ALL OF US ARE THE VIRTUALS OF 1st GRADE LEVEL

ALL OF US ARE THE VIRTUALS OF 1^st GRADE LEVEL

(An excerpt from THE VIRTUALS)

“OK! Tell me one thing; did you ever have an out of the body experience?”

Grandpa was taking a longer approach to reconciliation. “I mean, when you felt like your soul was out of your body, roaming around, seeing things.”

“No, never! But Bibi ma…uh…our guardian, told us some mythological stories in which ancient sages could do that. It is certainly not something anybody could do!”

The old man flashed a mysterious smile. “On the contrary, boy, it is something everybody does on a regular basis, mostly while they are asleep and sometimes when they are unconscious. And you too are one of them!”

“I... I don’t believe it! If I did such an unimaginable thing, I’d remember it, won’t I?” Peat almost stammered.

“Not necessarily, you won’t! Simply because what roams out from a person’s body is his Conscience, his mental self, consisting purely of Thought Waves! We prefer to call it soul in general terms. But what a normal person is unable to do is to detach his five basic senses from his physical form and carry them with his astral Thought Form! That’s why his experiences are never registered and cannot be decoded by his conscious mind. Brain can only process the data coming through the Senses!”

Peat was finding it quite interesting.

“Means I could go out of my physical form but wouldn’t remember anything as then I had no senses!”

“Exactly!” Grandpa’s efforts for getting Peat’s attention were paying off. “It’s simply because people are too used to comprehend the world through their physical senses. But sometimes the astral experience becomes so strong that it permeates through to the conscious brain and is seen by the person as a weird dream, because that’s how the brain interprets it!”

The old man took a pause to gauge whether Peat was following him or not. Peat was all ears! He was finding the talk quite engrossing.

The old man continued.

“We Virtuals become more active at night. During night time, there are millions of Consciences of sleeping humans floating around, enough to pick and choose, to make contact with and get them to carry out our regular chores. They are of great help, of course. Without them we’d be working at a very slow pace. And you know the best thing about it is that they don’t even remember it! Some who do, dismiss it just as a weird dream. They are what we call the 1^st degree of the Virtuals!”

Peat could neither keep his mouth closed nor flap his eyelids! He felt completely fascinated.

“You mean to say, almost everyone is a Virtual, but they just don’t know it!”

“As part-timers, yes! The few who have experienced it, don’t understand it. People see astral figures called ghosts, who are in fact Virtuals, making accidental or intentional contact with the person. Many feel unseen presences, or something roaming around. All of these are loose Consciences, some of which are good and some bad too!”