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Projection of the Astral Body – Muldoon and Carrington 1929

Being of an inquisitive nature, after experiencing several conscious projections, I concluded that there was a cause, that the seeming miracle could not possibly happen unless behind it there were certain factors which promoted it ; and within myself I was annoyed, since I could not at once find the cause.

Several prominent Spiritualists, to whom I wrote, informed me that no one knew any specific causes for astral projection ; that it was a gift! that the Hindus were especially gifted with the ability etc

So, after retiring at night, I would wonder if I should go out in that phantomous body!   I remained awake for hours, thinking of this strange reality upon which no one could enlighten me. I would drift into the hypnagogic state, visualizing projection, thinking projection; in fact the experiences which I had encountered seemed to have gripped my every thought after I went to bed at night.

And to experience such a reality and yet find no one who would believe me-that was the dismaying part ! My associates - even members of my own family - ridiculed the very suggestion of such an ‘impossibility’ as they called it. I was pronounced a "dreamer," and said to be "off in the upper story”.

The scorn which I received from others hurt me. I would cry, often, after going to bed, to think that no one would place any credence in my claims. If I could find the causes, I reasoned, and could make them known, perhaps others would believe in the phenomenon. So, within me, arose a determination to learn what brought about the projections. You have already been made familiar with some of the findings which I then made.  This is how I made the discovery that "incapacity” of the physical body is essential.

One night I lay awake in bed and had been concentrating in a quiet mental mood, upon different parts of my body. My mind came to rest upon my heart. I noticed that it did not seem to be beating at the speed it should, when normal.  Next day I went to the doctor and had the organ examined. It was beating but forty-two times per minute, but was steady. He gave me a box of strychnine [sic] - a cardiac stimulant - assuring me that this would correct the condition. He added, however, that occasionally in his practice he had come upon similar cases – one man, whom he named, having a pulse which was in the forties also.

Now, for almost a year prior to this, a week seldom passed by that I did not experience a projection in some form; and every night I could notice the astral-body rising out of the physical, in the hypnagogic state, causing me to  “jump”.  I believe I mentioned once before that persons who have been troubled with sinking, sliding, rising and falling sensations and  “jumps” (repercussions of body) are relieved when their physicians give them a remedy to regulate the heart's action……….

………. before taking the cardiac stimulant, which I procured from my doctor, I had experienced a projection in some form almost every week, and the primary stages of projection every night.  No sooner had I begun to take the heart stimulant than all trace of the phenomenon disappeared – even the primary stages.

I stopped taking the pellets. In a few days I observed that the rate of my pulse was dropping, and it was not long before I was again experiencing the things I had formerly experienced.