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CHAPTER VI PATHOLOGICAL PROJECTION THE Etheric Double, even when it has had no experience of projection, may be hustled out of the body by shock, as well as by the means — an anaesthetic — by which shock is avoided. Men have left their bodies in the trenches, on the operating table, and in the dentist's chair, and they have been seen by themselves and by others when set free under the two latter conditions; and Major Arthur Powell has explained how the Double may be separated from the dense physical body by accident, death, anaesthetics, such as ether, gas, or mesmerism, the connection between the dense physical body and the astral body being broken when the etheric matter is removed, all sensation being thus suspended.
Here is a case, furnished by Signor Ernesto Bozzano, which comes into this section, since the narrator's exit seems to have been the result of an accident. It is told by Giuseppe Costa, the distinguished engineer, in his book Di Id, delta Vita.
"It was an airless night of torrid June, when I was very hard at work on my examinations.... Although I was sustained by an indomitable determination to resist the overwhelming fatigue that oppressed me, I had been obliged to yield, completely exhausted, to an imperative need of repose, and had thrown myself on the bed, fainting rather than asleep, without extinguishing the paraffin lamp which continued to burn on the night table. An unconscious movement of my arm, probably, overturned the lamp between the table and the bed, and instead of going out, it gave off a dense smoke which filled the room with a black cloud of heavy, acrid gas. The atmosphere became more and more unbreathable, and probably my dead body would have been found in the morning had not a strange
Here is a case, furnished by Signor Ernesto Bozzano, which comes into this section, since the narrator's exit seems to have been the result of an accident. It is told by Giuseppe Costa, the distinguished engineer, in his book Di Id, delta Vita.
"It was an airless night of torrid June, when I was very hard at work on my examinations.... Although I was sustained by an indomitable determination to resist the overwhelming fatigue that oppressed me, I had been obliged to yield, completely exhausted, to an imperative need of repose, and had thrown myself on the bed, fainting rather than asleep, without extinguishing the paraffin lamp which continued to burn on the night table. An unconscious movement of my arm, probably, overturned the lamp between the table and the bed, and instead of going out, it gave off a dense smoke which filled the room with a black cloud of heavy, acrid gas. The atmosphere became more and more unbreathable, and probably my dead body would have been found in the morning had not a strange
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