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The best people to cite as witnesses for this are those who don’t want to know about spiritual investigation in any real sense, for instance the Viennese criminal anthropologist Moriz Benedikt.[^1] He has told in his memoirs how on one occasion he was close to death on a mountaineering trip and how the whole of his life went through his mind at that moment. The phenomenon arises because something happens to the ether body when someone gets a major shock in life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XII. 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Ein solches Erinnerungstableau kann auch sonst im Leben einmal ausnahmsweise auftreten, zum Beispiel bei Leuten, die dem Ertrinken nahe sind oder sich sonst in einer Lebensgefahr befinden. Man führt für solche Dinge am besten solche Zeugen an, die gar nichts wissen wollen von einer eigentlichen geistigen Forschung, zum Beispiel das Zeugnis des Wiener Kriminalanthropologen Benedikt. Der erzählt in seinen Lebenserinnerungen, daß er einmal bei einer Bergpartie dem Tode nahe war und daß in diesem Augenblick sein ganzes Leben durch seine Seele zog. 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