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THE ASTRAL BODY AND ETHERIC BODY 119 person, whereas in the medium and trained clairvoyant(e) astral travelling is also in evidence.
In clairvoyance, speech is unknown, and is in fact unknown in dreams as ordinarily understood ; that auditory hallucination is produced in a more or less unconscious state of the dreamer confirms telepathy. Many phenomena related by spiritualist mediums are accounted for by telepathy, but not all phenomena. A person who sees your grandmother standing beside you in her early Victorian clothes would be giving evidence of an incompetent Deity, if it were true that your grandmother was standing there in the same old clothes. Hypnotic subjects have pointed out that the grandmother was some 29,000,000 or more miles away, but was en rapport with certain etheric vibrations in the unconscious mind at that moment, and was therefore able to form the mental picture in the medium's mind of what she did look like when on earth to reveal her identity. Even the spiritualistic world has quite a mistaken conception of what people are like, what they do, and so forth ; because no medium is completely unconscious in mediumistic trance (which is not the case in hypnotic trance, when consciousness can be completely lost), and as is generally acknowledged, the "entity" or "spirit" uses the material from the mind of the individual.
