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dream and finding myself exteriorized. But the interesting thing was that the position of the astral body corresponded with the position it held in the dream. I was just half-way through the ceiling of the room when I became conscious." He adds: "When the dream corresponds to the action of the astral body it will always cause that body to exteriorize... the astral body has well been termed the dream body, for it is in that body that we dream." He offers, as the fundamental law of projection: "When the subconscious will becomes possessed of the idea to move the body (coinciding bodies), and the physical body is incapacitated, the astral body will move out of the physical." Lying on the back is, he insists, the best attitude for projection. That, it may be remembered, was the pose adopted by that most notable projector in fiction, Peter Ibbetson, as depicted by George du Maurier, who was, probably, himself a projector. But this attitude is by no means in universal use; by some it is even eschewed: but a determination to do something definite, something which involves upward flight, seems essential, and must be held till the last moment before falling asleep. The next problem is to gain consciousness outside the physical body after the Etheric has been projected. Mr. Muldoon commends properly applied suggestion prior to projection. When a dream has been repeated for the second or third time, one should, when awake, concentrate on a point in the dream, and determine to gain etheric consciousness at that point should the dream recur. Mr. Muldoon describes also how he came to the