But since the beginning of time, neither law nor logic has successfully suppressed the dedicated few who are bound to venture upwards and onwards ... to such as these falls the task of per-petuating human evolution in the realm of mental progress.

Suerne history records that twelve Metaphysical scientists requested permission to be given the care of the Abwa people. This request was granted when the authorities felt that this would happily occupy these potential dreamers and keep them out of circulation with their different opinions. It also solved the problem of re-educating the fourth generation Abwa, who were now adult, and who seemed quite unsuited for absorption into normal society. Thus the two groups became united and as a result one of the greatest mysteries ever to face mankind was solved.

Perhaps a more detailed explanation of the manner of develop-ing the Abwa people would be useful at this juncture. Originally six unrelated babies, all born within a few hours of each other, were selected at birth from families of proven health, mental capacity, and emotional stability.

These infants were brought up in total seclusion, having no idea of what went on in the outside world or what was considered to be socially right or wrong. Only the scientists involved with the experiment had any contact with the children. All their wants were supplied without them ever becoming aware of how their food or clothing was produced, prepared or named. They were totally submissive to the instructions of the teachers, almost without a will of their own.

Although completely ignorant of social law, and life as it was lived at the time, the children became fully familiar with the stars and planets, and had an intimate knowledge of Creation.

At maturity, by the simple process of natural selection, they paired off, producing healthy families who were raised in the manner of their parents. This environment was never varied, and eventually a fourth generation was born of the original six. These were the children who participated in the automan experiments, and who had now grown to maturity.

When given access to free thought after generations of mental submission, the Abwa amazed the twelve metaphysicians with their keenness of mind and the startling rapidity with which their lessons were learned. A second expounding of even the most complicated theory was never necessary, for the Abwa seemed to see through the whole thing, arriving at the correct conclusion ere half the problem had been explained, as if they were reading from the preconscious knowledge of the teachers, faster than these thoughts could be put into words. Though none of the Abwa had been trained in thought transmission or reception.

Careful studies were made of the Abwa aurae. Charts were drawn up, analyzed and compared with the earlier charts complied in the previous experiments. Past comparisons among this group had always shown small variations in both colour and striation intensity in the yellow, blue, and green hands when studied alongside the aura charts of ordinary citizens. But now, when thinking freely, both intensity of colour, striation, and width of the yellow, blue, and green bands had very marked changes, being brighter and much wider than any aurae previously recorded.

Physical aura among the Abwa rarely changed from a bright golden hue, indicating a high degree of emotional stability, whereas previous charts of these people had shown many colour variations. It was later realized that the earlier physical aura variations were actually emotional reflections from the one who was implanting the thoughts at the time of the automan experiments ... but at the time of recording, the metaphysicians were unaware of this, and made a temporary assumption that golden-yellow was the colour of the Abwa aura at peace, for indeed the Abwa radiated peace and contentment.

This conclusion had a somewhat depressing effect on the Metaphysicians, for it seemed to tie in with the official belief that by a process of controlled breeding, sheltered living, and very careful tuition, the Abwa had attained the family desire of all Suernians ... could they be mistaken after all in daring to question the possibility of factors beyond known logic?

Gathering in council, the Metaphysicians made a complete resume of all that had been learned from their Abwa experiment. Weeks were spent in going over each detail and weighing the findings against recordings given by past metaphysicians. They emerged from these sessions with a growing conviction that apparent logical conclusions, logical that is, in the light of previously accepted facts, are not the ultimate results obtainable. Something kept nagging inside of them, insisting that belief in the illogical was more correct than the acceptance of known logic.

Evidence mounted to indicate that the Abwa were possessed of some inner intelligence beyond measurement or comprehension. The twelve metaphysicians sensed that herein lay the secret solution for which they laboured.

Ostracized by their fellow scientists, without hope of obtaining apparatus to aid their search, and reduced to scientific poverty as they were, the twelve decided they must necessarily devise a very simple method of investigation. They turned more and more to prayer and meditation (always a large part of their daily routine) and after one such session the idea came that six of the male Abwa should be trained in the art of telepathic transmission, as it was now realised that the Abwa had unwittingly spent a large part of their lives in receiving telepathic pictures from their former teachers, and such pictures could convey far more meaning than words.

