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