We are pleased to present you with the first thematic issue of the Journal of Conscientiology. As was announced a year ago, this issue focuses on the subject of intermission or the period between lives, considering several different aspects related to this theme. This is also the first fully bilingual issue of the journal.

You will notice in this issue that the articles published in English include the abstract in English and Portuguese only. The abstracts in Spanish, therefore, will not be found at the beginning of each paper as usual, but at the beginning of the Spanish version of each article.

Readers are encouraged to refer to Journal No. 23 for the glossary of conscientiological terms in English and Journal No. 24 for the Spanish version of the glossary. Alternatively you can visit www.iacworld.org/English/Resources/ or www.iacworld.org/Spanish/Resources/ to access the glossary in English and Spanish respectively.

This issue of the journal commences with a paper from Cirleine Couto, who focuses on the function of the interplanetary excursions during the intermissive period. Couto argues that these excursions may play a part in developing evolutionary intelligence and may be part of the preparation process for rebirth that some consciousnesses undergo. She continues by pointing out the objective of such experiences and the results they can possibly produce in an individual.

The contribution from Maria do Carmo Pena will be of particular interest to many of those who had experienced some level of parapsychic awareness during childhood or those who work with children's learning and behaviour in their everyday life. Pena discusses how the recovery of one's memories from the intermissive period may in some instances be linked with the manifestation of parapsychism at an early age. She also addresses how the cognitive phase of development of children may affect their level of consciential restriction.

The article by Laiza Pâmela was certainly an interesting contribution, as it is a type of mini self-biography by a 19 year old who has been involved with the research and self-experimentation in conscientiological concepts since 13 . The candid yet lucid manner with which Pâmela explains her understanding and application of the existential inversion reveals a premature maturity and certainly gives an important insight into this technique. The perspective provided by Pâmela on existential inversion in relation to the intermissive course makes of her article a valuable contribution.

The interference of culture in the individuals' recollection of their intermissive course is the subject of Ana Paula Lage's article. She addresses the type of problem that acculturation may have on the recovery of one's pre-somatic innate ideas and therefore to the execution of one's existential program. Lage also discusses the degree to which acculturation has an influence on the individual is dependent upon how they incorporate the socio-cultural values.

Luísa Fernandes' article examines some occurrences an individual may notice or experience throughout his/her life, which might be indicative of an influence or recollection of a certain aspect of his/her intermissive period. According to Fernandes, those signs are useful tools or hints one can utilize to assistant in acquiring higher awareness and making sense of one's own evolutionary process.

Two valuable personal accounts contributed help enrich this issue. The first account is from Tony Musskopf, who describes an experience he had during a conscientiotherapy session. His objective was to recover elements from his intermissive course and consequently his current existential program. During this session he achieved a degree of expansion of his awareness, that gave rise to a number of interesting perceptions, experiences, and ideas which he shares with the Journal readers.

The second account is an out-of-body experience accomplished by Laura Sánchez in which she visited an extraphysical institution where a group of consciousnesses were preparing for their next intraphysical lives. Sánchez describes the environment she observed and the sensations and conclusions she made from her experience.

We hope you enjoy reading this journal and derive benefit from the ideas presented here for investigational purposes and self-research.

We would like to take advantage of this opportunity to inform you that the next thematic issue of the Journal will be number 28. The central theme will be conscientiotherapy. All researchers and readers with contributions that are within the scope of this subject are welcome to submit their papers.

ABSTRACT: This article explains the necessities that lead both students and teachers of intermissive courses to participate in interplanetary excursions – parascientific expeditions incorporated into the curriculum of certain intermissive courses – and also the evolutionary repercussions sponsored by the visitor-researchers. Theories and hypotheses are conjectured under the approach of conscientiology, with the intention of enriching the association of ideas on this subject. Under the validation of these associations of ideas, it is concluded that interplanetary excursions with didactic objectives promote the development of the evolutionary intelligence of the extraphysical excursionist consciousnesses.

RESUMO: O artigo explana sobre as necessidades que movem os alunos de cursos intermissivos, juntamente com seus professores, a participarem de excursões interplanetárias – expedições paracientíficas incorporadas à grade disciplinar de determinados cursos intermissivos – e também sobre as repercussões evolutivas promovidas nos pesquisadores-visitantes. Teorias e hipóteses são conjeturadas com o propósito de enriquecer as associações de idéias sobre a temática, sob o enfoque da Conscienciologia. Conclui-se que, sendo válidas as associações de idéias estabelecidas, as viagens interplanetárias com objetivos educativos promovem o desenvolvimento da inteligência evolutiva das consciências extrafísicas excursionistas.

