Death-bed visions / by William Barrett, F.R.S.

  • William F. Barrett
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Death-bed visions / by William Barrett, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • • • directed to those he loved, the appearances might be expected to represent living persons at least as frequently as deceased persons who had long passed from this world, whereas no records had come to hand of dying persons seeing at their bedside visions of friends still living. He would have liked to ask those who believe the visions to be the product of intense desire or thought to collect evidence in support of their theory, showing that desire for living friends may produce visions of them at the bed¬ side seen during moments of full consciousness. There are, no doubt, cases of so-called travelling clairvoyance (see Chapter IV), in which the dying persons, after a period of trance or unconsciousness, said they had seen living relatives at a distance; and there was in some instances reciprocal vision by the distant relative of the figure of the dying person— usually mistaken for a real appearance. This is clearly a very different type of phenomenon. Another point which the author had dis¬ cussed with friends was that in the cases of phantasms of the living collected by the
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