This references my previous post for addressing the notion of "movement without
motion." See, "Real time experiencing of sequential quakes."

Life and Death Continuum

A psychical experience I had in the late 1970's continues to be the most
baffling ever, when in a brief and sudden encounter I had a glimpse of what may
come after we die, yet differing from what is generally accepted.

It came via something that is best described as an aspect of psychometry. I was
handed a sample of handwriting from a woman for analysis, but before I could
even study it, an image of a young boy appeared over the script and then
vanished. In an instant the vision was there and gone, but the imprint was
vivid and the image is still clear to me more than 20 years later.

I told the woman what I had seen without even thinking about it. "I see a boy,
eight or nine years old, lying face down on the floor. He has blonde or sandy
hair and tan clothing." She responded unemotionally with her tragic story.
Seven years before, she had walked into the living room of her home and found
her 18 month old son dead on the floor. He had died of a brain tumor. She said
his hair was blonde at birth and was turning sandy. Our stories coincided in
every respect except for his age and one perplexing point – concerning the
appearance of his hands and arms -- but first let us consider the difference in
ages.

She had found her dead son seven years earlier, aged 18 months. However, he
appeared to me as 8-9 years old, which is what he would have been if still
alive. I had thus witnessed a remarkable age progression. The next day I asked
her if she was a Catholic who believed in Purgatory, but she had been raised as
a Methodist and now had no religious convictions. She explained that her son's
death had been a traumatic nightmare for her, but after undergoing extensive
therapy she had learned to accept it.

Beyond the matter of age progression, and very puzzling for me, was the unclear
positioning of the boy's hands, despite the rest of his body being clear. What I
saw were his hands in front of him, with arms bent at the elbows, yet in some
inscrutable way his arms were nevertheless outstretched, perpendicular to his
body, as though he were trying to raise himself or prevent his collapse. Many
years later, an unrelated experience gave me the idea of movement without motion
as explaining the enigma, where time goes into a void so that one sees stages of
an event simultaneously.

But this is not the place for extended speculation, except perhaps to note that
if the boy's death was not final, he must be present somewhere, and that if he
is aging elsewhere (but in our standard time) his existence may comprise a
process of `resumption'. It could fit Everett's multiple realities {worlds} as
discussed in John Gribbin's book "In Search of Schrödinger's Cat" (1984, Bantam
Books). On this basis his metamorphic shadow had been left behind, whilst the
original person passed on, possibly held locked in that final struggle. Or was
my vision merely a psychometric glimpse of his mother's memory of her son's dead
body, modified in my perception by her awareness of how old he would be if still
alive?