Ever anxious to co-operate, the Abwa helped the twelve metaphysicians to build the usual circular white domed building for further experiments. The inside of the building was divided into twelve sections with a large central hall. Eleven identical cubicles were built around the outer wall of the building, while the twelfth space was used as an exit.

The partitions which formed the side walls of the cubicles were each equipped with a small observation slit. Each alternate cubicle was to be occupied by a metaphysical teacher with an Abwa pupil, and the remaining five cubicles would house five other metaphysicians acting as observers. The twelfth teacher would act as a relief observer and generally serve the building and its occupants, for no outsider would be permitted to enter while the experiment was in progress. Food was to be prepared by the Abwa women outside the building, (who delighted in practising this new "art" never before known to them), and would be brought in by the relief metaphysician, the only person allowed to come and go from the building. In his spare time this teacher would occupy the passageway, using it as a twelfth cubicle for observing the occupants of cells #1 and #11.

A twenty-four hour vigil was kept with very brief intervals of sleep taken at odd moments. After a very short period of time it became apparent that in each of the doubly occupied cells the position of pupil and teacher became reversed, so that the metaphysicians became pupils and the Abwa, teachers.

For the first few days and nights there were short periods of telepathic discussion, interspersed with long hours of mental retreat. Between the fifth and sixth days however, the Abwa began to behave in a strange manner, and all within a few hours of each other. The unusual behavioural pattern was intermittent, it might occur at any hour during the twenty-four in any one of the cubicles, and while a coherent pattern showed up in each individual, there was very little similarity between the group reaction.

The obvious puzzlement on the part of the Metaphysicians convinced the observers that they were unaware of the reason for the Abwa contortions.

This phase continued for several weeks. Then it seemed that the Abwa teachers began to spend many hours in deep conversations with the metaphysician pupils. To the observers, busily recording each action and reaction, it was indicative that a new educational programme was beginning. That the media of the spoken word should be chosen in preference to telepathy, which covers a so much broader range of expression, was surprising. Also in variance to the normal procedure was the seeming need for bodily contact, the teachers and pupils grasping hands during all the conversations.

The observers were unable to hear what was being said, but recorded that the words were being spoken in low, urgent voices. During the days that followed, these procedures began to be reversed as the Abwa listened while their pupils talked rapidly, often with tears streaming down their cheeks.

After awhile it seemed that the Abwa teachers began to operate in unison. Each sat silently as in meditation, but powerful telepathic waves were felt by all the observers, who became so greatly puzzled that they gathered in the central hall to discuss this latest development.

It had been noticed that the concentrated and combined efforts of the Abwa could put their pupils into a trance, and during this time the behaviour of the metaphysicians followed the abandoned pattern set earlier by the Abwa during the fifth and sixth days of the experiment. Again there was no coherent group pattern, but definite individual patterns, and all observers recorded that none of the metaphysicians followed any of the known characteristics of his normal life pattern. A look of ecstatic joy on the faces of each was the only common denominator ... "as though bereft of all conscious awareness" ... wrote one observer.

Weeks passed, and while some pattern of procedure evolved, there was no basic change in the actions. The metaphysician pupils went into a series of abandoned contortions, invariably at night, but occasionally during the daytime ... though most days were still spent in fervent discussions.

Then one morning at daybreak, the metaphysician in number five cell was noted to be lying still on his mattress. Failure to rise at dawn could only indicate that the man was ill, but on entering the cubicle to assist him, the observers found their fellow to be devoid of all signs of life. His Abwa teacher was prostrated in a deep trancelike state, apparently unmindful of the situation.

The observers, fully trained in medical matters, took the body away for a detailed post mortum, but no cause of death could be found.

Reports of their findings stated that the subject had apparently welcomed death with great joy, his face giving the impression that he had seen beyond physical life and the prospect of passing was too great a temptation to be denied ... prophetic words, written with an insight beyond the ken of the recorder.

