THE CONCEPT OF THE AFTERLIFE AS AN IMPERATIVE

Argument for the Life Hereafter ~ 234 ~ making enquiries from them and obtaining their help in carrying out studies in the field. Many other countries followed suit, and by means of various experiments and demonstrations, it was shown that even after bodily death the human personality survives in some mysterious form. In his Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death, F.W.H. Myers recounts how a travelling agent was once noting down his orders, sitting in a hotel room at the Hotel St. Joseph in Missouri (U.S.A.), when he suddenly felt that someone was seated on his right. Turning quickly, he clearly saw that it was his sister, who had died nine years ago. Soon afterwards, his sister’s image disappeared. He was so badly perturbed by this event that instead of continuing on his onward journey, he caught the next train back to his home town, St. Louis, where he narrated the entire episode to his relatives. When he reached the point of saying that he had seen a red-coloured scratch on the right side of his sister’s face, his mother at once got to her feet, trembling. She confessed that after her daughter’s death she had accidentally scratched her face, and had been so greatly pained to see this scar that she rubbed