lightly. (It took you long enough!) I blanked, then rolled with him. (You certainly weren’t any help!) He smoothed. (Use it in good health.) I spun a little. (Where’s, uh …) (I got the assignment. You better go back now. You have many things to put together.) I plied. (I guess so. See you.) I turned, dove inward, ident physical body, and reentered without incident. I sat up in bed, then got up, put on a bathrobe, and went out on the deck. It was a clear night, quiet and warm. I was still unsure as to how or why it happened, but I had no doubt as to the reality of the experience. If I encountered it and knew it, how many more thousands of human beings living right at this time-point on earth also have gone through the same or similar pattern? If they have, to whom would they tell it? And the other training centers on planets circling those billions of stars, tied to us by an intelligent energy field common to all of us. Were they as unaware as we? I felt very small, looking at the stars—and beyond. But not alone. Never alone.