Title   : Lifeliner:  Earthquake in India
  Keywords: LIFELINE OOBE MONROE INSTITUTE BRUCE MOEN TEXT

  When great numbers of people die all at once as the result of a large  scale
  natural disaster is there anything Lifelines graduates can do to  assist?
  If hundreds or thousands all die at the same time what happens to  them?
  As a member of a Lifelines research group at The Monroe Institute in  Faber
  Virginai I got the opportunity to get some answers to such questions.   By
  way of sharing these experiences open to anyone who wishes to learn how

Lifeliner:  Earthquake in India

  The Monroe Institute's Lifeline program gave me the
training, experience and confidence to explore beyond my
existence in what we call the physical world.  Through the,
LOVE, understanding and teaching of caring trainers I
learned to provide assistance `over there', to locate and
assist people who no longer live in physical bodies.  I
encourage anyone desiring to learn to explore beyond the
world of physical matter to contact The Monroe Institute in
Faber, Virginia.  By way of sharing experiences open to
anyone who wishes to learn how  . . .
  
  When great numbers of people die all at once as the
result of a large scale natural disaster is there anything
we, graduates of the Lifeline program, can do to assist
them? When so many people make the transition from living in
the physical to living in the nonphysical world in such a
short span of time, what happens to them?
  From my past experience doing retrievals of one person at
a time I've learned that people some times get 'stuck' after
they die.  Often times the circumstances of their death or
beliefs they held about life after death before dying are
responsible for 'being stuck'.   The most common element of
being 'stuck' is that the newly `dead' person is unaware of
others, already living in their new, nonphysical
environment, who are trying to communicate with and assist
them.  The training I received in the Lifeline program
taught me how to get such people's attention and assist them
in making contact with residents of their new environment
who can help them adjust to their new way of living.  Most
often it's a friend or relative who's died before that comes
to meet and assist someone I've retrieved.  So I'm familiar
with providing assistance on a one to one basis. But if
hundreds or thousands all die at the same time, what happens
to them?  Surely some are met by friends or relatives who've
pass on before, but what of the rest who for one reason or
another might be left wandering in the "in-between"?   In
the Fall of 1993, while living near a little town called
Nellysford in Virginia, I had the good fortune to
participate in a Lifeline research group at The Monroe
Institute.  Being a member of this group gave me the
opportunity to learn much about the answers to these
questions.
  
  Once a month Dr. Rita Warren led the research group of
Lifelines program graduates who lived in or were visiting in
the area.  I was fortunate to have participated for several
months in this group's activities exploring many different
aspects of the human, 'after death' experience.  I had
previously attended two Lifelines programs at The Monroe
Institute and had developed some ability to explore Focus
levels 22 through 27 as well as to contact and communicate
with those who live there.  All of the other members of Dr.
Warren's research group had attended at least one Lifelines
program, had developed the skills necessary to participate
in exploring these nonphysical realms and were interested in
doing so.
  Each month Dr. Warren would prepare for our gathering by
selecting a topic or theme for the research and by preparing
a detailed questionnaire. Questionnaires were used to
document, collect and later analyze information from all
members of the group after completing each exploration
session.  We generally started late morning on a Saturday
and finished about 4:00 pm the same day.  The Monroe
Institute donated use of their facilities in The Nancy Penn
Center for our use.
  In a typical first of three exploration sessions our
group would meet in the downstairs lunchroom at The Nancy
Penn Center starting out with a discussion, led by Dr.
Warren.  After everyone had a pretty good understanding of
the intended area of exploration we followed a routine which
is well known to those who have attended programs at the
Institute.  After making a stop at the bathroom, so as not
to be interrupted by that need during the session, we each
proceeded to our own CHEC unit.  Once we were all ready in
our CHEC units the control room operator would start a Hemi-
Snyc tape.  Sounds on these tapes helped facilitate tuning
in to the Focus levels we intended to explore during our
research sessions.  These sounds are piped into the stereo
headphones in each CHEC unit simultaneously and with a
little training make it relatively easy to focus one's
attention in the desired `location'.