Two more metaphysicians died in like manner within a short period, each with the same beatific look on his face.

While convinced that they were now on the track of the discovery they sought, the observers began to wonder if the methods applied would be justified by the end results. Such doubts were soon dispelled. The three remaining metaphysicians and their Abwa teachers, without any consultation with each other, for none had left his cubicle since the experiment had started several months beforehand, adopted a ritual by which, though the pupil's body appeared as in death, could be seen encased in the teacher's aura which seemed to hold life within the still body, in suspended animation.

While the observers could understand nothing of what was going on, each felt that he was in the presence of some greater power than anything heretofore experienced ... "It was as if we stood in the presence of truth, but were unable to comprehend truth ...", they wrote.

Each of the six Metaphysical Observers felt quite certain that the experiment was now heading in the right direction. They felt that here before them, around them, above and below them, was all knowledge. Yet they had neither the ears to hear or the eyes to see it with. Each registered an inner sense of elation, exhilaration, and a thrill of achievement, but none could comprehend the source.

The three remaining metaphysician-pupils, after the first transition, had worn a look of radiance on their faces. It was noted that the second, or spiritual aura had overshadowed the intensity of the physical aura. Its deep golden glow barely allowed the green and blue to scintillate through, almost as if the gold were some gossamer material, finely spun, while the blue and green bands were of a like material held behind the gold. The other spectral colours had faded into complete insignificance, and although present, were almost unnoticeable.

Unable to contain their curiosity any longer, the observers called a hasty conference, declared the experiment ended, and called for an immediate council meeting in the central hall; while the Abwa left to tell their relatives about what had happened.

The observers were enthralled as the remaining three metaphysicians related their side of the story. Nothing even vaguely approaching the nature of what had transpired in their modest school had ever been experienced before by any human being on earth.

The three metaphysicians who had taken part in the experiment were aware of the passing of their fellows, though none had been so informed. They displayed no sign of grief, explaining that the others had departed this life only to embark on a new adventure into happiness and knowledge.

It was related that they too had succeeded in separating the spirit from the fleshy body, but body function had been maintained by the embracing aura of their Abwa companions, thus keeping intact the essential link between body and spirit and permitting the re-entrance of their spiritual selves into the body ... something which had not been fully understood when the first three metaphysicians had ascended into the cosmos.

The three talked on for days, holding their audience spell-bound. All thoughts of food or exhaustion were forgotten as the participants took turns in describing every detail of what had transpired. Much of what has been noted earlier in this story was reiterated, explanations on how to build up magnetic vibrations to a desired climax for the discovery supreme. For contained within the human body, they explained, was a vibrational scale far beyond anything which nature could withstand or understand, and that, once released in all its magnitude, it could do incredible things with the body.

To demonstrate this power, the Abwa teachers had each slashed a wrist quite early in the experimental period, and although there had been an immediate spurt of blood, the cuts had very quickly closed and the bleeding was stopped. This, and similar achievements, required a state of complete purification of the body and mind. The Abwa, having attained this state, were able through telepathic media to bring the pupils bodies within their complete control.

Two methods were used to purify the body. One utilized a greatly lowered metabolism, as certain germs and fungi were most susceptible to cold ... others simply exploded when in contact with highly increased magnetic vibrations sweeping through the body.

Tiny abrasions, skin eruptions, and in one case haemorrhoids, were eradicated almost instantly as the vibrations of the Abwa's power began to flow through the bodies of the pupils when perfect sympathy was shared. Minor sensations, such as feeling cool in the heat of the day, and sense of mental detachment also occurred.

Just as body purification meant the complete destruction of harmful organisms, so did mental purity require total expulsion, through the conscious, via the spoken word, of all preconceived error.

To the listeners, absorbed in every detail of the account, this seemed an incredulous requirement. The twelve metaphysical teachers had lived as monks, their lives solely devoted to all that was good and progressive. Each daybreak found them prostrated in prayer and adoration ... how could they possibly have any need for mental purification through confession. In tones of deep humility the three revealed how humanity was governed by three sets of laws; the law of society, the law of nature, and the law of Spirit, each law superseding the preceding one.

