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pursuers. The other
     soldier leaped from his horse and fell upon the Native American. Both struggled furiously, the soldier’s knife finally plunging
     deepinto the throat of the darker man. Blood gushed across the torn ground.
    Watching the events, the panicked economist pleaded with the woman to flee with him, but she motioned for him to stay, to
     be calm. For the first time Williams could see an old medicine man beside a tree next to them, his form flickering in and
     out of focus. At that instant another troop of cavalry crested the rise and was on top of them, firing indiscriminately. Bullets
     tore through both the man and the woman. With a smile the Indian defiantly stood and was likewise destroyed.
    At this point Williams’ focus drifted to a hill that overlooked the entire scene. Another individual was looking down on the
     battle. He was dressed in buckskins and led a pack mule, a mountain man. He turned from the battle and walked down the hill
     in the opposite direction, past the pool and falls, and then out of sight. I was astounded: the battle had taken place right
     here in the valley, just south of the falls.
    When my attention returned to Williams, he was reliving the horror of the bloodshed and the hatred. He knew his failure to
     act during the Native American wars had set up the conditions and hopes of his most recent life, but just as before, he had
     failed to awaken. He had been together again with the congressional aide who had been killed with the woman, and still he
     had failed to remember their mission. Williams intended to meet the younger man on a hilltop, among a circle of large trees,
     and there his friend was supposed to awaken and go on to find six others in the valley, forming a group of seven. Together
     the group was to help resolve the Fear.
    The idea seemed to thrust him into a deeper recollection. Fear had been the great enemy throughout humanity’s long and tortuous
     history, and he seemed to know that present humanculture was polarizing, giving the controllers in this historical time one last opportunity to seize power, to exploit the
     new technologies for their own purpose.
    He seemed to cringe in agony. He knew that it was tremendously important for the group of seven to come together. History
     was poised for such groups, and only if enough of them formed, and only if enough of them
understood
the Fear, could the polarization be dispelled and the experiments in the valley ended.
    V ery slowly I became aware that I was again in the place of soft, white light. Williams’ visions had ended, and both he and
     the other entities had quickly vanished. Afterward I had experienced a quick movement backward that had left me dizzy and
     distracted.
    I noticed Wil beside me to the right.
    “What happened?” I asked. “Where did he go?”
    “I’m not sure,” he replied.
    “What was happening to him?”
    “He was experiencing a
Life
Review.”
    I nodded.
    “Are you aware of what that is?” he asked.
    “Yeah,” I said. “I know that people who have had near-death experiences often report that their whole lives flash before them.
     Is that what you mean?”
    Wil looked thoughtful. “Yes, but the increased awareness of this review process is having great impact on human culture. It’s
     another part of the higher perspective provided by a knowledge of the Afterlife. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences,
     and as their stories are shared and talked about, the realityof the Life Review is becoming part of our everyday understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives
     again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge
     is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness.
     We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of