Carter Roy

on the astral plane.

And yes, his wife is worried about this development.

Anyway, Skip sends his team member to the Institute for a little R&R and a few psychic lessons as an added bonus.

He's just trying to be a good boss.

But then another person wants to go.

And another, pretty soon, going on a retreat to the Monroe Institute is the cool new thing to do.

Hey, everybody, field trip time.

The program gets too popular.

It's out of Skip's hands now.

A new curriculum has to be built from the ground up to accommodate everyone.

It's called Rapid Acquisition Personnel Training, or RAPT, R-A-P-T.

There are a lot of parts to RAPT, but one thing it involves is guided meditation led by Robert Monroe.

The Casanova of the Astral Plane.

Okay, cool.

Meditation is great.

Oh, but they ask participants to lie naked in their beds at a federal work retreat.

At some point, the CIA is called in to perform an assessment.

Their conclusion is, yikes.

They strongly suggest the Army sever its ties.

At this time, General Albert Stubblebine is head of Army Intelligence.