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D: Well now thatyou are removed nough to look at it objectively,what do you think about thatthing ? P: I don't know. I have never ever, even in my imagination, approached anything like that Idon't know what to make ofit. (Now unemotional) It seems to be a live machine. A machine with life. That's what itis! It's alive ... but it's a machine. I don't know what it is. D: Does it havea consciousness? P: Not an awareness like we do. Not a will like we do. It's nota personality. But it's alive. It takes orders. It knows what to do, and to does it It knows where to go. It knows what it's looking for. And it knows when it finds it. : Isitable to move about? Yes, on its own. I know it's alive because it does. (Revulsion set- ting in again.) I don't like it : Doesit haveany otherappendagesbesides the one thatyou saw? I don't know. Idon't want to look at it too closely. That's okay. You don'thave to. You've already told me a lot. Isense it more than Isee it, because I don't want to look at it. That'sfine. You don'thave to. Doyou think this type of thing has ever happened to you before, oris this the first time? (Sigh) Other times, other lives. First time this life. The channelling mode was receding and Phil's own subconscious was reporting. It was easy for me to tell the difference, because the other was detached and had access to more information, while the : Iwondered, becauseyou semed toknow what was coming, andyou didn't want to go into the ship. Aware of who they were and what they were, and why, before. Well, what happened then? Did this go onfor quite a while? No, not that long. Hard to say. No reference oftime. Told to remember, later forget. Go home, forget. Don'tremember. : They toldyou thatyou wouldrememberit at a later time? No, told to forget. Told toforget all aboutit? Well, was your consciousnessstill separate? Idon't know. I don't know where I am. Idon't know. D: Didn'tyou say earlienhat they showed you somethingin the controlmom? P: Star maps. They showed me where the new planet is. Where 222 The Keeper ofthe Garden part that now spoke was more emotional and very human.