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(he once lifted a bed with two people in it, though incapable, when in the body, of lifting a small child), he was, of course, drawing on someone else's psychic force, which may also, on occasion, have rendered him visible. Phone-voyance, the technique of which is not quite clear, enables him to see the surroundings of the person to whom he is speaking over the wire, and to describe people and happenings beyond his listener's ken or knowledge; but otherwise, and often, it differs little from Mental-bodytravelling. Mr. Turvey's Double has been seen when he was unconscious of wandering, and when his "Me" was fast asleep. It did not function in any way, and he regarded it as a body altogether inferior to the mental body (which can be seen only by clairvoyants), and as liable to wander off on its own account unknown to the "Me". The genuine "I" has all the physical body's senses, but they are not always able to operate simultaneously. Thus "I" can at times see and smell, but not hear nor touch; at other times "I" can talk and move a table, but not see very clearly. Sometimes its faculties transcend those of "Me", and at other times they are much inferior. On one occasion, though passing through dead matter like a brick wall does not affect either “I” or "Me", when "I" was forced to pass partially through a man, "Me" in bed felt dreadfully sick. With most projectionists there is often a difficulty in obtaining confirmation of the journeys they have taken. With an expositor like Mr. Turvey, the publicity of his work makes confirmation an easy matter, and I have given no examples of it, because such records run to considerable length, and a fully documented recital of them may be found in his The Beginnings of Seership by any who require to study documentary evidence for themselves.