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rolled out of second, and this time I did have a percept of the ident INSPEC … not much, but enough, I thought … homing on the ident … went through normal reach and stretch procedure … moved rapidly through ring system … and beyond, which did not surprise me … began to feel warm, more so as I went until it became almost too uncomfortable and was at the point of turning back … when I rammed headlong into something and collapsed, shaken … I reached out and there was a barrier, smooth in texture, rigid, impenetrable … still very uncomfortable from the heat, I pulled myself together, knowing this was the end of the line, I might as well turn back to the physical … and a bright light, very intense, glowed in front of me, first ovate, reshaping into a tall humanoid form, so bright I cringed from it … for what seemed an eternity, I shrank back, trying to shield myself from the brightness … then I began to cool down until I was no longer uncomfortable, and I could tolerate the brightness. (Is that better for you?) “Better” was an understatement. Much longer, and I would have melted. (Did you bump your head?) Well, I guess I could call it that. Usually my head was out front when … (It is nothing to be concerned about. You have a hard head, Mister Monroe.) That turned me around. I never thought of God having a whimsical sense of humor. That and the Mister Monroe routine. I straightened, no longer cowering. I almost felt like reaching out and shaking hands in greeting. (There are more significant and suitable ways.) I was getting bewildered. I was just floating there, trying to figure out what happened … (You encountered a condition similar to that which your scientists call a standing wave, where two like energies in phase appear to cancel one another to zero. Yet there is no zero, as energy does not cancel, it transforms into other dynamic states.)