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Alphonse Bue falls from a great height and relives his past life
Identifier
022739
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Flammarion, C., Carroll, L, - Death and its mystery: before death
267 death and its mystery
My friend Alphonse Bue has sent the following observation on the relativity of our impressions of time:
He was on horseback, in Algeria, and following the edge of a very steep ravine. For some reason,-which he was not given the time to find out, his horse made a misstep and fell with him into the ravine, from which he was picked up unconscious. During this fall, which could hardly have lasted two or three seconds, his entire life, from his childhood up to his career in the army, unrolled clearly and slowly in his mind, his games as a boy, his classes, his first communion, his vacations, his different studies, his examinations, his entry at Saint-Cyr in 1848, his life with the dragoons, in the war in Italy, with the lancers of the Imperial Guards, with the spahis, with the riflemen, at the Chateau of Fontainebleau, the balls of the Empress at the Tuileries, etc. All this slow panorama was unrolled before his eyes in less than four seconds, for he recovered consciousness immediately.