I was 19 years old, in the military and sitting in an airport lobby. I had just finished reading Bob Dylan's "Tarantula" when a guy roughly my age walked up to me and greeted me. He had short dark hair and I suspected at the time that he might be in the military as well. He commented on the book that I was reading. I said that I had just finished it and that he could have it if he wanted it. He thanked me and took the book. Without a lot of chit-chat, he said "Let's walk around". I was bored waiting and agreed to join him. We made a few turns in our walk thru the various waiting areas for the gates, but he seemed to be heading somewhere specific. He led me up to another guy that was sitting on the floor with his back against the wall and reading. This guy had long hair just as I did just months before and was definitely not military. The two started talking in languages foreign to me. I could not understand anything that they said. I could however, make the distinction between the languages because they sounded so different from each other. The first guy that I had met spoke seven languages fluently. The second guy spoke twelve languages fluently. An impressive feat to me, a teenage boy who only knew American english. The second guy got up and joined us walking around.
We seemed to proceed directly back to the main lobby area of the small airport. We stopped in pretty much the direct center of the lobby area and were talking. I am not sure how it happened but suddenly, I noticed that the group had grown quite a bit. I noticed that there were twelve of us standing in a circle in the middle of the lobby area, talking. That is when things started to get really strange to me. As we stood there in the circle speaking in what could best be described as a group of individual, one-on-one conversations, I began to notice that there was something else going on at the same time, but on a different level. I felt an energy moving around the circle. It was flowing in a counter-clockwise direction. It became more palpable with each revolution of the cycle. Then, I noticed that it was emphasizing the current word being spoken at the moment by each individual as it went around the circle. Somehow, from all of these seemingly unrelated, innocent conversations, the unpredictable words that were being spoken between the various members of the circle were actually forming another conversational flow on another level. Also, my words were being used as part of that conversational flow when the energy was at my position of the circle. How could anyone know what I might say? I cannot recall what this "collective" voice was saying because I was in a state of shock in the end. The ball of energy that was moving around the circle by this time was like a fiery ball of energy - like the sun. I remember seeing everyday airport patrons walking calmly thru the lobby right next to us. How could they not see this fantastic thing that was going on right here and now? They did not even seem to notice that we were there at all. I was very confused. I began to feel myself being drawn up and out of my body. This terrified me. Not the fact that I was leaving my body. But rather, because I was not controlling it. I had been taking trips without my body for as long as I could remember, but always into other continuums of reality. In my teens, I accepted it for what it was and I learned to control it. But I had always kept that to myself. I never discussed it with anyone. It was a personal experience. I had never read of it, nor heard of it from any outside source before. In fact, I had no clue that anyone else could do it. And now, here I was, being forcefully pulled from my body by a group of others. I was terrified.
I tried to break the cycle by pulling back from the group. I said something about it being a drag that I was being transferred to another military facility. The guy on my right in the circle was taller than me. When I said this, he turned to me sharply, and looking directly into my eyes, and piercing right thru me, told me to "BE AWARE!". Oh, my god. Shit! This is really happening! These people can not only do what I can do, they are far more powerful than me if they can do it to someone else. I was helpless. There was nothing I could do. They were far too powerful. I was pulled out and then we were gone. I cannot say where they took me, what they showed me, or what happened at all. Suddenly, we were back and the circle immediately broke and all but a few just disappeared when they turned away. The lobby looked pretty empty except me and the remaining few guys. I was in a state of shock. I could not stand on my feet. Two of the guys helped me stand and took me out front to get some air and calm me down. As I sat on the curb, one of the guys started to explain things to me in words. He said that I think that the universe is a void and that there is nothing there but stars, and galaxies and such (which was true at the time). He said that I had it all wrong, that everything was filled with energy and infinite things that we cannot "see" with our eyes. I was still filled with terror, but I began to see that they had no malicious intent upon me. They were actually just trying to show me something. I was simply caught by surprise by all of it and it was just too much, too fast. They took me back in and then suddenly, they too, were just gone, like the rest of the group. I was so disoriented that I just walked out of the airport and went AWOL from the army. I hitch-hiked down to my home town in SoCal and was gone for 11 months before the military authorities found me.
Knowing what I know now, I believe that they were extra-dimensional beings radiating their dimensions of being into the same continuum that I am in. The event that I experienced, it would seem, was an amazing demonstration of the extra-dimensional construct in a way that it can be perceived from this continuum.
I lived an ordinary life in this continuum the same as anyone else. Some joyous pleasures, and a lot of pain. Over the years, I have searched for any sign of these people and could not find the slightest hint documented anywhere. Now that I can "see" the extra-dimensional structure myself and am doing what I am here to do, I am fully conscious on my own.