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Contact Throegh the Veil: mm 1 he material in this and the next chapter is the most unusual and diffi- 185 cult to understand. It is the weirdest and the easiest for me to skirt when people ask "What did you find?" When reviewing my bedside notes, I continually feel surprise in see- ing how many of our volunteers "made contact" with "them," or other beings. At least half did so in one form or another. Research subjects used expressions like "entities," "beings," "aliens," "guides," and "help- ers" to describe them. The "life-forms" looked like clowns, reptiles, mantises, bees, spiders, cacti, and stick figures. It is still startling to see my written records of comments like "There were these beings," "I was being led," "They were on me fast." It's as if my mind refuses to accept what's there in black and white. It may be that I have such a hard time with these stories because they challenge the prevailing world view, and my own. Our modern approach to reality relies upon waking consciousness, and its extensions of tools and