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“Having pervaded this universe with a fragment of myself, I remain.” It has been suggested to the writer by advanced students of occult science that in an emergency one may be called upon to give super-physical assistance at a distance, without the necessity for sleep or trance. If this is true, then man, too, may have a fragment of himself which “remains” outside and beyond his physical life and activities, and is capable of sustained action at a distance from the body. Worthy of note in this connection is the fact that a too insistent questioning or an undue physical disturbance will cause the psychometrist to lose the thread of his observations, whereupon his whole awareness becomes centred upon the physical plane and the inner consciousness disappears. It would appear from this that, during psychometry, the consciousness is neither wholly physical nor wholly psychic, but “rests” at a state between and in working contact with both. Any disturbance of this “rest” has the effect of breaking the contact between the psychical and the physical states. (9) To become physically aware of the physical conditions of the scene under observation, and to feel and reproduce in his own person the climatic conditions of a period or place, and the health of an individual. Physical reproduction and consciousness of the conditions observed may be due to the imagination, to a form of repercussion, or to the dose co-ordination, while in me sensitive condition, of the activities of mind and body. To transcend in consciousness the physical limitations of time and space. We may assume that the psychometrist places himself at the centre of the vibrational life of the object, from which position he can read any portion of that life. Contact with the object places him en rapport with its whole history, so that he is able to focus his attention upon any period which he wishes to study. It may well be that, if we can discover in what region or consciousness19 the actual seeing takes place, we shall be sensibly nearer to a solution of the problem.Seers vary in ability; their power to see the past, the future, and the distant, may depend, among other things, upon a special physical constitution, the receptivity of the brain to super-physical vibrations and the condition of one or all of the subtler vehicles of consciousness. We may safely assume, then, that psychometric visions occur either in that plane where past, present and future are blended in an eternal “now”, or upon a