Theosophical astral cosmology
Apparitions at the Time of Death
Reports of a dying person’s presence interpreted as a visit or a thought-form.
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Theosophical astral cosmology
Reports of a dying person’s presence interpreted as a visit or a thought-form.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Chemical response is interpreted as rudimentary feeling and inclination in the supplied Raja Yoga text.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The glowing insects associated with returning Minamoto and Taira warriors.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Perception beyond ordinary sight, classified differently across levels in Theosophy.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A spectral light interpreted in Welsh tradition as a warning of death.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
The twelfth lesson condemns selfish uses of alleged mental force and describes consequences for their practitioner.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
Paired winning and losing responses reportedly observed at Monte Carlo.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A phantom procession whose bier can vanish when a witness joins it.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Places said to retain troubling impressions or attract apparitions.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The musician summoned to perform for the dead in Davis’s Hoichi story.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)
Flowers tended in memory of an exiled lord appear as children to the dying gardener in Davis’s chrysanthemum legend.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Raja Yoga claims that undeveloped higher senses may unfold beyond ordinary perception.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Reported floating bodies explained through spirit support or altered gravity.
Theosophical astral cosmology
The claimed temporary formation of a visible or tangible spirit body.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
An actor’s confidence and anxiety before taking the stage, as interpreted by the authors.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The nightly visits whose lantern leads Shinzaburo toward the visitors’ graves.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Noisy disturbances assigned multiple unseen causes in The Astral Plane.
Theosophical astral cosmology
The Theosophical claim that a mental image can be made into writing or an image.
Theosophical astral cosmology
The claimed perception of future events and its uncertain astral reflections.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
Realisation of the I is said to produce a protective aura against adverse thought influence.
Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga exposition
The handbook uses race-thought for a collective atmosphere of fearful and weakening suggestions.
Theosophical astral cosmology
A claimed transfer of marks or injuries from a manifested form to a physical body.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The proposed channel through which Thought-Forms says selfless devotion brings influence from a higher plane.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The reported group of forms that Thought-Forms associates with differing responses to a shipwreck.