Excerpts from Most People Talk Bullshit, Exodus, Vince' Gym & Conversations with Neo

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

My Encounter With The Dwarf

      Aside from the levitation incident, life went along as usual. I hit another plateau in my training and allowed myself to be seduced into a night of drinking, the first in a very long time. I went out with my friends Johnny Q., Don Hangman and Big John Baloney. Big John had a stepsister I’ll call Glory. I had a major crush on her, or, to be more accurate, I lusted for her immensely.

      We decided I was too drunk and tired to drive all the way from Bridgeport to Phoenixville, so I was given the couch at Big John’s. His stepfather and mother had gone to bed much earlier and all of our friends had left. John and Glory decided to turn in. As I lay on the couch in a drunken stupor, I decided to try another OBE. It had been a habit of mine to do this every night for several months. Most times I failed, but I had been attempting it every night. I suppose I tried because occasionally when I drink, I have trouble going to sleep. Perhaps it had to do with reasons of lust and curiosity. Who knows?

      I went through the usual rituals and finally managed to emerge from my body. As I peered down at my body, I noticed that I looked like hell. It was obvious that had really tied one on. I looked around the room as usual to make sure everything was where it should be, to make sure it wasn’t a dream. Unlike dreams, when I had an OBE, everything in the room or house was always as it should be.

      For example, there was never a time when a certain piece of furniture was missing when it should have been there, although on a few occasions there were certain items in sight that did not belong in the room—on a few occasions there were entities.

      I felt both light and sluggish. It was tough to navigate, but went up the stairs, thinking to go into John’s room, wondering if I could see him. A light was coming from under his door. I looked over to Lori’s door and, although there was no light, the door was cracked open about a foot. Looking in, I could see it was dark as an abyss. I was toying with the idea of trying to see what she was doing or attempting to wake her, motivated by a lower, baser drive than any concern of spiritual evolution. Just as I was attempting to look into the darkness, I sensed someone or something looking at me.

      Sitting on the banister, near the door to John’s parent’s room, was a dwarf. My heart stopped. This was the first time I had encountered an entity face-to-face. The other had been out of the corner of my eye. The dwarf was staring at me, the expression on its face was absolute malevolence.

      He was swinging his legs back and forth like a child on a chair that’s too tall for it. The dwarf didn’t say a word. With unexpected suddenness, the demonic dwarf leaped off the banister and scuttled toward me with hideous speed. The dwarf’s hands were held forward and high, as if anxious to claw me to death, his mouth a wide-open, evil grin. “Death dwarf”, my mind screamed and in my terror, I felt my non-ordinary body zip down the stairs and jolt back into my alcohol besotted body. As if a switch was flicked, I leaped up with a yell of terror, running around the room turning on all the lights.

      It was a long time before I messed with attempting another OBE.     

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

The ‘Look’ From Mr. Chang

      Within a week of confronting my growing angst over my life, I went to the King of Prussia mall alone, wanting to immerse myself with people. As I was going thru the mall, I noticed several hundred people milling around upstairs. They were watching a martial arts exhibition from Chang’s School of Martial Arts, of all places. I was standing behind several tall people, barely able to squeeze through to watch the exhibition.

      Mr. Chang and his advanced students were demonstrating their amazing skills with each other to the crowd. I couldn’t wait to say hi to Mr. Chang, as it had been years since I had seen him, the last time being right before I went into the Marines; I had been five foot six inches tall and weighed only 145 pounds and was more or less clean-shaven. Now I was five foot eight inches, weighed 185 pounds and sported a long, thick bushy beard. I was sure he wouldn’t recognize me and imagined how he would react when I reintroduced myself to him.

I was standing among a crowd of a few hundred people.

      Mr. Chang was coming out of a roll into a standing position when he turned his head and quickly scanned the crowd. I felt his eyes lock on me for what must have been 1/100^th of a second. In that minutia of time I felt as if a high-speed computer was scanning and evaluating everything about me. This type of look was one I would not experience again until meeting another remarkable person years later. Mr. Chang’s exhibition ended five minutes later.

      Right after the exhibition, Mr. Chang immediately marched straight through the crowd with his hand extended and yelled out, “Laz, how are you doing?”

I was blown away!! I re-joined Mr. Chang’s school at once and began meditating again.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

If I Meditate God Will Protect Me!

      I decided to pursue the meditative practices I had given up since the encounter with the dwarf, my thoughts being that the incident had been the result of drinking and a sense I was misusing the potential power

I was tapping into. Perhaps that power, used for the wrong intention, corrupted. Things would be all right now, I thought, since I was no longer susceptible to misusing my potential power. I guess you could say,

“If my heart is true, God will protect me.”

      I had started an even more intensive regiment since getting a job at the at the Federal Agency I was now employed. I was 185 pounds, though some of it was beer weight. Looking back, I now realize I was over training by several hundred percent.

I trained too often, did too many reps per exercise and workout. I had hit a wall. For example, on the days I did chest exercises, I would train on the bench press first, starting with 50 pounds and performing 25 repetitions

in a very fast, ballistic manner. Then I would increase the weight by 25 pounds, again performing 25 repetitions until I got to 225 pounds. With that much weight,

I could barely do the 25 reps. I then continued to increase the weight, though only by 10-pound increments, doing as many reps as possible until I reached 350 to 360 pounds.

      Prior to reaching this level, I had been unable to improve, so I started to eat what I called a perfect diet:  two to three dozen eggs a day, no starchy foods, sugar, fruit, alcohol or coffee, plus I consumed lots of water and raw salad vegetables.

      The only cooked vegetable I ate was spinach and I added generous amounts of olive oil to all my food. I ate four to six times a day and took basic supplements and extra brewers yeast.

      Along with this new regiment, I started to employ yoga again, as well as meditation, visualization and hypnosis. In fact my doctor sent me to a highly skilled professional hypnotist. I went three times a week and, just before each set, unconsciously started to use other techniques of yoga such as power breathing and personal mantras. I also lost what little fat I had, dropping to just under 175 pounds. My sex drive, which I already thought excessive, went through the ceiling.

      When I hit another plateau with my training, I still wanted to improve. I had enjoyed new levels of mental and physical highs I had never felt before. I knew (correctly) that proper diet along with a variety of intensive exercise and meditation techniques was the key to achieving mystical events. I also believed that when people were able tap into these mystical events it would help them overcome mental and physical plateaus.

