Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily DeathMyers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Religion
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Immortality; Parapsychology; Personality
[The above corresponds with the account of the inquest in the
_Riverine Herald_ for July 22nd. The _Melbourne Argus_ also
describes the accident as having taken place on the night of
Saturday, the 18th.
The following remarks are taken from notes made by Professor
Sidgwick, during an interview with Mrs. Storie, in April 1884, and
by Mrs. Sidgwick after another interview in September 1885:--]
Mrs. Storie cannot regard the experience exactly as a dream, though
she woke up from it. She is sure that it did not grow more definite
in recollection afterwards. She never had a series of scenes in a
dream at any other time; and she has never had anything like a
hallucination. They were introduced by a voice in a whisper, not
recognised as her brother's. He had sat on the bank as he appeared
in the dream. The engine she saw behind him had a chimney of
peculiar shape, such as she had not at that time seen; and she
remembers that Mr. Storie thought her foolish about insisting on
the chimney--unlike (he said) any which existed; but he informed
her when he came back from Victoria, where her brother was, that
engines of this kind had just been introduced there. She had no
reason to think that any conversation between the porter and the
clergyman actually occurred. The persons who seemed to lead her
brother away were not recognised by her, and she only saw the face
of one of them.
Mr. Storie confirms his wife having said to him at the time of the
dream, "What is that light?" Before writing the account first
quoted, she had just mentioned the dream to her husband, but had
not described it. She desired not to think of it, and also was
unwilling to worry him about it because of his Sunday's work. This
last point, it will be observed, is a confirmation of the fact that
the dream took place on the Saturday night; and "it came out
clearly" (Mrs. Sidgwick says) "that her recollection about the
Saturday night was an independent recollection, and not read back
after the accident was known." The strongly nervous state that
preceded the dream was quite unique in Mrs. S.'s experience. But as
it appeared that, according to her recollection, it commenced at
least an hour before the accident took place, it must be regarded
as of no importance evidentially. The feeling of a presence in the
room was also quite unique.
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