It’s my day off, but I’m in front of the computer writing the Holmes/Twain novella, so let me leave you with this story excised from “Writers Gone Wild” for space. Have a great weekend!

Like a trained scientist, Michael Crichton investigated the paranormal with the same critical eye he used for his best-selling novels about dinosaurs (“Jurassic Park”), viral plagues (“The Andromeda Strain”) and the Japanese (“Rising Sun”). But his rational view of the world was shaken when he was told that he had a dark entity on his back.

He had been exploring astral travel with a channeler named Gary for two years, trying “not to judge what was happening, but simply to accept everything as an experience.” But being told that he had a “tramp soul” that needed to be exorcised made it personal.

That was how he found himself on a table in Gary’s darkened apartment, surrounded by lighted candles, crystals and pictures of holy people, being induced into an altered state while Gary’s friend, Beth, took a walk on Crichton’s wild side.

In this state, Crichton saw the entity: a Disney-like devil out of “Fantasia.” Under Gary’s questions, Crichton learned that it had appeared when he was four. He had been climbing a rock wall with his father, got scared, and thought “my father wants to kill me.” Throughout his life, the demon would reappear to protect Crichton whenever people hurt him.

To get rid of the demon, Crichton was told to say goodbye to the creature, while Beth entered the astral plane to help. There, Crichton saw Beth as a misty yellow light, and the entity in its true form. “He is just a little kid,” he wrote. A wave of sadness washed over him “for this tiny thing formed in the image of his tiny creature, this frightened, forlorn child that must now leave.”

And then he was gone.

Later, when he described the experience to his psychologist, she replied, “A lot of people are having experiences like that.”

“Really?”

“Oh yes. Entities are very big now.”

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