Chapter 2 Excerpt

Excerpt (p. 1 from Chapter 2)

2 Unusual Origins of an Unusual Idea

Musing in my easy chair, relaxing and waiting for the Waltons to come on TV, I notice my reception fading to a snowy state. Just as I wonder if the aerial wire has come loose, two small dots appear on the screen. A strange distant haunting music seems to dance on the fringes of my mind. As I watch the silvery dots closely, they begin to enlarge, leap off the screen, and become two people standing on either side of me.

I suddenly realize I'm no longer in my body. In shock, I look at myself thinking, "How strange to be able to see myself sitting over there from this point of view." Lounging there, I seem to have this little smile on my face with my feet up snoozing comfortably in my red easy boy. I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Slowly and gently we begin to rise. "I'm dead. That must be it! They are taking me away."

"We don't want to shock you. We just want to show you something. You are perfectly okay. You will be all right later on too," someone says to me in the most beautific and melodic voice I've ever heard yet no one had spoken. "You'll be back in no time."

October 21, 1975, started so normally, but gazing at the craft hovering over my house I know my life is changing forever.

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