SUMARIO: Este artículo explica las necesidades que motivan la participación de alumnos de cursos intermisivos, junto con sus profesores, en excursiones interplanetarias – expediciones paracientíficas incluidas en el programa de determinados cursos intermisivos. Se discute también acerca de las repercusiones evolutivas generadas en los investigadores-visitantes. Se hacen conjeturas respecto de teorías e hipótesis a fin de enriquecer las asociaciones de ideas sobre este tema, bajo el enfoque de la Concienciología. Siendo válidas las asociaciones establecidas, la conclusión es que los viajes interplanetarios con objetivos educativos promueven el desarrollo de la inteligencia evolutiva de las conciencias extrafísicas excursionistas.

Cirleine Costa Couto is a student of Medicine and currently a volunteer and teacher in the conscientiocentric Institutions of CHSC and IIPC, respectively. She is also an independent researcher in the area of Conscientiology and Projectiology.

Parapsychic Reeducation:
a Coadjutant Instrument to Access Memories of the Intermissive Period

ABSTRACT: This article discusses the phases, from childhood, involved in the development of assistantial parapsychism with the objective of presenting techniques for the prophylaxis against the effects of intraphysical restriction. It also presents the relationship of parapsychism to the cognitive process and to the recuperation of intermissive memories.

RESUMO: Este artigo expõe as fases para o desenvolvimento do parapsiquismo assistencial desde a infância com o objetivo de apresentar técnicas para a profilaxia dos efeitos do restringimento intrafísico. Apresenta também a relação do parapsiquismo com os processos cognitivos e a recuperação de memórias intermissivas.

SUMARIO: Este artículo expone las fases del desarrollo del parapsiquismo asistencial desde la infancia, con el objetivo de presentar técnicas para la profilaxis de los efectos del restringimiento intrafísico. Aborda también la relación del parapsiquismo con los procesos cognitivos y la recuperación de memoria relacionada con los periodos intermisivos.

Maria do Carmo Santos Pena , graduated in Social Communication, is a History teacher. She has been teaching Projectiology throughout Brazil for 10 years.

Accessing your Intermissive Course using the Existential Inversion Technique and the Parapedagogic Laboratory: A Personal Account

ABSTRACT: The intermissive period is an opportunity for any consciousness lucid of its evolutionary process, to strengthen its personal innate capacities, a result from what it has achieved prior to the new rebirth, its past conquests, by taking an intermissive course. In this article the author offers her personal experience as a case study, delivering a sincere account of her own process of recovery of her innate ideas, manifested and seized during the intermissive period. The author has been utilizing as tools for the recovery of units of lucidity, the existential inversion technique for evolution and putting into practice a personal parapedagogic laboratory.

RESUMO: O período intermissivo é uma oportunidade para a consciência lúcida do processo evolutivo reforçar, através dos cursos intermissivos, aptidões inatas resultantes de conquistas anteriores ao renascimento. Neste artigo, a autora usa seu caso pessoal como casuística, fazendo um depoimento sincero sobre seu próprio processo de recuperação de idéias inatas, manifestas e apreendidas durante o período intermissivo. Para tanto, utiliza a aplicação da técnica evolutiva da invéxis e a vivência do laboratório parapedagógico como ferramentas para o resgate das unidades de lucidez da consciência.

SUMARIO: El periodo intermisivo es una oportunidad para la conciencia lúcida en relación al proceso evolutivo, para reforzar a través de los cursos intermisivos las aptitudes innatas resultantes de conquistas anteriores al renacimiento. En este artículo, la autora ofrece su experiencia personal como casuística, por medio de un testimonio sincero a cerca de su propio proceso de recuperación de ideas innatas, manifestadas y aprendidas durante el período intermisivo. Para tal propósito, aplica la técnica evolutiva de la invexis y la vivencia del laboratorio parapedagógico como herramientas para el rescate de unidades de lucidez de su conciencia.

Laiza Pâmela, 19, is a Psychology student in the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She was a volunteer in the IIPC from July 1998 to August 2004. Nowadays she is volunteering in the Sales Coordination of the International Association for the Existential Inversion (Assinvéxis) and is a teacher and researcher of conscientiology. She participated as a lecturer in the 12 th Grinvex Symposium in Natal, in the 3 rd Conscientiological Research Seminar in Natal, in the 2 nd International Existential Inversion Congress and in the 18 th Grinvex Symposium in Rio de Janeiro.

