| I can see the cops coming! They're a | | | | bushes with their billyclubs right |
| good thousand feet away. I can clearly | | | | behind us. A close call! |
| make out their uniforms and swinging | | | | "Hey, how'd ya know the fuzz was there?" |
| nightsticks. How can I be seeing this? | | | | my buddy pressed me, as we arrived |
| I didn't dare mention it to my fellow | | | | safely back at our car. |
| underage drinking mates lounging with me | | | | "Uh, I just knew somehow. A guess, I |
| on the grassy knoll in the park. Am I | | | | guess," I muttered, covering for myself |
| making this up? Projecting it somehow | | | | as best I could under the circumstances. |
| into my vision? Forcefully, I shook my | | | | "Well, a pretty good one, man. We'd be |
| head back and forth in an effort to free | | | | up the creek if they caught us. Thanks. |
| my mind of its strange perception. | | | | You're all right. We should have you |
| But the view of the two police officers | | | | around every time we go drinking." |
| remained in my sight, as they sauntered | | | | Ah, music to my ears. And so my young |
| closer and closer to our drinking den. | | | | career as a drinking guard began! |
| In fact, to my further astonishment, I | | | | My friends, at sixteen, were older than |
| saw a much wider perspective as I | | | | I, but still under the legal drinking |
| swiveled my gaze within the picture | | | | age of eighteen in New York State. I was |
| before me. I can see myself! | | | | fifteen and considered myself really |
| Frantically blinking my eyes open and | | | | lucky to be included in this older gang |
| shut trying to erase this impossibility, | | | | at a time of life when acceptance and |
| I still found myself staring at my own | | | | belonging was paramount. And to have |
| physical body on the ground next to my | | | | access to liquor through their |
| beer buddies. The place from which I was | | | | connections was heaven for me. |
| viewing was about forty feet in the air! | | | | I would do almost anything to please |
| As I shifted my attention to look at the | | | | these guys and stay tight with them. I |
| looker, I saw an airborne body in the | | | | mused to myself, My newfound |
| form of a luminous shimmer, much like a | | | | super-vision is coming in real handy. If |
| ghost is portrayed in a movie. Then, | | | | we got busted for underage drinking, |
| with the ease of a mere thought, I | | | | we'd all get grounded by our parents, |
| discovered I could shift my point of | | | | not to mention getting in trouble with |
| view from my physical body on the ground | | | | the law. I've got to keep this good |
| back to my ethereal light body in the | | | | thing going! |
| air. Using my eyes in my subtle body, I | | | | On that fateful night, my need for |
| surveyed the scene again from my perch | | | | approval prompted me to keep expanding |
| in the air. | | | | this burgeoning, new skill that I |
| Am I making all this up? Do I want to | | | | stumbled across in the line of necessity |
| impress my pals so much, I'm concocting | | | | and opportunity. |
| an extrasensory perception to allow me | | | | As I played with my prowess as a night |
| to warn them of an oncoming bust? My | | | | watchman for the gang, I realized I was |
| frenetic self-questioning came to an | | | | doing more than clairvoyance, "clear |
| abrupt halt as I heard one of the | | | | seeing." Each time I playfully sent |
| officers whisper to his colleague, "Do | | | | myself out to scan the scene for police, |
| you hear that noise? There are some kids | | | | I was having a bona fide out-of-body |
| in the park." | | | | experience. I didn't have a name for it |
| Whether I was conjuring my supernormal | | | | then, but I sure knew I was doing it! I |
| sight and hearing to court favor with my | | | | was right on the mark every time I |
| friends or not, I needed to act-and | | | | called a cop alert. My skill was valued |
| quickly. "Hey, guys, don't ask me how I | | | | by the friends I valued. Literally, I |
| know, but there are some cops right up | | | | was flying high! |
| the street and they're on to us. Let's | | | | Since my teenage discovery, I've |
| split." My three inebriated friends and | | | | continued to explore out-of-body |
| I quietly sneaked down the hill and out | | | | adventures. And I always laugh in |
| of the park under the helpful cloak of | | | | admiration when I look back on how God |
| darkness. By a nanosecond, we | | | | tricked me into developing my first |
| successfully evaded detection as we | | | | natural spiritual ability. |
| heard the policemen slashing at the | | | | |