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It is possible, of course, that what he saw was her Etheric Double, but that, from lack of the right technique, she was unable to remember her wanderings. He had once an illuminating experience, when he failed to heed her apparent warning. He had left his body, and, walking across the room, was surprised to find himself stopped by the wall, which seemed to have all its terrestrial solidity. That was a shock, since he had always passed through walls, and even through rows of houses, without hindrance. "I stood facing the wall," he says, "gently pressing against it, and steadily willed to pass through it. I succeeded, and the sensation was most curious. Preserving full consciousness, I seemed to pass like a gas—in a spread-out condition—through the interstices between the molecules of the wall, regaining my normal proportions on the other side." The thing of real value which Mr. Fox has achieved for us is his analysis of projective methods. The examples in this volume of projectors who slipped as easily and joyously out of their bodies as out of a suit of clothes may make a study of Mr. Fox's struggles seem superfluous. But, because they were struggles, they probably represent, or at least indicate, the machinery of exit, which, with certain aviators, runs too smoothly to be observed. Mr. Fox finally achieved projection by three approaches, the Dream of Knowledge, the Pineal Door, and Instantaneous Projection; but, curiously enough, he experienced different etheric conditions according to the method he selected. When passing over by the Dream of Knowledge he found the scenery more varied; he was visible to the people he met and could talk and eat with them; was at all times liable to be swept away by a current: ("I was like a piece of paper blown by a gale hither and thither," is how he once describes it); could