  After completing the exploration session each member of
the group would fill out the survey questionnaire previously
prepared by Dr. Warren.  This was done before any discussion
among group members while everything was still fresh in our
minds.  In this way each member's experience was recorded in
a systematic way for future reference.  The method insured
that each member's information was not cross pollinated by
other members of the group.  After we finished our writing
we returned one by one to the meeting room and waited for
everyone to rejoin the group.
  When everyone had returned to the group all joined into a
debriefing discussion in which first each of us in turn
described what we had experienced during the session.  Then
a group discussion generally ensued in which we compared
notes and talked about how our individual experience and
information fit together or conflicted.  At times this would
lead to some adjustment of the original instructions for the
next session to taking into account what we had just
discovered.
  This pattern of introduction of the topic, CHEC unit tape
session, filling out survey questionnaires and debriefing
discussion was always carried out in three sessions each
month we met.  These were exciting times for me and I always
looked forward to our monthly gatherings to explore beyond
the physical world together in a group with a common intent.
  In the Fall of 1993 an earthquake had killed some 68,000
people in India a week or two before our research group was
to meet.  Dr. Warren chose as a theme for our research the
question, "Is there any way a group such as ours could be of
assistance in a large scale, natural disaster?"  When we met
that month she had prepared questionnaires, a list of
subtopics and questions to be explored during our three tape
sessions.  In our group gathering before the first session
we discussed the topic question in detail and added a few
ideas and questions to the list.  There were perhaps 8 or 10
of us that Saturday morning, ready to explore what I felt
was an interesting and unusual topic.  After we'd finished
talking it over we all left the lunchroom and began the
process of exploring during our first CHEC unit, tape
session.
  I entered my CHEC unit, plumped up the pillow and laid
down under a light blanket to stay warm for the next forty
five minutes or so the session would take. I flipped the
ready light switch to indicate to the control room operator
I was ready to join in with all the other group members and
begin the first session.   After slipping on the stereo head
phones I got into a comfortable position and relaxed,
waiting to begin.
  One of the standard tapes used in the Lifelines program,
one called `Free Flow 27' was provided by The Monroe
Institute for the research group's use.  It was selected
because there is very little verbal instruction on the tape.
It starts with sound patterns assisting movement to Focus 10
and then gradually moves to Focus 27.  In the Fall of 1993 I
still felt the need to rely on taped Hemi-Snyc sounds to
move me to the various states of consciousness I'd learned
to explore during the Gateway Voyage and Lifelines programs.
Since then I've found the program trainers were telling the
truth when they told us once we learned how to focus our
attention using the tapes we wouldn't need them anymore.  So
now I very seldom listen to any Hemi-Snyc tapes except the
ones I receive each month with the newsletter I get as a
supporting member of the Institute.  So, there in my CHEC
unit, I settled in with the head phones on and listened as
the Hemi-Snyc sounds of `Free Flow 27' began.
  As I felt myself relaxing into the Focus 10 sounds I
expressed my intent to learn how I might assist in the
aftermath of the India earthquake as a member of our
Lifelines research group.  Peering into the 3D blackness
before my closed eyes, I waited for something to happen.  As
I approached and moved through Focus 25, on my way to Focus
27, I notice a large influx of people taking place.  It
seemed as though many of the earthquake victims were drawn
to specific areas of  Focus 25, the belief system
territories, which resonated with their particular after
death beliefs.  I "saw" how by using certain symbols and
characters, particularly from their religious beliefs, one
could attract their attention and assist in moving them to
Focus 27.
  I also noted that the sudden, unexpected and unexplained
appearance of so many people in Focus 25 affected those
already living in these areas.  From previous experience I
had come to understand that people "locked" in a belief
system territory could be loosened when they felt a conflict
between their surroundings and their beliefs.  Though I
didn't understand the exact details something about huge
numbers of people materializing in their midst caused some
of the inhabitants to doubt something critical in their
beliefs.  In these moments of doubt some seemed to move
automatically to Focus 27.  Looking back I suspect there
were Helpers I didn't see assisting these folks in the move.