Complete understanding of these laws and their interrelationship was an essential prerequisite to mental clarity and the metaphysicians had encountered no particular problems in recognising preconceived faults regarding social custom. The intricacies of natural law presented only minor items for correction. But the Spiritual Law that the Abwa spoke of was beyond comprehension.

"What is this Law? How did it effect the lives of men? How could one be certain that it was Truth?" queried the observers.

"By personal exploration of the next world ..." came the reply, "Where freed of the carnal blindfold, truth is self-evident. The key to ascension is the matter of separating the spiritual self from its fleshy garment."

"To become as innocent as a baby, requires the elimination of all preconceived misunderstanding implanted from infancy, before judgement is formed. To do this one voices all one's knowledge, tracing the source of each item of information down to its original implantation, replacing what is proven to be true and discarding any doubtful or incorrect ideas. The Abwa, on a higher plane of spiritual understanding, when seeing a flaw in our beliefs would discuss these points at length, until we had placed such facts in proper perspective. Motivations, our deep hidden motivations proved to be the worst stumbling block. Did we serve Deity for hope of reward? For love of knowledge? Because this is what we were trained to do? Did metaphysical matters best suit our ego?"

"As we talked with the Abwa, who at these times seemed not to talk of themselves, but as ones having authority, it became obvious that we accepted as spiritual fact, items often based on incomplete knowledge with a regional flavour. The Abwa presented wisdom beyond our wisdom, truth beyond our concept of truth, some ideas being so far beyond our limited range of understanding that at first, we were asked to accept them temporarily in faith, until such faith was rewarded ... as it was.

"They asked us to believe in a world beyond our own, The Spirit World, limitless in scope, where after aeons of unfolding consciousness, we could finally know Spirit -- The Absolute. Our initial faith was soon rewarded with new insight, a sense of assurance that the whole Universe was subject to this Power, and that our own little planet was but one of billions in Omnipotent Domain, yet even the tiniest item in creation was not too insignificant to be overlooked; Nature, the handmaiden in charge of creating protogenic order out of chaos on the outer fringes of vibrational energy, took care of these things.

And all the intense force released by this Being was for good ... pure love. For a name they called Him "The Master of the Universe", though it was known that this was all things to all, a Father-Mother to humanity. Having delegated the lowest scale of His creative force to physical matters, supervised by Nature, The Supreme Teacher, through an ever ascending scale of magnetic vibrations, gave to one species on each planet a power of thought beyond nature's realm, that these creatures might understand Him, and through this power to love, leaven their environment.

We learned that mankind is being evolved towards spiritual companionship, that eventually the chosen species on each planet might share the joy of all-knowledge and all-love with the Creator. Not in physical life, for matter is unable to withstand the tremendous vibrational energy of Spirit, being so weak and temporary that it is even subject to time, decay, and death."

The three now paused to answer the many questions bubbling from the lips of the six observers, then went on to tell of the last requirement, and what a formidable stumbling block it proved to be...

"Intellect must be at least temporarily discarded. We found it nigh impossible to stop the mind wanting to analyze every scrap of information and relinquish its grasp on the personality. Egotistical surrender alone could pierce this last barrier. Only our burning desire to know more enabled us to press forward and accept the stupendous teachings of the Abwa, whom we now regarded as god-men, in contact with another world to which we so eagerly sought admittance.

Indeed, the Abwa instructors spoke with such quiet authority we could not help asking how this could be, and each had replied ... "My faith in Supreme Being tells me to utter words, and that the right words will be put into my mouth, for my voice is merely a medium of expression for His thoughts.." all our logical arguments were confounded with higher Abwa logic as the weeks sped by, until finally the goal of complete purity of body and mind was achieved.

A new phase in our instruction now commenced. A build-up of spiritual strength. Always the last thought before sleeping must be of the wonder of Deity and divine love-power given to mankind. Each awakening thought must be adoration of The Master, as one might think and dream of a woman in young manhood, so one must think of Him.

