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noticed, after about fifteen minutes, a pronounced increase in the resistance of the cord... . I began to zig-zag again under its force, and found, presently, that I was being pulled backward towards my physical body. "Again I found myself powerless to move. Again I was in the grip of the powerful unseen directing power... and was resuming the horizontal position, directly over the bed. It was the reverse procedure of that which I had experienced when rising from the bed. Slowly the phantom lowered, vibrating again as it did so. Then it dropped suddenly, coinciding with the physical counterpart once more. "At this moment of coincidence every muscle in the physical organism jerked, and a penetrating pain—as if I had been split open from head to foot—shot through me *... I was physically alive again, filled with awe, as amazed as fearful, and I had been conscious throughout the entire occurrence." Here again Muldoon's pains on re-entry to his body somewhat resembled those which Gerhardi suffered; but such pangs are by no means always endured, even after a virgin flight; and when they are, vary greatly in character. The Double often finds itself adrift, and re-delivered to its body, without being aware of either process. Many projectors, the two we have been considering among them, are conscious of some power outside themselves which occasionally constrains them, and which they may be inclined to refer to a spiritual entity. In a sense that may be true; but such potency is, I am persuaded, merely the spiritual component which is, in life, never a completely incorporated, though integral, part of ourselves, known to Kahuna wisdom as the aumakua, a superconscious entity, which has only a psychic attachment to our terrestrial consciousness, and is probably the source of