  
  When I reached Focus 27 I again expressed my intent to
learn how I might assist in the aftermath of the India
earthquake as a member of the Lifelines research group. I
shifted to Focus 23 and peered, intently, into the 3D
blackness before my nonphysical eyes.  In that field of
blackness a small patch of bright, vivid green, mixed into
the grainy, 3D blackness attracted my attention.  I felt
myself accelerating toward the patch.  Moving through it I
emerged out the other side of it flying, perhaps a 80 yards
above the ground, cruising along at a pretty good clip, over
low, gently rolling, lush, green hills.  It was a bright,
clear, sunny day and off toward the horizon, a little to my
right, I could see two of thin columns of white smoke.  They
were close together, rising slowly into a clear, blue sky.
Not knowing what to expect I turned slightly and headed
straight for the columns of smoke curious about where they
were coming from.
  I don't remember approaching close to the smoke columns.
Instead the next thing I remember is standing at the edge of
what looked like a small, tent city, relief camp. Beyond the
edge of the camp, in the distance I could see people in
small groups or by themselves walking toward this small,
tent city from the surrounding countryside. Off to my left
people were forming a line, which was almost continuously
fed by those walking in from the countryside and entering
the camp. Apparently victims of the quake, they looked tired
and dazed as the entered the line.  There were other people,
workers in the camp, greeting them as they moved through the
line, handing them blankets, food and water and instructing
them to follow the person in front of them.  Near where the
workers were handing out food I recognized the source of the
thin columns of smoke I'd seen as I first approached the
camp, flying above the ground.  There were cooking fires in
a couple of places in the camp where food was being prepared
for the quake victims.  The smoke columns were rising
straight up, high into the windless sky from those small
fires.  With my eyes I slowly followed the line of people as
they moved through the camp single file.  Off to my right I
could see what appeared to be an opening of some kind.  It
was dark on the outside looking like the opening to a cave
incongruously sitting there on the flat, open ground.  The
opening led into a tunnel, also dark on the outside, whose
walls were semitransparent.  Looking closely, through the
walls of the tunnel, I could see the line of people, each
continuing to follow the person in front of them as they'd
been instructed by the camp workers.  Dazed and not very
aware of their surroundings most were still carrying their
bowls of food, blankets and cups of water.  Some, looking
around and ahead inside the tunnel, were curious about the
lights and colors they were seeing but continued to walk,
following the person ahead of them.  None of them seemed to
be aware that just a short distance away from the opening
the tunnel lifted up off the ground and continued upwards
into the sky.  It looked like a long, dark, twisting tube
extending far off into the distant sky.  From where I was
standing I couldn't see where the tunnel went as the other
end of it was too far away to see.  I was wondering about
where the tunnel went when I first became aware of someone
standing behind me and a little to my right.  I later
realized he had been there talking to me from the moment I
set foot in the camp, pointing out its various features and
explaining how it operated.  I can't say I ever heard his
voice, it was more like I felt it and although I met him
several times during each of the three sessions of this
research, and once several years later in Oklahoma City, to
this day I've never seen him .
  As I was looking at the tunnel, wondering about where it
went I became aware of feeling his voice as he said, "It's a
method we use to transport large numbers of people from here
to what you call Focus 27, The Park or The Reception Center.
On the other end of the tunnel there are more Helpers as you
call them, who meet individually with each of the people who
arrive.  Those Helpers make contact with each of the people
and assist them in making their transition to life in their
new environment.  To some it's explained that they died in
the earthquake and they are now in a safe place.  Others are
allowed to come to this realization in their own time.  Some
of the Helpers meeting them are friends, relatives or loved
ones who've come to meet them and to help handle the influx
of people from the quake.  Others are volunteers who join in
to help on their own.
