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The Truth in the Light – Dr Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick

E A Hearn-Cooper is now 89, it was during the ‘flu epidemic of 1918 that this episode occurred

My whole family went down with the ‘flu.  How my mother kept going I do not know, for she too was ill.  We all became so weak, lying in our beds, unable to move, just able to drink a little of the water my mother struggled around to give us.  Within a few days we were like skeletons.

In the boys bedroom there were two beds, a double near the window where my two young brothers slept, and a single bed for me.  We three were lying there, unable to move.  Yet I felt myself rise up, float into the highest part of the room and look down on myself lying there ‘asleep’ on my bed, across to my brothers asleep in theirs.  I felt marvellous, no pain, free from all ills, just floating there.

But I realised that I had a ‘cord’ linking me with my body below me, and whilst I felt very happy floating there I somehow knew that if I moved too violently I would break the cord and I would never be able to return to my body.  I decided to return and did.

…..Last year, at the age of 88, I had a similar experience in hospital, where I had been taken with a severe heart attack; looking down on the nurses and doctor bending over me….