“Me? I should be so fortunate.”
I started to breathe a small sigh of relief—
“But I hear it just splendidly!”
—and then I stopped. Somewhere on Earth, 1-800-LUNATIC was just waiting to receive this woman’s phone call for emergency aid.
“What you have to understand, sweetie, is that I can also sense it through my fingers, and in my thoughts. The ‘other side’ is just another part of our existence on this world. As you know, concurrently, there are different states of consciousness, different levels of reality, different…” Her kindly face scrunched in concern. She took a moment to observe me from head to toe. “When I said you were new, little did I realize you were reallynew to this. You haven’t the foggiest idea what I’m talking about, do you?”
“Finally, the first thing you’ve said that’s made any sense.”
“Then you’re just a dabbler?”
“A what?”