  As I continued looking around the camp he explained that
the smoke from the cooking fires was one of the ways they
attracted people to the camp.  He told me some of the people
had no doubt seen such camps, or pictures of them, while
they were still living in the physical world.  This
particular camp had been constructed to look just like a
physical world camp so as to fit in with what people
expected to see.  That way, he explained, people tended to
remain calm and were much easier to assist since they felt
themselves to be in familiar surroundings.  It must have
taken 20 minutes or so of earth time for him to show and
explain to me the what and how of this camps' operation.   I
know the timing  from the timing of events on the Hemi-Syncr
tape.  Somewhere in late in our  conversation I heard the
verbal instructions on the tape saying it was time to return
to my CHEC unit in Virginia.  I explained to my host that I
had to leave to go back to where my body was in Virginia and
I would return in a little while to learn more about how I
could be of assistance.  He seemed to understand what I was
trying to communicate to him.  I turned my attention back to
the sounds of the tape and followed them to my familiar
place in the physical world.
   I stayed in my CHEC unit for a minute or so after the
tape ended, giving myself a little time to remember all that
had happened.  Then I switched off the ready light to let
the person in the control room know I was back, moved out of
the CHEC unit and sat down at a desk to fill out the
questionnaire. Finishing the form I walked over to the
downstairs lunch room, grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down
to wait for the remaining members to rejoin the group.
After everyone was back we started our debriefing session
and listened as each in turn shared what they had just
experienced.
  For the most part, at first, it seemed as though each
member of the group had been in a different place.  It was
almost like we hadn't been together as a group at the same
site.  I recognized some similarities as people talked about
their experiences, about the countryside they had seen, or
the people they'd watched walking.  A few had been in
contact with people, some of these sounded like earthquake
victims, some sounded like various kinds of Helpers.  As we
all talked I began to realize each had a story at this point
in the exploration that indicated most of us had arrived at
some aspect of the site.  None of us saw how our own
individual experience fit together to form an overall
picture yet. Each seemed to be involved in areas which
seemed quite different from each other.
  The following descriptions of activities during our first
group session are taken directly from copies of the
questionnaires filled out by members of the original
research group.  These copies were provided for this article
by Dr. Warren in July of 1995.
  One member of the group, BW, had met with a group of
guides in Focus 27.  Their advice was that we should, "act
as a group in sending `Light'.  That a large number of
people were stuck in the darkness of fear, frustration and
hopelessness."  And that sending "the energy of `Light'
could lift these so they could go on."
  Another participant, ND, described how, after placing her
intent, "many people began to appear instantly.  At first I
was a little worried (that I might let them down) but almost
immediately a tunnel opened up on my left.  A kind of gang
plank was put down."  People, earthquake victims, "began
filing up the plank" in large numbers.  ND then went on to
describe that people on the other side of the tunnel "were
reaching out their hands to help them through the door of
the tunnel.  Large masses of people moved out steadily and
calmly".
  TA, described standing behind me in Focus 23, watching as
a "known Indian leader" was "telling Bruce about the needs
of his people".  "People seemed to be in hovels, attempting
to care for themselves and each other.  Bruce and I
communicated with those in 27 to receive instructions.  All
was in place for those in the `camp' to go to areas of food
distribution, for us to float over the crowd and call to
people to follow us.  Many would go to 25 and that would
cause a disturbance there and many from 25 would also go to
27 in the confusion".
  Two other group members described being up in the air
examining some sort of tube in the sky.  While another
received the message that our group should try to educate
more people on earth about death and dying.  This would help
fewer people to be "stuck' in 23 in the first place.
  It was interesting to reread the questionnaire I had
filled out immediately after that first session.  Doing so
jogged my memory and added detail I'd forgotten in the two
years since the experience.  In response to the question,
"what information did you receive?", I'd written:
  "Relief  `tent city' as a means of gathering many
together, use religious beliefs, to act as a `floating
figure' above the crowds", and that "Focus 25 retrievals"
could be done.
  "In such cases `tent cities' have been formed with a
focus on providing food and shelter.  These can be a means
of concentrating the newly dead.  In their stunned, dazed
state this is what they expect and see.  Calling them to a
non-physical version of these (tent cities) is a starting
point."
