| Some people ask me how I got interested in | | | | can only describe it as eerily unearthly. I ran out onto |
| knowledge that might be considered "alternative" in | | | | the road, and watched it disappear over the |
| some circles. Here is a little story about an | | | | neighbours' houses. In total it was in view about 30 |
| extraordinary experience that certainly helped me | | | | seconds. |
| along my way! So here goes my story, and 100% true. | | | | The ball of light was heading east, out over the ocean, |
| In 1996 I was living in Coffs Harbour, New South | | | | and since I was in an excitable state, I ran down to the |
| Wales, Australia, a small coastal town. One day I was | | | | beach, which was only a few hundred metres from |
| walking along the street downtown, and I saw a sign | | | | where I lived. I walked up and down the beach for an |
| which read: "Psychic readings, $10". I had never had a | | | | hour, but the ball of light was nowhere to be seen. |
| psychic reading up till that time, and curiosity got the | | | | Finally I gave up, and decided to head back to bed. I |
| better of me. So I went inside and met a woman | | | | walked back down the short street to my home, and |
| named Leslie who gave me a "reading." The reading | | | | trudged up the driveway. Then, as I was about to duck |
| itself was nothing particularly special. But what followed | | | | under the doorway (I'm rather tall) I looked up one last |
| certainly was. | | | | time. Once again my eyes nearly jumped out of my |
| To cut a long story short, I ended up going to one of | | | | head. I saw something equally as amazing as the ball |
| Leslie's talk/meditation evenings a few weeks later. At | | | | of light. For, moving directly over my head there was a |
| the end of the talk she told everyone present that she | | | | group of about twenty red, circular lights, flying in a |
| had had lots of dreams about UFOs the previous night. | | | | double-V formation, one "V" inside the other. Again |
| "Whenever I have these dreams there are lots of | | | | there was no sound, just eerie silence. The objects |
| UFO sightings around," she said. "So if you go out | | | | flew in a southerly direction, parallel the coast. They |
| tonight you may see something. I feel that about two in | | | | appeared to be a few hundred metres in the air, and |
| the morning would be the right time." | | | | within half a minute disappeared behind some trees at |
| Now, being the gullible fool that I am, I decided to take | | | | the end of the road. |
| up the offer. I went to bed at about 11 p.m., but set my | | | | I have had quite a few "interesting" experiences since |
| alarm for 1.45. | | | | that day, but probably nothing quite so extraordinary as |
| When the alarm rang, I managed to drag myself out of | | | | that night. Of all the things that set me on a path of |
| bed. I stumbled around my house for 15 minutes, and | | | | questioning dominant knowledge structures of western |
| then headed outside at 2.00 a.m. sharp. | | | | society, and the road to exploring human intelligence |
| My eyes almost popped out of my head when I | | | | and human futures, this experience was probably the |
| swung the door open and looked up at the sky. For | | | | most significant. |
| flying right in front of me in the clear night sky was | | | | What were those things I saw that night? How on |
| something I had never seen before. I can only describe | | | | earth did Leslie know that they were going to be there |
| it as a large ball of luminous white light, about a third the | | | | at that precise time, merely from a dream? Why are |
| size of a full moon. The thing was probably a few | | | | these kinds of phenomena still a taboo topic in modern |
| hundred metres in the air, and was floating eastwards | | | | science and academia? I'm still asking these questions |
| at about 90 degrees above the horizon. There was | | | | today. |
| absolutely no sound, and it seemed to be gliding on air. I | | | | |