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strong religious conditioning. This leaves it open to interpretation, so Cayce translators (ministers?) have sprung up to provide such intercession. There are others even now who evidently can perform similarly to Cayce. One gave quite accurate physical reports of me, and provided some general data on my Second State activities which were neither enlightening nor provable. They did convince me of the validity of her ability, by all means. Again, another Truth (to me and others who participated), but no direct answers that could be used in a court of law. Several "psychics" performed "life readings" for me. They included wide generalizations, but were unable to give direct, straightforward answers to simple questions. If genuine (and who am I to say they are not?) these psychics must be definitely limited in their specific perception. Either that, or they sutler problems in translation from symbols to articulation. I can well appreciate how this latter might occur. It was in my readings and contacts with this branch of human thought I fondly call the underground that I finally found strong glimmerings of what was happening to me. If I had not been involved personally, I would not have believed what I found. At the same time, it was comforting to discover that I was not unique. What was it all about? Simply, I was performing "astral projection." Doctor Bradshaw had given me the clue, although he himself had heard about such things only remotely. Astral projection, to the uninitiated, is a term given to the technique of leaving one's physical body temporarily and moving about in a non-material or "astral" body. Many connotations have been given the word "astral," and many interpretations, scientific and otherwise. The word "scientific" is used cautiously, because the modern scientific world, in the West, at least, neither recognizes nor is seriously aware of even the possibility of such things. In the obscure history of mankind, it is an entirely different matter. The word "astral" has dim origins in early mystical and occult events which involve witchcraft, sorcery, incantations, and other seeming foolishness which modem man looks upon as silly and superstitious nonsense. As no attempt was made to delve deeply into this area, I still do not know what the word "astral" means. Thus I prefer to stick to the terms "Second Body" and "Second State." This type of literature, which still flourishes, depicts an astral world composed of many levels or planes, which is where people go when they "die." The person who travels around in his astral body can make short visits to these places, talk with "dead" people, participate in activities "there," and come