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Chapter Seven point, strange things began to happen. She claimed that strange things had happened to her all her life, but she just had managed to suppress most of it. I certainly understood this approach! First, she kept encountering a man in the building where she worked. He was employed by a practice on a different floor, so she only saw him in the elevators, the parking lot, and the local cafes. Every time she did encounter him, she was conscious of a strange electricity between them. Soon they were exchanging brief pleasantries. One evening, Candy and a co-worker, her friend Edith, went out for drinks together when Candy’s husband was at a medical convention. The man she kept running into coincidentally appeared in the same bar and stopped by their table. They invited him to sit down and soon were involved in a conversation on metaphysical topics. Candy said that she could not recall how the subjects followed one after the other, but what was true was that in a very short period of time, the three of them were discussing deeply held beliefs, feeling intense rapport, and it was somewhat “magical”. The man said he knew the location of an old Indian mound, apparently a place of great power. He offered to show both ladies where it was. Feeling secure with a female companion, Candy wanted to see this Indian mound, and they all went together in the man’s car. Keep in mind that it was well past dark when they made this plan. When they arrived at the location, a swampy, wooded area on the Gulf of Mexico, they all got out and proceeded to hike through the underbrush to this purported Indian mound. Now, aside from the absurdity of the picture presented here, three adults in their business clothing, hiking out in the muddy swamps after dark, there is the consideration of what, in the name of all good sense, Nevertheless, that is, apparently, what they did. Three professional adults of impeccable good sense decided to go stomping in the tidal swamps on the Florida coast at night. At some point, Edith was left behind and lost and something happened to frighten Candy, but afterward she couldn’t say what it was, only that she was very confused. She demanded to be taken home. The man cheerfully obliged, they located Edith wandering in the bushes, and he drove them back to their cars, and off they went home. The only problem was, when Candy got home, it was almost midnight. She had “lost” well over two hours. I went over this point with her carefully, going over the exact chronology of that night. She should have been home no later than 9:30 at the outside, yet, it was just a few minutes before midnight when she would have sent anyone off on such a hike?