The Influence of Acculturation in the Recollection of the Intermissive Course

ABSTRACT: This article intends to reflect upon the role that acculturation has in contributing to the difficulty of recovering the values, principles and innate ideas developed in the intermissive course. When we initiate a new life the process of acculturation is inevitable. Depending on the level of the personal incorporation of the socio-cultural values present in the culture we are inserted in to, obstacles to materializing the intermissive course can be created.

RESUMO: O presente artigo pretende fazer uma reflexão acerca do papel que a aculturação representa na dificuldade de retomada dos valores, princípios e idéias inatas desenvolvidos no curso intermissivo. Quando iniciamos uma nova vida, o processo de aculturação é inevitável. Mas dependendo do nível de incorporação dos valores socioculturais que desenvolvemos em relação à cultura em que estamos inseridos, a materialização do curso intermissivo através do projeto existencial ficara comprometida.

SUMARIO: El presente artículo pretende hacer una reflexión sobre el papel que la aculturación representa en la dificultad de retomar los valores, principios e ideas innatas desarrolladas durante el curso intermisivo. Cuando iniciamos una nueva vida, el proceso de aculturación es inevitable. Pero dependiendo del nivel de incorporación de los valores socioculturales que desenvolvemos en relación a la cultura en la cual estamos insertados, la materialización del curso intermisivo a través de la programación existencial se verá comprometida.

Ana Paula Lage has a degree in psychology. She initiated her studies of projectiology and conscientiology in 1991, becoming a volunteer of the IIPC in 1992 and a teacher of conscientiology in 1994. She worked in Curitiba as a teacher and regional coordinator of the Educational Center of the IIPC for five years. After this she worked as a coordinator of the offices of Buenos Aires and Madrid . Since 2002 she has been a volunteer of the IAC, where she contributed with the Journal's editorial team in London . Currently she is a coordinator and teacher of IAC's office in Sydney .

ABSTRACT: This article discusses recognition signal acquired by the consciousness during the intermissive period, examining the relationship between such signals and their role as ‘instruments' or ‘passwords' that aid development of lucidity and the capacity of the intraphysical consciousness to restructure personal and group evolution. This research topic is a component of a broader ongoing investigation called Evolutionary Catalysis , in which recognition signals are viewed as tools for the identification of evolutionary groups and a means to access information regarding one's existential program.

RESUMO: Este artigo versa sobre a relação entre os sinais de reconhecimento adquiridos no período intermissivo, enquanto instrumentos ou senhas de ampliação da lucidez e a capacidade da consciência intrafísica de dinamizar a sua evolução pessoal e grupal. Este tema de pesquisa faz parte integrante de uma investigação maior, denominada Catálise Evolutiva , onde os sinais de reconhecimento são considerados ferramentas de identificação do grupo evolutivo e facilitadores do acesso a dados fundamentais no acerto da programação existencial.

SUMARIO: Este artículo trata sobre la relación entre las señales de reconocimiento adquiridas en el periodo intermisivo, en su calidad de instrumentos o señas para ampliar la lucidez y la capacidad de la conciencia intrafísica de dinamizar su evolución personal y grupal. Este tema, forma parte de una investigación más amplia denominada Catálisis Evolutiva , en el marco de la cual las señales de reconocimiento son consideradas herramientas de identificación del grupo evolutivo y facilitadoras del acceso a datos fundamentales con relación a la programación existencial.

Luísa Fernandes has a degree in Geology and a Masters degree in Education, from the Faculty of Science at the University of Lisbon . For the last 8 years she has been investigating and teaching conscientiology and projectiology. She has been a science teacher in the secondary school for 15 years. Fernandes has also presented her work on Evolutive Catalysis in some national and international events, including: SPIE Astrobiology Conference in San Diego ; NASA Educational Workshops in San Francisco , and the 3 rd International Congress of Projectiology and Conscientiolog y, in New York . She is currently the Educational Director of the IAC.

