God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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making enquiries from them and obtaining their
help in carrying out studies in the field. Many other
countries followed suit, and by means of various
experiments and demonstrations, it was shown that
even after bodily death the human personality
survives in some mysterious form. In his
Human
Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death
, F.W.H.
Myers recounts how a travelling agent was once
noting down his orders, sitting in a hotel room at
the Hotel St. Joseph in Missouri (U.S.A.), when he
suddenly felt that someone was seated on his right.
Turning quickly, he clearly saw that it was his
sister, who had died nine years ago. Soon
afterwards, his sister’s image disappeared. He was
so badly perturbed by this event that instead of
continuing on his onward journey, he caught the
next train back to his home town, St. Louis, where
he narrated the entire episode to his relatives. When
he reached the point of saying that he had seen a
red-coloured scratch on the right side of his sister’s
face, his mother at once got to her feet, trembling.
She confessed that after her daughter’s death she
had accidentally scratched her face, and had been so
greatly pained to see this scar that she rubbed
