I’ve read many tales of the dying experience, but this luminous account is one of the most beautifully eloquent. These excerpts are from a talk given via the mediumship of Cora L. V. Richmond in Chicago on January 17, 1881. Below are quotations from the death experience of the writer and poet Epes Sargent, with a link to the full text.
To find oneself floating out from the fastnesses of time into the immeasurable space of eternity is such a matchless experience that only those who pass through the portal of death can understand.
One can not understand, unless one has passed to mountain heights and seen the glory of the sun rise far out upon the sea as the sun suddenly comes up, tipping for the moment, the waves with crimson and gold, and then rise in full glory, as though night had never been there.
The greatest wonder of all is that everything in material life remains the same, but transfigured; that all sensation and consciousness grows more and more palpable, until the very heartbeats of one’s friends are audible as the spirit is passing away.
Upon a thin and slender foundation of goodness we rear the matchless fabric of immortality, and eliminate all faults, of which we instantly become more aware than in material life.
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