238 DATE WITH THE GODS
concerning our last conversation. You wa nted to get the
nitty gritty. Two, your thoughts were perhaps picked up
by some benign spirit or spirits wanting to help you with
your research and investigations."
"How could that be?"
"You do have spiritual guides in the universe, you
know."
"No, I didn't know that."
"Well, now you know. This is what people might call a
gut feeling, a visitation from their guardian angel,
intuition, premonitions, the 'something tells me' sort of
thing. When you read about the Rosicrucians you'll learn
more about this. You say you felt your spirit leaving
your body, yet there was no way you could control it?"
"Yes, that's what confuses me."
"There's no need to worry about it; what we have here
is a simple case of spiritism. Only your ananas left your
body, and someone in that waiting room facilitated his
anionites for your ananas to have full perception for a
few moments. In other words, half of his spirit and half
of yours became one spirit briefly."
"You mean something like possession? My soul incar
nating into the body of that person in the waiting
room?"
"Not so much like incarnation. It was more a case of a
medium lending you his consciousness."
"What about this person's consciousness, where did it
go?"
"Nowhere. Let's just say this person was daydream
ing, in a daze, flipping the pages unconsciously."
"Yeah, people do that. Especially when they're ner
vous or worried. What about my ability to sense the
moisture, and the dream-like effect?"
"As far as the sensation is concerned, your body was
perceiving whatever the physical body of Mr. X's was