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it has undoubtedly been found useful. It is as if some faculty 

 of remote ancestors to whom water might be a matter of life and 

 death a faculty akin to the not yet understood homing instinct 

 of animals survived among some individuals, even now. The 

 dowser takes a twig in his hands and feels it struggle and turn 

 when he is over the desired kind of water or other mineral. This 

 appears to be a genuine impression on his part, however it may 

 be produced; and the result is that, with people skilled in the 

 art, the finding of springs of water in unlikely and difficult places 

 has actually been accomplished. It is like a form of clairvoyance 

 or lucidity, akin to the finding of hidden objects or the reading 

 of closed books. 



Travelling Clairvoyance 



Real travelling clairvoyance may take various forms, and 

 is rather liable to be associated with enfeebled bodily condition, 

 as if the link with matter was being loosened or relaxed without 

 being completely broken. 



As an example of travelling clairvoyance under pathological 

 conditions we may instance the experience in South Africa nar- 

 rated by the eminent Professor of Surgery, Sir Alexander Og- 

 ston, LL.D., etc., in his book Reminiscences of Three Campaigns. 

 During an attack of typhoid he often felt separated from his 

 body, which he then regarded with some loathing, though he felt 

 compelled to enter it from time to time; until gradually he felt 

 his wanderings restricted, at about the time when the attendants 

 began to hope for his recovery. 



In my wanderings there was a strange consciousness 

 that I could see through the walls of the building, though I 

 was aware they were there, and that everything was trans- 

 parent to my senses. I saw plainly, for instance, a poor 

 R.A.M.C. surgeon, of whose existence I had not known, 

 and who was in quite another part of the hospital, grow 

 very ill and scream and die; I saw them cover his corpse 



