They're Told How It Feels to Die in War

1915

Psychic Student and Noted Clairvoyant Get Messages From Fallen Soldiers, They Claim

NEW YORK, Dec. 18. — How does it feel to be killed in battle? Psychic investigators say the passing on is not usually unpleasant. Two vivid pictures of the soldier's life after death have just been given by Hereward Carrington of the Society for Psychical Research here.

These extraordinary stories, telling exactly what occurs in the spirit world over the battlefields of Europe, were revealed by clairvoyant vision and "higher sense," one in London and the other in New York, according to those who say they received them. The first comes from Robert King, famous English seer. This is King's story:

"I know a boy who was killed at the great battle of Neuve Chapelle. He has since described his experience to me. When he fell he had been filled with a kind of insane fury to get thru the obstacles of battle. Suddenly he felt a sharp twinge, but nothing more, and he continued, as he thought, on his mad rush, still bayoneting the enemy, when, suddenly he heard someone say, 'Stop, it is finished.'

"Then everything seemed to fall away, and he found standing before him a relative who had passed on some years before. He looked at this relative in astonishment and said, 'Why, I thought you were dead.'

"His relative smiled and said:

"'Yes, it is quite true, and so are you.'"

A celebrated New York clairvoyant told Carrington:

"Several soldiers who have returned to me from the spirit world have related that they did not feel anything like pain — being only disposed to sleep profoundly.

"The soul becomes the vehicle or body of the spirit after death. Sometimes it takes days to complete the process. This is particularly true of those whose bodies have been badly shattered before death."

—Saturday Blade, Chicago, Dec. 18, 1915, p. 2.