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Swann, Ingo - Out of body to Europe
Identifier
003211
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Ingo Swann had a curious writing style in that he referred to himself very often in the third person, as though he was writing about someone else. In this extract he is writing about his experiences as a child. Both Maria and Anna are his grandmothers, both were gifted with ‘psychic abilities’, but only Anna had the courage to admit it to him and help him
A description of the experience
From Ingo Swann – to Kiss the Earth Goodbye
As the first grandchild on either side of the family he was greatly fawned over and eventually spoiled rotten.
What one grandmother would not give him, the other would, since between them there existed an inexplicable competition of some sort. And when they failed, there was a multitude of aunts and uncles.
Maria, when he broached certain strange experiences to her, tightened her lips and lapsed into Swedish, saying things he did not comprehend. He quickly came to understand, however, the look in her eyes. The various aunts and uncles were likely to be quite silent, or perhaps giggle and change the subject very quickly.
And so it was to Anna that he came to talk about such things, since at least she did not turn almost cataleptic when the stories were presented.
In the late summer of 1936 the young boy toddled his way over to Anna. He was extremely perplexed, and he asked her about those people across the ocean who were throwing dynamite at each other.
"Why, honey, what makes you think that?"
"I saw them, flying in big birds, throwing things at the ground where there were great big explosions."
"But how could you know about that?"
"I floated across a big ocean with huge waves. There are towns and villages, and lots of people moving out of them. They have their cars fillled with suitcases, and some have horses and carts. There are screams."
"Don't you think that is just a dream?"
“No, because a dream is when I stay in one place and lots of pictures go on”
“Well you tell me about all these things, but don’t tell anyone else”
“And they speak like the Mexicans speak”
“Yes that must be Spain. There’s a war going on over there”
[The Spanish Civil War]
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