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Rh cal switch and there will be no flow to the different quarters of the town. Similarly, the scientific method teaches a process enabling us to draw to its central part—spine and brain—the life current distributed throughout the organs and other parts of the body. The process, roughly speaking, lies in magnetizing the spinal column, which contains the seven main centres, with the result that the distributed life electricity is drawn back to the original centres of discharge and is experienced in the form of light. In this state the Spiritual self can consciously free itself from its bodily and mental disturbances. The Spiritual self is, as it were, being disturbed, even against its wish, by the telephone reports from two classes of people—gentlemen (thoughts) and low class people—(bodily sensations). In order to break connection with them it has only to draw away the electricity flowing through the telephone wires to the central battery of its house by turning off the