I WENT to bed about eleven o’clock one night, and at once fell into a sound sleep. All at once I felt myself floating up in the air near the ceiling of my room. I looked down and could see my body on the bed. Then I floated out of the house surrounded by a ball of pure white light, as if the walls were not there. I seemed to know where to go, and was headed for a large black cloud. I went right into it and there picked up someone I seemed to know—a man, and started back to the ball of light I had left behind, and floated into it. The man did not seem heavy, but all at once I said to whoever it was, “I have to leave you now, and go back.” At my going, he screamed my name so loudly that I awoke.

As I looked at the clock it was just twelve-thirty, and the thought came to me, “You helped a soul over the border tonight.” The next day a dear friend of mine called me by phone and said her father had passed on at twelve-thirty the night before. Now did I help her father, or what do you make of this?

Your experience was most interesting. It looks very much as if you were called upon to help your friend’s father over the border into the next world that night, and your other experiences show that you are being trained to serve at night on the inner planes.

SHORTLY after writing for the Way Out Course, I was conscious of a presence—it seemed to be with me wherever I went. One night I dreamed I sat with a male companion (I did not know this man) at the edge of a stream of water. The water was clear—I could see the stones beneath the surface. After watching the water some time, we arose and started to walk up a path leading over a hill. Walking a short distance, I looked back over my left shoulder and saw a green monster with dark spots. I was not afraid, but calmly watched him turn and walk away. Then I proceeded on my way, but as I turned, there was a large gray snake with dark gray spots lying to my left and ahead of me. Neither the snake or myself were disturbed. Then I walked up the path.

Regarding your dream, the Presence you are conscious of, is either your Higher Self or some Teacher in Spirit, so that the companion sitting beside you was undoubtedly this Teacher. The stream by whose side you were sitting was the stream of life in which you were permitted to see clearly to the bottom because of the truths you had learned. When you saw the green monster of your lower self that you had left behind and the snake of self which you passed by without concern, it was a proof that you are now on the Path, guided by the truths that will lead you steadily, straight onward to the goal, if you will allow nothing to distract your attention from it.

This is quite unusual. But it was permitted in order that you might see how these truths will light your whole being as they are made a part of your consciousness.