John St. John

י12.45 1.10. 62 THE EQUINOX course this thought acts through the will and the apparatus of nerves and muscles. But might not a sudden fear cause the heart to stop? I think cases are on record. But all this is unknown ground, or, as Frank Harris would say, Unpath'd Waters. We are getting dangerously near “mental arsenic ” and " all—god— good—bones—truth—lights—liver—mind—blessing —heart——-one and not of a series—ante and pass the buck." The common sense of the practical man of the world is good enough {or me! Will G. R. S. Mead or somebody wise like that tell me why it is that if I get out of my body and face (say) East, I can turn (in the “ astral body") as far as West-Sou’-West or thereabouts, but no further except with very great difficulty and after long practice? In making the circle, just as I got to West, I would swing right back to West—Nor’-West: turn easily enough, in short, to any point but due West, within perhaps 5", but never pass that point. I have taught myself to do it, but always with an effort. Is this a common experience ? I connect it with my faculty of knowing direction, which all mountaineers and travellers who have been with me admit to be quite exceptional. If I leave my tent or hut by a door facing, say, South- West, throughout that whole day, over all kinds of ground, through any imaginable jungle, in all kinds