  "Focus 25 serves as a buffer.  There's an opportunity to
assist large numbers in NOT stopping in 25 by portraying
figures the people will see as Spirits.  Floating or flying
above crowds, calling to them to follow can induce many to
do so."
  Responding to the "Other features of the experience"
question I'd written:  "Located TA (a friend and member of
the research group) and was in contact throughout most of
the tape".
  After completing our debriefing session we began to
prepare for exploring the next phase of our research.  In
the second exploration session we were to try to recontact
any one we might have met during the first one and ask that
person how we might be of assistance.  After Dr. Warren made
sure we all understood what we were to do, we each picked up
another blank survey questionnaire form and headed back
towards our CHEC units.
  After settling in with the head phones on I switched on
the ready light, then relaxed, waiting for the tape to
begin.  I was excited at the prospect of going back to the
earthquake site and again communicating with the guy I'd met
in the previous session.  When the taped sounds started I
focused my intent on the camp and waited.  In a few seconds
I found myself standing back in the relief camp, I could
feel the one I'd met last time standing, still unseen,
behind me and little to the right.  I opened my intended
conversation with him by asking if he was there.
  "Yes, I'm here," I felt him say.
    "Well I'm, back to visit with you again", I said.
    "Yes I knew you'd be coming so I waited here for you",
he replied.
  "This time I'm here to ask, if there's anything I can do
to assist you and your team of Helpers?".  I'd like to
assist you in some way if I can, is there any way I can be
of help", I thought out to him.
   "As a matter of fact there is", he replied, "we can use
you as bait."
  "As bait?", I asked, a little puzzled at his use of the
term.
  "Yes, part of our problem is attracting people into the
camp who are wandering around out in the countryside.  We
rely on our cooking fire smoke and there are some of us who
fly over the area trying to get people's attention.  But
since you still live in a body it will be much easier for
them to see and hear you.  We'd like to fly you around,
beyond sight of our smoke, close to the ground.  If you'd
just get the attention of anyone you see and direct them
toward the camp it would be a great help."
  "OK", I said, "If being bait, as you put it, would be a
great help I'm willing to give it a try".
  "These two will accompany you and provide an attention
getting function that will make your part easier to play."
As he said this I was joined by two of the brightest, most
brilliant, shining lights you can imagine.  It took me a few
seconds to realize these were humans in a form I was
unfamiliar with.  Each of them were easily twice my 6'-4"
height and a little over twice the diameter of my waist at
their middle.  They were long, slender oval shapes, gently
tapering from their four foot diameter at the middle to
perhaps a foot and a half diameter dome at both their tops
and their bottoms.  And their Light!  They shined so
brightly I couldn't bring myself to stare directly into
their centers.  A trait I share with most humans I guess,
concern about damaging our eyes by staring into very bright
lights.  A totally unnecessary concern I might add, since I
was not looking at them with my physical eyes!
  This trait comes under the heading of `human force of
habit' as I've come to call them and they're part of the
reason I could be used as bait. There are many `human forces
of habit' those of us still living in physical bodies carry
around with us without being aware of them.  Things like
gravity, solid matter, privacy of our thoughts and many,
many more that we act out of subconsciously, come under my
heading of `human force of habit'.  As a result we tend to
act more `physical body human' than someone who for example
hasn't lived in the physical world in a while.  It's my
understanding we project these `habits' out at a
subconscious level even in non-physical environments.  We
tend to wear `bodies' that look like physical bodies, speak
in human sounding voices and carry with us a myriad of other
human like traits.  That somehow makes us more easily seen
and heard by the `new goners' as someone once called the
recently deceased.  Those who have recently `died' evidently
pick up on our subconscious projections and we're more
familiar and recognizable to them than the nonphysical
environment they now exist in.  Any way, the fact that I
still resided in a physical body meant that I could best
assist as bait.
