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Many of the pioneer experimenters cited in the present book are now dead. Vincent N. Turvey passed away in 1912, Ralph Shirley in 1946, Hugh G. Callaway (who wrote under the pen-name 'Oliver Fox') in 1949, and Hereward Carrington in 1958. However, William Gerhardi, whose novel Resurrection presented one of several personal astral projection experiences in fictional form, is still living. He is at present working on his great tetralogy of novels, and was awarded a bursary by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1966. Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett, who published several notable accounts of her many remarkable experiences, became Founder President of the Parapsychology Foundation, New York, established 1951 as a non-profit organization "to support impartial inquiry into the total nature and working of the human mind, and to make available the results of such inquiry." The present book cites the classic case of Mrs. Garrett's amazing experiment in 1932. At that time, the placename 'Newfoundland' was substituted for 'Iceland', to protect the anonymity of the experimenters. It is now known that they were Dr. Anita M. Mühl in New York, and Dr. D. Svenson in Reykjavik, Iceland. Mrs. Garrett projected her astral double from New York to Reykjavik (not 'Newfoundland') and brought back information which was confirmed under excellent test conditions. For many years, the identity of the remarkable French experimenter 'Yram' who wrote the important book Le Medecin de l'Ame (translated into English as Practical Astral Projection) has not been disclosed, but I have now discovered that this author was Marcel Louis Forhan, born November 17, 1884 in Corbell, France. He also wrote several mystical works which have not yet been translated. He died October 1, 1927, in China. Certain connections between astral projection and