We were given a series of words to repeat, aloud or in silence as we chose, (such words being strange to the day but were later recognised as chants, or prayers) ... THOU MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, LET THE REIGN OF DIVINE LOVE, TRUTH, AND WISDOM BE ESTABLISHED IN ME -- AS IN ALL THE WORLD. HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND AND CARRY OUT THY WILL THIS DAY, THAT ALL ABOUT MAY BE HELPED BY THY POWER IN ME..."

(This chant was later to become the national anthem of Khe, and more. It lived through many generations, into my lifetime and beyond. At the time of my birth it was used in every household as a morning and evening hymn, and often repeated in stressful moments during the day. These were the first it words whispered into the ear of a newly born baby, the first it would learn to speak. Mothers used it, with suitable variations, to meet any particular need. During pregnancy it was an impassioned plea for guidance for the new life within. Men, women and children in my country learned to live by these words, self-will and ego becoming more suppressed as succeeding generations became more adept in metaphysical principles ... and there was peace and joy in the land L.R.K.)

Complete purification, which had taken many weeks of intensive effort to achieve (even as in later years, The Buddha and The Christ spent many days in the wilderness in self denial and meditation), was succeeded by a phase during which the pupils had moments when it seemed as if the body was beyond control, or controlled by others. Yet at these times each man was able to stand beside himself and watch his own uninhibited actions, as the physical self danced in a wild frenzy of ecstasy when the spiritual mind first gained total control of the flesh.

This behaviour was not surprising to the subjects, as by this time each had gained conscious awareness of his secretly suppressed desires, and social implications no longer acted as a deterrent to expression of wild delight and joyous dancing as an expression of unity with the energy-dance of the Universe. Ego no longer dictated its whim, insisting on a sedate attitude from its flesh as an indication of superiority; superiority and inferiority ) which go hand in hand) were washed away with recognition of social impositions. And though un aware of it at the time, here the metaphysicians learned the secret by bypassing the outer darkness in the spirit world, or purgatory as it is sometimes called.

Now the Abwa were ready to complete the experiment; to prove that each person is endowed with a spiritual entity contained in vibrational thought form within the magnetic field of the body, but not of the body ... rather a superior life-form from another sphere of existence, captured briefly in the flesh to raise human thought above carnal barriers.

Mind control and meditation teach the preconscious animal mind the art of relaxing its grip, allowing the superior being to take command of the senses. Having become expert in the smooth operation of this phase, the spirit, which has struggled so long to impress its thoughts of love and truth, can leave the flesh to ascend briefly to its own higher sphere of reality, and return to consciously imprint on the preconscious (via the conscious) the wonder of its visit.

No human being is without the ability to prove this personally. But at the time of this first spiritual flight, three psioneers succumbed to ecstasy before re-entry was properly understood.

Body function must be maintained by the mind and spirit of another, in this case the Abwa teachers, whose mental vibrations were identically synchronized with the pupils'. With physical function controlled by another, the spiritual entity can find release, be immediately picked up in the higher vibrations of another spiritual entity and taken on a guided tour of the Universe at speed incredible to the imagination.

Had it been possible for the observers to have used their instruments to measure the calibrations of the spiritual aurae of those who had died during the period when the spirit was free of the body and before the time when death occurred, there would have been no instrumental response, and the physical aurae calibrations would have been very faint. Measurements of the spiritual and physical aurae of the remaining three metaphysicians would have shown the Abwa spiritual aurae covering both its own form and that of the pupil, though with faint separate physical aura.

Before recessing for a brief rest, the three told of another phenomena which they had experienced, but by this time the group were near exhaustion and little attention was given to a seemingly unimportant detail, which was really of the greatest significance; proving once more, the ease with the physical mind can gloss over that which IT considers trifling, even though these men were experts in the art of uncovering mental fallibility.

One of the three remembered to describe how he had become aware of a strong perfume, difficult to describe, which had seemed to envelope him immediately prior to entering the state of non-existence. The other two metaphysicians confirmed that they too had noticed this phenomena ... but with such sensational revelations to discuss, who would think to pay special attention to an unusual odour...