Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2991

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2991. About separations from societies

When people are being separated from the societies in which they are because they do not harmonize, this is portrayed to the eyes of spirits as if they wholly throw themselves forward and twist themselves out from the society by being propelled around, and thus remove themselves. And this occurs quite visibly. They appear also sometimes as projectiles, but not heading downwards, but toward the peripheries. I was informed that when such a projection appears from right to left, they want to keep, and work together with all their might to hold the person back. When they take place differently, now hither, now thither, by an unbalanced projection that is apparent especially from the [course of the] head, then it is intermediate, neither mostly his [effort] nor mostly theirs. These things were shown to me vividly. 1748, 30 Aug.

2991. About the energy field of little children

I have observed a kind of field of energy pertaining to little children having such a force, and in the energy a concentration so direct, that it could not be resisted, or others could not enter, or surpass them in concentration. This is their energy field. 1748, 30 Aug.


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