EXPLORER 2 7 heat, and it's not affecting me... it's getting very, very bright, and my capsule is turning into certain shades of green to shut out some of this bright white light... spin- ning very, very rapidly into this hot molten star... ooh... so bright... As it is getting brighter my capsule is getting darker... I can see... ooh... nothing but gas and fire, and really bright... I can see all of a sudden all sorts of... colours... I can see many spectrums of the sun... I'm.... I'm shooting through them... it is a sun... shooting through ++. I'm going into a red vein... it's nice, everything has turned red, now... red tunnel, shooting rapidly through it. Now I'm going into another part of this spectrum... it's like being so close inside these beams —sun beams— now I'm in a nice blue one, so cool and nice... riding along real fast; things moving along outside... now, getting into an orangy brown beam... real bright orange... I've gotten out of the browns... bright yellow one now... rolling over and over... the ball is turning over but I stay upright... I'm getting sideways around the sun... I can hear music... merry-go-round music... inside this star, this sun... I'm seeing... ooh... it's a beautiful garden... my goodness! a very, very... I'm sort of floating around
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now, some fantastic garden... very unusual and bright colours... so bright... flowers of real bright shades... very nice. Now I am told that I'm going to be able to step out and I'll get to sit on some of this foliage, leaves... I'm going to get some other kind of energizing... it's all calm around me... I'm going to step out... they are going to open the door... I'm going to step out... standing now on a huge, huge leaf... in the cup of the leaf there is a little
EXPLORER 2 5 pool... Actually, it's just like a little drop of water small enough... it's like a pool... I step out and step into this nice pool... hum... very blue water... as blue as it can be. I'm completely immersed... feels so good... it's almost like it's not water, but it is water... it's got a lot of energy. I'm under the surface and I can still breathe... it does not even affect me... beautiful... wonderful water... cool, calm, relaxing... Funny, even the colours under the water are changing in this little pool that is on this big leaf... It's now changing into a sort of turquoise and I get different vibrations from it. I can feel my whole body tingle... so nice... I just float around... I realize I can't stay here too long... I have other things to do and can't enjoy myself too long right now... Now, I'm just floating around this gigantic garden. I'm just a little nymph or little diva... jumping around... I find a nice big flower, like a Morning Glory... so big... and I'm so little... it's like a cave... but it's a flower; so I'm standing, all white here... it feels so good... when I step down on it it feels so soft... the pollen is just soft and I sort of bounce around in it. Humm..... Now I'm going to go inside a cave... this flower... wonder-