When his spirit wandered free, it wandered always in the present.

As he told us, just as he was able to leave his body and gaze upon it lying in the jacket on the cell floor, so could he leave the prison, and, in the present, revisit San Francisco and see what was occurring.

In this manner he had visited his mother twice, both times finding her asleep.

In this spirit-roving he said he had no power over material things.

He could not open or close a door, move any object, make a noise, nor manifest his presence.