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over his whole body, and deepens into a sensation of muscular rigidity which may become painful. He will now be able to see through his closed eyelids, and the room will appear to be illuminated by a pale golden radiance, with, possibly, flashes of light, apparitions and terrifying noises. He will now feel that he has two bodies, the painful physical one, and, imprisoned within it, a fluidic body. He must now, by a supreme effort of will, try to force this subtle vehicle through the imaginary trapdoor in his brain. An account of this author's own experience will best explain what follows: "I had," he writes, "to force my incorporeal self through the doorway of the pineal gland, so that it clicked behind me.” It was done, when in the trance condition, simply by concentrating on the pineal gland and willing to ascend through it. "The sensation was as follows: My incorporeal self rushed to a point in the pineal gland and hurled itself against an imaginary trap-door, while the golden light increased in brilliance, so that it seemed the whole room burst into flame. If the impetus was insufficient to take me through, then the sensation became reversed; my incorporeal self subsided and became again coincident with my body, while the astral light died down to normal. "Often two or three attempts were required before I could generate sufficient will-power to carry me through. It felt as though I were rushing to insanity and death—but once the little door had clicked behind me, I enjoyed a mental clarity far surpassing that of earth life. And fear was gone.... Leaving the body was then as easy as getting out of bed. "This then was the climax of my research. I could now pass from ordinary waking life into this new state of