if it was their fault they were on the freeway , then this morning thousands of hours , hundred of thousands of $ of productivity and bits of people ' s sanity went down the toilet for no fucking reason . that ' s pretty fucked up too . Wow , good thing they ' re dead , then ! <| sep |> That ' s pretty sad , if true . The gif is done in harmless fun . That ' s the point I ' m trying to make . <| sep |> We developed an exercise whereby the participants simultaneouslywould be able to move this special mental energy into a visible pattern oflight some one thousand feet above the motel . In the latter stages of thesession , late one night , we put them through the test . The idea was thatthe combined energy of some twentyfour individuals might provide something we could see . All external lights in the motel were turned out themotel itself was out in the country and by stopwatch timing we knew theexact moment when any light should appear above the motel . Four of us went outside and looked up into the darkness . We had hadplenty of chance to accustom our eyes to the darkness beforehand , sowhen the signal came at the proper time , we looked very eagerly . None ofus saw anything . Suddenly our electronics engineer yelled excitedly , Look higher , lookhigher ! We did . Most of us had been looking just above the roof of the motel . We now looked far up into the sky in astonishment . Against the starlitnight there were soft , red , neonlike waves . They resembled nothing somuch as trickling water moving across an arc of the sky directly atop theroof of the motel . At exactly the time that the exercise called for the lightto shut off , it suddenly disappeared . Three minutes later the exercise wasrepeated on the tape , and the red waving rivulets appeared again and shutoff at the appropriate signal . All four of us observed it and were tremendously excited by the result . Later at a Gateway session in California , at a ranch north of San Francisco , we repeated the exercise . This time we had an engineer with aspecial Polaroid camera pointed upward to attempt to take a picture if thephenomenon was repeated . To ensure against the possibility of foggedfilm , two photographs were taken just prior to the signal for the lightenergy to be generated . During the exercise when the energy was supposed to be in place , two other pictures were taken . After the signal wasturned off by the tape , subsequent pictures were also taken . There were some five or six observers present . None of us saw any lightphenomena . However , when we went in afterwards and conducted thedebriefing we examined the Polaroid photographs taken . The ones preceding the light signal were blank the two after the exercise were blank . Thetwo taken during the exercise itself showed a round ball with a marbleizedeffect much like the earth seen from a distance . Why the Polaroid pickedup a picture and we could not has been explained by several physicists andphotographers . The film can see light frequencies our eyes cannot . Theusual explanations of light leaks , film fogging , etc . , have also been putforward as the source of the roundballofenergy photograph . The blankfilm before and after made the two energy photographs more significant , being in the center of the film packa most unlikely place to be preexposed . Robert Monroe from the book Far Journeys