A group of  people  sat  on  chairs  arranged along the four
          walls of a  small  room discussing things beyond the eye and
          the physical touch; of seeing the future with their unseeing
          eyes, when something uninvited came to visit. Silhouetted in
          the light of  the  room's  solitary window a tall, gray form
          stood silent and menacing. The air in the room became tense,
          its occupants waiting  anxiously  for  the  dark intruder to
          make its intent  known.  The  gray,  humanoid  form began to
          move. It shuffled  across  the room towards a dark, somewhat
          sinister looking man.  Slowly  raised its arm and pointed at
          him. Then abruptly it was gone.

          It was December  1978,  and I was at the Sydney headquarters
          of the Psychic Research Society of Australia. I had become a
          member of the Society a mere four weeks earlier to study the
          mysteries of the  soul  and  the  universe, only to find the
          subject bewildering and full of apparent contradictions. The
          weekly meetings were  confined to psychometric exercises and
          lectures on the limitless virtues of spiritualism, which the
          guy  in  charge  believed  were  of  main  interest  to  the
          unfortunate sitters. I  had  joined  the organization in the
          hope of gaining  an  insight into the benefits, material and
          spiritual, that could  be  quickly  gained  by the study and
          application of occultism  and  one's  own  higher instincts,
          only to find the weekly classes both repetitive and dull. My
          pursuit  of knowledge  and  fulfilment  through  the  occult
          seemed doomed to  failure,  until  now.  There was something
          special and very  familiar  about  the mysterious entity and
          its actions, and  the effect its brief presence had upon the
          people gathered in the small room that fateful day.

          As we talked on into the late afternoon, it was difficult to
          know if we  had really seen something in the room. We had to
          consider that it  could have been a shadow cast by something
          going past the  window. I had been sitting facing the window
          with my eyes  closed when the entity came and stood in front
          of me, blocking out the light shining in through the window.
          That idea was  quickly  dismissed  as  we were on the fourth
          floor, and the  only  thing  that could have cast such a big
          shadow would have to be an aircraft. Aircraft flying at such
          a low altitude  through  the heart of a city are a very rare
          sight. Birds the  size  of  a small aircraft are even rarer,
          someone suggested it  had  been  a  bird flying past. Others
          concluded that it  had been an omen of some sort. Perhaps it
          had been the work of black magic!

          Black magic is  the  most  popularly  publicised  aspect  of
          occultism; its purpose  being  to  repel spiritual forces in
          order to attract  demonic agencies for selfish or evil ends.
          The  practice of  black  magic  is  widespread  and  usually
          involves blood sacrifices  and  other  loathsome activities,
          and accounts for  many  inexplicable  and tragic events that
          occur in the world.

          I had an  interesting  emotional reaction (interesting, that
          is, to me)  to  this  event.  I  felt  a  strange sensation.
          Something    indefinite,    haunting.     Like     something
          half-forgotten, a far  away  memory  returning again. When I
          was six or  seven  years  old,  one  bright sunny day, I was
          playing in the  backyard  of the family home when I happened
          to look up and saw a tall, gray colored entity standing over
          me. It made  no sound and had no eyes, ears, nose, mouth, or
          anything like that  -  it was just like a solid gray form. I
          screamed aloud and  shouted  for  my  parents, but the weird
          entity vanished before anyone else had time to see it.

          Though we learned very little about our uninvited guest that
          day so long ago, its appearance in our midst had indeed been
          a sinister omen,  within  three months the class would cease
          to be. The  Gray  Man, as I have come to call him, is one of
          the  many mysterious  entities  who  populate  an  invisible
          sphere of existence  which  duplicates the physical world in
          which we live.  This unseen world is mysterious, awesome and
          sometimes frightening.

          To experience this  other world you must rid yourself of old
          thought patterns, and  open  your  mind  to  other realities
          beyond this sphere. There is life all around you. Everything
          radiates energy. Pick  any object in your home that you look
          at every day, and which you believe to be almost alive.

          Now begin to believe it is alive.

          It is very  simple  to  do this and when it appears to blink
          (if  the object  is  a  figurine  of  some  kind)  or  move,
          transformation will take  place  like a light being switched
          on inside your  mind.  Once  this  happens,  expect  various
          remarkable phenomena to  occur, ie. shadows will come alive,
          spirits will manifest, flowers will speak, and the invisible
          will become visible.

          The psychic formula which I have just described was given to
          me by a  disembodied  entity,  during  the world's strangest
          telephone  conversation  with   a   young   channeller  from
          Victoria, Australia.

          Welcome to Dimension X. A phantasmagorical world filled with
          faceless entities who  spread  confusion  and  fear, ancient
          spirits who rise  out  of  legend,  phantom  spaceships that
          appear from the clouds of dreams, restless ghosts victimised
          by supernatural creatures,  conversations  with  disembodied
          entities, and things that go bump in the night.