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Then he turned and saw me. His face registered utter astonishment, and my "dead" father spoke to me. "What are you doing here!" He said this in exactly the manner a person would use who had traveled halfway around the world and then met someone to whom he had just said goodbye back home. I was too excited to speak, and just stood there, hoping for the joyful reunion I had expected. It came immediately. My father reached forward, grabbed me under the armpits, and happily swung me high over his head and down again, just as I remembered so well as a small child, just as most fathers have done with their small sons. He put me down on my feet again, and I was confident enough to speak. I asked him how he was feeling. "Much better now," he said. "The pain is gone." It was almost as if I had reminded him of something he wanted to forget. The energy seemed to drain out of him, and he turned away, appearing tired. As I watched him, he seemed to forget I was there. He looked thinner, and about fifty, based upon pictures we have when he was that age. I sensed that the meeting was over. There could be no more for now. Quietly, I moved back out of the room, turned and "reached" out, and returned to the physical body. It took much less time to return than to go. Was it that way? Was the pain so intense in those last days when he could not make himself understood to get help to ease that pain? If that is true, what a terrible prison his body must have been. Death was indeed a blessing. Will I try to "see" him again? I do not know, I do not know if I should. There are many other experiences, less personal, but equally impressive. They all led me to an inescapable empirical conclusion, which alone justified the many, many hours of anguish, uncertainty, fear, loneliness, and disillusion; which was a point of embarkation on what some call the Quantum Jump in thinking and the beginning of a new viewpoint and perspective; which permitted the pains and pleasures of Here-Now to drop into their proper category of importance (what is a minute, hour, or year in an infinity of existence?); which opened a doorway to a reality that may ultimately prove