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It is the same at rare moments of semi-consciousness, when one has actually laid hold of a genuine astral…

Date of account: Published 1919
Source: Ghosts I Have Seen, and Other Psychic Experiences
Reference: Ghosts I Have Seen, and Other Psychic Experiences · selected passage 93
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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It is the same at rare moments of semi-consciousness, when one has actually laid hold of a genuine astral experience--and knows it

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It is the same at rare moments of semi-consciousness, when one has actually laid hold of a genuine astral experience--and knows it. Then comes the frantic endeavor to hold on--to pin the moment fast and tight, till the whole vision is absorbed. The soul seems to hold its breath! How often, with bitter disappointment I have rushed reluctantly into full waking consciousness--and only half the story told. Fragmentary though such moments are their potency is such that they endure through time. Thank God, that whilst the wedlock of body and soul still holds undissolved there is scope for such joys. They are uncommunicable, and may not be shared with others at will, and they tell the soul that she is not of creation and cannot be contained by law. At such hours she learns the truth, that she passes for a brief span into the limited, from out the limitless whence she came.

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