Remembrances of the Intermissive Course through the Expansion
of the Mentalsoma

Sunday, February 3, 2002. I was participating in a conscientiotherapy session in the former Nucleus of Integral Assistance to the Consciousness (presently the OIC – International Organization of Conscientiotherapy) in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . As customary, the meeting lasted from 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

I was in a reclined position. From the beginning of the session, I felt physically and emotionally tense and a little weak. Then, one of the conscientiotherapists directed me to do a mobilization of energies in order to better take advantage of the extraphysical field in my quest for answers to personal issues.

I further reclined the chair and closed my eyes. My heartbeat was accelerated and the pulsation of my cardiochakra seemed to reverberate throughout the holochakra. I initiated a closed circuit of energies in an attempt to calm my emotions and find answers to my inquiries. I was listening to the conscientiotherapist's instructions and at the same time trying to intimately perceive my consciousness.

The mobilization of energies exercise emphasized the expansion of the coronochakra. Some interconnected ideas emerged that began to explain my intraconsciential behaviors and mechanisms.

Immediately afterwards I felt, for the first time, the apparent presence of a helper on my left side. The pattern of energy irradiated by the extraphysical consciousness was very hospitable. I felt a strong bond of friendship and companionship between us, greater than intraphysical affective bonds. It might sound strange, but I was embarrassed when I realized that that extraphysical consciousness had almost always been there at my side and that for most of the time I had not been aware of her behavior, potential, lucidity and principally her affinity with me. In that instant, I understood the condition of a helper who is a “flashlight for the blind.” In this case, I was the blind one who, even though was holding a flashlight to illuminate the environment, was incapable of discerning the assistantial opportunities that the lucid, benefactor extraphysical consciousness was providing me.

Gradually, my heartbeat started to slow and I calmed down. I started to expand my energosoma 1 and to loosen my psychosoma, and noticed that the discoincidence was being produced intensely through the expansion of the para-head.

From that moment on, my mind was clear, the psychosoma serene, energies were expanded and my physical body was relaxed. I felt my pure consciousness without the usual interferences produced by the holosoma. I noticed the predominant performance of the mentalsoma.

I perceived myself as if I were a kind of ball of energy within a more sophisticated and dynamic pattern than that of the slow vibrations of the energosoma and of the psychosoma. I did not feel my hands, feet, trunk, my face nor any humanoid form, simply the indescribable sensation of my own essence. “That was in fact, me!”

I, a sphere of live energy, grew continually, crossing the dimensions of the cranial cavity of the resting soma, of the room, the building, then the entire neighborhood.

This expansion of the mentalsoma produced an amplification of my multidimensional lucidity, activated a very sharp memory and a capacity to raciocinate clearly, and awakened other consciential attributes impossible to register in mere words, within a profound, unshakeable and self-contagious well-being. I felt myself immersed in a pleasant and indescribable immensity. At the age of 23, it was the first time in this life that I experienced an expansion of my consciousness of such magnitude.

I continued to follow the conscientiotherapist's instructions, and perceived the distinct action of the helper and then of the entire extraphysical team who was present. Simultaneously, I felt the looseness of the mentalsoma in a state of double consciousness (or was it triple, quadruple, multiple...?).

I focused my attention on the recollection of my recent intermissive course, which I planned to realize in this present human life, and on the aspects of my consciousness that I need to confront.

At that moment, I visualized an advanced extraphysical colony with a clear, warm and very familiar atmosphere. There were extraphysical consciousnesses dressed in white, a group of young students with the para-appearance of men and women. They were underneath a slightly undulating terrain covered by a green lawn that formed a clearing surrounded by frondescent trees. There were no dry leaves on the ground. At a distance, I managed to see a building of ornamented architecture whose top floors rose above the tops of the trees and contrasted with the blue sky.

I was able to notice that some of the extraphysical consciousnesses had their mentalsomas expanded as if they were colorful and evanescent auras which surrounded their para-heads. I understood instantly that they were in an intense process of introspection. They were not walking nor were they making any rough physical movements, but merely gently gliding over the lawn through extraphysical flight.

Some of these young people were handling books. I felt a strong affinity for those intellectual works. I visualized myself with some antique bound books of various shapes and colors.

Intuitively, I knew that consciential dimension was related to my recent intermissive course, my present existential program and existential inversion. I was connected to that environment and to those extraphysical consciousnesses through friendship and group evolutionary bonds. Instantly, I understood the necessity of attaining the condition of consciential epicentrism by recuperating cons and executing existential inversion. It was very clear that I needed to assume the orientation of my self-evolution in order to honor my extraphysical precedence, as I have responsibilities to carry out.

