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110. LIFE SUPREME physical body again. . . I know I had been awake outside my physical self. . . I knew it had not been a dream, for I had been awake, and yet, knowing nothing of psychic phenomena, I did not really know what had happened to me. ". A gentleman of Plymouth, England, who prefers to withhold his name has stated. "I suddenly discovered that I was up above my body, looking directly down upon it It was lying upon the bed as clearly as day. I had a good searching look at the face in particular, and thought how strange it was to be now looking at myself just as other people saw me. . . The experience was very real and definite indeed. . . nothing imaginary about it. . . I know that the experience was an actual fact. . A lady by the name of Vera M. Johnson affirms: "Last winter I had a very queer experience. . . . One night, soon after. I went to bed, I arose and stood by the side of the bed for several minutes, gazing down at myself lying there. Now this was no dreami. I, the real I, actually got out of bed and saw my own physical body still on the bed. I then walked through the door and took a journey. . . . Since then I have on one occasion sent myself on a journey, leaving my physical self at home. 22. Mr. Walter E. McBride of Indian Springs, Indiana, U. S. A. , has recorded: "About eight o'clock on the evening of 23rd December, I went to my bedroom which is on the lower floor of my house. I blew out the lamp and retired, in the usual manner, feeling quite normal in every way. . . . The next thing I knew I was, preposterous as it sounds, floating in the room, but in a lighted atmosphere. I was wide awake at the time. "I saw that I was floating upward through the building. . . the ceiling and the upper floor failed to stop me. . . I passed through them with ease. After reaching a certain height, I happened to turn upright, and, looking downwards, to my amazement I saw my body lying upon the bed, just as when I had retired. . . . In an old copy of "The Occult Review" (1908, p. 160) Dr. . Franz Hartman wrote: "In 1884 when I happened to be in Colombo, Ceylon, I was one day in