Back Communion: A True Story
Chapters (14)
  1. Cover
  2. Communion: A True Story
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. PRELUDE
  5. ONE
  6. TWO
  7. THREE
  8. FOUR
  9. FIVE
  10. SIX
  11. EPILOGUE
  12. APPENDIX I
  13. APPENDIX II
  14. About the author

And they have a-there's like a swarm of them, they're around me. And I have a feeling — I don't feel very much. I feel very numb and funny. Not bad. It's kind of nice. It's a feeling like you're just sort of numb. And the next thing I know I'm sitting' . I'm still in this thing but I'm sitting in the woos. It's almost as if it became a part of me. Like a — It keeps me in it, you know, but if I move around it stays with me. And I'm not going anywhere, that's for sure.

Because this thing just stays right with me.

"We're sitting in a little — we're sitting in a hole. Like a little hole. I'm just like this.

[Shows a semi-reclining position, hands as if grasping the arms of a chair.] I remembered someone sitting right over there, but now I don't remember it. Or they're not there anymore.

[Pause.] These people are scaring me. Terribly, because... whooof! Right up! Just shot right up. Yeah, that scared the dickens out of me. I saw the trees down there! Now they've got a floor under me again."

"You went up?"

"I just shot right up out of the woods. In this chair. this thing. I just went whoompf, right up out of the woods." (Other people have. reported this sailing up into the air also. I did not see what I entered…Very high?"

"Yeah, you're telling me! I went way up. Right up. I must have gone up a hundred feet.

More than a hundred feet. Up past the trees. Just like that. Whooompf. Right up out of the woods. It was like going up in an elevator. Really felt it. I mean, I felt it. Right up. Whoof!

And now they've got a floor under me. I know this is no dream. I sure hope I get home again.

I'm glad they took that thing away. I'm sitting on a bench in a little room. [Sniffs.] And it smells funny. Smells somethin' like cheese in here. Smells kind of nasty, to tell you the truth.

It's not clean in here. Here's something. Somebody talkin' to me. There is somebody talking to me. Now she walks right past me in the front. And she's wearing a tan... suit. She looks like a little person made out of leather, sort of. I see the head real clearly, and you got — you got — it like, you know, makes you sick. kind of, because you know — I can't — I don't know where this thing could be going." (The little room. usually round, is almost a universal experience. A tan suit is also common, as is the description of the skin. Gloving leather has been described. This being, by the way, did not look even a little human. Her looks coincide with one type of visitor that is often described, especially the eyes.)

"'You know what, I think you are old? Are you old?'