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application of clairvoyance and telepathy. Without a use of these additional faculties of perception such a complex experiment could not have been possible." The most interesting part of the story I have left to the last. Mrs. Garrett's description of the mechanism she employs. "What is not generally accepted by science," she says, "but which I nevertheless know to be true, is that everyone has a Double, of finer substance than the physical body; it is referred to either as the astral or as the etheric body by some scientists. This is not to be confused with the surround, which remains in position enveloping the human body, while the Double can be projected. It is by means of this Double that either accidental or conscious projection is accomplished. Now in these experiments I was doing conscious projection, and I know from my own experience that when I project this Double, I do so from the centre of my chest above the breasts. From the moment I begin to project, I am aware at this point of a pull, accompanied by a fluttering, which causes the heart to palpitate, and the breathing to speed up, accompanied also, if the projection is a long one, by a slight choking in the larynx and a heady sensation. As long as the projection continues, I remain aware of these sensations taking place in my physical body. "While I am in a state of projection, the Double is apparently able to use the normal activity of all five senses which work in my physical body. For example, I may be sitting in a drawing-room on a snowy day and yet be able in projection to reach a place where summer is at that moment full-blown. In that instant I can register with all my five physical senses the sight of the flowers and the sea; I can smell the scent of the blossoms and the tang of the ocean spray, and hear the birds sing and the waves beat against the shore.