  The two bright light people had positioned themselves on
either side of me so our "waists were side by side and they
each extended about three feet above my head and below my
feet.  Thinking back on it now we must have looked like a
giant butterfly, when we flew above the ground.  In the
center I might have looked like the body of a butterfly with
the two bright light people on either side as wings.  We
could have also looked very much like some people's
descriptions of an angel, a human body with a bright halo of
wings.   Shortly after they joined me, one standing on
either side of my `body' we gently lifted up off the ground,
accelerated away from the camp and flew toward the horizon.
  At first I was busily scanning ahead, looking for people
on the ground below us. Some time after the camp was out of
sight, beyond the horizon behind me, I spotted the first
people walking on the ground ahead.  As we approached them
they looked up and I could tell the bright light people
beside me had first attracted their attention.  So they were
bait too.  What we must have looked like to those first
people I saw on the ground!  Two brilliant lights up in the
sky, out shining the sun, on either side of a man waving his
arms and legs, pointing toward the horizon and yelling,
"There's a relief camp over that way, they've got food,
water and blankets.  Look for the smoke rising up from the
cooking fires and follow it to the camp".  I'm sure the two
light people got a good chuckle or two at my animated,
amateur antics.
  I didn't realize at any time during this session, during
this experience, that the two bright light people ever spoke
to me.  I remembered it much later, but at the time I wasn't
consciously aware of it.  After the first few people we
found walking on the ground below, with the bright light
people's unspoken influence, I toned down my approach, no
more waving arms, yelling and pointing.  After that we
established a pattern of approaching from low in the sky,
perhaps 25 feet up, until the people on the ground noticed
the bright lights.  Then moving slowly, almost majestically,
we would slowly, gently descend.  Then, hovering just up off
the ground, close to them, smilingly, I'd talk in a more a
conversational tone.  I'd explain to them about the relief
camp, the smoke, food, water and blankets.  Then extending
my arm slowly I'd turn pointing in the direction of the
camp.  I was striving to appear like an angel to the people
we encountered.  I drew on every angelic picture I could
remember to give a really convincing impression.
  After a while I caught on that I didn't need to look for
people on the ground any more, the bright light people did
all that.  These guys definitely knew what they were doing.
All I had to do was play my part, smile, greet people and
point out the way, the bright light people handled all the
locating.  We had probably found 15 to 20 people when my
role was suddenly cut short by the signals I heard  from the
tape through my headphones.  Those signals indicated it was
time to return to Virginia and my CHEC unit.   I thanked the
bright light people for their help in my learning about
assisting by being bait.  As the scene of the sunlit
countryside and the image of those two brilliant lights
around me slowly faded and dissolved into blackness I turned
around and headed back.  After arriving in my CHEC unit I
again switched off the ready light and moved to the desk to
record the details of the experience.  After that I headed
off to the lunch room to debrief with the other members of
the research group.
  As we each told the stories of our experience in the
debriefing session a picture of our group interaction in the
Focus 23 version of the India earthquake began to emerge.
This time most of us had found our way back to the
earthquake area.  We each had arrived at the site in
different locations, some in different parts of the camp.
Others were out in the country side, with people who'd died
in the quake.  Still others, had been up in the air
assisting other Helpers with the tunnel that exited the camp
and went up to The Reception Center at Focus 27.
  BW had, in her words, "been given a tour of an area of
rubble" by a guide she met in Focus 27.  Many people had
been buried alive and were "stuck in fear, disorientation
and loss of energy".   She reported that she and the guide
"sent light energy" into the piles of rubble as the guide
explained this "would be providing a `spirit pathway' for
those who had been buried alive".
  Another member, RW, "saw moving streams of people both in
(Focus) 23 and (Focus) 25".  She "observed this while
holding a golden light on the flow" of people.
   Some members of the research group had been aware of
each other being near by, carrying out similar activities.
After realizing we could gather together we decided as a
group that during our next tape session we would try to meet
as a group and set up our own mass retrieval station
somewhere near the site of the earthquake.
