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THE FOURTH-DIMENSIONAL anxious to explore other lives that Phil may have lived in outer space. I had no idea that some of these may have been in places that were not three-dimensional or physical, such as we are accustomed to here on Earth. Since these are the only kind we are consciously familiar with, I had never even considered the possibility of being able to live in other dimensions. We have been taught that there are only three dimensions in our material world: length, width and depth. The only other dimension I had heard of was the fourth-dimension called "time," which would definitely not be physical or solid. Exploring outer space was turning out to be more complicated than I had first thought. We were to go into areas that were difficult for my mind to comprehend. Phil would not have been expected to depart from familiar ground and go wandering into such strange concepts. The area ofscience fiction would have been much safer. But at least itwas DURING THE NEXT SESSION, when the elevator doors opened Phil saw the outline of tall, jagged, pointed spires against the horizon. I immediately thought he had returned to the same scene that had previously bothered him, the planet where the scientific expedition had died. But he said this was acity. However it did not sound like the same city with the towers and the strange vehicles which he had seen in the other sessions. 59 CHAPTER 7 AFTER THE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE OTHER PLANET, I was never dull as these new and challenging ideas were presented. I never knew what to expect next.