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just after dropping off to sleep, and have attributed its unpleasant jar to a dream or a supper. It is really caused by a too sudden return of the Double. In order to recuperate, the etheric part of us moves in sleep slightly out of its physical envelope, a matter, it may be, of a few inches. Any shock or noise which sends it back too hurriedly will produce that feeling, as if something had been slammed into us, and the discomfort is increased if the Double is on a journey. A cataleptic condition may also be induced on re-entry. This will be studied more fully when dealing with Mr. Fox's narrative; but it seems to be a fairly common experience that if the Double, while cataleptic, re-enters without disturbing the physical body, the whole organism is temporarily paralysed Mr. Muldoon's theory is that catalepsy of all kinds is subconscious control of the astral body, and that when a person is physically cataleptic he is so because he is primarily astrally cataleptic. There is agreement among the pioneers that most projections obtain their impulse from a dream, and that the gate is opened from the dream by a challenge as to its reality. That merely wakes most of us, but helps others to slip into a new dimension. Mr. Muldoon narrates a dream in which, shut into a room with only a small opening in the ceiling, he wondered suddenly if he could fly through it. "I began to rise into the air," he says, "but as I was passing through the hole I became caught fast in it. Half my body remained inside the room, and the upper half was outside. There I was—stuck fast! At this point I began to awaken, and realize what was taking place. I found myself projected! Yes, it was the same old story, awakening from a