reach out and touch one … (Would you like to do so? We will help you if needed.) I hesitated, then with the warm assurance from the shielding INSPEC form, I stretched a part of me out, cautiously, and touched the smallest ray nearest me … in an instant, the shock spread throughout all what I thought I was, and I knew, and in knowing, knew that I would forget if I tried to remember, because what I was could not yet handle the reality of it … yet I never again would be the same even without remembering, except that it occurred and the indescribable joy of knowing only that it did take place and the echoes would reverberate in me throughout eternity, whatever my eternity was … gently, I felt myself being detached from the ray, and I collapsed behind the shielding form of my INSPEC friend.… Friend? INSPEC? I realized then how provincial my percepts were. I also realized how limited they were … the radiating globes, the rays emitted … (You responded very well for the initial exposure. Your human loosh/love energy is transmuted into the center of what you perceive. From there it is redirected into what you call the rays, to the points where it is needed most. When you have progressed, we can guide you to one of the destinations so you can observe the results.) My percept was not strong enough to bring any flicker whatsoever as to what exposure to the full force of such rays might be. But my human curiosity wouldn’t let the basic question go unanswered, now that I had smoothed somewhat. (It was created. It was always there, we have no percept of a beginning. Are you ready to return now?) I turned inward and closed tightly. CLICK! … We were back again in familiar blackness, only now it seemed empty and sterile, but the INSPEC energy was still beside me … now I would have to put together a new ident for them, if they could hold