The Immaculate Conception 239experiencing at that moment. Your silver cord served as
a broadcasting device, similar to the television phe
nomena."
"That explains the visual image I had. I got exactly
whatever those eyes were seeing."
"Yes, you did!"
"Once you were back in your physical body, fully
conscious, you rewound it like a video tape and played it
back. The whole trip was transmitted to your brain by
your silver cord and stored in your mind."
"Why did it have to be that I bumped into precisely this
situation in order to see that magazine just a few days
after we talked about Pope Clement XV, and after you'd
told me I would 'stumble onto a magazine'? What I'm
asking is, was it planned for me to have this dream or
revelation?"
"Yes."
"By whom?"
"Yourself or maybe one of the spiritual guides in the
universe picked up your sincere desire to find some
proof of what we'd discussed here last time we saw each
other. This entity merely channeled your vibrations into
the circumstances, so you could see it. It was actually a
- • II
VISIOn.
"Yeah, it was."
"So. I imagine you must've had some sort of faith in a
saint or a rabbi at one time."
"When I was a kid, I was told in church that by praying
to your patron saint, all your wishes on earth would
come true, but as I look back, it seems nothing but a
bunch of nonsense. I remember talking to you once
about this patron saint stuff. I told you that when I was a
child I studied in a Catholic school. I was such an
impossible kid the priests used to joke with me, saying
that mine should be St. Jude, the patron saint of the
impossibles."