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Dear God, I'd done this without takingthere, on the side of the bed I was staring at myself, at the top of my own head I- Back, And I was there again, thank God, and , I tried to figure what this was all about Well, I knehat it was all about, too Akasha herself had told me how her spirit could travel out of her body And s, or so they claimed Mortals had written of such invisible travel from the most ancient times

I had alone there to see, and she had stopped me because when I leftbefore that, there had been a couple of other tieneral, I'd never believed all the mortal stories

Now I knew I could do this as well But I certainly didn't want to do it by accident I ain but this time with ether, pushing against the plaster and this tiht

I went back down and decided to try the other again Now only in spirit The queasy feeling caht through the roof of the palazzo I was traveling out over the sea- Yet things looked unaccountably different; I wasn't sure this was the literal sky or the literal sea It was more like a hazy conception of both, and I didn't like this, not one bit No, thank you Going hohappened, and that didn't surprise me actually This was some kind of hallucination I hadn't reaily left ht to just accept that fact

And Baby Jenks, what about the beautiful things Baby Jenks had seen when she went up? Had they been hallucinations? I would never knoould I?

Back!

Sitting Side of the bed Coot up and walked around for a fewat the flowers, and the odd way the white petals caught the laht was caught on the surfaces of the s

It was overwhel le room

Then I practically fell into the chair by the bed I lay back against the velvet, and listened toain!

Then I heard laughter, faint, gentle laughter I realized Akasha was there, somewhere behind me, near the dresser perhaps

There was a sudden surge in ladness to hear her voice, to feel her presence In fact I was surprised at how strong these sensations were I wanted to see her but I didn't move just yet

"This traveling without your body-it's a power you share without of their bodies all the time "

"I know," I said dismally "They can have it If I can fly with my body, that's what 1 intend to do "

She laughed again; soft, caressing laughter that I'd heard in my dreams

"In olden times," she said, "iven the the heavens that reat mysteries of life and death "