I did not feel immersed in that extraphysical environment, but merely observed the distinct scenes as they transpired before me. That is why I think that the experience in question was a retrocognition of my last intermissive course, which was potentialized by the partial looseness of the mentalsoma (expansion of the mnemosoma).

Throughout this experience I intimately understood that what was most important for me was to complete my existential program by searching for its directives in a mature and constant self-confrontation.

As of this self-experiment, the intraphysical dimension's problems, dramas, impediments and all its disturbances became insignificant.

After a while, the conscientiotherapist instructed me to align the holosoma. I sustained the discoincidence or non-alignment for a few more instants in order to retain the information in my memory and be able to gradually transport it to the human brain with the greatest lucidity possible.

After returning to the waking state, I immediately recorded the experience while still feeling a strong discoincidence of the para-head and the effects of the intense pattern of energies.

Minutes later, in a more aligned state, it was possible to perceive the excessive consciential restriction imposed by the soma and holochakra. When we are in the physical body, we perceive a miniaturized caricature of ourselves. Through an expanded mentalsoma we function with our consciousness in its “real size”; we understand the complexity of our intraconsciential universe, the power of our will and the amplitude that our lucidity and consciential attributes can reach.

The quantity of consciential energy mobilized during this phenomenon was impressive. I remained in a state of unshakeable well-being and profound intimate reflection for several days after the experience; I was in an energetic springtime.

With the accumulation of other facts, re-analyses, self-research and the experience of other parapsychic phenomena which took place over the course of almost two years after this experience, I was able to extract some important hypotheses, observations and considerations:

1. The possible causes which unleashed the phenomenon of partial expansion of the mentalsoma were: the sincere and renunciatory will to confront myself, the influence of the multidimensional, conscientiotherapeutic field, the direct action of the helper and extraphysical team and the affinity with the two conscientiotherapists present in that session, all relating to the intermissive course.

2. This experience still vividly remains today in my memory and is capable of producing showers of energy and psychic signals when I evoke the scenes and ideas related to it.

3. The activities which I was already precociously carrying out even after this experience confirm my affinity with the intellectual process and with the redaction of works with a clarifying function.

4. The parapsychic phenomenon functions as a type of means of communication that transmits consciential contents from one dimension to another or from one vehicle to another. What matters is that the consciousness will deal with the contents of the phenomenon and not simply glorify the phenomenon for its own sake.

5. Without a doubt, we express our consciential essence more when we manifest through the mentalsoma. It is in this direction that all consciousnesses are headed, each one in its own evolutionary rhythm and efforts. The apex of evolution is when cosmoconsciousness ceases to be a phenomenon and becomes a permanent consciential state .

6. The recall of small fragments of the intermissive course can function as a powerful consciential compass in order to orient the intraphysical consciousness in her human life en route to existential completism. This fact becomes even more serious to young people who opt for the practice of the technique of existential inversion.

7. The best strategy for overcoming a mega weak trait is the execution of the existential program sustained by the mega strong trait of the consciousness.

8. There are still all types of needs on this planet because waste of energy, ideas, opportunities and talents abounds. The worst situation is when the consciousness wastes the best he/she has: his/her mega strong trait. For example, there is the consciousness who wastes advanced ideas, evolutionary talents and opportunities to give assistance to others by simply not publishing their self-research findings.

9. To those who consider that their intermissive course establishes a relation to writing and publishing leading-edge relative truths , here is a suggestion: it is worth it to thoroughly study the existent relationship between intellectual intelligences (advanced cognition), parapsychism (multidimensional experience) and communication (assistantial altruism) and the execution of the existential program.

1 Note from the editor: energetic body, more commonly referred to as holochakra.

During the period in which this projection took place, I had been questioning myself regarding the executive phase of my existential program; I found myself thinking about how good it would feel to access information from my intermissive course. On that particular night, I went to bed physically tired, falling asleep almost immediately. I cannot remember having worked with my energy before falling asleep.

I recovered lucidity in the extraphysical dimension, discovering I was by my partner's side. I felt I was in a big city, albeit considerably different to those we know in the intraphysical dimension. The city appeared flat with no buildings in view. It seemed we were quite some distance Planet Earth. A diaphanous white luminosity fascinated me. A multitude of future inverters studied at wide, white tables. My partner and I were on a kind of well tended lawn, suspended above in air above though fairly close to the ground, our legs crossed. We chatted peacefully as though the place was familiar to us. The trip did not feel like a unique visit, but more like a return to a well-known location. The atmosphere was of intense and serious study of the next existential programs of these thousands of future inverters.