Fasting For Purification and Enlightenment

      As I studied more about yoga and other mind/body disciplines, I became curious about the benefits of progressive fasting. Going without food has always been the toughest thing for me. Even starving was not as mentally difficult as simply going without food. Since working regularly for the past few years, I had made it my mission to not miss a meal. 

      Now I went on a program of fasting a little, eating perfectly, fasting a little longer, and again eating perfectly.

The first day I went without food was tough. The following week, I went two days. It was tougher, with the headaches and lightheadedness being especially bad; the three days the next week were the worst. After that, I did not fast for two weeks.

      The next three-day fast wasn’t so bad. Finally, I went ten days without eating, and even abstained from sex (that was really tough, tougher than going without food). I only drank water and meditated.

      During this time of fasting, my dreams became more colorful and I again tried to have out-of-body experiences.

An OBE Of The Remote Viewing Kind

      Previous to my new regiment, I had gone so long without attempting an OBE that it was tough to try again. It took many attempts before I started to get the familiar sensations. Then I succeeded. On previous attempts, I had come close, but one distraction or another had interrupted me and I had given up and gone to sleep.

      Then one night I was awakened by a noise outside.

I was in bed, listening intently, trying to figure out what was making the noise, when the familiar sensations began. This time, however, the light inside my head was not as bright as during previous experiences. It seemed more like remote viewing, since I could not feel my new body or see any part of it. I did, however, have the sensation of floating. I looked down at the bed and was amused to see that I looked like a mannequin. It was as if my mind’s vision extended beyond my body and would go wherever I directed it.

      I looked around the room, making sure everything was in its place and kept a wary eye out for any dwarfs or other potentially disturbing entities.

      I remained close to my body while I continued to look around. I attempted to alleviate my fears by telling myself that God would protect me. This thought encouraged me to extend my exploration to include the rest of my doublewide trailer. I was able to float my vision to the other side of the room while never moving beyond the sight of my prone body; nothing was where it shouldn’t be. A neighbor’s dog started to howl and this sent a stab of fear into my mind. I felt myself rush back into my body. 

      On other nights, evenings or early mornings,

I awakened to these sensations and would explore around my bed. A few times I could see the outline of my non-ordinary body, though usually it appeared as a perfect shadow outline. Although I could go where my mind directed, the level of control I desired seemed to be lacking. The majority of times I was able to leave my body only after an intensive attempt to do just this. Most of my OBE’s were never as intense as the daytime one

I experienced years before in the Marines. During some of the OBE’s I experienced while fasting, I came across items or furniture that did not exist when I was in my normal body.

      After the first few days of the fast, I felt more energized; my thinking became clearer and I felt more centered. Also, the hunger was gone and I worked out as much as I had before fasting, but now I didn’t use the heavy weights that would force me to do four or less reps.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Night Time OBE – A Higher Level

On the tenth night, I lay in bed. I was not fatigued; it was simply the normal time I went to bed.

I decided to try another OBE. Over and over I experienced the familiar sensations, but each time one thing or another distracted me.    I got out of bed, deciding to work out with weights, doing just one set of all my exercises at 50%. My previous workouts had left me feeling better. I had not increased weight or reps since the fast, but I felt my body and mind aligning towards a more efficient state. It was about quarter after eleven and I still wasn’t sleepy or fatigued. Rather the light workout seemed to both energize and relax me.

      I decided to lie down again, turning out all of the lights, even the lava lamp. There was extensive cloud cover and no moon to light the midnight sky, so the room was pitch black. Going through the rituals to attain an OBE, my mind was extremely alert, but also calm, with no scattered thoughts to distract me. Eventually

I felt the same sensations I had in Cherry Point. This was the third time I had experienced every atom in my body vibrating at higher and higher frequencies; my muscles were molten wax.

The humming of the frequencies was deafening, yet not painfully so. The glow of intense bright golden light inside my head filled my world. I fell through the floor.

      Then I was standing over my body. Curiously,

I could see every thing clearly. How could that be? Despite my poor eyesight, I have always enjoyed superior night vision. Yet even with this advantage, the room had been pitch black before I had begun meditating.

      Once again, it was as if my vision was superhuman.

I looked down at my body and it was apparent the fasting had made a difference in my appearance. I was skinnier, yet much healthier. I thought, “Wow, I look as relaxed as humanly possible without being dead.” This thought so startled me that I did a double take. I saw a slight smile of bliss on my face. My breathing was barely noticeable, but I thought, “Nope, I’m not dead.”

      I could see with unusual clarity. I could see the energy fields of all of the articles in the room. I saw that my non-ordinary body was naked, did not surprise me since I always sleep in the buff. My body looked perfectly formed and I could see a type of aura of fluctuating energy fields extending out from my body.

      My non-ordinary body was emanating energy fields that were more colorful and brighter than any of the other articles in the room, and the scintillating waves extended much further than anything in the room, and although I didn’t see it, I had the sense the my energy extended to and perhaps beyond the limits of the universe. I felt that my energy was influence by and in turn, influenced all other energy fields, which I felt also included, all people.

      I looked again at my ordinary body lying prone on the bed. The energy fields generated from my ordinary body was much more dramatic in everyway compared to all articles in the room except for my non-ordinary body which my ordinary body’s energy paled by comparison.

      I wondered if this was because my ‘real’ self was apart from it. I looked around again and I noticed that some of the articles appeared to have their energy more pronounced than other articles.

      Why was that I wondered. Then it hit me, everything that was organic in origin showed more energy.

The wooden pencils and even the sheets of paper and envelopes on my desk showed more intensely. A few balls of paper that I had crumbled up earlier in the day looked especially neat because the whorl of patterns that the crumbled paper had.

      My wooden desk produced more than the cinder blocks that were holding up my bookcase or the Formica counter top in the kitchen. The less processed the organic article, the more energy. The few plants that I kept in the trailer produced even more energy; despite the fact that they were half dead from the inadequate care I had given them.

      It occurred to me to go to the full-length mirror on my bathroom door, and as I looked at the mirror, wondering if I could see myself. I was disappointment instead. I was standing in front of the mirror and I could look down at my non-ordinary form and look back at the mirror and see back behind me as if I was the mirror looking out and there was no one to impair my view of the room. I was disappointed because I felt that if I could see myself that would show me proof of these experiences.