  Back to our CHEC units, headphones and relax. The tape
started, I felt a shift and then found myself standing on a
grassy field, out in the countryside taking in the view.  It
still looked like a bright, cloudless, sunny day, generally
flat terrain, short, green grass and vast open fields.
   Teena, a Lifelines trainer and participant in the group,
came into view, smiling, a short distance away.   She was
not looking directly at me but rather had her smiling gaze
turned toward my left, a far off look in her eye.  As I
looked more closely at her I could feel she was extending
her LOVE outward, filling the countryside in all directions.
The LOVE she was extending took the form of a bright beacon
of light, shining outwards in front of her .   Some of the
light from this beacon was spread out over a wide area,
illuminating a broad expanse of the nearby terrain.  There
was a central portion of this beacon which was more tightly
focused, brighter and more intense.   A little like a
lighthouse beacon, the tightly focused part beamed a
brilliant shaft of light deep into a black fog at the far
edge of the countryside.   I was a little surprised to see
the black fog, I hadn't notice it in any of our previous
sessions.  I seemed to form an edge of some kind between the
area we could see and a dark unknown.   I felt all of the
LOVE/Light set up a field with an attractive force for
anyone who came in contact with it.  With her arms extended
slightly downward and out to her sides Teena's smile invited
everyone.
  I could also see what I would describe as an opening,
forming next to her.  This opening  looked like the opening
to a tunnel much like the one I'd seen exiting the tent city
relief camp.  I moved closer to her, taking up a position on
her left, joining in, intending to lend my `energy' to the
beacon she was beaming outward from near the opening to the
tunnel.  I noticed as I joined in with Teena that the
intensity of the beacon increased not twofold, but more like
four to six times it previous brightness.  The edge or
boundary between the black fog in the background and the
well lit countryside in the foreground move further away
from us.  Illuminated countryside extended further away from
us now, the dark, black fog area now being lit up by our
combined `energy'.  The tightly focused part of the beam had
expanded in diameter, penetrating deeper into the dark fog.
  As we stood there I watched other members of the research
group joined us, one by one, lending their `energy', adding
to the size and intensity of the beacon.  Each one joining
increased the intensity of the beacon by orders of magnitude
rather than by the simple addition I kept expecting.  Each
one joining illuminated more of the countryside,  extending
it to the horizon some time before the last person joined
our group effort.  Members joined at all different levels,
some above me, floating close by in the air, others beside
or behind me.  All of us were connected, like we were
holding hands, but not with our hands.  It was more like our
individual outer boundaries became thinner and thinner until
we joined into being one entity projecting LOVE out into the
former darkness of Focus 23.  Looking out into the
countryside I could see people, quake victims, turning
toward the beacon we were projecting.  As they did they felt
attracted to our location, the source of the beacon and
began walking toward us.  I watched as they moved closer and
entered the opening we had made, I looked back over my
shoulder, to see where our opening led.
  It transformed into a tubular structure that lifted up
off the ground and headed off into the sky, just like the
one I had seen at the camp.  I could clearly see the two
research group members who had earlier been observing the
tunnel that exited the camp.  They were behind me, high up
off the ground and appeared to be directing their intent
toward forming and maintaining our tunnel to Focus 27.  I
could see through the walls of our tunnel and see the people
who had entered the opening at ground level.  They were
walking easily, unafraid, some wide eyed and marveling at
the view ahead of them as they moved forward.  We continued,
as a group together, providing the beacon, opening and
tunnel to The Reception Center for people who'd died in the
earthquake until the tape sounds indicated it was time to
return.  Our group then separated back into ourselves,
reforming our individual boundaries, and we moved apart to
return to Virginia.  I don't know what happened to the
opening we made there from the earthquake site to Focus 27.
As I left I felt a feeling of accomplishment and gratitude
for the opportunity to learn through the experience.
