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Ludlow, Fitz Hugh - Reliving his life
Identifier
015556
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
The Hasheesh Eater – Fitz Hugh Ludlow
And now, in the midst of the darkness, there suddenly stood a wheel like that of a lottery, surrounded by one luminous spot, which illustrated all its movements. It began slowly to revolve; its rapidity grew frightful, and out of its opening flew symbols which indicated to him, in regular succession, every minutest act of his past life; from his first unfilial disobedience in childhood – the refusal upon a certain day, as far back as infancy, to go to school when it was enjoined upon him, up to the latest deed of impropriety he had committed – all his existence flew before him like lightning in those burning emblems. Things utterly forgotten – things at the time of their first presence considered trivial – acts as small as the cutting of a willow wand, all fled by his sense in arrow flight; yet he remembered them as real incidents and recognised their order in his existence.
The source of the experience
Ludlow, Fitz HughConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Perception recallPerceptions
Perceptions - accessing perceptions
Perceptions - what happens to perceptions
Perceptions - what has perceptions
Perceptions and memory