134 THE BEGINNINGS OF SEERSHIP. The evidence is irrefutable. The certificate of death shows cancer to have been the cause of death; the prescriptions, that sciatica was being treated; the consultant was called in after | had spoken to the son. The young man is an honest, truthful, business man, and he writes a plain straightforward letter, because he knows the facts are true, although he cannot explain them any more than I can. The following “ extracts” are the result of a newspaper controversy :— In January, 1903, Zhe Dazly Marl opened its columns to a discussion on “ Pre-cognition,” and | wrote stating that I believed the vecog- nizing of a place which we had never seen before was due to our unconsciously having been there in “spirit-body ” whilst the physical body lay asleep. I added that I had this faculty of travelling in the “spirit-body,” and that not only when asleep. As my name and address appeared I received several requests for demonstrations of the faculty. Being ill at the time I was unable to reply to more than five or six people. The following are the results of the tests. A “Mr. J W ” of Lancashire wrote asking if I could tell him the cause of certain unpleasantness in his family.