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CHAPTER VIII THE PIONEERS THOUGH Doubles have probably been making their etheric journeys since man became self-conscious, and distant history is variegated with their adventures, it is only within the last few years that a real interest has been taken in the process by which the Double is loosed from its moorings. In this country, or rather in its language, we are indebted to three writers, Sylvan J. Muldoon in the U.S.A., and here, Oliver Fox and the Hon. Ralph Shirley. It was in 1929 that Mr. Muldoon, in collaboration with Dr. Hereward Carrington, published The Projection of the Astral Body, and in the same year Mr. Fox produced Astral Projection, but he had dealt with the subject nine years earlier in the Occtdt Review and followed it up with an article on "Dream Travelling", in 1923 Ralph Shirley, who had done much for the subject when editor of the Occult Review, published, two years ago, a very helpful digest of it—The Mystery of the Human Double. Elsewhere, a full and stimulating disclosure of etheric possibilities has been given us by the writer who signs himself Yram, in Le Midecin de I'Ame, rendered into English as Practical Astral Projection; and science has been represented by Dr. Hector Durville's Le Phantom des Vivants, Charles Lancelms Mithodes de Dedoublement Personnel; and other workers in the field have been Dr. Paul Joire, Colonel de Rochas, Commandant Darget, Aksakof, Boirac and Delanne;