  After returning to my CHEC unit I got up, filled out my
questionnaire and headed into our debriefing session.  All
but one of the people in the research group had some
recollection of the group activity we had shared in.  As we
shared our experience and talked during debriefing I found
myself looking closely at each member.  Some of them I'd met
for the first time today and I was not entirely familiar
with their physical appearance.  I found myself comparing
how they looked now with how they looked as we had gathered
together, forming the beacon in India.  I decided the
similarities were not so much in how they looked now in the
lunch room but rather how their appearance made me feel.  I
left, that day, feeling much closer to these people and
grateful for their participation in our research.
  Looking back at the original intent of the research
project we carried out together in October of 1993 I find
the results fascinating.  I'd met Helpers before who'd
assisted me in doing retrievals of individuals.  But we had
learned in this experience that there are teams of Helpers
who work together in large scale disasters.  These Helpers
had put together a scenario, based on what was known about
the people they expected to find.  In this case the tent
city relief camp was used because it would fit in so well
with what the people they were retrieving expected.  It was
such a smooth, well thought out operation.  Their system was
designed to minimize any shock people might experience at
learning they had `died'.  The subject didn't come up for
any of them until they were already transported to The
Reception Center in Focus 27.  Most arriving at Focus 27
were allowed to become aware of their `deaths' in their own
time, at their own pace.  All were allowed to gradually move
from the earthquake site to a place where they were greeted
by and reunited with friends, relatives or Helpers.  I still
marvel at the gentle, effective manner in which this team
handles such situations.  Things like using the smoke from
cooking fires to attract people to the camp was so simple
and so natural.   It used victims' desire for food, water
and shelter at a relief camp to ease them into
communications with those who were waiting to assist them.
From my retrieval experiences of individuals this is an
important point.  Without contact with others shortly after
`dying' some people become `stuck' in situations of their
own making.  If they get `stuck' it can be very difficult to
reach them, not unlike trying to awaken them into a lucid
dream as a character in their dream.  The method this team
used took roles in the `dream' most of the quake victims
were already in.  They worked together to fit into that
dream of the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in a way
that was completely acceptable to the victims.  There wasn't
any reason for them to doubt the reality of the relief camp,
the people handing out food, water, blankets and words of
encouragement.  I still marvel at it.  And the nice touches
like giant, bright angels floating through the air to meet
them were outstanding.  These `angels' fit into the
religious beliefs of many of the people I had encountered
while being used as `bait'.  I had watched some of those
people walking away from where we lingered, the two bright
light people and I, hovering just above the ground, those
people were talking about us.  They would look back at us
sometimes in disbelief, talking to other members of their
little group excitedly, saying things like, "Did you see
that too?"  They were completely unaware of the fact they
were `dead' and they were looking forward to telling others
at the camp that the way had been pointed out by an angel,
or by whatever Spirit Being of their beliefs we looked like!
This team we'd met really had all the bases covered!  I know
that they or other teams like them show up where ever they
are needed to assist large numbers of victims in making the
transition.
  Taking part in Dr. Warren's research I learned that a
group of people still living in physical bodies can assist
when such large numbers of people die in a short span of
time.  We learned about being bait, about projecting LOVE
and light, about making openings and tunnels to The
Reception Center and about working together as a team.
Whenever I read in the newspaper or see on TV a story about
some big disaster I think about my experience with Dr. Rita
Warren's research group in the Fall of 1993.
 Little did I know at the time we did this exploration that
I would meet the same India earthquake, relief camp Helpers
in another large scale disaster in Oklahoma City on April
19, 1995.  I'm so grateful to have met them in India, to
have learned a little about assisting in a disaster
situation which was, emotionally, relatively calm. A year
and a half later in Oklahoma City was anything but
emotionally calm.  A terrorist bomb killed 169 people, most
in the blink of an eye.  I started doing retrievals sitting
on a stool in a Bennigans restaurant waiting for my dinner.
The emotional energy of the bombing site was so powerful and
intense I needed all the help I could get.
  Every time I think back to my experience later in
Oklahoma City I express my gratitude to those Helpers and
all Helpers everywhere who do this work.  I especially want
to express my love and gratitude to Dr. Warren, the woman
who introduced me to this facet of retrieval work.  Thank
you Rita!