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Bill looked around from the front cockpit, his face white. He yelled at me over the wind roar, "We better get out of here!" I was ready to leave too. The only thing that kept me there a few more seconds was the possible loss of the airplane for which I had saved so long. I reasoned, We've tried everything except the procedure that violates the rules, the one thing not to do if you're in a spin. Pull back on the stick. What did I have to lose? I pulled back on the stick. The ship straightened out of the spin immediately and gathered flying speed. I rolled it until the earth was where it belonged. We landed safely and crawled out shakily and sat on the ground. We had fallen into an outside spin. Neither of us had seen such a spin before, much less tried one. I remembered the outside spin. I tried to apply the concept as I lay there panting against the barrier. Forward, up, down, right, left—no good. There was Just one remaining direction, although my knowledge said definitely it was not right. It could not make things any worse to try, so I did, and only a few moments later, I was back in the physical shaken but safe. Which way? It was obvious in hindsight: away from the barrier, back in the direction from which I had been traveling. Why this worked, I do not know. Nor do I know what the barrier was. Perhaps it could be rationalized that prayer did work. I did get back, did not I? If it did, it was not in the manner that religion taught me. No helping angel came hurrying to give me aid and comfort Another time, I was visiting my brother and his family overnight Shortly after retiring to the guest room, I went to bed for some much needed rest. If it has any bearing, the headboard of my bed backed against the wall separating my room from that of my four-year-old niece. Her bed was directly against the same wall As I stretched out in the dark, the familiar surge of vibrations came, and I decided to slip out for a moment just to test being in this condition away from home. The moment I left the physical, I became aware of three beings in the room. I stayed cautiously close to my physical body as they came nearer. They started to pull at me, not hard, but deliberately as if to see what I would do. They were having a good time at it. I tried to stay calm, but there were three