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Colonel Morales goes out of body
Identifier
004265
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
As we don't know all the details, the communication could have been with his sister whilst she was dying [bodied soul] or after she had just died [disembodied soul] or both!
A description of the experience
H T Wilkins 1948 'Devil trees and plants Africa, Asia and South America'
in 1932, a Brazilian colonel named Morales experienced for himself the …. properties of yage. Colonel Morales ….
“was on a military mission far up the headwaters territory of the Amazon, toward the borders with eastern Peru, when he heard from an old Indian about this queer plant. Morales, by way of an experiment, drank a concoction of it. It produced on him an amazing hyperaesthetic effect which seemed to dilate the normal consciousness. He asserts that he heard the music of an orchestra playing in what was apparently American surroundings. He says he also became conscious of the death of his sister in a house far away from where he was located. The house was in Rio de Janeiro some 2,900 miles distant, as the crow flies, from the remote village where he then was. A month later, a runner brought him a letter …. telling him that his sister had died about the time Morales had drunk the infusion of the yage plant