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found myself standing in the middle of the room in what seemed a substantial body, while my physical form lay stretched upon the bed. My arms hung by my side and when I lifted and folded them I felt the actual resistance of my body and the pressure of my arms against it, so that I thought—What sort of a self is this? Can it be a spiritual body? It certainly is not like what I have supposed spirit to he.

Just then a three-tongued flame of a deep and beautiful red of peculiar color, such as I had never seen before, appeared close to my left temple. I then heard myself saying, not voluntarily, but as though something spoke through me -- THIS IS THE HEALING POWER. As I uttered these words the flame came nearer and touched me on the temple. Instantly great throbs of something that seemed like electric fire coursed through me from head to foot. It was like a wave of life, of wondrous life such as I had never known, and I thought This is Life itself I have touched Life. I have been dead before and for the first time I know how life feels.

Then suddenly I was back again in my physical body on the bed, but the same wave was passing through me. For hours I lay awake thinking over the strange experience, and during those hours all fear of death left me forever. Indeed, I seemed to have passed through