      I also wondered if the reason for not seeing my self had to do with the properties of light, the speed of light, which I knew to be 186,000 miles per second, and uncertain properties of human consciousness. An errant thought that perhaps my consciousness and perception in my ordinary body extended faster than the speed of light. I wondered if the speed of consciousness was faster than the speed of light, or perhaps even instantaneous.

I Tried To Move Material Articles

      I tried to see if I could pick up some of the articles on the desk or to knock on the desktop and failed. I found that my hand passed through without effort.

Why, I wondered, that when I passed out of my body that it felt as if I fell through my bed, and why if my non-ordinary hand passed through the desk instead of feeling resistance of solid form, why was I not falling completely through the earth?

      Perhaps I was able to move around my trailer in a somewhat normal fashion because I expected to.

I pondered this, because even though I felt light, I also felt like I had substance, and when I think about it I realize the lightness seemed to have more to do with feeling an utter lack of strain that even the strongest most athletic person would feel when moving their body.

      But it wasn’t only that. I felt as energized and as powerful as I did when I had that remarkable experience in Cherry Point.

      I felt like I could lift tons overhead or fly at a floating pace or move at light speed or greater or even teleport anywhere in the universe by just a single thought or intention.

      Once again I tried to see if I could influence the movement of something outside of myself. I tried to caress the leaves of one of my poor plants. Nothing happened, except that my hand went through, although the energy fields around both my non-ordinary hand and the plant seemed to vibrate with excitement -- even expectancy?

      I looked at my plants and found myself thinking

I should apologize. Suddenly, it was as if at some cellular level the plant forgave me. No, it seemed to generate love and acceptance. In other words, even though there were no words, I had the sense the plant did not hold my negligence against me.

I Influence Certain Articles To Move

      I tried to caress it again and for my efforts I got just a glow of excited fields. Perhaps I was perhaps trying too hard. Then it hit me. My intellect or my thoughts were getting in my way. I kept the intent and drop the thoughts. Again I tried. Then plants leaves moved in tandem with my fingers! After doing this a few times, I went to my desk and tried to pick up the pencil. No luck. Then I tried using only the intent and finally I had it rolling back and forth!

      I tried it with the plastic pens, but no matter how many times I tried, the pens would not be influenced. I tried going back and forth from pen to pencil; the pencil would move, but the pen would not. I could even influence the balls of paper to skitter a bit on the desk as if a breeze hit it. After much experimentation, I found that I could only influence living things the easiest. Articles that were not “living” but were organic in origin I could also influence, but to a lesser degree.

I thought, the less organic the less influence.

Why Could I See In The Dark?

      What I found exceptionally curious was, though I could see clearly in the pitch black, the experience of sight was different than the bright daylight hours of the Cherry Point OBE. Years later when I looked through night vision glasses, I realized they did not allow me to see everything as if in normal daylight.  During my OBE, I could see I was operating in a dark room, but it seemed the light my non-ordinary eyes were using was emanating from the atomic level. I had experienced nothing like this in my ordinary body. I went past the full-length mirror again and nothing in my life or previous extraordinary experiences prepared me for what I saw.

Is This How Angels Look?

      I could see my entire naked non-ordinary body!

I did not see myself as transparent, but rather filled with energy that was emanating outwards. I cannot describe how beautiful I appeared, though not just from the colorful scintillating energy patterns that made an unusual aura around me. I mean, without any thoughts of conceit or arrogance, that my face and form were as beautiful as I imagined an angel to be. I wondered,

“Is this how angels appear to people?” Gone were the blemishes, imperfections and asymmetry of my ordinary body. “How is it possible that I look so beautiful?”

I asked myself. It was puzzling, as I normally did not like my appearance. I always thought if I could change this or that about my physical body it would be a major improvement.

      I wondered about the aura. It did not look like the auras depicted in biblical paintings, but was unmistakably an aura of sorts. Now I was facing a greater dilemma, having seen nothing before and now seeing a reflection of my non-ordinary body. This made me even more uncertain of my experience. I wondered if I was dreaming instead of having the most incredible of experiences.

      I pondered why I hadn’t been able to see myself in the mirror previously, but now could. Could it that in this reality, time operated differently? Why was I able to look down and see my non-ordinary body both times regardless of whether I saw myself in the mirror? I wondered, “Was reality simply what we made or chose it to be?” I decided to check my perceptual awareness even further.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

My Non-Ordinary Body Goes For A Night Time Stroll

      I don’t know how long I was posing in front of the mirror but I finally decided to see if I could walk out my trailer into the night like a “normal” person. I went to my front door and tried to open it, but my hand kept passing through the knob. I decided to go right through the door. I walked out into the night. Because of the non-ordinary visual system I was blessed with, the darkness was not a barrier.

      “Here I am outside,” I thought, “and everything is so beautiful.”

I walked the streets of the trailer park. Lights were still on in a few trailers and I could see people were still up watching the late shows. I saw a few silhouettes moving behind the curtains and could hear the sounds of the night with more clarity. It seemed I could hone in on an individual cricket and hunt it down anywhere in the park.

      The colors and energy patterns of the trees, bushes, and grass were stunning. I can’t describe the color of green leaves at night seen only from the light of their atoms.

      As I walked, I felt an odd energy mingle with mine, so turned towards that direction. It was coming from the bats flying and flitting about overhead. It was the energy patterns of the radar pulses the bats were emitting. The pulses were going out, the waves colliding with the bodies of other bats, insects, trees, bushes and buildings.

      During each collision I could see a portion of the pulses return to the bats. When the pulses entered my energy fields, I could feel the pulse waves coalesce with mine, but did not see any of the pulses return.

      I could hear the high pitches emitted by the bats, as well as the snappy flitter of their wings.

      I watched for a while as they feasted in the air on swarms of insects.

A Dog Could Sense Me

      I walked on, going by a neighbor who kept a Doberman pinscher. I had a prejudice against Dobermans since my unpleasant dinner with Mr. Granite ten years prior. I disliked this dog even more. It barked incessantly and everybody in the neighborhood was intimidated by it. Anyone approaching the dog, other than the owner, would get a lunging response from the brute, me included. I walked by the front yard where he was kept. The dog had been lying out by the driveway and was chained, but I didn’t want to get too close to him. Walking by, I noticed he looked in my direction as if he could make something out. I turned to see if something or someone was walking behind me. Nothing was there. He started to whimper and whine, wagging his stubby tail and assuming the position of a puppy trying to please its master. The dog acted as if it wanted lots of petting. I was thrilled, but decided not to go near the dog—just in case.

