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father. Feeling that he was busy, I decided to try uncharted (to me) territory. “Devising a digital counter, I sailed backward through darkness as the counter flashed numbers faster than I could read them. Somewhere near where I perceived to be 100 (98?), I stopped and saw many people milling around: They looked like holograms, but conveyed the message of being ‘alive.’ Some ignored me, some moved away, but several approached me with great joy. I sensed that the latter felt that they were stranded and thought that I was there to guide them back. I asked about the others and was told that some were just exploring, and would return to their bodies when they felt like doing so, while others were waiting for their bodies to die, so they could be free. The ones speaking to me, though, said that they got there inadvertently, and were not able to return on their own. “At this point, Bob, I heard your barely audible voice saying, ‘You will now return to Focus 10.’ In panic, I felt I needed your voice to find my way back. I tried to piggyback someone, but was not able to, and returned to my CHEC Unit† in what I felt was the nick of time. With a great sigh of relief, and an expletive or two, I reexamined the experience, and am doing so again at the moment of this writing: 1. I don’t believe that it was a dream. As I type this, two weeks after the event took place, I’m still overcome with a feeling of profoundness. 2. I don’t believe in coincidence. Although the implications are not clear to me, I feel that there is a reason I experienced something I had never consciously thought about before. 3. Fact: There are people in various institutions who are catatonic or comatose and whom medical science has not been able to reanimate.” 4659-CM “I am now considering what to me is the strong possibility that almost anything that can be formed into five physical senses, language, oriented thought is an illusion. Extraphysical feeling is as close as I can come to describing what is ultimate reality for me