As I wandered about I was conscious of five men following me, and I sensed their object was unfriendly. Nearing a corner of a walled-in yard, these five men rushed at me, speaking a language of which I was not familiar. Their intent seemingly was to rob me. Then suddenly I thought, “I AM NOT BOUND BY THE FLESH, and can leave this present consciousness, even as I left the other consciousness of my physical body.” And I did leave and become wholly invisible, enjoying the utter discomfiture of the five men, because I had disappeared from a place where no human being could possibly have escaped. I had (from their point of view) passed through a solid stone wall, and had done this right before their eyes.

I pondered over this matter for a long while; I was at the time neither asleep or awake, but was never so vitally conscious in all my life before.

Sometime later I was relating this experience to one whom I looked upon as a very advanced teacher, and to whom I went with whatever questions I was unable to answer myself. I told it to him in detail. He listened gravely, reverently; then asked me to describe the buildings. This I did, after which he requested me to draw a rough sketch of them, which I proceeded to do. He went into his library and brought out a book of information containing pictures—I think it was a continental atlas—and turning to a page he showed me some buildings. Had I drawn my sketch from the picture shown I could not have made it more accurately a likeness of the one on the page before me. It was the government buildings of the old dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary at Budapest.

I had never been there, had never seen a picture of it; and my friend’s explanation was this: “MIND IS