306 DATE WITH THE GODSphere, it almost stunk. A few seconds later, I was aware
of Rama holding me. There was plenty of light in the
room now. Rama was grinning with satisfaction.
The first thing I did was to rewind the tape recorder. It
was already past the middle of the second side of the
cassette. We both got out of the water. It was a little past
ten in the morning. I was starving, because the longer
one stays in the water, the hungrier one gets. As we
started to walk up the hill to go to the dining room, Rama
told me she was very pleased with my performance and
that there was no reason why I couldn't write about
these experiences and share the promise of eternal life.
Later that day, after Rama and I finished the session,
she told me that at the beginning I was rubbing the
microphone with my fingers. Rama put a pencil in my
right hand and I wrote on a piece of paper, "I will
remember what I see and hear."
She said that during the trip my face had not looked
normal, that my facial expression had been distorted and
my eyes lost their shine. When I spoke, my movements
had been those of a robot, as if all the actions in my
physical body were being maneuvered only by the speck
of energy coming to my body through my silver cord.
After breakfast we both took a ride on the patrol bike,
and spent most of the day making a recompilation of all
the things I'd learned ever since the day we met each
other.
By the time we were back in Acaya it was dusk. We hid
the motorcycle in the back of the hotel and walked to the
river where we sat near the open swimming pool and
waited for complete darkness. Rama said that the sky
was going to be our movie screen. She was going to put
on a show for me so I could understand visually what she
was telling me all day about the balance of the universe.
While we waited for complete darkness, she told me that
at one time we thought the world was flat, then we
thought we were the center of the universe, until