I have never, in my thirty years of
experience, known one single scientific man who went thoroughly
into this matter and did not end by accepting the Spiritual
solution. Such may exist, but I repeat that I have never heard
of him. Let us, then, with confidence examine this matter of the
"spiritual body," to use the term made classical by Saint Paul.
There are many signs in his writings that Paul was deeply versed
in psychic matters, and one of these is his exact definition of
the natural and spiritual bodies in the service which is the
final farewell to life of every Christian. Paul picked his
words, and if he had meant that man consisted of a natural body
and a spirit he would have said so. When he said "a spiritual
body" he meant a body which contained the spirit and yet was
distinct from the ordinary natural body. That is exactly
what psychic science has now shown to be true.
When a man has taken hashish or certain other drugs, he not
infrequently has the experience that he is standing or floating
beside his own body, which he can see stretched senseless upon
the couch. So also under anaesthetics, particularly under
laughing gas, many people are conscious of a detachment from
their bodies, and of experiences at a distance. I have myself
seen very clearly my wife and children inside a cab while I was
senseless in the dentist's chair. Again, when a man is fainting
or dying, and his system in an unstable condition, it is asserted
in very many definite instances that he can, and does, manifest
himself to others at a distance.
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