| My lady Lydia was a Hawkins of the ancestry of the | | | | Her special talent was total sensory recall of the |
| great privateer 'Black Jack' just as thousands of miles | | | | physical body. Yes, my life has been a myriad maze |
| away in Ottawa (We met in Las Vegas.) a cousin of | | | | of the paranormal and sexual interplay of what most |
| my sister-in-law who was about to come work for my | | | | people would call 'fantasy'. In the relationship with Lydia |
| family's company was living. They looked like twins and | | | | she was honest and totally in control with no reason |
| that was a powerful co-incidence of synchronous | | | | for me to even grasp at the smallest of straws to |
| energy in itself. When I saw him I asked him if he was | | | | think there could ever be an 'US'.Truly this is going to |
| related to the privateer and he was amazed that I | | | | be HARD to do, and at the same time if one |
| knew this. Our meeting was a 'trip' of grandiose | | | | connected the components already covered they |
| proportions that makes another book I have written | | | | would be well on their way to understanding what |
| seem so weird it would only be regarded as fiction | | | | might have happened or what Lydia could do. On the |
| (that book is called 'The Nos Feratu'). In this meeting | | | | first night we met she told me she could de-materialize |
| with Lydia, I was able to exhibit some control that later | | | | and that some day she would not return. The major |
| was almost non-existent and nearly rendered my soul. | | | | reason for continuing to exist in this realm was her |
| Rendered has many meanings and when applied to | | | | hopes to have a child with her husband. I had read |
| the butcher and his trade, it is close to what kind of | | | | 'Cosmic Consciousness' by Richard Maurice Bucke; the |
| lard or jelly (fish) my heart was 'feeling' after a few | | | | noted turn-of-the-century psychiatrist who along with |
| months that were wild beyond my own vivid dreams. | | | | Walt Whitman was instrumental in ending the use of |
| The setting of the story began at the 'Shark Club' in | | | | strait-jackets in asylums, when I was just a teenager. In |
| Las Vegas one night just before I turned forty, about | | | | fact a friend's older brother used to call me 'The |
| eleven years ago. I was in the process of buying a | | | | Cosmic Kid'. In this book he recounts how a person |
| home in Las Vegas after moving from Los Angeles | | | | de-materialized 29 times before all the skeptics, police |
| where I had been involved with a basic and ordinary | | | | and scientists of the early 20th century at McGill in |
| woman (totally honest, and without my having even | | | | Montreal. That person eventually didn't re-appear in the |
| talked about an 'US') who had another amazing 'gift'. | | | | other room as he had always done. |