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lightning speed with which the projection takes place; it seems, he says, as if one was being hurled through space. Once, before he had finished concentrating, his astral body was shot out violently like a shell from a gun. "On that day," he tells us, "my astral double was more condensed than usual. In order to change to another dimension I tried to pass through the walls of the room, but found that they resisted my efforts. When I tried harder I only managed to produce a pain in my forehead and had to resort to the astral opening of the window before the first projection could have its way." Once when he was getting ready to shut his eyes and prepare himself by different psychical exercises, he found himself standing beside his body without having had time even to close his eyes "For a moment," he says, "I was startled, looking at my outstretched body with its open and expressionless eyes. During this attempt there was not the slightest alteration in the memory or the conscious faculties. Without any time interval the sensory power of my physical body passed into the Double, and all the faculties followed straightway." In Projection by Whirlwind the sensation is of being sucked up violently by a sort of huge vortex. "This is," says the author, "the most agreeable of all forms of projection." As a rule one is merely transported on a wind of ether, at a variable speed towards some unknown goal, but when carried away by the magnetic current there is a feeling of tremendous speed. A howling tempest deafens one's ears, as if one was travelling over the earth at a rate impossible to gauge, through a cloudy medium with rifts through which various landscapes are seen. These electric currents revitalize the traveller, so that he