A lady sends the following personal experience: “I had a cousin in the country who was not very strong, and on one occasion she desired me to go to her, and accompany her to K—. I consented to do so, and arranged a day to go and meet her: this was in the month of February. The evening before I was to go, I was sitting by the fire in my small parlour about 5 P.M. There was no light in the room except what proceeded from the fire. Beside the fireplace was an armchair, where my cousin usually sat when she was with me. Suddenly that chair was illuminated by a light so intensely bright that it actually seemed to heave under it, though the remainder of the room remained in semi-darkness. I called out in amazement, ‘What has happened to the chair?’ In a moment the light vanished, and the chair was as before. In the morning I heard that my cousin had died about the same time that I saw the light.”

From the involuntary painting series ‘Apparitions At Or After Death’ after and out of the writings of St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan [1914]

Paul Conneally
September
2022