Abdul Jbilou al Jiburi should spare her along with the carpet
W. J. Bonavita
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myself from the physical body, I was seeing things
with a greater perception than ever before. Colors were
new and startlingly vivid.
"Gingerly I got to my feet, and looked about me. To my
horrified amazement I found that my body was lying prone
upon the ground. There was no blood to be seen, but
certainly there was evidence of a nasty bump just over the
right temple. I was more than a little disconcerted, because
the body was breathing stertorously and showing signs of
considerable distress. 'Death,' I thought, 'I have died; now
I shall never get back.' I saw a thin smoky cord ascending
from the body, from the head of the body to me. There was
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no movement in the cord, no pulsation, and I felt sickening
panic. I wondered what I should do. I seemed to be rooted
to the spot in fear, or perhaps for some other reason. Then
a sudden movement, the only movement in this strange
world of mine, attracted my eye, and I nearly screamed, or
should have screamed if I had had a voice. Approaching me
across the grass was the figure of a Tibetan lama dressed in
the saffron robe of the High Order. His feet were several
inches from the ground, and yet he was coming to me
steadily. I looked at him with utter stupefaction.
"He came towards me, stretching out his hand, and
smiled. He said, 'You have nothing to fear. There is nothing
here to worry you at all.' I had the impression that his
words were in a different tongue from mine, Tibetan maybe,
but I understood it, and yet I had heard no sound. There
was no sound at all. I could not even hear the sound of the
birds, or the whistling of the wind in the trees. 'Yes,' he
said; divining my thoughts, 'we do not use sp