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"Seeming event" seems a slight understatement, and scarcely to do justice to the intelligence or integrity of his Reverend friend. But perhaps the depressing hesitations of the S.P.R. forced it out of him. CHAPTER V UNCONSCIOUS PROJECTION FROM SLEEP SLEEP seems to offer the easiest jumping-off place for the Etheric Double, perhaps because in sleep our etheric part is less completely immersed in the physical body. Here is an account by a well-known writer and lecturer, Dr. O. A. Ostby, who was for ten years in the Ministry, of his first and further experience of etheric travel. "The first experience of being out-of-my-body came quite unexpected," he says, "and occurred in 1904 at my home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I awoke one night in full clear consciousness and found myself standing in front of the bed, looking at my own physical body lying beside my wife and baby boy who is now twenty-eight years of age. "I knew at once that I, my real self, was outside of my body and that I had passed through what is called Death. To my consciousness there was no difference in my make-up from being in the body. "I thought I had died, but that made no difference, as I was perfectly happy, and in fact had a strong desire to remain in this new state of freedom. But just then the thought struck me that it would be a dreadful shock for my wife to awaken in the morning and find my lifeless form beside her, so I determined that I must try to re-animate my physical form