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Describing certain projections, he says: "The final sensation, in which all others culminate, is that of 'coming out' of something, of leaving a narrow tight place." Once he saw himself stretched out face down on a table, gripping and pulling at the edge, in order to leave his body. I had the impression of being in a sack whose narrow opening was no more than a crack." That one's etheric arms can be so used comes as a surprise. Another time he had to "pull" at that part of his Double still fixed in its envelope, just as if he were sliding out of a coat that was too tight. But if Yram tells us little about getting out of our bodies, he tells us a lot of what may happen when we are out of them. When, he says, we are tempted to leave our room, "the substance which we are using to give form to our double returns to the physical body, and it is with a far more ethereal body that we soar into space.... Everything happens as if we had a series of different bodies boxed one in the other by means of a more reduced dimension. As the conscious will penetrates into new dimensions it uses a corresponding body." That sense of discarding an outer layer, like the skins of an onion, has been noted by other projectionists, and may account for the varying degrees of density in the Etheric Double. "Ever since I began these experiments," writes Yram, "I have noted the possibility of projecting a double whose density would vary considerably, bringing in its wake all sorts of experimental powers and possibilities." In addition to projection by means of sensory faculties, Yram enumerates Instantaneous Projection and Projection by Whirlwind. The main characteristic of the former is the