![]() Watch her rise on tip toes and pull his mouth to hers. Watch his fingers press her pointed hip bones. The denim prairie dress lilting across her ankles. ![]() Her long neck, her hair in fragile waves about her shoulders. She will come to him across so many miles. Although I have had no experience of it myself, I should be surprised if this danger was a very real one. I do not think we should dismiss the possibility too lightly, especially in the case of a person of known mediumistic tendencies. What once you knew and its requisite, eventual unknowing. These things you count, and the uncountable. The impossible made actual, rendered in physical form. More hours ticking away at the momentous, almost forgotten dark. Such results are extremely rare and are similar to stigmata phenomena and the production of birthmarks by cravings and frights. (6) Repercussion effects upon the physical vehicle caused by injuries to the astral. He sits and plays, eyes closed, his thumbnail only just beginning its return. He sits to tangle softly with strings that have memorized his fingers. Through the curtain-less window, an acreage of stars. Passes eggs and rice, tomato soup between chapped lips. ![]() He feeds the dogs and ferns colonizing the old table, rinses under lukewarm water. (5) Severance of the Cord, which means "death." I have been told that a too intense concentration may lead to the bursting of a blood-vessel in the brain. The unexpected depth of his voice across the phone line late at night. Feet too long and thin for standard sizes, waist as slender as a woman's. How his eyes squint when his mouth surrenders to joy. The ink marking his left deltoid-the old Dodge symbol, circa '75, culled from his favorite truck, dusty orange and slow-dying in the small barn. ![]() In the case of a person with an unusually "loose" etheric vehicle, such an effect may be produced by a purely involuntary extrusion of the etheric double during sleep or in the drowsy condition which preludes it. Though actually awake, he would act as one does in dreams and so appear mentally deranged-as indeed he would be for the time being. Replaces the phone in the pocket of his Wranglers. Steals a quiet moment to revisit her smile, timid precursor to laughter's explosion. Hands himself over to the afternoon's work: the poetry of windrows unfolding over the land. Soiled deerskin handed down from his father's father. This might render the experimenter temporarily incapable of distinguishing between waking life and dream-life. (3) Temporary derangement caused by the non-coincidence of the etheric body with the physical body after the experiment. Collies yapping, kicking up gravel along the drive. In the fields, the alfalfa cut and drying, sweet tang on the air. A day's labor remaking his unsleeved shirt, his boots creased by innumerable miles. Arms and neck and face slick with sweat and grease and cowshit. (1) Heart failure, or insanity, arising from shock. Possible dangers, including those of an occult description, may be enumerated as follows:
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