EXPLORER (TC): I had two encounters. The first one was an intelligent being not in any way visual. The second was a woman in her late thirties. She seemed pleased to give me a tour of her environment... I asked her if she was in any way familiar with physical matter existence as I knew it, and she was not familiar with it, and asked me to explain —which was difficult; the explanation is pretty much im- possible... I didn't really know how to explain physical matter... so I asked her if it was alright if I came back and that I would... I wanted to leave to report in.. she seemed a little dismayed that I was taking off after having gotten just part way through the tour... but she said «alright», so I came back, which brings us to the present moment... Contact was established with same female. She was quite sur- prised that I had indeed returned. At first, I began to wonder what this intelligence did really look like to itself. Was I just imposing my own image of humanoid female form? We discussed this realizing that I was creating this image of her and could not really tell whether this was her own image of herself or not... she likewise, creating an image of me
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EXPLORER 3 14 in a likeness that she was familiar with... and whether these likenesses were similar, mine and hers... there was no way to tell, so we left that question. Then I got an itch of some intensity on my neck, and I tried to explain that I existed in another reality besides the one I was sharing with her, and that I had a physical body elsewhere, and that that phy- sical body had an itch on its neck which was disturbing the focus of my attention. And that is why I seemed to be fading in and out as my attention wavered. She seemed to think that was quite incredible... I don't believe she believed be at all. She just kind of ignored that statement, like anyone would ignore somebody who says an irrational thing... I asked her about her physics. She took me to another place where there was another entity, this one male, and there was a writing surface much like a blackboard —but not a black- board— whereupon he attempted to explain the nature of things there. We had no success at all with his writings. The marks he was making on this surface were totally unintelligent to me. After a few efforts, we gave up and tried to go to pictures. All the time we could communicate telepathically. The pictures were Ok. He drew some pictures, and from the telepathic ex-
change I felt that their science, their concept of their ex- istence, and of reality, was in many ways similar to our own, and that they were fixed in that reality. They could not travel out of it, as I had traveled out of physical matter reality. They seemed to believe that they were fixed in their reality and couldn't really travel out of it... I don't know whether they even believe that there was any other reality besides their own...