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we’re not ready.”
    “Maybe,” I said disappointedly.
    “But that’s not all,” Stan said.
    “What else?”
    “After we got back, we asked for someone in our Peruvian office down there to take pictures of the UFO sign so we could duplicate it.”
    “Yeah?”
    “Only half of the sign is visible in their photos. It’s as though it doesn’t fully exist for us.”
    I thought a moment.
    “Well,” I said, “maybe that’s true.”
    “God, Shirley,” said Stan. “How could we all forget what we did?”
    “I don’t know. I guess somebody is trying to tell you something.”
    Stan rolled his eyes again. “The question is: who?”

Chapter 6
       I n mid-September, Dancing in the Light was published. I had promised my publisher, Bantam Books, that I would do a promotional tour of several cities. So in between preproduction chores for “Limb” I once again experienced the hustle of American cities and I freely discussed the evolvement of my spiritual and metaphysical search. It was entirely different from the tour I had done two years previously. I don’t know whether newspaper and magazine editors were taking me more seriously or whether the reporters they sent to interview me were chosen for their open-mindedness about spiritual search. I only know I was so pleasantly surprised that most of them had done a great deal of metaphysical reading on their own.
    They had evolved into being more aware of past life therapy and past life trauma, chakkra energy sources, the way karma works, and so on. Some of them had sought out their own trance mediums because it was common knowledge that really fine mediums were developing their psychic talents and instrumentality at a greatly accelerated rate. The information coming through was nourishing,knowledgeable, highly sophisticated, and, more often than not, completely accurate. Some of the finest skeptically astute reporters in America were on their own spiritual path of investigation; so much so that our interviews often turned more into shared conversations than interrogative questions and answers. I noticed, however, that these reporters found it necessary to evidence the most skepticism in their written articles. That was okay. They had bosses and needed to appear doubly objective.
    The call-in TV and radio shows, particularly Larry King’s, were truly phenomenal for me. All told, I must have talked spontaneously and live to about three hundred callers, and except for a woman on Phil Donahue’s show who said what I was talking about was witchcraft, not one person said “this stuff is crazy” or anything even resembling such a point of view. In fact, just the opposite. I wondered myself why I wasn’t getting more evidenced adverse reaction. The talk-show hosts couldn’t explain it either. Maybe people somehow sensed that there were unseen realities in their lives, too, just as I was experiencing in mine. They called to discuss past-life recall, what happens to them during meditation, how color therapy works in healing, what mediums I could recommend, what other books I suggested, visions they had experienced after a loved one left the body, and, of course, UFO experiences—which were becoming more and more prevalent.
    The UFO contacts were coming up in connection with spiritual searching because the callers understood that the basis of the knowledge the extraterrestrials were bringing was both a scientific and a spiritual knowledge of the God-force. In other words, the beings behind the craft had learned to harness the unseen energies in the cosmos and use them in a beneficial manner. That was how they could travel at such high speeds. That was how they defied linear time frames. That was how they could achieve dematerialization and rematerialization. They understoodthe subatomic molecular structure of every living thing. That was why they were so curious about Earth and the human race. And the reason they didn’t announce themselves more publicly was not only