I was free to go around the world with my second husband because I could take my work with me.  We started in Hawaii and almost immediately I had an unforgettable experience.  A lady invited us to go to a Buddhist meeting that very night.  She explained that there would be chanting and that learning to chant is very helpful is this life.

 

I was eager to go and my husband agreed to go.  It was in a large house but the living room was filled with folding chairs.  I immediately took a seat in the audience but my husband took a seat at the very back of the room.  A young man stood up and told us how chanting helped him.  Then an older man stood up and explained why chanting helps and he sat down.

 

I had not noticed that in the front of the room there were curtains, until another man went forward and opened the curtains revealing a beautiful altar with flowers and fruit and a small but very lovely statue of the Buddha.  The man in front of the altar had a golden bowl and a wooden mallet in his hands.  He began to rotate the mallet around the bowl; almost immediately the bowl began to sing!  When he stopped making the singing noise, the people in the audience began to chant.  But when he struck the bowl sharply the audience would follow by raising or lowering the tone of their chanting in unison!

 

I didn’t try to chant, I just listened.  But at the same time somehow four of the men in the audience were holding a sedan chair and offering it to me.  I knew that I was sitting in the audience, and my husband was sitting at the back of the room while, I was entering the sedan chair. The men picked it up and carried me forward.  I felt very calm.  There was no confusion in my mind at all.  I was seated in the audience, however; simultaneously, I was in the sedan chair being carried forward.  Even though it was nighttime, I could see the road ahead and then the road turned left.  Now I could see lights far away to the right.  I had no concern about where the men were taking me.  The lights far away on the right disappeared because the men were traveling fast with me.  The road continued to turn even more left.  Suddenly there were big clusters of lights on the left.  The men stopped running and they put down the chair and I got out.  That was the end of my out-of-body experience but it took more than nine years to realize the amazing foreknowledge of my experience.