Lehal Library

The Projection of the Astral Body by Sylvan J. Muldoon and Hereward Carrington (London, 1929), a book frequently reprinted. The present book, first issued in 1942, appeared soon after these pioneer studies, and summarised the experiences of the leading experimenters. It played a great part in introducing the subject to a wide general public. It was written by a shrewd and practical journalist who believed in the subject and saw that it had special implications for the man in the street. HENRY FRANCIS PREVOST BATTERSBY was born in Woolwich, England, February 10, 1862, and educated at Westminster School, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and the Royal Military Corps, Sandhurst. He married Frances Muriel Saunders. From 1898 to 1917 Battersby was Military and Special Correspondent of the Morning Post newspaper, and in 1918 War Correspondent for Reuters. He travelled widely and was Special Correspondent during the Indian tour of the Prince of Wales 1905-6, which he described in his book India Under Royal Eyes (London, 1906). As a skilled journalist he also contributed to Edinburgh Review, National Review, Observer, Armee-Zeitung, and other publications. In spite of his down-to-earth military and journalistic career and his recreations of golf and tennis, he was something of a romantic at heart, and published over a dozen books of poetry and prose tales, some under the pseudonym of 'Francis Prevost’. He was deeply interested in psychic science, and in 1930 published Psychic Certainties, a useful review of the leading evidence for psychical phenomena. He died June 20, 1949. This reissue of his valuable summary of the facts of Astral Projection is a good opportunity to add a few glosses in the light of present day knowledge. The term Astral Projection' is somewhat arbitrary but has now become conventional. Battersby preferred 'Etheric Travel' on the ground that it avoided confusion between journeys of