332 DATE WITH THE GODS
intelligences. Just as you had to do a lot of work and
study on what is yet to come, people have to make some
preparations to meet extraterrestrials. By intelligent
and careful observations as you have done."
"In other words, you don't want to contact people who
aren't yet prepared to meet you."
"I'm talking about the psychological attitude of people
when the existence of flying saucers as vehicles and
intelligences from other worlds gets to be common
knowledge."
I really didn't understand why Rama wanted me to
take my story only so far at that time, but as the year of
197 5 went by I began to see why Rama had cautioned me
about this.
We spent the rest of the day together, making love,
talking, and strolling on the beach like two lovers.
January in Lima is the beginning of summer and that
evening, when the sun went down, Rama asked me to
drive her to a nearby resort where I was going to drop
her off to get her vimana. We went to a deserted area
along the ocean. There was a cliff of about 500 feet. I got
the car as close to the edge as possible.
Before she left, Rama and I made plans to see each
other up in the Andes Mountains in a few days, as soon
as I straightened out my situation in Lima. A few
minutes after Rama had gotten out of the car, I heard a
smooth metallic sound and witnessed the sudden depar
ture of a flying disc. In moments it was lost in outer
space, traveling at a fantastic speed.
In the next few days, I took care of several business
matters around Lima, and scheduled a plan of action for
contacting people who had Peruvian horses for sale.
Around mid-January, 1975, I went back to Acaya. The
trip was treacherous. Even though it was now the
summer season, when you drive two hours into the