The Fourth Dimension 299back to sleep, so I got up and went to the bathhouse.
Rama was just going into the water. It was still dark
outside; we could hardly see one another in the room.
Rama suggested it would be a great experience to take
a little trip this early in the morning, before my spirit
absorbed the kind of magnetic charges that would
prevent me from seeing or hearing other spirits out in
the cosmos, outside the atmosphere of our planet.
In preparation for this early hour astral travel, she
began explaining its connection between the spiritual
activity known as dreaming.
"Astral projection is one of the easiest faculties a
person can develop," she said. "Each night, every person
gets a manifestation of this during the common dream,
when the person's soul leaves the body and just wanders
around in space. This is such an everyday experience
that people think nothing of doing it. But when it
happens in a controlled manner, we call it astral travel."
This morning we were going to repeat the same trip
we took the day before, but my body was going to be free
of any magnets or magnetic stones that would orient the
waves of my spirit's energy. Before I took off my clothes,
Rama suggested that I go to the car and bring in my
cassette recorder so we could record any sounds that
came out of my mouth.
When I returned with the recorder, I set it on the
bench and jumped into the water. The carbonation and
warmth accentuated my sleepyn�ss as I tried to concen
trate.
"Don't go to sleep on me, now," Rama said. "You have
to be fully awake and conscious so you can tell me what
you see and hear."
"I can't; I have this heavy impulse to close my eyes."
"Maybe you need an object to train your eyes on to
keep them open."
Rama placed the microphone of the recorder, which