"It was whirling, stopping, starting, moving slow then fast, passing through

strange flashes of percepts, into a brilliant sun and out the other side,

us. ... in and out of clouds, bands of energy that were like gusts of hot

and cold air, electrical shocks, straight through the walls of a magnificently

"Loosh, an energy generated

by all organic life in varying degrees of purity, the clearest and most

"I released the loosh rote and turned deeply inward, scanning. It was

easier from this perspective, or perhaps it was the presence of the INSPEC

energy. It presented itself much as a simultaneous mixture and sequence

of musical chords and short melodies, only it wasn't sound, it was patterns

in colors of light. Scattered among the clutter of harmony, dissonance,

discord, excitement, fun, fear, and emotion, and beginning shortly after

birth, I had the percept of occasional surges of white . . . first from my

mother and father, then smaller flashes I was unable to identify as to

source. ... The bright red and pink chords and urgent

"W i t h g r e a t d i f f i c u l t y , I n a r r o w e d a n d h e l d o n t h e c e n t e r o f t h e f o r m

. . . a n d I b e g a n t o c o o l a n d c a l m d o w n . . . s l o w l y m y r a t i o n a l a n d

obs e rvi ng se l f began to eme rge aga in, domina t ing the ove rwhe lming emotional surge that had enveloped me . . . it was as if I perceived through a

d a r k ly t i nt ed window and I h a d to wo rk cont i nua l ly to ke e p t h e e mot i on

be low the thr e shold l e ve l , the wond rous and br i l l i ant joy , awe , re ve r enc e ,

"there, in the long view, was a radiant living form of incredible size,

my first percept that of a tall standing humanoid, arms outstretched in

front, palms upward . . . but just as quickly, it was not . . . instead, a

shining globe, edges indistinct, behind it another, identical in appearance,

behind it another, a continuous cascade moving away into infinity,

beyond my p e r c ept ab i l i ty . . . f rom e a ch c am e numb e r l e s s beams or

rays, some huge in their diameter, others no wider than a pinpoint, all

uniform in size throughout their length and beyond my percept as to their

destination, some of them moving past me so close that I felt I could

"humans form

big clubs they call nations and try to destroy other nations who they think

"The older man trying to buy the offerings of two young

hookers standing by a doorway leading upstairs, angry because they don't

know he exists, watches as a physical man steps up, waves a double sawbuck in one girl's face as she turns and leads him up the stairs; the first

"What's the matter with them? They've

died physically and they don't know it. All they remember is human

physical existence and they're trying to hang on. That's all they got, they

"They've died physically and they at least know they're different ... . But, uh, what

They have no interest but reproducing, not to make copies, but just the

"I led us to the

very outer fringes of the outermost ring, where the haze was quite thin.

The rim had a glow to it as we approached, and as we entered, the glow

broke down into soft individual light sources, those who resided here.

rings—all on temporary but dedicated duty. ... One form broke away from a group and approached us.

It was only slightly humanoid in shape, glowing softly. ... .

... it' s th e wi ld e s t bunch of game s inside o f game s

"We can escort you to a physical earth possibility at a point in your time

call H-plus, humans-plus, to indicate modification from those in your present time. As you are now, you will be a visitor. ...

We were high above the earth, much as one would perceive it from

halfway to the moon, which was still there, behind us. The earth was the

same blue-green color, with white covers of clouds partially obscuring the

land below. We moved in steadily, and I was happy to see that the deep

got cleaned up. ... But it was the new feature that

pulled my focus and wouldn't let it go. Around the earth was a single flat

ring, much like the ones around Saturn, and it was radiating and sparkling,

not from the reflection of the sun, but from its own internal source. ...

As we moved around, not through, the sparkling ring and headed inward, I became aware of another change. The M Band was full of communication, but no noise. No noise! That could mean only one thing—man

had finally got it together. Further evidence was the lack of the haze M

Band noise creates. No more random thought-clutter. ...

No ships. I reached out along the horizon and far beyond. Not even a

rowboat or dinghy. I scanned overhead across the sky with its streets of

I reached the edge of the woods and started to enter, when I ran into a

barrier, something that threw me back into the field. ...

A man and a woman came out from under the trees and

stood in front of me. ... Both

I flickered. Where are we? I know from the way we traveled on our

approach that we’re just inside the United States near the coastline.

... Not the United States any longer. No states or countries anywhere.

by ticks, mosquitoes, or anything larger. ...

"Reball," short for resonant energy balloon,

which we were clumsily trying to generate, with mixed success, an energy

We were hovering over a rolling landscape, at about ten thousand feet.

Directly below us was what seemed to be the center of a lotus blossom,

the outermost petals in magnificent glowing colors spreading out in all

I pressed. We each could take over one, just like that?

Yes, of course. ...

But what about the physical bodies

you left under the oak trees? Can just anyone occupy those if they want to?

We were floating amid thousands upon thousands of white sparkling

We moved easily through the sparkling forms ... .

I could feel the radiation ease back in

front of me, providing a pathway, so to speak, of low-level energy that I

could tolerate. I was surprised when, passing various forms, a spark would

fly out and touch me. In the sparks were spoken words that I heard very

clearly . . . Hello, Bob. Hi, Robert . . . ...

In front of us was the First Entry.

Station. It appeared much the same. There was a large cluster of gray

I'm floating over a wide brown field, just about three thousand feet up

. . . I'm flat on the bottom and strong life energy is pouring up at me

from below . . . I'm getting larger and larger and I eagerly convert the

energy into being me . . . I'm a whirling vortex and my action takes

water out of the energy and helps me get bigger, and I become more

conscious, more aware . . . as I get bigger, I'm able to know more . . . ...

"I ' m

a fish, a very big fish! . . . I can feel my stabilizing fins waving gently to

ke ep m e i n pl a c e , my vi s i on i s spl i t , I c an' t s e e exa c t ly s t r a i ght i n f ront of

me . . . be hind me i s a l mo s t a b l ind spot , but my pe r i ph e r a l s e e i ng i s

"We were hovering just above the ground, and I looked down. Below us,

breathing shallowly and slowly, lying in the grass, was ...

another panther body, a darker brown one, which I had

"I'm soaring . . . as a bird, am a bird!"

"To gather loosh?

... No. To sow it, to plant the

"We were on the far rim of the outermost ring. I could recognize it from

Then I became aware of the intent inward focus of

the entire outermost ring, the inhabitants thereof. ...

I followed the line of their focus. It was the physical

planet earth, indistinct and nebulous from this perspective. ...

We were out in space somewhere between the earth and the moon,

indeterminate distance, fifty thousand miles plus from the surface of

earth. ...

My immediate percept of the earth was a pinpoint of reflected light in

the distance, no larger than a small star. From it came irregular waves of

energy, multidimensional, pulsing, intermittently broken by occasional

As far as I could perceive in all directions, with the earth at the center, was a host of forms, countless numbers,

it seemed. Some had shape, others appeared as no more than a wisp of

cloud vapor, all glowed in various degrees of intensity. ...

"Below us

was the physical earth, about five hundred feet. It was night and occasional lights dotted the countryside. Almost directly under us was an area

of water like a small pond or pool, and immediately beyond, a green

The three of us moved down slowly, just over the top of the green

The green pyramid, the three of us, serve