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insensitive sceptics. The evidence for the reality of the strange phenomenon of astral projection has increased steadily over the last few decades and now attracts the serious interest of scientists. In 1966 University Books published the first American edition of Dr. Robert J. Crookall's The Study and Practice of Astral Projection, a masterly analysis of 160 cases. Professor Hornell Hart, famous parapsychologist of Duke University, North Carolina, wrote that he regarded Dr. Crookall's work "as the most promising pioneering now being done in psychical research" and believed that if Dr. Crookall's findings were supported by further research his conclusions would "provide the greatest forward surge towards illuminating man's destiny in eternity..." While Dr. Crookall's scholarly analyses have special importance for parapsychologists, the present book is a more popular survey and forms a better introduction for the general reader. It is a sincere work and tells the best stories of astral projection in an easy-to-read manner. It forms a good companion volume to Ralph Shirley's The Mystery of the Human Double (University Books, 1965). With the reissue of the present book, together with Vincent N. Turvey's extraordinary The Beginnings of Seership, most of the key works on astral projection are now back in print. The short bibliography which follows this Introduction indicates recent works and reissues. University Books is to be congratulated for making available so many leading works connected with this important subject. London, England LESLIE SHEPARD 1968