Raymond; or, Life and Death: With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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Raymond; or, Life and Death: With examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death.
Lodge, Oliver, Sir
Future life; Lodge, Raymond, 1889-1915 (Spirit); Spiritualism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
He says he thinks he was lucky when he passed on,
because he had so many to meet him. That came, he knows
now, through your having been in with this thing for so
long. He wants to impress this on those that you will be
writing for: that it makes it so much easier for them if
they and their friends know about it beforehand. It's
awful when they have passed over and won't believe it
for weeks,--they just think they're dreaming. And they
won't realise things at all sometimes. He doesn't mind
telling you now that, just at first, when he woke up, he
felt a little depression. But it didn't last long. He
cast his eyes round, and soon he didn't mind. But it was
like finding yourself in a strange place, like a strange
city; with people you hadn't seen, or not seen for a long
time, round you. Grandfather was with me straight away;
and presently Robert. I got mixed up between two Roberts.
And there's some one called Jane comes to him, who calls
herself an aunt, he says. Jane. He's uncertain about her.
Jane--Jennie. She calls herself an aunt; he is told to
call her 'Aunt Jennie.' Is she my Aunt Jennie? he says.
O. J. L.--No, but your mother used to call her that.
[And so on, simple talk about family and friends.]
He has brought that doggie again, nice doggie. A doggie
that goes like this, and twists about (Feda indicating
a wriggle). He has got a nice tail, not a little stumpy
tail, nice tail with nice hair on it. He sits up like that
sometimes, and comes down again, and puts his tongue out
of his mouth. He's got a cat too, plenty of animals, he
says. He hasn't seen any lions and tigers, but he sees
horses, cats, dogs, and birds. He says you know this
doggie; he has nice hair, a little wavy, which sticks
up all over him, and has twists at the end. Now he's
jumping round. He hasn't got a very pointed face, but it
isn't like a little pug-dog either; it's rather a long
shape. And he has nice ears what flaps, not standing up;
nice long hairs on them too. A darkish colour he looks,
darkish, as near as Feda can see him. [See photograph, p.
278.]
O. J. L.--Does he call him by any name?
He says, 'Not him.'
(_Sotto voce._--What you mean 'not him'? It is a 'him';
you don't call him 'it.')
No, he won't explain. No, he didn't give it a name. It can
jump.
[All this about a she-dog called Curly, whose death had
been specially mentioned by 'Myers' through another medium
some years ago,--an incident reported privately to the
S.P.R. at the time,--is quite good as far as it goes.]
He has met a spirit here, he says, who knows you--G.
Nothing to do with the other G. Some one that's a very
fine sort indeed. His name begins with G--Gal, Gals, Got,
Got,--he doesn't know him very well, but it sounds like
that. It isn't who you feel, though it might have been,
nothing to do with that at all. Some one called Golt--he
didn't know him, but he is interested in you, and had met
you.
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