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Man Outside Himself

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scientific training made him a good observer. Without it, probably, he would not have noticed that his spiritual vision "penetrated the molecules of objects as though matter dissolved at the contact of thought", although that may not prove to be a correct deduction.
The penetration of that vision into the interior of his body, "with the clusters of veins and nerves vibrating like a swarm of luminous atoms", has been noted by other exteriorized observers, and even by some gifted Sensitives under normal conditions.
That he should have seen his mother's body "irradiating phosphorescence", in contrast to his own unlit "corpse", is what might be expected, since his own etheric luminosity had been withdrawn; and he did but register the experience of all projectionists when feeling "free, fight, ethereal, like the tangible expression of a thought".
Indeed this extraordinary sensation of spiritual liberty, when the flesh is shuffled off, is the outstanding and convincing condition of Etheric freedom.
Over and over again, projectionists have groaned at having to exchange it for terrestrial lassitude.
White Thunder, a chief of the Spotted Tail's tribe, told Major C. Newell, that student of Indian lore, that when, returning after "three sleeps", during which he had been unconscious, he found that his squaw and children had bound his supposed corpse for burial. "I looked at my flesh-body, wrapped in skins, I dreaded to go back into it.... I seemed to fall asleep, and when I awoke I was back in my body again. I struggled to get free. My wife cut the cords that bound me and I sat up. They cried for joy to find I had come back. I arose and had my old heavy body to cany again." That weary reluctance at having the old heavy body to
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