And now I’ll share my personal story of mysterious metaphysics. Like Faye, I was educated in the sciences, so it would take unassailable evidence for me to believe in anything that cannot be rationally explained. I know that there are things in this universe that we don’t understand, so I leave the door open for miracles, but I set a very high bar when it comes to proof. Nevertheless, I have visited psychics from time to time, out of sheer curiosity.
In 2002, I attended a wonderful party. As part of the entertainment, the hostess had hired a psychic, and all attendees could sign up for a brief session with her. I found her to be pleasant, but her advice was fairly generic. She said nothing that would have required her to have arcane powers…until the very end of the session. Out of the blue, she said, “I hear three names. Barbara, Robert, and Sam. They will be important people for you.”
Those of you who are familiar with my publishing house know that Robert Rosenwald is the publisher and Barbara Peters is the editor-in-chief. When this woman pulled their names out of the air, my first novel, Artifacts, had been submitted to them for possible publication. No one else at that party (or probably in the world, except for my agent and the people at Poisoned Pen Press) knew this. Shortly after that psychic reading, Poisoned Pen Press bought Artifacts. Or, in other words, when that woman pulled those two names out the air, two people named Robert and Barbara were poised to change my life.
Is this proof? Not really. Barbara and Robert are not the two rarest names in the world. Still, I do think that the odds are heavily stacked against that psychic being lucky enough to guess two names that were, right that minute, much on my mind.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re asking me: “So what about Sam?” Well, the third name she called out wasn’t really Sam. I’m keeping his name to myself, and I’m watchfully waiting. If somebody named “Sam” comes along and changes my life again, then this engineer might be forced to believe in magic.
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