Teen Spirit

By Eddie Conner

Starting a new school in the middle of the year was my worst fear.  I had seen how classmates treated the new kids in my previous school. In less than a week I was targeted by a football jock and because I was shy, I was labeled “stuck up”.

One month later, it happened. “It”, meaning a multidimensional experience.

The day was like any other for me, quietly reading while the other kids gathered in their cliques.  My teacher excused me from class early to run a school errand.  As I walked the empty hallways, it dawned on me that I could be the first person in the cafeteria for submarine sandwich day!  Normally the lunch lines were so long I often didn’t eat, but today was an opportunity to have lunch with time to run my errand.

It was liberating to have the hallways all to myself.  I picked up momentum with a single goal in mind: submarine sandwiches.  My quick pace turned into a run, and I flew faster through the corridors, as passing classrooms became a blur.  Rounding the last corner, I jumped the final steps toward my destination.  I was airborne when I saw the brick overhang. Bam! An explosion of pure white light shot through my body, rendering a sleeplike state over me.  As the light faded, I became aware of being suspended in midair.

Then a young lady walked through the science lab doors, looked directly at me-suspended high over the stairs-screamed, and disappeared back into the doors she had emerged from.  Her scream rang through the science building and bled perfectly into the lunch bell that reverberated through me.

I was still hovering in the air when I saw him-some guy lying unconscious at the bottom of the cement steps.  Actually he looked like a rag doll.  He had a serious knot across the top of his head.  As I stared at the guy more closely, I couldn’t help but think he looked familiar.  That’s when it hit me.

It was me!

My head was beginning to really hurt at this point. Suddenly I was pulled back into my body in what can only be described as a suction of internal light. When I open my physical eyes everything was a blur. I could barely make out the teachers and students as they knelt over me, the new kid, the local freak show.  I was embarrassed, and completely helpless to resurrect my body.  One of the teachers was pulling handfuls of hair out of the swollen bump on my head.

The teachers escorted me to the principles office when I lay down and reflected on what had just happened. I’d had out-of-body experiences like this one a lot as a kid, but never to the same extreme. I wasn’t necessarily afraid of the experiences; I just didn’t understand any of it.

By the end of sixth period I was fine and went to math class.  It wasn’t until I was on the bus home that afternoon that I realized I never did eat that submarine sandwich lunch!

© 2007 Eddie Conner. Eddie Conner is a Soul Intuitive, Humorist and the Author of Kicking the Big But Syndrome. His show on the PodCastGO Network titled, “Soul Awareness with Eddie Conner” is seen by ten million people. Eddie conducts world tours to Peru, China, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Mexican Riviera. For more information, visit www.EddieConner.com.