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conclusion that desire, and especially suppressed desire, was an activating factor in the exteriorization of the Double. "One warm summer night," he said, "I retired, and as I lay in bed, I noticed that I was becoming thirsty—I desired a drink of water—but instead of getting up and appeasing the desire I did not stir from the bed—to be truthful, merely because I was too lazy, perhaps I should say drowsy; so the desire was suppressed instead of being appeased. Several times I was on the verge of rising and going for a drink, but I did not do so. Eventually I was lost in sleep. When I regained consciousness I was in the projected astral body. It was the result of a dream. I was dreaming that I stood beside the watertap above the sink in the kitchen and that I could not turn it on so that I could get a drink. I became clearly conscious then and my hands were on the tap, but naturally unable to turn it." From that experience, and others with which he experimented, he became impressed by the part played by desire. "A suppressed desire," he observes, "is really an intensified desire in the subconscious mind, and it thus comes to the surface and acts as a suggestion while we sleep." So, if the physical body fails to respond when the subconscious will comes into play, the Etheric counterpart takes on the mandate and so moves out of its physical sheath; that is, of course, provided it can overcome the Double's natural inclination to stay put. As an example of the fashion in which confirmation of what he believes he has done comes to the projector, one would like to describe one of Mr. Muldoon's flights which was very effectively attested. On a moonlight evening in the summer of 1924 he found himself alone and oppressed by an indescribable feeling of