable, at my will, of going immediately to any place. Hovering Over the City. "I retained all my faculties — memory, imagination, and will. I was among the clouds, knowing the joy of flight. Then I came down and hovered over the city, saw the people along the main street, and wished with all my strength to be able to reveal myself to some of them .in order to let them know that life after death was beautiful. "But all this time I knew I was not dead, and so at the end of a period of the duration of which I cannot form an idea, and after experiencing unimaginable joys, I went back into my body with that instantaneous possession which had characterised my departure. '' The entire experience was too real for a dream, and since having it I have been firmly convinced that I dwelt for a time upon the edge of eternity, and knew in part, at least, what the future life is. The knowledge has comforted me, because it revealed to me an exist-

eiice beyond the grave immeasurably more delightful than I had ever dreamed. If .my story has any'valuo at all, I hope it will be in impressing others with the truth that the release of the spirit from the body at the moment of death need-have no terror, but the reverse." A.detailed report of Mrs Lee's ex-' perlence, which is regarded in scientific circles as a valuable contribution to the study of esehatology, is being .prepared for presentation: to Sir Oliver Lodge.