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way. CONTACT THROUGH THE VEIL: | «+ 191 His non-blind high dose was "the most reassuring experience of my life." The separation of his mind and body was effortless, and he decided that "if death is like this, there's nothing to worry about." Chris returned for the tolerance study a few weeks later. He lifted the eyeshades after the first dose and said, There was a set ofmany hands. They werefeeling my eyes andface. It was a little bit confusing. There were more individuals. They were recogniz- ing and identifying me. It was more intimate. Atfirst I thought it was the eyeshades on myface, but it definitely was not! Filling out the rating scale, he added, To get to that space [had to get through some sort ofa non-benevolent space. Itfelt like there were talons and claws there trying to guard it ina These were long mornings and he needed encouragement. I let my intuition guide me: "If need be, let them rip you to shreds, then you can get on with it." Dismemberment is part of the shamanic initiation, isn't it? I felt a dragonlike presence. And, there were the same colors—red, golden yellows. "The colors can be like a drape or a prelude or a curtain. Even though they're so pretty, you can get through them to the other side." Coming out of his second dose he looked stunned, and he grasped for words that seemed inadequate. It was wild. There were no colors. There was the usual sound: pleasant, aroar, a sort ofan internal hum. Then there were three beings, three physi- calforms. There were rays coming out oftheir bodies and then back to their bodies. They were reptilian and humanoid, trying to make me understand, not with words, but with gestures. They wanted me to look into their bodies. I saw inside them and understood reproduction, what it's like before birth, the passage into the body. Once I established what they were communicat- ing, they didn't justfade away. They stayed therefor quite a while. Their presence was very solid. I had been hearing about lots of encounters by then and could at least validate his experience: "You wouldn't expect it." / try and program it and I go in with an idea ofwhat to see, but Ijust