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my legs feel funny from it.
    Betty felt trapped, caged, and to those of us gathered around her in the office, the anxiety in her voice was distressing. Again, the hypnotist brought her relief.
    Harold: Betty! I want you to relax for a few moments. Just relax. Make yourself very comfortable.
    Her tense body relaxed and slumped back into the comfortable contours of the reclining chair. It was a convenient time to change recording tapes. After a few minutes, she was allowed to continue the bizarre escapade. Unfortunately, even stranger things awaited Betty and her listeners.
    Harold: Please continue where you left off.
    Betty: I’m in that glass thing—that encasing chair. I’m cold. And I’ve been in there a long time.… And the door [i.e., the covering] is starting to open. The other half of it is opening. And [
sigh
] the—uh, they’ve come for me again.
    The entities beckoned to Betty, and in a sitting position, she
floated
to another of the odd-looking chairs.
    Betty: And somehow the chamber is sort of weightless, because they just beckon me and I’m lifting up! I’m sort of in a sitting-down position, but I’m lifting up. And they’re directing me over to the other side, where there are chairs similar to this. And I’m sitting down again.

    Figure 26:
The “immersion” chair. June 19
.
    Terror filled Betty’s heart when she was told that she was to be immersed in a liquid. The entities assured her that provision would be made to prevent her from drowning.
    Betty: They’re telling me that there are three tubes…that they are going to put liquid in here with me in it!
    Betty became hysterical. “I’ll drown if you do that!”
    â€œNo, you won’t drown,” they said. “We’ve provided something for you. It is a tube—three tubes. Just keep your eyes closed, and you will be fine.”
    A translucent canopy enshrouded Betty’s body. Self-sealing tubes were connected to her mouth and nose. (See Figure 26 .)
    Betty: They are closing that and sealing it. And they’ve got a tube they are inserting into my mouth and two tubes for my nostrils. [
Softly
] Oh, my God! And that tube goes down, into my mouth, into my nostrils, and somehow it’s sealed.
    Later, I asked Betty if she could feel air coming down those tubes into her mouth or nostrils, or both.
    Betty: Yeah, I could feel air coming out, yeah. Just as if I was living under water. You know, drawing air in and out.
    Betty cringed as liquid of a grayish color flowed onto her head and down the sides of her cheeks. She closed her eyes and grimaced as the trickle became a constant flow of inrushing liquid.
    Betty: They’re letting some gray liquid pour down on my head and into that place. And it’s—uh, I’ve got to remember to keep my eyes closed! He said to keep my eyes closed.
    Betty softly repeated the telepathic instructions being sent from the alien creatures: “‘Don’t be afraid. Keep your eyes closed. Don’t be afraid.…’ That liquid is filling up—and it’s filling up fast.… Keep my eyes closed.”
    As the watery substance filled the chair-like enclosure, Betty felt soothing vibrations pulse rhythmically through her submerged body.
    Betty: Oh-h-h-h, it’s soothing—it’s relaxing.… Oh-h-h-h, feels good.… Ah-h-h, feels good. Oh, it feels so good! It’s like a whirlpool—vibrating around. And I can breathe all right, ‘cause I’m breathing through my mouth and through my nose through those tubes.
    The tranquilizing oscillations continued. The feeling of heaviness that had attended Betty from the onset of her experience dissipated. She became one with—in perfect resonance with—the undulating fluid. Suddenly, Betty started as a telepathic voice interrupted her reverie.
    â€œâ€˜Yes?’ They’re calling me and telling me that they are going to give me