A PHANTASM OF THE LIVING.
[To TEE EDITOR or THS " SPICTATOZ:9
din,—I have read with much interest the letter in the Spectator of April 15th with the above title. I can quite believe it. I have had more than one similar experience myself. The following incident happened to me a few years ago. I was resting on my bed about 3 p.m. one afternoon. I might have been in a light sleep, but I was wakened up suddenly and com- pletely by seeing my son, a boy of thirteen, standing just inside my bedroom, by the door, and I exclaimed, " Why, Tom ; why have you come home P " I thought he answered : " I did so want to come home, mother, I feel so ill." His form then gradually became fainter and vanished. He was at a boarding- school some distance away, and I was so impressed with this vision or phantasm, that I wrote to him at once, asking him to write by return of post and tell me if he were quite well, as I had had a vivid dream that be was ill. I had a reply by return of post. He said, " How strange you should have dreamt I was ill, for I felt very bad yesterday, but it was only a sick headache. It began to come on in the morning, but at afternoon school my form master said, You are no good at lessons to-day. You had better go to your dormi- tory and lie down.' As I went upstairs I did so wish I could be with you, mother, I almost thought I saw you. Then I lay down on my bed and went to sleep." The above is difficult to explain, yet, nevertheless, it is a fact, and there are many things even the wisest cannot understand. I suppose wireless telegraphy gives us a hint. There must be a transmitter and a receiver in harmony with each other. It is not incredible, if the spirit be immortal, that the spirit can triumph over matter, and that the spirit can leave the body for a time and again re-enter the earthly tabernacle. I believe it often does so during sleep. There are brain-waves that carry thought, just as ether waves carry light and heat.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A. B.
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