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adventures, or he can break the trance by willing to awake. Once the Pineal Door has been passed it is not necessary, it may indeed be impossible, to pass through it again as long as the trance remains unbroken. Yram, whose work we have next to consider, confirms Mr. Fox's experience. "After having roamed about in space," he writes, "I came back close to my physical body, and, without completely reincorporating myself I found myself at the exact point of balance where the anatomical sensitivity passes into the next body or plane. By a mere act of will I found myself able to incline the alance towards one point or the other. As soon as I favoured the idea of projection into a fourth dimension I began to feel lighter, without any physical movement at all. As soon as I brought my mind back to my physical body the intensity of the projection diminished. My body was as heavy as lead and my breathing slowed down. I could feel... the freshness of the outside air, and the daylight which was filtering through my eyelids. I could hear noises from the street. "Taking my mind back towards the idea of projection, the equilibrium immediately went the other way. All these physical sensations disappeared with lightning-like speed. I once more found myself in the state which I had just left, and began to enjoy the peace, the cool sweetness, and the inexpressible sense of well-being of this state. The phenomenon of projection is not, therefore, a state of sleep, natural or induced. It has a clarity far superior to that of terrestrial life." That is a point on which all accomplished projectors are agreed; that nothing in one's physical existence can be compared with that "inexpressible sense of well-being", joyous competence and mental clarity which makes the Etheric Double seem such a spiritual certainty.