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Seeing blindfolded
Identifier
001319
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A person who was epileptic, and who when blindfolded could see……………
A description of the experience
Extract from the Religio Philosophical Journal December 20th 1890
[from Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death – F W H Myers]
Mary had had fits frequently from the age of six months, which gradually increased in violence. She also had periods of despondency, in one of which she cut her arm with a knife until she fainted. Five days of raving mania followed, after which she recognised no one and seemed to lose all her natural senses, but when blindfolded could read and do everything as if she saw. After a few days she returned to her normal condition, but the fits became still worse and she died in one of them in July 1865