      I walked further through the park and saw an old guy walking his little poodle around the park. “Great,” I thought, “I’ll finally get a chance to see if a person can see my non-ordinary body.”

      I walked up and his little poodle seemed to tell I was there. He was crouching and wagging his tail while whining with pleasure, acting in the same manner as the Doberman.

Hoping To Be Heard

      The old guy kept saying, “What is it, boy? What is it?” I reached towards the dog and he got more excited, just about quivering into pieces. The man was really perplexed. He said, “What is with you, little fella, I‘ve never seen you act this way.”

      I looked at the old guy and could tell he just loved that little dog. I tried to talk to him, hoping that on some level he might hear, see or at least sense me. Yelling very loudly, I said, “Hello! Can you hear me? Sir! Can you see me?”

      I started to dance around the old guy waving my hands to see if this would get his attention.

      He just stood there, because his dog was acting as if he could sense me, acting like the most excited, happiest puppy imaginable. The dog seemed to be tracking me with his eyes and body. The old guy was perplexed and laughing (though a little worried) at the unusual puppy behavior his old pooch was displaying.

      Going further through the park, I startled a cat that arched its back a bit before coming towards me. It walked around and through me purring like mad. I thought if this isn’t real, I’m having one hellva temporal lobe epileptic seizure.

      I thought I’d try one more thing. I thought that perhaps I should try to touch the old man. But the idea of actually touching him made me pause. For some reason, I initially felt a sort of shyness at the prospect, like touching a girl on her private parts without her permission when she’s passed out.

      I thought, “If I just touch his shoulder, it’ll be okay.”

      I succumbed to my temptation and tried to brush his shoulder with my hand, but it just passed through him.

      It is the oddest thing to see a seemingly solid hand pass right through a seemingly solid shoulder. Both of our energy fields appeared to become excited, the colors and energy wave patterns fluctuated faster as both of our fields of energy coalesced. Despite the change of energy, he did not appear to notice or sense anything. At that instant, I experienced an epiphany or sorts.

      It occurred to me, “Is the old guy and me generating these energy fields, or are we just non-ordinary energy field entities generating our bodies? ”

      Words just don’t do justice to the powerful all consuming epiphany that I had just experienced. I tried to brush the old guys shoulder again, and once again my hand passed through him. The only thing he noticed was his excited pooch. 

      It occurred to me to drop my intellectual goal and to move with only intention, the intention to connect and be one with the old guy. I brushed his shoulder again. This time it was different; I was immediately sorry I had touched him. Then I was glad, but felt mixed emotions.

A Touching Experience

      This time when I touched him, the energy between us felt like the fields of a powerful magnet that is quickly alternating between attractive and repulsive properties. This feeling of magnetic energy was much like the experience with Harry, during the bench press session, when the weight had seemingly floated upward. My hand did not just pass through the old man’s shoulder, it seemed to pass through and then pulse out, while our energy fields interlaced and became much more excited.

      Still, a part of me was glad I had touched him, because at that instant I sensed a part of him that was pure love. In that instant, I received a flood of other emotions, thoughts and memories that would take a lifetime to sort out and explain. The old guy lived a life that had been filled with more sorrow, pain and hardship than most people, yet I sensed that his life had also been richer than most in regards to love given, and received, as well as joyous experiences lived and shared.

      As I said a part of me was glad to have touched him because, at that instant at his core I sensed a part of him that was pure love, like my houseplant, yet there was more to it. I got the sense that the part of him that God manifested and also, but not necessary different, but entirely distinct, the love that was from ‘his’ core.

      On some level, receiving all of this was almost overwhelming, even in my superior state. I’m not sure I could have survived it in my ordinary form. All of that sadness, joy, anger, fear, frustration, loneliness, love, pain, sense of loss was almost more than I could bear. And all this was felt in an instant.

      It occurred to me at that instant that I probably could not survive that in my ordinary body, but was all of this almost unbearable in my non-ordinary form because I received all of it in an instant, or was that the only way I could survive it? This was something I chewed over for many years. 

       Having touched him, I grew sad, because I sensed he was not long for this earth.

      I don’t know why I felt certain of this, as he appeared to be in a better physical condition than most men ten years younger than him. He was able to walk several times a day at a fast pace and often did.

Also, he always seemed to be in a cheerful mood, despite his life. 

      I walked away, out of the trailer park, wanting to go to Valley Forge Park. I don’t know how long I walked, but I finally got there and pondered what I had been experiencing. As I watched the deer in the park doing their nightly feeding, I could tell they saw or sensed me, but did not seem concerned.

Am I Alone?

      It suddenly occurred to me. “Where are all the other people like me who are in their non-ordinary bodies? Where are the angels or dwarfs or any other entities?” I thought of the billions of people teeming on our planet and wondered, “What was the population density of non-ordinary entities on this plane of existence? Is the reason I’m not seeing anyone else is because there are so few people or entities like me? That makes sense. I may have to travel a lot to stumble on others like me. If I come across others, what will we do?” I felt I was impervious to any acts of violence from people in ordinary bodies, but wondered if it also applied to people in their non-ordinary bodies. I felt so filled with power, peace and love, I could not imagine others who felt the same way being capable of violence.

      I wondered again, “Am I alone?”

      I felt very alone without feeling lonely or desolate (it would take me years to fully understand the concept or feeling of loneliness). I thought, “I could go on forever like this, even alone. Still, it would be better, even grand, to meet others like me and share greater possibilities.”

 I considered, “If this is not a dream (I did not believe it to be a dream as this was unlike any dream I had ever experienced; even lucid dreams), can I choose not to go back to my body? If I don’t go back, will my body die or will I simply split from my body while the other me continues to live as before, thereby creating two realities? If my body dies right now, will my non-ordinary body die or will I continue to exist?”

      As I was pondering all of these questions, feeling very powerful and blissful, I wondered, “Is there any more beyond this?”

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

My Hungry Body Calls Me Back

      As I was standing in the moonless, starless night, surrounded by the feeding deer, another thought came to me with absolute certainty, “I better break the fast.” Somehow I knew my ordinary body needed to start eating again. At that instant, I felt myself zip across the trailer park and, in the blink of an eye, was back in my body, fully alert and feeling smug. I opened my eyes and could not see a damn thing in the pitch-black room.

      My bladder was telling me to trot to the bathroom.

