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physical life the ego was gradually transferring his consciousness from the physical to the emotional level. When death actually occurred the personality received little or no shock; in fact, the patient was hardly aware of the change. A short period of sleep followed the breaking of the cord, after which the boy resumed the occupations in his emotional body to which he had become accustomed during physical sleep. He has gravitated quite naturally to that region of the after-death world which Spiritualists call Summer- land. He finds himself amongst beautiful scenes of a pastoral nature, with mountains and valleys, and a profusion of wild flowers. The state of his consciousness varies considerably. He has moods of depression and longing for the physical companionship of his family. He sees them and their home surroundings fairly well, but finds himself unable to impress them with the sense of his presence, though he has tried more than once to do so. Unfortunately, on one occasion when he returned to the home, he witnessed an expression of deep grief on the part of his mother. Her sorrow had overcome her, and she gave way to tears. This experience affected him profoundly, and cast a gloom over him for several days, and shut him out from the bright world into which he had been “born”. By contrast with his painful physical life and the pain of parting, his life in the scenery previously described is bright and joyous in the extreme. There is something almost birdlike in the way in which he rejoices in the beauties of Nature, the purity of the air, and his own new-found freedom from the prison of the flesh. Here, occasionally, the parents come to him at night, but they come clothed in black—symbol of grief and lack of understanding of the fact that death is in reality birth into a higher and better world— and it will take some considerable time before their philosophy enables them to overcome their grief. They do meet him, however, as also do some of the children, the latter being far brighter and, therefore, more able to enter the sphere in which he finds himself. In one sense physical incarnation was a nightmare to him; he belongs by nature to a pastoral life amidst the birds, the beasts, the fishes, and the flowers, with all the sense of freedom and idyllic happiness which such associations produce in