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over again, the pathetic injunction not to disclose names, as though there were something shameful in such an adventure. Science, when shown something it does not understand, demands, and demands rightly, "Can you do it again?" Well, the persistent practitioners of etheric travel can do it again, and have, under scientific observation, often done it again; but, save in the case of trained sensitives, cannot always do it exactly to order. That deficiency, however, can be supplied by putting the detachable section of a subject at the command of someone who is capable of controlling it and despatching it on a required mission. In this volume will be found instances of how, under hypnosis, such missions are accomplished. The hypnotist can, when his patient is in deep trance, detach what is assumed to be the subconscious from the entranced personality, and send it, for perhaps hundreds of miles, on a quest, the distance, direction and contingencies of which are alike unknown to himself and to his patient, and indeed, occasionally, to anyone on earth; since the subconscious may be pursuing events which have only matured on its arrival. All the while, the entranced subject in his arm-chair is reporting, moment by moment, the progress of his quest, the people he is meeting, the drift of their conversation, the plots they are hatching, the purpose they have proposed — in fact everything, and more than everything that, could be recorded by an invisible dictaphone. Here, then, are the exact conditions that science demands. A laboratory test, that can be repeated as often as required; and the only mechanism needed a competent hypnotist and a serviceable subject. All the stock explanations are excluded;