It was to be expected, as I was drinking gallons of water everyday since starting the fast. Luckily, I could get to the bathroom, as I had done it hundreds of times in the past. 

      Afterward, I turned on all the lights in the house and looked on my desk to see where the pencils, pens and crumbled-up papers were. I wanted to see if they had moved. It looked as if they were not where I had placed them earlier in the day, but to tell the truth, I could not be a 100% certain.

I Break The Fast

      I weighed in at 155 pounds at the end of my ten-day fast. I was still on top of the world, but felt as though my body was starting to feed on muscle. I knew it was time to start eating. After ten days, I had to start back slowly:  steamed veggies and fruit. Within a week I was back to eating lots of eggs and salad. Practicing the OBE’s, along with all of the other methods I was using, I started to make phenomenal progress with my weight training.

      Within the month I increased my power lift workout weights by 50 pounds. In the bench press, I went from 225 pounds for twenty-five reps, to 275 pounds. After doing twenty-five reps with 275 pounds, my second set was with 300 pounds for fifteen repetitions.

      From 300 I would go up by ten-pound increments, doing as many repetitions as I could, until I maxed out at 410 pounds for one repetition (while weighing only 165 pounds). At that time, the world’s record for the bench press for lifters in the 165-pound weight class was 427 pounds.

      From years of experience, I know that whatever I can do for one rep, after a high volume workout, is fifty pounds less than I can do if I’m fresh. 

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Energy Training and Training With Energy Brings Me To A Worlds Record

      During the workout I just described, I don’t want to give the impression that during the workout I was crudely and mindlessly lifting lots of heavy weights around. My mind was entirely involved with every repetition, every set, but not in anyway a conscious intellectual fashion. I used hypnosis and visualization to prepare every level of my mind before I trained and whenever I got the chance. I also did this the occasions that I trained during each rep and set. I often would feel that I felt something akin to my ordinary body emanating my energy fields from the atomic interior of my body and extended beyond my body as I was training. It felt as if these energy fields were drawing on energy from sources all around and using it to go beyond my normal physical performance. With every rep and set throughout this workout the sensations of my energy fields were more intense.

The entire workout, my intellectual part of myself dropped away completely. I did not analyze what was occurring, it simply was.

      I don’t want to give the impression that the workout involved me crudely and mindlessly lifting a lot of heavy weights. My mind was entirely involved with every repetition, every set, but not in a conscious, intellectual fashion. I used hypnosis and visualization to prepare every level of my mind not only before I trained, but also anytime I had the chance. I felt I was emanating energy fields from the atomic interior of my body, allowing me to go beyond my normal physical performance.

      With every set, the feeling became more intense, the intellectual part of me dropped away completely.

I did not analyze what was occurring; it simply was.

      The best way to describe the feeling was that my body started out feeling energized with endorphins but also much more, the feelings grew ever increasingly until I felt that I was both existing and operating halfway between my normal body and my non-ordinary body.

I seemed to fluctuate back and forth a bit and during the course of the workout.

      I felt that my ordinary bit very alert active body would transcend and become or could possibly become permanently superior and forever possess the powers of my non-ordinary body in my everyday life; at least enjoy the abilities halfway between both at a whim. As I benched the 410 pounds easily, my friend Brian A. by chance was knocking loudly on the door. I racked the weight and the ecstatic spell fell away with each loud and insistent knock on the door and with each bellow of my name from Brian. 

      . As I benched the 410 pounds easily, my friend Brian A., by chance, knocked loudly on the door.

I racked the weight and the ecstatic spell fell away with each loud and insistent knock.

      Brian came in and saw the 410 pounds on the rack. He had heard me lifting from outside and said, “Vinny, what are you doing with all of that weight? My God, did you bench that?”

      I told him I had. He was shocked.  When I told him I had done it after my normal training routine, his shock increased tenfold.

      Brian was well aware of my crazy high volume training but hadn’t known how I had been performing.

If he had not come over, I felt I could have kept going.

I did not tell Brian anything of my mind/body experiences. He knew I practiced hypnosis and was strict on my diet, but knew nothing of what I was experiencing. Let’s face it, how do you explain to people in our culture things they are taught to dismiss as fantasy?

    Can you imagine the conversation? “Hey Vinny, what are you up to?”

“Oh not much Brian, I’ve just been leaving my body a few times a week…you know flying here and moving my energy there, the usual stuff.” I’m not sure that would have gone over real well.

      The second time I repeated the workout, the effect was similar, though not nearly as intense. However, I did manage to repeat the performance. I have experienced this phenomenon again over the years. Again, I stopped at 410 pounds because, right as I was ready to lift 420 pounds, my friends Johnny Q. and Dave Burnsy walked into my trailer after a quick knock (John had a key to my place).

John was there in time to watch me do the 410 pounds easily. I tried for the 420 pounds while John spotted me, but I had lost the feeling of magic.

      Sometimes the universe can be very perverse. Johnny Q. reacted the same way Brian had the previous week. He was also stunned to see I had lifted that much weight after a high volume workout. He was ecstatic by my performance.

      He laughed and said, “Way to go, Vinny!”

      Both Johnny and Dave were quick to point out that most NFL football players were not able to bench that much weight. Of course I treated them like I had Brian, thinking it best not to share my non-ordinary experiences. The only friend I did share a few of my experiences with was Jon Lynch, because of his strong philosophical bent (he eventually got a degree in philosophy).

      It occurred to me, as I stood in the room with Johnny and David, that the way I felt, especially during the previous week’s workout, may have been what some people called “The Rapture.”   

CHAPTER THIRTY

Mystical Love Making

      My fine-tuned regiment of perfect eating, lifting, yoga, judo, hypnosis, meditation, and the practice of OBE’s were having a powerful effect on every aspect of my life. Not only did my libido increase dramatically, (I could make love several times a day for hours if I needed to and I often wanted to), but lovemaking took on greater dimensions. Even the women besides Angelina that I regularly made love too noticed a difference.

They mentioned that the sex was much better and it had nothing to do with my technique, which had not improved. Sex seemed to transcend technique.

      I would hear, “I don’t know what it is but it feels more intense, more magical.

      There were many times when I would make love with Angelina or some of the other women I had been running with would go beyond merging as one with them. I would often have the same sensations that I experienced while benching the 410 pounds insofar as my energy fields would make me feel as close to my non-ordinary body while making love.

