At this point, emotion and fatigue force you to return to the escalator and travel up back to the second floor, back to the comfort and safety of your recliner.

Your journey is finished and you open your eyes.

My travel guide was Dr. Barbara Young, who according to her website, "has lived and studied Christian Mysticism for thirty years." She states that she has experienced external "Apparitions of Light Figures" since childhood and that her mind-consciousness education began with pre-medicine, which branched into psychology and the study of altered states of consciousness, parapsychology and medicine, world religions and the psychology of social change.

She has worked with missile system technology and has conducted medical and oceanographic research.

In 1977, she set off on a twenty year "walk-about" to educate the public in what she believes is the "true purpose in life, the evolution of its spiritual nature and its Divination." She has appeared on many radio and television interviews. You can find out more information about Dr. Young at her website: http://www.templechryses.org.

This journey of traveling back through time, I believe, is a type of meditation that gives freedom to the mind to create scenarios by forming mental constructs of places we have actually visited or seen in photographs or on television. It is in these familiar places that we allow our emotions to emerge so that we can deal with them.

In the movie "The Matrix", Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question "What is the Matrix?" and the blue pill will allow Neo to return to life as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill, Morpheus warns him:

"Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."

I am supposed to telephone Dr. Young for a second session, but so I'm not certain I want the red pill!