Skeptics will tell you that astral travel, the projecting of consciousness beyond the body, is absurd. Others profess to have done it and have compelling evidence to verify their claims. Connected to the body by a psychic umbilical cord or silver thread, the astral traveler is able to collapse time and space. Impossible? Consider the case of Mrs. Wilmot. Bound from Liverpool to New York in 1863, the ship THE CITY OF LIMERICK ran into a fierce North Atlantic storm. When the storm began to abate, Mr. Wilmot, a passenger, was able to enjoy a night's sleep. He awoke in the early morning hours to see his wife, wearing her nightclothes, enter his state-room. She went to his bedside, kissed him tenderly, and vanished. Mr. Wilmot's roommate was shaken -- convinced he'd seen a ghost. When Mr. Wilmot arrived home, his wife surprised him by asking if he'd had a visit from her while at sea. Fearing for his safety, she had decided to find her husband and projected her mind to his stateroom. Explanation: UNKNOWN. When the ocean liner Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage on April 10th of 1912, a novel had foretold her fate with uncanny accuracy. Coincidence or something far more extraordinary? FICTION
BECAME REALITY
A floating palace sailed from Southampton in 1889 on her maiden voyage. She was the largest, grandest liner ever built, and passengers savored her luxury as they journeyed to America. But the ship never reached her destination: her hull was ripped open by an iceberg and she sank with heavy loss of life. That liner existed only on paper, in the imagination of novelist Morgan Robertson. His fictional ship? The Titan. And the novel? Futility. Both the fiction and futility were to become terrifying fact. Fourteen years later a real luxury liner set out on the same maiden voyage with nearly 3000 passengers on board. She, to rammed an iceberg and sank, and, as in Robertson's novel, the loss of life was staggering as there were not enough lifeboats. It was the night of April 10th, 1912. The ship was the RMS Titanic. The fictional Titan is a near match in size, speed, and capacity to the Titanic. Both were considered "unsinkable" and both sank in the same spot in the North Atlantic. Explanation: UNKNOWN. |
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