      The added dimension and ecstatic sensations came not only from our physical bodies intertwining, merging, straining, releasing, and giving, taking, sharing of physical pleasure; and also our energies were coalescing, intertwining, merging and sharing pleasure at the physical, emotional, mental (not intellectual), and on the spiritual or non-ordinary realm. With these women,

I would feel as if I merged with them similarly as with the old man walking his dog, without the negatives.

      There was only the merging of love, joy, bliss, along side of and equal with the blissful, baser animal part within each of us. It was then that I realized that this baser animal part of us should not be confused with anything evil or lower, just baser.

      In this state, orgasms seemed not to be the main objective as it often is when having sex with a woman I was not connected with. It was the icing on the cake. However, I found it to be the most wonderfully pleasurable sensation to experience the release of both physical and non-ordinary orgasm.

      After making love, especially if the lovemaking were at the non-ordinary heights, the likelihood of waking up later in the night and enjoying an OBE was greatly enhanced. During an OBE I loved looking down at our naked and sleeping bodies. Sometimes we were often still holding each other in a loving embrace. Usually the OBE’s were of the remote viewing type when I still felt as if I had a half formed non-ordinary body that lacked the more intense feelings that I had experienced in Cherry Point, and Valley Forge Park. These experiences however were still pleasant.

      I remembered thinking how nice it would be to have any of the women that I felt more than a sexual connection with to be with me out free from their ordinary body. I wondered if they even had the potential capacity to free themselves and then we could intertwine without the limitations of our bodies.

      I also wondered if these experiences were not a manifestation of my brains ability to extrapolate from billions bits of data collected consciously and unconsciously to create a powerfully vivid and seemingly real event that I was now experiencing as I was looking at Angelina. I felt a lot like “Alice in Wonderland”.

Potentials We All Share?

      I believe many of us share these potentials. Of course I believe there are also many benefits from spiritual training, including training for OBE’S. I also emphasize that it is our sexual energy, along with the stimulation of our physical bodies, which helps to promote OBE’s. They make up both sides of the equation.

      I have found this type of training, as well as the experiences that come with it, to be very attractive and exhilarating. I believe it has helped me, a painfully average or less than average Homo Sapien, to perform at world record levels of strength—without the use of steroids.

      The training has allowed me to enjoy lovemaking with an intensity and depth that I never dreamed possible. I’m certain most people would benefit from this type of training and I regret the years I wasted on unnecessary doubts. I could have gone further and farther.

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Re-Touching Bases With The Old Guy

      A few weeks after my non-ordinary excursion through the trailer park, I saw the old guy who had been walking with his dog that fateful night. Although I didn’t know his name, I had seen him on a few occasions since that wonderful night.

       We had exchanged pleasantries such as, “It’s a nice day for a walk” or “Wow, can you believe all of this snow?” You know, the usual things people do to show we are interested in each other, at least in a superficial way. I wanted desperately to find out whether he had sensed something during my non-ordinary excursion.

      I found he lived almost at the far end of the trailer park, several streets over. Despite the intensity and realness of my excursion, there was still a part of me that had lingering doubts—I needed to confirm my experience.

      I approached the old fella and yelled out, “Hey there!” 

      He yelled back a jaunty greeting, “How ya doing?” Encouraged I quickly covered the distance between us.

      I said, “Sir, a few weeks ago were you out late at night, around 11:30, walking your dog?” He seemed taken back by this question and adopted a bit of a defensive tone.

      “I might have been,” he said in a quavering voice. “Who wants to know?”

I did not expect this defensiveness and was not certain how I should approach him on the subject.

      I couldn’t very well say, “Hi sir, I was out of my body (and possibly my mind) and decided to take a jaunt around the trailer park in my non-ordinary, naked body and saw you. I kept trying to touch you, no, no, don’t let my being naked alarm you. The question is, sir, did you see or feel my naked non-ordinary body?”

      Desperate to get an answer for the question that had been percolating within me those past two weeks I stammered, “Sir…two weeks ago… I was dreaming…

I mean, I think I was dreaming… that you were on the other side of the trailer park and your dog started to act funny… did you feel like your were being watched?”

      The old man started to look very disturbed. On his face warred the emotions of fear, anger and suspicion. He picked up his dog and started to back away, not wanting to take his eyes off of me. I thought, “Aw shit!!”

      I realized too late that perhaps my fearful query had put him off. I wondered if I had calmly approached him and shared my experience with him if I would still have appeared unstable and terrifying.

      It was now evident that the old man thought I had been watching him while hiding in the middle of the night. Who wouldn’t think that was creepy. I tried to repair the damage I had done.

      I said, trying not to stammer, but failing, “Sir, I don’t mean I was watching you… but, but… was your dog acting funny? Did you feel like you, you… were being watched?”

      I was failing miserably to repair the situation. I was scaring the poor old man and he was becoming very angry.

      I was frustrated because I had wanted to alleviate any doubts regarding my experience. The old guy started scuttling towards the trailer he lived in, still keeping his eyes on me so I couldn’t attack him.

      “You keep away from me,” he said. “I don’t want you talking to me anymore.”

      I felt my heart rip out of my chest. I knew our relationship, as infrequent and superficial as it had been, had gone to a different level. Our friendly jocular hellos were gone forever. I cursed my stupidity.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

Trying To Make Amends With The Old Man’s Daughter

      A woman in her fifties came quickly out of the same trailer the old man lived in. The neighbors said she was his eldest daughter. She looked concerned for her father and more than a bit uncertain about me.

      She said, “Dad, are you okay?”

      “I don’t want to talk to him anymore,” he said shaking his head in my direction. She looked over at me and could see the hurt on my face.

      I said, “Let me explain, please, I didn’t mean to scare you!” At this, the woman’s eyebrows rose up. I said, “Ma’am, just let me explain”

      “You get away from me!” the old man yelled again.

The woman said, “Dad, you go into the house and I’ll be right in. I’ll make you your favorite meal. Now get in the house while I talk to this young man.”

      He was on his porch and cried out something inarticulate. I think he wanted to make sure I wouldn’t harm her. His daughter, however, appeared to be a woman who could handle herself despite her age and motherly appearance.

      She looked at me, not unkindly, and asked, “Well, what happened?” I started to rush my explanation. She smiled and patiently said, “Stop, take a deep breath, and tell me slowly.”

