Charpignon (_Physiol., medecine et metaphys. du magnetisme_, p. 341) tells of a patient who, when awake, wished to go to the theatre, but during somnambulism refused to do so, saying: "_She_ wants to go, but _I_ don't want." On Charpignon recommending that she should try to turn _her_ aside from her purpose, she replied: "What can I do? _She_ is mad!" Deleuze (_Inst. pratiq. s. le maget. anim._, p. 121) says that many somnambulists look into their body when the latter is ill; that they are often indifferent to its sufferings, and sometimes are not even willing to prescribe remedies to cure it. Chardel (_Esquisse de la nat. humaine expliq. p. le magn. anim._, p. 282) relates that many somnambulists are unwilling to be awakened so as not to return to a body which is a hindrance to them. There are many madmen who speak of their body in the third person. (Ladame, _La Nevrose_, p. 43). They function in the non-externalised finer vehicle. Some explain their use of the third person as follows:--"_It_ is the body; it is _I_ who am the spirit." MANIFESTATION OF THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE PHENOMENA OF POSSESSION AND MATERIALISATION. In these strange phenomena, not only manifestations of the higher consciousness, analogous with or similar to those just cited, have been noted, but also a number of facts which prove, to some extent, the casual presence in a normal human body or in materialised abnormal forms, of beings other than that which constitutes the personality of the one possessed, or of the medium who conditions these materialisations. On this point, we would mention the well-known investigations of Sir W. Crookes (_Katie King_), those of Colonel de Rochas (Vincent, _Un cas de changement de personnalite, Lotus Bleu_ 1896), and similar experiments of other savants. "Incarnation mediums" have often lent their physical bodies to disincarnated human entities, whose account of what happened or whose identity it has been possible to verify. Here I will mention only one case amongst several others, I heard it from my friend, D. A. Courmes, a retired naval captain, a man who is well-informed in these matters, thoroughly sincere, and of unquestioned veracity.