The candidates for existential inversion displayed young psychosomas, appearing as teenagers. They sat at tables on an esplanade adjacent to the lawn where we sat cross-legged. Study was conducted in silence, an introspective environment, without chatter among themselves. From time to time those studying would consult with extraphysical consciousnesses who appeared to be directing the work. These extraphysical consciousnesses did nothing to interfere but rather, seemed to be present simply in case they could be of some assistance to the inverters, apparently unnecessary most of the time.

Abruptly, the scene was interrupted by events that called my entire attention; a group of extraphysical consciousnesses, appearing as children from six to fifteen ran out of what seemed to be a depression or hollow, holding their arms in the air as if in despair and asking for help. They were not in the same environment and it seemed I was experiencing some sort of clairvoyance. At that moment, my partner spoke: ‘ Are you seeing these images? They are for you' he said . These phrases were transmitted telepathically and I realized we both had a good level of lucidity during this experience.

I could not understand what was happening; the children were inside a sort of hollow or depression whilst the surrounding environment was clearly positive, mentalsomatic, and tranquil. Then the children began walking, no longer seeming desperate. I saw no helpers but my intuition told me the children had been joined by some caretaker-helpers. I realized was no longer making these observations through clairvoyance but rather, that these children had joined us in the same environment. The children walked in formation, tidy and neatly dressed, carrying food in their hands which appeared to be morphothosenes, created for them by the caretaker-helpers. The children observed the tables where the inverters were working, but they seemed unable to see or perceive their presence or the place where they actually were. I realized the children were being assisted by the surrounding environment and the presence of the group of helpers. It was then that the basis for the whole situation suddenly became apparent.

The children were youngsters that had recently died due to a detour in their existential program, a detour sufficiently serious that other consciousnesses may have been endangered.

Following their death, the children were moved to an environment where the example of the students of inversions, in serious preparation themselves gave the children the opportunity to begin their own preparations for their new existential programs. It seemed that the majority could not even perceive or see the location where we were gathered because of their lack of lucidity and patent pathology,

The helpers had encapsulated them in the hollow, periodically taking them for walks until eventually, they would ‘awaken' and begin the preparation for their existential programs. In this case, having them in this kind of “enclosure” was the lesser of two evils - until such time as each could awaken to the dimension the inhabited, they required patient nursing and care, without rush. Over there time was no longer time, but opportunity for reaction and change.

At the same moment, I acquired a deeper understanding of the importance of our existential program. The work of the extraphysical helpers was to present us with renewed opportunities to study this theme, and to help ensure by all possible means that our existential programs are carried out successfully.

I could also understand how an inverter, despite his or her high level intermissive course and the guidance of an evolutionary orientor, was nevertheless, far from guaranteed existential completism, or even a lucid death with direct access to a new intermissive course.

As I grasped all this information, recognizing that I was projected with lucidity, I understood the time had come for me to depart. I held my partner by the hand and we left, flying away from that environment.

My flight was slower than my partner; I found myself alone. A girl appeared ahead of me, lying on her back, flying at great speed. I decided to fly in the same position, and that sped up my flight, although I was as afraid of bumping into someone as my eyesight was restricted. There was plenty of traffic. Many consciousnesses were flying toward a specific place and this did not surprise me, as it felt as if I had already flown there many times along this “extraphysical highway.”

My speed increased and I decided to return to the physical body, trying my best to feel re-coincidence with the soma, and looking at my partner lying on the bed. That instant I felt very happy about the level of lucidity I was experiencing.

I travelled down through very narrow, dark tunnels at high speed. This did not seem the sort of tunnel effect common to near death experience s; I was coming down vertically something I interpreted as a return to the physical dimension.

To my surprise, I found myself not in the physical body but in an environment that looked to me, at first glance, unfamiliar. A very lucid retrocognition helped me understand that, in spite of all the information from our intermissive course, we often continue in much the same fashion doing the same things we have done in past lives - an unnecessary self-mimicry.

I returned to the body with lucidity and awaking, remembered the entirety of these events ‘en-bloc'. My partner had no recollection - but for me there were no doubts. This projective experience afforded me the opportunity to reflect on many consciential issues, especially the importance of the existential program, the intermissive course and all the work, patience and care the helpers show us.

Intermission and Recognizable Signals