      I told her that I had a dream and saw her father walking his dog late at night a few weeks before. In that dream, his dog had been able to see me but he couldn’t.

      I also told her that I had touched him and he seemed to know it had been by someone he couldn’t see, which startled him. After I stopped talking, she looked at me for what seemed like a long time.

      She said, “And what has this got to do with you scaring my father?’

      I felt silly. “I just wanted to know if the night I was dreaming about him walking his dog, he actually was.” She looked at me as if trying to assess my sanity. I looked over her shoulder and saw her father glowering at me through the screen door. I felt I needed to explain further so I said, “I just wanted to know if your dad felt like he was touched by someone invisible or if he felt like someone was watching him.”

      I cringed as I made that last statement. I knew how flaky that sounded.

      She was looking at me with more concern, so I blurted out, “I’m not nuts! It was just a very real dream.” When I look back, I know that it would have been better if I could have clinically explained my experience and theories, but I was not equipped to do that.

      She looked at me with compassion and said, “That was some powerful dream.”

      I agreed with her and told her that I did not want her father mad at me or afraid of me. I told her how much I liked seeing him on his walks with his dog. Finally I told her that it pained me to see how I had upset him. 

      She said, “Don’t take it personal. My father hasn’t been himself these days.”

      Remembering my feeling I had when I touched him, I asked, “What’s wrong with him, is he sick?”

      She said, “Well, the doctors said that physically he is healthy as a horse. They can’t find anything wrong with him except he seems to be losing his memory… he often forgets where he is and sometimes who I am. Just within the past year, he’s become more easily aggravated and suspicious of people. I shouldn’t let him walk the dog by himself, anymore. He has trouble sleeping so he likes to get up in the middle of the night and walk the dog, although I don’t know if he did the night you had your dream,” she smiled as if sharing a joke.          

      “Don’t let his outburst hurt your feelings—he hasn’t been himself for quite awhile. Why just a year ago, nothing would upset him so easily.” The old guy was yelling to his daughter telling her to make me go away. She said, “I have to feed him, you take care.”

She turned away and left. I felt troubled and was now uncertain as to how real my experience had been.

      Years later, shortly after I moved to Oregon, I learned he died of a brain hemorrhage. That was less than a year after my last encounter with him.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

My Brother and I In A Three-Some? – I Don’t Think So!

      My Brother James came into the Seven-Eleven shortly after I nearly assaulted a customer.

The customer was a sphincter of a man, who was always rude in the extreme. This day, he came in, gruffly slapped down exact change, and asked for two packs of Marlboro cigarettes. Since ninety-eight percent of people that smoke Marlboros like them in hard packs, I handed him two hard packs.

      His face twisted in contemptuous anger. He screamed and threw the packs viciously on to the counter, bouncing into my stomach and on to the floor. “I wanted soft packs Goddamn it!”

My blood pressure rose so fast, so extreme that I thought my head would explode like a ripe melon in the hot summer sun. At that moment, I was in boot camp again and ready to attack my opponent. My body was thrumming with the twin desires to maim and kill along side with a distant voice in my head telling me that the customer was always right.

      I deftly grabbed two soft packs of Marlboros and I brought my arm back like a professional baseball pitcher and I threw the packs of cigarettes with as much force as I could muster into the center of his chest.

      As they hit his chest, I screamed at the top of my lungs, “There’s your fucking soft packs mother fucker!!”

The packs bounce off his chest with one pack each going into separate directions across the store. His eyes were wide in terror and disbelief that I had failed to acknowledge the ‘customer is always right’ protocol.

      He scrambles quickly after his purchased cigarettes as I lean half way over the counter with my entire body quaking, my synapse screaming to murder this sphincter fuck. It took a Herculean effort to hold myself back. The dark part of me praying that he would attack me for what I had done to him; instead he ran out, red-faced and in terror.

      A co-worker, a local thug who loved to fight, was laughing, “Man, I thought you were going to kill him!”

“God damn it, I wish you would have”, he said with a look of familiar lunacy in his eyes.

      Just then my brother walked in.

      He looked at me knowingly, “I bet you know why that last customer ran out of here in a hurry.”

      “I don’t want to talk about it”, I mumbled, knowing I needed to normalize my blood pressure.

      I introduced my brother to my thuggish co-worker. They smiled at each other, mutually recognizing kindred spirits.

      My brother had matured into an extraordinarily handsome guy. He looked like a mixture of Patrick Swayze, Mathew McConaughey, with the flavor of Italy running through his features.

      He had grown about an inch taller than me, and his body was almost a duplicate of mine, only not as burly. He was more Tanzanian. His and my body had minor differences. My arms were longer, my shoulders a bit broader, rib cage deeper. I was two or three inches taller in the saddle than James.

      However he had two or more inches of length in his thighs than I had, (Our lower legs were exact), giving him that extra inch in stature.

      James also had bigger hands and wrists. He had a mane of curly dirty blond hair and more of my father’s face. It was reputed in the local grapevine that James had also inherited both our father’s and grandfather’s legendary epic endowment. Some people called him a home wreaker.

      James had also grown to become enormously strong for his weight, with coordination and agility couple with the inner fire that he had inherited from our father. This had given him a reputation as a street fighter that was not to be taken lightly. He had in fact kicked the shit out of Miles and some other fearsome people over drug deals gone badly.

      James also took some of my attributes of life-style and took them to levels way too extreme for me at the time. As I had acquire one tattoo when I was in the Marines, and could never decide on another. James liked my tattoo and eventually got several -- not the convict types -- but nice ones. These seemed to be placed strategically about his sinewy body. I wore a pirate’s earring for a short while. He like that and got three of them, one earring in one ear and two of them in his other. James like my Honda motorcycles and even this he took to the next level. He loved Nortons, Harleys, and Triumphs and he love to make them into snapped out looking choppers.

      James was always getting into motorcycle accidents and fights. He was either finding himself in the hospital or putting someone there. He was often involved on the wrong side of the law, breaking into beverage centers in the middle of the night when he and friends would get the whim to have some beer.

      Other times his friends would pull knives on each other and on him when a disagreement popped up during a drug deal gone bad.

      James actually got into a fight with a big guy that he owed money to for drugs that had been fronted to him. James was terrified of the guy and was taking a beating, fighting the entire time to get away and run, until the guy made the mistake of kicking the side of James’s fancy car.

