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into agreement with the Voice of God, the Light and Sound. Many find the road to their inner worlds through the teachings of Eckankar.”10
    As I sent out the silent plea for help, my attention unexpectedly was drawn to a dark spot across the room.
    I leaned forward on the couch and tried to focus on it.
    I hadn’t noticed it before. Maybe the headache was affecting my vision. Yet with my eyes wide open, I clearly saw a black spot hanging in the middle of the room, about six feet above the floor.
    I peered at it. The disc became even more distinct and clear. It was a small, pitch-black, circular spot, suspended in midair in my living room!
    I anxiously said to Jon, “There’s something you’ve got to see. Look over there. Can you see it?”
    Jon leaned forward and looked across the room. “I see the stereo,” he said. “What do you see?”
    “I see a small, black spot hanging in the middle of the room. It’s not my eyes. If I look away I don’t see it.
    It’s right there ,” I said, pointing in front of the stereo cabinet.
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    Jon squinted and said, “I don’t see a spot. Do you mean there’s a spot on something?”
    “No, Jon. It’s a thing ! It’s a small black thing, shaped like a spot or a circle. Try to focus and just look. I’m sure you can see it.” I urged him to try harder as I stared at it even more closely. There was no doubt that it was real. I then glanced at Jon, wondering how I might help him see this strange thing. He was not even looking at the spot. He was staring at me.
    “What’s the matter? Can you really not see that?”
    I asked insistently. “Just look at it. It’s right there in front of you. Please just try .” But Jon was looking at me intently, as if he didn’t know who I was. “Look at this with me,” I pleaded again.
    To get a better look, I tried to stand up and cross the room to gaze at it more closely, to really examine it. But I couldn’t. My body suddenly seemed heavy and unable to move. At the same time, I felt that I was being pulled in the direction of the black spot—pulled out of my own body, straight into it. Not wanting to let go, I held tightly onto Jon. But holding on with my physical body did not stop the pulling sensation.
    Certainly, nothing like this had ever happened to me before! I rapidly entered into the blackness.
    Dramatically and suddenly, I crossed a threshold into a dark tunnel of immense length—large at my end but receding to a small, distant pinpoint of light. Everything occurred at terrifying speed. I felt freezing cold and in great distress, and I struggled to tell Jon what I saw. “It’s so cold and dark. I’m going through a tunnel.
    There’s a small bright light at the end, and I’m going toward it. I’m going so fast!”
    I was aware of my body, shivering with the cold, eyes wide open, still sitting there on the living-room couch.
    I could feel Jon holding my physical body. Simultaneously, Inner Guidance_CH 06-10.p65
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    I was flying through the tunnel at great speed.
    S uddenly, everything changed. I now saw a brilliant light and, rocketing toward it, I felt great warmth as I approached. The feeling grew so intense that I became extremely hot. The heat seemed to penetrate every cell of my body.
    All was dazzling yellow and then white, brilliant to such an absolute extreme that I was sure I was being blinded. Then an emphatic inner command flashed into my awareness: “Close your physical eyes.”
    Obediently, I closed my eyes tightly, and they no longer burned. Instantly, in this world of light, I could see much more clearly. While my body remained sitting on my living-room couch, I was also somehow stepping consciously into a beautiful ocean. It was golden and white, a vast sea, gleaming with incredible bright light.
    Giant, sparkling waves