      Just like my dad, James could tolerate a lot, but don’t mess with his fine clothes, his car or bikes, or there would be hell to pay. My brother commenced to kick the shit out of the thug. In fact, James manhandled the guy so soundly, that he soon found himself fighting for his life with the thug’s family. The thug’s elderly mother was clinging to his back beating him with a ball-peen hammer, cracking several of his ribs and the thug’s younger brother doing his best to bite off my brother’s finger.

      James use to hang out with the Warlocks, an outlaw motorcycle gang until a drug deal went bad between them and him. He broke in their clubhouse and stole thousand of dollars of stereo equipment, guns, rifles, shotguns and a really nice old-time World War II leather motorcycle jacket.

      Yes my brother found himself mixed up with some rough people with bad intentions.     

      James was a badass.

      He was almost a cinematic reality of the sexy bad boy. In the vanilla suburbs of King of Prussia, I was considered by many to be a bad-boy. In the neighborhoods of Bridgeport, Conshohocken, Swedeland, Swedsburg and other areas, I was treated with caution by many of the toughs; but by comparison, James made me look like Woody Allen riding around on a bicycle with training wheels. He was glamorous. 

      However, as bad as he was, he still looked up to me, especially when he got into trouble with people that he feared, (Which happened to be all of the people he kicked the shit out of), he would always try to enlist my help to go and kick someone’s ass; just like when we were younger. He would offer to pay me money to do his gorilla work for him. Even though he was tough, he still felt that I was the bigger tougher brother.

It must have been from all those years I had to pound the crap out of him in self-defense, when he came at me with knifes, bats or various garden implements.

      It’s funny. The truth was, that if James and I were to get into an all out fight…I would be in the fight of my life. He was much tougher than he thought… most likely tougher than me.

      James was a sexy badass.

      Just ask many of the beautiful women that would throw themselves at him. He was a sex magnet. When I was at my best looking, I was able to attract my fair share of women, but when James entered the room, it was invariably, “Vinny who?” I am exaggerating of course, but not by that much.

      Yes there were women that prefer me to James and vice versa. There were many who for some inexplicable reason found the thought of having a threesome with both my brother and me extremely exciting. James and I could not count the times that a woman would approach either him or I with the idea that we should get together for a Menasha trio. The numbers seemed legion. As perverse as this seemed to me, I would try to seize an opportunity to have sex (Just one on one) with any of the women that had approached James or me.

      It was ironic, perverse and maddening that many of these women could not be negotiated with to dally with either of us alone. No, the deal was all of nothing. Of course, in my mind this was not going to happen. I am not the kind of guy that likes another man in bed with me; I don’t care how beautiful the woman is. I don’t mind sharing, but not at the same time, and for God’s sake not with my friggen brother!

      James apparently was much more forgiving of socio-sexual norms. 

      As we were in the Seven-Eleven, one of his female flavors of the month came into the store. She was a stunning sexpot that I had seen around Bridgeport. She had a rep as a hot sex-pistol. We knew each other by sight and rep. She starts to drape herself all over my brother, her hands stroking and grabbing in areas that normally are not traveled except in the privacy of one’s room, (Or store cooler).

      My brother had the look and attitude of a sultan that all of this was his just desert.

      She coos, “Hey Laz, you better talk to your brother. He’s gay you know.”

      James’s face flushes a bit and he shifts uncomfortably.

      “Oh, I’m sorry. He does like to fuck women, and he is an great lover, but he fucks around with guys too.”

      “Any port in a storm, Jitterbug”, my dad’s voice whispers in my mind.

James was looking more uncomfortable, but I could tell that he was trying to maintain a cool and aloof façade.

      She bites his ear, grabs his crotch, as she looks me directly in the eye and croons, “I got to get going lover. Be sure to come by later.”

      She looked at me again with what I could swear was a come hither and I will do you also look. “See you around Laz, James has got something to talk to you about.” And she left.

      James and I met after I got off work at a pub called the “Fiddler’s Green” a local Irish pub two doors down from the Seven-Eleven. He seemed like he wanted to get something off his chest.

      He was struggled with the best words to approach me about something as he sipped his beer.

      Finally he said, “I want to talk to you about what Angie said.”

      I thought I knew where he was going. I had heard many of the rumors about my brother sexual proclivities from many people…many of them mutual friends. I heard the rumors about him and Karm, especially when they lived together. I heard about many things that were witnessed or heard second hand.

Some of these people are the most credible people I know. I had heard assertions from some of my bisexual female friends with whom James and I have had sex with on more than a few occasions.

      I wanted to beat him to the punch, to save him humiliation, to let him know that no matter what his sexual orientation was, that I still loved him. I wanted to tell him that even though I really didn’t understand why people traveled into those sexual territories, he was still my brother, and I loved him. More important, I had grown to like and respect him.

      “James, I don’t really care about Angie saying that you’re gay.”

      He flushed, “I don’t know where you heard that, he stuttered, maybe because I lived with Karm, and he slams his beer down to wash away embarrassment. He was clearly embarrassed that his big brother had heard these rumors and he was clearly worried about how I would think of him.

      “Don’t worry, James, I don’t give a shit. It’s your business.”

      Not agreeing with me, not confirming or denying any of it, James moves away from that subject obliquely.

      “I wanted to talk to you about what Angie wants to do with the both of us”, he said.

      “You don’t mean…?”

      “Yes, he laughed, the usual.” “It’s crazy, isn’t it Laz?”

He was referring to the bizarre phenomena of the numerous women that wanted to have sex with both of us at the same time.

      He said, “Not just her that wants to do it, but her friend Jodie wants us both brother.”

      “Well, I offered, Jodie is a hot little number. I have been lusting for her for more than a few years. I must say that I have had a thing for Angie for years also, you lucky bastard.”

      James nodded, “Let me tell you Laz, Angie is hot and she’s hot for you. But the deal is, she won’t have sex with you unless it’s with the both of us at the same time.”

      “So what do you care, you’re having sex with her regularly right”, I asked?

      James eyes glow with excitement, “Yeah I am, but her friend Jodie wants to do the both of us, and she made it very clear that it has to be either both of us at once or nothing.”

      I was feeling queasy and frustrated, “Sorry James, you know how I feel about this shit. I don’t mind trading off with you, but honestly, the thought of you next to me, with any woman give me the heebie geebies.”

      James was frustrated at my reticence, “Hey Laz, any port in a storm, Jitterbug. Come on, don’t be such a puss. You’re too squeamish.”